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Mohanti, Subhash - eSocialSciences - 2011

Review of Corporate Social Responsibility: Past, Present and Future by Sanjay Kumar Panda; The Icfai University Press; 373pp, 2008.

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Negotiating the Terms of A New Social Contract: Private Companies, Civil Society and the State in India

Krichewsky, Damien - eSocialSciences - 2010

A detailed analysis of the stakes and dynamics at play in the public, civil and self-regulation of companies in India is offered. With the rapid growth and modernization of the country as the backdrop, this paper points towards a reconfiguration of relationships and the balance of power among...

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The Negative Consequences of Overambitious Curricula in Developing Countries

Pritchett, Lant; Beatty, Amanda - eSocialSciences - 2012

than the pace of learning. To demonstrate the consequences of a gap between the curriculum and student mastery, a simple …

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The Gender Gap in Mathematics: Evidence from Low-and-Middle Income Countries

Bharadwaj, Prashant; Giorgi, Giacomo de; Hansen, David; … - eSocialSciences - 2012

Is there a gender gap in mathematics across many low- and middle-income countries? A detailed, comparable test score data is used to analyze this. Micro level data on school performance linked to household demographics shows that the gender gap appears to increase with age. It is shown that...

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Balika Shikshan Shivir, Lok Jumbish

Ramachandran, Vimala; Pal, Madhumita; Mahajan, Vandana - eSocialSciences - 2009

Evaluations of Balika Shikshan Shivir of Lok Jumbish Rajasthan was carried out with the objective of capturing the tangible and intangible outcomes, areas of concern thrown up by this experience and most importantly identify lessons for replication of this model in Rajasthan.

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Towards A Competitive Economy: VAT and Customs Duty Reform

Virmani, Arvind - eSocialSciences - 2010

In this paper the issue of indirect tax reform, with a special focus on customs duty reform is examined. [WP]

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Productivity of Pesticides in Vegetable Farming in Nepal

Jha, Ratna Kumar; Regmi, Adhrit Prasad - eSocialSciences - 2010

uses data from a sample of Cole crop (Cauliflower and Cabbage) growing households in the Bhaktapur district of Nepal to …

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Rectifying the Anti-politics of Citizen Participation

Masaki, Katsuhiko - eSocialSciences - 2009

addresses this question by scrutinising the equivocal reaction of a peasant community in Nepal to the unfolding of one such …

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Wrong Climate for Big Dams: Destroying Rivers will Worsen Climate Change

eSocialSciences; International Rivers Network IRN - 2011

P roponents of large dams, hoping to capitalize on concern for climate change, are promoting a major expansion of large dams in developing countries. Yet large dams are highly vulnerable to climate change, which is changing rivers in ways we cannot predict. At the same time, healthy rivers are...

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Comparative Analysis of Inflation in Nepal and India

eSocialSciences; Nepal Rastra Bank Research Department NRB - 2011

Inflation data for the past few years (August 2007 to October 2011 of Nepal and August 2007 to July 2011 of India for … extended by a report (IMF Country Report No. 11/319, November 2011- Nepal: Selected Issues) of International Monetary Fund (IMF …) have also been referred. [NRB Study Report]. URL:[http://red.nrb.org.np/publications/study_reports/Study_Reports--Comparative_Analysis_of_Inflation_in_Nepal …

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