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    A study of National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme in three Grama Panchayats of Kasaragod District

    Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India, 2009
    The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) is a historic legislation passed by the Government of India in September 2005. It was enacted in order to address the crucial issues of unemployment and poverty in rural India. The NREGA guarantees a hundred days of unskilled employment to each household in every financial year at an equal wage rate for both male and female workers.
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    The effect of information technology on wage inequality: evidence from Indian manufacturing sector

    Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India, 2010
    A persistent widening of skill based wage inequality in the Indian Organised Manufacturing sector has been reported by many researchers. Two main hypotheses had been tested in developed economies to explain such a phenomenon; an inter-sectoral shift in demand structure and an intra-sectoral shift in production technology.
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    Helpdesk report: Urban poverty in Nepal

    Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, 2015
    This Helpdesk Report responds to the following query: What are the issues and trends in relation to urban poverty in Nepal? Include data on key trends as well as a qualitative overview of the issues pertaining to informal settlements, housing and access to services that make poor people more or less vulnerable to hazards.
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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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    Determinants of expected poverty among rural households in Nigeria

    African Economic Research Consortium, 2008
    Vulnerability measures are becoming tools for evolving proactive steps to alleviate poverty. Against this backdrop, this study examined the determinants of expected poverty (a measure of vulnerability) among rural households in Nigeria. 
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    What do national poverty lines tell us about global poverty?

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2012
    The basic question about ‘how many poor people are there in the world?’ generally assumes that poverty is measured according to international poverty lines (IPLs). Yet, an equally relevant question could be ‘how many poor people are there in the world, based on how poverty is
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    Zambia Institute for Policy Analysis and Research (ZIPAR)

    The Zambia Institute for Policy Analysis and Research (ZIPAR) is a Think-Tank whose mandate is to conduct research and analysis primarily, but not exclusively for policy formulation, implementation an
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    Mobile phone interventions for improving economic and productive outcomes for farm and non - farm rural enterprises and households in low and middle - income countries

    International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2013
    The link between economic growth, development and the ability to communicate over distances is a topic that has been extensively debated in available literature. There are three possible impacts of improved communication technologies: they are beneficial in development terms, they are neutral; or they are harmful.
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    Chronic poverty in rural Ethiopia through the lens of life histories

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2012
    Studying chronic poverty using retrospective qualitative data (life histories) in conjunction with longitudinal panel data is now widely recognised to provide deeper and more reliable insights (Davis and Baulch, 2009).

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