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Contribution of Services Sector in the Economy of Pakistan
Ahmed, Ayaz; Ahsan, Henna - eSocialSciences - 2011
The services sector has provided steady support to Pakistan’s economic growth. It share in GDP now stands a more than 50 percent. The paper analyses its continuation in the growth of the economy in general and the development of trade and genera tion of employment in particular. The study...
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More and Better Jobs in South Asia
Nayar, Reema; Gottret, Pablo; Mitra, Pradeep; … - eSocialSciences - 2012
reliable route out of poverty for a region that is home to more than 40 percent of the world’s absolute poor. [World Bank …
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Implications of Market and Coordination Failures for Rural Development in Least Developed Countries
Kydd, Jonathan; Dorward, Andrew - eSocialSciences - 2006
This paper examines core features of poor rural areas, the nature of coordination problems faced by different potential economic actors, the impacts of these problems on markets and economic development, and the ways that these have been addressed or ignored in different policies and policy...
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Andhra Pradesh Budget Speech 2009-10
Pradesh, Government Andhra - eSocialSciences - 2009
Speech of Sri K. Rosaiah
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Natural Resource Conservation, Use and Sustainability in Drylands
Alagh, Yoginder - eSocialSciences - 2007
This keynote address of the conference on Natural Resource Conservation Use and Sustainability in Drylands, focuses mainly on some new concepts of resource assessments in dry areas, some recent debates on organizational ideas on communities and their institutions; larger issues to place the...
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Tamil Nadu Budget 2008-09
Government, Tamil Nadu - eSocialSciences - 2008
Speech of Prof. K. Anbazhagan, Minister for Finance, Government of Tamil Nadu, presenting the Budget for 2008-2009 to the Legislative Assembly on 20th March, 2008.
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Sustainability of Indian Agriculture: Towards an Assessment
Rao, V.M. - eSocialSciences - 2007
This paper presents a systemic framework to look at the prospects for sustainability of Indian agriculture. The … shaping the growth, efficiency and stability of agriculture. The domains are: Natural resources covering land, water, climate … prospects for agriculture are seen to depend in the final analysis not so much on nature or factors beyond control as on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699187
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The Employment-Unemployment Situation in India in the Nineteen Nineties: Some Results from the NSS 55th Round Survey (July 1999-June 2000)
Sundaram, K. - eSocialSciences - 2010
The National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) has recently released the report containing key results of the NSS 55th Round Employment-Unemployment Survey covering the period July 1999 thru June 20001 .Being canvassed over a separate set of households, the results of the Employment-Unemployment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008524069
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Employment and Poverty in India: 2000-2005
Sundaram, K. - eSocialSciences - 2007
This paper is principally focused on the changes in the size and structure of work force and the changes in labour productivity, wages and poverty in India in the first quinquennuim of the 21st century. The period between 2000 and 2005 saw a sharp acceleration in work force growth, and, on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487545
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Non-equity Alliances and the Performance of Indian Software Firms
Siddharthan, N.S.; Nollen, Stanley - eSocialSciences - 2006
The Indian software industry has grown very rapidly for more than a decade. In this study we report the results of a multivariate statistical analysis of the determinants of sales revenue growth and profit margins of Indian software firms. Based on original firm-level survey data, our SUR...
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