As an extraordinarily powerful individual, Naomi Osaka presents challenges to institutional power most of us can only imagine. If she worked in coordination with other top athletes across different sp...
by Jeffrey Montez de Oca | On 29 Jun 2021 Fisher unions and farming communities of Manipur, India, commemorated the 2021 World Wetlands Day (2nd February) at Tonoma Chingjin, Mamang Ching, Pumlen Pat - a wetland devastated by the Ithai Barrag...
by | On 05 Feb 2021 Even now, over 30 years after he scored that incredible ‘goal of the century’ against the English team in the World Cup, and despite his later descent into drugs and addictions, Maradona remains an ic...
by Shibaji Bose | On 29 Dec 2020 While tourism may support a town economy, it can also damage the environment and ecology of the surrounding villages and destroy common grazing lands. Here’s how two villages fought to preserve their...
by Anjali P Iyer | On 06 Dec 2020 In Sawar village in Ajmer, over the years private mining companies, extracting stone and marble that is exported all over the world, have progressively encroached on village common lands. Not only h...
by Anjali P Iyer | On 27 Nov 2020 Thailand, Vietnam and Mongolia have taken control of managing the pandemic with great alacrity. There is much to learn from their systematic, people-centred and research-based approach to dealing with...
by | On 06 Jul 2020 • The development of an effective treatment and vaccine for COVID-19 is key to ending the pandemic and resuming social and economic activity. An international research effort to this end is underway.
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by | On 02 Jun 2020 For a COVID-19 like pandemic, the Achilles heel is an unsuspecting villain – rapid and global land use changes. The way governments, businesses and communities see, relate to and use land, not only in...
by | On 12 May 2020 Along with the continuous development of the global economy, environmental deterioration has been widely recognized as a pressing issue nowadays, bringing environmental governance to the forefront of...
by Chun-Ping Chang | On 28 Mar 2019 Over the coming decades, competition and conflict over land is likely to intensify with the growing pressures of climate change, population growth, increased food insecurity, migration and urbanizatio...
by Secretary-General United Nations | On 21 Mar 2019 Review of 'Nine Innings for the King: The Day Wartime London Stopped for Baseball, July 4, 1918' by Jim Leeke, McFarland, 2015. 216 pp. $19.99 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7864- 7870-5.
by Leslie Heaphy | On 01 Mar 2019 Reverse mortgages provide an alternative source of retirement funding by allowing older homeowners to borrow against their home. However, a recent pilot program of reserve mortgage products in several...
by Katja Hanewald | On 03 Feb 2019 This paper is a preliminary attempt to understand globalisation and social transformation in the rural Kerala. It addresses the socioeconomic changes in a village in the mid-land region of Kerala name...
by Mijo Luke | On 31 Jan 2019 The paper reviews green markets, technologies, and practices with a focus on developing Asian countries, and offers a set of policy options to enable governments and development finance institutions t...
by Daniele Ponzi | On 29 Jan 2019 National regulatory agencies (NRAs) are the gatekeepers of the supply chain of medical products such as pharmaceuticals and medical devices. It is through registration with an NRA that a manufacturer...
by Susann Roth | On 09 Oct 2018 Surface irrigation is a common pool resource characterized by asymmetric appropriation opportunities across upstream and downstream water users. Large canal systems are also predominantly state-manage...
by Hanan G. Jacoby | On 04 Oct 2018 This paper examines how women’s participation in family decision-making is affected by land rights in rural areas in India. The 2005 Hindu Succession Act was legislated to protect women’s rights to an...
by Harold Glenn A. Valera | On 26 Sep 2018 This working paper assesses the potential of incentive FAR approaches in two Indian cities, Mumbai and Ahmedabad, for leveraging the economic value of urban land. A thorough analysis of Mumbai’s clust...
by Apoorva Shenvi | On 25 Jul 2018 The paper analyses a nationally representative data set from India for the year 2013 in order to provide evidence on how short term migration is affected by household's ownership of land, and particip...
by S. Chandrasekhar | On 25 Jul 2018 This paper describes and assesses the design of the UCT program. It evaluates the UCT based on data collected from three survey rounds from a sample of UCT household beneficiaries, as well as other pr...
by Celia M. Reyes | On 29 Jun 2018 This paper evaluates the parental response to non-cognitive variation across siblings in rural Gansu province, China, employing a household fixed effects specification; the non-cognitive measures of i...
by Jessica Leight | On 26 Jun 2018 In recent years there has been an increased role for health insurance in Indian health care, through government funded health insurance programs and privately purchased health insurance. Our analysis...
by Shefali Malhotra | On 15 Jun 2018 In many developing countries, the average firm is small, does not grow and has low productivity. Lack of market integration and limited information on non-local products often leave consumers unaware...
by Robert T. Jensen | On 12 Jun 2018 This paper discusses the status of financial inclusion, education, and literacy in Azerbaijan as well as measures to foster the development of SMEs, which currently have inadequate access to financial...
by Gubad Ibadoghlu | On 07 Jun 2018 This paper is to studies how manufacturing plants in India adjusted to trade liberalization during the period 1998–99 to 2007–08. It estimates how the labor share changed due to tariff reduction. The...
by Prachi Gupta | On 05 Jun 2018 The paper theoretically and empirically show that dismissal laws and laws that impose hurdles on firing of employees - spur innovation and thereby economic growth. Theoretically, dismissal laws make i...
by Krishnamurthy V. Subramanian | On 29 May 2018 This paper analyses the way households in rural China use rural-urban migration and
off-farm work as a response to negative productivity shocks in agriculture. I employ
various waves of a longitudin...
by Luigi Minale | On 04 Apr 2018 Naga newspapers’ unwillingness to engage with the real issues plaguing the state was on display in the recent elections.
by Vikas Kumar | On 24 Mar 2018 Nature-based solutions (NBS) are inspired and supported by nature and use, or mimic, natural processes to contribute to the improved management of water.
by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultura UNESCO | On 23 Mar 2018 The issue of land and water for crops. It examines the
kinds of production responses needed to meet demand. It also assesses the potential
of the world’s land and water resources to support these de...
by Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO] | On 22 Mar 2018 Gender budgeting is a fiscal approach that seeks to use a country’s national and/or local budget(s) to reduce inequality and promote economic growth and equitable development. While literature has exp...
by Lekha Chakraborty | On 16 Mar 2018 This report looks at global normative work, regional frameworks, and good country level practices, it provides an analysis of the most important aspects to be taken into consideration to successfully...
by Ombretta Tempra | On 09 Mar 2018 The paper examines how Kerala, a demographically and socially well advanced state in India, responded to the high population pressure during the 30 year period from 1975-76 to 2005-06.
by N. Ajith Kumar | On 07 Mar 2018 Online reviews are a powerful means of propagating the reputations of products, services, and even employers. However, existing research suggests that online reviews often suffer from selection bias—p...
by Ioana Marinescu | On 07 Mar 2018 The paper talks about the unequal power relations, discrimination and misogyny in patriarchal
societies are exacerbated by the promotion of aggression and violence during war.
by E.J. Wood | On 21 Feb 2018 Migration is a global phenomenon; and it will continue to do so in the
near future. All through human history, it has been a significant factor
influencing population change. Migration involves the...
by | On 20 Feb 2018 This systematic paper aimed to canvas the extent and impact of initiatives to reduce incidence, risk and harm from sexual violence in conflict, post-conflict and other humanitarian crises, in low and...
by Jo Spangaro | On 20 Feb 2018 The discussions in the workshop ranged from scrutinizing overall models of governance via technical and administrative applications to philosophical debates about the core values of democracy
by Bent Jörgensen | On 07 Feb 2018 Long-run institutional development co-evolves with fiscal accountability involving, perhaps
requiring, a low and declining dependence on devolved resources and a high and rising share of
direct taxe...
by Arun Jaitley | On 31 Jan 2018 Migration is a global phenomenon, and will continue to do so in the near future. Every country aspires to regulate migration according to their requirements. But, not all country is successful. Hence...
by | On 04 Jan 2018 This study constructs a new dependency ratio measure by taking into account the consumption needs of the young and elderly people, and the productivity of middle-aged people. Different from the way th...
by Xuehui Han | On 21 Dec 2017 This paper explores the co-evolution of entrepreneurship and cities. First, it provides a stylized model of development wherein the rise of cities (urbanisation) is the outcome of the activities of en...
by Wim Naudé | On 15 Dec 2017 This paper aims to promote competitive access for telecommunications providers.
by Krystal Uy | On 14 Dec 2017 In water-based transport generally, fuel costs are low and environmental
pollution is lower than in transport by road, rail, or air. The
waterway is naturally available, which has to be ‘trained’, m...
by | On 13 Dec 2017 The report outlines and critically assesses trends in urban planning education across the globe, specifically in countries of the global South, and the extent to which curricula address issues of incl...
by Vanessa Watson | On 07 Dec 2017 This paper addresses the importance of developing a common framework for defining informal employment in developed countries, and highlights issues that arise when applying the definition of informal...
by Françoise Carré | On 06 Dec 2017 About two-thirds of microfinance clients in India are reported to be in Self-Help Groups (SHGs). These mostly women’s groups have been promoted by nationalized banks since the early nineties to improv...
by Jean-Marie Baland | On 06 Nov 2017 The study also provides recommendations on how the identified issues can be addressed.
by Marife M. Ballesteros | On 29 Sep 2017 This review is framed around the exploration of a central hypothesis: A shift in public investment towards secondary towns from big cities will improve poverty reduction performance.
by Luc Christiaensen | On 27 Sep 2017 The authors study the effect of state medical marijuana laws (MMLs) on Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Workers' Compensation (WC) claiming. The paper uses data on benefit claiming draw...
by Johanna Catherine Maclean | On 25 Sep 2017 The focus of this paper is on the political history of modern Gujarat, which has been an intriguing one. The paper identifies and discusses in the broad landscape of Gujarat’s politics three notable d...
by Tannen Neil Lincoln | On 14 Sep 2017 Shifting cultivation remains the main source of employment for large sections of the rural people who depend on agriculture for their livelihood in the hill areas of Manipur. Its inputs continue to be...
by Marchang Reimeingam | On 12 Sep 2017 Situating the 1857 Indian uprising within an imperial context, Jill C. Bender traces its ramifications across the four different colonial sites of Ireland, New Zealand, Jamaica, and southern Africa. B...
by Elizabeth Baker | On 11 Sep 2017 This report explores the challenges facing
rural communities in Indonesia, Thailand,
and Mongolia when they try to obtain
information on pollution and evaluates
the multiple laws and pathways in e...
by Carole Excell | On 01 Sep 2017 The objective of the study is to understand the ‘actual’ consumption patterns of fruits and vegetables in India and compare this to the World Health Organization (WHO) ‘recommended’ quantity for an ad...
by Arpita Mukherjee | On 31 Aug 2017 The report says that the manufacturing sector has significant fiscal policy implications.
by M. Singhi | On 24 Aug 2017 The analysis, based on extensive fieldwork carried out over a three-year period, shows successful implementation of GRB in the region to be hindered not only by barriers such as lack of political comm...
by Andrea Spehar | On 11 Aug 2017 This paper undertakes an evaluation of the Labour and Environment chapters of the TPP Agreement, with a view to determining India’s stand if the same or similar provisions are proposed in multilateral...
by Anwarul Hoda | On 08 Aug 2017 The study attempts to investigate the factors affecting a firm’s decision to hire contract workers. The information from a specially commissioned survey of manufacturing firms undertaken in 2014 by IC...
by Jaivir Singh | On 08 Aug 2017 This paper examines the emerging strength of BRICS in hightechnology
trade. We reviewed trends in high-technology trade primarily in
BICS (excluding Russia). Given that China and India are leading e...
by | On 03 Aug 2017 The publication includes the Agriculture Agreement as well as the decisions taken on agriculture at the 2013 Bali Ministerial Conference and the 2015 Nairobi Ministerial Conference.
by World Trade Organisation WTO | On 02 Aug 2017 One of the key components in achieving a substantial reduction in tobacco use and associated disease, economic and ecologic burden in India is to strengthen the governance for tobacco control. In the...
by Dr. Upendra Bhojani | On 01 Aug 2017 The study explores ground-level realities linked with initiatives on tax administration, construction permits, transparency, compliance with environmental and labour laws and regulations, and inspecti...
by Research National Council of Applied Economic | On 31 Jul 2017 The NCAER State Investment Potential Index 2017 (N-SIPI 2017) is the second edition in the annual series of rankings of states on their growth and investment potential. It is a systematic and evidence...
by Research National Council of Applied Economic | On 31 Jul 2017 The report narrates that CDW can be recycled to replace natural building material; this is not only beneficial for the environment, but also results in substantial cost and resource savings.
by Venkatesh Vunnam | On 28 Jul 2017 Shifting cultivation is one of the main causes of deforestation and forest degradation in Sri Lanka. This study uses household data and satellite images to investigate the determinants of shifting cul...
by Prabath Nishantha Edirisinghe | On 28 Jul 2017 The current policy climate in India is rightly addressing the challenges of electric buses, providing an
environment to accelerate their adoption and implementation.
by Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy CSTEP | On 27 Jul 2017 The incidence of parent-child co-residence in India is among the highest in the world. This paper examines the role of intra-household exchanges and potential bequests in creating incentives for adult...
by Sonalde Desai | On 27 Jul 2017 The report narrates that in Bangladesh, women-owned SMEs have different characteristics when compared with men-owned SMEs and tend to face specific challenges and obstacles.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 25 Jul 2017 This report provides support to the Maldivian government in formulating its high-priority policies by identifying the critical constraints to achieving inclusive growth. The report also provides polic...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 12 Jul 2017 This publication is a continuation of the APWF Framework Document on Water and Climate Change Adaptation, developed for leaders and policy-makers in Asia and the Pacific in 2012.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 12 Jul 2017 This publication reviews various country aspects of SME finance covering the banking sector, nonbank sector, and capital markets. It is expected to support evidence-based policy making and regulations...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 11 Jul 2017 The results of the study indicate that climate change will likely have significant negative impacts on agricultural output in Fiji, Papua New Guinea, and Solomon Islands.
by M.W. Rosegrant | On 05 Jul 2017 While women constitute up to 37 per cent of the agricultural workforce, their status is not recognised. Statistics do not collect suicides of women farmers as land is seldom registered in their names....
by | On 16 Jun 2017 This report assesses the extent to which inclusive business models promote women's economic empowerment. Examples come from the inclusive business portfolios of the Asian Development Bank, the Inter-A...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 09 Jun 2017 The report narrates that the Sanjiang Plain wetlands are among the most important wetlands in the People’s Republic of China with unique habitats, species, and ecology. There is a considerable body of...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 08 Jun 2017 This report narrates that ADB has scaled up its assistance to Papua New Guinea for power infrastructure, with an emphasis on clean energy solutions, in line with the government’s prioritization of pow...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 08 Jun 2017 This publication examines the constraints in developing inland waterway transport (IWT) based on a study in the PRC’s Hunan province. Six major challenges threatening the viability of IWT and its inte...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 30 May 2017 The paper says irrigation schemes in the region are aging and underperforming, and, with land in short supply, there is little scope for creating major new schemes. Persistent inability to attract ade...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 19 May 2017 The report say that the Singapore bond market has become one of the most developed open capital markets in Asia with over US$221 billion in total local currency bonds outstanding with an additional US...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 May 2017 ADB recognizes four types of fragile and conflict-affected situations (FCAS)—conflict-affected, fragile,transitional, and subnational—and each situation has its own unique set of characteristics, and...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 12 May 2017 The study recognized the need for consideration of numerous issues when developing ecocompensation regulations. These include (i) provision of guidance for determining the ecocompensation rate; (ii) e...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 11 May 2017 This paper introduces that the landscape approach has provided a platform for a wide-ranging
discussion about these issues, but has simultaneously opened up the opportunity for a discussion
about su...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 08 May 2017 India Skills Report 2017 is an report that aims to support this initiative; by providing a stock of the talent landscape of India and supporting in charting the future direction of matchmaking. Curren...
by United Nations Development Programme [UNDP] | On 15 Mar 2017 Through a broad portrayal of character of its development, changing
urban patterns, nature of urban economic structure and contents of
urban development policies, this paper takes a political econom...
by Biswaroop Das | On 17 Feb 2017 The early literature on migrant urban communities emphasized the conditions and employment patterns of squatter residents who have emerged on the urban landscape. Only recently has attention shifted t...
by | On 23 Jan 2017 This work is a contribution, first, toward measuring and characterizing
some features of rural clientelistic institutions and then toward
exploring its impact on household access to an employment sc...
by Anindya Bhattacharya | On 30 Dec 2016 Climate change mitigation is a global challenge, however its impact will be varied across regions and temperature zones. Small island states will be hit the hardest with sea level rise. In bigger coun...
by | On 28 Dec 2016 State legislatures are responsible for making laws on key subjects like land, police and health. They are also
tasked with approving the expenditure of money for their respective states every year. T...
by Prianka Rao | On 30 Nov 2016 Women workers are found in certain activities traditionally falling within the male domain. This is particularly the case for landless women who largely belong to the hardcore poor group. It indicates...
by | On 22 Nov 2016 The paper shows that disincentives generated by the successive governments in Kerala through imposing artificial barriers on the freedom of farmers and
agricultural entrepreneurs resulted in the coll...
by Lekshmi R Nair | On 08 Nov 2016 The rape followed by the death of a New Delhi university student in December 2012 shamed India and her cultural ethos while sparking nationwide debate over the need to make laws more stringent if not...
by | On 02 Nov 2016 This paper deals with the evolution of laws, institutions and polices relating to
environmental protection in India. It considers the following questions : (a) whether the
laws are evolved indigenou...
by U. Sankar | On 28 Oct 2016 When arriving at the ‘Doing Business’ rankings, the World Bank ranks 11 parameters that impact businesses across various stages of their lifecycle – at start-up, getting a location, getting financing,...
by | On 28 Oct 2016 Demographic transition due to population aging is an emerging trend throughout the developing world,
and it is especially acute in China, which has undergone demographic transition more rapidly than...
by Xinxin Wang | On 10 Oct 2016 Review of
Almost Home: Finding a Place in the World from Kashmir to New York
by Githa Hariharan; Restless Books (Originally published by Fourth Estate, 2014), New York; 2016, 304 pages, $16.99.
by Dhanwanti Nayak | On 07 Oct 2016 Formal trade between India and Pakistan due to tariff barriers and quota problems is not
significant; significance is diminishing year after year.The reason for diminishing India-Pakistan
bilateral...
by PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry PHD Chamber | On 29 Sep 2016 The productivity spillovers of industry-level FDI on both, the sector of manufacturing and
the sector of services, in seventeen South and East Asian economies. Using a dynamic panel
GMM methodology,...
by Nadia Doytch | On 29 Sep 2016 India can substantially increase her production and yield in
pulses with a strategic emphasis on research in public and private sector, expanding irrigation
infrastructure, provision of MSP to pulse...
by Satish Y Deodhar | On 23 Sep 2016 On 9th March 2016, the media reported an accident at a construction site of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi in which two workers were killed and three were injured. In less than...
by People's Union for Democratic Rights PUDR | On 20 Sep 2016 Comprehensive zoning is ubiquitous in U.S. cities, yet surprisingly little is known about its long-run impacts. This paper provides the first attempt to measure the causal effect of land use regulatio...
by Allison Shertzer | On 19 Sep 2016 Climate change is a term that refers to major changes in temperature, rainfall, snow, or wind patterns lasting for decades or longer. Both human-made and natural factors contribute to climate change”...
by | On 14 Sep 2016 This paper sets out the water and food security challenges in Least Development Countries (LDCs) and developing countries. The document explores the rainfed-irrigation nexus in different regions of th...
by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNCTAD | On 12 Sep 2016 South Asia has been characterized by its minimal progress in the areas of child and maternal health and nutrition in comparison to other regions in the world. The case of India is especially enigmatic...
by | On 09 Sep 2016 The National Reports received to date were considered during the development of the Regional Report and examples from National Reports have been incorporated into the Regional Report as appropriate T...
by United Nations (UN) | On 07 Sep 2016 The paper examines the issues around mobilization of resources for the 11 countries of the South-East Asia Region of the World Health Organization (WHO), by analysing their macroeconomic situation, he...
by | On 07 Sep 2016 This article is about India's role in reducing food price volatility in the world. India has come a long way from a ‘ship to mouth existence’ to a country that is ready to confer legal right to food t...
