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Demystifying Fixed Income Analytics A Practical Guide

Demystifying Fixed Income Analytics A Practical Guide

This book discusses important aspects of fixed income securities in emerging economies. Key features • Clarifies all conceptual and analytical aspects of fixed income securities and bonds and covers important interest rate and credit derivative instruments in a simple and practical way. • Examines topics such as classifications of fixed income instruments; related risk-return measures; yield curve and term structure of interest rates; interest rate derivatives (forwards futures and swaps) credit derivatives (credit default swaps); and trading strategies and risk management. • Provides step-by-step explanation of fixed income products by including real-life examples scenarios and cases especially in the context of emerging markets. • Presents consistent reference of actual market practices to make the chapters practice oriented while maintaining a lucid style complemented by adequate reading inputs and clear learning outcomes. • Includes complete solutions of numericals and cases for all chapters as an eResource on the Routledge website to aid understanding. The book will serve as a ready guide to both professionals from banking and finance industry (fixed income/bond dealers; fund/investment/portfolio managers; investment bankers; financial analysts/consultants; risk management specialists) and those in academics including students research scholars and teachers in the fields of business management banking insurance finance financial economics business economics and risk management. | Demystifying Fixed Income Analytics A Practical Guide

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Understanding Public Speaking A Learner's Guide to Persuasive Oratory

Understanding Public Speaking A Learner's Guide to Persuasive Oratory

Public speaking is a much coveted yet difficult art. This book illustrates the use of various linguistic devices and persuasive strategies with examples from the speeches of powerful orators in history. It systematically draws on the various approaches to public speaking and persuasive discourse to present new insights and techniques. The volume: Critically examines strategies of persuasive oratory. Draws on extensive investigation of a corpus of famous public speeches in history. Focuses on the needs of those who want to brush up their public speaking skills. The volume will be a key reference for aspiring civil servants lawyers business and corporate professionals and politicians. It will be of great interest to scholars of linguistics and political and business communication. | Understanding Public Speaking A Learner's Guide to Persuasive Oratory

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The Case System of Eastern Indo-Aryan Languages A Typological Overview

The Case System of Eastern Indo-Aryan Languages A Typological Overview

This book presents a typological overview of the case system of Eastern Indo-Aryan (EIA) languages. It utilizes a cognitive framework to analyse and compare the case markers of seven EIA languages: Angika Asamiya Bhojpuri Bangla Magahi Maithili and Odia. The book introduces semantic maps which have hitherto not been used for Indian languages to plot the scope of different case markers and facilitate cross-linguistic comparison of these languages. It also offers a detailed questionnaire specially designed for fieldwork and data collection which will be extremely useful to researchers involved in the study of case. A unique look into the linguistic traditions of South Asia the book will be indispensable to academicians researchers and students of language studies linguistics literature cognitive science psychology language technologies and South Asian studies. It will also be useful for linguists typologists grammarians and those interested in the study of Indian languages. | The Case System of Eastern Indo-Aryan Languages A Typological Overview

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Predictive Analytics in Human Resource Management A Hands-on Approach

Predictive Analytics in Human Resource Management A Hands-on Approach

This volume is a step-by-step guide to implementing predictive data analytics in human resource management (HRM). It demonstrates how to apply and predict various HR outcomes which have an organisational impact to aid in strategising and better decision-making. The book: Presents key concepts and expands on the need and role of HR analytics in business management. Utilises popular analytical tools like artificial neural networks (ANNs) and K-nearest neighbour (KNN) to provide practical demonstrations through R scripts for predicting turnover and applicant screening. Discusses real-world corporate examples and employee data collected first-hand by the authors. Includes individual chapter exercises and case studies for students and teachers. Comprehensive and accessible this guide will be useful for students teachers and researchers of data analytics Big Data human resource management statistics and economics. It will also be of interest to readers interested in learning more about statistics or programming. | Predictive Analytics in Human Resource Management A Hands-on Approach

