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Asia’s Infrastructure Challenges: Issues of Institutional Capacity
Stone, Susan - eSocialSciences - 2010
. Strong investment in infrastructure is needed to support continuing efforts to achieve overall growth as well as poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008680373
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Fertility Regulation in an Economic Crisis
McKelvey, Christopher; Thomas, Duncan; Frankenberg, … - eSocialSciences - 2011
effort to reduce global fertility and increase investment per child worldwide. The importance for fertility behaviors of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009319330
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Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries
Naude, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Goedhuys, Micheline - eSocialSciences - 2011
How does innovation impact on development? How, and under what conditions, do entrepreneurs in developing countries innovate? And what can be done to support innovation by entrepreneurs in developing countries? This policy brief addresses these questions and explains the relationship between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323949
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Determinants of Fixed Investment:A Study of Indian Private Corporate Manufacturing Sector
Nair, V.R. Prabhakaran - eSocialSciences - 2010
This paper analyses the determinants of fixed investment in the Indian Private Corporate Manufacturing sector for the … determining the investment behaviour in developing countries rather than the traditional factors like output and profit. Against … whether the traditional factors or the economic policy variables plays a major role in determining investment behaviour. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727224
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Transport Infrastructure and Poverty Infrastructure
Setboonsarng, Sununtar - eSocialSciences - 2010
The main issues surrounding this concern and provides a range of policy, regulatory, and institutional measures that could help strengthen the impact of transport infrastructure on poverty reduction are summarized.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008522013
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Report on National Mineral Policy
Planning Commission, India - eSocialSciences - 2007
Even after five years of after the liberalisation of the investment regime India has failed to attract FDI to come to … policies to attract global investment. In a study conducted in 2001 by the World Bank, ‘Mining Sector reforms and Investmentâ …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005170138
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The Role of Intellectual Property Rights in Information and Communication Technologies
Rao, C Niranjan - eSocialSciences - 2008
The paper starts by recapitulating the basic arguments provided by economic theory to explain the existence of the patent system. The paper then concentrates on the three important ICT industries viz., telecommunication equipment, computer hardware and semiconductor industries. The issues...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487573
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Behavior of Remittance Inflows and its Determinants in Bangladesh
Begum, Mst. Nurnaher; Sutradhar, Rama Rani - eSocialSciences - 2012
The paper examines the determinants of remittance inflow by applying ordinary least square method (OLS). The model include the weighted average GDP of the six (Saudi Arabia (KSA), United Arab Emirates (UAE), Malaysia, Kuwait, USA and UK) remittance sending host countries which contributed more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010567987
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Foreign Investment in Farmland No Low-hanging Fruit
Chatterjee, Claire Schaffnit - eSocialSciences - 2012
A key driver of foreign investment in land, food security is a challenge mankind has been confronted with in various …:[http://www.dbresearch.com/PROD/DBR_INTERNET_EN-PROD/PROD0000000000296807/Foreign+investment+in+farmland%3A+No+low-hanging+fruit.pdf]. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945485
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Global Employment Trends for Youth 2013: A Generation at Risk
eSocialSciences; International Labour Organisation ILO - 2014
This issue of Global Employment Trends for Youth provides an update on youth labour markets around the world, focusing both on the continuing labour market crisis and on structural issues in youth labour markets. The report provides an overview of youth labour markets at the global and regional...
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