by M. S. Swaminathan | On 02 Sep 2016 India is one of the world’s largest producers as well as consumer of food products, with the sector playing an important role in contributing to the development of the economy. Considering the critica...
by FICCI Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Indu | On 01 Sep 2016 This study provides a snapshot of the sustainability of selected Indian cities by employing 57 indicators
in four dimensions to develop an overall city sustainability index. In recent years, its comp...
by B.Sudhakara Reddy | On 29 Aug 2016 Efforts to promote food security must distinguish between short-term and medium-term measures, but also between countries with agricultural potential and without such potential, argues this paper. Fur...
by | On 24 Aug 2016 Indonesia’s efforts to combat forest fires have thus far shown some signs of
progress. Doubts over Indonesia’s commitment and the effectiveness of its
measures however seem to remain.
by | On 19 Aug 2016 Landscapes of persons who constitute the shifting world in which we live: tourists, immigrants, refugees, guest workers and other moving groups and persons constitute the essential feature of the worl...
by | On 09 Aug 2016 SIDS underscore social development as one of the three dimensions of sustainable development key to ensuring results are achieved for most vulnerable and disadvantaged. Small island developing states...
by UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs UNDESA | On 09 Aug 2016 This paper outlines the history of the FDA’s recent attempts to regulate cigarettes and other tobacco products and how they have valued foregone consumer surplus in cost-benefit analyses. It discusses...
by Helen Levy | On 03 Aug 2016 The United Nations estimates that the number of people worldwide who suffer from chronic
food shortages might now exceed one billion. That skyrocketing prices of food in general,
and...
by Randall Arnst | On 22 Jul 2016 India’s latest crop insurance scheme, announced by the Narendra Modi Government earlier this year, is designed to overcome the many problems encountered in the implementation of previous programmes. T...
by Vinod Rai | On 21 Jul 2016 The agenda is a road map for people that will
build on the success of the Millennium Development Goals and ensure sustainable social and economic progress worldwide. It seeks not only to eradicate ex...
by United Nations (UN) | On 20 Jul 2016 As of July 7, 2016, rainfall in the country in the 2016 monsoon season is estimated to be 1% above normal rainfall. However, due to deficient rainfall in the country resulting in drought conditions ov...
by Tanvi Deshpande | On 18 Jul 2016 Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha will meet for the Monsoon Session between July 18 and August 12, 2016. There will be a total of 20 sittings. The agenda for legislation includes nine Bills for consideration...
by Kusum Malik | On 18 Jul 2016 This paper reviews the current state of the literature on Indian urbanization to analyze existing urban development trajectories at the state level in order to understand the challenges Indian cities...
by Meenu Tewari | On 15 Jul 2016 The South China Sea disputes involve the interests of the United States, particularly with regard to freedom of navigation, international norms and law, relations with important partners and allies, a...
by | On 13 Jul 2016 Crude oil and other petroleum products play an important role in India’s energy security and in sustaining its high growth rate. Against that background, this document empirically analyses petroleum d...
by Pradeep Agrawal | On 07 Jul 2016 India’s water crisis is often perceived to have been perpetuated by the widening gap between the utilizable water resources and the aggregate demand for water in agriculture and other sectors in certa...
by | On 04 Jul 2016 India’s National Environment Policy stresses that the most secure basis
for protection of nature is to ensure that people dependent on natural resources obtain better livelihoods through conservation...
by Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Chang GOI | On 01 Jul 2016 Taxation policies in India have historically not been environmentally oriented. A tax system is needed whic is environmentally more rational. It is argued in this study that India is currently going...
by D K Srivastava | On 01 Jul 2016 This paper aims to present an overview and analysis of the current investment landscape in Cambodia, as well as its impacts on people and the environment. It is hoped that the information ...
by Mark Grimsditch | On 01 Jul 2016 According to the NSSO (66th round of Survey) on Child Labour in Major Indian States, 2009-10 in the (Age group 5-14) is 49.83 lakh. Poverty and social conditions of the family are main reasons childre...
by | On 27 Jun 2016 In this paper investigates the success of banking reforms in India where significant banking reforms have been introduced since 1990s. Using the argument that well functioning credit markets would ref...
by Sumon Kumar Bhaumik | On 27 Jun 2016 India claims to have achieved financial growth of 7% but despite this high growth rate, poverty and
inequality has also grown exponentially and social security, standard of life, security of labor ha...
by Child Rights and You CRY | On 27 Jun 2016 The existence of an inverse relationship between farm size and output per unit of land is well documented. However, little research focuses on if and how an inverse relationship between farm size and...
by Klaus Deininger | On 27 Jun 2016 In this study an attempt is made to analyse the distribution of public health spending in Karnataka state, by analysing the Budget and Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) round-III data. The study als...
by Varun Sharma | On 24 Jun 2016 There was a felt to revise the National Forest Policy, 1988
to integrate the vision of sustainable forest management
based on the principles of ecosystem approach,
landscape level planning and the...
by Indian Institute of Forest Management IIFM | On 21 Jun 2016 The sustainable management and restoration of our landscapes – achieving land degradation neutrality - will deliver many co-benefits. From biodiversity conservation and combating climate change to ens...
by | On 17 Jun 2016 The comprehensive research found significant impediments preventing victims of trafficking from using the courts: from the lack of specialised legal assistance, to the absence of protection for those...
by The Thomson Reuters Foundation | On 17 Jun 2016 This document covers the initiatives and contributions of Government of India, Science and Technology
Institutions and Civil Society Organisations in addressing the issues of desertification, land de...
by Ministry of Environment and Forests GOI | On 17 Jun 2016 Land degradation and desertification pose an ever - increasing
global environmental threat. Human activities such as over cultivation,
overgrazing, deforestation and poor irrigation practices, along...
by Indian Space Research Organisation ISRO | On 17 Jun 2016 This paper details the study on development of groundwater flow simulation model in a river basin by using a physically based model Visual MODFLOW has been done in order to understand the dynamics of...
by Ashwani Kumar | On 13 Jun 2016 Almost a billion people around
the world are now suffering from hunger and
malnutrition - a dramatic rise in number since the
soaring food prices over the last three years. Of
these, about half ar...
by Focus on the Global South FGS | On 10 Jun 2016 This paper argues that contrary to popular belief, in the bygone era, there was not one but two Silk Roads in Asia – the Northern and the less well-known South-western Silk Road (SSR). The SSR connect...
by | On 10 Jun 2016 A number of initiatives have been taken by the government as well as the private sector to address the challenge of energy access in India. In this context, WWF-India conducted a study to measure/asse...
by | On 09 Jun 2016 In India, a majority of rural households meet their energy requirements from traditional fuel sources, such as fuel wood, agricultural residues and kerosene. Statistics shows that 21 percent of villag...
by | On 09 Jun 2016 The chapter tries to identify three dimensions of land rights – the type of ownership, tenants’ rights, and the right to transfer – to categorise the diversity of land tenures in colonial India. Also,...
by Anand Swamy | On 08 Jun 2016 This Occasional Paper shows the evolution of confiscation law in Taiwan. It reviews the
current state of confiscation laws and policies in Taiwan and also proposes suggestions
for reform of the conf...
by Helen Liu | On 08 Jun 2016 This Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) water report presents an economic framework for the assessment of the use of reclaimed water in agriculture, as part of a comprehensive planning process in...
by Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO] | On 07 Jun 2016 The paper deals with the above issues by analyzing the scenario
in NEI, as to how the region with its present status fits into the
LEP regime. In this regard, the contemporary ma...
by Gorky Chakraborty | On 06 Jun 2016 While land reforms are typically pursued in order to raise productivity and reduce inequality across households, an unintended consequence may be increased within-household gender inequality. We analy...
by | On 03 Jun 2016 Credit Suisse recently revealed that the richest 1% have now accumulated more wealth than the rest of the world put together. Meanwhile, the wealth owned by the bottom half of humanity has fallen by a...
by | On 02 Jun 2016 The ageing of Japan’s population occurred quickly. In 1970, the ageing rate exceeded 7 per cent, the threshold which used to be considered as the onset of population ageing. It took only 26 years befo...
by United Nations Economic and Social Commission (UNESCAP) | On 02 Jun 2016 With growing populations and demand for food, farmers in ASEAN member states (except Singapore) are required to produce more and more food from land that continues to decline due to population growth,...
by | On 31 May 2016 This essay includes a review of major strategies for preservation of earth’s biodiversity including the biodiversity “hotspots,” “Wildlands Project,” and the “consensus” strategy. The essay includes a...
by | On 25 May 2016 China needs Africa’s forests, and Africa knows it. Chinese investments in African forests and woodlands are growing fast. China is the largest importer of tropical timber in the world — possibly accou...
by | On 25 May 2016 This book presents 19 case studies from 14 developing countries that show how local people have been democratising forest business and draws a set of conclusions from analysis of these case studies wh...
by | On 25 May 2016 Climate mitigation programmes and finance mechanisms like Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) must engage millions of forest farmers if they are to halt deforestation...
by Jeffrey Campbell | On 25 May 2016 The study collected information about farmers’ ability to access land, and their attitudes and knowledge of land law, particularly women’s land rights and farmers’ ability to solve land-related confli...
by Gina Alvarado | On 24 May 2016 The present report on nutritional intake in India is based on data collected through the 61st round of NSS (July 2004-June 2005). It mainly focuses on intake of nutrients by households in terms of pro...
by Ministry of Statistics and Prog Implementation (MOSPI) | On 20 May 2016 This paper aims to sensitize the
stakeholders, concerned organization and citizens towards need and importance of regulating
SEPs as well as facilitating their availability at Fair, Reasonable and N...
by Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion DIPP | On 19 May 2016 An Act to provide for conservation of biological diversity, sustainable use of its components and fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising out of the use of biological resources, knowledge a...
by Ministry of Law and Justice GOI | On 18 May 2016 Using an audit experiment carried out on of India’s largest real estate websites, this study documents striking variations between landlords’ treatment of upper-caste Hindus, Other Backward Castes, Sc...
by Saugato Datta | On 18 May 2016 This paper evaluates housing policy in the Republic of Korea over the past several decades, describes new challenges arising from the changing environment, and draws lessons for other countries. The m...
by Kyung-Hwan Kim | On 18 May 2016 Kerala has the largest proportion of land area under wetlands among all the states of India, changes to which can significantly affect ecosystem processes. Compared to other states of the country, wet...
by Sheeba Abraham | On 17 May 2016 The Budget Session 2016 was scheduled from February 23 to March 16, and from April 25 to May 13, 2016. However, during
the recess period, Parliament was prorogued to allow the government to issue an...
by Kusum Malik | On 17 May 2016 Water rights in India in a formal, legal manner are still under formulation. Rights based on centuries old customs and conventions currently prevail. In recent years, reforms have sought to introduce...
by | On 12 May 2016 The aim of the Department of Health Research (DHR) is to bring modern health technologies to the people
through research and innovations related to diagnosis, treatment methods and
vaccines for prev...
by Rajya Sabha Secretariat | On 05 May 2016 Rivers in Kerala are assailed by pollution, sedimentation, sand mining, and constriction of flows. The indiscriminate and unscientific sand mining,
even in the midst of many regulatory and protective...
by Lakshmi Sreedhar | On 04 May 2016 Using 2000-2009 data, the report finds that, while spending on environmental infrastructure has visible positive environmental impact, city spending is strongly tilted towards transportation infrastru...
by | On 04 May 2016 Climate change combat is often in the hands of policy-makers, researchers and
governments. However it is the marginalised and indigenous communities that feel
the full force of climate change effect...
by Serina Rahman | On 03 May 2016 This study shows how 13 important stock markets in Asia namely, India, Bangladesh, Philippines, China, Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Pakistan, South Korea and Thailand...
by | On 02 May 2016 The “Slater” villages of Tamil Nadu that were first surveyed by the University of Madras economist, Gilbert Slater, and his students in 1916, were resurveyed in the 1930s, 1960s and the 1980s. This pa...
by John Harriss | On 27 Apr 2016 The 2030 Policy Framework confirms the EU's firm commitment to lead by example in tackling climate change. It sets out a binding, economy-wide domestic reduction target of at least 40% greenhouse gas...
by European union | On 26 Apr 2016 Agriculture in Andhra Pradesh is in an advanced stage of crisis. While this is a generalised rural crisis, the burden has fallen disproportionately on small and marginal farmers, tenant farmers and ru...
by Government Andhra Pradesh | On 12 Apr 2016 The Gender and Land Rights Database (GLRD) is an on-line platform that was launched by FAO in February 2010 with the objective of highlighting the major political, legal and cultural factors that infl...
by Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO] | On 12 Apr 2016 Land and buildings are a preferred collateral for lenders in India due to its ease of valuation and
disposal in the event of default. Yet several distortions afflict Indian land markets that make thi...
by K.P. Krishnan | On 12 Apr 2016 IFPRI’s Flagship Report puts into perspective the major food policy issues, developments, and decisions of 2015 and highlights challenges and opportunities for 2016. This year’s report takes an in-dep...
by International Food Policy Research Institute | On 04 Apr 2016 Rate of coastal erosion in the Indian Sundarban have been measured to be
about5.50 sq kms / year within the time frame of 2001 - 2009 and eventually it is most
dominant in the south western edges of...
by Sugata Hazra | On 29 Mar 2016 Speech by the Financial Secretary.
by Hon John C Tsang | On 28 Mar 2016 India’s principal trade partners are countries/economies in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) region, and over the last decade the share of APEC in India’s trade has been growing. Specifica...
by Deeparghya Mukherjee | On 28 Mar 2016 The paper traces the impact of welfare and development on the Nicobarese not only in terms of economic and social domination, but in relation to its influence on cultural meanings and practices. The
...
by Ajay Saini | On 21 Mar 2016 This paper characterises and distinguishes co-operatives from other forms of organisations and highlights the important place they occupy in India‘s rural economy. It examines their contribution to ru...
by Katar Singh | On 20 Mar 2016 This review and compendium of our country’s environmental laws, policies, and regulations aims to enhance the accessibility to information by judges, lawyers, government officials, and stakeholders in...
by Antonia Gawel | On 18 Mar 2016 This report identifies four critical constraints to inclusive growth in the Maldives: (1) inadequate and poor quality maritime infrastructure that constrains connectivity, limits provision of basic go...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 17 Mar 2016 Environmental quality is often a credence good and consumers are unable to distinguish between green and brown products. The paper aims to investigate the role of certification in providing informatio...
by Charu Grover | On 15 Mar 2016 The Metaguidelines for Water and Climate Change were developed by the Asia–Pacific Water Forum (APWF) and Asian Development Bank (ADB) in collaboration with the Global Water Partnership (GWP). This pu...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 Mar 2016 The objective of this study is to systematically assess the prevalence of different types of fossil fuel subsidies in Thailand and analyze the potential impacts of their removal. It is hoped that this...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 Mar 2016 The government has taken unprecedented steps to create a basic framework to achieve its long-term objective of improving water quality in Chao Lake and protecting and maintaining all of its economic,...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 Mar 2016 State concerns about crime and security issues have strongly affected conceptions of economic action outside the law, a traditional field of research in sociology. This increasing encroachment by poli...
by Matías Dewey | On 14 Mar 2016 Tenancy has been on the rise in the post economic liberalization period from the decades of 1990s. It was also viewed that freeing the lease market for land may contribute to equity as well as efficie...
by E Revathi | On 14 Mar 2016 China, Russia, and the Central Asian States have consistently engaged in economic relations. However, the bilateral trade statistics that are publicly available show a history of inconsistent and unre...
by | On 12 Mar 2016 After a period of stability between China and Vietnam in the South China Sea with positive developments in terms of dispute management, China’s dispatch of a drilling rig to areas west of the Paracel...
by | On 11 Mar 2016 Ensuring security of energy supplies and safeguarding sea lines of communication are underpinning increasing maritime ties between the net-energy importers of India and Japan. At the same time, argues...
by | On 10 Mar 2016 The objective in this study is to examine the issues and constraints faced by the power sector in Pakistan. The paper will try to evaluate the reasons behind the current energy crisis despite present...
by Afia Malik | On 10 Mar 2016 The paper explores possible frontiers of historical-institutionalist analysis. It argues three points: that progress will require a return from a static to a dynamic perspective in which change is no...
by Wolfgang Streeck | On 09 Mar 2016 Women in developed economies have made major inroads in labor markets throughout the past century, but remaining gender differences in pay and employment seem remarkably persistent. This paper documen...
by Claudia Olivetti | On 09 Mar 2016 Agricultural biotechnology is highly contested site in India, encompassing debates on impact of technology on society, economic development, and India’s future agricultural Strategy. Proponents of
b...
by Anitha Ramanna | On 09 Mar 2016 On 20 April 2010, an explosion and a fire took place at the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico, 65 kilometres from the Louisiana coast in the United States. The inc...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 05 Mar 2016 The past month has witnessed several major environmental disasters in Asia. Of particular significance are the Pakistan floods, which have engulfed a fifth of Pakistan’s total land area and affected 2...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 04 Mar 2016 The Fourth Bali Regional Ministerial Conference on People Smuggling, Trafficking in Persons and Related Transnational Crimes – otherwise known as the Bali Process – was held in Nusa Dua, Bali, on 29-3...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 03 Mar 2016 The problems caused by Japan’s recent nuclear power plant crisis have revived the debate on the future of nuclear energy. Discussions appear to be centred around the dilemma of whether or not to rely...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 03 Mar 2016 Thailand’s worst floods in decades have caused over 350 deaths, and are inflicting extensive damage to much of the country’s land, crops, livestock, infrastructure, housing and industrial areas. An es...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 02 Mar 2016 The past decade has seen economic links between the Gulf Arab region and Southeast Asia increase considerably – from just USD20 billion in 2002 to about USD100 billion in 2010. Notable factors driving...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 01 Mar 2016 Despite having laws and regulations to protect health of workers in industries in India, little has been effective in ensuring and protecting health and safety especially in case of small and medium f...
by Amrita Ghatak | On 01 Mar 2016 With over a billion people in China, the issue of cultivated land conversion is extremely important both in terms of food security and environmental sustainability. This paper investigates the relatio...
by Shunji Cui | On 01 Mar 2016 This paper considers the issue of migration of the Rohingyas from the lens of international law. It evaluates the responses of the countries that have been the destination of these migration flows – n...
by Ramandeep Kaur | On 01 Mar 2016 The analysis of the paper begins in the next section by setting out broad economic changes in India as key context for change in Palanpur, with a particular focus on the three drivers set out above; s...
by Himanshu Prof | On 29 Feb 2016 This paper discusses the economies and financial systems of Southeast Asia (SEA) and focuses on challenges and developments in the region. Despite the diversity of SEA economies and some important exc...
by Toshiyuki Shimada | On 29 Feb 2016 In this paper we explore an innovative approach to poverty reduction by the introduction of an agro-forestry variant of sustainable agricultural land technology among the rural farming population of a...
by Roger Montgomery | On 29 Feb 2016 Land struggles in countries like Cambodia, Myanmar, Philippines
by Focus on the Global South FGS | On 29 Feb 2016 Issues or problems associated with land have become more multi-layered in the 21st century. In the Philippines, a number of “pro-poor” land laws were enacted after the Marcos dictatorship. These laws...
by Focus on the Global South FGS | On 29 Feb 2016 This paper focuses on the pricing behavior of Japanese and United States firms selling their identical products in New York City, Chicago, Osaka, and Tokyo. The authors utilize some simple models of i...
by K.C. Fung | On 29 Feb 2016 Low birth weight is a major public health problem in India. About 30% of all infants born in hospitals are reported to weigh less than 2.5 kg at birth. Studies carried out by ICMR in the late seventie...
by Sarath Gopalan | On 29 Feb 2016 This paper presents an overview of the corporate debt market in India. A study of the structure and the status of the corporate debt market along with the current policies initiated by Securities and...
by M. T. Raju | On 28 Feb 2016 This year is the 20th anniversary of the release of the 1994 United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) Human Development Report, which defined the concept of human security and brought it to int...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 27 Feb 2016 Land reforms require urgent attention in emerging market economies, and there is a vast body of literature that deals with the economic impact land reforms, especially land titling (Acemoglu et al., 2...
by Madalasa Venkataraman | On 27 Feb 2016 Over 10 million illegal migrants from Bangladesh live in India, according to both official and unofficial estimates. This paper examines the securitization of the issue by various actors through a cen...
by | On 26 Feb 2016 THE NEWS has been coming in thick and fast. Floods and landslides caused by heavy rainfalls in parts of Southeast Asia seem to have become normal occurrences. As if this is not enough, we also hear of...
