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    Energy, jobs and skills: a rapid assessment of potential in Mtwara, Tanzania

    Research on Poverty Alleviation, Tanzania, 2009
    Energy development in Mtwara is a fundamental part of the overall national energy strategy which is based on the desire to move away from hydro-dependent power sources, and the opportunity to achieve this through the development of natural gas for energy development. Therefore, for the purpose of this study, energy focuses specifically on electricity and natural gas.
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    Nature and characteristics of seasonal labour migration: a case study in Mahabubnagar District of Andhra Pradesh

    Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India, 2010
    In India, migration from rural areas is an important issue that is gaining more significance year after year. Moreover, the extent, nature, characteristics and pattern of migration have been evolving over time. In fact, the growing part of the migration taking place is seasonal and cyclical in nature. Seasonal or short duration migration is certainly not
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    The financial crisis in the Gulf and its impact on South Asian migrant workers

    Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India, 2010
    The financial crisis originated in the United States of America and impacted the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries after a time lag. The falling oil prices, contracting trade and declining private investment flows have adversely affected the GDP growth of the Gulf countries, which in turn affected the flow of migrant labour to and from them and remittances from them.
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    Impact of the global recession on migration and remittances in Kerala : new evidences from the Return Migration Study (RMS) 2009

    Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India, 2010
    This study has brought to light some of the broad dimensions of the problems created by the global recession on Kerala emigrants – the number of emigrants who became unemployed, the number who lost
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    Global crisis, environmental volatility and expansion of the Indian leather industry

    Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India, 2010
    The leather industry occupies a place of prominence in the Indian economy in view of its massive potential for employment, growth and exports. However, the on-going global economic slowdown and the wide erratic behaviour of the overall weather condition particularly in the Europe pose both threat (of market loss) and opportunity (to gain some unanticipated demand in the market) before it.
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    Children’s involvement in small business: does it build youth entrepreneurship?

    Research on Poverty Alleviation, Tanzania, 2010
    The increasing involvement of children in small businesses1 in Tanzania has raised concerns over the effects of child work, not only on the development of children’s intellectual capacity, but also on their future entrepreneurial life.
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    From Kerala via Kerala via the Gulf: emigration experiences of return emigrants

    Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India, 2011
    This paper about return emigrants in Kerala is based on information on return emigrants collected by the Centre for Development Studies (CDS) through several of its recent large-scale household surveys. The term ‘return emigrants’ is used here to mean Kerala-born persons, who have lived outside India for a minimum of 12 months or
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    Rural development in India: reversals for diversity

    Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad, 1991
    This paper argues that in the search for more equitable and effective rural development, professionals and professionalism are part of the problem. Normal bureaucracy, normal professionalism, normal careers, and normal modes of learning interlock to sustain centralised, standardised and simple perceptions, prescriptions, and programmes.
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    Dynamics of rural water supply in coastal Kerala : a sustainable development view

    Centre for Development Studies, Swansea, 2008
    This paper examines empirically within sustainable development framework the dynamics of coverage in rural drinking water supply of 180 demand-driven schemes from Malappuram, predominantly a coastal district of Kerala State in India.
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    Land, labour and migrations: understanding Kerala's economic modernity

    Centre for Development Studies, Swansea, 2009
    This paper seeks to map out the historical trajectory leading to a series of migrations in and from the erstwhile princely state of Travancore during 1900-70 in order to acquire and bring land under cultivation.

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