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    The food-feed-fuel triangle: implications of corn-based ethanol for grain-use competition

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2010
    The contemporary world is witnessing certain critical changes in the domain of grain utilisation. With the on-going efforts to substitute fossil fuels with bio-fuels, there has been a rise in the importance of fuel-use of cereals. This adds a new dimension to the food-feed competition that emerged in the 20th century.
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    Technological change and new actors: debate on returns and regulations

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2010
    New technology in the seed sector has brought in new actors and new requirements for regulation. It is important to discuss how far India is working on new opportunities and policy options for effective and rationale regulatory framework.
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    International food safety standards and India’s food exports: an analysis based on gravity model using three-dimensional data

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2010
    The need to understand how food safety regulations imposed by the United States, European Union, Japan, and other developed countries affect India’s exports of the processed food to these markets is the main object of this paper. The paper makes the following main findings:
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    Skills, informality, and development

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2010
    Issues concerning the residual absorption of labour in the low productivity informal sector have already received a great deal of attention in the past. In the present context of globalization, while most countries are aiming at maximizing growth, the issue of well-being has become increasingly important.
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    Club-convergence and polarisation of states: a nonparametric analysis of post-reform India

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2010
    For most of its post independence history, the Indian economy adopted inward looking policies based on the import substitution framework. The low growth of the seventies and early eighties and the balance of payment crisis at the beginning of 90’s however, forced the policy makers to change course and move towards a market oriented economy.
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    Business group ownership of banks: issues and implications

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2010
    Banks perform the critical role of financial intermediation between households (savings surplus economic units) and firms (savings-deficit units), whereby they mobilize and aggregate small savings, and package and deliver them in the form of structured or securitized funds to firms.
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    Does participatory development legitimise collusion mechanisms? evidence from Karnataka Watershed Development Agency

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2011
    The 1990s were an eventful period for decentralized development, including attempts at watershed development in the rural areas of India. Watershed development is an approach to raise agricultural productivity, conserve natural resources, and reduce poverty in the semi-arid tropical regions of the world, including the South Asian region.
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    Policies for increasing non-farm employment for farm households in India

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2012
    The recent Agriculture Census data shows that around 84 per cent of agricultural holdings in India are of less than two hectares. Most of these agriculture holdings are not viable; as a consequence many farmers are either leaving agriculture or living in penury.
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    Trade facilitation, information technology and SMEs: emerging evidences from India

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2009
    India undertook focused and dedicated trade facilitation (TF) initiatives for improving infrastructure and the regulatory regime dealing with its external sector. Information technology (IT) and information technology enabled services (ITES) are prominently placed centre-stage of the trade process reforms.
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    Addressing the defaults of globalization

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2009
    Globalisation is not a new and recent phenomenon. Globalisation started right way at the beginning of the history of mankind, as soon as people began to communicate and trade with each other, to visit land beyond the horizon of their own livelihoods and to migrate to areas that promised better chances for survival and economic progress. So, globalisation is of all times.

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