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Gender Differentials in Adult Mortality in India - With Notes on Rural-Urban Contrasts
Krishnaji, N.; James, K.S. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2002
This paper is a preliminary exploration of the trends and spatial variation in gender differentials in adult mortality … in India, as also of the related rural-urban differentials. We pay particular attention to female mortality in the two …, available n an annual basis since 1970. Gender differentials, as well as rural urban differentials, have narrowed down …
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Assessing the Experience of South Asia–East Asia Integration and India’s Role
Wignaraja, Ganeshan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2014
integration process has been led by India and Pakistan with limited participation of smaller South Asian economies. Tackling key … most gains for South Asia and that India has an incentive to include its neighbors in such an arrangement rather than going …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011147326
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Assessing the Experience of South Asia–East Asia Integration and India’s Role
Wignaraja, Ganeshan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2014
integration process has been led by India and Pakistan with limited participation of smaller South Asian economies. Tackling key … most gains for South Asia and that India has an incentive to include its neighbors in such an arrangement rather than going …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011147329
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Industrializing West Bengal? The case of institutional stickiness
Chakravarty, Deepita; Bose, Indranil - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
While there is a clear policy shift towards large-scale industrialization in the state of West Bengal (WB) during the early 1990s, not much improvement can be discerned in the performance of the manufacturing output. Moreover, contrary to the Indian experience, more than half of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363291
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India’s Role in East Asia : Lessons from Cultural and Historical Linkages
Frost, Ellen L. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
opportunity for India but also a long-term strategic shift in regional order. The purpose of this essay is to demonstrate that for … historical, cultural, political as well as for substantial economic reasons India belongs to the East Asian table. It is time to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363292
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Sex trafficking of girls and women : Evidence from Anantapur district, Andhra Pradesh
Vindhya, U.; Dev, V. Swathi - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
A crucial gap in the trafficking literature from India is the dearth of primary data and micro studies that could be … district in Andhra Pradesh to metropolitan cities across India and who have since returned to their homes. The paper attempted …
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Political Economy of Tribal Development : A Case Study of Andhra Pradesh
Reddy, M. Gopinath; Kumar, K. Anil - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
The tribal population in the State of Andhra Pradesh, and in the country as a whole, is the most deprived and vulnerable community that faces severe economic exclusion. Although certain constitutional safeguards are provided, no significant economic, social and political mobility has taken place...
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Drivers of Academic Research and Patenting in India : Econometric Estimation of the Research Production Function
Ray, Amit Shovon; Saha, Sabyasachi - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
India. Academic research is conceptualised as a research production process where research inputs (like research time and …. Our results clearly identify several drivers of academic research and patenting in India, in terms of faculty background … India. In particular, we argue that putting in place institutional structures will not serve the purpose without addressing …
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Export Competitiveness in the Indian auto-component industry : Does Low Wage Cost matter?
Saripalle, Madhuri - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
This paper analyzes the differences in the export behavior of domestic and multinational firms in the Indian auto component industry. Three types of firms are identified according to ownership : purely domestic and licensees, domestic joint ventures and joint ventures with majority stakes by the...
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'Bed and Board' in Lieu of salary : Women and Girl Children Domestics in Post Partition Calcutta (1951-1981)
Chakravarty, Deepita; Chakravarty, Ishita - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
perform different economic roles in society. This segregation on the basis of gender or the sex-typing of work plays an … both by gender and age in post partition West Bengal (WB) and mainly in its capital city Calcutta. We have argued that the … domestics in a state known for its prevalence of domestic service in colonial India. The replacement of male domestics by …
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