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- Why have some Indian states done better than others at reducing rural poverty?
- Gaurav Datt; Martin Ravallion / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
- Experience in India suggests that reducing rural poverty requires both economic growth (farm and non farm) and human resource development. The unevenness of the rise in rural living standards in the various states of India sinc...
- Does environmental regulation matter? : determinants of the location of new manufacturing plants in India in 1994
- Muthukumara Mani; Sheoli Pargal; Mainul Huq / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
- The costs attributable to complying with environmenta lregulation are not as important as other determinants of where Indian businesses locate new plants. The level of existing businessactivity overwhelms all other factors affecting l...
- Access to Land in Rural India
- R. Mearns / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
- Access to land is deeply important in rural India, where the incidence of poverty is highly correlated with lack of access to land. Mearns provides a framework for assessing alternative approaches to improving access to land by India'...
- Social Exclusion and Land Administration in Orissa, India
- R. Mearns; S. Sinha / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
- Examines—from the perspective of transaction costs—factors that constrain access to land for the rural poor and other socially excluded groups in India. They find that: Land reform has reduced large landholdi...
- Population trends: India
- International Programs Center, Population Division of the U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1997
- Poverty in India and Indian States: An Update
- G. Datt / International Food Policy Research Institute, 1998
- A complete and updated series on poverty measures for India is presented spanning the period 1951–1994. The series are presented at the all-India level as well as for 15 major states, and for rural and urban sectors separately. K...
- Indian experience on household food and nutrition security
- N.P. Nawani / Gender and Food Security, FAO, 1994
- Covers the production, availability and consumption of cereals, which are known to contribute around 70 percent of the energy and protein requirement and which happen to be the first objective to be attained by a poor household. The p...
- India's software industry
- R. Heeks / Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 1998
- Book focusing on India's billion-dollar software outsourcing trade: production figures; number of workers; the Indian producer firms and the US and European clients involved; costs; productivity data; divisions of labour and skills; i...
- Making Voice Work: The Report Card on Bangalore’s Public Service
- S. Paul / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1998
- A citizen’s assessment of public services provided evidence of inefficiency and corruption and stimulated public service providers to be more responsive to customers. So, public feedback can change behavior. Paul reports how a "r...
- Teddy Online (TERI Energy Data, Directory, and Yearbook) [India energy and environment statistics database]
- Tata Energy Research Institute, India, 1999
- Series of over 800 statistical tables on topics related to energy and environment in India. Compiled from many hard-to-obtain government documents and a few established private sources, and rigorously cross-checked by experts, the dat...
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