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    Rice seeds availability in India and Bangladesh: farmers’ perspective

    2014
    This briefing paper presents the perspective of farmers and their preferences in Bangladesh and India with regard to availability and accessibility of rice seeds.
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    Building mutual understanding for effective development

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014
    In recent years a number of countries, referred to collectively as the rising powers, have achieved rapid economic growth and increased political influence. In many cases their experience challenges received wisdom on inclusive development. Research funded by traditional development donors has tended to focus on their own aid recipients.
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    Learning from India’s development cooperation

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014
    In recent years, India has substantially increased the levels of its development cooperation. It has streamlined its development cooperation activities and put the principles of South-South Cooperation, including respect for national sovereignty, national ownership and independence, non-conditionality and
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    What drives wind and solar energy investment in India and China

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014
    While China and India are responsible for the biggest growth in carbon emissions, China is now the largest global investor in renewable energy and India saw the highest growth rate in recent times between 2010 and 2011.
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    Social networks and micro finance

    Centre for Micro Finance, India, 2012
    This summary reviews a number of studies that deal with the issues of social networks and finance, the role of informal institutions within networks and econometrics of studying social networks.
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    Self Help Group bank linkage: through the responsible finance lens

    Centre for Micro Finance, India, 2013
    The self-help group (SHG) program began as a women’s empowerment initiative in the 1980’s and added a significant component in 1992, when it linked a small number of SHGs with banks. The objective of this report is to review the group dynamics in terms of financial transactions, decision making, cohesiveness, transparency and acceptance towards technology and new policy.
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    Implementation of a women-based community driven development (CDD) programme in Tamil Nadu: the Pudhu Vaazhvu Project (PVP)

    Centre for Micro Finance, India, 2014
    Community Driven Development (CDD) approach is a developmental model that operates on the principle of “community takes control of the development process, resources and decision making authority.” This case study examines one CDD project in southern India, called the Pudhu Vaazhvu Project (PVP).
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    Informing policy: gender differences in health outcomes

    Centre for Micro Finance, India, 2012
    Inequalities between men and women in health status and access to health care is a phenomenon that have detrimental effect on the health outcomes of women in India.
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    Scope of mobile banking services: women’s Papad-Making Enterprise in urban-slum of Dharavi

    Centre for Micro Finance, India, 2014
    Lijjat Papad Company is an institution that is registered as a cooperative society of women in Dharavi (India), promoting home-based employment for women. The company facilitates the opening of a basic savings account hosted by Bank of Baroda to pay its workers’ wages.
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    Impact of EKO’s SimpliBank on the saving behaviour and practices of low income customers: the Indian experience

    Centre for Micro Finance, India, 2012
    India has the second largest financially excluded poor in the world, yet given the rising mobile phone usage in the country, m-banking has a great potential for reaching unbanked population. In this respect, EKO mobile banking is an early mover in offering basic saving account to the poor in partnership with the State Bank of India on a low cost banking platform.

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