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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Rural India"”.
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Changing Status of Women in Rural India
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Private sector provision of Internet access in rural India
In South India today, a number of ongoing projects seek to provide internet access to rural areas by combining computer, internet, and other telecommunications technologies in a profitable business model. Yet, in spite of growing interest in this work, few formal evaluations have been performed on …
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The Dynamics of Community Change in Rural India: A Causal Model
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Comparative analysis of market-based health delivery models in rural India
The rapid economic growth in India and accompanying demand for improved healthcare, particularly in rural populations, make a compelling case for global pharmaceutical companies to develop new business models to serve these underserved markets. Increasing competition in developed markets and an …
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Factors affecting farm productivity in rural India: social networks and market access
… and marketing strategies among farmers in India. I focus my analysis on two sources: social networks and market access. In chapter two, I analyze how peers can affect farmers' cash crop revenues. Crop revenues vary greatly among farmers and the source of that variation is not fully …
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Claiming the state : citizen-state relations and service delivery in rural India
… relations that emerge. Using the case of rural India, I explore whether and how citizens navigate their local environments to demand public services such as drinking water, health services and education, or access to welfare and poverty reduction programs. My fieldwork in the state of …
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Justification of village scale photovoltaic powered electrodialysis desalination systems for rural India
… means of desalinating groundwater in rural India and presents the design requirements for a village-level system. Saline groundwater, which underlies 60% of India, can negatively impact health as well as cause a water source to be discarded because of its taste. A quarter of India's …
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Implementing water and sanitation systems in rural India : the role of NGOs
NGOs are an important actor in rural India, and are increasingly important in implementing water and sanitation infrastructure. This thesis first systematically investigates physical conditions that lead to good bacteriological water quality in rural India, and then investigates how NGOs are …
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Changing Places, Creating Spaces: Santali Women in Local Level Politics in Rural India
… level politics has had on a tribal population in India. It is based on ethnographic research in a majority Santali village in northern Odisha, India. Using Marxist and Foucauldian categories, I assess the manner in which state imposed systems of governance interact with tribal governance …
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A capacity planning methodology for rural India : an application to grid-connected photovoltaics
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1996.
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Three essays on the production and investment decisions of households living in rural India
… of these three constraints. In the context of rural India, it analyzes what production and investment decisions households take and how important risk and credit constraints as well as scale effects are in these decisions. Finally, it evaluates potential policy tools that could support …
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Village Tales: an exploration of he potential of participatory documentary filmmaking in rural India.
… with its emphasis on the voice of, in this case, rural women in India, and the latter with its concern to engage an audience through narrative and imagery. The research question is ‘to what extent can a combination of observational documentary techniques, video diaries and participatory filmmaking …
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Rights for the voiceless : the state, civil society and primary education in rural India
… on behalf of marginalized citizens? The Indian government has enacted a number of policies for universal primary education, and yet the extent and quality of implementation varies significantly across regions. Why, operating under the same national policy framework, democratic …
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Application of bi-directional ICT channels to increase livelihoods for artisans in rural India
… industry is the second largest employer in rural India after agriculture, and has been the fastest-growing export growth sector since India's liberalization in 1991. Today, however, millions of artisans face a lack of infrastructure, stagnation and mis-alignment with a rapidly changing …
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Adapting a hazards-risk model to water scarcity in rural India : Aurangabad case study
… the responsiveness of District Planning to rural water scarcity in India. Through engagements with the Groundwater Survey Development Agency, and Maharashtra State Government Water Supply and Sanitation Department, we selected Aurangabad District to conduct field visits and develop a model …
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Social Capital as a Determinant of School Participation in Rural India: A Mixed Methods Study
… qualitative data collection is based in one of India's most marginalized districts, Jhabua (with an overall literacy rate of 37 percent), and attempts to observe how social capital plays out in this district in rural India which is dominated by "tribal" or indigenous populations. This study is …
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Social, governance, and economic impact assessment of information and communication technology interventions in rural India
… launched to bring the benefits of ICTs to the rural population in many countries. As most of these initiatives are relatively recent, there have been few evaluations of their social and economic impacts in their communities. There is also lack of a good understanding about a sound conceptual …
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Low-cost Wireless Internet System for Rural India using Geosynchronous Satellite in an Inclined Orbit
Providing affordable Internet access to rural populations in large developing countries to aid economic and social progress, using various non-conventional techniques has been a topic of active research recently. The main obstacle in providing fiber-optic based terrestrial Internet links to remote …
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Parental Involvement in Children’s Schooling and Learning in the School, Home and Community in Rural India.
Empirical research from rural India demonstrates that less affluent parents are less likely to engage in activities that support their children’s schooling and learning, than their wealthier counterparts. School actors and community leaders often attribute this to parents living in poverty being …
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