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    India exclusion report 2013-14

    Centre for Equity Studies, 2014
    By consolidating and generating knowledge around exclusion, the India Exclusion Report seeks to inform public opinion and debate on these issues, and to influence the political class and policy makers towards more inclusive, just and equitable governance.It is hoped that the report will serve as a tool to support public action for the greater inclusion of disadvantaged and marginalised communit
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    Social programmes and job promotion for the BRICS Youth

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2014
    Besides scaling up and improving the operationalisation of the initiatives designed to offer credit, work opportunities and vocational training to the youth, the BRICS nations, like all the nations of the globe, are faced with the pressing duty of finding means of including the youth productively in the labour market, in ways that genuinely represent the ambitions of this stage in the lifecycle
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    Gender and climate change in the Indian Himalayas: global threats, local vulnerabilities, and livelihood diversification at the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve

    Copernicus Publications, 2015
    This paper presents a case study from the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve outlining the implications of climate change for women farmers in the area, as well as highlighting the potential for ecotourism as a key livelihood asset. It argues that ecotourism could strengthen the adaptive capacity of local communities' in Uttarakhand, India, more broadly.
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    Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF)

    NGO in India aiming to empowe marginalised and information-dark communities with digital literacy, access to digital tools and information-rich knowledge society ushered in by the Internet and the dig
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    Supply or demand? How politics influences the implementation of the MGNREGA in Rajasthan

    Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, 2014
    The recent performance of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) has been a matter of debate. Rajasthan, especially, performed impressively in the initial years of its National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), but experienced a sharp decline (even relative to other states) in outcomes from 2010 onwards.
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    ‘Clean India!’ Miles to go before we sweep?

    Institute of South Asian Studies, 2015
    India’s urban population increases at about 2.5 per cent a year and will be close to 500 million by the next census in 2021. Urban sewage systems have to deal with nearly twice as much human waste as a generation ago. Sewers and water management have not kept pace.
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    Rural sanitation transformation in Himachal Pradesh

    CLTS Foundation, 2014
    The world remains off track to meet the sanitation MDG target. The key culprit for this is India. Against the global open defecation rate of 15%, in India over 50% of its 1.2 billion population continue to defecate in the open everyday. However, even in this dismal scenario, there are beacons of hope.
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    The costs of climate change impacts for India: a preliminary analysis

    Council on Energy, Environment and Water, 2015
    This working paper tries to estimate the cost of global climate change impacts for India.
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    Climate change, livelihoods and health inequities: the vulnerability of migrant workers in Indian cities

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2015
    This paper examines the vulnerability context of migrant workers’ in the informal sector in three Indian cities (Kochi, Surat, and Mumbai), specifically in terms of how their livelihoods interface with climate change and health inequities.
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    Does marginal cost pricing of electricity affect the groundwater pumping behaviour of farmers? Evidence from India

    International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2013
    The purpose of this impact evaluation was to quantify the impact of the recent policy change in West Bengal relating to the pricing of electricity from a flat-rate tariff to a metered tariff.

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