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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.
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This paper argues that the relation between temptations and the level of consumption plays a key role in explaining the observed behaviors of the poor. Temptation goods are defined to be the set of goods that gen- erate positive utility for the self that consumes them, but not for any previous...
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This paper focuses on the role of fiscal and monetary policies in the evolution of the Indian economy over the years, with particular attention being given to the reforms undertaken in these policies since the early 1990s. [Sixth Asian Economic Policy Review Conference, Tokyo].
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surplus but that there is considerable variation across the countries, with Hong Kong, China exhibiting the biggest increase … in the saving and investment (S-I) balance. [ADBI Working Paper 238] …
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This paper attempts to analyse the economic implications of the rise of China, India, Brazil and South Africa, for …. In doing so, it considers the main channels of transmission, to focus on international trade, investment, finance and …
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€™ global ambitions as playing a “win-win†for China and the host countries. [IRN Guide]. URL …
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debate. In consonance with the globalization ideology, it is often cited that countries like China are doing well and … attracting foreign investment primarily due to its flexible labour market regime and further state that India lags behind …
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In this context, higher education as well as research and development (R&D) have long since ceased to be purely the domain of the developed Western economies. Numerous regions of the world, some in the emerging markets in particular – the often-cited BRIC countries – are catching...
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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...
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This paper compares and contrasts the performance of India and China in attracting foreign direct investment (FDI …). Both economies are large emerging markets that had rather similar profiles in 1978. Today, China ranks number one as the … world’s preferred foreign investment destination. Closer examination of the FDI statistics suggests that Indiaâ …
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