by Mely Caballero-Anthony | On 26 Feb 2016 Diasporic communities that advance their ancestral homelands through forging links with it can be best examined in the context of the history of migration of these communities and the culture of devel...
by Sudeep Basu | On 26 Feb 2016 As a central effort in the Global Challenge Initiative on Economic Growth and Social Inclusion, this is a “how to guide” for companies to create social and business value. Drawn from a series of works...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 26 Feb 2016 This year’s Economic Survey comes at a time of unusual volatility in the
international economic environment. Markets have begun to swing on fears
that the global recovery may be faltering, while ris...
by Arun Jaitley | On 26 Feb 2016 This paper examines the effect of land reform and land transfer actions of farmer beneficiaries on land ownership concentration. A case study of two rice-growing villages was used to track down owners...
by Marife M. Ballesteros | On 25 Feb 2016 This paper argues that development policies operate in Indian democracy at the interstices of two largely different yet interconnected worlds – of technical formulation and political formations. The I...
by | On 25 Feb 2016 The study reviewed and assessed nongovernment reforestation in the Philippines vis-a-vis government and total reforestation using primary and secondary data. The end purpose was to identify issues and...
by Danilo C. Israel | On 25 Feb 2016 The implementation of the "Higher Education Modernization Act of 1997", CHED Memorandum Order No. 20, and "Public Higher Education Reform Framework" granted state universities and colleges (SUCs) the...
by Rosario G. Manasan | On 25 Feb 2016 The principle of non-discrimination which comprises national treatment and most-favored-nation (MFN) treatment is an important pillar of the multilateral trading system. The World Trade Organization (...
by Sherzod Shadikhodjaev | On 25 Feb 2016 The growing development in and possibly greater diffusion of biotechnology products have further accentuated the intensity of trade restrictions on the entry of these goods in countries like EU, Japan...
by Sachin Chaturvedi | On 25 Feb 2016 Efforts to improve the business climate in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) Province are still facing significant obstacles. Moreover, a healthy business climate is needed to create conditions conducive to ha...
by Widjajanti Suharyo | On 24 Feb 2016 In this report 10 sites from seven landscapes are assessed located in the states of Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, for their potential to harbour viable reintroduc...
by Wildlife Institute of India | On 24 Feb 2016 The country's biodiversity faces a variety of threats, ranging from land use changes in natural habitats to overexploitation of natural resources, proliferation of invasive species and climate change....
by Ministry of Environment and Forest | On 24 Feb 2016 Japan’s small farming represents a puzzle. Currently nearly three-quarters of farmland is operated by farmers whose farm size is well under optimal size. Being too small is the main reason for the hig...
by Yoshihisa Godo | On 24 Feb 2016 Russia’s peatland fires, like those in Indonesia, have been triggered by high global temperatures. The heatwaves behind the current Russian fires bear similarities with the Indonesian experiences in 1...
by | On 23 Feb 2016 Much of the attention on institutional development within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has focused on the progress in establishing the ASEAN Political-Security Community (APSC)....
by | On 23 Feb 2016 Contract growing has been defined as an agreement between farmers and processing and/or marketing firms under forward agreements, usually at predetermined prices for the production and supply of agric...
by Larry Digal | On 23 Feb 2016 The World Bank (2005) reported that from 1985 to 2003, per capita gross domestic product increased only by about 0.7% per year, well below the 3.7% average of neighboring countries (Indonesia, Malaysi...
by Eduardo Gonzalez | On 23 Feb 2016 This paper reviews and highlights lessons from the stabilisation and reform programme that Thailand, Malaysia and Korea implemented in response to the 1997 crisis. The three countries’ rapid recovery...
by Kanit Sangsubhan | On 23 Feb 2016 The Budget Session of Parliament will be held between February 23, 2016 and May 13, 2016.
The session will have a recess from March 17 to April 24, when the Standing Committees will
examine the Dema...
by Kusum Malik | On 23 Feb 2016 Growing food demands and escalating environmental stresses create a series of challenges throughout Southeast Asia. Projected population and consumption patterns strongly suggest that food production...
by J. Ewing | On 22 Feb 2016 In this paper we attempt to explain the China Puzzle: coexistence of accelerating economic growth and worsening growth outlook. The root cause lies in China’s unique liberalization approach, i.e., the...
by Huang Yiping | On 22 Feb 2016 This paper discusses the financial landscape of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), a region engaged in building an economic community (a “single market and production base”) by 2015....
by Choong Lee | On 21 Feb 2016 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s ground-breaking visit to Myanmar signals a shift in US attitude towards that country. Quicker rapprochement could benefit both countries as well as Southeast Asia.
by | On 20 Feb 2016 This lecture is based on the realization that the current global approach to land systems cannot meet the needs of the majority of people in developing countries in regard to security of tenure and it...
by | On 19 Feb 2016 This paper takes a political economy perspective in analysing the nature and causes on the decline in bureaucratic conduct.
by Ali Cheema | On 18 Feb 2016 The present study reviews the framework
on adaptation in India and provides an estimation of the public resources devoted to
this sector.
by Kaushik Ganguly | On 18 Feb 2016 In the upland areas of Southeast Asia, most smallholder farmers keep animals. Buffalo provide a traditional source of draught power for land preparation or transport, and animal manure is often used t...
by Research Consultative Group on International Agricultural | On 18 Feb 2016 This paper describes the structure and construction of a social accounting matrix (SAM) for Pakistan for 001-02. A SAM is an internally consistent extended set of national accounts that disaggregates...
by Paul Dorosh | On 17 Feb 2016 The current Southeast Asian haze problem is not a function of the lack of commitment on the part of President Jokowi’s government. The ineffectiveness of forest fire prevention and response lies deepe...
by | On 16 Feb 2016 In Pakistan innovation and risk taking is severely inhibited by the intrusive role of government in the marketplace. From the early days of planning when protection and subsidy policies determined win...
by Nadeem Ul Haque | On 16 Feb 2016 The purpose of this paper is to emphasize the importance of Europe’s structural problems and governance as the cause of the current euro area crisis. The euro may have led to bubbles, but member econo...
by Sahoko Kaji | On 16 Feb 2016 Political finance regulations have been introduced in a majority of democracies to promote fair political competition, but all too often political party and campaign finance laws are breached with imp...
by Transparency International TI | On 14 Feb 2016 The characteristics of the area of the Middle East and North Africa known as the MENA region tend to fuel corruption and result in low levels of transparency. Yet anti-corruption strategies have prima...
by Transparency International TI | On 14 Feb 2016 This paper explores the concept of city ranking as a way to measure the dynamics and complexities of urban life. These rankings have various dimensions and uses. Both the context in which these rankin...
by Lubna Hasan | On 14 Feb 2016 Following the Hausmann, et al. (2005) methodology, an attempt is done to identify the constraints to growth in Pakistan. It is argued that governance failure and institutional shortcomings are the h...
by Abdul Qayyum | On 14 Feb 2016 Private schooling in India has expanded rapidly in the past decade. However, few studies have looked at its implications for educational quality. Using data from the recently collected India Human Dev...
by Sonalde Desai | On 14 Feb 2016 he present paper on Exceptions to Patent Rights in Developing Countries is a part of the efforts of the UNCTAD/ICTSD Project to contribute to a better understanding of the use of patent exceptions for...
by | On 10 Feb 2016 During the decades of the USSR, the Mongolian People’s Republic was a somnolent client of Moscow with only token relations with the West. After the break with the Soviet Union in 1990, and democratiza...
by | On 09 Feb 2016 Our data shows that most women go to the private sector for most of their reproductive health needs. After our early interventions, eligible/BPL women began availing of the benefits of the Chiranjeevi...
by | On 09 Feb 2016 Over the past four decades, the accumulation of policy legacies and public debt has led to a decline in fiscal flexibility in Germany and the United States. By applying an index of fiscal democracy to...
by | On 08 Feb 2016 This publication aims to provide a wide range of perspectives from various stakeholders on how trade policies and processes could contribute to advancing the objectives of sustainable land management...
by International Centre and Sustainable Development | On 08 Feb 2016 FAO’s best-selling 2011 publication, Save and Grow, proposed a new paradigm of agriculture, one that is both highly productive and environmentally sustainable. This new book looks at the application o...
by Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO] | On 08 Feb 2016 The World Survey on the Role of Women in Development is the flagship publication of the United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women. It is presented to the Second Committee of the General Ass...
by UN Women | On 08 Feb 2016 Do leader networks promote efficient intergovernmental contracts? We examine a groundbreaking policy in China where subprovincial governments freely traded land conversion quotas and investigate the r...
by Nancy H. Chau | On 07 Feb 2016 Today’s climate financing landscape poses a number of governance challenges. It is characterised by fragmentation and weak coordination, begging better clarity, connectivity and accountability for tho...
by Transparency International TI | On 07 Feb 2016 Unprecedented pressures on land and its governance have been created. As evident around the globe, where land governance is deficient, high levels of corruption often flourish. Under such a system, la...
by Transparency International TI | On 06 Feb 2016 This study is an attempt to examine empirically the association between socio-economic measures of deprivation—such as food insecurity, landlessness, unemployment, and human under-development—and the...
by Sadia Mariam Malik | On 06 Feb 2016 Hardly a speech is delivered in South Asia without mention of the need to fight corruption in the region. Yet despite the lofty promises, corruption is on the rise. This report shows how a serious lac...
by Transparency International TI | On 05 Feb 2016 Transparency International Nepal’s (TIN) National Integrity System Assessment Nepal 2014 describes the latest status of 11 pillars of NIS in terms of their capacity, governance and role besides pointi...
by Transparency International TI | On 05 Feb 2016 There are many barriers that prevent individuals from speaking up. Public trust in the ability of institutions to deal with corruption is low and reporting channels are often unclear or unreliable. La...
by Transparency International TI | On 05 Feb 2016 Public property common pool resources in many developing countries are manage them in a sustainable manner. While this explanation may have some merit, it is certainly inadequate. Instead, we argue th...
by Junaid Memon | On 03 Feb 2016 The Karakoram-Pamir Landscape lies at the junction between the black Karakoram mountains, which mostly lie within Pakistan, and the grey Pamir mountains, which mostly lie within China. It is known for...
by Eklabya Sharma | On 02 Feb 2016 India’s engagement with Africa through trade, investment, aid and technological collaboration can support growth and structural transformation in African economies. This paper, which is part of a majo...
by Environmental Management & Policy Research Institute | On 02 Feb 2016 This paper focuses on this new trend in global energy, and examines its influence on oil prices in the international markets, as well as its long-run economic, political, and geostrategic implications...
by | On 01 Feb 2016 Governments in Asia must prioritise technologies that improve fishery productivity to meet the growing local and international demand for fish. This increased productivity must be sustainable, however...
by The WorldFish Center TWC | On 01 Feb 2016 This paper deals with the ‘swings and roundabouts’ encountered in water policy development in Sri Lanka. In recent decades, policy reforms for water resource management nationally-demanded but designe...
by Rajindra Ariyabandu | On 01 Feb 2016 National pension provision in Asia/Pacific is very diverse. Nine economies have public schemes that pay earnings-related pensions. They are called “defined-benefit” (DB) schemes because the value of t...
by OECD Development Centre | On 01 Feb 2016 Long-term planning and investment are essential to prevent increasing vulnerability to climate change in developing countries. Tackling only the impacts will fail: fragmented action are only partial s...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 The recent food price spikes have exposed deep structural flaws in the world food system. Although increased financial speculation in commodity futures and options markets seems to have amplified shor...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 Arguably, ensuring food and nutrition security for all people in the coming decades is the major challenge for the global community. Food demand is increasing in aggregate and per capita values, in pa...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 In order to understand the policies and programmes of the present Government, it is necessary to highlight the basic transformation that has taken place in the Island Republic. Chandrika Kumaratunga a...
by Suryanarayan V. | On 31 Jan 2016 Trade barriers are often opaque and difficult to compare. All too often, an exporter faces costs well in excess of a simple tariff when seeking entry to a market. However, to date, there exist few too...
by | On 30 Jan 2016 Farm Policies in developed countries have been widely blamed for creating problems for food security in developing countries. These problems have included high barriers to developing country exports,...
by | On 30 Jan 2016 This paper assesses the likely implications for exporting and importing countries from a trade deal in cotton. The study estimates the price, production and trade effects of reforming cotton subsidies...
by | On 30 Jan 2016 This paper critically examines the recent global initiatives to improve various elements of the international governance of food security and the institutional context of policymaking on trade and foo...
by | On 30 Jan 2016 The paper looks into the recent experience in exports and imports of drugs and pharmaceutical products. It is found that there is a tremendous growth in the exports. The paper suggests the removal of...
by Reji K Joseph | On 30 Jan 2016 The present paper titled Public Expenditure, Employment and Poverty in Bangladesh An Empirical Analysis has been prepared under the CPD-UNDP collaboration programme on Pro-Poor Macroeconomic Policies...
by Centre for Policy Dialogue CPD | On 29 Jan 2016 The present paper titled Poverty-Environment Nexus: An Investigation of Linkage and Policy Implications has been prepared under the CPD-UNDP collaboration programme on Pro-Poor Macroeconomic Policies...
by Centre for Policy Dialogue CPD | On 29 Jan 2016 This study first reviews current thinking on the underlying causes of conflicts and disasters, identifying poverty as a major driver of both. Poverty breeds frustration, compelling the poor to turn to...
by Surendra Varma | On 29 Jan 2016 The publications in this series cover a wide range of subjects—from computer modeling to experience with water user associations—and vary in content from directly applicable research to more basic stu...
by Vladimir Smakhtin | On 28 Jan 2016 This paper draws recommendations for transboundary and participatory biodiversity conservation from ICIMOD’s pioneering Kangchenjunga Conservation Landscape Initiative. The Kangchenjunga landscape, sh...
by Karma Phuntsho | On 28 Jan 2016 Phobjikha Valley, a wetland situated on the western slopes of Jigme Singye Wangchuck National Park, is an important wintering habitat for the vulnerable Black-necked crane (Grus nigricollis). One of t...
by International Centre for Integrated Mountain Devel ICIMOD | On 28 Jan 2016 This paper compares the experiences in India and China and draws lessons for policy formulation. The important lessons are: (a) self-financing nature of FLC/SWC is a crucial factor for achieving effec...
by Jeemol Unni | On 28 Jan 2016 In order to provide adequate and quality primary health care, a multi-layered network of public health infrastructure has been created right from the district to the village level. But Health for All...
by B.L. Kumar | On 28 Jan 2016 Drinking water is a basic requirement for life and a determinant of standard of living. The paper examines the nature and magnitude of environmental problems, causes and impacts in drinking water supp...
by Puttaswamaiah S. | On 28 Jan 2016 This paper reviews the agricultural policy environment in Myanmar up until 2014 with an eye towards identifying policies that can help to accelerate productivity and profitability in the agricultural...
by Ulrike Nischan | On 28 Jan 2016 Under the 2014 US Farm Bill, US cotton producers will receive significant subsidies which will have trade-distorting effects irrespective of future cotton prices. At a futures market cotton price of U...
by | On 27 Jan 2016 The research study highlights the financial inclusion needs of cycle rickshaw pullers in India. These include access to service sectors; improvement of asset base; employment of their women; increase...
by | On 27 Jan 2016 The paper reviews the payment guidelines issued by the Reserve Bank of India, global experiences for non-banks in payments and the lessons therefrom. It also outlines the recent developments in financ...
by | On 27 Jan 2016 The policy paper examines the financing for Farmer Producer Organisations and offers recommendations to initiate discussion by the policymakers, financiers and practitioners to design appropriate poli...
by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) | On 27 Jan 2016 The objective of this working paper is to critically test the assertion that pro-poor "green" tourism is one of the best development options for the majority of least developed countries (LDCs) -- a c...
by Shoaib Akhtar | On 27 Jan 2016 India’s comparative advantage in health care is due to a large resource pool and competence in English. Indian migration to the US, UK or Australia has been widely studied, but not much attention has...
by Ayona Bhattacharjee | On 27 Jan 2016 Meghalaya is a landlocked and largely agrarian state in northeast India with an approximate population of three million. Various government surveys report that roughly half the state lives below the p...
by | On 26 Jan 2016 We examine in this paper the impact of the tightening of IPRs, notably patents rights, and the adoption of utility model laws on export diversification. To perform our analysis, we used panel data cov...
by Kimm Gnangnon | On 26 Jan 2016 This paper investigates whether TBT provisions included in RTAs differ from those under the WTO TBT Agreement, and, if they do, whether they entail broader commitments. Our analysis covers 238 RTAs, o...
by Vira Khoroshavina | On 26 Jan 2016 Thailand, Brazil and Vietnam are examples of developing countries that have successfully reduced undernutrition. While each country used its own set of policies, strategies and approaches to address u...
by Sheila Vir | On 26 Jan 2016 The paper critically reviews the course of events that led to the development of codes of conduct for the microfinance industry in the country and examines their effectiveness in motivating microfinan...
by Tara S Nair | On 25 Jan 2016 India’s political landscape is likely to be dominated by a new leader, Narendra Modi of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), in ways that the international community is yet to decipher. For now, as Mr Mo...
by | On 23 Jan 2016 The jute manufacturing sector of Bangladesh has recently started to revitalise with the rise in global demand for jute goods, thanks to the environment-friendly nature of jute, and the price hike of p...
by Khondaker Moazzem | On 23 Jan 2016 The report identifies four future scenarios of this complex waste/resource management landscape using tools from Foresight methods and political economy analysis. We also identify the dynamics within...
by Ashish Chaturvedi | On 23 Jan 2016 This report summarizes outcomes of collaboration between ADB and implementing agencies of Bhutan, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, the Philippines, and Viet Nam to address gaps in the production of a...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 22 Jan 2016 In the fiscal year 2011–12, under-recoveries1 incurred by Indian oil-marketing companies for diesel rose to an all-time high of INR81,192 crore (US$15 billion) (Government of India, 2012a). Diesel con...
by Gayatri Khedkar | On 21 Jan 2016 In India, institutional arrangements around climate finance have mostly followed national policy responses to climate change. This paper maps the emergence of climate change policy in India and subseq...
by Vyoma Jha | On 21 Jan 2016 This paper contributes to the empirical understanding of the concept of commitment and the role it plays in shaping India’s social policy implementation. Taking the case of the landmark policy, the Ma...
by Deepta Chopra | On 21 Jan 2016 India also tops the charts globally in the prevalence of risk factors for several chronic diseases. Although Public Health Nutrition (PHN) - both as an academic field as well as a means to improved he...
by Shweta Khandelwal | On 19 Jan 2016 This working group on Disadvantaged Farmers, including women is one of the key working groups for defining agricultural policy in the Twelfth Five Year Plan. Eighty-three percent of India’s farmers cu...
by Bina Agarwal | On 19 Jan 2016 Delhi's traffic management is based on a system designed long before motor vehicle ownership in the city had reached its current mammoth size. This system is immensely inadequate to respond to the gro...
by prashant kumar | On 19 Jan 2016 This paper is organized in three main sections. The first section provides some definitions of the key terms and describes how both internal and international migration impact on development. An under...
by | On 19 Jan 2016 The recent success of India and Bangladesh in settling the complicated issue of political enclaves in each other’s territories could be traced to the spirit displayed by the leaders of the two countri...
by | On 18 Jan 2016 The paper identifies five important aspects of agriculture that
need immediate attention to bring economic advantages to millions of farm families. First, output
per hectare, which is a common measu...
by Niti Aayog GOI | On 18 Jan 2016 We empirically analyze the language proficiency of migrants in the Netherlands. Traditionally, the emphasis in studying language proficiency and economic outcomes has been on the relation between earn...
by Hans Bloemen | On 15 Jan 2016 Despite considerable research on differences in labour market outcomes between native born New Zealanders and immigrants, the extent of discrimination experienced by the foreign born in the workplace...
by Bridget Daldy | On 14 Jan 2016 In this brief review of recent approaches relevant to climate smart agriculture (CSA) programs, the researcher presents ideas on why emerging CSA policies and plans lack the attention to gender that w...
by Sonja Vermeulen | On 14 Jan 2016 The paper looks at the flow of ideas from the South Asian Diaspora groups to their original homelands. This is occurring in the areas of economic management and political change. As a result of the in...
by Shahid Javed Burki | On 09 Jan 2016 The Pakistan Army’s ideological hegemony, especially in the country’s Punjabi-speaking heartland, the continuing focus on the state’s narrative of a religion-based unitary identity which is under a co...
