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The effects of kin on child mortality in rural Gambia
Sear, Rebecca; Steele, Fiona; McGregor, Ian A.; Mace, Ruth - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
In this paper we analyse data that were collected continuously between 1950 and 1974 from a rural area of The Gambia to determine the effects of kin on child mortality. Multilevel event history models are used to demonstrate that having a living mother, maternal grandmother or elder sisters had...
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Urbanizing refuge: interrogating spaces of displacement
Sanyal, Romola - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
Refugee spaces are emerging as quintessential geographies of the modern, yet their intimate and everyday spatialities remain under-explored. Rendered largely through geopolitical discourses, they are seen as biopolitical spaces where the sovereign can reduce the subject to bare life. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125981
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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 …. Innovative areas in China, rather than generate knowledge spillovers, seem to produce strong backwash effects. In India, by …
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Labour force participation of women in India: some facts, some queries
Bhalla, Surjit; Kaur, Ravinder - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
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Assessing pricing assumptions for weather index insurance in a changing climate
Daron, Joseph D.; Stainforth, David A. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
the provision of index-based crop insurance in Kolhapur, India. We expose the benefits and limitations of the Bayesian …
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Inclusion and growth in India: some facts, some conclusions
Bhalla, Surjit - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
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Growth, employment and poverty reduction: post-reform Indian experience
Himanshu, Himanshu - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
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Railroads of the Raj: estimating the impact of transportation infrastructure
Donaldson, Dave - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
light on these questions, I collect archival data from colonial India and use it to estimate the impact of India's vast …
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An 'integrated' framework for the comparative analysis of the territorial innovation dynamics of developed and emerging countries
Crescenzi, Riccardo; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
system to be challenged – and China and India as emerging competitors for international technological leadership. The … ‘emerging’ (China and India) and ‘mature’ (EU and US) innovation systems. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126496
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GST reforms and intergovernmental considerations in India
Ahmad, Ehtisham; Poddar, Satya - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
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