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Understanding Yoga Psychology Indigenous Psychology with Global Relevance

Understanding Yoga Psychology Indigenous Psychology with Global Relevance

This book is an introduction to Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtras and its core concepts about the self suffering and consciousness. It highlights its relevance to contemporary theories and applications in the fields of psychology and health. The book adopts sociology of knowledge as a broad framework as it delves into the core concepts of yoga psychology in the Yoga Sūtras in the context of worldviews and frameworks present in the Upanisads and the Sāṁkhya system. It provides an interpretation of Kriya Yoga and its practice in pursuit of spiritual upliftment and concept of Samādhi or the transformation of consciousness using the language and idiom of contemporary psychology. It draws parallels between yoga psychology and the ideas of Husserl Jung and Piaget while reconciling the seemingly disparate cultural religious spiritual and intellectual traditions of eastern spirituality and schools of modern psychology. The book also discusses yoga psychology in relation to psychoanalysis radical behaviorism as well as mainstream cognitive humanistic transpersonal and indigenous psychologies and provides a guide to both the theories of yoga psychology and its applications. This book will be of interest to students teachers researchers and practitioners of psychology psychiatry philosophy and yoga psychology as well as to psychologists psychiatrists counselors mental health professionals clinical psychologists and yoga enthusiasts. | Understanding Yoga Psychology Indigenous Psychology with Global Relevance

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The Virtual Couch COVID-19 through a Psychoanalytic Lens

The Virtual Couch COVID-19 through a Psychoanalytic Lens

This book is one of the first systematic examinations on the looming mental health crisis emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic from a psychoanalytic perspective. Bringing together practising therapists from Asia and Europe this book: analyses themes like anxiety depression sexuality loss and death through clinical vignettes highlights how children adolescents and adults have been responding to the pandemic explores how personal and collective trauma are mourned remembered repeated and worked through studies deep-seated prejudices and fears focuses on how the pandemic has stimulated exceptional manifestations of human solidarity and creativity Comprehensive and practical this book will be an essential guide for mental health professionals counsellors therapists and medical doctors treating psychological trauma. | The Virtual Couch COVID-19 through a Psychoanalytic Lens

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Contextualising Educational Studies in India Research Policy and Practices

Contextualising Educational Studies in India Research Policy and Practices

This volume presents an interdisciplinary framework to map out contemporary educational studies in India. Based on conceptual tools quantitative methods and ethnographic accounts drawn from extensive fieldwork it addresses emerging discourses on educational policies their operation in the everyday functioning of institutions and actual practices in teaching and learning. Individual chapters discuss the intersectionality in the current educational system of region gender class caste and minorities. With comparative perspectives and case studies from across states including under-studied rural and urban regions of India the book explores a wide range of issues affecting the educational system including socioeconomic and gender inequalities; the educational status of tribal settlements in the hinterlands and their respective urban areas; the marginalisation of minorities; challenges in accessing educational avenues and choices; and the model for imparting vocational education and training. It navigates complex sites of discrimination and exclusion in the institutional spaces of the educational system and assesses the consequences of market dynamics and ideological undercurrents. Presenting first-hand information from the field it evaluates educational policies practices and research; investigates challenges and failures; provides suggestions and fosters critical thinking for a knowledge society. The findings in this book will be of interest to researchers scholars and teachers of education economics sociology urban education and the politics of education as well as of public policy governance and development studies. It will also be useful to research institutions policymakers educationists social scientists education professionals and governmental and non-governmental bodies working on education. | Contextualising Educational Studies in India Research Policy and Practices

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Family School and Nation The Child and Literary Constructions in 20th-Century Bengal

Family School and Nation The Child and Literary Constructions in 20th-Century Bengal

