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CLIMATE SENSITIVITY OF INDIAN AGRICULTURE

Kumar, K.S. Kavi - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009

Climate change impact studies on agriculture are broadly based on agronomic-economic approach and Ricardian approach. The Ricardian approach, similar in principle to the Hedonic pricing approach of environmental valuation, has received significant attention due to its elegance and also some...

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Vulnerability to Poverty and Vulnerability to Climate Change : Conceptual Framework, Measurement and Synergies in Policy

Kumar, K.S. Kavi; Klein, Richard J.T.; Ionescu, Cezar; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007

This paper attempts to compare the concepts and metrics related to vulnerability notion as used in the poverty literature with those in the filed of climate change. Such comparison could shed light on the understanding of the perceived and real differences between the two fields and also help to...

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DATA REQUIREMENTS AND STATISTICAL CHALLENGES FOR DESIGNING CLIMATE FRIENDLY ENERGY POLICIES IN MULTILATERAL FRAMEWORK

Sankar, U. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009

impacts of mitigation and adaptation programmes, and articulating Indias concerns and trade-offs in different multilateral …

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Mainstreaming the Adaptations and Reducing the Vulnerability of the Poor due to Climate Change

Ranganathan, C. R.; Palanisami, K.; Kakumanu, K. R.; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011

activities and modify existing activities to improve livelihood incomes. Practices relevant to climate change adaptation around … with the uncertainties. The uptake of such adaptation practices is lagging, however, but informal institutions are playing … a key role as they rely on enforcement methods and are not supported by the government. Mainstreaming adaptation and …

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Mainstreaming the Adaptations and Reducing the Vulnerability of the Poor due to Climate Change

Ranganathan, C. R.; Palanisami, K.; Kakumanu, K. R.; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011

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Managerial Efficiency in Family Owned Firms in Pakistan - An Examination of Listed Firms

Zaidi, Rida; Aslam, Ahmad - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006

level of training, education and experience across this business form. We find great degree of concentration of family …

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Emerging through Technological Capability - An Overview of Indiaââ‚¬â„¢s Technological Trajectory

Ray, Amit Shovon - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008

to a large extent, to its sustained efforts towards technological learning and capacity building. In this paper we … successfully nurtured its high-end human capital for technological learning and is poised for a smooth transition to a knowledge …

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Inefficient Worker Turnover

Jacquet, Nicolas L. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007

This paper considers the efficiency properties of risk-neutral workers mobility decisions in an equilibrium model with search frictions, but no search externalities, when the rent accruing to a match is split through bargaining. Matches are ex ante homogeneous and their true productivity is...

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International and Regional Cooperation : Asia's Role and Responsibilities

Drysdale, Peter; Armstrong, Shiro - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010

Asia has emerged from the global financial crisis as an important stabilizing force and engine of global economic growth. The establishment of the G20 gives Asian economies the global forum that they have needed to both represent their interests in global governance and to deliver on...

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Climate Change and Energy Security - Obamaââ‚¬â„¢s Historic Challenge

Takagi, Yuji - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009

It was a long 35 years ago that Richard Nixon proclaimed, Our national goal should be to meet our own energy needs without depending on any foreign sources. Even now that goal of energy security remains elusive although it has occupied an attention almost continuously. Under the sharp increase...

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