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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2016
    India

    Recycling and reuse of treated wastewater are an important part of the sanitation cycle and critical in an environment such as urban India with decreasing freshwater availability and increasing costs for delivering acceptable quality water, often from far distance. This report has been developed as a possible guidance document for the Indian government and gives substantial focus to the financial and economic benefits of wastewater recycling from the perspective of public spending.

  2. Library Resource

    The Political Economy of India's Growth and Economic Policy since Independence

    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2008
    India, Southern Asia

    Rapid growth since 1980 has transformed India from the world's 50th ranked economy in nominal U.S. dollars to the 10th largest in 2005. The growth of per capita income has helped reduce poverty. At the same time, evidence suggests that income inequality is rising and that the gap in average per capita income between the rich and poor states is growing. This paper reviews India's long term growth experience with a view to understanding the determinants of growth and the underlying political economy.

  3. Library Resource
    India : Alleviating Poverty through Forest Development cover image
    Reports & Research
    September, 2014
    India

    This case study, one of six evaluations
    in a series of country case studies, aims to understand the
    implementation of the 1991 Forest Strategy in World Bank
    operations and to obtain the views of the various
    stakeholders in the country about the involvement of the
    Bank. Each country study examines the overall development of
    the country's forest sector. This naturally includes
    the environmental impacts on forests, such as degradation,

  4. Library Resource
    July, 2013
    Bangladesh

    The major constraints to RNF growth,
    according to a large survey of rural entrepreneurs,'
    include (1) flood and natural disasters; (2) access to
    electricity; (3) road conditions, (4) access to finance and
    (5) transportation to markets. Bangladesh's
    vulnerability to frequent floods and other natural disasters
    severely hampers operations of more than a third of rural
    firms. The next most important constraint to RNF growth is

  5. Library Resource
    March, 2013
    India

    The main objective of this fiscal note
    is to assist the Government of Andhra Pradesh (GoAP) in
    meeting the challenges mentioned above. To this end, it
    provides input into the state's rolling medium-term
    fiscal framework exercise. The new Fiscal Responsibility and
    Budget Management (FRBM) act requires that the government
    will lay out in each financial year a medium-term fiscal
    policy statement (together with three-year rolling targets

  6. Library Resource
    April, 2014
    Afghanistan

    This report analyzes some key aspects of
    food security, namely production, trade, markets and food
    aid at the national level, and consumption at the household
    level. In doing so it aspires to make a contribution to the
    on-going work in Afghanistan regarding the attainment of the
    poverty and hunger Millennium Development Goal. The major
    findings of the report can be summarized as follows: Food
    security (at the national level) does not necessarily

  7. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Bangladesh

    Population growth combined with economic growth will increasingly stress water resources and this has the potential to be the dominant environmental and possibly the most important development issue facing Bangladesh in the coming half century.

  8. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Pakistan

    This report shows that after a decade of
    moderate growth but little or no long term change in rural
    poverty in Pakistan, agricultural output, rural incomes,
    rural poverty and social welfare indicators all showed
    marked improvements between 2001-02 and 2004-05. However,
    longer term trends suggest there is little reason for
    complacency. The agricultural GDP per capita growth rate
    (1999- 2000 to 2004-05) was only 0.3 percent per year; rural

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