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Addressing Extreme Poverty in a Sustainable Manner: Evidence from CFPR programme
Das, Narayan C; Misha, Farzana A - eSocialSciences - 2010
BRAC initiated an innovative programme known as Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction (CFPR) in 2002 to address the extreme poverty in Bangladesh. Impact assessment studies on the first phase of CFPR (2002-06) have shown that the programme had significant positive impacts on the...
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Leveling with Friends: Social Networks and Indian Farmers’ Demand for Agricultural Custom Hire Services
Magnan, Nicholas; Spielman, David J; Lybbert, Travis J.; … - eSocialSciences - 2013
This research was undertaken to understand how information about a new agricultural technology is transmitted through social networks, and what effect information gained through social networks has on technology demand at the household level. The technology in question is laser land leveling...
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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 India’s Technological Trajectory
Ray, Amit Shovon - eSocialSciences - 2008
In this paper an overview of India’s technological trajectory with a view to understanding the nuances of India’s technological capability and the role it has played in the process of India’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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Budget Speech 2012-2013: India
Mukherjee, Pranab - eSocialSciences - 2012
Speech of Pranab Mukherjee Minister of Finance, India. [Budget Speech]. URL:[http://indiabudget.nic.in/ub2012-13/bs/bs.pdf].
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The Conclusion of a Korean Peace Treaty and the U.S. Strategy in the Asia Pacific Region
Rim, Ho Hak - eSocialSciences - 2012
The current century has witnessed every country locked in a hot race to increase its national power through peaceful development, which made Koreans ever more desirous of peace. But why has the Korean Peninsula, contrary to this desire, been haunted by the ghost of war for more than half a...
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Development and Health in Poor Countries: Role of Interntional Organizations and Switzerland
Briand, Bastein; Colli, Lorenza Eder; Gut, Anne; Henny, … - eSocialSciences - 2011
The study tries to better understand three fields which seems to be essential with respect to the problem of a facilitated access to medicines : 1. the ambiguous position of intellectual property (IP) rights in the more general framework of human rights ; 2. the mechanism which enabled the...
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