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Japan’s Foreign Direct Investment Experiences in India: Lessons Learnt from Firm Level Surveys
Choudhury, Srabani Roy - eSocialSciences - 2010
countries, highlighting the fact that Japanese investment into India is quite low. It then outlines the research objectives and … explains the methodology followed. Second, the firm’s entry strategy is discussed to highlight how the Japanese view business …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512429
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Early Warnings of Inflation in India
Shah, Ajay; Patnaik, Ila; Bhattacharya, Rudrani - eSocialSciences - 2008
In India, year-on-year percentage changes of price indexes are widely used as the measure of inflation. In terms of monthly data, each observation of a one-year change in inflation is the sum of twelve one-month changes. This suggests that better information about inflationary pressures can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528145
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Gender Development Indicators: Issues, Debates and Ranking of Districts
Rustagi, Preet - eSocialSciences - 2010
methodology, objectives and scope of the study. The fourth section discusses the selected indicators along with a state level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008580009
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The Cult of Statistical Significance - A Review
Motiram, Sripad - eSocialSciences - 2014
A review and extended discussion is presented of The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice and Lives by Deirdre McCloskey and Stephen Ziliak, a work that raises important issues related to the practice of statistics and that has been widely commented...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945474
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Ethics Without Borders
eSocialSciences; Plos medicine Editors - 2009
The authors shows the problems that can arise when research is done in the context of humanitarian relief work and also … notes that ethical oversight of such research needs to be rigorous, but also pragmatic. It discusses particularly the role … of journals when papers arising from such research are submitted for publication. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009250402
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Ghost Management: How Much of the Medical Literature Is Shaped Behind the Scenes by the Pharmaceutical Industry?
Sismondo, Sergio - eSocialSciences - 2007
There are many reports of ghost writings and ghost management of medical journal articles. Such articles are â …-managed articles give corporate research a veneer of independence and credibility. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005170183
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Initiatives of NGOs in Kutch Region
Satija, Kalpana C - eSocialSciences - 2009
Many NGOs occupy a space between public and private sector organisations, and the papers in this special issue demonstrate that the mechanisms required for effective accountability by these NGOs are usually be different to mechanisms suited to discharging the accountability duties of other forms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009250405
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Target Free Approach for Family Welfare in Gujarat: A Review of Policy and Its Implementation
Kumar, B L - eSocialSciences - 2009
The introduction of the Target Free Approach (TFA) has been a major policy shift in the health and family welfare programme of India. This study reviewed the process of change in the implementation of new policy and its impact on the quality of health care and reproductive and child health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004995386
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The Debate on the Poverty Estimates of 1999–2000
Datta, K.L. - eSocialSciences - 2010
estimates of the 1980s and 1990s, focusing on the methodology and database used for estimation. It extensively reviews the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008511373
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A Note on Estimating Tax Elasticities
Sen, Pronab - eSocialSciences - 2009
that the standard methodology used will almost invariably lead to biased elasticity estimates, and proposes an alternative … methodology which avoids this problem. [WP] …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512472