India and Finance policy
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- The BLDS finance collection
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- Search for the latest finance-related print documents on this country from the British Library for Development Studies collection
- Evaluating the effect of rural credit on rural workers in India.
- V. K. Ramachandran; M Swaminathan / International Labour Organization, 2001
- This paper addresses rural banking and credit policy in contemporary India and its effect on credit portfolios of rural workers. It explores major directions of rural banking and credit policy and indicators of performance of this act...
- Seeds of hope?
- Paul Mosley / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- The spread of modern dwarfing varieties of wheat, rice and other cereal crops prompted major improvements in living standards throughout Asia from the 1960s to the present. This Green Revolution has been widely seen as a driving force...
- Women, reproductive health and the private sector in India
- Jagdish Bhatia; John Cleland / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- What are the biggest health problems for women? Is the current emphasis on reproductive health correct? Where do women go for healthcare? Researchers from the Indian Institute of Management and the London School of Hygiene and Tropica...
- Exploring the globalisation-poverty linkage: findings from South Asia
- John Whalley; Jeffery Round / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- Does globalisation lead to higher growth rates and reduction in absolute poverty? How should economists disentangle and quantify the impact of globalisation shocks from other influences? How can we judge whether those with very little...
- Unveiling the unrecorded: understanding the complex financial lives of India’s poor
- Orlanda Ruthven; David Hulme / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- How do the poor manage their money on a daily and a monthly basis? To what extent are their needs fulfilled by institutions? What do they do when banks and NGOs fail to help? What is the unmet demand in the services required by the po...
- Credit and control: does microfinance lead to women’s empowerment?
- Juliet Hunt; Nalini Kasynathan / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- Does access to credit help improve women’s status in the household? Who really benefits from micro-loans – women or men? Do existing programmes rely too much on the hype surrounding micro-credit?
- The IMF and World Bank: undermining democracy and rolling back the state?
- Mark Ellis-Jones / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- Why are anti-IMF protests sweeping the developing world? Is it privileged students and anarchists who are behind the wave of unrest? Who are taking to the streets and how are their livelihoods being affected by liberalisation? Are Pov...
- Some Recent Evidence: Why Foreign Direct Investment Flows to Low-Income Countries benefit the few
- id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- Foreign direct investment (FDI) is viewed as a major stimulus to economic growth in developing countries. Its supposed value as a way of dealing with shortages of financial resources as well as shortfalls in technology and skills, has...
- Issues for donor co-ordination in support of gender equality: building national ownership and leadership
- OECD Development Centre, 2002
- This guide presents a series of case studies examining the experience of sector wide programs in education, health and agriculture. It offers advice on how to ensure that a sector wide approach: contributes to ov...
- How does FDI from different source countries have differential impact on the exports of Indian industries?
- R Banga / Global Development Network, 2001
- One of the most fiercely debated issues in the literature of development economics is the role played by the inward foreign direct investment in export performance of developing countries. This study aims to find whether FDI from diff...
- Centre for Development Finance (CDF)
- The Centre for Development Finance focuses on improving the delivery of public goods that contribute to inclusive social and economic opportunity in India.
- India Post
- Indian Government department running postal services, part of Department of Post, Ministry of Communications & IT.
- Strategic Foresight Group
- Strategic Foresight Group seeks to undertake forward-looking research in geopolitical, economic, technological and societal changes. Their research examines future trends and discontinuities in spaces where geopolitics intersects with business, economy, society, religion and technology.
- Agricultural Financing Corporation Ltd. (AFC)
- Agricultural Finance Corporation Limited is an agricultural & rural development consultancy established in 1968. AFC Foundation undertakes grass root level project implementation for poverty alleviation and livelihood promotion through financial and non financial services. They also provide training and capacity building services to the various stakeholders in the agriculture and rural se...
