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Drought Impact and Vision for Proofing

Vol. 38, Issue No. 21, 24 May, 2003
Bhupat M Desai

There is an urgent need to fine-tune drought relief policies, besides making their implementation time-efficient, depoliticised and accountable. Improving the government's total expenditure on agricultural programmes will not only hold up the sector's performance in the event of a monsoon failure, but will also boost its contribution to economic growth and poverty alleviation.

Madhya Pradesh : Undernutrition and Starvation Deaths

Vol. 38, Issue No. 18, 03 May, 2003

An investigation of undernutrition and suspected starvation deaths in a few selected villages of Barwani district in Madhya Pradesh, a chronically drought-prone region, has thrown up a number of issues impinging on the concepts, methods and processes used for measuring of malnutrition and starvation.

Univariate Forecasting of State-Level Agricultural Production

Vol. 38, Issue No. 18, 03 May, 2003
Arindam Datta, Indira Rajaraman

The drought of 2002 has brought home the critical need for a short-term forecasting model for the agriculture sector at sub-national level, since good and bad agricultural years are not synchronous across states. This paper attempts forecasting through the fitting of univariate ARIMA models to past agricultural outcomes for five states: Punjab, Rajasthan, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, and Uttar Pradesh.

Agriculture, Employment and Social Sector Neglected

Vol. 38, Issue No. 14, 05 Apr, 2003
S Mahendra Dev

The 2003-04 Budget fails to address the major problems of agriculture, employment generation and the social sector.

Dire Impact of Drought on Saving and Investment

Vol. 37, Issue No. 33, 17 Aug, 2002
EPW Research Foundation

In the current macro-economic scenario, the adverse impact of the drought is likely to be much more severe on saving and investment in the economy than on supplies of commodities.

Despair on Drought

Vol. 37, Issue No. 31, 03 Aug, 2002

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Dams and Development

Vol. 37, Issue No. 11, 16 Mar, 2002
Anant Phadke

Dam oustees in Satara district of Maharashtra recently scored a signal victory, when their 'sit-in struggle' resulted in the acceptance of their demands by the state government, including those on water allowance and equitable distribution of water. The agitators in Satara have thus managed to continue their tradition of struggle in the quest for development.

Drought in Karnataka

Vol. 36, Issue No. 36, 08 Sep, 2001
S Rajendran

Karnataka is reeling under its worst drought in 10 years in the wake of the failure of the south-west monsoon. The symptoms were visible two months ago, but the state machinery is only now gearing up to tackle the situation, even as incidents of crop loss, cattle deaths, and mass migration of labour come to the fore. The state has sought financial assistance from the centre, but the question is how efficiently the money is spent and whether it reaches the needy. Ultimately, however, only long-term measures, such as rejuvenating the natural resource base, will help to tackle the scourge of drought.

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