Farmers’ suicides have become an important socio-economic concern in India that has profound implication on the quality of life of farmers and their families. There are not many epidemiological studie...
On 26 Feb 2016 The Human Development Index (HDI) is calculated using normalized indicators from three dimensions- health, education, and standard of living (or income). This paper evaluates three aggregation methods...
On 26 Feb 2016 This study project was undertaken by SATHI and CEHAT to make a small contribution in this emerging field of study of health inequities in India, and with the objective of strengthening advocacy on hea...
On 11 Nov 2014 This note provides an estimate of incidence of poor and poverty risk in India across NSS regions for
2004-05 and 2009-10 in rural and urban areas. It raises concern on increasing poverty risk and als...
On 23 Jun 2014 India is increasingly focusing on its rainfed areas due to demand for food and nutrition security, and escalating farmer distress. But agricultural policy paralysis has meant that the familiar, extern...
On 16 Jul 2013 The Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), New Delhi organized a workshop ‘Strengthening the Role of Agriculture...
On 27 Dec 2011 Management of hunger has to look into issues of availability, accessibility and adequacy. Posing it from
an ethical perspective the paper argues out in favour of right to food. But, for this to happe...
On 30 Sep 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...
On 23 Aug 2011 The present study focuses on examining socio-economic aspects that can be identified as important risk factors and in providing some suggestions to the GOM. [PP-005] URL: [http://www.igidr.ac.in/suici...
On 02 Jun 2011 If priors are deterministic (zero or unity) and conditional evidence is uncertain (lies between zero and
one) then Bayesian updating will lead to posteriors that are the same as priors. This in a sen...
On 31 Jan 2011 Based on a multi-sited based ethnography conducted during August 95 through February 96 in two inland tribal regions of Orissa the study tries to identify temporal and spatial specifications in terms...
On 08 Nov 2010 Using Bayesian updating to deterministic priors persistence of fundamentalist belief like
those in the mind of a terrorist is explained. Under such belief system if conditional evidence
is diametric...
On 14 Jun 2010 The relatively lower reduction of poverty in Orissa, 0.2 percentage points per annum from 48.6 per cent in 1993-94 to 46.4 per cent in 2004-05, has been a matter of concern. The current exercise attem...
On 27 Oct 2009 An ex post analysis shows that avoidance, as against associating, by smoker and non-smoker when the former smokes is a Nash outcome. Ex ante, passive smoking occurs because socio-legal structures allo...
On 26 Jul 2007 Indian agriculture today is under a large crisis. An average farmer- household’s returns from cultivation would be around one thousand rupees per month. The state of the vast majority of small and mar...
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