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Innovation and Growth: Role of the Financial Sector

Mohan, Rakesh - eSocialSciences - 2008

to innovation and growth. Finally, an outline of the role of monetary policy in sustaining growth and innovations by …

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Making and Unmaking Poverty: Social Science, Social Programmes, and Poverty Reduction in India and Elsewhere

Krishna, Anirudh - eSocialSciences - 2006

How does growth actually trickle down to remove an individualâ€™s poverty? Is it through increases in employment? What other avenues did the benefits of growth travel through before reaching and helping poor people in this country? How do people become poor in the first place? What pathways...

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A Capable State in Afghanistan: A Building Without a Foundation?

Weijer, Frauke de - eSocialSciences - 2013

This paper argues that attempts at state-building in Afghanistan have led to institutions that are not robust. The state institutions and organizations continue to be highly dependent on external resources and technical expertise, and lack of critical mass of people able and willing to maintain...

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Laws and Son Preference in India- A Reality Check

Singh, Kirti - eSocialSciences - 2014

This study underscores the need to connect the dots if the practice of son preference and its manifestation, discrimination against daughters, is to be addressed. Clearly, it is not only about implementing the PCPNDT Act but also the various laws that can indeed play a central role in moulding...

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Escaping Chronic Poverty Through Economic Growth

eSocialSciences; Chronic Poverty Research Centre CPRC - 2010

The paper discusses the participation of poor participate in growth, and how different forms of growth connect to poverty. Also the paper discusses important policy levers, in relation to agriculture, urbanization, social protection and fiscal reform

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Evolving Structural Patterns in the Enlarging European Division of Labour: Sectoral and Branch Specialisation and the Potentials for Closing the Productivity Gap

Stephan, Dr Johannes - eSocialSciences - 2008

Within the past decade, national levels of labour productivity in CEECs have converged significantly towards the levels predominant in the EU. Yet, levels are still significantly lower, large gaps are still prevalent. Needless to say, levels within the EU also differ greatly; comparisons with...

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Does the HIPC Initiative Achieve its Goal of Debt Sustainability?

Gunter, Bernhard G. - eSocialSciences - 2010

This paper examines the question if the Heavily Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) Initiative provides a good basis for the HIPCs to exit from repeated debt rescheduling. Building on other reviews of the HIPC Initiative, the paper begins with a short summary of some key problems of the HIPC...

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Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries

Naude, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Goedhuys, Micheline - eSocialSciences - 2011

How does innovation impact on development? How, and under what conditions, do entrepreneurs in developing countries … innovate? And what can be done to support innovation by entrepreneurs in developing countries? This policy brief addresses … these questions and explains the relationship between entrepreneurship, innovation and development. Policy lessons are drawn …

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Recent Financial Market Developments and Implications for Monetary Policy

Mohan, Rakesh - eSocialSciences - 2007

The nature of the financial turbulence that happened recently in US and Europe, why it happened, where it happened, and the implications for central banks. Some of the forces that led up to and characterized the recent spate of events, the specific responses of central banks and some challenges...

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Enhancing Rural Livelihoods

Matthews, Paul; Young, John - eSocialSciences - 2007

The Overseas Development Institute in the UK recently carried out a study on ICT for rural livelihoods, commissioned by InfoDev. The study included a literature and donor review in collaboration with the Institute of Development Studies, and country studies carried out with partners in...

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