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Searching with a thematic focus on Agriculture and food, Governance in India

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    Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania

    The Advanced Study of India is the only research institution in the United States dedicated to the study of contemporary India.
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    Bt cotton in Andhra Pradesh: a three-year assessment

    Deccan Development Society, Hyderabad, India, 2005
    This paper investigates the case of GM (Genetically Modified) Bt cotton in Andhra Pradesh, India. It is based on a three-year assessment of farmers' engagement with Bt cotton, examining the economics of its adoption, and the resultant difficulties faced by farmers.
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    Economic reforms and development strategy in Gujarat

    Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2002
    The Gujarat state government has followed a strategy focussed on industrialisation and urbanisation with an open door policy ever since its inception in 1960. Economic reform measures at the centre with an explicit emphasis on trade and industry considerably benefited Gujarat, making its economic performance outstanding.
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    India’s national agricultural policy: a critique

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2004
    The National Agricultural Policy (NAP) document released by the Government of Indian in 2000 aimed to attain an agricultural output growth rate in excess of 4 percent per annum, based on efficient use of resources, and sought to achieve this growth in a sustainable and equitable manner.This paper argues that (by 2004) no serious action had been initiated on most of the NAP’s proposals, and blam
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    Trends and prospects for poverty reduction in rural India: context and options

    Overseas Development Institute, 2003
    This paper lays out the macroeconomic and structural contexts for poverty reduction in India and discusses opportunities and constraints in relation to public investment and service provision that have a bearing on rural livelihoods.
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    State transfers to the poor and back: the case of the food for work programme in Andhra Pradesh

    Overseas Development Institute, 2003
    This paper discusses the shortcomings of the Food for Work programme in Andhra Pradesh to provide employment to drought-affected poor people.
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    Ensuring safe use of biotechnology: key challenges

    Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2002
    This article identifies short and long-term challenges to biosafety governance in India.
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    Public perceptions and expectations of biotechnology

    Biotechnology and Development Monitor, 2001
    This edition of the Biotechnology and Development Monitor surveys the perceptions and expectations that have developed in the public domain on agricultural gene technology in recent years. Authors from different parts of the world analyse the factors that have influenced public perceptions and expectations of biotechnology as applied to agriculture in their own countries over the last 25 years.
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    Did BT Cotton fail Andhra Pradesh again in 2003-2004?

    Deccan Development Society, Hyderabad, India, 2004
    This paper reports on the economic performance of BT Cotton in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India.
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    Accessing modern science: policy and institutional options for agricultural biotechnology in developing countries

    Eldis Document Store, 2001
    The paper highlights the complexity of the challenge in developing new forms of collaboration between a variety of actors in the biotechnology area in developing countries, including, national research systems with very diverse capacities in biotechnology, international research centres, local private R&D companies, global life science companies, and advanced research institutes in both industrial

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