by Aasim Akhtar | On 08 Jan 2016 Land is regarded as an important source of livelihoods to many people, especially rural people. For those people, access to and control over land resources is the source of livelihoods. Therefore, lan...
by Samana Adhikari | On 08 Jan 2016 Cross-border production networks have been playing an increasingly important role in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries’ trade in recent years, but micro-level studies are ra...
by Ganeshan Wignaraja | On 07 Jan 2016 This report identifies the main constraints to Thailand’s transition to a more modern industrial and service economy. Further major transformation is in order: this includes accelerating market reform...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 07 Jan 2016 International trade is redefined today in terms of trade in value added and global value chains. Most countries trade both in finished goods as well as intermediates. India, a less talked about countr...
by | On 07 Jan 2016 In 2013, through massive quantitative easing by the Bank of Japan (BOJ), the yen depreciated about 25% against the US dollar, stoking fears of Japan bashing by the US. However, this sharp depreciation...
by Ronald McKinnon | On 07 Jan 2016 In a bid to fast-track environmental clearances for industrial projects, the Narendra Modi government constituted a high-level committee in 2014 under T S R Subramanian to review key environmental law...
by Kanchi Kohli | On 05 Jan 2016 The present study was taken up in this context with the objective of examining the land
laws and administration in AP and see how the existing laws are implemented, forced
acquisition of lands is ta...
by Ramachandraiah C | On 05 Jan 2016 In late 2010 The Asia Foundation in Sri Lanka commissioned a public perceptions survey that aimed to capture the post-war mood of the nation. The survey sought to gauge public opinion about the overal...
by The Asia Foundation | On 02 Jan 2016 In order to understand the current state of land dispute conciliation in Vietnam and to attempt to identify routes for improvement, The Asia Foundation, in partnership with the Australian Department o...
by The Asia Foundation | On 02 Jan 2016 This regional study commissioned by The Asia Foundation entitled "Labour Migration: Trends and Patterns" examines the patterns and process of labour migration by Nepali and Bangladeshi migrant workers...
by The Asia Foundation | On 02 Jan 2016 The findings from The Asia Foundation's fifth public opinion poll in Afghanistan, Afghanistan in 2009: A Survey of the Afghan People, which covers all 34 of Afghanistan's provinces.
by The Asia Foundation | On 02 Jan 2016 This report presents the findings of The Asia Foundation’s third national survey of the ndonesian electorate. The aim of the research was to assess voter knowledge and opinion, and to identify key iss...
by The Asia Foundation | On 02 Jan 2016 The policy paper reviews selected case studies of Mahila Kisan Sashaktikaran Pariyojana, a sub-component of the National Rural Livelihood Mission. The paper provides key learnings to the practitioners...
by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) | On 01 Jan 2016 Open educational resources made their appearance in early 2002 as a promising tool for enhancing the quality of and access to education and were perceived to have the potential to reduce costs by reus...
by Jouko Sarvi | On 01 Jan 2016 This paper presents a simple model of industrial upgrading as a result of backward and forward information linkages between upstream and downstream relations. It also serves as an empirical investigat...
by Tomohiro Machikita | On 30 Dec 2015 Clearly, the monograph addresses a set of critical issues related to the forest rights and livelihood and makes a sincere effort to draw attention to the plight of forest dependent communities. Policy...
by Tapas Kumar Sarangi | On 30 Dec 2015 The Hilaungad watershed, a sub-catchment of the larger Lastargad basin, lies on the west bank of the Mandakini river which rises from the nearby snow covered peaks of the high Himalayas. For the purpo...
by Ravi Chopra | On 29 Dec 2015 Southeast Asia is vulnerable to climate change, yet is also on a carbon intensive development trajectory.The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has analyzed the potential role the region can play in climate...
by Jindra Samson | On 29 Dec 2015 Myanmar’s agriculture sector offers substantial unexploited potential to underpin the country’s inclusive economic development. With extensive land, water, and labor resources, as well as proximity to...
by Jindra Samson | On 29 Dec 2015 This paper discusses how financial crises in emerging Asia and Japan worked as catalysts for legal reforms. Findings show that six Asian countries pursued significant legal and judicial reforms follow...
by Masahiro Kawai | On 29 Dec 2015 Most of the trade between South Asia and Southeast Asia is by sea. However, with improved infrastructure and easier border crossing procedures, land traffic could grow to boost trade in goods, service...
by Jean-Francois Gautrin Gautrin | On 29 Dec 2015 Nepal's lackluster economic performance during the post-conflict period (that is, after November 2006) has been driven by remittances from the export of labor services and the improved performance of...
by Pradumna Rana | On 29 Dec 2015 With closer regional integration there is increasing interest within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and on the part of ASEAN's dialogue partners in the potential gains of closer co...
by Termsak Chalermpalanupap | On 29 Dec 2015 The Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) represents one of the world’s most diverse and dynamic regional communities. This report identifies some of the key trends and critical issues for the Indian Oc...
by UN Women | On 28 Dec 2015 This study examines the relationship between firm characteristics and borrowing from commercial banks by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the People's Republic of China (PRC) and five Sout...
by Ganeshan Wignaraja | On 24 Dec 2015 Rural women suffer double discrimination because they are female and poor. Though women are the biggest food producers, they earn only one-tenth of the world’s income and own less than 1% of the world...
by | On 23 Dec 2015 Severe chronic poverty persists in India, partly because of the poor capacity of the state in India to provide for its poor. An action research project, underway in five poorest districts in the count...
by Sajjad Hassan | On 23 Dec 2015 The imperatives for Thailand’s investment in the Northeast have come from two important considerations, reflecting longterm strategic objectives of the Look West Policy of Thailand. First, India’s nor...
by | On 22 Dec 2015 How can we explain the exponential increase of the cesarean section in the U.S. in recent decades? Drawing from 130 in-depth interviews with women, obstetricians, midwives, and labor and delivery nurs...
by theresa morris | On 21 Dec 2015 The strengthening of El Niño weather phenomenon has led to lower than average rainfall for India’s monsoon season, thereby raising concerns for paddy crops production.
by Aritra Chakrabarty | On 21 Dec 2015 Health insurance is expected to promote equity in access to health, financial protection, reduce escalating healthcare cost, enhance provider networks and enable country to make an optimal use of limi...
by Shailender Hooda | On 18 Dec 2015 Although Nepal formulated an agricultural mechanization promotion policy in 2014, there is still much to learn about tailoring mechanization policies to different types of farm households. The Terai b...
by | On 18 Dec 2015 While the government continues to press for an unconditional surrender of arms and men as a precondition to a dialogue and settlement; the other side is also adamant on its demands including the withd...
by | On 18 Dec 2015 This research paper is divided into two parts to provide a more complete view of how both countries think in term of their ambitions and the methods they deem important to achieve them. This paper arg...
by | On 17 Dec 2015 Sri Lanka, home to a plethora of ethnically diverse communities, saw horrific
communal bloodshed in July 1983. Over three decades down the line, history seems to be repeating itself as hordes of Budd...
by Chaarvi Modi | On 17 Dec 2015 In this policy paper, Vanda Felbab-Brown explores the relationship between conflict,
peace dynamics, and drugs and other illicit economies in Thailand and
Myanmar/Burma since the 1960s through...
by Vanda Felbab-Brown | On 16 Dec 2015 The special focus of this paper are the merchants of labour, the public and private agents who move workers over borders. The ILO Convention 97 (1949) recommended that migrants move over borders with...
by Philip Martin | On 15 Dec 2015 There are a wide range of agriculture-based practices and technologies that have the potential to increase food production and the adaptive capacity of the food production system, as well as reduce em...
by | On 09 Dec 2015 These Notes are mainly about three interconnected themes; the international and Indian ‘take’ on control over land (and water); the distinction between an agricultural crisis and an agrarian crisis;...
by Sheila Bhalla | On 09 Dec 2015 This paper critically examines how lease farming can be a viable livelihood option for landless rural poor, especially women in India. In the absence of land ownership and education, the majority of l...
by | On 08 Dec 2015 Seasonal and circular migration is an important livelihood strategy for workers in developing countries and the construction industry is one of the largest recipients of such labour. The impact of lab...
by RPC Migrating out of Poverty | On 08 Dec 2015 Climate change has been the part of many discussions and to understand it causal factors behind it data is needed.
by Ministry of Statistics and Prog Implementation (MOSPI) | On 07 Dec 2015 The future of tropical deforestation is projected from 2016-2050 with and without carbon pricing policies, based on 18 million observations of historical forest loss spanning 101 tropical countries.
by Jonah Busch | On 04 Dec 2015 To inform the formulation of policies and interventions to strengthen women’s land rights, this paper analyzes nationally representative data from Bangladesh,
Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, and Vietnam to...
by Kathryn Sproule | On 02 Dec 2015 The Report brings out the different aspects of the insolvency laws which has a two-fold purpose- (i) to give relief to the debtor from the harassment of his creditors whose claims he is unable to meet...
by Ministry of Law and Justice GOI | On 25 Nov 2015 Malnutrition remains the world’s most serious health problem and the single biggest contributor to child deaths. It is time to restore the bridge between agriculture and health. FAO’s Member Countries...
by Graeme Thomas | On 24 Nov 2015 Tracking the the Indian Railways is as much an exercise in history as it is an excursion into the political and social debates of the period that determined the fate of a nation.
This is the first i...
by Anuradha Kumar | On 21 Nov 2015 The Bill which proposes fundamental changes to Environmental Governance in India is deeply disconcerting and disruptive of prevailing environmental jurisprudence. The Bill promotes fundamental changes...
by Environment Support Group (ESG) | On 20 Nov 2015 A Bill further to amend the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 and the National Green Tribunal Act, 2010. This Act may be called the Environment Law (Amendment) Act, 2015. It is a draft of the propose...
by Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Chang GOI | On 20 Nov 2015 One of social science’s core roles is to inform evidence-based policy making and policy interventions that produce pro-poor outcomes. This paper explores prominent debates on research uptake and polic...
by | On 05 Nov 2015 Given the importance of securing women’s rights to land as India grows and develops and recognizing the dearth of available data to guide the design of gender-sensitive interventions, this study provi...
by | On 04 Nov 2015 Targeted Public Distribution System was introduced in the country following the failure of the
Universal PDS to serve below the poverty line and poorest of the poor households.It is being
implemente...
by T Jayan | On 04 Nov 2015 Water, sanitation and hygiene services are central to addressing poverty, livelihoods and health. They are also critical in addressing the needs of poor communities and in achieving the Millennium Dev...
by M.V. Ramachandrudu | On 29 Oct 2015 This report provides an overview on the main issues debated during the development and passage of the India’s National Food Security Act (2013), which legally binds national and state governments to e...
by Harsh Mander | On 20 Oct 2015 This is an analytical narrative about post-conflict dynamics of poverty in a block of villages in north Bihar known as ‘the Mushahari Project’. It is related with the socio-economic and political cons...
by Anand Kumar | On 20 Oct 2015 Even after a hundred years of child labour legislation and fifty years of independence, child labour is a common occurrence in India. Today, their numbers exceed those of any other country. The urgent...
by | On 19 Oct 2015 The report reveals new evidence of human trafficking and the use of violence in the Thai fishing industry and inaction on the part of the Government to identify and prosecute criminals, corrupt offici...
by Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) | On 16 Oct 2015 Present study has been
undertaken to understand that to what extent reforms measures in terms of repeal of
the act has affected investment in agricultural marketing infrastructure. The present
s...
by Vijay Intodia | On 14 Oct 2015 Consumer protection law rests on the foundations of contract law and the law of sale of goods. A consumer law has to conceptually express this foundation and the modifications it is bringing about in...
by Akhileshwar Pathak | On 13 Oct 2015 A bill to provide for adequate protection of the interests of consumers and for prevention of unfair trade practices and for the said purposes to make provisions for establishment of the Consumer Prot...
by Lok Sabha Secretariat | On 13 Oct 2015 This paper was written in response to something that happened at one session of the 2013 Cuddalore Conference of the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS). In India, net sown area had expanded from 1950-51 up...
by Sheila Bhalla | On 01 Oct 2015 Roughly 40 percent of the world’s poor live in South Asia, where poverty is basically a rural problem. Therefore, a significant gain in rural poverty reduction in this sub-region will be crucial to re...
by | On 30 Sep 2015 This paper examines the relationship between gender inequality and food security, with a particular focus on women as food producers, consumers, and family food managers. The discussion is set against...
by Bina Agarwal | On 29 Sep 2015 The objective of the mission was to evaluate the impact of the power plant on the livelihoods of the people and ecology of the region, examine the legal framework governing its and assess if the propo...
by South Asians for Human Rights SAHR | On 28 Sep 2015 Can election change the condition of Bihar? At least improving the transport facilities....
by T.N. Ninan | On 26 Sep 2015 Urbanization provides South Asian countries with the potential to transform their economies to join the ranks of richer nations in both prosperity and livability, but a new World Bank report finds the...
by World Bank | On 25 Sep 2015 This study examines the implications of variations in climate variables on ground water sources of irrigation and agricultural income in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Our findings, based on a panel...
by Balasubramanian R | On 24 Sep 2015 The Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act 2005, an inheritance law that covers 83.6% of the population of India, corrected some of fundamental inequalities in the law bringing the women in equal status to...
by Sohini Pal | On 23 Sep 2015 This paper seeks to provide an overview of the complex and dynamic relationship between nutrition and growth, examine how different growth patterns lead to different nutritional outcomes, and identif...
by | On 22 Sep 2015 The purpose of this study is twofold: first, to strengthen the evidence base on child labor and labor conditions in the shrimp and seafood supply chain and within the communities engaged in the shrimp...
by ASIA FOUNDATION | On 18 Sep 2015 This paper analyses the legal framework and policy innovations undertaken towards achieving the stated objectives of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act. This paper seeks to cri...
by | On 15 Sep 2015 This report – “Assessment of State Implementation of Business Reforms” is a scorecard to take stock of what reforms have happened, and to identify the way forward for States. The report highlights the...
by World Bank | On 15 Sep 2015 The loud clamour for liberalisation of labour laws in recent times quite overlooks the fact that other institutional reforms are far more important for rejuvenating the sector.
by K.R. Shyam Sundar | On 13 Sep 2015 Steel is a basic input for the entire engineering industry (cars, household goods, machinery of all kinds), and for the infrastructure sector (roads, railways, power, real estate, etc). Raise the cost...
by T.N. Ninan | On 12 Sep 2015 There have been numerous investigations in recent years to determine the incidence and prevalence of modern slavery worldwide, and debt bondage in India has been found to be the most extensive form of...
by Sarah Knight | On 10 Sep 2015 This report highlights the global nature of malnutrition and the successes and bottlenecks in addressing it. Malnutrition continues to affect the lives of millions of children and women worldwide. Eve...
by International Food Policy Research Institute | On 08 Sep 2015 The report calls for overfishing, pirate fishing and modern-day slavery in the Thai fishing industry to be addressed as interconnected issues. It examines the complex and multi-faceted problems in Tha...
by Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) | On 08 Sep 2015 This paper explores the dynamics of economic growth, poverty, inequality and migration in Thailand, and evaluates the relevance of Lewis model to Thailand’s long-term development. Thai economy seems t...
by Somchai Jitsuchon | On 03 Sep 2015 The paper offers a ctitical understanding of the policy approaches for rural industrialization by underscoring inadequate understanding of the dynamics understanding of the dynamics or specificities...
by Keshab Das | On 03 Sep 2015 The paper analyses the nexus between growth, employment and poverty and points out situations where high economic growth may fail to bring about a commensurate rate of poverty reduction if simultaneo...
by | On 02 Sep 2015 The Law Commission of India received a reference from the Supreme Court in Santosh Kumar Satishbhushan Bariyar v. Maharashtra [(2009) 6 SCC 498] and Shankar Kisanrao Khade v. Maharashtra [(2013) 5 SCC...
by Law Commission India | On 31 Aug 2015 the paper provides an overview of the growth and status of Indian tea plantation sector delineating the trends
in economic performance in the global context in a historic perspective. It then examine...
by Viswanathan P K | On 25 Aug 2015 Bills Passed by Parliament during the Monsoon Session
by Kusum Malik | On 24 Aug 2015 Notwithstanding its impressive economic growth, food insecurity in South Asia continues to be a stark reality for a large number of households. Despite several successful policy interventions by Gover...
by K. S. Kavi Kumar | On 19 Aug 2015 The National Policy on Biofuels sets an indicative target of 20per cent blending of biofuels by 2017 to tackle the twin problem of energy security and climate change. Although biofuels seem to be the...
by Gopinath Reddy | On 13 Aug 2015 Of all the markets in which politicians interfere with prices, the land market is probably the last that will be reformed.
by T.N. Ninan | On 08 Aug 2015 The report looks beyond the proclamations and communiqués to assess what has really changed since the crisis erupted. While not exhaustive, the report looks at: Overseas Development Assistance, both i...
by | On 30 Jul 2015 This paper captures the policy processes leading to the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (RFCTLARR) Ordinance, 2014. It maps the role an...
by G. Raghuram | On 28 Jul 2015 The article tells us about what are the positive aspects of Juvenile Justice bill what it is lacking.
by Bharti Ali | On 23 Jul 2015 An Ordinance further to amend the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013. This ordinance, 2015 incorporates the amendments made by t...
by Ministry of Law and Justice GOI | On 21 Jul 2015 This Bill amends the principal Act passed in 2013. The Bill enables the government to exempt five categories of projects from the requirements of social impact assessment, restrictions on acquisition...
by Ministry of Law and Justice GOI | On 21 Jul 2015 This is a Bill to further amend the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013. The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land...
by Ministry of Law and Justice GOI | On 21 Jul 2015 Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha will meet for the monsoon session between July 21 and August 13, 2015.
