Empowering Rural Women through Skill Formation Training - An Empirical Study of Swarnajayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojana in India

Sarangi, Samiran; Lahiri, Debabrata

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“…Until and unless the futures markets are being participated by a large number of producers and traders including small and marginal ones, benign role of these markets cannot be realized (Ali and Gupta, 2011; Ramaswami and Singh, 2007). It may be noted that small growers are often reluctant to venture into risky entrepreneurial activities in the absence of effective mitigation measures (Sarangi and Lahiri, 2007). Therefore, their participation in futures trading is a utopian proposition.…”

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Can futures markets accommodate Indian farmers?

Dey¹,

Maitra

2016

JADEE

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Purpose It has become an ongoing debate whether Indian commodity futures markets can accommodate farmers. The purpose of this paper is to examine whether Indian commodity futures markets help rationalize farmers’ price expectation. The study starts with questions on the efficiency and other roles of commodity futures markets. Design/methodology/approach From a sectoral standpoint and economic importance, the study considers pepper, coffee, and natural rubber (NR) futures and spot markets. The efficiency of futures markets, divergence/convergence and causality between futures and spot markets have been studied by employing co-integrations, error correction and causality models. The sample period of the data are taken from the inception of futures trading. These three commodities are also compared on the basis of trading at the futures markets vs spot markets. Findings Analysis shows that though pepper futures market is informationally efficient in price discovery, while coffee and NR spot markets do the process faster. Pepper and coffee futures and spot prices exhibit the convergence; NR shows a sign of divergence. Unidirectional causality from pepper futures to spot market is observed wherein the former was weakly exogenous to the latter and while, bidirectional causality is observed in coffee and rubber. Coffee spot appears weakly exogenous while this remains inconclusive in the case of NR. Research limitations/implications The authors analyzed the futures markets in rationalizing the spot market price in three plantation crops in India. In order to make the study more generalizable, further research is warranted in other commodities including those prices of which are government regulated. Originality/value The paper is unique in terms of understanding the interaction or interrelationship between futures markets and spot markets and drawing inferences about the role of futures markets in price formation in plantation commodities like pepper, coffee and NR.

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Can futures markets accommodate Indian farmers?

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Maitra

2016

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“…In another study on training connected with MED in West Bengal it was concluded that training was mostly supply‐ rather than demand‐driven and training inputs were not properly utilised by the recipients. Nearly 50 per cent of the recipients were not interested in receiving any training as they found that their enterprises would not be economically viable (Sarangi & Lahiri, ). In another study, this time of women in Maharashtra, by Chaitanya (), it was reported that the programme was reaching the people for whom it was intended.…”

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The role of training in reducing poverty: the case of microenterprise development in India

Bharti

2014

Int J Training Development

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Self-employment in general and microenterprise in particular is evolving as a prospective option for income generation and the reduction of poverty in developing economies such as India. However, a lack of skills among the poor has been identified as one of the key hindrances in promoting microenterprises and, therefore, in reducing poverty. Various initiatives have been taken to promote entrepreneurship among the poor and the present study seeks to examine the role of training in this process. The conclusion is that provision of training alone may not always help in promoting entrepreneurship. The training itself must meet the needs of the trainees, and other strategic variables, particularly access to finance, may need to be in play.

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