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    Effectiveness of private-sector extension in India and lessons for the new extension policy agenda

    Agricultural Research and Extension Network, 2005
    Mahindra Subhlabh Services Limited (MSSL) has initiated one-stop farm solutions centres called Mahindra Krishi Vihar in selected districts of India. This paper explores the performance of one such centre set up by a private entrepreneur under a franchise agreement with MSSL and finds that participant farmers could increase their crop yields and income.
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    Cost and cost-effectiveness of public-private mix DOTS: evidence from two pilot projects in India

    World Health Organization, 2004
    This World Health Organization (WHO) report examines the cost and cost-effectiveness of implementing DOTS (directly observed treatment, short-course) – the internationally recognised tuberculosis control therapy – through a mix of the public and private sectors. This strategy, known as public-private mix DOTS (PPM-DOTS), was piloted in two projects in India, one in Hyderabad and one in Delhi.
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    Public-private mix for DOTS implementation: what makes it work?

    Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2004
    This article from the Bulletin of the World Health Organization compares processes and outcomes of four public-private mix (PPM) projects implementing DOTS for tuberculosis (TB) control, in New Delhi and Pune, India, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam, and Nairobi, Kenya.
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    Does informal credit provide security? rural banking policy in India

    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 activity in India since 1969, when 14 major commercial banks were nationalized.
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    Women, reproductive health and the private sector in India

    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 Tropical Medicine investigated women’s health in Karnataka State, India.
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    Case studies of private sector programmes to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria

    Global Health Initiative, 2002
    Series of papers and background materials on private sector efforts to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
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    Sustaining high rates of economic growth in India

    Center for International Development, Harvard University, 2001
    This article looks at means of strengthening India's growth strategy.The article suggests:a strategy focussing on export-led growth, which among other things requires greater emphasis on special economic zones, and openness of the economy, liberalization in India's labor laws, de-reservation of products for the small scale industry and other measures for the deregulation of India's priv

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