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Health and Nutrition of India’s Labour Force and COVID-19 Challenges
Can the “post-COVID-19 normal” emerge better for India’s food supply and demand management, with a clear goal of zero hunger? Presently contributing one-third of the global undernutrition burden, a daunting challenge that the country must overcome now is of resuming broader based economic growth with a healthy labour force.
Agricultural policy reforms Roles of markets and states in China and India
Market reforms have been given much of the credit for China’s spectacular growth performance. This paper looks at China’s reform process systematically, along with India’s, and argues that the Chinese state has played a key role in transforming China into a modern economic state, deploying unlimited supplies of labor and combining it with a variety […]
Author(s): Uma Lele and Arthur A. Goldsmith Source: Economic Development and Cultural Change, Vol. 37, No. 2 (Jan., 1989), pp. 305-343 Published by: The University of Chicago Press Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1153832
Patterns of Structural Transformation and Agricultural Productivity Growth
The findings of this study were first presented at the conference on “Policy Options and Investment priorities for Accelerating Agricultural Productivity Growth”, organized jointly by the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research and Institute for Human Development in collaboration with the Planning Commission of India, Food & Agriculture Organization and World Bank, in New Delhi […]
The original mission of the CGIAR was a strategic, science-based focus on increasing ” the pile of rice on the plates of food-short consumers, ” as characterized by a former chairman. It was to use the best science in advanced countries to develop technologies for the benefit of food deficit countries and populations. But a […]
International agricultural research, technology generation, transfer, adoption and impact (IARTGTAI) constitute components of a system that has evolved from a relatively simple structure in the 1960s to a complex network in the late 1990s. Its functioning is of great international interest. Despite major successes on the food front, there are still 850 million people who […]
