When Nirmala Mahanto first started farming on her in-laws' land in Keonjhar, India, she was taken aback by the back-breaking challenge of crop production. In this drought prone district of eastern India, water scarcity forces women like Nirmala to walk miles, lugging water to irrigate their lands. Agricultural cultivation in Keonjhar is mainly rainfed and as the water tables run low, any changes in rainfall have a bearing on food production.
In the same vein, the 1999 World Bank Policy Search Working Paper concluded that there was empirical evidence of a strong causal relationship between good governance and better development outcomes such as higher per capita incomes, lower infant mortality and higher literacy.
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