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    Lifting the roadblocks on better food marketing in Rajasthan

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    State regulated market systems and private trading are interconnected aspects of marketing agricultural produce in many developing countries. The state of Rajasthan in India has a long history of regulating its agricultural markets. As private traders have to work within this framework, it affects the prices of crops and the pattern of trade.
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    Softening the blow. Safety nets for redundant cotton textile workers left stranded by India's economic reforms

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    India has been moving towards a more open market economy since 1991. This liberalisation process includes reforms such as removing price controls and other restrictions on free trade. It has forced the cotton textile industry to restructure, resulting in the loss of many jobs. What can be done to support those made jobless by economic reform?
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    Getting cities to work: how growth could curb urban poverty in India

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Urban poverty alleviation programmes tend to be narrowly focused, either on promoting small businesses, or improving the local environment. Studies of anti-poverty strategies in India's cities have rarely been linked to more general thinking about the development process.
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    Uncertainly to school: poverty and household decision-making about primary education in India

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Policymakers claim that the benefits households gain from educating their children to primary level are great. But if so, why do so many poor Indian households not take advantage of state schooling? When children from poor households do enrol, they often perform badly, attend irregularly or drop out altogether.
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    Timelines: how rural livelihoods are evolving in Nepal and India

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How do the ways in which rural people make a living change over time? Ongoing studies by University of East Anglia researchers along with partner organisations in India and Nepal, are tracking the different ways in which rural people have changed their livelihoods over the past twenty years ('livelihood trajectories').
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    From uniformity to diversity: reclaiming the richness of India's farming heritage

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    What have policies geared toward economic liberalisation in common with South Asia's famed Green Revolution in advanced agricultural technology and farm modernisation? Both have eaten away at the diversity of crop and livestock varieties to be found in the region.
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    Outcast from welfare? Development offers short straw to India's disabled

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    What do disabled people do to survive in rural India? Researchers from Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford, examined the daily social and economic realities of rural disabled Indians in the Chingleput District of Tamil Nadu in southern India. From answers to questions like: How do disabled people and their carers gain livelihoods and which types of services do they use?
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    Where city meets country. Is the peri-urban interface a concept that counts?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Is there anything different about the management of natural resources in the peri- urban interface (the zone around major towns or cities where rural and urban economies interact) that warrants special treatment in terms of research and policymaking?
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    Feeling the pinch. Tracking the mixed effects of economic reform in South India

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    What has been the impact of India's economic reform in the short term? Are states implementing reforms as the central government intended? What effects does reform have at the village level and who feels the pinch most when the state tightens its belt?
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    Politics and provision On-the-ground realities of water and sanitation development

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Addressing the challenge of water and sanitation under-provision requires a subtle understanding of several factors: the nature of the resource, the wider poverty environments in which millions of people live and the politics within which problems are framed and solutions are sought. How do current policy debates deal with these factors?

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