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Transcending the great foreign aid debate: managerialism, radicalism and the search for aid effectiveness

Gulrajani, Nilima - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

The Great Aid Debate pits those who are radically opposed to foreign aid against those who champion its reform to achieve greater aid effectiveness. This paper offers an analysis of this debate by introducing a heuristic distinction between aid 'radicals' and aid 'reformers'. The radical...

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Healthcare reform: the US policy debate

Cooper, Zack - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

The ability of the next US president to rein in spending on healthcare and improve the productivity of the healthcare system is largely going to determine the country’s fiscal future. That is one of the conclusions of the latest in a series of US Election Analyses , published by the Centre for...

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Personalization according to politicians: a practice theoretical analysis of mediatization

Driessens, Olivier; Raeymaeckers, Karin; Verstraeten, Hans - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

Following the evolution towards media-saturated societies, this article presents practice theory as an alternative framework for mediatization studies. We discuss how it can help us grasp the diversity of social and cultural changes related to the highly integrated media. This is demonstrated by...

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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 … how and by whom technological debates are framed, using insights from discursive politics. …

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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

credit, and the politics of rural credit, among others. An attempt is also made to relate these findings to those of other … 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 …

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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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