India and Poverty
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New Delhi - Population:
1173108018 - Size:
3287590.0 Km2
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- The BLDS poverty collection
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- Search for the latest poverty-related print documents on this country from the British Library for Development Studies collection
- What would be the effect of freer trade in rice on trade flow patterns?
- A. Gulati; S. Narayanan / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002
- This paper explores the important link between rice trade liberalisation and poverty, seeking specifically to respond to two questions: What would be the effect of freer trade in rice on trade flow patterns? How will rice trade libera...
- Finance for the poor in Uttar Pradesh
- O. Ruthven; S. Kuma / Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2002
- This report gives a description of the financial life of residents with a limited basis for cash-crop and off-farm opportunities, hence restricting them to size of landholding as a critical indicator of wealth and status and influence...
- Informal sector workers - the ninety percent of the working population in India who do not have any kind of social protection
- P. M. Rao / Eldis Document Store, 2002
- This paper suggests that traditionally the ILO and ministries of labour the world over believed that all workers would eventually end up in large enterprises, or at least in the formal sector. However, experience has proved otherwise....
- Comparative review of official statistics on child mortality rates in Maharashtra, India
- A. Bang; M. H. Reddy; M.D. Deshmukh / Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2002
- This article examines official statistics on child mortality rates in Maharashtra, and compares them against an initial set of findings on child and infant mortality that also measured extent and causes of under-reporting of child dea...
- To what extent does poverty influence educational performance?
- B. K. Pradhan; A. Subramanian / National Council of Applied Economic Research, India, 1999
- Rapid globalisation and fast paced technological progress across the globe present new challenges for India with gradual opening up of its economy to international competition. The amount and the quality of education and skills that I...
- Will reforming and privatizing agricultural extension services meet the needs of the poor?
- J. Farrington; I. Christoplos; Andrew Kidd; M. Beckman / Overseas Development Institute, 2002
- This paper reviews pro-poor agricultural extension policies, building on an earlier inception report of the same study. Based on a livelihoods approach, the authors argue that policies towards agriculture, rural development and extens...
- Safety nets and opportunities in South Asia
- N. Kabeer / Overseas Development Institute, 2002
- This paper aims to review literature on social protection measures in the context of India and Bangladesh. It explores whether some of the lessons learned from responses to vulnerability lend themselves to the notion of 'investment' i...
- Pro-Poor Growth in India: what do we know about the employment effects of growth 1980-2000?
- S.M. Dev / Overseas Development Institute, 2002
- This paper aims to assess the extent to which economic growth in India has been pro-poor. Some of the key assumptions behind this are that pro-poor employment generation ought to take place in sectors with relatively high elasticities...
- Did the poor in India share in economic growth during the economic reforms of the 1990s?
- G. Datt; M. Ravallion / World Bank, 2002
- This paper investigates links between rates in the incidence of poverty within the subcontinent over the past decade and divergent degrees of economic performance across its states. It is argued that India has probably maintained its ...
- Extension of government programmes vital to maintain food security
- P. Bhargava / Institute of Development Studies Jaipur, India, 2002
- This paper studies two aspects of food security in Rajasthan availability and access to food for households. The government ensures food security at the household level in two ways: through the Public Distribution System (PDS) and thr...
- Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR)
- Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR) helps rural people in India to alleviate poverty through participatory watershed development and management.
- 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.
- 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...
- Agewell Foundation
- Outreach and research initiatives for the elderly in India
- SHARAN
- Drug use and treatment in marginalised communities
- The Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centers (SPARC)
- Indian urban housing organisation
- Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICCSR)
- Promoting research in Indian social sciences
- Institute of Social Studies Trust, India (ISST)
- Research organisation concerned with the promotion of social justice and gender equity
- Centre for Civil Society, India (CCS)
- Indian Think Tank with a research focus on civil society and social sciences
- Human Development Resource Centre, India
- Translating concepts of human development into action
