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The Dynamics of Health and Return Migration
Davies, Anita A; Borland, Rosilyne M; Blake, Carolyn; … - eSocialSciences - 2011
Return migration and health has received little attention in policy and research. This article will focus on the risk … factors and social determinants of health during all phases of migration that can impact the health of returnees. It will … highlight the diversity of returning migrants and illustrate through examples how return migration can influence the health of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009321507
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Innovation through Long-distance Conversations? Lessons from Offshoring-based Software Clusters in Bangalore
Okada, Aya - eSocialSciences - 2009
the main sources of knowledge transfer and innovation among key firms in Bangalore’s software cluster are their external …This paper is aganist the popular assertion regarding the links between innovation and clustering and it is found that … knowledge brought in by foreign networks. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512451
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The Higher Education and Research Bill, 2011
eSocialSciences; Parliamentary Research Service PRS - 2012
A bill to promote autonomy of higher educational institutions and universities for free pursuit of knowledge and … innovation and to provide for comprehensive and integrated growth of higher education and research keeping in view the global …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010567996
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Ideological Elements in Political Instability in Karnataka: Janata Dal in the 1990s
Price, Pamela - eSocialSciences - 2006
There are strenuous difficulties in managing competing social groups, segments and regions in the political landscape of Karnataka. These difficulties have been accentuated by touchy issues of status, including preoccupation with personal honor and the desire for respect. Politicians, at either...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487568
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Social Capital, Diversity and (Economic) DEvelopment: Evidence from Indian IT Industry, Bangalore
Taube, Florian A. - eSocialSciences - 2006
This paper addresses two sets of questions related to IT development and lessons to be drawn for other regions both in and outside India. Firstly, based on original fieldwork an additional argument to traditional location literature is deployed. Secondly, related research on the financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487640
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Change in Karnataka over the Last Generation: Villages and the Wider Context
Manor, James - eSocialSciences - 2006
This paper examines changes that have (and have not) occurred – at the village level in Karnataka where most or the state’s residents live, and at higher levels when they impinge upon villages – since 1972. Substantial changes have occurred on many (though certainly not all)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528135
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Corruption and Local Governance: Evidence from Karnataka
Vijayalakshmi, V. - eSocialSciences - 2006
The paper examines corruption in the institutions of local government in Karnataka, using a Logit model. One of the arguments in favour of decentralisation in developing countries is that it provides a favourable environment to responsive planning, and promotes greater accountability in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528183
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East Asian Community: Prospects and Challenges
Damuri, A - eSocialSciences - 2005
There is a growing need to a more institutionalized economic arrangement in East Asia. East Asia Economic Community might be an ideal form of such institution. However, the road is still long and bumpy ASEAN should act as a catalyst, but needs to be stronger and more integrated. Indonesia, as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699191
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Agrarian Reform for a Liberal Pattern of Society? Karnataka's Land Policy and the New Dispensation
Herring, Ronald - eSocialSciences - 2006
It is puzzling how much the discourse of development has backed away from the seemingly central question of rural poverty: land. Elaborate rules concerning its distribution, rights, regulation, protection, utilities have multiple development objectives, but poverty alleviation, individual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699223
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Choosing not to Participate--Evidence from Drought-Prone Area Programme in Chitradurg, Karnataka
Vadivelu, G. Ananda - eSocialSciences - 2006
This paper examines the evidence on the constraints that farmers face in participating in a programme evolved by 'somebody else' viz, ‘the government’, . The paper begins with a discussion on the typologies on participation. In section two, the enquiry is located in the wider debate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699226