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			   <description>Free web building Articles</description><item><title><![CDATA[Epigraphical Study of Ancient and Medieval Villages in the Tamil Country]]></title><author><![CDATA[Noboru Karashima ]]></author><link><![CDATA[http://ras.org.in/epigraphical_study_of_ancient_and_medieval_villages_in_the_tamil_country]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inscriptions on stones or copper-plates,
which occur in substantial numbers, are the basic source-material for the
ancient and medieval history of India, as much of India lacks history books
compiled in these periods. For pre-modern village studies as well, therefore,
we have to depend on inscriptions....]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Climate Change and Agriculture: 
A Review Article with Special Reference to India]]></title><author><![CDATA[T. Jayaraman]]></author><link><![CDATA[http://ras.org.in/climate_change_and_agriculture]]></link><description><![CDATA[This paper provides an overview of climate change and agriculture, while paying some specific attention to the impact of climate change on Indian agriculture. This broad-brush account covers both the agronomic and economic aspects of the impact of climate change, as well as a critique of the methodologies used to estimate them. The paper ends with ...]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weakening Panchayats in West
 Bengal]]></title><author><![CDATA[ Aparajita Bakshi ]]></author><link><![CDATA[http://ras.org.in/weakening_panchayats_in_west_bengal]]></link><description></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Floods, Relief Aid, and Household Resilience in Rural Pakistan: Findings from a Pilot Survey in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa]]></title><author><![CDATA[ Takashi Kurosaki and Humayun Khan ]]></author><link><![CDATA[http://ras.org.in/floods_relief_aid_and_household_resilience_in_rural_pakistan]]></link><description><![CDATA[Based on a pilot survey conducted in early 2011, in ten villages in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, we analysed the damage caused by floods in Pakistan in 2010, the distribution of aid, and the extent to which households recovered from flood damage. Our findings are as follows. Flood damage within a village was disuniform. Aid from ou...]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microfinance under Neoliberalism]]></title><author><![CDATA[Pallavi Chavan]]></author><link><![CDATA[http://ras.org.in/microfinance_under_neoliberalism]]></link><description></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Statistics on Elementary School Education in Rural India]]></title><author><![CDATA[ Vikas Rawal ]]></author><link><![CDATA[http://ras.org.in/statistics_on_elementary_school_education_in_rural_india]]></link><description></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paddy Cultivation in Kerala]]></title><author><![CDATA[Jayan Jose Thomas]]></author><link><![CDATA[http://ras.org.in/paddy_cultivation_in_kerala]]></link><description></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Food Policy: A Lesson from History]]></title><author><![CDATA[V. Sridhar]]></author><link><![CDATA[http://ras.org.in/food_policy]]></link><description></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Income Inequality and Caste in Village India]]></title><author><![CDATA[ Vikas Rawal and Madhura Swaminathan ]]></author><link><![CDATA[http://ras.org.in/income_inequality_and_caste_in_village_india]]></link><description><![CDATA[ In this paper, we examine inequality in incomes between households of different castes in rural India, using a unique dataset comprising household data from a cross-section of eight villages across four States. The focus of this paper is on Dalit or Scheduled Caste households. We begin with very simple measures of differences between groups, such ...]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Expenditure
on the Rural Economy in India’s
Budgets since the 1950s: 
An Assessment]]></title><author><![CDATA[ Praveen Jha and Nilachala Acharya ]]></author><link><![CDATA[http://ras.org.in/expenditure_on_the_rural_economy_in_indias_budgets_since_the_1950s]]></link><description><![CDATA[ The decline in the rate of growth of Indian agriculture in recent years is in large measure due to the low public expenditure priorities accorded to it in the budgets of the Union and State governments. Since the early 1990s in particular, inadequacy of capital formation has been a major factor contributing to the slackened pace of technological c...]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Designing Collective Action: Problems of Local Water Management in Tiruchi
District]]></title><author><![CDATA[Staffan Lindberg, A. Rajagopal, G&ouml;ran Djurfeldt, Venkatesh B. Athreya, and <br/>R. Vidyasagar ]]></author><link><![CDATA[http://ras.org.in/designing_collective_action]]></link><description><![CDATA[ A wide range of factors shapes irrigation institutions and collective action with regard to irrigation. They include the distribution of land across irrigation command areas and across classes, land tenure systems, access to new technology such as bore wells, the availability and cost of electricity and other energy sources for lifting groundwater...]]></description></item></channel></rss>
