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Searching with a thematic focus on Livelihoods in India

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  Livelihoods approaches to information and communication in support of rural poverty elimination and food security

  Research and Policy in Development, ODI, 2003

  This report looks at the of information in livelihoods, and makes recommendations on how agencies can capitalise on and integrate the best elements of traditional communication methods and the ICT revolution technologies within the livelihoods approach. Seven key recommendations were identified :
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  Post offices, pension and computers: new opportunities for combining growth and social protection in weakly-integrated rural areas?

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2003

  India’s efforts in targeting a wide range of social protection measures towards different categories of poor people might be a model for other countries as they prepare their own Poverty Reduction Strategies.
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  Food security and the millennium development goal on hunger in Asia

  Overseas Development Institute, 2003

  This paper provides an overview of food security issues in relation to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, China, Indonesia, Cambodia and Vietnam.It identifies the key issues relating to food security in Asia, setting out progress and the prospects for achieving the MDG on hunger and analysing how these issues are likely to develop in 10 to 25 years time, in par
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  Targeting food insecure households: an Indian experiment

  Eldis Document Store, 2003

  This paper presents an alternative, participatory approach to the identification of food insecure households at the community level. This approach is introduced as a response to the different food assistance schemes currently implemented by the Government of India, which show a lacklustre performance due to inappropriate targeting.
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  Impacts of agricultural research on poverty: findings of an integrated economic and social analysis

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003

  This paper examines how agricultural technologies influence and are influenced by the diverse livelihood strategies, vulnerability context, relations of gender and power, and other conditions of the poor. It reports findings of a CGIAR research project including seven case studies of different types of agricultural research:
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  ICTs: transforming agricultural extension?

  Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, 2003

  This document reports on a workshop held by CTA on Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for ACP agricultural and rural development.
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  Chronic poverty in India: lessons from recent research

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2003

  This paper is based on a synthesis of recent literature on poverty in India. It argues that within the context of urban poverty in India, spatial analysis does not feature prominently enough within the recent livelihoods work.
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  Supporting workers in the informal economy: a policy framework

  International Labour Organization, 2002

  This paper argues that the informal economy is here to stay and requires appropriate regulations, laws and policies to correct biases in the existing regulatory, legal, and policy environment that favour formal enterprises and workers to the disadvantage of informal workers and enterprises.
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  Diversification and livelihood options: a study of two villages in Andhra Pradesh, India, 1975–2001

  Overseas Development Institute, 2002

  This paper reports on findings of research that has taken place in Andhra Pradesh, namely a re-survey of two villages, Aurepalle and Dokur, in the Andhra Pradesh district of Mahbubnagar.
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  Social security for the unorganized in India: an approach paper

  Eldis Document Store, 2002

  This paper suggests that traditionally the ILO and ministries of labour the world over believed that all workers would eventually end up in large enterprises, or at least in the formal sector. However, experience has proved otherwise. On the contrary, voluntary retirement schemes, out sourcing employment and casualization have become the key words of the corporate world these days.

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