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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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Emerging through Technological Capability: An Overview of Indiaâ€™s Technological Trajectory

Ray, Amit Shovon - eSocialSciences - 2008

In this paper an overview of Indiaâ€™s technological trajectory with a view to understanding the nuances of Indiaâ€™s technological capability and the role it has played in the process of Indiaâ€™s economic progress. [WP No. 227].

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The China-Japan-US Triangle

Vogel, Ezra F. - eSocialSciences - 2006

between the three great powers in the region: China, Japan and the United States. This paper discusses relations between China …, Japan and the United States since World War II. It looks at three periods of critical changes in their relations - 1947 to … fates of the three countries are interlinked. The challenge for the US-Japan-China triangle is to create the positive …

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On the Road: Access to Transportation Infrastructure and Economic Growth in China

Banerjee, Abhijit; Duflo, Esther; Qian, Nancy - eSocialSciences - 2012

This paper estimates the effect of access to transportation networks on regional economic outcomes in China over a twenty-period of rapid income growth. It addresses the problem of the endogenous placement of networks by exploiting the fact that these networks tend to connect historical...

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State of the Economy and Prospects: chapter 1

Mukherjee, Pranab - eSocialSciences - 2012

Economic Survey-Chapter1. [Economic Survey]. URL:[http://indiabudget.nic.in/survey.asp]

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Budget Speech 2012-2013: India

Mukherjee, Pranab - eSocialSciences - 2012

Speech of Pranab Mukherjee Minister of Finance, India. [Budget Speech]. URL:[http://indiabudget.nic.in/ub2012-13/bs/bs.pdf].

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The Conclusion of a Korean Peace Treaty and the U.S. Strategy in the Asia Pacific Region

Rim, Ho Hak - eSocialSciences - 2012

The current century has witnessed every country locked in a hot race to increase its national power through peaceful development, which made Koreans ever more desirous of peace. But why has the Korean Peninsula, contrary to this desire, been haunted by the ghost of war for more than half a...

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Development and Health in Poor Countries: Role of Interntional Organizations and Switzerland

Briand, Bastein; Colli, Lorenza Eder; Gut, Anne; Henny, … - eSocialSciences - 2011

The study tries to better understand three fields which seems to be essential with respect to the problem of a facilitated access to medicines : 1. the ambiguous position of intellectual property (IP) rights in the more general framework of human rights ; 2. the mechanism which enabled the...

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Asset Price Bubble and Banks: The Case of Japan

Monzur, Hossain; Rafiq, Farhana - eSocialSciences - 2012

This paper analyses the behaviour of the Japanese banks at the outset of the asset price bubble in the late 1980s. The paper argues that with the advent of financial deregulations, the declining trend of profitability forced the banks to exhibit speculative behaviour during the asset price...

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Technical Change, International Competitiveness, and Role of the State: Indian Machine Tool Industry's Experience

Kathuria, Vinish - eSocialSciences - 2009

The production of machine tools has long been associated with industrialisation besides a formidable factor of technical change and international competitiveness. This potent role of machine tool industry was amply recognised by several countries. As a consequence, they framed policies to...

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