Essays about: "State of India"

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1. 6. Changing Tides and Navigating Uncertainty : An ethnographic study of NGO resilience in coastal South India

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Author : Emma Berglund; [2023]
   Keywords : NGO; India; Localisation; Resilience; India; Blue Economy; Community centered practice;

   Abstract : What makes an non-governmental organisation (NGO) agile and resilient towards changes, pressures or uncertainties at community, state or macro-political level? By adopting a single case study based on semi-structured interviews and fieldwork, this thesis will dive into the life-world of a community-based NGO based in Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu. Social Needs Education and Human Awareness (SNEHA) has since founding in the 1980s had a strong rights-based identity and evolved through various phases of community organising, disaster relief work, evidence-based advocacy and upholding of fisher communities traditional and customary rights. READ MORE

3. 7. Farm Mechanisation, Agricultural Productivity and Structural Change in India: A State-Level Analysis of Post-Reform Period

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Sai Chandan Kotu; [2023]
   Keywords : Business and Economics;

   Abstract : Agriculture in India is characterised by low productivity, and structural change has been slow and unconventional. Nevertheless, at state-level one can identify different patterns for these process. READ MORE

4. 8. Hydro-political Security Complexes and the Role of International Organizations in Bringing Cooperation or Conflict to Shared Transboundary Rivers

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning

   Author : Noha Yasser; [2023]
   Keywords : Keywords: Transboundary Water Conflict; Transboundary Water Cooperation; Nile River Basin; Indus River Basin; Egypt; Ethiopia; India; Pakistan; World Bank; International organizations.  ;

   Abstract : Transboundary water treaties are established to prevent disputes over shared rivers between states. Nevertheless, empirical studies indicate that international organizations manage to bring cooperation between states in some cases and fail in others. READ MORE

5. 9. Coping with Covid-19 in rural India: Did financial strategies help to maintain wellbeing?

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Simona Koria; Jennifer Träff; [2022-06-30]
   Keywords : Psychological Wellbeing; Financial Coping; Unconditional Cash Transfer; Covid-19; Panel Data; Propensity Score Matching; Low-and Middle Income Countries;

   Abstract : This thesis examines the direct impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on psychological wellbeing and explores the mediating role of financial coping strategies for this association. Using four waves of representative panel data, collected in 2018, 2020 and 2021 from 2 997 households living across 294 villages in the state of Odisha, India, we find that stress increased whilst depression decreased, resulting in psychological wellbeing being unchanged during the pandemic. READ MORE

6. 10. The impact of state capacity on education

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Danial Sohail; [2022]
   Keywords : India; Educational Goals; State Capacity; Literacy Rate; Good Governance; Quality of Government; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates whether state capacity furthers a country’s educational goals by scrutinising the effects of state capacity on the literacy rate in India. This is fundamentally studied through the theories of good governance and state capacity. READ MORE