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  Enforcing the right to food in India: bottlenecks in delivering the expected outcome

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2006

  If production of food grains in India is ample, then why does India account for a third of the world’s hungry? This paper reviews initiatives by the Government of India to provide food security to its citizens, and it explores why the system in place has been unsuccessful.
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  Is Asia prepared for an aging population?

  International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 2006

  Many Asian countries will experience a significant ageing of their populations during the next decades. This paper explores how these countries are addressing and anticipating the challenges of an ageing society.
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  Distributing food in India and China: learning from experience

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007

  Many governments use public distribution systems to make food available at reasonable rates and guarantee food security for their citizens. The experiences of India and China offer insights for all developing countries.
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  Childhood poverty, basic services and cumulative disadvantage: an international comparative analysis

  Young Lives, 2007

  This paper explores the ability of children living in poverty to access multiple basic services. The study draws on a sample of over 8,000 children in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam.The authors argue that children denied access to education or health services are more likely to reside in households deprived of other basic infrastructure and therefore prone to cumulative disadvantages.
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  The public distribution systems of foodgrains and implications for food security

  2006

  What are the differences between the Public Distribution Systems (PDS) of foodgrains in India and China? This paper compares these two systems and how they have helped to improve national food security, food security of the general public, and food security of the poor.In the 1990s both India and China reformed their PDS, but each following a different path.
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  Power in global value chains: implications for employment and livelihoods in the cashew nut industry in India

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2006

  This report explores the impacts of an expanding global market for cashew nuts on the livelihoods of women workers in the cashew processing industry in India.
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  Empowering women to achieve food security

  2020 Vision for Food, Agriculture and the Environment, International Food Policy Research Institute, 2001

  This briefing outlines what safety nets are and how they work. Examples of safety nets in Mexico, South Africa and India are also summarised. It is argued that safety nets can strengthen marginalised people’s access to economic and social assets. Social differences can occur along gender, generational, and ethnic characteristics.
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  Social protection in the informal economy: home-based women workers and outsourced manufacturing in Asia

  UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2002

  This paper draws on surveys carried out in five Asian countries (India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Thailand, and Philippines) where home-based work (HBW) is widespread. It examines characteristics of home workers and, in particular, conditions of women as home workers.
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  The economic impact of telecommunications on rural livelihoods and poverty reduction: a study of rural communities in India (Gujarat), Mozambique and Tanzania

  Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation, 2005

  Aimed at a policy audience this paper looks at the use of various communications technologies in villages in Gujarat, Mozambique and Tanzania.
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  Of global concern: rural livelihood dynamics and natural resource governance

  Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2006

  The global challenges of hunger, poverty and disease have led to an increasing focus within global initiatives - policies and strategies - on conditions and developments in rural areas in the South. The aim of this paper is to analyse and understand the rural livelihood dynamics and natural resource governance that are unfolding across continents.

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