This seminal work examines the concurrence of childhood rebellion and conformity in Bengali literary texts (including adult texts) a pertinent yet unexplored area making it a first of its kind. It is a study of the voice of child protagonists across children’s and adult literature in Bengali vis-à-vis the institutions of family the education system and the nationalist movement in the ninenteenth and twentieth centuries. | Family School and Nation The Child and Literary Constructions in 20th-Century Bengal

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Long-Term Investments Project Planning and Appraisal

Long-Term Investments Project Planning and Appraisal

First published in 2009. The limited text material available to highlight the relationships among capital structure managerial incentives and valuation has also constrained teaching efforts at business schools. Long-term Investments is intended to give a bird’s eye view of projects for a diverse audience encountered at contemporary business schools. This book is an attempt to blend the theory from Corporate Finance courses with the real-world situations encountered by a project analyst. It provides a systematic ‘guided-tour’ of the world of projects commencing with a strategic view through the development of financial models and culminates with an evaluation of risk and the design of risk-mitigation measures. Given the emphasis on the development of financial models to help make investment decisions it is designed to simultaneously appeal to business school students and to serve as a do-it-yourself guide for practicing professionals. | Long-Term Investments Project Planning and Appraisal

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The Belt and Road Initiative Geopolitical and Geoeconomic Aspects

The Belt and Road Initiative Geopolitical and Geoeconomic Aspects

This book studies the geopolitical and geoeconomic aspects of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). It argues that the BRI has the potential to redesign the spatial and territorial dimensions of governance and effectively counterbalance the hitherto predominant hegemonies of the Anglo-American sea power. The volume: Highlights the main geopolitical patterns including geographical economic financial technological and strategic factors guiding the BRI on a global scale Presents a historical account of the development of the Silk Road and underlines its contemporary relevance Traces China’s growing inf luence from Eurasia to America Discusses how the Initiative is likely to transform international relations by the middle of the 21st century. A comprehensive guide to China’s rise as the new centre of gravity in global geopolitics the book will be indispensable for students of political studies geopolitics international relations and foreign policy. It will also be useful for policymakers strategic investors think tanks and government officials. | The Belt and Road Initiative Geopolitical and Geoeconomic Aspects

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India Higher Education Report 2021 Private Higher Education

India Higher Education Report 2021 Private Higher Education

This volume provides an in-depth analysis of the critical dimensions of higher education in India. It focuses on the growth and expansion of private higher education and public policy. The volume discusses issues related to the growth of for-profit and not-for-profit private higher education institutions and their implications at the policy level. It outlines the role of such institutions towards the internationalization and global ranking of the Indian higher education system. The book discusses the trends in internationalisation adopted by private higher education institutions and explains the resulting impact on aspects such as the diversity of programs skill formation employability pedagogic practices standards curriculum development and research and development as well as the wider externalities in terms of promoting India’s soft power and international relations with other countries. While outlining the challenges of Open Distance Learning (ODL) and online education in India the book also discusses the use of ICT OER and MOOCS among others to address the challenges of the ODL system. This volume will be of interest to teachers students and researchers of education public policy political science international relations law sociology economics and political economy. It will also be useful for academicians policymakers and anyone interested in the internationalization of Indian Higher Education. | India Higher Education Report 2021 Private Higher Education

GBP 130.00
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Indian National Congress From Dominance to Decline or Hibernation?

Indian National Congress From Dominance to Decline or Hibernation?

This book presents a systematic analysis of the rise and decline of the Indian National Congress since 1980s using the frame dominance to hibernation. The Indian National Congress (INC or Congress Party) originated in the national movement for India’s freedom and has since been the centrepiece of postindependence multi-party system for nearly four decades. However the Congress has been experiencing a phase of serious decline since the 2014 and 2019 general elections. Analysing years of political history and contemporary developments this volume brings to the fore important issues and key themes such as Evolution of the party system in India the contemporary dynamics and movements Indian National Congress under Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi Ideological and policy reorientation of the party in the 1990s under P. V. Narasimha Rao Revival of mass membership and organizational elections in the party Indian National Congress in the 2000s under the leadership of Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi The 2019 debacle and change in the leadership A comprehensive work on the history of the Congress Party in India this volume will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of political science party politics Indian politics sociology modern Indian history political sociology public administration public policy South Asian studies and governance studies. | Indian National Congress From Dominance to Decline or Hibernation?

