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and investment high. This paper looks into the role played by the financial sector in the growth process of China and …
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The short term and long term stock price volatility changes around bonus and rights issue announcements have been examined using historical volatility estimation and time varying volatility approach. The results show that the historical volatility has increased after bonus and rights issue...
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The nature of the financial turbulence that happened recently in US and Europe, why it happened, where it happened, and the implications for central banks. Some of the forces that led up to and characterized the recent spate of events, the specific responses of central banks and some challenges...
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A simple theory is developed which formally describes how charities can resolve the information asymmetry problems faced by small donors by working with large donors to generate quality signals. To test the model, two large-scale natural field experiments were conducted. In the first experiment,...
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In the backdrop of the low level of health insurance coverage in India, this study examines the determinants of the scaling-up process of health insurance by analyzing the rational behaviour of an insurance agent facing a trade-off between selling ‘health insurance’ and ‘other...
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within the household. The question is analyzed in the context of a housing reform that occurred in China that gave existing …
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All foreign observers have interpreted China through the filter of their own era, as well as their personal background … and experiences. A virtual academic industry has developed, not on China itself but on 'interpretations', 'perceptions …' or 'images' of China, but the narrower, though not always separate, issue of scholarly approaches and interpretations …
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Ernest Morrison Lecture on Ethnography, 2003, The Contemporary China Centre] …
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In many Asian countries the ratio of male to female population is higher than in the West -- as high as 1.07 in China … campagins. Hepatitis B is common in many Asian countries, especially China, where some 10 to 15 per cent of the population is … hepatitis B can account for about 45 per cent of the "missing women": around 75 per cent in China, between 20 per cent and 50 …
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Reform in the People's Republic of China has seen a dramatic change in the discourse of localism, which has now moved … China, suggests to the contrary that the impact of new discourses of localism has actually strengthened the nationalist …, 2004, The Contemporary China Centre] …
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