AGRICULTURAL INSURANCE IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES PETER B. R.HAZELL* Agriculture and Rural Development Department‚ The World Bank Abstract: Multiple-risk crop insurance programmes have proven expensive to governments but have not lived up to their expectations. Many agricultural risks cannot be insured on a financially sound basis‚ but there is scope for increased insurance of farm assets‚ of the life and health of rural people‚ and of some specific perils that affect crop and livestock yields. Such
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Centre for Management Technology Knowledge Park I Gr. Noida Acknowledgements If words are considered to be signs of gratitude then let these words Convey the very same My sincere gratitude to ICICI BANK for providing me with an opportunity to work with BANK and giving necessary directions on doing this project to the best of my abilities. I am highly indebted to Mr.Remay Verma‚ Branch Manager and Mr. Ravi Parmar (RM) company project guide‚ who has provided me with
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Mar’02-May’02 Issue 31 RURAL LIVELIHOODS Kirankumar Vissa (AID Maryland) Why are they begging on the trains? When you are traveling in India‚ you are invariably forced to ask yourself‚ “What do I do when someone comes to me begging on the street or in the train?” Many say that by giving them money‚ you are only encouraging them not to work for their living - that you are encouraging them to remain poor. But‚ are the people who say this doing anything that helps remove the poverty? Should
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for search of better living opportunities‚ people use to migrate from rural to urban areas. Rural areas are lagging behind in all good opportunities of life. It is an alarming situation for India. Father of nation‚ Mahatma Gandhi says‚ “India inhabits in villages”. But after seven decades of our independence‚ we fail to develop our villages and make them self-sufficient and self-reliance. Situation is going grim day by day in rural areas because of emigration from villages‚ destruction of cottage and
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Methods of data collection in qualitative research: interviews and focus groups P. Gill‚1 K. Stewart‚2 E. Treasure3 and B. Chadwick4 IN BRIEF • Interviews and focus groups are the most • • common methods of data collection used in qualitative healthcare research Interviews can be used to explore the views‚ experiences‚ beliefs and motivations of individual participants Focus group use group dynamics to generate qualitative data PRACTICE This paper explores the most common methods of data collection
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Rural Informatics in India – An Approach Paper 1.0 Introduction “Just as the whole universe is contained in the Self‚ so is India contained in the villages”… This has been said by none other than Mahatma Gandhi‚ the Father of our Nation and the visionary architect of India’s Rural Development Programmes. The villages epitomize the soul of India. With more than 70% of the Indian population living in rural areas‚ rural India reflects the very essence of Indian culture and tradition. No wonder
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1. Introduction to Rural Credit In modern world credit has become one of the crucial inputs. The co-operative credit societies were‚ in the past and even now‚ the most important source of credit to the farmers. Since 1969‚ commercial banks are also financing agriculture because of `social control’. There has been tremendous increase in the bank branches in the rural areas‚ Govt. has adopted the policy of `multi-agency approach’ in agricultural credit‚. At present‚ primary agricultural co-operative
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Rural Retailing in India-The Road Ahead Shikhar Das Srivastava* ABSTRACT The decision to liberalize the Indian Economy in 1991 had far reaching consequences‚ which is still continued into the new millennium also. On the marketing front‚ there was the arrival of many well-known Multi National Companies especially FMCG product dealers. In the initial years the focus was on the easily accessible well developed urban markets but soon it got saturated because of proliferation of brands and intense
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UNIT: 1 RURAL MARKETING Definition:Rural marketing can be defined as a function which manages all those activities in asserting‚ stimulating and converting the purchasing power of rural people into an effective demand for specific products and services and there by achieving the goals of the organisation. Rural areas:Rural areas are large and isolated areas of an open country with low population density a country side refers to rural areas that are open. Q1. Explain the nature and scope of rural marketing
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No. 3. May 2013 Issue. Pp. 71 – 88 Performance Appraisal of Indian Public Sector Banks Parvesh Kumar Aspal * and Naresh Malhotra** The strength of economy of any country basically hinges on the strength and efficiency of financial system‚ which‚ in turn‚ depends upon a sound banking system. The regulators have recommended bank’s supervision through CAMEL rating model to assess the performance of banks‚ which is better than the earlier systems. The prime objective of CAMEL model of rating
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