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Historical Sources of Institutional Trajectories in Economic Development: China, Japan, and Korea Compared
Aoki, Masahiko - eSocialSciences - 2013
This essay provides a game-theoretic, endogenous view of institutions, and then applies the idea to identify the sources of institutional trajectories of economic development in China, Japan, and Korea. It stylizes the Malthusian-phase of East Asian economies as peasant-based economies in which...
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Urbanization in India: Evidence on Agglomeration Economies
Mitra, Arup - eSocialSciences - 2011
The paper examines the urbanization pattern with context of India. The paper deals with various demographic aspects of urbanization. Also the paper focuses on characteristics and classes of cities, and poverty and slums. [Working Paper 141]. URL: [http://fgks.in/IndexServer/tifac/article/141.pdf]
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The Indian Economy since Independence
Vyasulu, Vinod - eSocialSciences - 2007
India's has been a unique path of economic development—internally decided in a democratic framework, constantly debated between different ideologies and interest groups, and increasingly engaging with the world. The ultimate result is uniquely Indian. India has achieved a respectable...
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Market Failure and the Poverty of New Drugs in Maternal Health
Fisk, Nicholas M; Atun, Rifat - eSocialSciences - 2008
A new survey finds that only 17 drugs are under active development for maternal health indications, which is less than 3% of the pipeline in cardiovascular health (660 drugs). The international agencies have forgotten pregnant women. Given the unacceptably high number of maternal and perinatal...
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Working and Living Conditions of Women Domestic Workers: Evidences from Mumbai
Paul, G.D Bino; Dattagupta, Sushanta; R, Venkatesha Murthy - eSocialSciences - 2011
This paper, exploring primary data collected from 1510 women domestic workers in Mumbai, evidently brings out that domestic work as a feminine occupation in a global city like Mumbai is a epitome of critical deficits in human development, a vicious situation of lack of core entitlements which...
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Understanding Inflation and Controlling It
Basu, Kaushik; Marks, C - eSocialSciences - 2011
understanding of economic theory. This paper tries to bring together the formal analytics that underlie inflation policy. It surveys …
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Structural and Functional Loss in Restored Wetland Ecosystems
Mateos, David Moreno; Power, Mary E; Comín, Francisco A; … - eSocialSciences - 2012
Wetlands, which include tropical mangroves and boreal peatlands, are among the most valuable ecosystems in the world because they provide critical ecosystem goods and services, such as carbon storage, biodiversity conservation, fish production, water purification, and erosion control. As global...
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Reading Savarkar: Disequilibriums in Hindutva’s Notion of National-Unity-at-all-Costs
Govind, Nikhil - eSocialSciences - 2011
Sarvarkar’s case for Unity is at best a cumulative network of agile concepts that are open-ended, and can be used by future sympathetic thinkers. To not grasp this agility is to fundamentally misunderstand why the ideology of Unity-at-all-Costs is so available and compelling to many in...
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Geographical Agglomeration of Indian and Chinese Multinationals in Europe: A Comparative Analysis (Preliminary version)
Zhang, Haiyan; Yang, Zhi; Bulcke, Daniel Van Den - eSocialSciences - 2011
level dataset, this study maps Indian and Chinese direct investment in Europe. The geographical agglomeration of … multinational companies from these two large emerging countries is analysed and compared across Europe. The study focuses on the … impact of firm specific advantages on the co-location of Indian and Chinese multinationals in Europe. A non …
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State Aid and Competition in Banking: The Case of China in the Late Nineties
Cheng, Xiaoqiang; CAYSEELE, Patrick VAN - eSocialSciences - 2010
A reduced form model where banks can pursue other goals than profit maximization is presented. This allows us to test for behavioral changes of banks over time. This model provides a framework to evaluate whether moral hazard issues may plague banks receiving state aid, which concerns greatly...
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