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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

Inflation management is one of the hardest tasks an economic policymaker has to undertake. It appears, at first sight, that one can rely entirely on commonsense to carry out this task. But that will be a cardinal mistake. While inflation policy does require judgment and intuition, it is...

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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 Hindutvaâ€™s Notion of National-Unity-at-all-Costs

Govind, Nikhil - eSocialSciences - 2011

Sarvarkarâ€™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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