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States Reorganisation: Contemporary Concerns
Pai, Sudha; Sarangi, Asha - eSocialSciences - 2009
Language alone can no longer be the basis for division of states. Issues such as size, governance, economic viability and recognition of new identities are equally important to consider the demands for reorganisation of states. Moreover, the social, economic and political context in which...
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Impact of ASEAN-India FTA on India’s Plantation Commodities: A Simulation Analysis
Saini, Gordhan K; Veeramani, C. - eSocialSciences - 2010
The present study attempts a quantitative assessment of the impact of recently signed ASEAN-India FTA (AIFTA) for selected plantation commodities (coffee, tea and pepper) in India. Partial equilibrium modeling approach (SMART model and gravity model) is used to simulate the likely import...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008620631
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India in the Global and Regional Trade: Determinants of Aggregate and Bilateral Trade Flows and Firms’ Decision to Export
Srinivasan, T.N.; Archana, Vani - eSocialSciences - 2010
This paper contributes to two strands of literature on empirical models of trade flows and trade policy. The first and the older strand is that of gravity models of bilateral trade flows going back to Hans Linneman (1966) and Tinbergen (1962) and its recent applications, particularly by Adams et...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008642254
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Free Trade Agreement between People’s Republic of China and India: Likely Impact and Its Implications to Asian Economic Community
Bhattacharyay, Biswa N; Bhattacharya, Swapan K. - eSocialSciences - 2010
Open regionalism and trade cooperation between the world’s two largest developing countries, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and India, can foster outward-oriented development and intra-regional trade based on comparative advantage and available factor endowments. In view of...
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Short Duration Migration in India: An Appraisal from Census 2001
Korra, Vijay - eSocialSciences - 2011
migrants. [Working Paper No. 442]. URL:[http://www.cds.edu/]. …
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Are All Migrants Really Worse Off in Urban Labour Markets? New Empirical Evidence from China
Gagnon, Jason; Xenogiani, Theodora; Xing, Chunbing - eSocialSciences - 2012
national census survey to investigate discrimination in urban labour markets against rural migrants, by comparing their … earnings and the sector (formal vs. informal) they work in with those of urban residents and urban migrants. Exploiting … rural migrants compared with urban residents, contrary to popular belief. In contrast, it is found that urban migrants in …
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The Dynamics of Health and Return Migration
Davies, Anita A; Borland, Rosilyne M; Blake, Carolyn; … - eSocialSciences - 2011
highlight the diversity of returning migrants and illustrate through examples how return migration can influence the health of …
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The Return of the Prodigy Son: Do Return Migrants Make Better Leaders?
Mercier, Marion - eSocialSciences - 2013
This paper investigates the impact of political leaders’ migration experience on the quality of their leadership. A database is constructed on the personal background of 932 politicians who were at the head of the executive power in a developing country over the 1960-2004 period. A...
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Trade, Tastes and Nutrition in India
Atkin, David - eSocialSciences - 2013
-state migrants are examined, and .it is found that they consume fewer calories for a given level of food spending than otherwise …
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Migrants' Private Giving and Development: Diasporic Influences on Development in Central Gujarat, India
Guha, Puja - eSocialSciences - 2013
The paper addresses the migration-development debate by developing a framework for understanding who are the migrants … backgrounds and migration histories of migrants – in terms of their destination of migration, duration of stay, and occupation … central region of Gujarat, India as a reference case, it traces the pattern of private giving by migrants from the region and …
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