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late entrants in Asia who can stiudy and understand the urban dynamics of existing global cities in Europe and North …
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much ‘capitalistic’ as that of similar agents in contemporary Europe. The difference in the economic trajectories of … more accommodative and open process than in many parts of Europe. Further, the ecology of the Deccan has its own peculiar … Deccan as being ‘non-capitalistic’ in some way. At most, one can argue that economic agents in 18th century Europe acted …
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The lecture focuses on some implications -- both positive and normative -- of the most surprising development in the international financial system over the last half dozen years. That development is the large flow of capital from the world’s most successful emerging markets to the...
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A new survey finds that only 17 drugs are under active development for maternal health indications, which is less than 3% of the pipeline in cardiovascular health (660 drugs). The international agencies have forgotten pregnant women. Given the unacceptably high number of maternal and perinatal...
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economics perspective, examining in particular the dichotomy between economic and social theory in explaining the nexus between …
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A review and extended discussion is presented of The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice and Lives by Deirdre McCloskey and Stephen Ziliak, a work that raises important issues related to the practice of statistics and that has been widely commented...
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opportunity costs, reflecting economics and tradition). It then outlines promising approaches for increasing female education. The …
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Falling costs of coordination and communication have allowed firms in rich countries to fragment their production process and offshore an increasing share of the value chain to low-wage countries. This paper proposes a Ricardian model where both of these effects are present and analyzes the...
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This paper evaluates the real-time performance of the growth rate of the DSE-ECRI Indian leading index for exports for predicting cyclical downturns and upturns in the growth rate of Indian exports. The index comprises the 36-country real effective exchange rate and leading indices of...
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Policy makers, therefore, often encounter the following questions while formulating the social security schemes. What are the priority social security needs of unorganized workers? What existing mechanisms and strategies do they use to meet the social security needs? Do social security needs and...
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