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ItemAGRICULTURAL CREDITS: FARMERS PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTUS IN SANGAREDDY DISTRICT OF TELANGANA STATE A(University of Hyderabad, 2021-11-30)
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ItemROLE OF STATE AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SYRIA AND INDIA (1970-2010)(University of Hyderabad, 2020-06)Much of the story of development for post-colonial nations begins with their respective dates of getting independence. Achieving development and structural transformation have been the major objectives to remove abject poverty and give people a reasonable standard of life, made possible by modern societies. What is the ideal model of development to achieve is a debate remains inconclusive as any of the simplistic propositions are dismissed by wider evidence. There is an attempt to thrust a dominant view, and theoretical and empirical evidences are mustered to prove them as the right. But equally enough, no one model seems to have worked well everywhere. As Paul Feyeraband had cautioned us not to get bogged down by any one method for a successful evolution of science, it appears this equally true for the project of development. India, for example, was hailed at one point for choosing liberal democracy and mixed economy till the 1970s, then it was severely criticized for choosing an inefficient statist model (Nayyar, 2005). The fall of the Soviet Union and East Europe is attributed to the ultimate failure of state-led development. China is shown as the loadstar for development after it embarked on a liberalized strategy. South Korea is also hailed as a case for export-led free market-led capitalist economies to achieve the highest levels of growth. Soon, we learned that neither China nor South Korea is an example of a free market. China has 60 percent of its economy constituted by the public sector. South Korea has a significant role of its state in development strategy and it has not followed any free-market policy, rather it followed pro-business strategy (Kohli, 2005). It is now perhaps amply clear that it is not the role of state per se which determines the path of development, rather what is the role that the state actually plays in development. The object of research in this thesis is precisely this issue discussed in a comparative study of the two nations, namely, Syria and India.
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ItemFood and Nutrition Security in Odisha: A Case Study of Three Villages of KBK Region(University of Hyderabad, 2021-12)Despite steady economic growth and development in many parts of the world, a significant proportion of the global population continues to suffer from food insecurity and malnutrition (World Bank, 2009). The United Nation‟s MDG-1 recognizes that hunger and food insecurity are the core afflictions to the poor people, and specifically sets out to halve the proportion of extremely poor and hungry people across the globe by 2023. Although the situation has improved since the 1990s, the rate of improvement remains far short of that required to attain these targets (FAO, 2016). Nonetheless, over the past 10 years, the proportion of undernourished people in the developing countries fell to 17 percent, because the total population grew faster than the undernourished portion. There is increasing evidence that the number of people who remain vulnerable to food insecurity is considerably higher (FAO, 2019). The FAO (2017) estimated that there are 821 million people undernourished and facing chronic food deprivation in the globe and also calculated that more than one in every ten people is facing under nutrition in the world. The above report also mentioned that about 13 to 18 million people die from hunger due to unequal food distribution every year throughout the world (UN, 2020).
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ItemTemporary Migration, Network and Livelihood: A Study from Rural Odisha(University of Hyderabad, 2021-12)India is in the middle of transformation from a rural agrarian to an urban-industrial and service led mode of production. Under the current capitalist production, many people are driven out of agriculture and settle their habitat in the urban center. In a developing country like India, unskilled migrant workers are engaged in the urban informal sector. The economic distress in rural area is one of the main reasons of migration to the urban's informal side. At the same time, the unfree agrarian relation prolongs the misery through an interlinked market structure. The socio-economic distresses in the rural area forced them to migrate to the urban informal sector, and again they stock in the urban's informal sector in another unfree system, which Breman called "neo bondage” (Breman J. , 1996), (2013). The studies on informal urban economy explain the cursive and exploitative nature of employment. He exposes the urban informal sector employment as neo bondage. In the late twentieth century, the socio-economic transition in south Asia confines a large-scale migration from rural to the urban center in search of their livelihood. However, a complete lack of institutional support, uncertain work tenure, dismal condition at the workplace and long working hours along with low wages have perpetually forced them to return to their place of origin, turning labour migration into labour circulation process (Breman J. , 2004) (2009) (2015).
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ItemMeasuring Financial Inclusion and Its Impact on Macroeconomic Goals in South Asian countries(University of Hyderabad, 2021-11)Financial inclusion is a key element of social inclusion, particularly useful in increasing inclusive growth by opening blocked advancement opportunities for underprivileged segments of the population. This study empirically investigates the impact of financial inclusion on macroeconomic goals in South Asian countries. The analysis is carried out using annual panel data for the period of 2004-2018. For this purpose, the study constructs two novel indices: financial inclusion index (FII) which measures the level of financial inclusion and modified human development index (i.e., HDIM) which measures inclusive growth. Particularly, the study uses availability, accessibility and usages of formal financial services for FII.