India and Livelihoods
- Capital:
New Delhi - Population:
1173108018 - Size:
3287590.0 Km2
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- Taking a look at the steps needed to achieve the water MDG and the World Summit for Sustainable Development sanitation goal
- id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
- In the 1980s, the world set the goal of water and sanitation for all by the end of the decade. By contrast, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are only to halve the proportions without affordable access to safe water and adequate...
- The role of community media in development
- id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
- The impact of new information and communication technologies on development is a subject of extensive international debate, particularly at the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society. While much of the debate focuses o...
- Putting public value into science and technology
- id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
- We live in a rapidly changing world. Technological advances are increasing productivity and income, quality of life and life expectancy… in the developed world, that is. The truth is that technological development is focused on...
- How Adaptive Social Protection can benefit the agricultural sector in south Asia
- A. Arnall; K. Oswald; M. Davies; T. Mitchell; C. Coirolo / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2010
- The concept of Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) refers to a series of measures which aims to build resilience of the poorest and most vulnerable people to climate change by combining elements of social protection (SP), disaster risk r...
- Ensuring old age security in India using a mix of public and private provision
- D.E. Bloom; A. Mahal; L. Rosenberg; J. Sevilla / Harvard Initiative for Global Health, 2010
- Life expectancy in India is rising steadily. However, a combination of migration out of rural areas and the continued concentration of the working population in the informal sector, means there is a pressing need for better econ...
- Using India Post to increase banking services for the poor
- India Post, 2010
- The India Post network has over 155,000 branches - twice as many as the outreach of all commercial banks in India put together. This Report, produced by an inter-ministerial committee on financial inclusion, recommends that India Post...
- How the Indian pension system falls behind the OECD benchmark
- R.K. Jha; S. Bhattacharyya / Munich Personal RePEc Archive, 2010
- In India the lack of a wide social security net has serious implications for well-being of aged, poor people who are unable to meet their old age needs. India’s workforce is largely based in unorganised sector where pension prov...
- Innovative backyard poultry value chain
- M. Dhawan (ed); M. Punjabi (ed); V. Ahuja (ed) / South Asia Pro Poor Livestock Policy Programme, 2009
- There is a growing evidence about the role that backyard poultry production can play in sustaining and enhancing poor peoples’ livelihoods. Market oriented backyard poultry is increasingly recognised as a stepping stone for the ...
- Technology-based non structural measures for managing floods
- A.B. Shrestha / International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, 2008
- Frequent flash floods in the Hindu-Kush Himalayan region pose a severe threat to life, livelihoods and infrastructure, both within the mountains and downstream. They tend to carry with them much higher amounts of debris which can caus...
- Community-based approaches to flash flood risk management
- A.B. Shrestha; S.H. Shah; R. Karim / International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, 2008
- Frequent flash floods in the Hindu-Kush Himalayan region pose a severe threat to life, livelihoods and infrastructure, both within the mountains and downstream. Vulnerable groups, including people with disabilities, the poor, women an...
- Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR)
- Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR) helps rural people in India to alleviate poverty through participatory watershed development and management.
- Institute of Green Economy (IGREC)
- Institute of Green Economy (IGREC), based in India, has been set up with the aim of helping evolve a path of economic development that leaves as little negative impact on the earth and its environment as possible.
- Centre for Social Markets, India (CSM)
- The Centre for Social Markets (CSM) promotes a progressive social and environmental agenda by harnessing the power and potential of markets, entrepreneurs and other economic actors to do good. CSM's mission is to change the culture of markets and other social institutions to advance social justice, human rights and sustainable development. Such a culture change will not be possible with...