The legislative agenda includes 7 legislative Bills currently pending in Parliament for consideration...
by Kusum Malik | On 21 Jul 2015 Financial sector’s primary role is intermediation between ultimate savers and ultimate investors. Initially, it was banks which were the intermediaries. As the financial sector evolved, other types of...
by R. Gandhi | On 21 Jul 2015 The objective of this paper is to understand the prospects of enhancing services trade, investment and co-operation between South and Southeast Asia, taking the example of India and Thailand, by focus...
by | On 13 Jul 2015 The report presents the (i) safeguard systems of Bhutan, India and Nepal; (ii) differences in national safeguard laws and institutional processes with the Asian Development Bank’s safeguards policy; (...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 13 Jul 2015 The study is an attempt to bring to the fore a Commons perspective of agriculture, livestock and rural livelihoods in the dryland and tribal areas of India. Would agriculture, livestock and rural live...
by Foundation for Ecological Security FES | On 07 Jul 2015 With only less than 10 million hectares of agricultural land that is threatened by a rapidly urbanizing economy, how would the Philippines be able to meet its growing demand for food, and continue pro...
by Senate Economic Planning Office SEPO | On 06 Jul 2015 The need for revision of the 1979 land legislation was being felt for a long time and hence the then Ministry of Agriculture started the work on it with the formation of a multi-sector committee in 20...
by Dasho Kinzang Dorji | On 26 Jun 2015 Standing Committee on Water Resources (2014-15) took up this subject for a detailed examination and report. It includes flood affected area and damaged scenario, causes of flood, role of Union and Sta...
by Lok Sabha Secretariat | On 25 Jun 2015 Street vending and urban space for micro enterprises constitute an important policy theme that needs to be advanced further in development literature and policy. In many countries, urban space tends t...
by Kyoko Kusakabe | On 24 Jun 2015 The recent identification of chromite deposits in two districts of Manipur, Ukhrul and Chandel, has led the government to grant mining clearances disregarding constitutional provisions. While environm...
by Franky Varah | On 21 Jun 2015 Will those who promote ayurvedic products that have iron as a standard ingredient, get the same treatment as Maggi noodles, or benefit from benign neglect?
by T.N. Ninan | On 15 Jun 2015 Forest policy aims at ensuring environmental stability and maintaining the ecological balance, which help in sustenance of all life forms. One of the principal goals is to bring one-third of the land...
by | On 15 Jun 2015 This article utilises state-level data for 1961–2012 to examine the interlinkage between informal finance and monetary policy. The analysis suggests that in response to a monetary contraction, borrowi...
by Saibal Ghosh | On 15 Jun 2015 This report is a report by the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition of the Committee on World Food Security. Water is key to food security and nutrition. However there are many c...
by Food and Nutrition Division FAO | On 10 Jun 2015 This paper is based on a critical literature review and looks into the implementation of the Forest Rights Act (FRA) in India, with particular reference to the two states of Chhattisgarh and Gujarat....
by Madhusudan Bandi | On 09 Jun 2015 Attempts have been made to arrive at a comprehensive settlement of the land boundary between India and Bangladesh (the erstwhile East Pakistan) since 1947. The Nehru-Noon agreement of 1958 and the agr...
by Ministry of External Affairs, GoI MEA | On 07 Jun 2015 The draft 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 appr...
by Niranjan Sahoo | On 05 Jun 2015 The recent developments in the area of payment systems in India is highlighted. There are some issues and challenges that are likely to assume importance in the foreseeable future and the way forwar...
by S.S. Mundra | On 04 Jun 2015 This report attempts to address some of the issues and challenges facing major crop insurance schemes being operated in India. Many of the issues and problems highlighted when the Committee interacted...
by Department of Agriculture & Cooperation GOI | On 01 Jun 2015 The comprehensive mental health action plan 2013–2020 was adopted by the Sixty-sixth World Health Assembly in May 2013. The present report summarizes progress made in implementing the action plan. The...
by World Health Organisation (WHO) | On 01 Jun 2015 International experiences show significant opportunities in using GIS technologies and participatory methods to map community natural resource uses. In India, this has as far as is known only been don...
by Patrik Oskarsson | On 01 Jun 2015 Urban population growth and economic growth require cities to expand into the agricultural land on their periphery. How much land is required for this extension? How much planning and direct intervent...
by Alain Bertaud | On 01 Jun 2015 Review of Nation and Family: Personal Law, Cultural Pluralism, and Gendered Citizenship in India by Narendra Subramanian, Stanford University Press, 2014. 400 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8047-887...
by Aparna Malaviya | On 31 May 2015 With the increasing emphasis on need for development, coupled with increasing urbanization, it is becoming apparent that the natural resources are to be used judiciously and sustainably. This report h...
by Ministry of Environment and Forests GOI | On 27 May 2015 The Working Group aims to deliberate on the existing labour laws and the need for review of these laws in order to protect the interest of workers more effectively while at the same time promoting gro...
by Ministry of Labour and Employment GoI | On 26 May 2015 Health research is the key to a well functioning and effective health sector in the country. The focus of the report is to identify major issues, areas for policy research in health sector for 12th Fi...
by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare H & FW | On 22 May 2015 Policy prescriptions for strengthening convergence of forestry, agriculture, watershed development programmes with pastures and grazing land management in forests, nonconventional forest areas, villag...
by Planning Commission | On 21 May 2015 The Rohingya are an ethno-religious minority group from the Rakhine region, which today is encompassed within the borders of Myanmar and is adjacent to Bangladesh. The majority of Rohingya in Myanmar...
by The Equal Rights Trust | On 14 May 2015 The report provides a strategy in the field of agriculture related issues on Dryland / Rainfed Farming System including Regeneration of Degraded / Waste Land, Watershed Development Programme.
by Ministry of Agriculture GOI | On 13 May 2015 This paper takes into consideration of broad areas into consideration and the problems for youth employment should be viewed
as a larger macroeconomic issue of the state. Greater participation, invol...
by YouthNet Nagaland | On 12 May 2015 The January 2014 issue of YOJANA contains the following articles - Tribal and Marginalized Communities, Constitutional Provisions, Laws and Tribes, Actualising Adivasi Self-Rule, The Food Bill, Wild F...
by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting MIB | On 11 May 2015 Standing Committee on Labour (2014-15) present this Third Report on `The Factories (Amendment) Bill, 2014’ relating to the Ministry of Labour and Employment. The Factories Act enables labour administr...
by Lok Sabha Secretariat | On 11 May 2015 This report of government details on challenges in agriculture sector. There is a need to address these issues as India faces a greater challenge, since with only 2.3% share in world’s total land area...
by Ministry of Agriculture GOI | On 07 May 2015 This report presents the information on nutritional intake by the Indian population. Among the different nutrients only three nutrients – viz, calorie, protein and fat – are discussed in this report....
by National Sample Survey Office NSSO | On 05 May 2015 It has been a decade since the outbreak of one of Asia’s most serious insurgencies, the conflict between Malay Muslims and the Thai state in Southern Thailand. Often ignored and unremarked upon by the...
by Duncan McCargo | On 30 Apr 2015 After a decade of separatist violence in Thailand’s Malay/Muslim-majority southern provinces, insurgent capabilities are outpacing state counter-measures that are mired in complacency and political co...
by International Crisis Group | On 30 Apr 2015 Displacement is by no means a new phenomenon in South Asia.
As they emerged as independent states, at least half of the South
Asian countries experienced mass displacement. In Bangladesh it
is esti...
by | On 28 Apr 2015 Since the revolution of 1932 that ended absolute monarchy, Thailand has experienced sporadic military interventions, with 19 coups and coup attempts over those decades. This article explains these mil...
by | On 27 Apr 2015 This paper examines the effects of urbanization on development and growth. It begins with a labor market perspective and emphasizes the importance of agglomeration economies, both static and dynamic....
by | On 24 Apr 2015 This paper discusses the problems with the much revised and much delayed Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, and how they may be addressed. A democratization of the land acquisitio...
by Prasenjit Bose | On 24 Apr 2015 The National Agroforestry Policy, which deals with the practice of integrating trees, crops and livestock on the same plot of land, was launched February 10, the first day of the World Congress on Agr...
by | On 21 Apr 2015 An Act to provide for allocation of coal mines and vesting of the right, title and interest in and over the land and mine infrastructure together with mining leases to successful bidders and allottees...
by Ministry of Law and Justice GOI | On 20 Apr 2015 In context of contemporary debates about censorship, net neutrality and the role of the state in today’s globalising world, it becomes vital to examine the stand taken by various Asian governments tow...
by Nandini Bhattacharya | On 17 Apr 2015 This is an an ordinance further to amend the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013.
by Ministry of Law and Justice GOI | On 17 Apr 2015 The aim of this paper is to provide policy-makers with a helpful overview of the technical and economic aspects of water use in agriculture, with particular emphasis on crop and livestock production....
by Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN UN | On 15 Apr 2015 Globally, the number of adults and children who are trafficked for forced labour, bonded labour or commercial sexual exploitation is estimated to be about 12 million. Though India has made several com...
by K G Santhya | On 10 Apr 2015 The paper provides an in-depth empirical analysis of Thai political history in an attempt to understand why democracy has failed to consolidate since the 1932 revolution that ended the absolute monarc...
by | On 08 Apr 2015 An ordinance to amend the right to fair compensation and transparency in land acquisition, rehabilitation and resettlement (amendment) ordinance, 2014.
by Ministry of Law and Justice GOI | On 26 Mar 2015 The report concludes with key recommendations to address the situation where there is currently a concerning lack of social protection for migrants within the ASEAN region from which MFA, FES, Parliam...
by | On 20 Mar 2015 United Nation in its Millennium Summit in 2000 declared ‘Gender Equality and Women Empowerment’ as one among the
eight ‘Millennium Development Goal’ to be achieved by the year 2015. However these goa...
by | On 11 Mar 2015 The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement
(Amendment) Bill, 2015 was introduced in Lok Sabha on February 24, 2015 to replace an Ordinance. T...
by PRS Legislative Research | On 11 Mar 2015 The Act aims to ensure a humane, participative, informed and transparent process for Land acquisition, industrialisation, development of essential infrastructural facilities and urbanisation with leas...
by | On 09 Mar 2015 The ruling government’s Land Acquisition Ordinance is viewed with suspicion by most politically active groups, as well as the industry. Consent, compensation, relief and rehabilitation are some of the...
by Maitreesh Ghatak | On 25 Feb 2015 This working paper explores key issues in the new Land Acquisition Rehabilitation and Resettlement (LARR) Bill’s attempt at ‘balance’ within the larger political context of land acquisition in India....
by Amlanjyoti Goswami | On 09 Feb 2015 This report outlines the wide-ranging risks investors and companies face from water scarcity and how global climate change will heighten those risks in many parts of the world. The report makes clear...
by | On 04 Feb 2015 This report examines the evidence on aid, and finds that while aid alone cannot solve the deprivation experienced by people living in poverty or redress the extreme imbalance of wealth that characteri...
by Oxfam International | On 03 Feb 2015 This report examines the evidence on aid, and finds that while aid alone cannot solve the deprivation experienced by people living in poverty or redress the extreme imbalance of wealth that characteri...
by Oxfam International | On 03 Feb 2015 A look at Land Acquisition Act, 2013, and the amendments to it from the perspective to those who live close to the land.
by Usha Ramanathan | On 02 Feb 2015 This paper focuses on historical aspects of land resources, land evolution and management.
Moreover, it describes land issues before and after the Ice age 5000 B.C. Pre-Vedic literature on
origin of...
by M S Umesh Babu | On 21 Jan 2015 This paper attempts to study the factors holding back the growth of output and employment in this manufacturing sector. The creation of a large number of industrial jobs made possible by the rapid gro...
by Radhicka Kapoor | On 15 Jan 2015 The state of Punjab, earlier regarded as an agriculturally developed region of India, has been passing through a severe economic crisis. The capital-intensive mode of production, propagated by the gre...
by | On 24 Dec 2014 Bills Passed by Parliament during the Winter Session
by Kusum Malik | On 24 Dec 2014 This paper examines the price movements in rice and wheat, following structuralist principles emphasizing the necessity of long term solutions in combination with short and medium term management. How...
by K U Gopakumar | On 17 Dec 2014 Parliament performs several essential functions including that of making laws, scrutinising and passing the budget, conducting oversight on the activities of the government and representing citizens....
by Prianka Rao | On 06 Dec 2014 Millions of farmers in remote rural areas of India struggle to feed themselves and their families, while the resources on which they depend are deteriorating daily. This book shows how sustainable agr...
by Sustainable Agriculture Information Network | On 06 Nov 2014 Despite recent advances in important aspects of the lives of girls and women, pervasive challenges remain. These challenges reflect widespread deprivations and constraints and include epidemic levels...
by Jeni Klugman | On 14 Oct 2014 The present speech analyses the significant role which can be played by the financial sector in spurring growth and expanding financial inclusion in NER. [CII Banking Collagium in Kolkata].
by P. Vijaya Bhaskar | On 13 Oct 2014 Dryland regions of the country, poorly endowed as they are with natural
resources including water are likely to be disadvantaged in terms of access to
credit. Within the dryland areas too inter-pers...
by Satyasai K J S | On 08 Oct 2014 100 laws are identified which can be repealed. The laws in this compendium need to be repealed on account of any one of three
reasons: they are either redundant (having outlived their purpose), they...
by Centre for Civil Society CCS | On 08 Oct 2014 These Notes are mainly about three interconnected themes; i) the international and Indian
‘take’ on control over land (and water); ii) the distinction between an agricultural crisis and
an agrarian...
by Sheila Bhalla | On 01 Oct 2014 The mechanism adopted to keep the rise in property prices under check until 2000 was the active participation of the public sector in keeping supply ahead of demand. This seems to have worked well in...
by Jatinder S. Bedi | On 08 Sep 2014 This paper presents the findings of a study concerning educational policies related to science education and diversity in India which is a geographically and socio-politically diverse country. If the...
by Sugra Chunawala | On 28 Jul 2014 Sixty people died in a building collapse in Chennai last fortnight. There is much more than the municipal incompetence that needs to be fixed to avoid such tragic incidents. This building was located...
by Sunita Narain | On 24 Jul 2014 Wetlands are rarely recorded under municipal land laws, so nobody knows about them. Planners see only land, not water and greedy builders take over. It is due to this oversight that buildings are plan...
by Sunita Narain | On 24 Jul 2014 To study the various definitions of a child as highlighted under the Constitution as well as under various other legislations and compare the various objectives which led to the differential criteria...
by Mubashshir Sarshar | On 09 Jun 2014 Most of the trade between South Asia and Southeast Asia is by sea. However, with improved infrastructure and easier border crossing procedures, land traffic could grow to boost trade in goods, service...
by Jean-Francois Gautrin Gautrin | On 02 Jun 2014 The present study analyses the labour market situation in India over the last two decades. Given the growth profile, which has been quite robust in recent years, one pertinent question is whether Indi...
by Arup Mitra | On 23 May 2014 This paper examines the issues related to just,
adequate and effective compensation in cases of medical negligence and provides certain
suggestions. [IIMA W.P. No.2014-03-27].
by Anurag K Agarwal | On 22 May 2014 This report presents data and analysis to better understand the factors driving the expansion in undergraduate and graduate education across Asia. By looking at the system as a whole, the authors eval...
by David W. Chapman | On 16 May 2014 This report, Market Survey of Reusable and Recycled e-products looks at how e-Waste is a source of raw material which can and should be put back into manufacturing. More so, the life of components /eq...
by Environmental Management & Policy Research Institute | On 12 May 2014 This comprehensive paper explains why and when soil degradation should be of particular concern to policymakers interested in assuring food security. The inferences in this paper are based on research...
by Sara J. Scherr | On 05 May 2014 In India, over 70% of the population resides in rural areas with majority depending on land based activities for their livelihood. Studies have shown that owners of productive plots of land tend to be...
by Sita Devi | On 31 Mar 2014 The study seeks to understand women’s land rights by documenting how women acquire land, their feelings about tenure security to that land, exploring their knowledge of their land rights, and the exte...
by UN Women | On 14 Mar 2014 This study assessed the sources and levels of infrastructure financing in the Philippines for the
last five years (2008-2012). [PIDS Discussion Paper No. 2014-01].
by Adoracion M. Navarro | On 12 Mar 2014 What children need are effective institutions, equitable services and adequate resources,
combined with political will and accountable leadership. This is what political leaders can
promise them. [H...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 20 Feb 2014 Secure land rights are a critical, but often overlooked, factor in achieving household food security and improved nutritional status in rural areas of developing countries. This study evaluates the im...
by Florence Santos | On 17 Feb 2014 This paper focuses on the fishing hamlet of Adimalathura located
on the coast of the Thiruvananthapuram district in Kerala, which has
been identified as an area of extreme developmental disadvantage...
by J. Devika | On 11 Feb 2014 While Asia continues to set pace as the world’s fastest growing region, some Asian middle-income countries (MICs) are showing signs of economic slowdown and face stiff competition from lower-cost econ...
by ASIA FOUNDATION | On 10 Feb 2014 This paper is a limited attempt at sketching the history of a
prominent slum in the city of Thiruvananthapuram, using mainly the
memories of residents collected as oral narratives. [CDS Working pape...
by J Devika | On 07 Feb 2014 Thailand’s economy is heavily reliant on labour-intensive industries. However, growing economic prosperity since the late 1980s has seen a decline in the available Thai workforce needed to meet the la...
by Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) | On 24 Jan 2014 The rapid economic growth in the region consisting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the People’s Republic of China (PRC), and India has begun to change the strategic landscape of...
by C. Raja Mohan | On 21 Jan 2014 Indian Penal Code (IPC, ) is the main criminal code of India. It is a comprehensive code, intended to cover all substantive aspects of criminal law. The Code has since been amended several times and...
by Lawyers Collective | On 20 Jan 2014 This article systematically compares maritime territorial disputes in the East and South China Seas. It draws on the bargaining model of war and hegemonic stability theory to track the record of confl...
by Andy Yee | On 02 Jan 2014 This working paper provides an overview of migration policy analysis in academic and policy (‘grey’) literature for Southeast Asia, as well as a brief outline of the current migration policy environme...
by Maureen Hickey | On 27 Nov 2013 This paper deals with the philanthropic between Indian migrants and the local community in
Gujarat from a homeland perspective. It is based on research in rural central Gujarat, one of the regions
i...
by Natascha Dekkers | On 05 Nov 2013 This paper focusses on two Indian laws that seek to guarantee socioeconomic rights: the
National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), an important example of India’s
recent history of legislation...
by Reetika Khera | On 25 Oct 2013 The paper analyses the changing leadership in Computer and
Information Services (CIS). Leadership is measured in terms of export
shares. The leadership appears to have changed from United States of
...
by Sunil Mani | On 10 Oct 2013 This paper explores migration from Bihar, one of the most underdeveloped states in India, by paying particular attention to social class (caste) and landholdings. After
describing details of individu...
by Yuko Tsujita | On 27 Sep 2013 The Monsoon Session ended with the passage of Bills on food security, land acquisition, companies, and pension. During the session, significant time was lost due to frequent disruptions over issues su...
by Kusum Malik | On 12 Sep 2013 Migration data is matched from the Indian census with climate data to
test the hypothesis of climate variability as a push factor for internal
migration. The main contribution of the analysis is to...
by Ingrid Dallmann | On 06 Sep 2013 For agricultural subsidies to be efficient in improving farmers’ incomes and eradicating hunger, holistic policy intervention is required. Complementary policies such as increased access to credit and...
by Maria C.S. Morales | On 30 Aug 2013 The gains made since ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) are plenty, but the reality of children’s situation is disturbing on many counts calling for urgent and serious att...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 26 Aug 2013 A bill to provide for mental health care and services for persons with mental illness and to protect, promote and fulfil the rights of such persons during delivery of mental health care and services a...
by Lok Sabha | On 21 Aug 2013 The findings of the present study are being documented with an aim for invoking a paradigm shift in the attitudes and perceptions about natural hazards; this shift should make the state and the
peopl...
by Tuhin Ghosh | On 12 Aug 2013 This policy outlines a very clear strategy of creating a large pool of land so that every family's right to land is fully honoured. The policy proceeds to suggest a just and equitable method of allott...
by Ministry of Rural Development GOI | On 06 Aug 2013 Patterns of rural-urban migration and employment shifts in a region that is
facing ongoing depletion of groundwater resources in Northern Gujarat, India is discussed. Given that migration typically d...
by Ram Fishman | On 30 Jul 2013 With only a total land area of 30 million hectares and a population of 92.3 million growing at an average rate of 2.12 percent, how should the Philippines allocate a very scarce and important resource...
by Senate Economic Planning Office SEPO | On 24 Jul 2013 Migration literature has always considered environmental constraints as one of the prime movers of populations, especially from dry regions, where water rather than land is the primary limiting factor...
by Amita Shah | On 28 Jun 2013 This paper seeks to map out the historical trajectory leading to a series of migrations in and from the erstwhile princely state of Travancore during 1900-70 in order to acquire and bring land under c...
by V. J. Varghese | On 26 Jun 2013 This paper analyses the complementarities between land productivity
and conservation investments in the context of river embankment
maintenance in the Indian Sundarbans.[SANDEE]. URL:[http://www.san...
by Prasenjit Sarkhel | On 06 Jun 2013 Land acquisition, which refers to the process of a government forcibly acquiring private property for public purpose, has been the cause of over a third of the legal conflicts in India in the past dec...
by iGovernment. in | On 19 Apr 2013 Migration can act as a negative force. It can lead to distress migration, which is what happens when people have to go to cities to find work
because they cannot survive on what they can earn in thei...
by Naomi Jacob | On 17 Apr 2013 This paper presents two approaches that use publicly available data to estimate the loss to investors
from mis-selling of insurance products. The first approach uses the number of lapsed policies fro...
by Monika Halan | On 12 Apr 2013 Asset quality of banks has come under increasing pressure with rising NPAs and Restructured loans. The Gross NPA ratio for the banking system, which was 2.4% in March 2011, increased to 3.6 per cent b...
by Chakrabarty K C | On 07 Mar 2013 The report investigate the relationship between growth and deprivation in India, an issue of immense interest. Given the continuing controversy in India over poverty lines, they used a framework that...
by Sripad Motiram | On 07 Mar 2013 Nagaland’s population decreased during 2001–11 after growing at abnormally high
rates during the past few decades. This is the first time since independence that a state
in India has witnessed an ab...
by Ankush Agrawal | On 21 Feb 2013 In the megacities of developing Southeast Asia, the informal sector plays an important role in supporting economic development.
