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The Specific Allocation Fund (DAK) : Mechanism and Uses
Usman, Syaikhu; Mawardi, M. Sulton; Poesoro, Adri; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
This study aims to analyze the management of the Specific Allocation Fund (DAK). The three largest DAK-recipient sectors are the focus of the study : education, health, and roads infrastructure. The study sample areas are four districts. This paper was compiled based on the results of in-depth...
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Effects of Public Investment in Infrastructure on Growth and Poverty in India
Murty, K. N.; Soumya, A. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
Counter factual policy simulations of sustained increase in public investment in infrastructure, financed through borrowing from commercial banks, shows substantial increase in private investment and thereby output in this sector. Further, due to increase in absorption, real private investment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365461
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Macro economic effects of public investment in infrastructure in India
Murty, K. N.; Soumya, A. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
This paper attempts to build an aggregative, structural, macroeconometric model for India. Investment and output in the model are disaggregated into four sectors, viz., (a) agriculture including forestry & fishing, (b) manufacturing, (c) infrastructure, which includes power, transport,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365472
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Convergence and Inequality : the case of Western Balkan countries.
OUARDIGHI, JALAL EL; KAPETANOVIC, RABIJA SOMUN- - Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée (BETA), … - 2007
This paper analyses the convergence process of inequality in income among five Balkan countries in the 1989-2005 period … approach is to consider the convergence of country contributions to the international income inequality. The model allows … simultaneously to test the convergence process of income and inequality. The results indicate a real convergence process between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005422865
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Emergence of China and India in the New Millennium : Will it Facilitate Market Access for LDCs and Developing Countries?
Mohanty, S. K.; Chaturvedi, Sachin - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
China and India have emerged as highly dynamic economies in recent years. In the Asian region their growth and economic expansion has generated its own complementarities. The paper has empirically shown that surge in the exports of these two countries have significantly contributed to their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363489
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The Service Sector as India’s Road to Economic Growth?
Eichengreen, Barry; Gupta, Poonam - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
Among fast growing developing countries, India is distinctive for the role of the service sector. However, sceptics have raised doubts about both the quality and sustainability of the increase in service sector activity and its implications for economic development. Using National Accounts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363516
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Impact of Trade on Employment Generation in Manufacturing in India
Goldar, Bishwanath - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
Analysing the impact of trade on manufacturing employment in India, it is found that exports had a favourable effect on industrial employment, but the positive effect of export increase was offset by the negative effect of increases in imports. The net effect was marginal. The failure of trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365108
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Health Effects of Job Insecurity among Employees in Swiss General Population
DOMENIGHETTI, Gianfranco; D'AVANZO, Barbara; BISIG, Brigitte - Départment d'économétrie et d'économie politique … - 1999
Objectives. To investigate at national level the association between health and the social distress in which the whole employed population is plunged as a consequence of job insecurity. Design. Cross-sectional study. Setting. Switzerland. Subjects. Individuals working full or part time as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005650149
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Health Effects of Stress and Insecurity among Employees in the Banking Sector - Comparison with Employees in other Sectors
Domenighetti, Gianfranco; Quaglia, Jacqueline; … - Départment d'économétrie et d'économie politique … - 2004
This study measures, on a representative sample of employees in the banking sector (N=428), the prevalence of 18 work condition factors which may have an influence on the levels of stress and insecurity. The analysis then points out the relationship between these two latter factors and 16 health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005518810
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Club-Convergence and Polarisation of States : A Nonparametric Analysis of Post-Reform India
Kar, Sabyasachi; Jha, Debajit; Kateja, Alpana - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
in the post reform period, in order to identify trends towards convergence-club formation, polarisation or stratification …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363576