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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    March, 2014
    India, Southern Asia

    Industrial parks are as popular as they are controversial, in India and globally. At their best they align infrastructure provision and agglomeration economies to jolt industrial growth. More often, they generate negative spill-overs, provide handouts, sit empty, or simply do not get built. This paper disaggregates how parks are built and how they fail. It contextualizes parks in India, followed by a thick case study of an innovative scheme that appears to buck the trend.

  2. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    February, 2015
    Cambodia, India, Indonesia

    This briefing paper is an outcome of the project "Strengthening the Documentation and Advocacy Capacity of Indigenous Women for the Advancement of their Rights and Welfare on Land" implemented in Cambodia, India and Indonesia in 2013-2014.

  3. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    India

    One of the major difficulties in doing
    cost-benefit analysis of a development project is to
    estimate the total economic value of project benefits, which
    are usually multi-dimensional and include goods and services
    that are not traded in the market. Challenges also arise in
    aggregating the values of different benefits, which may not
    be mutually exclusive. This paper uses a contingent
    valuation approach to estimate the economic value of a

  4. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    India

    India is the largest groundwater user in
    the world, with an estimated usage of around 230 cubic
    kilometers per year, more than a quarter of the global
    total. With more than 60 percent of irrigated agriculture
    and 85 percent of drinking water supplies dependent on it,
    groundwater is a vital resource for rural areas in India.
    Reliance of urban and industrial waste supplies on
    groundwater is also becoming increasingly significant in

  5. Library Resource
    March, 2013
    India

    This report presents the key message,
    lessons, and insights from agrifin's first knowledge
    exchange event, held in Hyderabad, India, March 7-12, 2011.
    Agrifin is a special initiative aimed at building capacity
    in agriculture finance for commercially-oriented
    smallholders and small and medium enterprise (SME)
    agribusiness market segments. The initiative, managed by the
    World Bank, through generous support from the bill and

  6. Library Resource
    April, 2015
    India

    This strategic environmental assessment
    (SEA) is a technical piece intended to assist in the current
    and future identification of priority industrial pollutants
    and economic instruments to minimize industrial waste. This
    industrial sector SEA is one of six pieces of technical
    support envisioned by the Himachal Pradesh (HP) inclusive
    green growth (IGG) development policy loan (DPL) to fill
    knowledge gaps and strengthen operational success of the

  7. Library Resource
    January, 2014
    India

    Industrial parks are as popular as they
    are controversial, in India and globally. At their best they
    align infrastructure provision and agglomeration economies
    to jolt industrial growth. More often, they generate
    negative spill-overs, provide handouts, sit empty, or simply
    do not get built. This paper disaggregates how parks are
    built and how they fail. It contextualizes parks in India,
    followed by a thick case study of an innovative scheme that

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