Daily Archives: July 3, 2012

American Journal of Sociology,Volume 117 Number 5, March 2012

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CONTENTS Disposable Ties and the Urban Poor BY MATTHEW DESMOND Who and I and Who Are We? Conflicting Narratives of Collective Self hood in Stig in Stigmatized Groups BY DAWNE MOON Legal Violence: Immigration Law and the Lives of Central … Continue reading →

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Review of Agrarian Studies,Volume 1, Number 1 (January-June, 2011)

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CONTENTS Research Articles Is India Really a Country of Low Income-Inequality? Observations from Eight Villages Madhura Swaminathan and Vikas Rawal Village Common Land, Manure, Fodder, and Intensive Agricultural Practices in Tamil Nadu from the Mid-Nineteenth Century Haruka Yanagisawa Cropping Pattern … Continue reading →

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REVIEW OF AGRARIAN STUDIES,Volume 1, Number 2 (July-December, 2011)

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CONTNENTS Research Articles Epigraphical Study of Ancient and Medieval Villages in the Tamil Country Noboru Karashima Climate Change and Agriculture: A Review Article with Special Reference to India T. Jayaraman Floods, Relief Aid, and Household Resilience in Rural Pakistan: Findings … Continue reading →

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Good Practices in Urban Water Management: Decoding GoodPractices for a Successful Future

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Edited by Anand Chiplunkar; Kallidaikurichi Seetharam and Cheon Kheong Published by Asian Development Bank, July 2012 This report presents case studies on successful Asian water utilities. The case studies provide objective, accurate, and critical analyses of urban water management practices … Continue reading →

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Climate Risk and Adaptation in the Electric Power Sector

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Published by Asian Development Bank, July 2012 This report aims to highlight and raise awareness on the exposure and vulnerability of the energy sector to climate change. It also identifies adaptation options available to each source of energy generation as … Continue reading →

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Worker Migration and Remittances in South Asia

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by Mayumi Ozaki ADB South Asia Working Paper Series no.12, May 2012 Every year South Asian countries send out a significant number of migrant workers, resulting in remittances becoming an important source of funds for economic development. However, despite its … Continue reading →

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Empirical Approaches to Inequality of Opportunity: Principles, Measures, and Evidence

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by Xavier Ramos Dirk Van de gaer Discussion Paper No. 6672 June 2012 We put together the different conceptual issues involved in measuring inequality of opportunity, discuss how these concepts have been translated into computable measures, and point out the … Continue reading →

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Reexamining the Finance–Growth Relationship for a Developing Economy: A time series analysis of post-reform India

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by Sabyasachi Kar Kumarjit Mandal The cross-country empirical literature on the finance-growth relationship has debated three propositions: (i) financial deepening has a strong impact on the growth process; (ii) measures of financial “activity” rather than the “size” of the sector … Continue reading →

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Indian QSR Industry – Opportunities and Strategiesto Harness Them

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by Piyush Kumar Sinha IIMA Working Paper No.2012-06-07, June 2012 In a country with more than a billion people, opportunities in India are abound. This has led to a rapid growth of the QSR industry. However, simultaneously, it has also … Continue reading →

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