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Managing Capital Flows: The Case of India
Shah, Ajay; Patnaik, Ila - eSocialSciences - 2008
From the early 1990s, India embarked on easing capital controls. Liberalization emphasised openness towards equity flows, both FDI and portfolio flows. In particular, there are few barriers in the face of portfolio equity flows. In recent years, a massive increase in the value of foreign...
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The Incidence and Performance Effects of Interlocking Directorates in Emerging Market Business Groups: Evidence from India
De, Bikram - eSocialSciences - 2008
The structure and extent of interlocking directorates within Indian business groups is studied and analyses the performance effects of such interlocks. It finds that large groups tend to have more interlocks and more heterogeneous the group is, lesser are the interlocks. [IGIDR WP-2003-001].
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Auditor and Audit Committee Independence in India
Sarkar, Subrata; Sarkar, Jayati - eSocialSciences - 2010
This article reviews the regulations and governance reforms carried out in India with respect to auditor and audit committee independence. In doing so it critically compares them with the regulations existing in the US. This is followed by a discussion of the existing research on the...
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Village Development Boards (VDBs) in Nagaland
G, Karmakar K; D, Banerjee G - eSocialSciences - 2009
The article describes the constitution and functions of Village Development Boards (VDBs) in NAGALAND where VDBs are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004964282
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Winners and Losers of State Electricity Boards Reforms : An Organisational Analysis
Ruet, Joel - eSocialSciences - 2008
This article is mainly based on repeated field inquires in Haryana, Andhra Pradesh and Orissa, at different stages of reform. In these States, the reform, far from precluding to analyse what are classical SEBs, brought to light some processes formerly in the dark. This article aims at giving a...
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Is There a Global Bioethics? End-of-Life in Thailand and the Case for Local Difference
Stonington, Scott; Ratanakul, Pinit - eSocialSciences - 2007
As developing countries build allopathic medical systems, what should their bioethics be? In this essay, we explore possible answers to this question, ultimately arguing that Western bioethics is insuffi cient to solve the problems that arise in the practice of allopathic medicine in...
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Ethics and the World of Finance
Subbarao, Duvvuri - eSocialSciences - 2009
How do we, as individuals, approach issues of ethics and values? Are our approaches different in our personal and … professional lives? Are issues of ethics different in the financial sector? What are the ethical issues thrown up by the current …? Some of these questions are addressed here. [Keynote address at the Conference on ‘Ethics and the World of Financeâ …
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Ethics Without Borders
eSocialSciences; Plos medicine Editors - 2009
The authors shows the problems that can arise when research is done in the context of humanitarian relief work and also notes that ethical oversight of such research needs to be rigorous, but also pragmatic. It discusses particularly the role of journals when papers arising from such research...
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Book Review: This is Water: The Ethics of Memory
Barker, Jeffrey H. - eSocialSciences - 2007
This review of Avishai Margalit's The Ethics of Memory (Harvard University Press, 2004. New York) explores the ethical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009250524
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Ethics in Health Research: A Social Science Perspective
Jaitly, Tejal Barai; Jesani, Amar - eSocialSciences - 2007
in ethics in the social sciences. Some papers elaborate on practitioners’ experiences that illustrate these principles …
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