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improve its social security system and provide basic support for all of its people. The unemployment shock has caused rural … social security would not only mitigate unemployment shocks in the short term, but it would also guarantee individuals and …
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This paper introduces two composite indices of globalization. The first is based on the Kearney/Foreign Policy magazine … and the second is obtained from principal component analysis. They indicate the level of globalization and show how … globalization has developed over time for different countries. The indices are composed of four components: economic integration …
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This paper reports findings from the survey of India’s textiles and clothing exporters. The survey method has been … exporters. A structured questionnaire has been used to gather data from a sample of 135 exporters across eight export centers of …
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The objective of the paper is to test the empirical regularity that exporters are more productive than non-exporters in … differential comparison between exporters and non-exporters show that Non-exporters have a higher Total Factor Productivity than … Exporters. URL: [ http://fgks.in/IndexServer/tifac/article/129.pdf]. …
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This monograph looks at how Indian exporters of goods and services have used e-commerce to promote exports. The second … of services specifically of IT and IT enabled services, the study concludes that exporters of services have used the …
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This paper examines in its first part, the views of leading European academics, politicians, lobbyists and opinion-makers on the issue of relations with Asia. The second part of this paper looks at what might be done to improve the Asian side of things. Two measures are proposed. First, there...
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Panel studies based on the same set of sample households or individuals at two points of time 5 or 10 years apart are time consuming and are relatively rare in social science research. Such a method, however, was used in the South Asia Migration study (SMS) conducted by the Centre for...
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equilibrium wage will cause unemployment. This paper makes two contributions to the basic theory of the minimum wage. First, we … analyze the effects of a higher minimum wage in terms of poverty rather than in terms of unemployment. Second, we extend the … perspective from unemployment to poverty leads to a considerable enrichment of the theory of the minimum wage. …
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In this paper, in order to study the impact of offshoring on sectoral and economy wide rates of unemployment, we … construct a two sector general equilibrium model in which unemployment is caused by search frictions. The model shows that wage … increases and sectoral unemployment decreases upon offshoring in the presence of perfect intersectoral labor mobility. If, as a …
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The key elements of effective central banking that account for much of the improvement in monetary policy around the world today are outlined and explained. The past quarter of the century has been a revolutionary period in which the world emerged from great inflation and output instability into...
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