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    Small Farmers in High Value Chains: Binding or Relaxing Constraints to Inclusive Growth?

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2014
    Linking small farmers to modern markets, whether domestically or for export, increasingly entails participation in modern supply chains coordinated by contract farming. Concerns have been raised regarding the possible disadvantages from contract farming facing small farmers. Most empirical work points to a positive correlation between participation in contract farming and net farm income.
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    Local skill concentrations and district employment growth: A Spatial simultaneous equation approach for India

    Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India, 2014
    Employment data available for India specify only total number of workers (including self-employed and those with regular and casual jobs) in a given year. The focus of this paper is to explore the role of spatial distribution of skills in explaining differential growth rates of employment across Indian districts between the years 2001 and 2011 by using data from Census of India.
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    Neighborhood and agricultural clusters across states of India

    Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India, 2014
    Huge disparity across states has been a perennial feature of Indian agriculture, and the subject matter of several studies, government reports and policy documents. This study traces how number and members of income clusters have changed in Indian agriculture over the last four and a half decades.
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    MGNREGA works and their impacts: A Rapid assessment in Maharashtra

    Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India, 2014
    The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) was notified on September 5, 2005 and implemented in three phases covering all districts over time. Although the focus is on augmenting wage employment, it is ambitious in scope and aims to accomplish a number of things.
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    The Political economy of MGNREGS spending in Andhra Pradesh

    Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India, 2014
    Infrastructure projects are necessary for economic growth and reducing income inequality, likely due to the spill-over gains from increased accessibility.
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    Overview of MGNREGA in India

    Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2014
    Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (Mahatma Gandhi NREGA) aims at enhancing livelihood security of households in rural areas of the country by providing at least one hundred days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work.
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    India Nepal Knowledge Exchange Visit January 2014

    Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2014
    This report details the exposure visit for Nepal Government Officials to India which was organised by the KPP Management team to share learnings from the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS). The visit  focused on the various steps in implementing MGNREGS and the practical challenges which are faced on ground by the local bodies.
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    The effects of the European Union-imposed livestock identification and traceback system on Botswana’s beef exports and rural poverty

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2011
    In 1997 the EU introduced a requirement that beef imports be traceable through a computerised system. To ensure continued access to the EU market, Botswana introduced the livestock identification and traceback system (LITS).
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    Equitable education in Pakistan: addressing gender and rural-urban gaps in lower secondary education

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2011
    The driving force behind this project was the motivation to attain good governance in Pakistan through the introduction and implementation of social accountability (SAc) tools.
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    Women and poverty: salient findings from a gendered analysis of a quasi-anthropological study in rural Punjab and Sindh

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2004
    The report is an analysis based on a qualitative investigation of poverty in Pakistan by means of in-depth studies of six villages in six different agro-ecological zones in Punjab and Sindh.

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