Yet, in discussions of the ramifications of climaterelated
natural haz...
by Sofiah Jamil | On 13 Feb 2013 In the world, there are three models that inspire administration of juvenile justice:
• The Welfare Model
• The Justice Model or Control model - Retributive
• The Restorative Model
The age of c...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 06 Feb 2013 This paper addresses the question of how farmers displaced by acquisition of agricultural land for the purpose of industrialization ought to be compensated. Prior to acquisition, the farmers are leasi...
by Maitreesh Ghatak | On 22 Jan 2013 There are relatively few theoretical models or empirical
analyses of clientelism which analyse the sources and consequences of clientelism. Data from household surveys in rural West Bengal are used t...
by Pranab Bardhan | On 14 Jan 2013 The first half of the Winter Session of Parliament, 2012 was dominated by disruptions over and discussion on the government's notification to allow 51% FDI in the retail sector. The issue was finally...
by Devika Malik | On 21 Dec 2012 An attempt has been made to understand the paradoxes of Kerala's development like the state's per capita consumer expenditure is more than
the per capita state domestic product. But the nutritional i...
by K.K. George | On 18 Dec 2012 A key driver of foreign investment in land, food security is a challenge mankind has been confronted with in various times and places. Wherever human societies have developed, growing needs have led t...
by Claire Schaffnit Chatterjee | On 15 Nov 2012 This paper identifies the important economic activities that use diesel and discusses the contribution of those sectors in GDP. Other important petroleum products and, their limited substitution possi...
by Mukesh Kumar Anand | On 17 Oct 2012 This paper examines the potential gender impacts of the trade
reforms in plantation agriculture in the emerging context of the two
prominent FTAs, viz. the Indo-ASEAN and the proposed EU-India FTA....
by Viswanathan P K | On 14 Sep 2012 The Editors examine the lack of correlation between the size of a city and its air quality, noting that the strength of environmental laws and the accountability of the country's government have a gre...
by PLoS Medicine Editors | On 30 Aug 2012 The devolution of environment and natural resource functions to local government units was a bold move in the history of environmental Management in the Philippines. However, the implementation of the...
by Senate Economic Planning Office SEPO | On 28 Aug 2012 Spot fire disputes have sparked across Asia, with the winds of nationalism spurring them on. If one
flares up it could ignite a region. Escalating tensions should have mediators vigilant and with pai...
by Elliot Brennan | On 24 Aug 2012 The Asian Centre for Human Rights has alleged that the National Commission for Minorities (NCM) is communalizing the riots in Assam. [ACHR]. URL:[http://www.achrweb.org/reports/india/NCM-2012.pdf].
by Asian Centre for Human Rights ACHR | On 24 Aug 2012 What degree the financial crisis and the resulting developments have impacted and will impact long-term, capital market bank funding. [DB research] URL:[http://www.dbresearch.com/PROD/DBR_INTERNET_EN-...
by Meta Zähres | On 23 Aug 2012 What is the relationship
between social conflict and poverty in the context of Manipur? There is a need to recognize togetherness of the imperatives of
economic well being, socio-cultural identity a...
by Anand Kumar | On 22 Aug 2012 Rapid ageing of the population globally represents an unprecedented historical trend. As pension and healthcare costs are positively correlated with rising incomes, ageing, urbanization, and a shift f...
by Azad Singh Bali | On 20 Aug 2012 Mangoes from Andhra Pradesh reach everywhere in India. This has caused the conversion of large tracts of paddy fields into mango farms in Andhra. It affects the rural employment. Use of chemicals to r...
by Alex George | On 14 Aug 2012 Is there an impact of female property rights on male and female suicide rates in India.
Using state level variation in legal changes to women's property rights, it is shown that better property
righ...
by Siwan Anderson | On 02 Aug 2012 Government owned Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) raised the price of petrol on 23rd May 2012. After the
inclusion of local taxes, this amounted to a hike of Rs 7.54 per litre in Delhi. A snapshot of t...
by Karan Malik | On 24 Jul 2012 This paper discusses the evolution of Model Concession Agreement for National Highways, the vital framework on which the success of Public Private Partnership lies. The key learnings of this study wou...
by Ramakrishnan T S | On 18 Jul 2012 F rom its headwaters in the Tibetan Plateau to its estuary in Burma, the Salween River
supports over ten million people. For many decades, it was the longest free-flowing
river in Southeast Asia. It...
by International Rivers Network IRN | On 17 Jul 2012 What are the implications
of a green economy for the poor and hungry? How can the poor benefit
from and thrive under a green economy? What role can agriculture
play? What are the possible trade-off...
by Shenggen Fan | On 17 Jul 2012 Developing Asia is the driver of today's emissions intensive global economy. As the principle source of future emissions, the region is critical to the task of global climate change mitigation. Reflec...
by Stephen Howes | On 16 Jul 2012 The Philippines has often been cited as the global model in managing international
labor migration. Despite the complexity of our management infrastructure, however,
some gaps still remain. This pap...
by Julyn S Ambito | On 12 Jul 2012 Estimates of persons with disabilities (PWDs) in India vary greatly depending on the source. The 2001 census found 21.91 million disabled persons (2.13 % of the population), but there are serious cons...
by National Advisory Council NAC | On 11 Jul 2012 The food and beverages industry has not yet established strong and vibrant
linkages with the local communities to develop value added products and
share the benefits. The paper lists seven models fo...
by Anil K Gupta | On 11 Jul 2012 The Association of Southeast Asian Nations
(ASEAN) small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are under scrutiny for their engagement in production networks following recent emphasis on increasing intra-reg...
by Ganeshan Wignaraja | On 06 Jul 2012 This study examines the reliability of the Census of Nagaland between 1981 and
2011 by testing the internal consistency of Census population estimates. It also tries to
validate the Census estimates...
by Ankush Agrawal | On 06 Jul 2012 This paper focuses on development missions carried out by the armed forces of the Philippines and Thailand in and out of conflict zones, and provides an analysis of the causes behind the re-emergence...
by Aries A Arugay | On 20 Jun 2012 The ecosystem of the Eastern Himalayas are vulnerable to climate change as a result of their ecological fragility and economic marginality. The conservation policies at national and regional levels ar...
by Karma Tse-ring | On 28 May 2012 Crimes against the historically marginalized Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (SC/ST) by the upper castes in India represent an extreme form of prejudice and discrimination. In this paper, the ef...
by Smriti Sharma | On 16 May 2012 Tropical deforestation accounts for almost one-fifth of greenhouse gas emissions
worldwide and threatens the world.s most diverse ecosystems. The prevalence of illegal
forest extraction in the tropi...
by Robin Burgess | On 08 May 2012 A broad overview of the current state of pension systems in the People’s Republic of China, Indonesia, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Viet Nam is provided. An anal...
by Donghyun Park | On 30 Apr 2012 The PRC’s leading position in high-tech exports is a myth created by outdated trade statistics which are inconsistent with trade based on global supply chains. It is argued that a value-added-based ap...
by Yuqing Xing | On 27 Apr 2012 India's trans-boundary riparian policies affect four countries - Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh - on three river systems - the Indus, the Ganga and the Brahmaputra-Mehgna. China's riparian pol...
by Gopal Siwakoti Chintan | On 25 Apr 2012 The Philippine domestic
economy shrunk to
3.7 percent in 2011, after a growth of 7.6 per cent in 2010. Outlook for 2012 is
relatively sanguine with
the government hinging
its optimism on robust
...
by Senate Economic Planning Office SEPO | On 20 Apr 2012 The paper examines the implications of Myanmar's reforms for its neighbours- China, India, Thailand and Bangladesh. Issues of major concern to the four countries include energy, humanitarian consequen...
by Lina Gong | On 20 Apr 2012 The protests against the Pak Mun Dam are amongst the longest running in the world. The dam is also one of the
most studied, in part because it had all the features of a failed development policy: no...
by Katie Jenkins | On 18 Apr 2012 Thailand has made significant progresses toward green and low-carbon development; however, there is a need to further address the issue. The country has to focus on the implementation of no-regret pol...
by Qwanruedee Chotichanathawewong | On 16 Apr 2012 What India has to do to overcome the dents that India has suffered in its international image? India will have to play a delicate game of exercising autonomy in its pursuit of national objectives with...
by T.N. Ninan | On 10 Apr 2012 India started exporting a small amount of honey in 1991-1992 and has now established itself as an important honey exporter to the world market. The quantity exported has increased substantially, and t...
by Harish K Sharma | On 02 Apr 2012 Major credit rating agencies give out the sovereign credit rating of each nation as an absolute grade. How other nations fare over the period under consideration does not matter in a particular nation...
by Kaushik Basu | On 02 Apr 2012 Budget Speech
of
PU H.LIANSAILOVA
HON’BLE FINANCE MINISTER. [Government of Mizoram]. URL:[http://mizoram.nic.in/budget/Interim%20Budget%20Speech%2012-13.pdf].
by Finance Minister Mizoram | On 29 Mar 2012 Budget for the year 2012-13. [Government of Maharashtra]. URL:[http://maharashtra.gov.in/pdf/english_speech_part_I.pdf].
by Maharashtra Government | On 27 Mar 2012 There is in urgent need for modernization and generational
Change need to be done in the Indian railways to assure safety, improve productivity, take advantage of advanced technology, respond to ever...
by Ministry of Railways | On 14 Mar 2012 The report reviews the status and performance of agriculture, especially
during the last two decades, and also presents what could be the way forward, given
our objectives of accelerated growth, inc...
by Ministry of Agriculture GOI | On 14 Mar 2012 Budget speech 2011-12 by Finance minister. URL:[http://www.mof.gov.bd/en/budget/11_12/budget_speech/speech_en.pdf].
by Abul Maal Abdul Muhith | On 14 Mar 2012 Time is an important economic resource that can be spent in a variety of
ways. Diverse demands on a person’s time may reach a point where the
individual may be categorized as time poor. Time poverty...
by Najam us Saqib | On 09 Mar 2012 The developing economies of Asia are confronted by serious environmental problems that threaten to undermine future growth, food security, and regional stability. This study considers four major envir...
by Stephen Howes | On 06 Mar 2012 The implications of the rule of Chiang
Kai-shek and his son Chiang Ching-kuo in Taiwan (1950–1988) for the Taiwan
Strait Crises is examined, especially the third one af??ter the Cold War and potenti...
by Lu Jinghua | On 05 Mar 2012 This paper estimates the effect of access to transportation networks on regional economic
outcomes in China over a twenty-period of rapid income growth. It addresses
the problem of the endogenous pl...
by Abhijit Banerjee | On 02 Mar 2012 Five years age, International Rivers started monitoring the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean
Development Mechanism (CDM), concerned that funds marked for climate change mitigation would be
used to encourage c...
by Barbara Haya | On 01 Mar 2012 Livestock sector is an integral part of India’s agriculture and an important part of the whole economy with reference to employment, income and earning of foreign exchange for the country. The growth...
by Ministry of Agriculture GOI | On 01 Mar 2012 Outward-oriented economies seem to grow faster than inward-looking ones. Does the literature on convergence have anything to say on this? In the dynamic Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson model, with factor-pr...
by Partha Sen | On 28 Feb 2012 In India, as in many developing countries, wastewater is often used to
irrigate crops. This undoubtedly helps to recycle useful nutrients through
the food chain, but, as there can be toxic chemicals...
by Vivekananda Mukherjee | On 27 Feb 2012 Review of
Bombay Islam: The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840-1915. by Nile Green.
Cambridge University Press, New York
2011. xvi + 327 pp. $90.00 (cloth),
ISBN 978-0-521-76924-2.
by Fahad A. Bishara | On 26 Feb 2012 The main objective of the study is to investigate whether there is any evidence to support the
view that the disbursement of micro finance to women reduces the incidence of domestic
violence, and if...
by Institute of Social Studies Trust ISST | On 23 Feb 2012 A prototype incentive system is developed for promoting rapid reduction of forest clearing in tropical countries. The proposed Tropical Forest Protection Fund (TFPF) is a cash-on-delivery system that...
by David Wheeler | On 09 Feb 2012 This paper looks at some key entry points for agriculture to influence nutrition and suggests policies for
nutrition-sensitive agricultural development, within the current policy framework. In additi...
by S.Mahendra Dev | On 07 Feb 2012 Wetlands, which include tropical mangroves and boreal
peatlands, are among the most valuable ecosystems in the
world because they provide critical ecosystem goods and
services, such as carbon stora...
by David Moreno Mateos | On 01 Feb 2012 This report investigates how more and
better jobs can be created in South
Asia. It does so for two reasons. First,
this region will contribute nearly 40 percent
of the growth in the world’s workin...
by Reema Nayar | On 30 Jan 2012 This report identifies some of the factors complicating the debate on role of the company in society. It focuses particularly on the changing models of ownership and differing time horizons and on how...
by Gillian Lee | On 23 Jan 2012 This paper focuses on two issues: the problems with the compulsory acquisition of land, and the regulatory and institutional impediments that obstruct voluntary land transactions. It is argued that an...
by Ram Singh | On 19 Jan 2012 In Nepal an innovative form of forestry management, known as the
Leasehold Forestry (LHF) Programme, is being introduced to protect forest
land and help it regenerate. A new SANDEE study analyzes th...
by South Asian Network for Development SANDEE | On 10 Jan 2012 The current global financial crisis has reopened an old debate on the international monetary system by baring weaknesses and flaws that have long been known. The debate is centred on both stability an...
by Alok Sheel | On 10 Jan 2012 The Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill (LARR) is considered to be a flawed piece of legislation. An alternative method based on auction based pricing mechanism is suggested here.
by Maitreesh Ghatak | On 05 Jan 2012 A simple method is applied to study the relative quality of Chinese versus European products
exported in the clothing sector after the end of the Multi-Fiber Arrangement. Based on the
model of Foste...
by Hylke Vandenbussche | On 03 Jan 2012 The Reserve Bank has stepped up its efforts in recent years to enhance the penetration of the formal financial sector and promote financial inclusion with a view to improving the well-being of our soc...
by Deepak Mohanty | On 26 Dec 2011 Delivering the third Business Standard lecture on Thursday night, Raghuram Rajan provided an interesting insight into the reason for high inflation in India. The professor of finance at Chicago, who i...
by T.N. Ninan | On 23 Dec 2011 This paper proposes to redefine food security in terms of protecting vulnerable populations from the structural violence of involuntary hunger. [NTS-Asia Research Paper No.6]. URL:[http://www.rsis.edu...
by Ben Shepherd | On 23 Dec 2011 Women who come into the stream of domestic workers are poorly educated and do not know their rights. It is necessary that these women know about their rights. Even after reading the policies some ques...
by Anwesha Sen | On 19 Dec 2011 The study analyzes the role of the leasehold forestry (LHF) program in improving household welfare in Nepal. Both the time saved in biomass collection and the addition to income through increases in b...
by Bishnu Prasad Sharma | On 15 Dec 2011 The paper reports the results of an empirical study on the profitability
of rice cultivation in the East Calcutta Wetlands region where untreated
sewage water from the city of Calcutta, India, is us...
by Vivekananda Mukherjee | On 13 Dec 2011 The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Commerce examined the subject of Foreign and Domestic Investment in the Retail sector beginning April 5, 2007 under the chairmanship of Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi....
by Anirudh Burman | On 05 Dec 2011 The Bill establishes a body called the Lok Pal. It provides a process for receiving corruption complaints against
public servants and investigating and prosecuting these in a time bound manner. The B...
by Kaushiki Sanyal | On 30 Nov 2011 This policy brief takes a preliminary look at portability of social
security in ASEAN, particularly old-age, retirement, and
survivor benefits. The next section discusses the growth of
intra-ASEAN...
by Gloria O. Pasadilla | On 28 Nov 2011 P roponents of large dams, hoping to capitalize on concern for climate change, are promoting a major expansion of large dams in developing countries. Yet large dams are highly vulnerable to climate ch...
by International Rivers Network IRN | On 24 Nov 2011 The study tries to better understand three fields which seems
to be essential with respect to the problem of a facilitated
access to medicines :
1. the ambiguous position of intellectual property...
by Bastein Briand | On 17 Nov 2011 It is widely agreed by economists and political scientists that the middle class is vital to progress
because of its many virtues. But it is difficult to define a middle class by income in a manner t...
by Charles Kenny | On 16 Nov 2011 How calendars are repeated in some years can be understood by doing simple calculations.
by S Srinivasan | On 10 Nov 2011 This paper analyzes the impacts of the 11 March 2011 earthquake and tsunami at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan, which were amplified by a failure of coordination across the plant, corporate...
by Masahiko Aoki | On 03 Nov 2011 This brief presents a review of the potential opportunities
and challenges of using nanotech applications for agriculture, food, and
water in developing countries. [IFPRI Policy Brief 19]. URL:[http...
by Guillaume Gruère | On 01 Nov 2011 The object world of the social sciences is complex, historical and self-reflexive. It generates
nonlinear effects, it is unique, and it is able to understand the theories developed
about it and resp...
by Sandra Mitchell | On 01 Nov 2011 Review of the book 'Population, Gender and Reproductive Health'.
F Ram, Sayeed Unisa and T V Sekher (eds.), Rawat publications, 2011, 416 pp, Rs 925
by K.S. James | On 20 Oct 2011 This paper investigates the relationship between returns to cultivation per hectare and size-class of land cultivated in India, using unit level data from the 59th round National Sample Survey, 2003....
by Sarthak Gaurav | On 18 Oct 2011 In this study, a comparative analysis of the role of knowledge flows in capability formation among firms in the Indian Information Technology sector (IT sector) across cluster and non-cluster location...
by Rakesh Basant | On 13 Oct 2011 This research is about multinational enterprises (MNEs) and their subsidiaries abroad.
The specific focus of the research is on the foreign subsidiaries? local embeddedness, global
integration and m...
by Filip De Beule | On 10 Oct 2011 Through the use of secondary data, field visits and focus group discussions, this study explores the dynamics of the evolution of the economic life in Greater Faridpur over the last 100d years (1910-2...
by Selim Raihan | On 04 Oct 2011 The
automobile industry in the ASEAN countries has expanded rapidly
over the last few years. The growth potential of the ASEAN auto
market and its now very major absolute importance for the industr...
by Eric Heymann | On 03 Oct 2011 This paper starts by examining some of the variables that have been considered important
determinants of openness and how views of these have changed over the last twenty
years. It then considers th...
by Kenneth E Jackson | On 29 Sep 2011 The growth of East Asia’s intra-regional trade is driven largely by increased component
trade within global electronics production networks. Data on both electronics trade and
production elucidate a...
by Byron Gangnes | On 29 Sep 2011 This study applies
a single-site truncated count data travel cost model in order to
estimate the value visitors place on recreation in Keenjhar.
The recreational use value associated with Keenjhar...
by Ali Dehlavi | On 27 Sep 2011 This paper is undertaken to examine various aspects of farm level adoption of Bt cotton in Gujarat as well as explore issues relating to environment and non-tariff barriers affecting the cotton trade...
by N. Lalitha | On 27 Sep 2011 Income originating within geographical boundaries of urban and rural areas of Gujarat is estimated
for three benchmark years – 1993-94, 1999-00 and 2004-05 - at current prices following the broad
me...
by Ravindra H Dholakia | On 26 Sep 2011 The paper examines the farm level performance of System of Rice Intensification (SRI) method of paddy cultivation as against the traditional method. The role of NGOs in raising awareness among farmers...
by Jharna Pathak | On 22 Sep 2011 We are astonishingly ignorant about how
many species are alive on earth today, and even more
ignorant about how many we can lose yet still maintain
ecosystem services that humanity ultimately depen...
by Robert M May | On 19 Sep 2011 This background paper seeks to brief readers on the extent of the development, production and
consumption of agrofuels, particularly liquid fuels for transport, in the Mekong region. The area of focu...
by Rebeca Leonard | On 12 Sep 2011 The new Bill on land acquisition recently tabled in Parliament is well intentioned but seriously flawed. Its principal defect is that it attaches an arbitrary mark-up to the historical market price to...
by Maitreesh Ghatak | On 12 Sep 2011 A
bill
to ensure a humane, participatory, informed consultative and transparent process for land
acquisition for industrialisation, development of essential infrastructural facilities
and urbanisa...
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 08 Sep 2011 The project aimed to
find the reasons for bottlenecks in the present system that deprive the
tribal community of the benefit of schemes. Five villages from each block have been selected to
make tot...
by Maharana Pratap Adhyayan Evam Jan Kalyan Sansthan Jaipur | On 02 Sep 2011 Poverty and food security in the context of Bangladesh has become a major concern
over time. While efforts have been intensified to increase crop yield through increased
land use, using inorganic fe...
by Shyamal C Ghosh | On 30 Aug 2011 The paper paper reviews the 'model' central and state government bills, pertaining to groundwater, through a conceptual framework and discusses the Andhra Pradesh experience in the developing governme...
by G.Ananda Vadivelu | On 30 Aug 2011 The present study discusses factors responsible for agricultural diversification at
different levels: country (India), state (Haryana) and farms of Kurukshetra district in
Haryana. The study regress...
by Brajesh Jha | On 29 Aug 2011 Whether viewed as “land grabs” or as agricultural investment
for development, large-scale land deals by investors
in developing countries are generating considerable
attention. However, investors,...
by Julia Behrman | On 29 Aug 2011 Bill to establish an independent authority to investigate offences under the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 to detect corruption by expeditious investigation and to prosecute offenders and to ensu...
