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What's the best place for me? Location-choice for S&E students in India

Hercog, Metka; Van de Laar, Mindel - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2013

This paper examines how national migration policies and country-specific factors in receiving countries attend to a potential highly-skilled migrant when one is deciding among several possible locations. While continental European countries recognize the need to attract migrants as a key...

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Determinants of international mobility decision: The case-study of India

Hercog, Metka; Van de Laar, Mindel - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2013

Faced with a situation in which countries compete for international students, it becomes especially important to understand students' preferences regarding migration behaviour. This paper looks at the determinants of international mobility intentions in the specific situation of Indian students...

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Returns to Education, Child Labor, & Schooling in India

Chamarbagwala, Rubiana - EconWPA - 2004

In an environment where children's time has an economic value and employment opportunities for educated workers are scarce, parental investments in their children's education may not be driven entirely by poverty and credit constraints. We offer evidence that children's participation in child...

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Learning Networks Matter: Challenges to Developing Learning-Based Competence in Mango Production and Post-Harvest in Andhra Pradesh, India

Prasad Pant, Laxmi; Hambly Odame, Helen; Hall, Andy; … - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008

This discussion paper explores aspects of innovation systems ideas in the analysis of mango production and export by … to aspects of integrated technology development and innovation management. …

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Playing in Invisible Markets: Innovations in the Market for Toilets to Harness the Economic Power of the Poor

Ramani, Shyama V. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008

Sanitation is at the heart of not only environmental security but also food security and health. Today about 41% of the global population or about 2.6 billion people do not have access to toilets and about 42,000 people die every week due to drinking water polluted with faecal matter. The...

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On India's plunge into Nanotechnology: What are good ways to catch-up?

Ramani, Shyama V.; Chowdhury, Nupur; Coronini, Roger; … - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011

in the interests of economic growth or social welfare that India's science and innovation, and intellectual property …

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Drivers and Barriers of Innovation Dynamics in Healthcare - Towards a framework for analyzing innovation in Tuberculosis control in India

Engel, Nora - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008

changing and with it challenges and opportunities to control the disease. Innovation in a variety of areas such as improved … to respond to the changing public health challenge. This paper reviews theoretical approaches to innovation of direct … relevance to the case and examines what theoretical framework is useful to look at the problem of innovation in public health in …

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Flexibility and innovation in response to emerging infectious diseases: Reactions to multi-drug resistant Tuberculosis in India

Engel, Nora - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008

flexibility and innovation in public health systems is needed in order to react to changing challenges. This paper will take these … innovation and flexibility of a public health system in a country like India. The discussions and reactions to MDR-TB indicate … start to understand what flexibility and innovation could mean for a public health challenge such as TB in India. The paper …

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