Rural India’s Communication Divide by V. Sridhar and [...]
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Review of our book in [...] Jagmati Sangwan wrote this brilliant piece in The [...] Ramachandran, V K, Usami, Y and Sarkar, Biplab, “Lessons from BPL Censuses”, The Hindu, April [...] http://www.thehindu.com/2010/02/05/stories/2010020554300800.htm A methodology deeply flawedMadhura Swaminathan The poverty line that the Tendulkar Committee proposes depends on reducedcalorie consumption, and fails to provide for reasonable householdexpenditures on schooling and health. For some years, the Government of India has been under pressure to change the norms for calculating the official poverty line. Current norms have resulted in gross and [...] Socio-Economic Surveys of Three Villages in Andhra Pradesh A Study of Agrarian Relations edited by V.K. Ramachandran, Vikas Rawal, Madhura Swaminathan 2010 The book This volume is a field report on surveys of agrarian relations in three villages in Andhra Pradesh conducted by scholars of the Foundation for Agrarian Studies. The [...] I once wrote a note titled “Participation of the Rural Poor in Dairy Cooperatives: Case Studies from Gujarat”. This note, written in year 2000, was based on a background paper I wrote for the FAO project on “Rural Household Income Strategies for Poverty Alleviation and Interactions with the Local Institutional Environment”. The note argues that inequality in [...] The Foundation for Agrarian Studies plans to launch a new online journal, the Bulletin of Agrarian Studies. The journal will be launched in early 2010. Look out for the announcement on the [...] The Foundation for Agrarian Studies (FAS) has revamped its website. The website contains a large amount of literature on agrarian studies and lots of lovely photographs from [...] Very interesting piece from [...] |
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