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 26 Aug 2011 Poor returns to cultivation and absence of non-farm opportunities are indicative of the larger
socio-economic malaise in rural India. This is accentuated by the multiple risks that the
farmer faces...
by Srijit Mishra | On 23 Aug 2011 There is a need to
focus more on the economic well-being
of the farmers, rather than just on
production. Socio-economic well-being
must be a prime consideration of
agricultural policy, besides pr...
by Ministry of Agriculture GOI | On 19 Aug 2011 This paper provides estimates of the costs of organic agriculture (OA) programs, and sets them in the context of the costs of attaining the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It anal...
by Anil Markandya | On 19 Aug 2011 This article looks into the role of land reform in comparison to concentric ef fort
to augment agricultural GDP. Redistribut ive land reform policy aims to improve
land endowments of poor, though va...
by Debdatta Pal | On 18 Aug 2011 This study attempts to identity the major determinants of bond market development in Asian economies, through examining its relationship with selected key financial and economic factors, and to provid...
by Biswa Nath Bhattacharyay | On 10 Aug 2011 The draft Bill puts in place a new institutional mechanism to ensure that the Rehabilition and Resettlement (R&R) provisions are implemented effectively as an integral part of land acquisition.
by Ministry of Rural Development GOI | On 10 Aug 2011 This paper is a review of the different coping mechanisms adopted by the households in
different dryland area of India. The primary focus of the present paper is to understand
the coping mechanisms...
by Nikhil Govind | On 05 Aug 2011 Health care systems are
necessary in all countries, the importance
of strong health care systems to fragile
nations, and the damage done to these
systems during conflict, receive less attention
t...
by PLoS Medicine Editors | On 29 Jul 2011 Land acquisition and involuntary displacement continue to result in great distress and resistance – and often violence – in many parts of the country. NAC-I had reflected carefully on these issues, an...
by National Advisory Council NAC | On 26 Jul 2011 The general perception that dentistry is expensive keeps many people away from
seeking treatment from registered professionals and make them hostage to the
services of non-registered lay practitione...
by Syed Masud Ahmed | On 20 Jul 2011 This paper
focuses on the Don Sahong Dam (DSD’s) potential impacts on fish and fisheries, and particularly the project’s
regional implications in relation to fisheries, including its possible impact...
by Ian Bird | On 08 Jul 2011 In order to tackle the issues of desertification, land degradation and droughts, 22 major
programmes are being implemented in the country, including, the “Mission for Green India”,
one of the Missio...
by Ministry of Environment and Forests GOI | On 21 Jun 2011 This landmark essay proposes a new paradigm for combating AIDS and a new objective around which international donors and recipient governments can coordinate their efforts. CGD senior fellow Mead Over...
by Mead Over | On 20 Jun 2011 This paper uses data from a household survey to estimate changes in land distribution in
rural West Bengal between 1967-2004 and decompose these into contributions of
different factors. There was a...
by Pranab Bardhan | On 09 Jun 2011 This policy brief reports the main findings of the study on changes in within-country income inequality over the last two decades and on the links between poverty, inequality, and growth. It focuses o...
by Giovanni Andrea Cornia | On 08 Jun 2011 The present paper is a study of the impact of salinity ingress on the rural households in the coastal regions of Gujarat. The paper throws up some important insights which appear policy relevant.
by Jyothis Sathyapalan | On 02 Jun 2011 In the last decade, far reaching policy reforms in Nepal have allowed local communities to regain control over the management of vast tracts of lands. Community forestry is widely believed to be a maj...
by Bhim Adhikari | On 01 Jun 2011 Thailand’s development strategy has been strongly market-oriented and open to trade
and investment flows with the rest of the world. Since the late 1950s, its growth
performance has been outstanding...
by Peter Warr | On 31 May 2011 One of the most critical aspects of information about non-forest wastelands pertains to ownership. Not all
may be owned by Government. In addition to uncultivated lands which were historically part...
by Planning Commission | On 27 May 2011 The objective of this study is to show how the demand for a rentable
house can be quantitatively expressed. The data set is obtained by a primary (sample) survey of 209
households randomly selecte...
by S.K. Mishra | On 18 May 2011 Lakes are an important feature of the Earth’s landscape. They are not only a significant
source of precious water, but often provide valuable habitats to plants and animals, moderate
the hydrologica...
by Ministry of Environment and Forests | On 11 May 2011 The trafficking of women for the purposes of prostitution into certain parts of Asia, in particular into Thailand, India and Japan, is now relatively well-documented. However, there is very little in...
by Robyn Emerton | On 11 May 2011 Meghalaya is one of the prosperous states in the North Eastern region of India.
Before Meghalaya was separated from Assam in the early 1970’s, its leading city, Shillong, was
the capital of the er...
by S.K. Mishra | On 10 May 2011 The paper presents some empirical data from the Pradhan Tribe of Andhra
Pradesh which highlights the community's indigenous agricultural knowledge and the
changes over time. These custodians of indi...
by Anil Kumar K | On 25 Apr 2011 After careful consideration of the inputs received from a variety of stakeholders,
the following framework guidelines are suggested for managing the humanleopard
conflict situations in areas where l...
by Ministry of Environment and Forests GOI | On 22 Apr 2011 Recent events in India have brought a fresh focus upon the problem
of regulation in the field of micro-finance. This paper delineates the
three distinct aspects where government needs to play a role...
by Renuka Sane | On 13 Apr 2011 Nine legislative Bills were introduced during the session. Five Bills were passed and one Bill was withdrawn during the session. Several hours were lost due to interruptions on the issues of appointme...
by Kusum Malik | On 28 Mar 2011 The government introduced a bill in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday that seeks to align voting rights in private banks with shareholding, enhance the central bank’s regulatory powers over banks and give grea...
by Economic Times ET | On 23 Mar 2011 A
BILL
further to amend the Banking Regulation Act, 1949, the Banking Companies (Acquisition
and Transfer of Undertakings) Act, 1970 and the Banking Companies (Acquisition
and Transfer of Undertak...
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 23 Mar 2011 The report reflects on a wealth of impressions from the emerging continent. Political and economic developments from the Hindukush to Japan are assessed and put into a global context. The issues addre...
by Norbert Walter | On 22 Mar 2011 The main objectives of the study were to analyze
the role of non-timber forest products in poverty
alleviation in Chhattisgarh; to examine the system of
governance, institutional framework and prog...
by R S Deshpande | On 17 Mar 2011 Starting from the early nineteenth century, when Britain began experimenting
with policies to control child labor, a lot about policy interventions for controlling child labor have been learned. At t...
by Kaushik Basu | On 17 Mar 2011 The paper delineates
the situation of the Scheduled Tribes in the background of various policies of the state
during the successive plan periods and its impact on their socio-economic mobility.
Pol...
by M. Gopinath Reddy | On 16 Mar 2011 This Policy Brief focuses on links between the developing countries of Brazil, India, China and South Africa and the global economy, with a special emphasis on the implications of China’s spectacular...
by Amelia U. Santos Paulino | On 11 Mar 2011 Many rich countries provide special market access for exports from least developed countries (LDCs), but the trade preferences are often inhibited by tough restrictions and do not extend to the produc...
by Kimberly Ann Elliott | On 10 Mar 2011 The Chin State of Burma (also known as Myanmar) is an isolated ethnic minority area with poor health
outcomes and reports of food insecurity and human rights violations. A report on a population-base...
by Richard Sollom | On 09 Mar 2011 Industrial disposal of effluents on land and subsequent pollution of groundwater and soil of surrounding farmlands – is a relatively new area of research. Environmental and socio-economic aspects of i...
by Sacchidananda Mukherjee | On 08 Mar 2011 Nine preliminary lessons from the Great Recession for monetary and financial policies are presented. [3rd P. R. Brahmananda Memorial Lecture].
by Stanley Fischer | On 18 Feb 2011 Over the past quarter century fertility has declined rapidly in many developing
countries. Projections typically assume that this trend will continue until the replacement
level is reached. However,...
by John Bongaarts | On 16 Feb 2011 Ten years have passed since the Asian financial crisis that
devastated not only the currency values and the financial
systems of Indonesia, the Republic of Korea, Malaysia, and
Thailand, but also t...
by Masahiro Kawai | On 16 Feb 2011 Wetlands which face several anthropogenic and other threats are complex ecosystems
providing substantial benefits to human society. This paper is an attempt to understand
the ecological and economic...
by Jeena T Srinivasan | On 09 Feb 2011 This policy brief examines hedge funds, private equity funds, and innovative financial products, particularly collateralized debt obligations and asset-backed securities, including their overall struc...
by Peter Morgan | On 08 Feb 2011 According to the GATT principle of most favoured nation (MFN) treatment, trade must be conducted on the basis of non-discrimination between Members of the WTO. 'Like Products' must be taxed the same w...
by Aradhna Aggarwal | On 07 Feb 2011 The effects of climate change have been and will be worse in poor countries and small-island states, those least able to adapt to the climate-related disasters. In this paper, senior fellow David Whee...
by David Wheeler | On 01 Feb 2011 Through over a century-long history, the women’s movement in India has been engaged with law as an
instrument with which to negotiate women’s rights. To a great extent this strategy has been successf...
by Centre for Women's Development Studies | On 31 Jan 2011 It is in the early 1990s that we come across studies on some Third World cities that have begun to address the question of land affordability for housing purposes in greater details than what have bee...
by ., Amitabh | On 28 Jan 2011 In this paper is a study of trend of voluntary contribution for community services in the Indian Himalayan region. The study is done by using an experimental game method of face-to-face communication...
by Sujoy Chakravarty | On 25 Jan 2011 The Diyawanna Oya wetland ecosystem has proven to be an important recreational site in the greater Colombo area in the face of the growing demand for urban recreational amenities. It provides a wide s...
by Thusita Dilhani Marawila | On 06 Jan 2011 This paper analyzes the effect of different types of cook-stoves on firewood demand at the
household level. Nationally representative household data from Nepal is used for the study. [SANDEE Working...
by Mani Nepal | On 05 Jan 2011 Bangladesh is popularly described in the literature as a ‘test case for development’ in view of the
complex nature of its socioeconomic and cultural problems, coupled with severe resource constraints...
by Mushtaque Chowdhury | On 29 Dec 2010 Land ceilings, occupational criteria and asset valuations are commonly used for targeting purposes by
credit agencies aiming to direct resources to the rural poor. However a mixture of demand and sup...
by Hassan Zaman | On 28 Dec 2010 This paper proposes that aid flowing to smaller (less populous) countries has a negative
impact on the quality of institutions in terms of performance and policy as opposed to
that flowing to larg...
by Chakriya Bowman | On 20 Dec 2010 This paper reviews recent research dealing with the relationships between economic
growth, income distribution, and poverty. This generally fails to find any systematic
pattern of change in income d...
by Arne Bigsten | On 09 Dec 2010 This paper puts forward the case for Thailand’s commercial banks to move towards more
sustainable banking practices that proactively contribute towards socially and
environmentally sustainable and j...
by Carl Middleton | On 25 Nov 2010 The present exercise is primarily exploratory in nature; it does not attempt to provide a comprehensive explanation of the dynamics of land distribution. The conclusions drawn are primary and tentativ...
by K.N. Nair | On 16 Nov 2010 This paper discusses the issue of social responsibility of Indian microfinance
using two theoretical streams from business social responsibility research –
stakeholder theory and social contract the...
by Tara S Nair | On 15 Nov 2010 From neutral trade policy devices employed to identity country
of origin of commodities, the rules of origin are emerging as protectionist
tools. Nation-states, as they are increasingly denied of co...
by K N Harilal | On 09 Nov 2010 This paper makes an attempt to estimate the index of informal sector employment
which can be attributed to the supply-push phenomenon. Factors which explain the
inter-state variations include the...
by Dibyendu S. Maiti | On 02 Nov 2010 The
perspective of global commodity chain or GCC framework and social
embeddedness are used to understand the organizational and social linkages in the
embellishment production network in garment i...
by Jeemol Unni | On 21 Oct 2010 The Mekong is under threat. The governments of Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand
are considering plans to build eleven big hydropower dams on the Mekong River’s
lower mainstream. If built, these dams wou...
by International Rivers Network IRN | On 19 Oct 2010 This paper argues that poverty originates in the structural injustices of a social order
which incapacitates the poor from participating in the growth generating sectors of the
economy and leaves th...
by Rehman Sobhan | On 13 Oct 2010 It is widely believed that the practice of securitization is one of the causes that led to the 2007–08 financial crisis. In this paper, I show that securitized products such as collateralized debt obl...
by Mariko Fujii | On 11 Oct 2010 The twentieth century has witnessed a process of significant transition of the Syrian Christian community in Kerala in terms of its demographic and socio-economic status. In this paper, the transitio...
by K.C. Zachariah | On 05 Oct 2010 The global economic and financial landscape has been transformed over the past decade by the growing economic size and financial power of emerging economies. The new G20 summit process, which includes...
by Masahiro Kawai | On 05 Oct 2010 On 14 December 2008, a worker died in an accident at the same site. What followed was unprecedented: workers at the site struck work and demanded that his body be released and shown to, them. They als...
by People's Union for Democratic Rights PUDR | On 01 Oct 2010 For the last few years , a massive amount of construction work has been going on in various parts of Delhi for the Commonwealth Games (CWG) to be held in October this year. PUDR tried to conduct a fac...
by People's Union for Democratic Rights PUDR | On 01 Oct 2010 The role of the state in industrialisation is a much discussed topic these days. Specifically this role has witnessed itself in the form of direct intervention by the states through owning the means...
by Sunil Mani | On 01 Oct 2010 The quantitative and qualitative changes taking place in livestock population over the years would be due to the changes in demand for livestock products. The changes in lives...
by K. Narayanan Nair | On 16 Sep 2010 The research reported here was guided by three questions: (1) What are the current and potential patterns of mobile phone, landline, PC, and Internet café use among urban microentrepreneurs? (2) Are m...
by Vigneswara Ilavarasan | On 06 Sep 2010 This paper analyze the colonial institutions set up by the British to collect land revenue in India, and show that differences in historical property rights institutions lead to sustained differences...
by Abhijit Banerjee | On 03 Sep 2010 Natural resources perform multiple functions as a driver, maintainer, potential exit route, and also an effective escape mechanism in the context of poverty dynamics, especially in a predominantly agr...
by Amita Shah | On 17 Aug 2010 This study attempts to address the issue of declining labour intensity in India’s
organized manufacturing in order to understand the constraints on employment
generation in the labour intensive sect...
by Deb Kusum Das | On 13 Aug 2010 The world changed on July 2, 1997 when Thailand floated the baht.
Explanations abound on the origins of the crisis - indeed it is a growth industry.
This study is part of that explosion. It has seve...
by Surjit S. Bhalla | On 10 Aug 2010 This article explores the question of why India cannot score greater success in manufacturing, especially the export of manufactured products. In conclusion it suggests enclave solution as the answer.
by T.N. Ninan | On 09 Aug 2010 Drug consumption in Thailand is high in comparison with other countries. A key factor
influencing this over consumption is advertising. Radio is the media that can easily reach a
lot of people, in...
by Tanattha Kittisopee | On 23 Jul 2010 Health economists have traditionally quantified the burden of vector-borne diseases (such as chikungunya and dengue) as the sum of the cost of illness and the cost of intervention programmes. The obje...
by Dileep V. Mavalankar | On 21 Jul 2010 An important and vigorous policy debate ongoing in Asia concerns the impact of
the economic rise of the PRC on the rest of the region. This paper examines the relative
performances of the PRC, selec...
by Sadhana Srivastava | On 20 Jul 2010 There has been tremendous progress over the last decade in the development of health products for neglected
diseases. These include drugs, vaccines, and diagnostics for malaria and tuberculosis, whi...
by Thomas J. Bollyky | On 08 Jul 2010 Macro vulnerability of the small island developing states (SIDS) as well as of least
developed countries (LDCs) has been an increasing concern for the international
community. This concern has led...
by Patrick Guillaumont | On 30 Jun 2010 In this paper an
analytical critique of the law and restrictions as also of the framework of urban
planning and a justification for why major change is required in the approach
to land markets, lan...
by Sebastian Morris | On 29 Jun 2010 Since its emergence before the Cancun Ministerial in September 2003, the Group of 20 developing countries (which includes South Africa, India, China, Indonesia, Thailand and Pakistan) has become an im...
by Prabhash Ranjan | On 21 Jun 2010 Almost all existing studies on the causes, consequences and policy
implications of the economic and financial crisis faced by East Asia have provided
only a cursory discussion of broad data at best,...
by Ramkishen Rajan | On 18 Jun 2010 Two of the countryʹs biggest grape-producing districts, Nasik and Sangli, are in Maharashtra; 20,000
hectares of vineyards here grow more than one lac tons of grapes a year. As much as 99 per ce...
by Sudipto Mitra | On 15 Jun 2010 This paper shows that the realization of
Singapore’s vision of “active citizenship” and “state-society partnership”, to a significant
extent, depends on how social capital is being created and renew...
by Tan Tay Keong | On 09 Jun 2010 Report from the 11th Media Dialogue ’North East: Fallen off the Media Map? or Why Does the Media Give so Lettle Space to this Vast Region?
by Shambhu Ghatak | On 07 Apr 2010 The main issues surrounding this concern and provides a range of policy,
regulatory, and institutional measures that could help strengthen the impact of transport infrastructure on poverty reduction...
by Sununtar Setboonsarng | On 10 Feb 2010 Farmers, students , organic farmers, anti-GM activists thronged to the consultation on Bt-Brinjal held late last month in Gujarat with the government.
by Claude Alvares | On 05 Feb 2010 This study generates some evidence on the costs and
benefits of a particular indoor air pollution control initiative. The study is based on a survey of 400 households in Rasuwa district, Nepal,
by Min Bikram Malla Thakuri | On 02 Feb 2010 Market-based approaches to environmental management, such as payment for
environmental services (PES), have attracted unprecedented attention during the past
decade. PES policies, in particular, hav...
by Bhim Adhikari | On 20 Jan 2010 This note seeks to show that the debate on ‘Pro-Poor Growth’ is sterile and largely
academic with few policy insights.
by Suryanarayana M H | On 15 Jan 2010 The present paper analyses trade and investment relations and explores future areas of potential co-operation between India and Korea. The study also suggests the areas where there is huge scope for i...
by Pravakar Sahoo | On 14 Jan 2010 This paper aims to highlight the critical importance of cost recovery in attracting and
sustaining private investment for power development. Based on a brief review of Indian
experience, it suggests...
by Vishvanath V. Desai | On 24 Dec 2009 This study explores the factors determining the dependence of local people on protected area of forest based on household analysis of a Protected Area from Kerala. [WP-2007-005].
by Shylajan C.S | On 21 Dec 2009 In many parts of rural India the use of wood for fuel is the cause of significant environmental and health problems. Efforts to help people switch to cleaner fuels have not been effective and fuelwood...
by ARABINDA MISHRA | On 18 Dec 2009 The study presents an initial assessment of the situation and to raise the main
issues in terms of farmers’ and workers’ rights. It is part of a long term process involving farmer movements, trade un...
by Isabelle Delforge | On 15 Dec 2009 This paper uses firm level panel data to investigate empirically the effects of
direct foreign investment (DFI) on the productivity performance of domestic firms in
three emerging economies of Centr...
by Jozef Konings | On 11 Dec 2009 This paper focuses on poverty dynamics and their determinants, using panel survey data for
rural Sindh, Pakistan. Households interviewed by the International Food Policy Research
Institute (IFPRI) d...
by Hari Ram Lohano | On 10 Dec 2009 This manual is provided as a reference tool to assist Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (hereafter referred to as the Convention) (Annex I Parties) in the implementa...
by UN Framwork Convention on Climate Change UNFCCC | On 20 Nov 2009 The main thrust of this paper is: Why should women go to these courts to
settle matrimonial disputes while there are provisions for them in secular
courts? Do women face less harassment and get quic...
by Sabiha Hussain | On 05 Nov 2009 This paper distinguishes the Intellectual Property Rights relevant to agriculture and
explain these rights. The international intellectual property law for
these rights will be described. India's in...
