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China's Pharmaceutical Industry: Typologies and Characteristics
Zhang, Hayan - eSocialSciences - 2006
This paper uses aggregate and firm level data to examine the characteristics of the Chinese pharmaceutical industry in general and its geographical agglomeration in particular. It addresses the following research questions: 1) Are there geographical agglomerations in China’s...
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Intra- and Inter-national University-Industry Linkage and Innovation in Emerging Economies: Evidence from China
Fu, Xiaolan; Li, Jizhen; Hughes, Alan - eSocialSciences - 2012
country or firm innovation outcomes in China. [FGKS]. URL:[http://www.fgks.in/IndexServer/tifac/article/157.pdf]. …The different role of intra- and inter-national university-industry collaboration in industrial innovation in emerging … economies are investigated. Based on a national firm-level survey database from China, it finds that collaboration with domestic …
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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...
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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
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Social Capital and State-Civil Society Relations in Singapore
Keong, Tan Tay - eSocialSciences - 2010
This paper shows that the realization of Singapore’s vision of “active citizenship†and “state-society partnershipâ€, to a significant extent, depends on how social capital is being created and renewed in Singapore’s evolving political landscape.[Working Paper 9]
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Survey Of State-Society Relations Social Indicators Research Project Executive Summary Report
Ling, Ooi Giok; Ser, Tan Ern; Koh, Gillian - eSocialSciences - 2010
The executive summary reports on major findings from a survey conducted among a random sample of 1,054 Singaporeans and Permanent Residents aged 18 to 65. Focus is on views of public policies in three areas, namely, political participation, social capital and trust and provision of public goods...
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Social Capital, Diversity and (Economic) DEvelopment: Evidence from Indian IT Industry, Bangalore
Taube, Florian A. - eSocialSciences - 2006
This paper addresses two sets of questions related to IT development and lessons to be drawn for other regions both in and outside India. Firstly, based on original fieldwork an additional argument to traditional location literature is deployed. Secondly, related research on the financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487640
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Do Television and Radio Destroy Social Capital? Evidence from Indonesian Villages
Olken, Benjamin A. - eSocialSciences - 2006
In "Bowling Alone," Putnam (1995) famously argued that the rise of television may be responsible for social capital's decline. I investigate this hypothesis in the context of Indonesian villages. To identify the impact of exposure to television (and radio), I exploit plausibly exogenous...
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Social Capital and Economic Well-being
Sulaiman, Munshi; Ameen, Farhad - eSocialSciences - 2007
The proposition that social capital expands household welfare is tested by estimating the effects of social interactions on per capita expenditure among a sample of 810 households in northern Bangladesh. Using data from BRAC’s 2004 Social Capital Survey, ordinary least square (OLS)...
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Health Inequalities, Social Cohesion and Social Capital: An Exploration
Yadavendu, Vijay Kumar - eSocialSciences - 2006
This paper claims that the roots and remedies of health inequalities reflected in the major academic debates that culminated with full force towards the turn of the last century, have done little to usher in a radical change in public health discourse. There has been a hesitation to understand...
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