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Knowledge disclosure, patents and optimal organization of research and development

Bhattacharya, Sudipto; Guriev, Sergei - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

We develop a model of two-stage cumulative research and development (R&D), in which one Research Unit (RU) with an innovative idea bargains to license her nonverifiable interim knowledge exclusively to one of two competing Development Units (DUs) via one of two alternative modes: an Open sale...

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The weightless economy in economic development

Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999

Can the increasing significance of knowledge-products in national income - the growing weightless economy - influence economic development? Those technologies reduce ''distance'' between consumers and knowledge production. This paper analyzes a model embodying such a reduction. The model shows...

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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 …

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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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Poverty, inequality and mobility in Palanpur: observations from Palanpur

Himanshu, Himanshu; Bakshi, Ishan; Dufour, Camille - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

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