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  1. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Mongolia

    The sustainable development of ger areas
    in Ulaanbaatar (UB), the capital city of Mongolia, is one of
    the critical development issues facing the country. The
    transitions to a market economy and a series of severe
    winters (called zud) have resulted in the large-scale
    migration of low-income families into the ger areas of UB.
    The city represents 40 percent of the nation's
    population and generates more than 60 percent of

  2. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    China

    Recruiting and retaining leaders and public servants at the grass-roots level in developing countries creates a potential tension between providing sufficient returns to attract talent and limiting the scope for excessive rent-seeking behavior. In China, researchers have frequently argued that village cadres, who are the lowest level of administrators in rural areas, exploit personal political status for economic gain.

  3. Library Resource
    August, 2014
    India

    In 2000, the Government of India
    launched the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (hereinafter
    PMGSY) with the primary objective of providing all-weather
    road connectivity (with necessary culverts and
    cross-drainage structures operable throughout the year), to
    eligible unconnected habitations in rural areas. Currently,
    about 60 percent of the 170,000 eligible habitations have a
    road. By the end of 2010, expenditures for the program had

  4. Library Resource
    October, 2015
    India

    This report is based on a field study of
    two large settlements, Satghara (a census town) and
    Bhagwatipur (a rural cluster with 10,000 plus population) in
    the Madhubani district of Bihar. The study explores the
    social dynamics of the rural non-farm economy by empirically
    mapping non-farm occupations in both the settlements. It
    examines the dynamics of caste, community, and gender within
    the social organization of the non-farm economy in terms of

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