India and Livelihoods
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New Delhi - Population:
1173108018 - Size:
3287590.0 Km2
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- Bird flu and people's livelihoods: how much is lost?
- V. Ahuja; M. Dhawan; L. Maarse / South Asia Pro Poor Livestock Policy Programme, 2009
- This report outlines the impact of bird flu on poor people’s livelihoods in West Bengal, India. Based on a survey of about 180 rural households raising ‘Kuroilers’ (a dual purpose bird introduced by Keggfarms Pvt. Lt...
- Assessing the determinants of private saving in India and Malaysia
- J. Ang; K. Sen / Munich Personal RePEc Archive, 2009
- This paper compares the evolution of private saving in India and Malaysia, and analyses how policy changes in the financial sectors and pension systems help explain differences in their saving performance. It assesses whether the &lsq...
- Mandatory systems to expand pension coverage to informal sector in Asia are unlikely to work
- L. MacKellar (ed) / Social Protection and Labour, World Bank, 2009
- The unprecedented speed at which Asian populations are ageing requires a rapid forward looking response from governments in the region to provide protection against the risk of poverty in old age. Given the large and sometimes growing...
- Persuading those who have little today to save for tomorrow
- D. Uthira; H.L. Manohar / International Research Journal of Finance and Economics, 2009
- The new pension system (NPS) introduced by the government of India is South Asia’s first DC (defined contribution) pension scheme. It provides individual retirement accounts, product choices, professional fund management b...
- Policies and methods that work for biodiversity and livelihoods
- K. Swiderska; D. Roe; L. Siegele; M. Grieg-Gran / International Institute for Environment and Development, 2008
- This report is an output of IIED’s collaborative research project “Policy that works for biodiversity and poverty reduction” and is based on a literature review and three country case studies (India, Peru and Tanzani...
- Indian pension scheme improves quality of life through greater independence
- HelpAge International Asia, Pacific Regional Development Centre, 2009
- Poor older people in India have had the benefit of a means-tested social pension for over 10 years. Selection of beneficiaries is a responsibility of local government, and there are reports that the scheme does not always benefit the ...
- Designing flexible pensions systems to encompass more workers
- Y. Hu; F. Stewart / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2009
- Pension reform around the world in recent decades has focused mainly on the formal sector. Consequently, many of those working in the informal sector have been left out of structured pension arrangements, particularly in developing co...
- What Asia must do to ensure sustainable pensions?
- A. Reilly (ed); E. Whitehouse (ed) / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2009
- Asia's pension systems need modernising urgently to ensure that they are financially sustainable and will provide adequate retirement incomes. A core concern of this study is the social sustainability of pensions - the future ad...
- Governments’ policies on pension provision are badly misguided
- P. Booth (ed); N. Juurikkala (ed); N. Silver (ed) / Institute of Economic Affairs, 2009
- This survey of government interventions in pension provision examines the different issues surrounding pensions and public policy in a range of high, middle and low-income countries.In particular it argues that wid...
- The strengths and limitations of agriculture in delivering poverty reduction
- A. Dorward; S. Fan; J. Kydd / Overseas Development Institute, 2004
- This paper presents key findings from a study of pro-poor agricultural growth (PPAG). Over the past few decades changes such as those surrounding ecology, liberalisation and HIV and AIDS have increased the challenges facing the rural ...
- 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...
