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    Political commitment in India’s social policy implementation: shaping the performance of MGNREGA

    Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, 2015
    This paper contributes to the empirical understanding of the concept of commitment and the role it plays in shaping India’s social policy implementation. The paper analyses in-depth qualitative information from four Indian states – Chhatisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar and Assam.
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    Re-examining India's nuclear doctrine

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2015
    The Indian Government announced its formal nuclear doctrine on 4 January 2003, almost five years after testing its nuclear weapons capability in May 1998. While the one-page document was vague and subject to interpretation, what was clear was that it reiterated India's 'No First Use' policy.
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    Nuclear safety and regulation in India: the way forward

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2015
    On 27 March 2015, the Integrated Regulatory Review Service (IRRS) submitted a draft report to India's Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) reviewing the country's legal and regulatory regime for safety of Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs) and safety practices Oand policies at plants across the country.
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    Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF)

    NGO in India aiming to empowe marginalised and information-dark communities with digital literacy, access to digital tools and information-rich knowledge society ushered in by the Internet and the dig
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    Is There an Enabling Environment for Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture in South Asia? Stakeholder Perspectives from India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan

    Food and Nutrition Bulletin (FNB), 2015
    Almost half of all children in South Asia are stunted. Although agriculture has the potential to be a strong driver of undernutrition reduction and serves as the main source of livelihood for over half of South Asia’s population, its potential to reduce undernutrition is currently not being realized.
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    Supply or demand? How politics influences the implementation of the MGNREGA in Rajasthan

    Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, 2014
    The recent performance of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) has been a matter of debate. Rajasthan, especially, performed impressively in the initial years of its National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), but experienced a sharp decline (even relative to other states) in outcomes from 2010 onwards.
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    Success and failure in MGNREGA implementation in India

    Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, 2014
    The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) – offering up to 100 days work each year to rural Indians – is the largest social protection programme in the world, in terms of the number of households covered. There is a lively debate around whether it provides a vital social safety net for the poor or merely burdens the economy.
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    ‘Fixing’ the climate crisis: Capital, states and carbon offsetting in India

    Environment and Planning A, 2015
    The paper analyses dynamics of accumulation and displacement in the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).
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    Improving the practice and policy of springshed management in India

    International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2015
    This case study focuses on the Arghyam’s ‘Springs Initiative’: an open platform for discussing the revival of water springs and an overarching template for springshed management in India.
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    The United Nations Post-2015 Agenda for Global Development: perspectives from China and Europe

    Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik / German Development Institute (GDI), 2014
    This publication focuses on scholarly discourses and policy challenges in China and Germany. Articles from The German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), also cover European perspectives while chapters from the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS) extend to the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa).

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