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Foreign Direct Investment and Technology Spillover: An Evaluation Across Different Clusters in India
Dua, Pami; Goldar, B N; Behera, Smruti Ranjan - eSocialSciences - 2011
The paper attempts to explore the technology spillover effects of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Indian manufacturing industries across different selected clusters in India. To measure the spillover effect to domestic firms in a particular cluster, a model is used that combines an innovative...
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What Explains the Productivity Decline in Manufacturing in the Nineties in India?
Ray, Saon - eSocialSciences - 2014
This paper uses the data envelopment analysis (DEA) based Malmquist productivity index to estimate total factor … productivity growth (TFPG), technical change, and efficiency change for a panel of firms during the period 1991 to 2001 in 26 … Indian manufacturing industries. The paper then analyses the factors explaining productivity growth, technical change and …
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Offshoring and Unemployment: The Role of Search Frictions and Labor Minority
Mitra, Devashish; Ranjan, Priya - eSocialSciences - 2009
In this paper, in order to study the impact of offshoring on sectoral and economy wide rates of unemployment, we … increases and sectoral unemployment decreases upon offshoring in the presence of perfect intersectoral labor mobility. If, as a … unemployment. With imperfect intersectoral labor mobility, unemployment in the offshoring sector can rise, with an unambiguous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004980022
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International Outsourcing Hurdles in Value-added Services
Banerjee, Arindam - eSocialSciences - 2010
International Outsourcing has been traditionally looked upon as a low end cost effective servicing option to take advantage of the cost arbitrage that exists across countries. Of late, many outsourcing vendors have realized that the advantages of cost differentials that spurred a lot of the...
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Juvenile Justice in Different Countries: Age of Criminal Responsibility and Treatment of Juvenile Offenders
HAQCRC, HAQ Centre for Child Rights - eSocialSciences - 2013
In the world, there are three models that inspire administration of juvenile justice: • The Welfare Model • The Justice Model or Control model - Retributive • The Restorative Model The age of criminal responsibility and treatment of juveniles thus varies under the different...
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Challenges and Opportunities in a Trillion Dollar Economy
C, Chakrabarty K - eSocialSciences - 2011
dollar club, namely, the US, UK, Japan, Germany, China, France, Italy, Spain, Canada, Brazil and Russia. In fact, over the …
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Localization, Globalization and Networks of foreign Subsidiaries
Beule, Filip De - eSocialSciences - 2011
This research is about multinational enterprises (MNEs) and their subsidiaries abroad. The specific focus of the research is on the foreign subsidiaries? local embeddedness, global integration and multinational networks. As these linkages vary among subsidiaries and across time, the focal...
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Tomorrow's Cities, Today's Youth: Perspectives from UN World Youth Forum
Prakash, Kaveri - eSocialSciences - 2006
the Environmental Youth Alliance, Canada to organise the World Youth Forum (WYF) three days prior to the WUF III in …
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Promoting Sustainable Agriculture: Experiences from India and Canada
Shah, Amita; S, Puttaswamaiah; Manns, Ian - eSocialSciences - 2009
Agriculture sector, world over, has experienced a phenomenal growth since the mid-twentieth century. The growth, driven by Green Revolution technology, has made a significant dent on aggregate supply of food grains, ensuring food security to the growing population. The next stage of agricultural...
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A Review of the Pharmaceutical Industry of Canada
N, Lalitha - eSocialSciences - 2008
Property Rights (IPR) protection to promote the growth of the domestic pharmaceutical industry, Canada chose to limit the IPRs … on important pharmaceutical products. Though the pharmaceutical industry of India and Canada share a few common points of … comparison, the most important point of divergence between Canada and India is that while the Indian pharmaceutical industry is …
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