Democratic process and electoral politics in Andhra Pradesh, India Since the Livelihood Options Research in South Asia project focuses on the Panchayati Raj system in Andhra Pradesh, the results of the recent elections to the local bodies are discussed in detail in a separate section towards the en...
On the one hand, the household surveys, which are the main information sources for the poverty line setting, often cannot obtain accurate income or consumption information from the surveyed families. One typical example is the national sample survey of India in 1998. The Indian government replaced...
The project was launched in 1997–1998 in this southern state of India and has evolved into a comprehensive poverty alleviation programme for the forest abutting villages where the proportion of poor people is largest. It endeavours to explain how the project provides the above three elements at ...
West Virginia-born Anti-poverty Project May be Unveiled in IndiaFord, Christine Miller
Energy poverty (EPOV) is considered to have a significant impact on health and has become an essential issue on the policy agenda in most countries, especially those with rapid aging. Cognitive and mental health (CMH) for aging well is just as important a component as physical health, but ...
International Cooperation, funded the community forestry oriented 100 million US $, Tamil Nadu Afforestration Project, launched in 1997-98 in the Southern State of India, has evolved into a comprehensive poverty alleviation programme for villages bordering the forests, in which the majority are poor...
Low-carbon transition stands as a vital strategy for the global community to address the challenge of climate change, inevitably affecting residents’ daily lives. However, there is a notable gap in the quantitative analysis of the low-carbon transition’s impact on energy poverty in developing cou...
The average for sub-Saharan Africa is 54%, marginally below the average for Brazil and India at 55% each Sharma, R., 2016. The Rise and Fall of Nations—Ten Rules of Change in the Post-crisis World. New York: Penguin Random House, p. 5. 7 Poverty, Inequality and Growth 151 the ...
“Capture” of anti-poverty programs: An analysis of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Program in India Using pooled household level data for the Indian states of Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh we find that the size of landholdings is a negative predictor of pa... GS Shankar - 《Journal ...
Human schistosomiasis is highly prevalent in SSA where more than 90% of those requiring treatment live [13]. Schistosomiasis control strategies in highly endemic areas are mostly based on preventive chemotherapy through mass drug administration (MDA) with 40 mg/kg praziquantel (PZQ) for school aged...