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Planning for Results: The Public Accountability Information System
Virmani, Arvind - eSocialSciences - 2009
The paper proposes a Public accountability information system (PAIS), with a web enabled public information system and a smart card recording all the benefits that the poor are entitled to receive through government programs. [Planning Commission WP 1/2007].
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Improving governance using IT systems
Shah, Ajay - eSocialSciences - 2005
The main argument of this paper is that in many situations, dicult puzzles of governance can be solved in dramatically new ways using modern IT systems. Nationwide centralised databases, coupled with ubiquitous high-speed Internet access, and pervasive computational power, has put a new set of...
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The Role of Technological Complexity and Absorptive Capacity in Internalization Decision
Grover, Arti - eSocialSciences - 2010
Technology transfer costs have a profound influence on the firm’s entry mode into a production sharing relationship. To explore this nexus, they associate technological complexity of the off-shored input with the organizational mode of international production sharing by extending the Antràs...
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Outsourcing Versus Foreign Direct Investment: A Welfare Analysis
Grover, Arti - eSocialSciences - 2010
country may avail options like – Joint venture, technology licensing, franchising, outsourcing etc. A host country’s choice of … outsourcing in the host country using Grossman-Helpman quality ladders framework. If the host absorptive capacity is above a … threshold level, outsourcing is more welfare enhancing vis-à-vis FDI; while even with lower than threshold absorptive capacity …
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Strategic Orientation of Outsourcing Firms: Demystifying Key Differentiators
Sharda, Kirti - eSocialSciences - 2010
Despite the importance of outsourcing firms and the highly competitive nature of the outsourcing industry, there has … been minimal examination of outsourcing firm strategy. This paper investigates the strategic focus of 60 outsourcing firms …. Factor and cluster analysis reveal three outsourcing firm archetypes based on their strategic orientation, namely, super …
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Offshoring in a Ricardian World
Rodríguez-Clare, Andrés - eSocialSciences - 2007
Falling costs of coordination and communication have allowed firms in rich countries to fragment their production process and offshore an increasing share of the value chain to low-wage countries. This paper proposes a Ricardian model where both of these effects are present and analyzes the...
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Budget Expectations
IRIS, IRIS India - eSocialSciences - 2011
Budget expectations from various sectors are given. URL:[ http://www.myiris.com/newsCentre/storyShow.php?fileR=20110217120638043&secID=fromnewsroom&secTitle=From the News Room&dir=2011/02/17].
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India's IT Export Boom: Challenges Ahead
Joseph, K.J.; Harilal, K. N. - eSocialSciences - 2010
Given the manifold ways, in which the information technology could contribute to human welfare, the developing countries have invested in Information Technology (IT) as a short cut to prosperity. India too has not been left much behind in this bandwagon and series of initiatives were made by the...
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The Effect of Information Technology on Wage Inequality: Evidence from Indian Manufacturing Sector
Abraham, Vinoj - eSocialSciences - 2010
A persistent widening of skill based wage inequality in the Indian Organised Manufacturing sector has been reported by many researchers. Two main hypotheses had been tested in developed economies to explain such a phenomenon; an inter-sectoral shift in demand structure and an intra-sectoral...
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Malaysia: Managing Vulnerabilities
Asher, Mukul - eSocialSciences - 2005
Malaysia's vulnerabilities are exacerbated by itsinexplicable reluctance to pursue inclusive economic diplomacy as exemplified by its reported opposition to include even India in the first “East Asia†summit it is hosting in December last. There are considerable complementarities...
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