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FISH FARMING IN RICE ENVIRONMENTS OF NORTH EASTERN INDIA by DN Das
Fish have been harvested from rice fields as an additional crop
since ancient times. Biologically, rice fields can be considered
as agriculturally managed marshes, which remain dry for varying
periods of time during the year. Physically, the aquatic phase
has varying water depth according to the land topography and
local rainfall patterns and . . .
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15 May 2008 |
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Shambhu Ghatak
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The SYSTEM of RICE INTENSIFICATION
known as SRI – also as le Systéme de Riziculture Intensive in French and la Sistema Intensivo de Cultivo Arrocero (SICA) in Spanish -- is a methodology for increasing the productivity of irrigated rice cultivation by changing the management of plants, soil, water and nutrients. SRI practices lead to healthier, more productive soil and plants by sup. . .
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15 May 2008 |
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Shambhu Ghatak
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Prof. Dr. Immanuel Wallerstein: Interview on Cultural Globalization
On June, 25th 1999 Prof. Immanuel Wallerstein was interviewed by Dr. Anand Kumar, Dr. Frank Welz, and Mrs. Gabriele Tysarzik at the Maison de Sciences de l’Homme in Paris. This interview was prepared by Gabriele Tysarzik (skript), Bernd Remmele (HTML design) and Markus Jenki (digital editing) for this web-presentation. On the current page you find . . .
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15 May 2008 |
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Shambhu Ghatak
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Brookings Latin America Initiative
The Brookings Institution today announced the formation of the Partnership for the Americas Commission, a panel of eminent figures who will assess the current state of U.S. relations with the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. Based on this assessment, the Commission will generate a set of policy recommendations for the next U.S. preside. . .
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14 May 2008 |
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Carla dal Cais
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Untying the knots - How the World Bank is failing to deliver real change on conditionality, 09 November 2007, EURODAD
In 2005 the World Bank launched a review of its conditionality policy. This was in response to growing international criticism, from developed and developing countries alike, that the World Bank was still attaching too many intrusive and, at times, harmful economic policy conditions to its development finance to poor countries. Two years on from t. . .
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14 May 2008 |
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Shambhu Ghatak
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World Bank and procurement: Development tool or TNC sop?
A new study on procurement reform suggests that the World Bank's narrow focus on value for money may undermine the ability of governments to use procurement as a tool for development; meanwhile US and European corporate lobbyists continue to pressure the Bank to go slow on the use of country procurement systems. Procurement refers to the purchasing. . .
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14 May 2008 |
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Shambhu Ghatak
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The Imp-Act Consortium
The Imp-Act Consortium is global group of organisations working to promote and support the management of social performance by MFIs.
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13 May 2008 |
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Carmen Villegas Caballero
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Final Report to the ACC/ SCN by the Commision on Nutrition Challenges of the 21st Century
The Commission proposes a new paradigm of nutrition which incorporates the double burden of undernutrition and diet-related adult disease. This double burden is amplified by the link between maternal and fetal undernutrition and a population’s susceptibility to adult diet-related disease. This is displayed when food consumption and activity pattern. . .
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13 May 2008 |
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Shambhu Ghatak
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Capital Account Covertibility: A Big Gamble
It is widely perceived that the convertibility can be a boon as well as a bane, and a lot depends on the strength of the underlying economy and its institutions. The article by Dr. S.B. Kamashetty discusses the pros and cons of capital account convertibility in Indian perspective.
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12 May 2008 |
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Shambhu Ghatak
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Cost of Holding Excess Reserves: The Indian Experience, Abhijit Sen Gupta, Working Paper No. 206, March 2008, ICRIER, New Delhi
With the collapse of the Bretton Woods, the pressure on industrial countries to accumulate reserves eased as they moved to flexible exchange rate regimes and overcame the problem of “original sin” i.e., the inability to borrow from abroad in domestic currencies. On the other hand, emerging market policymakers have been struggling to define adequate. . .
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12 May 2008 |
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Shambhu Ghatak
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THE SOCIAL COST OF FOREIGN EXCHANGE RESERVES, NBER Working Paper No. 11952, Issued in 2006
Consider a country that lives by the Guidotti-Greenspan-IMF rule. Suppose a domestic private firm or bank takes a short-term loan from abroad of $1 million. The Central Bank now has to increase its reserves by an equivalent amount. The usual strategy that the Central Bank will follow is (a) to purchase foreign currency in domestic financial markets. . .
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12 May 2008 |
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Shambhu Ghatak
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With Women Worldwide - A Compact to End HIV/AIDS (IWHC)
Sexual and reproductive rights are a pivotal neglected priority in HIV/AIDS policy, programming and resource allocation. Failure to protect the human rights of girls and women, including their right to health and their right
to live free of sexual coercion and violence, fuels the pandemic. Universal access to sexual and reproductive health service. . .
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12 May 2008 |
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Anuradha Bhattacharjee
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Short History of CEDAW Convention
Equality of rights for women is a basic principle of the United Nations. The Preamble to the Charter of the United Nations sets as one of the Organization's central goals the reaffirmation of "faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women". Article 1 proclaims that one of the p. . .
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12 May 2008 |
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Anuradha Bhattacharjee
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HIV/AIDS and Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Literature Review
Program on International Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health, August 2006. This is a review of publications addressing aspects of the intersection between gender-based violence (GBV) and HIV. A large body of literature exists on the negative impacts of societies’ stringent ascription of
gender roles on vulnerability to HIV inf. . .
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12 May 2008 |
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Anuradha Bhattacharjee
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The Need for International Resolve, Asia Report N°145, 6 February 2008
'This report is intended as a wake-up call for action. It does not examine individual nations or institutions in depth and recognises that many of the
constraints are the result of national systems – for instance,
how aid is dispersed or troop commitments are approved. It
emphasises, however, the need for all actors in the
multilateral endeavou. . .
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12 May 2008 |
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Carmen Villegas Caballero
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