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    Australia, India and Japan trilateral: breaking the mould

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2015
    After the first trilateral dialogue between Australia, India and Japan in June 2015, another trilateral process immediately got underway. This paper makes an assessment of the prospects of this new formation in the light of history, contemporary coalescing interests, and the inadequacies of the existing trilaterals.
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    Weather variability, agriculture and rural migration: evidence from state and district level migration in India

    South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics, 2014
    Fast growing economies like India are likely to witness increasing disparity in living standards between rural and urban areas, with a corresponding increase in migration from rural to urban areas. The weather sensitivity of agriculture and the increasing vulnerability of crop yields to both weather extremes and changing weather conditions are likely to further accelerate the rural to rura
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    Public investment and agricultural productivity: a state-wise analysis of foodgrains in India

    Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India, 2007
    This study examines the long-run relationship between public investment and foodgrain productivity across the 15 major states of India. The analysis is confined to the period, 1974-’75 to 2005-’06. It does so by using Koyck’s Autoregressive Distributed Lag model (ADL).
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    To cultivate or not? examining factors that influence jatropha agriculture in north east India

    South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics, 2014
    India’s biofuel policy seeks to increase demand for biodiesel to 16.72 million tons by 2017 and encourages 20% blending of biodiesel with other fuels (Planning Commission, 2003). The main source for biodiesel is the plant jatropha, which is a relatively new crop in Indian agriculture (Raja et al., 2011; Aradhey, 2013).
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    Climate shocks, food and nutrition security: evidence from the Young Lives cohort study

    Oxfam, 2014
    Many people living in poor communities in Ethiopia, India (particularly, Andhra Pradesh), Peru and Vietnam experience climatic shocks such as droughts and floods, and are often faced with issues of food insecurity. 
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    Implementing the forest rights act: lack of political will?

    Oxfam India, 2015
    As Khare (2012) observed, the historical injustice perpetuated against forest dwellers is unlikely to subside with the passage of a single law.
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    Locating human-wildlife interactions: Landscape constructions and responses to large carnivore conservation in India and Norway

    Conservation and Society, 2015
    People's reactions to large carnivores take many forms, ranging from support and coexistence to resistance and conflict. While these reactions are the outcome of many different factors, in this paper we specifically explore the link between social constructions of landscapes and divergent responses to large carnivore presence.
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    When the Hen Crows: Obstacles that Prevent Indigenous Women from Influencing Health-care Policies – A Case Study of Shillong, Meghalaya, India

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015
    This paper examines how the Indian state prioritises health needs, and how and whether poor and indigenous women are able to participate in decisions about their sexual and reproductive health. The focus is on the indigenous Khasi population in Meghalaya, with its traditional systems of governance that exist in tandem with India’s modern institutions.
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    Indian's energy transition in a climate-constrained world

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2015
    Energy transitions in developing economies like India are complex processes involving substantial financial and technological resources as well as appropriate innovation. These transitions are central to the climate debate, where emphasis is placed on increasing the share of renewables in the energy mix to mitigate the adverse impacts of climate change.
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    Common futures: India and Africa in partnership

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2015
    Africa with its 54 countries is over ten times the size of India but has roughly the same population -- just over one billion people. The demographic structures are also very similar. In India more than fifty percent of the population is below the age of twenty five and in most African states, half or more of thepopulation is under twenty five years of age.

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