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  India's development cooperation with Ethiopia in sugar production: an assessment

  Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2015

  Ethiopia is one of the few countries in Africa with whom India has enjoyed a long standing partnership in development cooperation. In 2006, India provided a US$ 640 million line of credit to Ethiopia for development of its sugar industry.
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  Land grabbing under the Cover of Law: Are BRICS-South relationships any different?

  Transnational Institute, 2014

  There is a general consensus among academics, politicians and social movements, that BRICS as ‘new donors’ are increasing both their quantitative and qualitative role in defining what is considered to be ‘the world economic order’.
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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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  Valuing variability: new perspectives on climate resilient drylands development

  2015

  This book is a challenge to those who see the drylands as naturally vulnerable to food insecurity and poverty.  It argues that improving agricultural productivity in dryland environments is possible by working with climatic uncertainty rather than seeking to control it – a view that runs contrary to decade of development practice in arid and semi-arid lands.
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  Emerging seed markets: the role of Brazilian, Chinese and Indian seeds in African agriculture

  Future Agricultures Consortium, 2014

  In recent years, three of the largest emerging powers, Brazil, China and India, have all brought about incredible agricultural revolutions and seeds have played a big part in that story. Nowadays, their seed markets are all within the world’s top ten in terms of value and their companies are eager to expand into new markets, particularly in Africa.
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  Does marginal cost pricing of electricity affect the groundwater pumping behaviour of farmers? Evidence from India

  International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2013

  The purpose of this impact evaluation was to quantify the impact of the recent policy change in West Bengal relating to the pricing of electricity from a flat-rate tariff to a metered tariff.
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  Indo-US agricultural cooperation from "Green" to "Evergreen" Revolution?

  Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2011

  Trade between India and the US has grown exponentially since India adopted economic reforms in the 1990/91 period. There still remains a huge potential for increasing the bilateral trade. Defence-related trade, high-tech trade, agriculture, investment in infrastructure and insurance, seem to be the foci of the US in India.
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  The search for a model land legislation: the new land bill and its challenges

  Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2011

  The draft Indian Land Acquisition and Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, which was introduced in the Lok Sabha on September 7, 2011 is one of the most important legislations waiting for Parliamentary approval. In its present form, the bill is a major improvement over the archaic 1894 land law that has contributed to the impasse over land acquisitions across the country.
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  Potential impacts of iron biofortification in India

  Social Science and Medicine, 2008

  Iron deficiency is a widespread nutrition and health problem in developing countries, causing impairments in physical activity and cognitive development, as well as maternal mortality. Although food fortification and supplementation programmes have been effective in some countries, their overall success remains limited.
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  Why tax effort falls short of capacity in Indian states: a stochastic frontier approach

  Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India, 2014

  Taxation is an important tool to enhance the economic development and to finance the expenditure responsibilities of a government. This paper attempts to measure the tax capacity and tax effort of 14 major Indian states from 1992-92 to 2010-11 using Stochastic Frontier Analysis.

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