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[Review Of The Book Successes In Anti-Poverty], Gary S. Fields
[Review Of The Book Successes In Anti-Poverty], Gary S. Fields
Gary S Fields
[Excerpt] Michael Lipton has devoted a long career to studying and fighting poverty in the developing world. In this volume he talks about how to make anti-poverty programs work.
Natural Resource Sustainability Versus Livelihood Resilience: Groundwater Exploitation Strategies Under Prolonged Droughts, Ram Ranjan
Ram Ranjan
When faced with depleting natural resources such as groundwater, farmers often rely upon a combination of resources such as financial and social capital along with natural capital in order to sustain their livelihoods. This paper addresses the problem of providing livelihoods resilience for farmers in water scarce regions where traditional capabilities and assets face the threat of becoming unviable. It is argued here that attaining livelihood resilience will entail a transformation process involving tradeoffs between different capital assets where it may be optimal for a farmer to forego the objective of maintaining groundwater sustainability. However, mere forgoing of groundwater may …
Grand Design For Sustaining Civilization, Shyam Sunder
Grand Design For Sustaining Civilization, Shyam Sunder
Shyam Sunder
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