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The Global Race for Excellence and Skilled Labour: A Status Report
Rollwagen, Ingo; Renkin, Tobias - eSocialSciences - 2012
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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Trading with Asia’s Giants
Bosworth, Barry - eSocialSciences - 2008
India represents a sharp contrast to China in the small size of its goods trade. Although India’s GDP is a third that … of China, its global trade is only about 12 percent as large while its trade with United States is less than 10 percent … as large. Even more striking, Japan’s trade with India is less than 5 percent of its trade with China. The large U …
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Openness, Economic Growth and Labour Migration in times of Global Downturn: with Special Reference to Asian Examples
Jackson, Kenneth E - eSocialSciences - 2011
This paper starts by examining some of the variables that have been considered important determinants of openness and how views of these have changed over the last twenty years. It then considers the importance of migration and remittances back to countries of origin in such variables. It...
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Property Rights and Intra-Household Bargaining
Wang, Shing-Yi - eSocialSciences - 2012
within the household. The question is analyzed in the context of a housing reform that occurred in China that gave existing …
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Vital Stats: Parliament in the Monsoon Session 2013
Malik, Kusum; Kala, Mandira; Vaishnava, Saumya - eSocialSciences - 2013
files related to the allocation of coal blocks, border security issues with Pakistan and China, and the current economic …
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The Lancang-Mekong River Basin: Reflections on Cooperation Mechanisms Pertaining to a Shared Watercourse
Sunchindah, Apichai - eSocialSciences - 2013
The ambitious development plans for the Lancang-Mekong River Basin (LMRB) could have serious environmental, social, cultural and even geopolitical ramifications that could in turn destabilise the Mekong Subregion (MS). On the premise that frameworks for regional cooperation offer a viable route...
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Health, Height, Height Shrinkage and SES at Older Ages: Evidence from China
Huang, Wei; Lei, Xiaoyan; Ridder, Geert; Strauss, John; … - eSocialSciences - 2012
Adult height, as a marker of childhood health, has recently become a focus in understanding the relationship between childhood health and health outcomes at older ages. However, measured height of the older individuals is contaminated by height shrinkage from aging. Height shrinkage, in turn may...
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BCIM Economic Corridor: Prospects and Challenges
Sahoo, Pravakar; Bhunia, Abirup; Dhankar, Sonali - eSocialSciences - 2014
Given the commonalities in terms of history, culture, languages and trade complementarity in many cases, the Bangladesh-China …
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Extensive and Intensive Margins of India's Exports: Comparison with China
Veeramani, C.; Gupta, Prachi - eSocialSciences - 2014
study of exports is undertaken from India and China by analysing the role of extensive and intensive margins in the export …
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The Roots of Gender Inequality in Developing Countries
Jayachandran, Seema - eSocialSciences - 2014
Is the high degree of gender inequality in developing countries in education, personal autonomy, and more explained by underdevelopment itself? Or do the societies that are poor today hold certain cultural views that lead to gender inequality? This article discusses several mechanisms through...
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