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    Unemployment burden and its distribution: Theory and evidence from India

    Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India, 2014
    This paper develops a measure of unemployment that takes into account both the level and intensity of unemployment and that satisfies several desirable properties, including distribution sensitivity (dealing with differences among the unemployed). It can also be decomposed into mean and distributional components and contributions to unemployment by various subgroups of the population.
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    National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM)

    Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2014
    The National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM) is a poverty alleviation initiative deployed by the Ministry Of Rural Development and sponsored by the World Bank. This paper looks at the work of NRLM which works towards improving poorest livelihoods through the following actions:
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    Prospect of India-Ethiopia investment and trade cooperation

    Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2015
    In recent years, with the opening up of the Ethiopian and India economy, investment and trade ties between the two countries have grown significantly. While Ethiopia’s major exports are food and live animals, coffee and tea, crude materials and vegetable and fruits, India’s major import items are manufactured products and fuels.
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    The Middle Classes of India, Kenya and South Africa

    Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2014
    This report on the middle class is the outcome of a fruitful collaboration between three leading think tanks from emerging democracies. They are:
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    Promoting resource efficiency along the supply chain of key sectors: stimulating knowledge partnership in South Asia

    Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2015
    Rapid development coupled with high population growth in South Asia has led to unsustainable use of natural resources resulting in serious environmental and social problems. These problems may constraint growth
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    Exploring and developing environmental economic policies for China in the new era

    Chinese Academy for Environmental Planning, 2010
    The environmental economic policies are mechanisms and regimes that regulate and influence people’s behaviors of making or eliminating pollution and ecological degradation aiming at socio-economic sustainable development by employing such economic leverages as financing, taxation, pricing, credit, investment, and market instruments based on the theories of environmental economics and mark
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    The micro level impact of foreign remittances on incomes in Bangladesh: a measurement approach using the propensity score

    Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh, 2008
    The importance of foreign remittances in the economy of Bangladesh is widely recognised and requires little reiteration. Along with the readymade garment (RMG) sector and non-farm activities in the agricultural sector, remittances have been identified as one of the three key factors that have been responsible for reducing the overall incidence of poverty in Bangladesh.
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    The Hong Kong Declaration and agriculture: implications for Bangladesh

    Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh, 2007
    The Hong Kong Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO), held in Hong Kong, China during 13-18 December 2005, was concluded with a Ministerial Declaration (WTO, 2005). Through this Declaration, WTO members agreed on various negotiating issues including agriculture and this is going to guide the final set of discussions towards the successful conclusion of the Doha Round.
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    India's Coal supply security: pushing iImports at the expense of domestic reforms?

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2014
    Coal India Ltd. (CIL) has not been able to supply the committed quantity of coal to the power producers, forcing them to source coal from other countries. Apart from this, many coal blocks which should have been in operation by now are yet to come on-stream. If these blocks come into operation, India’s coal imports would reduce substantially.
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    Can the employment impacts of manufacturing extension Help counter inequality? Lessons for developing nations from the U.S. experience

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2014
    United States manufacturing firms employ over 13 million people and make $1.6 trillion worth of goods a year. Manufacturing accounts for more than 80% of all U.S. exports and roughly two-thirds of total U.S. research and development expenditures. Yet over 85% of manufacturing jobs are in establishments with fewer than 50 employees.

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