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Field Instruction in Social Work Education The Indian Experience

Field Instruction in Social Work Education The Indian Experience

A comprehensive guide to social work praxis this book provides a clear conceptual understanding of fieldwork supervision in India. It elaborates on the dynamic components of fieldwork instruction – the methodologies and effective strategies the supervisor–student–agency triad challenges and the future. The volume underlines the importance of student mentoring and the imperative need to develop creative and competent strategies to make fieldwork education more responsive and effective. It also emphasises the need for the inclusion of social justice-oriented perspectives and approaches in fieldwork training in India. Instructive and anecdotal the chapters in this volume reflect on the challenges which students and supervisors face on a regular basis in different environments while dealing with critical circumstances. The focus of the book is to delineate strategies and approaches which promote skill building and the ability in students to understand sociocultural contexts of the field and engage with them effectively. This volume will be an essential resource for social work educators field practitioners and students of social work law public policy sociology and social entrepreneurship. | Field Instruction in Social Work Education The Indian Experience

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How Realist Is India’s National Security Policy?

How Realist Is India’s National Security Policy?

In managing national security how Realist is India in terms of cultivating and using power and especially military power? A conventional view of India is that it has been uncomfortable with realism or ‘power politics’ as a guide to policy. This volume shows that it has been more realist than is generally recognized and that it has increasingly become comfortable with power in the service of its interests. The essays in this volume Examine the different aspects and types of realism in India’s national security policy Include a range of perspectives from academics as well as former military officers and diplomats Focus on India’s military and foreign policy in dealing with China Pakistan the United States Southeast Asia and West Asia. This key volume will be indispensable to scholars and researchers of politics and international relations defence and strategic studies and South Asian studies and to government officials journalists and general readers interested in the external dimensions of India’s national security. | How Realist Is India’s National Security Policy?

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Brands and Branding Strategy to Build and Nurture Brands

Brands and Branding Strategy to Build and Nurture Brands

This volume examines the importance of strategic brand imaging and brand management. It covers the fundamentals of launching growing leveraging and managing brands in a global context the strategic decisions related to brand building and the integration of the 4Ps in implementing the brand strategy. The book presents a practical perspective on building brands through social media and using artificial intelligence technologies. Readers will get a clear introductory understanding about the role of consumer behavior the research methods that every brand manager must be familiar with brand architecture portfolio brand equity and valuation. Branding requires vision to foresee logic to understand the market and the art of understanding consumers. This book is a guide for readers and professionals who are interested in all aspects of branding and brand building. It will also be useful for scholars and students of Marketing Advertising and Brand Management Business Studies Business Communication Media and Journalism and Public Relations and for marketing professionals. It will help them understand fundamentals and practical application of brand management. | Brands and Branding Strategy to Build and Nurture Brands

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Homelessness Research Practice and Policy

Homelessness Research Practice and Policy

This book provides insights into the experiences of ‘homelessness’ while exploring its psychological and socio-economic dimensions. Hunger addiction and disability which often accompany homelessness are brought into focus and discussed within the frameworks of promoting social welfare and enabling human capability in this volume. Based on the author’s ethnographic and quantitative research on homeless families living on the streets of Delhi this book identifies some of the most acute problems associated with homelessness. It analyzes the causes of homelessness and draws connections between social bonds and family socio-economic status and psychopathology. It also includes personal accounts of hardship and trauma which quantify the systematic discrimination and marginalization that people living on the streets face. The volume offers policy recommendations to protect the right to self-determination dignity and self-efficacy of the homeless and help rehabilitate them. It will be a useful guide for students and researchers of social sciences specializing in psychology sociology economics and development studies. The book will also be of interest to mental health professionals and policy-makers in designing effective strategies. | Homelessness Research Practice and Policy

