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The Medium Run Effects of Educational Expansion: Evidence from a Large School Construction Program in Indonesia

Duflo, Esther - eSocialSciences - 2010

This paper studies the medium run consequences of an increase in the rate of accumulation of human capital in a developing country. From 1974 to 1978, the Indonesian government built over 61,000 primary schools. The school construction program led to an increase in education among individuals...

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Do Labor Intensive Industries Generate Employment? Evidence from firm level survey in India

Das, Deb Kusum; Kalita, Gunajit - eSocialSciences - 2010

This study attempts to address the issue of declining labour intensity in Indiaâ€™s organized manufacturing in order to understand the constraints on employment generation in the labour intensive sectors. Using primary survey data covering 252 labour intensive manufacturing-exporting firms...

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Union Budget 2006-07: Too Little Attention to Agriculture

Alagh, Yoginder - eSocialSciences - 2006

While there is much support for technology institutions in agriculture, little attention has been paid to raise agricultural productivity or prepare the ground for a coming technological change.

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Global Warming and Agriculture: New Country Estimates Show Developing Countries Face Declines in Agricultural Productivity

Cline, William R - eSocialSciences - 2009

There is a growing recognition that global warming is a problem, but little attention has been paid to the likely impact at the country level, especially in the developing world. The stakes for world agriculture, with special attention to China, India, Brazil, and the poor countries of the...

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A Changed World: A Plea for New Thinking

Iyer, Ramaswamy R. - eSocialSciences - 2006

This paper queries the rightness of the current mainstream thinking on development and technological change; expresses the apprehension that the much-feared climate change seems to have begun, and concludes with a fervent plea to all to undertake some radically new thinking. It is a concerned...

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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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