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A Status Report on India’s Financial System: A view from the Standpoint of Intermediation and Risk Bearing
Chakrabarti B.B.; Mohanty, Mritiunjoy - eSocialSciences - 2009
The paper seeks to analyse and discuss the impact of financial reform and related institutional change on the process of financial intermediation. In effect reforms stood the earlier quantity driven model on its head. The attempt was to de-segment markets and remove asset and liability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004993772
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Assessing Socioeconomic Impacts of Transport Infrastructure Projects in the Greater Mekong Subregion
Stone, Susan; Strutt, Anna; Hertel, Thomas - eSocialSciences - 2010
This study attempts to quantify the links between infrastructure investment and poverty reduction using a multi …-region general equilibrium model, supplemented with household survey data for the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). Infrastructure … investment is an important step in economic development, with improvements in transportation infrastructure boosting economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671997
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Regional Cooperation, Infrastructure, and Trade Costs in Asia
Brooks, Douglas H. - eSocialSciences - 2010
decades. Infrastructure, both hard and soft, has played an integral part in facilitating that trade, primarily through … and patterns, trade costs and how they are influenced by infrastructure development, and the role of regional cooperation … in facilitating trade’s contribution to economic integration. A virtuous circle between growth, infrastructure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008680375
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State-Led or Market-Led Green Revolution? Role of Private Irrigation Investment vis-a-vis Local Government Programs in West Bengal’s Farm Productivity Growth
Bardhan, Pranab; Mookherjee, Dilip; Kumar, Neha - eSocialSciences - 2009
, extension services, and infrastructure investments) in the growth of farm productivity in West Bengal, India between 1981-95. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005077861
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HIV Prevention in Vulnerable Indian States: Lessons from the Chayan Project
CARE, CARE - eSocialSciences - 2009
This document highlights the results and associated processes from Chayan’s implementation experience under the RACHNA program. The programmatic framework, designed for low-prevalence contexts in India, draws on standard targeted intervention approaches but is grounded in community-based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512428
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Cost and Time Overruns in Infrastructure Projects: Extent, Causes and Remedies
Singh, Ram - eSocialSciences - 2009
Various issues related to delays and cost overruns in publically funded infrastructure projects are investigated. The … study is based on, by far, the largest data-set of 850 projects across seventeen infrastructure sectors. The focus is on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512430
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Public Private Partnership in Uttar Pradesh Health Care Delivery System- UPHSDP as an Initiative
Jahan, Bibi Ishrat - eSocialSciences - 2009
The objective of the study is to find out the primary reason to encourage public private participation in health care delivery system in Uttar Pradesh and the study also aim to analyse UPHSDP -a World Bank project.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512490
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Private Sector Industrialization in China: Evidence from Wenzhou
Strauss, John; Qian, Edward Y.; Shen, Minggao; Liu, Dong; … - eSocialSciences - 2010
The purpose of this study to help shed light on the entrepreneurship, entrepreneurs and enterprise growth in Wenzhou. The study is done by relying on a probabilistic firm survey that we carried out in Wenzhou in early 2006 for three industries: shoes, eyeglasses and general equipment. Not a...
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Indian Railway Budget 2011-12
Banerjee, Mamata - eSocialSciences - 2011
Railway Budget 2011-12.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002238
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Issues for Approach to the 12th Five Year Plan
Commission, Planning - eSocialSciences - 2011
class infrastructure? [Presentation by Palnning Commission]. URL:[http://planningcommission.nic.in/plans/planrel/12appdrft/pc_present.pdf]. …
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