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Vote-Buying and Reciprocity
Finan, Frederico; Schechter, Laura - eSocialSciences - 2009
In this paper, how social preferences overcome the commitment problems implicit in vote-buying is examined. Data used for the study is a survey information on vote-buying experienced in a 2006 municipal election in Paraguay, with information on behavior in experiments carried out in 2002....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487857
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Heterogeneity, Commons and Privatization: Agrarian Institutional Change in Goa
Mukhopadhyay, Pranab - eSocialSciences - 2008
A case study in Goa is used to examine whether tenure security and asset re-distribution can lead to environmentally sustainable outcomes.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341846
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The Future Role of the IMF: Asian Perspectives
Anas, Titik; Friawan, Deni - eSocialSciences - 2008
financial cooperation in this region. This paper will discuss the relevance of those initiatives to the IMF reform. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005170136
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Why Don’t Small and Medium Enterprises Innovate More : Creating a Cooperative Learning Environment at Individual, Firm and Regional Level
Gupta, Anil K - eSocialSciences - 2007
also creating the new ones? How culture of cooperation can reinforce the capability to compete at the firm and the network … level. The classical contribution by Charles Perrow had shown the potential of the idea of cooperation among competing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005170169
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SAARC Social Charter
eSocialSciences - 2005
Re-affirms that the principal goal of SAARC is to promote the welfare of the peoples of South Asia, to improve their quality of life, to accelerate economic growth, social progress and cultural development and to provide all individuals the opportunity to live in dignity and to realize their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699318
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Political Economy of East Asian Regional Integration and Cooperation
Katada, Saori N. - eSocialSciences - 2010
In the last decade, East Asia has engaged in constructing numerous mechanisms to enhance regional cooperation in the … regional cooperation from becoming deeper and more coherent. This paper focuses on the political factors that have thus far … shaped the institutional form of East Asian regional trade and financial cooperation, particularly in the three essential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671524
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Asia’s Role in the Global Financial Architecture
Kawai, Masahiro; Petri, Peter A. - eSocialSciences - 2010
established high-level international policy cooperation in this new setting. This paper argues that effective global economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671979
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Regional Cooperation, Infrastructure, and Trade Costs in Asia
Brooks, Douglas H. - eSocialSciences - 2010
reducing the associated transaction costs. Regional coordination and cooperation can help to reduce negative externalities from … and patterns, trade costs and how they are influenced by infrastructure development, and the role of regional cooperation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008680375
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From Economic Meltdown to Social Crunch – Impact of the Global Economic Recession on Social Capital Building in Developing Countries and What We still Don't Know!
Wong, Sam - eSocialSciences - 2011
This paper draws on the experiences of the Far East Economic Crisis in 1998 and argues that: (1) the poor depended heavily on bonding social capital during the Crisis, but the crunch-point beyond which they felt no longer able to rely on this is less certain; (2) bridging social capital could...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323686
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Limits of Modern Epidemiological Models: What are the Alternatives?
Yadavendu, Vijay Kumar - eSocialSciences - 2007
Modern epidemiology has, by and large, been based on a narrow model of biomedicine and behaviour modification. It fails to answer, for instance the following questions: Why certain populations are inflicted with certain kinds of disease, and why the access to its cure and prevention is so...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009250434