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Managing Start-ups for Success Entrepreneurship in Difficult Times

Managing Start-ups for Success Entrepreneurship in Difficult Times

World economics and the industrial environment has recently created a fertile ground for the creation of new enterprises and start-ups. This book skilfully identifies the challenges of building a new business venture from an idea to a marketable product. It highlights • Robust methods for keeping up with innovation; • Designing new ways to grow improve and market your product; and • Managing the changes in the business environment market dynamics and other uncertainties. The volume is rich with examples and case studies of many small and large businesses. It further reflects on the business and entrepreneurship ecosystem the challenges and opportunities in India entrepreneurship and women e-commerce the new generation of entrepreneurs and exit strategies for entrepreneurs. An essential guide for entrepreneurs and professionals working in business management and marketing communications as well as scholars of business administration and financial sciences this book by an industry expert offers many new and practiced approaches examples and lessons for innovative thinking and breaking new ground in business. | Managing Start-ups for Success Entrepreneurship in Difficult Times

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Postpositivist International Relations Theory A Globalist Restructuring

Postpositivist International Relations Theory A Globalist Restructuring

This book discusses postpositivist theories foregrounding postpositivism against the reigning realist and positivist–pluralist orthodoxies. The book explicates seven theories not as disparate endeavours but as developments linked by a common thread that seeks to enunciate globalist emancipatory goals for the theoretical field and the world that these theories seek to change. It focuses on the following themes: feminism environmentalism or green theory the English School critical theory constructivism postmodernism and postcolonialism. Additionally a separate chapter on globalization shows that while mainstream (neo)realist international relations theories respond hostilely to globalization and liberal-pluralist theories react benignly to it postpositivist theories positively welcome it. The book offers a competent meta-theoretical gridwork showing on which side of the opposing disciplinary positions in the fourth debate each of the seven theories are located. It is a comprehensive guide to the postpositivist restructuring of the discipline of international relations. This book will be of interest to researchers and students of political science international relations history humanities and literature. | Postpositivist International Relations Theory A Globalist Restructuring

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Colonialism and Resistance Society and State in Manipur

Colonialism and Resistance Society and State in Manipur

Part of the ‘Transition in Northeastern India’ series this volume critically explores how Northeast India especially Manipuri society responded to colonial rule. It studies the interplay between colonialism and resistance to provide an alternative understanding of colonialism on the one hand and society and state formation on the other. Challenging dominant histories of the area the essays provide significant insights into understanding colonialism and its multiple effects on economy polity culture and faith system. It examines hitherto untouched areas in the study of Northeast and discusses how social movements are augmented constituted or sustained. This book will be of great interest to researchers and scholars of modern history sociology and social anthropology particularly those concerned with Northeast India. | Colonialism and Resistance Society and State in Manipur

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Teaching Competencies for 21st Century Teachers Practical Approaches to Learning

Teaching Competencies for 21st Century Teachers Practical Approaches to Learning

A must-read for every teacher in the 21st century this book provides a comprehensive guide to facilitating joyful sustainable holistic multidisciplinary and active learning. The book discusses different approaches principles techniques and activities for creating a classroom where different learning types can thrive. The methods outlined in this volume help teachers ensure that every learner regardless of background or orientation can engage in participatory reflective self-directed experiential entrepreneurial and collaborative learning and develop holistically. Essential for the 21st century the book highlights the significance of digital technologies and examines how teachers can easily use digital technologies to offer personalized and blended learning. This book is a vital resource for teachers who want to improve their teaching skills and create a positive and engaging learning environment for their learners. This book helps teachers across the globe to enhance learning outcomes in classrooms and subsequently develop the quality of their education systems. This volume is useful to students researchers and teachers in education psychology development studies social work and sociology. It is also an invaluable companion to policymakers and professionals from government and non-government organisations working in the education and social development sectors. | Teaching Competencies for 21st Century Teachers Practical Approaches to Learning