by Jayashree Watal | On 03 Nov 2009 The focus of this paper is to examine the ways in which regulatory framework affect the pharmaeutical innovations in developing countries using member countries of the Association of South-east Asian...
by Sauwakon Ratanawijitrasin | On 16 Oct 2009 The paper discusses the impacts of free-trade policy on the agricultural exports of Kerala.
by Ranjit Devraj | On 08 Oct 2009 The emergence of a large and dynamic middle class raises Asia’s profile as an attractive market destination for products ranging from consumer goods to financial services. There are even hopes that th...
by Steffen Dyck | On 06 Oct 2009 This new report discusses the experience with environmental standards and how it can be useful for new financiers. It contains ten papers written by experts from civil society, financial institutions...
by International Rivers Network IRN | On 01 Oct 2009 This paper estimates respective roles of private investments in irrigation and local
government programs (land reforms, extension services, and infrastructure investments)
in the growth of farm prod...
by Pranab Bardhan | On 14 Sep 2009 This paper assesses the condition and outlook of the financial sectors—in particular, the banking sector—in the East Asia region in the aftermath of the current global financial crisis. The risks in t...
by Michael Pomerleano | On 07 Sep 2009 The report attempts to contextualize the exploitation of those who are aafected by the one of the worst communal riots in history and document
how dominant interests have used this situation of chron...
by People's Union of Civil Liberties PUCL | On 31 Aug 2009 The swine flu has come to India also. What measures have been taken by the government to fight against the pandemic?
by Rajeev Mavani | On 12 Aug 2009 This paper applies Carter and Barrett’s theory of assets poverty traps to a unique longitudinal survey from rural Bangladesh. Non-parametric and parametric methods are used to examine the shape of the...
by Agnes Quisumbing | On 06 Aug 2009 The article describes the constitution and functions of Village Development Boards (VDBs) in NAGALAND where VDBs are considered as “Financial Intermediaries” or “Non-Banking Financial Intermediaries”....
by Karmakar K G | On 06 Aug 2009 Politics of Patronage and Protest: The State, Society, and Artisans in Early Modern Rajasthan
by Nandita Prasad Sahai,
Oxford University Press, 2006;
304 pp, $35.00 (cloth), ISBN978-0-19-567896...
by Tirthankar Roy | On 23 Jul 2009 Book Review Discourse on Women and Empowerment, Vibhuti Patel (Ed), (Empowering Women Worldwide Series: 4), The Women Press, Delhi, 2009.
by Usha Thakkar | On 30 Jun 2009 Groundwater has rapidly emerged to occupy a dominant place in India’s agriculture and food security in the recent years. It has become the main source of growth in irrigated area over the past 3 decad...
by Vasant P Gandhi | On 23 Jun 2009 Owning a house has become very costly now. If more land were thrown into the market, home ownership will not be a deam for the majority.
by T.N. Ninan | On 19 Jun 2009 Competition law is different from other branches of law. It is not about the fairness or morality to be instilled in the actions which mark societal behaviour. Instead the rules of competition reflect...
by Tarun Jain | On 14 Jun 2009 The paper contours of a feasible design of VAT in India. It also takes on board the various alternatives proposed. It looks at the issues that need resolution and the options available for resolving t...
by R.Kavita Rao | On 12 Jun 2009 End stage organ failure is very distressing condition. Initially, there was only palliativetreatment for end stage organ failure such as hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis. Later on, the advancement...
by Viroj Tangcharoensathien | On 04 Jun 2009 The paper revolves around the necessity to rid the large tenant of the lease market in the interest of the poor peasant, who yearns to lease-in a piece of land. The notion that the petty peasant is o...
by C. S Murty | On 02 Jun 2009 This paper offers a review of the concepts and definitions used in the NSS Employment-Unemployment Surveys (EUS, for short) which have remained virtually unchanged since they were introduced in the NS...
by K. Sundaram | On 15 May 2009 Agriculture sector, world over, has experienced a phenomenal growth since the mid-twentieth century. The growth, driven by Green Revolution technology, has made a significant dent on aggregate supply...
by Amita Shah | On 02 May 2009 The Study aims at reviewing legal, policy and institutional provisions for the management of natural resources-water and forest in the State of Uttaranchal with a special focus on how the laws actuall...
by Videh Upadhyay | On 27 Apr 2009 Communal riots have become an annual feature
of Indian life, although their number varies from year to year. A situation has come to pacs where maddening communal
violence, arbitrary actions of exe...
by People's Union for Democratic Rights PUDR | On 16 Apr 2009 The study attempts to empirically examine whether the adoption of organic
farming practices leads to better health. As a proxy for health status, a comparison of the health expenditure patterns of or...
by Sunantar Setboonsarng | On 22 Jan 2009 This paper identifies the idealistic images driving the watershed programmes as a major stumbling block in sustainable natural resource management. It calls for building on the existing governance ins...
by Saravanan S | On 02 Dec 2008 The implications of removing some of the restrictive assumptions of a model of semi-feudalism formulated by A.Bhaduri are examined. [WP no. 16].
by N. Krishnaji | On 10 Nov 2008 This study makes an attempt to analyse the transformation of common property resources (the lakes) into private property. [WP No. 60].
by Ramachandraiah C | On 17 Oct 2008 It is attempted to understand the implications of equality in water distribution on social welfare with a simple abstract analysis using Leontief-type fixed production function.
by Sashi Sivramakrishna | On 16 Oct 2008 The paper carries the reader across and over great spans of space and time, with an Indian feminist woman academic journeying back to seventeenth-century ancien regime France, to 1770s Scotland, to 17...
by Bagchi B | On 01 Oct 2008 The paper discuses the effects free trade with United States of America will have on New Zealand, and its economy.
by Bill Rosenberg | On 29 Sep 2008 The study is taken up in the state of Andhra Pradesh with the following objectives:
1. To study the opportunities and challenges in processing of rice, fruits and
vegetables, oilseeds and livestock...
by S.Mahendra Dev | On 17 Sep 2008 The relation between growth, inequality and poverty is the central
theme of the paper. While the fast economic growth under the neo-liberal policy regime helps reduce poverty, it increases inequality...
by KK Subrahmanian | On 16 Sep 2008 Child labour is seen in every corner of the street in India, they are everywhere, they are visible. It is a very complex socio -economic problem and it definitely will be a burden of the growth of Ind...
by Theodora Lee | On 11 Sep 2008 Much existing literature champions renewables implementation on India’s Sagar Island as an unqualified rural electrification success story. Photovoltaic (PV) and wind systems put in place by the West...
by Sam Shrank | On 25 Aug 2008 This study examines the contribution of tourism towards improving the livelihoods of local people in a remote island village of the Indian Sundarbans.
by Indrila Guha | On 18 Aug 2008 A broad overview of the achievements and progress made by the Indian
banking sector in the last two decades and the emerging frontiers of the Indian banking system, in the post-reform era. [Address d...
by Leeladhar V | On 11 Aug 2008 Ratification imposes specific obligations on a state to incorporate human rights into
national laws, to amend legislation, to promote, protect and fulfill human rights and
prevent violations of huma...
by South Asians for Human Rights SAHR | On 31 Jul 2008 This paper exploited five different data sets of the national household survey in pre- (years 2000 and 2001) and post- (years 2002 and 2004) universal health care coverage (UC) periods to analyse tren...
by Supon Limwattananon | On 26 Jul 2008 In this Issue: Amar Jesani writes about the problems and process affecting health in Nicaragua; Malini Karkal discusses the population policy in China and Padma Prakash draws attention to the changes...
by Radical Journal of Health RJH | On 01 Jun 2008 This paper looks at the effects on livestock of silvi-pasture development on common lands in relation to (a) ruminant systems and (b) livestock numbers and ownership patterns in Rajasthan, India. [SDC...
by Czech Conroy | On 14 May 2008 The challenges for journalists and the media community in South Asia encompass a range of factors that indicate the level of press freedom in any country: Physical attacks, threats and questionable le...
by Sukumar Muralidharan | On 04 May 2008 Budget presented by Goa finance minister for the year 2008-09.
by Goa Government | On 01 Apr 2008 Speech of Lalu Prasad
by Lalu Prasad | On 27 Feb 2008 A bill to provide for the rehabilitation and resettlement of persons affected by the acquisition of land for projects of public purpose or involuntary displacement due to any other reason, and for mat...
by Lok Sabha | On 07 Feb 2008 KIA proposes to bring a paradigm shift in Indian Agriculture in terms of human resource development, research, technology generation, technology dissemination and commercialization. In the short run,...
by Ramanjaneyulu G V | On 05 Jan 2008 With the 19th century drain, no one was certain if the benefit exceeded
the cost and since the rulers were foreign the suspicion was that any investment they made was not beneficial. But the lesson f...
by Lord Meghnad Desai | On 25 Dec 2007 The promotion of ‘inclusive citizenship’, through which the disadvantaged engage in
collective struggles for justice and recognition, has been attracting growing attention as a
solution to chronic p...
by Katsuhiko Masaki | On 19 Dec 2007 Two years later Delhi will have an airport that can handle 40-50 million passengers-making it one of the 10 largest in the world. And it will have been built in barely half the time that it took Singa...
by T.N. Ninan | On 19 Dec 2007 The important determinants that have influence on travellers to choosing a particular airline are analysed. Data from primary and secondary sources have been used for this paper. A field survey was co...
by Ershad Ali | On 12 Dec 2007 Recognising the growing activity in the non deliverable forward (NDF) market in the recent years, the paper attempts to present a detailed analysis of the NDF market with special focus on Indian rupee...
by Sangita Misra | On 22 Oct 2007 Even after five years of after the liberalisation of the investment regime India has failed to attract FDI to come to the mining sector. In the last decade, many developing countries have significantl...
by Planning Commission, India | On 18 Oct 2007 The rapid growth in banking indicators in the North Eastern region of India following nationalisation of 14 major banks in 1969 and another six in 1980 based on social banking was sustained or not are...
by Amarendra Sahoo | On 16 Oct 2007 Model bill to amend the laws relating to the Municipalities and to institutionalise citizens’ participation in municipal functions, e.g. setting priorities, budgeting provisions, etc. by setting up of...
by Ministry of Urban Development MoUD | On 08 Oct 2007 Majuli was once the largest river islands and the cultural home of the Asomiya community. Today, repeated floods of the Brahmaputra have ensured that the community has lost home and hearth to erosion...
by Apurba K. Baruah | On 07 Oct 2007 During the period 1972-73 to 2004-05 in rural India, the total number of workers expanded more in the non-farm sector than the farm sector with the rise in male workers being sharper than that of fema...
by Sharad Ranjan | On 30 Sep 2007 Presidential Polls 2
Woman President,
Women's Empowerment 3
1857 4
Corruption in Kerala CPI(M) 7
Crackdown in Campuses 9
Mining Policy 11
Dollar Millionaires in India 12
Public Transport...
by Liberation | On 20 Sep 2007 Growing inequality in the neo-liberal heartland
George Irvin ................................................................................. 2
- Science, ideology and development: Is there a ‘Sust...
by PAER Post Autistic Economic Review | On 16 Sep 2007 This study has two closely related objectives: to evaluate post-Uruguay Round market access conditions and to contribute to a clarification of the stakes in the ongoing process of multilateral trade n...
by Marc Bacchetta. | On 27 Aug 2007 There seems to be no place for the stateless Rohingya people fleeing discrimination and persecution in their own country, Myanmar. They run away from a country that does not recognize them as citizens...
by Médecins Sans Frontières MSF | On 11 Aug 2007 This draft chapter of a reader on Health Care Case Laws in India addresses the following issues: Have reproductive rights been recognized in India? What has been the approach of the courts towards rep...
by Vijay Hiremat | On 04 Jul 2007 Stalemate in agricultural negotiations at the WTO has persisted with a continued lack of convergence on most important issues of trade-distorting domestic support, market access and related flex...
by Linu Mathew Philip | On 08 May 2007 The government’s recent decision of putting a ceiling limit for Special Economic Zones (SEZs) may well result in defining a ceiling on equitable economic growth harming not just industrial development...
by Savita Kulkarni | On 17 Apr 2007 Indian agriculture is under policy reforms for some time now. One of the issues it faces is that of lack of viability of smallholdings and lack of international competitiveness of its produce. In this...
by Sukhpal Singh | On 07 Mar 2007 Multilateral agencies and economists with much influence have been urging laissez-faire in agriculture. While success with the rich countries has been minimal despite the commitments under the WTO, ma...
by Sebastian Morris | On 07 Mar 2007 This keynote address of the conference on Natural Resource Conservation Use and Sustainability in Drylands, focuses mainly on some new concepts of resource assessments in dry areas, some recent debate...
by Yoginder Alagh | On 30 Jan 2007 As developing countries build allopathic medical systems, what should their bioethics be? In this essay, we explore possible answers to this question, ultimately arguing that Western bioethics is insu...
by Scott Stonington | On 03 Jan 2007 The effect of randomized reservations of Pradhan (chief executive) positions in West Bengal local governments (panchayats) for women and members of Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribes (SC/ST) following t...
by Pranab Bardhan | On 27 Dec 2006 A commonly alleged pitfall of decentralization is that poverty, socio-economic inequality and lack of political competition allow local elites to capture local governments. This hypothesis is empirica...
by Pranab Bardhan | On 27 Dec 2006 It is often assumed that poverty reduction would lead to gender equality. Research however, points to the opposite, namely, that increasing prosperity can have perverse gender effects . It is therefor...
by Nitya Rao | On 26 Dec 2006 This report brings out again sharply the perennial question, which the poor in the country are asking – Development for Whom? A big business company has been allotted land disproportionate to the requ...
by People's Union of Civil Liberties PUCL | On 26 Dec 2006 This report documents the history of the systems of rice intensification (SRI, for short) in India in the last few years and presents some of the institutional changes and challenges that SRI throws u...
by C. Shambu Prasad | On 06 Dec 2006 Historically, Bangalore’s growth and physical spread had been dictated by the
location decisions of certain important industrial, institutional and residential activities, rather than as an outcome...
by G.S. Sastry | On 04 Dec 2006 Ironically the poverty situation, as reflected in the official statistics, depicts a
rather contrary scenario with dryland regions having lower incidence of poverty
despite their adverse agro-climat...
by Amita Shah | On 29 Nov 2006 Singapore’s Founding Myths vs. Freedomby Garry Rodan
The Charade of Meritocracyby Michael D. Barr
Financial Center Pipedreamsby Hugo Restall
Thailand:Bangkok’s Elitist Coupby Michael H. Nelson
Put...
by FEER | On 03 Nov 2006 Various policies and programmes implemented avowedly for the benefits of the tribal people have resulted in alienation and degradation of tribesfolk. This detailed study of Kerala's Irular tribal comm...
by Mariamma J. Kalathil | On 20 Oct 2006 This paper synthesises the different explanations and presents an overview of the development and characteristics of the Chinese rural enterprises (REs). The rural industrialization history of the Chi...
by Justin Yifu Lin | On 18 Oct 2006 This book attempts to address how the tribes in India have perceived the State and its law. The tribes stand apart from the general population, and are made to stand outside the law, characterises the...
by Mayur Suresh | On 16 Oct 2006 Investors in today’s India should not need to seek escape from poor infrastructure and irrational labour laws, in special zones; rather, the underlying problems should be tackled in the country as a w...
by T.N. Ninan | On 01 Oct 2006 Intersectional analysis is required if the approach to women’s equality
in Northern Ireland/ the North of Ireland is to benefit the most
marginalized women and thereby improve the prospects of build...
by Eilish Rooney | On 29 Aug 2006 Articles
Pareto’s Revenge — Ravi Kanbur 1
Socio-Economic Dimensions of Old Age Security in India:
With Special Reference to Karnataka — T V Sekher
Gender, Poverty and Employment in India — V Gaya...
by | On 12 Aug 2006 In the light of the observations of the Supreme Court in its order dated 17th
April 2006, the Prime Minister constituted the Sardar Sarovar Project Relief &
Rehabilitation Oversight Group. The manda...
by V.K. Shunglu | On 28 Jul 2006 Bt Brinjal is being developed in India by Mahyco [Maharashtra Hybrid Seeds Company] and the company wants to take up large scale field trials with the permission of the regulatory authority, GEAC. N...
by Centre for Sustainable Agriculture CSA | On 03 Jun 2006 Women's Equality in Transition: Intersectionality in Northern Ireland's/ North of Ireland's Equality Legislation
Women have been invisible in mainstream analyses of the Northern
Irish conflict. The...
by | On 23 May 2006 The main aim of this study is to develop an accounting framework that
reflects the real contribution of agricultural land and pastureland to
society. The more specific objectives are to: 1 estimate...
by Haripriya Gundimeda | On 23 May 2006 Accounting for forest wealth is an important ingredient in creating a
framework for analysing policy trade-offs. This study describes forestry-related stocks and flows in terms of land area (under fo...
by Haripriya Gundimeda | On 15 May 2006 The recent judgments and orders from various levels of higher judiciary indicate a drastic shift in their outlook and approach. A close look reveals two trends developing within the judiciary. Firstly...
by M.B.Rajesh | On 31 Mar 2006 A SWOT analysis of the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry (IPI) in the WTO regime
reveals that the much acclaimed IPI’s expertise in process development skills
were made possible by the amendments made...
by N. Lalitha | On 28 Mar 2006 Agriculture
by Ministry of Finance | On 27 Feb 2006 The main objective of the paper is to explore the role of Japan in the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral and Technical Cooperation (BIMSTEC). The analysis suggests that BIMSTEC-Japan cooper...
by Mukul Asher | On 26 Feb 2006 It is puzzling how much the discourse of development has backed
away from the seemingly central question of rural poverty: land.
Elaborate rules concerning its distribution, rights, regulation, prot...
by Ronald Herring | On 12 Jan 2006 Labour protection has largely failed as enterprise contribution to social protection. Much labour legislation does not apply to micro and small enterprises (MSE) ; those laws that do apply are complie...
by Pakistan Institute of Labour Education & Research (PILER) | On 08 Dec 2005 We explore the hypothesis that macroeconomic polices are influenced by political structure, through a systematic comparison of reform period macroeconomic policy choices and outcomes, in China and Ind...
by Ashima Goyal | On 23 Nov 2005 India was a major player in the world export market for textiles in the early 18th century, but by the middle of the 19th century it had lost all of its export market and much of its domestic market....
by David Clingingsmith | On 10 Nov 2005 This paper aims to demonstrate that the economic behaviour of ordinary men and women in the pre-colonial Deccan was as much ‘capitalistic’ as that of similar agents in contemporary Europe. The differe...
by Neeraj Hatekar | On 21 Oct 2005 Equality before the law in a democracy is a matter of right. It is not a subject of charity or magnanimity, but an entitlement strictly afforded to one and all. To ensure proper access to justice nume...
by Ketan Mukhija | On 17 Sep 2005 Minimum Employment at less than Minimum Wages
Indo-US Nuclear Deal: Dancing with the US Devil
Nanavati Report: Getting Away with Murder
Bihar: EC order on NBWs
Bombay Floods
West Bengal Land Refo...
by CPI (ML) | On 16 Sep 2005 The draft tribal policy (hereinafter referred as draft or DTP) prepared by the Ministry of Tribal affairs appears to be a mere reiteration of the existing policies and programmes. The paper suggests t...
by Naresh C. Saxena | On 12 Sep 2005 During the last few years, there has been a devastating wave of forced evictions of tribal communities from forest land around the country, which needs to be stopped as soon as possible. Unfortunately...
by Jean Dreze | On 10 Sep 2005
by KETAN MUKHIJA | On 08 Sep 2005 Editorial:Minimum Employment at Less than Minimum Wages
commentary: Dancing with the US Devil.
Nanavati Commission Report: Getting Away With Murder
EC Must Deter Criminals, and not Disenfranchise...
by CPI (ML) | On 03 Sep 2005 In many countries, the authorities turn a blind eye to minimum wage laws that they have themselves passed. But if they are not going to enforce a minimum wage, why have one? Or if a high minimum wage...
by Arnab K. Basu | On 01 Sep 2005 The National Common Minimum Programme of the Government, among other things, seeks to give complete legal equality for women in all spheres, by enacting a new legislation that gives equal rights of ow...
by Lok Sabha | On 31 Aug 2005 This note takes stock of relevant gender aspects of contemporary personal laws and land legislation in Kerala, sums up the shift to marriage as the dominant site of property relations for women; and i...
by Praveena Kodoth | On 31 Aug 2005 |