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Worldwide Incidence of Malaria in 2009: Estimates, Time Trends, and a Critique of Methods
Cibulskis, Richard E; Aregawi, Maru; Williams, Ryan; … - eSocialSciences - 2012
Measuring progress towards Millennium Development Goal 6, including estimates of, and time trends in, the number of malaria cases, has relied on risk maps constructed from surveys of parasite prevalence, and on routine case reports compiled by health ministries. A critique of both methods are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009493975
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The Asian “Noodle Bowlâ€:Is It Serious for Business?
Kawai, Masahiro; Wignaraja, Ganeshan - eSocialSciences - 2009
A lively debate is taking place over the impact of free trade agreements (FTAs) on East Asia's business between those who view the agreements as a harmful Asian "noodle bowl"—i.e., overlapping regional trade agreements—of trade deals and others who see net beneficial effects in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045004
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Trade Adjustment and Human Capital Investments: Evidence from Indian Tariff Reform
Topalova, Petia; Edmonds, Eric; Pavcnik, Nina - eSocialSciences - 2007
decisions? This question is examined in the context of India's 1991 tariff reforms. Overall, in the 1990s, rural India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699051
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The EU India FTA in Agriculture and Likely Impact on Indian Women
Sengupta, Ranja; Singh, Roopam - eSocialSciences - 2010
This study attempts to provide an analysis of the gender concerns of the proposed EU India FTA in the field of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008577206
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Frontier Issues on the Global Agenda- Emerging Economy Perspective
Subbarao, Duvvuri - eSocialSciences - 2011
The article is a report of RBI Minister Duvvuri Subbarao on issuesing concerning the G-20 countries and also issues effecting all the countries collectively.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009319335
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Challenges and Opportunities in a Trillion Dollar Economy
C, Chakrabarty K - eSocialSciences - 2011
The Indian economy reached the trillion US dollar GDP milestone in 2007 and joined other countries of the trillion dollar club, namely, the US, UK, Japan, Germany, China, France, Italy, Spain, Canada, Brazil and Russia. In fact, over the period 1960 to the late 1980s, India’s GDP in US...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009321469
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Impact of Trade Liberalization on Returns from Land: A Regional Study of Indian Agriculture
Ghosh, Nilabja - eSocialSciences - 2010
Trade liberalization, by aligning domestic prices with world prices, is envisaged to bring welfare gains to a country. In the case of Indian agriculture, owing to the vastness and diversity of the sector, the impact is likely to be profoundly unequal across regions especially when liberalization...
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Myth of Chinese Labour Flexibility
Sundar, K.R. Shyam - eSocialSciences - 2014
India has been a land of myths. Industrial relations are no exception to this trend. The arguments in the name of … debate. In consonance with the globalization ideology, it is often cited that countries like China are doing well and … attracting foreign investment primarily due to its flexible labour market regime and further state that India lags behind …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011026235
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Post-Conflict Recovery: Does the Global Economy Work for Peace?
Addison, Tony - eSocialSciences - 2009
This paper mainly addresses the economic dimensions, concentrating on the importance of international trade to state-building and the need for global public goods in a global market economy. The focus here is on the smaller countries emerging from civil war (particularly in Africa) rather than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543096
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Criss-Crossing Globalization: Uphill Flows of Skill-Intensive Goods and Foreign Direct Investment
Mattoo, Aaditya; Subramanian, Arvind - eSocialSciences - 2014
acquisitions) it is shown that flows of FDI to OECD countries from developing countries like Brazil, India, Malaysia and South …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133244