GBP 130.00
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Macroeconomics and Markets in Developing and Emerging Economies

Macroeconomics and Markets in Developing and Emerging Economies

The book presents and further develops basic principles and concepts in international finance and open economy macroeconomics to make them more relevant for emerging and developing economies (EDEs). The volume emphasises the necessity of greater knowledge of context as populous Asian economies integrate with world markets as well as the rapidly changing nature of the area due to rethinking after the global financial crisis. It addresses a host of themes including key issues such as exchange rate economics macroeconomic policy in an open economy analytical frameworks for and experience of EDEs after liberalisation the international financial system currency and financial crises continuing risks and regulatory response. This book will be useful to scholars and researchers of economics especially in macroeconomics business and finance and development studies. | Macroeconomics and Markets in Developing and Emerging Economies

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Terror Financing in Kashmir

Terror Financing in Kashmir

This book analyses the layered and complex web of terror financing in Kashmir. It examines the role of multiple actors — including formal and informal state and non-state profit and non-profit and local and international — to delineate the various strands of an intricate financial system. It shows how over time these sophisticated networks have largely remained elusive to Indian counter-terrorism agencies and the need for a specialised and focused effort to understand it. Drawing on interviews with confidential sources within terror networks as well as inputs and intel from security agencies on the ground the author lays the groundwork for a robust counter-terrorism strategy in Kashmir. This book will be a must read for professionals and researchers in security studies military and strategic studies politics and international relations and South Asian studies.

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Governance of Higher Education in Bihar Influence of Power Centers

Governance of Higher Education in Bihar Influence of Power Centers

This book presents the state-specific dimensions of the governance of higher education in Bihar India based on a real-case perspective. It discusses the policies of the center and state governments and their implications on the state's higher education system. It addresses the issues and challenges faced by the higher education sector from the point of view of multiple stakeholders at center state university and college levels while examining influential power centers. The volume focuses on select universities in the state and looks at how they manage policies schemes and regulations. It deals with key themes such as the role of state and regulatory bodies such as the University Grants Commission; the balance of power; resource scarcity; the inadequacy of top-down governance models; governance failure; and the autonomy of universities. It explores the conflict between the politics and economics of governance and efficiency; the promotion and recruitment of senior office-bearers and teachers; the privatization of colleges; and financing admission and examination systems. Through an in-depth study using empirical unit-level data from the All-India Survey of Higher Education examples and theoretical frameworks the book analyzes the reasons for the underperformance of the governance system of higher education in Bihar. It also offers suggestions and policy recommendations to help improve its planning and management via participative and responsible governance and informed institutional leadership. This book will be of interest to students teachers and researchers of education higher education economics governance and public administration and development studies. It will also be useful to educationists and experts education administrators policymakers bureaucrats and the governing bodies of higher education institutions. | Governance of Higher Education in Bihar Influence of Power Centers

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Undernutrition and Public Policy in India Investing in the future

Undernutrition and Public Policy in India Investing in the future

Despite substantial economic growth India has one of the highest undernutrition rates in the world; it is home to almost 40 per cent of the world’s stunted children. This volume assesses the status and causes of undernutrition in the country and examines the effectiveness of policies designed to address undernutrition. The essays tackle wide-ranging themes and challenging issues including nutrition; water sanitation and hygiene (WASH); maternal neonatal and child health; Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS); Public Distribution System (PDS); crop procurement; and National Food Security Act 2013. With contributions from leading academic researchers policymakers as well as civil society representatives this volume will be indispensable to scholars teachers and students of public policy development economics development sociology and Indian economy. It will also be useful to government institutions think tanks and NGOs. | Undernutrition and Public Policy in India Investing in the future

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