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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...
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Patterns of Migration, Water Scarcity and Caste in Rural Northern Gujarat
Fishman, Ram; Jain, Meha; Kishore, Avinash - eSocialSciences - 2013
resources in Northern Gujarat, India is discussed. Given that migration typically does not occur due to one singular risk, the …
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Non-financial Reporting – What, Why and How - Indian Perspective
C, Chakrabarty K - eSocialSciences - 2011
The importance of non-financial reporting in the overall assessment of a company's performance, its risk-return trade … off is steadily gaining ground, both globally and in India. [Address by Dr K. C. Chakrabarty, Deputy Governor, RBI at … National Conference on “ Non-Financial Reporting and Risk Management for Financial Institutions in Indiaâ€, Mumbai]. URL …
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Barriers to Household Risk Management: Evidence from India
Topalova, Petia; Cole, Shawn; Gene, Xavier; Tobacman, Jeremy - eSocialSciences - 2011
Why do many households remain exposed to large exogenous sources of non-systematic income risk? Why don’t financial … agricultural production risk. [BREAD Working paper No.33]. URL:[http://ipl.econ.duke.edu/bread/papers/working/303.pdf]. …
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Vulnerability and Coping to Disasters: A Study of Household Behaviour in Flood Prone Region of India
K, Narayanan; Patnaik, Unmesh - eSocialSciences - 2010
This paper attempts to understand the various risks faced by households living in disaster prone regions of rural India … against the risks. The study area (districts of eastern Uttar Pradesh, India) is highly susceptible to floods with a major … surveys undertaken in the study area for flood affected households. The analysis is carried out using a risk sharing and self …
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Distress Debt and Suicides among Agrarian Households: Findings from Three Villages in Kerala
Menon, Vineetha; Nair, K.N. - eSocialSciences - 2008
The factors and process underlying agrarian distress in Kerala by undertaking the case studies of three villages situated in Wayanad and Idukki districts namely, Cherumad, Kappikkunnu and Upputhara. The impact of distress on household livelihoods and indebtedness and how they cope up with the...
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The Market Valuation of Innovation: The Case of Indian Manufacturing
Kanwar, Sunil - eSocialSciences - 2014
The relationship between market value and innovation in the context of manufacturing firms in India was analysed, using …
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The Mystery of China’s Sinking Stocks
Shan, Weijian - eSocialSciences - 2006
The article exposes the shortcomings of China’s stock markets and examines the failed attempts by the government to introduce meaningful stock-market reform. China has largely avoided major policy blunders in its 25 years of economic reforms.The reform of the stock market, however, has...
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Inter-firm differences in FII portfolio investment in India
Pandit, B.L.; Siddharthan, N.S. - eSocialSciences - 2007
This paper has the objective of analysing the determinants of FII investment in firms in high-tech corporate sectors like automobiles, drugs and pharmaceuticals, IT software and IT hardware for the period 2000 to 2004. The paper focuses on on the analytics of transnational holding of equity and...
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Labour Market in Urban Agglomerations: A case from an Indian Global City
Paul, G.D Bino; M, Krishna Krishna - eSocialSciences - 2011
The study explores different aspects of employment and labour market prevalent in large in UAs, in particular global cities. To capture the role of labour market in urban agglomeration, particularly pooling of labour and concentration of economic activities, the paper present a case study of...
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