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Deal with the Devil : The Successes and Limitations of Bureaucratic Reform in India
Dhaliwal, Iqbal - 2014
Employing a technological solution to monitor the attendance of public-sector health care workers in India resulted in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458186
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The 1991 Reforms, Indian Economic Growth, and Social Progress
Agarwal, Manmohan - 2013
This paper analyzes the effects of the reforms initiated in India following the balance of payments (BOP) crisis of … compare changes in performance since the reforms, which started in China in 1979 and in India in 1991. Such a comparison shows … in making progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and India lags behind other South Asian countries. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459638
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China and India : Reforms and the Response
Agarwal, Manmohan - 2013
The relative performance of China and India is compared using two different methods and they provide a very different …Using a two tailed- test we find that China does better than India for most of these indicators. For instance, China … has a higher growth rate of per capita income, XGS and GFCF as also a higher share of XGS, GFCF etc in GDP than does India …
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When Can Public Policy Makers Rely on Private Markets? The Effective Provision of Social Services
Blank, Rebecca M. - 1999
The privatization of social services is being increasingly discussed. The social services market is characterized by multiple market failures, including informational asymmetries, agency problems, externalities, and distributional concerns. Consumers may care as much or more about quality of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471699
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Social Finance
Kuchler, Theresa - 2020
We review an empirical literature that studies the role of social interactions in driving economic and financial decision making. We first summarize recent work that documents an important role of social interactions in explaining household decisions in housing and mortgage markets. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482193
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The Impact of Child Care Subsidies on Child Well-Being : Evidence from Geographic Variation in the Distance to Social Service Agencies
Herbst, Chris M. - 2010
In recent years, child care subsidies have become an integral part of federal and state efforts to move economically disadvantaged parents from welfare to work. Although previous empirical studies consistently show that these employment-related subsidies raise work levels among this group,...
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A Free Lunch in the Commons
Kotchen, Matthew J. - 2009
We derive conditions under which cost-increasing measures - consistent with either regulatory constraints or fully expropriated taxes - can increase the profits of all agents active within a common-pool resource. This somewhat counterintuitive result is possible regardless of whether price is...
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Is the Japanese Distribution System Really Inefficient?
Ito, Takatoshi - 1990
This paper investigates the efficiency of the Japanese distribution system, measured by the distribution margin. Most of the discussions on the Japanese distribution system have so far relied on institutional descriptions and anecdotal evidence, failing to substantiate the case. The present...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012475729
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Dangers of a Double-Bottom Line : A Poverty Targeting Experiment Misses Both Targets
Karlan, Dean - 2018
Two for-profit Philippine social enterprises, aiming to demonstrate corporate social responsibility by increasing microlending to the poor, incorporated a widely-used poverty measurement tool into their loan applications and tested the tool using randomized training content. Treated loan...
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What is the Business of Business?
Nilsson, Andreas - 2017
This paper develops a simple framework for understanding the emergence of new organizational forms, such as socially responsible firms and social entrepreneurs, that embody the private sector's efforts to resolve problems that typically have been within the purview of government and traditional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455177