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Seasonal Migration and Risk Aversion
Bryan, Gharad; Chowdhury, Shyamal; Mobarak, A. Mushfiq - eSocialSciences - 2011
Pre-harvest lean seasons are widespread in the agrarian areas of Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Every year, these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009399611
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Drug Regulation and Incentives for Innovation: The Case of ASEAN
Ratanawijitrasin, Sauwakon - eSocialSciences - 2009
The focus of this paper is to examine the ways in which regulatory framework affect the pharmaeutical innovations in developing countries using member countries of the Association of South-east Asian Nations (ASEAN) as case study. The paper employs a wide angle view of drug regulation in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008518830
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Climate Change Mitigation and Green Growth in Developing Asia
Howes, Stephen; Wyrwoll, Paul - eSocialSciences - 2012
Developing Asia is the driver of today's emissions intensive global economy. As the principle source of future … mitigation and green growth in Asia's major emerging economies.[ADBI Working Paper Series No. 369]. URL …:[http://www.adbi.org/files/2012.07.10.wp369.climate.change.mitigation.green.growth.asia.pdf]. …
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The Return of the Prodigy Son: Do Return Migrants Make Better Leaders?
Mercier, Marion - eSocialSciences - 2013
This paper investigates the impact of political leaders’ migration experience on the quality of their leadership. A database is constructed on the personal background of 932 politicians who were at the head of the executive power in a developing country over the 1960-2004 period. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133117
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The Roots of Gender Inequality in Developing Countries
Jayachandran, Seema - eSocialSciences - 2014
Is the high degree of gender inequality in developing countries in education, personal autonomy, and more explained by underdevelopment itself? Or do the societies that are poor today hold certain cultural views that lead to gender inequality? This article discusses several mechanisms through...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945569
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Review of Globalisation and Opening Markets in Developing Countries and Impact on National Firms and Public Governance: The and Impact on National Firms and Public Governance: The...
L, Lakshmanan - eSocialSciences - 2008
Review of Globalisation and Opening Markets in Developing Countries and Impact on National Firms and Public Governance: The Case of India by Jean-Francois Huchet & Joel Ruet, Scientific Coordinators, Report by CSH, CERNA, LSE, ORF NCAER, New Delhi, 2006, Pages 389, RBI Occasional Papers, Winter...
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Urbanization in India: Evidence on Agglomeration Economies
Mitra, Arup - eSocialSciences - 2011
The paper examines the urbanization pattern with context of India. The paper deals with various demographic aspects of urbanization. Also the paper focuses on characteristics and classes of cities, and poverty and slums. [Working Paper 141]. URL: [http://fgks.in/IndexServer/tifac/article/141.pdf]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009321503
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What is Middle Class About the Middle Classes Around the World?
Duflo, Esther; Banerjee, Abhijit - eSocialSciences - 2008
Household surveys from 13 developing countries are used to describe consumption choices, health and education investments, employment patterns and other features of the of the economic lives of the “middle classes†defined as those whose daily consumption per capita is between $2 and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699293
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Sustaining Progress on Population and Development in Asia and the Pacific: 20 years after ICPD
Economic, United Nations; Commission, Social - eSocialSciences - 2014
The publication Sustaining Progress on Population and Development in Asia and the Pacific: 20 years after ICPD contains … an analysis of the ICPD beyond 2014 Global Survey in Asia and the Pacific and the results of additional research on the …
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Cyberwarfare: Logged and Loaded, but Wither Asia?
Noor, Elina - eSocialSciences - 2013
this new realm and develop norms and rules to govern it. In this respect, the developing world has lagged behind the … developed world. With more and more countries wiring their infrastructure to cyberspace, however, the developing world cannot … afford to be left out of the international discussion on cyberwarfare. This NTS Insight discusses how the developing world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945506