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Nature, Extent, Causes And Issues In Agricultural Distress, Srijit Mishra
Nature, Extent, Causes And Issues In Agricultural Distress, Srijit Mishra
Srijit Mishra
This paper explains the nature and extent of distress in Indian agriculture by analytically separating the issues therein into two interrelated domains—the agricultural and the agrarian—the former being about production and the latter about distribution; the former about the farm and the latter about the farmer; the former about the inadequacies and inappropriateness of the agricultural developmental programmes, and the latter about the livelihood of the people involved in or dependent upon agrarian activities. In this broader thinking farmers’ suicides and indebtedness become symptoms of a larger malaise. Drawing on our understanding of farmers’ suicides, we show some interrelated demand-side …
Methodological And Theoretical Issues In Researching North African And West Asian Political Economy, J. G. A. Saviranta
Methodological And Theoretical Issues In Researching North African And West Asian Political Economy, J. G. A. Saviranta
Akseli Saviranta
This document addresses a few of the methodological issues encountered in political economy research related to North Africa and West Asia. Its first part presents notes from a previous study by the author that dealt with the issue of the political economy of integration, and its second part relates some of the aforementioned issues that were encountered while making the study.
Is Three A Crowd? Exploring The Development And Satisfaction Of Students In Triples, Larry D. Long, Kyle Kujawa
Is Three A Crowd? Exploring The Development And Satisfaction Of Students In Triples, Larry D. Long, Kyle Kujawa
Larry D. Long
Tripling, the assignment of a third resident to a room designed for two, is a common practice at many colleges and universities across the United States. Most of the research on tripling was conducted three or four decades ago, and research exploring how living in a triple affects the educational gains and satisfaction of college students is limited. The researchers compared the residential experience of residence hall residents who lived in standard double rooms to the experience of residents who lived in triples. The results revealed the residential experience of students in triples was comparable to the experience of students …