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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “s mahendra dev”
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  • Cities and Sustainability

    Issues and Strategic Pathways

    Edited by S. Mahendra Dev, Sudhakar Yedla ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The book addresses the sustainability of cities in the context of sustainability science and its application to the city boundary. In doing so it investigates all the components of a city on the basis of sustainability criteria. To achieve sustainability it is essential to adopt an integrated strategy that reflects all sectors within the city boundary and also address the four key normative ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Development in India

    Micro and Macro Perspectives

    Edited by S. Mahendra Dev, P.G. Babu ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book examines various facets of the development process such as aid, poverty, caste networks, corruption, and judicial activism. It explores the efficiency of and distributional issues related to agriculture, and the roles of macro models and financial markets, with a special emphasis on bubbles, liquidity traps and experimental markets. The importance of finite changes in trade and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Achieving Zero Hunger in India

    Challenges and Policies

    Edited by S. Mahendra Dev, A. Ganesh-Kumar, Vijay Laxmi Pandey ...
    Series series India Studies in Business and Economics
    This open access volume discloses rich set of findings and policy recommendations for India towards achieving the SDG 2.1 target of zero hunger by 2030. Through its fourteen chapters, it takes an integrated approach by examining diverse aspects of food and nutrition security through multidisciplinary lens of Agricultural Economics, Nutrition, Crop Sciences, Anthropology and Law, while being rooted ... Read more

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    by Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo ...
    In this new edition of their classic work, the winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics upend the most common assumptions about how economics works, providing a “rich and humane” (Financial Times) examination of how poor people actually liveWhy do the poor borrow to save? Why do they miss out on free lifesaving immunizations but pay for unnecessary drugs? Why do children from poor families attend ... Read more

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  • Poor Economics

    rethinking poverty & the ways to end it

    by Abhijit V Banerjee, Esther Duflo ...
    Imagine you have a few million dollars. You want to spend it on the poor. How do you go about it? Billions of government dollars, and thousands of charitable organizations and NGOs, are dedicated to helping the world’s poor. But much of their work is based on assumptions about the poor and the world that are untested generalizations at best, harmful misperceptions at worst.Abhijit V. Banerjee and ... Read more

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  • Global Problems, Smart Solutions

    Costs and Benefits

    Edited by Bjørn Lomborg ...
    Every four years since 2004, the Copenhagen Consensus Center has organized and hosted a high profile thought experiment about how a hypothetical extra $75 billion of development assistance money might best be spent to solve twelve of the major crises facing the world today. Collated in this specially commissioned book, a group of more than 50 experts make their cases for investment, discussing how ... Read more

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  • The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2019: Safeguarding against Economic Slowdowns and Downturns

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    For the first time, the report provides evidence that many people in the world, even if not hungry, experience moderate food insecurity as they face uncertainties about their ability to obtain food and are forced to compromise on the quality and/or quantity of the food they consume. This phenomenon is observed globally, not only in low- and middle-income countries but also in high income countries ... Read more

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  • The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700–2100

    Europe, America, and the Third World

    by Robert William Fogel ...
    Series Book 38 - Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time
    Nobel laureate Robert Fogel's compelling study, first published in 2004, examines health, nutrition and technology over the last three centuries and beyond. Throughout most of human history, chronic malnutrition has been the norm. During the past three centuries, however, a synergy between improvements in productive technology and in human physiology has enabled humans to more than double their ... Read more

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  • Basic Income

    A Transformative Policy for India

    by Mr Sarath Davala, Renana Jhabvala, Prof. Guy Standing, Soumya Kapoor Mehta ...
    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.Would it be possible to provide people with a basic income as a right? The idea has a long history. This book draws on two pilot schemes conducted in the Indian State of Madhya Pradesh, in which thousands of men, women and children were provided with an unconditional ... Read more

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  • Asia and the Pacific Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition 2017: Investing in Food Systems for Better Nutrition

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    Malnutrition and stunting among children below the age of five remains high in many countries in the region, with large disparities among population groups. Recent initiatives –such as multisectoral approaches, amended policies and interventions that are more nutrition-sensitive – are helping, but these efforts need to be considerably scaled up.More people in Asia and the Pacific region are moving ... Read more

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  • Poverty Reduction Policies and Practices in Developing Asia

    Edited by Almas Heshmati, Esfandiar Maasoumi, Guanghua Wan ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book looks at the major policy challenges facing developing Asia and how the region sustains rapid economic growth to reduce multidimensional poverty through socially inclusive and environmentally sustainable measures. Asia is facing many challenges arising from population growth, rapid urbanization, provision of services, climate change and the need to redress declining growth after the ... Read more

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  • The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2021: Transforming Food Systems for Food Security, Improved Nutrition and Affordable Healthy Diets for All

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    In recent years, several major drivers have put the world off track to ending world hunger and malnutrition in all its forms by 2030. The challenges have grown with the COVID-19 pandemic and related containment measures. This report presents the first global assessment of food insecurity and malnutrition for 2020 and offers some indication of what hunger might look like by 2030 in a scenario ... Read more

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