Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 57
Cover Image
The Offshored World
Udupa, Sahana - eSocialSciences - 2007
There has been a clear change in the cultural milieu of the IT city Bangalore in the last few years. And while this may not be only due to the call centres that have sprouted providing high-paying jobs to thousands of young people, they are certainly a significant influence.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341693
Cover Image
Where are Food Prices Heading?
Chatterjee, Claire Schaffnit - eSocialSciences - 2011
This paper aims to review the main considerations around food price movements. It includes a discussion on the impact of speculation. URL:[https://www.dbresearch.com/PROD/DBR_INTERNET_EN-PROD/PROD0000000000270746.pdf].
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002236
Cover Image
Asian Property Markets: No Significant Bubbles-Yet!
Dyck, Steffen; Just, Tobias - eSocialSciences - 2010
After house price bubbles burst in many OECD countries, investors are keeping a very watchful eye for price developments on asset markets that signal a bubble.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008677778
Cover Image
Growth of Asian Pension Assets: Implications for Financial and Capital Markets
Hu, Yuwei - eSocialSciences - 2012
Pension assets have seen rapid growth world-wide over the past decades, although they suffered large losses during the global financial crisis of 2007–2008. Such growth is notably due to both structural and parametric pension reforms since the 1980s. In the Asian region too, the pension...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133098
Cover Image
Criss-Crossing Globalization: Uphill Flows of Skill-Intensive Goods and Foreign Direct Investment
Mattoo, Aaditya; Subramanian, Arvind - eSocialSciences - 2014
This paper documents an unusual and possibly significant phenomenon: the export of skills, embodied in goods, services or capital from poorer to richer countries. A set of stylized facts is presented. Using a measure which combines the sophistication of a country’s exports with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133244
Cover Image
National Strategy for Financial Education
Mukherjee, Pranab - eSocialSciences - 2012
India is having large population, a fast growing economy with national focus on inclusive growth and an urgent need to develop a vibrant and stable financial system, it is all the more necessary to quickly formulate and implement a national strategy for financial education. [Speech during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010567983
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487774
Cover Image
The Youth Employment Crisis: A Call for Action
eSocialSciences; International Labour Organisation ILO - 2013
Resolution and conclusions of the 101st Session of the International Labour Conference, Geneva, 2012. [ILO].
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945251
Cover Image
State of the Urban Youth India 2012: Executive Summary
Prakash, Padma; IKF, IRIS Knowledge Foundation - eSocialSciences - 2013
The State of the Urban Youth India 2012: Employment, Livelihoods, Skills developed and produced by IRIS Knowledge … Foundation, Mumbai on a commission from the UN-HABITAT Global Urban Youth Research Network of which it is part, is a first … attempt to pull together a data and knowledge base on and of youth in urban India. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945281
Cover Image
NATIONAL PROGRAMME FOR YOUTH AND ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT
Youth, Ministry of; YAS, Sports Affairs - eSocialSciences - 2012
The scheme titled National Programme for Youth Adolescent Development (NPYAD) has been formulated by merger of four 100 …% central sector grants-in-aid schemes of the Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports during 10th Plan namely, Promotion of Youth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945283