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  Growth and poverty in rural India

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  Higher agricultural yields reduced absolute poverty in rural India, both by raising smallholder productivity and by increasing real agricultural wages. But gains to the poor were far smaller in the short run than in the long run.Unlike most developing countries, consistent poverty measures for India can be tracked over a long time.
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  The Uruguay Round and South Asia : an overview of the impact and opportunities

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  South Asia remains less liberal in trade policy than East Asia, including China. The Uruguay Round's most dramatic effect on South Asia will be the removal of non tariff barriers on the region's exports to the rest of the world.
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  Why have some Indian states done better than others at reducing rural poverty?

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996

  Experience in India suggests that reducing rural poverty requires both economic growth (farm and non farm) and human resource development.The unevenness of the rise in rural living standards in the various states of India since the 1950s allowed Datt and Ravallion to study the causes of poverty.They modeled the evolution of average consumption and various poverty measures using pooled state
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  The decline of common property resources in Rajasthan, India

  Pastoral Development Network, ODI, 1986

  This paper examines the decline of common property resources in the arid zone of Rajasthan in India and the factors underlying the decline.The article concludes that:well-intentioned public programmes like land reformcan deprive a region of its comparative advantage in a key economic activity (in this case livestock farming)privatisation raises the cost of livestock raising and, hen
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  Dynamic carrying capacity analysis as a tool for conceptualising and planning range management improvements, with a case study from India

  Pastoral Development Network, ODI, 1993

  The paper begins with a literature review of the basic theories which underpin range science. Two major approaches for determining carrying capacity (CC) are described, animal or plant oriented.
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  The Evolution of Poverty and Inequality in Indian Villages

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  Continued agricultural growth and diversification into nonagricultural activities are essential if India is to continue reducing rural poverty. But policymakers hoping to alleviate rural poverty must also be aware of the causes and implications of persisting, if not increasing, inequality within villages.
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  Pastoralism in Western India from a comparative perspective: some comments

  Pastoral Development Network, ODI, 1994

  This paper is a collection of several papers concerning pastoralism in Gujarat and Rajasthan. These include:Pastoralism in Western India froma comparative perspective: some comments (Ilse Köhler-Rollefson). Discussions about pastoralism tend to be dominated by concepts and models derived from African contexts and, to a lesser degree, the Middle East.
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  The Muslim Identity and the Politics of Fundamentalism in Kashmir

  Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 1998

  Examines the role of religion in the formation and assertion of political identity in Kashmir. The issue has been highlighted by the rise of Islamic militancy in the 1990s.
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  Social Exclusion and Land Administration in Orissa, India

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  Examines—from the perspective of transaction costs—factors that constrain access to land for the rural poor and other socially excluded groups in India. They find that: Land reform has reduced large landholdings since the 1950s. Medium-size farms have gained most. Formidable obstacles still prevent the poor from gaining access to land.
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  Access to Land in Rural India

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  Access to land is deeply important in rural India, where the incidence of poverty is highly correlated with lack of access to land. Mearns provides a framework for assessing alternative approaches to improving access to land by India's rural poor.

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