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Does the institution of State Business Relations matter for Firm Performance? – A study of Indian Manufacturing

Kathuria, Vinish; Natarajan, Rajesh Raj; Sen, Kunal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper examines the role of the external institutional environment captured by effective state-business relations on firm performance. By effective state-business relations, we mean a set of highly institutionalized, responsive and public interactions between the state and the business...

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Primary completion rates across socio-religious communities in West Bengal

Husain, Zakir; Chatterjee, Amrita - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Primary completion rates of Muslims in West Bengal are substantially lower than that of upper caste communities as well as backward castes, scheduled castes and tribes. Further, analysis of age-specific pcr indicates that differences in pcr between Muslims and other communities may have actually...

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Analysing demand for primary education: Slum dwellers of Kolkata

Husain, Zakir - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

The low level of literacy within the Muslim community is traditionally explained in terms of the conservative values characterising Muslim society. Based on a field survey of slum dwellers in selected areas of Kolkata, this article argues that economic factors and uncertainties in the labour...

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Decomposition of Industrial Energy Consumption in Indian Manufacturing : The Energy Intensity Approach

Sahu, Santosh; Narayanan, K - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

industries. The industrial sector accounts for about 37 percent of the total final energy consumption in India. Of this the … other industries in India. The scope of the study includes an empirical analysis of General Parametric Divisia Method. This …

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Gender Bias Among Children in India in their Diet and Immunisation Against Disease

Borooah, Vani - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

This paper conducts an econometric analysis of data for a sample of over 4000 children in India, between the ages of 1 … to a broader conclusion which was that all children in India suffered from sharper, but less publicised, forms of … illiterate mothers and being brought up in the more impoverished parts of India. …

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Inequality in health outcomes in India: the role of caste and religion

Borooah, Vani - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

persons in India. In other words, even after controlling for non-community factors, did the fact that Indians belonged to … India. Furthermore, there was the possibility that the “social gradient” existed with respect to some outcomes but not to …

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Telesupport Experiment for Agricultural Information Management in West Bengal, India

Goswami, Rupak; Ghosh Roy, Jhumpa; Ghose, Jhulan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Bengal, India. During the project period an innovative mechanism of information management was experimented to facilitate two …

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Vulnerability and Climate Change: An Analysis of the Eastern Coastal Districts of India

Patnaik, Unmesh; Narayanan, K. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper attempts to construct a picture of socioeconomic context of vulnerability by focusing on indicators that measure both the state of development of the region as well as its capacity to progress further. The first aspect is reflected through agricultural and industrial development,...

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Deprivation, Violence, and Conflict: An Analysis of Naxalite Activity in the Districts of India

Borooah, Vani - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

to those which are free of Naxalite activity? And can the existence of Naxalite activity in some districts of India, but … not in others, be explained by differences in economic and social conditions? This study identifies districts in India in … and illiteracy in India. …

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Incumbency and Parliamentary Elections in India

Borooah, Vani - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

A recurring theme in commentary on parliamentary (Lok Sabha) elections in India since the 1990s is that of “anti … 1967 and 1999 towards the historically most significant of political parties in India – the Indian National Congress. In …

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