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The territorial dynamics of innovation in China and India
Crescenzi, Riccardo; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; Storper, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
This article analyses the geography of innovation in China and India. Using a tailor-made panel database for regions in … between the provinces and states within both countries are quite different. In China, the concentration of innovation is …. Innovative areas in China, rather than generate knowledge spillovers, seem to produce strong backwash effects. In India, by …
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Teachers before the 'threshold'
Marsden, David - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000
During the summer of 2000, the government will introduce a new system of pay and performance management for teachers. The Centre for Economic Performance is conducting a ‘before-andafter’ panel study of teachers and schools to ascertain its effects on motivation and performance. This paper...
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Can a work organization have an attitude problem? The impact of workplaces on employee attitude and economic outcomes
Bartel, Ann; Ichniowski, Casey; Kleiner, Morris; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
In this study we examine whether a workplace can induce good or bad attitudes among its employees and whether any such ¿workplace attitudes¿ affect economic outcomes. This study analyzes responses of thousands of employees working in nearly two hundred branches to the emp loyee opinion survey...
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Cooperative environmental governance and waste-to-energy technologies in Asia
Forsyth, Tim - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
the Philippines and India, and especially the choice between the technologies of incineration, pyrolysis and …
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Tenancy in Palanpur
Tyagi, Ashish; Himanshu, Himanshu - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
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Credit in rural India: a case study
Dreze, Jean; Lanjouw, Peter; Sharma, Naresh - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1997
studies of credit in rural India. …
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Investigating rationality in wage-setting
Bhalotra, Sonia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998
This paper investigates the efficiency wage hypothesis and derives a tractable expression for the profit loss incurred by deviations from the efficiency wage. The extent of the wage deviation can be inferred from production function parameters. The resulting profit loss shown to depend upon the...
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Minority representation and policy choices: the significance of legislator identity
Pande, Rohini - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999
law in India to test this prediction empirically. The principal finding is that minority representation has increased …
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Building deliberative public–private partnerships for waste management in Asia
Forsyth, Tim - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
–private partnerships in waste-to-energy projects in the Philippines and India to identify how principles of institutional design may …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928805
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Non-farm diversification and rural poverty decline: a perspective from Indian sample survey and village study data
Himanshu, Himanshu; Lanjouw, Peter; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
This paper studies the evolution of the rural non-farm sector in India and its contribution to the decline of poverty … close study over a period of six decades. Sample survey data indicate that the non-farm sector in rural India has grown … in India as both particularly closely linked to rural non-farm development and recording particularly high rates of urban …
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