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Water Democracy: Reclaiming Public Water in Asia
FGS, Focus on the Global South - eSocialSciences - 2010
This collection of 19 new essays written by civil society activists, trade unionists and other water practitioners, presents examples of ongoing struggles against water privatization and commercialization as well as inspiring examples of people-centered public water management from across Asia....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008513088
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Fuel Price Hike and Indonesia’s Energy Insecurity
Sembiring, Margareth; Kenawas, Yoes C. - eSocialSciences - 2013
Fuel price hikes have always been unpopular in Indonesia, largely because of their wide-ranging impact on the population. Yet, it is undeniable that the current high subsidies are unsustainable. To move forward on this issue then, the government would need to focus on comprehensive measures that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133262
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‘Autonomy On-line’: Indymedia and Practices of Alter-Globalisation
Pickerill, Jenny - eSocialSciences - 2007
The paper examines Australian Indymedia collectives as a means to improve understanding of the practices of alter-globalisation movements. Indymedia, which emerged around the anti-World Trade Organisation protests in Seattle in 1999 is an attempt by media activists to offer new forms of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528192
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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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Multidimensional Indices of Achievements and Poverty: What Do We Gain and What and What Do We Lose?
Lustig, Nora - eSocialSciences - 2011
Poverty and well-being are multidimensional. Nobody questions that deprivations and achievements go beyond income. There is, however, sharp disagreement on whether the various dimensions of poverty and well-being can be aggregated into a single, multidimensional index in a meaningful way. Is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009319343
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008691810
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Globalization and Regional Income Inequality: Evidence from within China
Lu, Ming; Wan, Guanghua; Chen, Zhao - eSocialSciences - 2010
aggravates concerns over the impact of globalization on the already rising inter-region income inequality in China. This paper … discusses China’s globalization process and estimates an income generating function, incorporating trade and FDI variables. It … then applies the newly developed shapley value decomposition technique to quantify the contributions of globalization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727213
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Globalization, Poverty and Inequality: What Is the Relationship? What Can Be Done?
Basu, Kaushik - eSocialSciences - 2010
The paper studies the relation between globalization, inequality and marginalization, within and across nations. It … reviews the existing evidence on globalization and global inequality and argues, using a simple theoretical model, that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008740429
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Channels and Policy Debate in the Globalization-Inequality-Poverty Nexus
Nissanke, Machiko; Thorbecke, Erik - eSocialSciences - 2010
The paper offers a critical literature review of the debate surrounding the globalization- poverty nexus, focusing on … channels and linkages through which globalization affects the poor. After introducing four different concepts used to measure … trends in world income inequality, it examines first the ‘growth’ conduit through which globalization affects poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008740431