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Understanding Inflation and Controlling It
Basu, Kaushik; Marks, C - eSocialSciences - 2011
Inflation management is one of the hardest tasks an economic policymaker has to undertake. It appears, at first sight, that one can rely entirely on commonsense to carry out this task. But that will be a cardinal mistake. While inflation policy does require judgment and intuition, it is...
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Black Money
eSocialSciences; Ministry of Finance - 2012
The objective of this paper is to place in the public domain various facets and dimensions of black money and its complex relationship with the policy and administrative regime in the country. The paper also presents the framework, policy options, and strategies that the Government of India has...
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The Role of Intellectual Property Rights in Information and Communication Technologies
Rao, C Niranjan - eSocialSciences - 2008
The paper starts by recapitulating the basic arguments provided by economic theory to explain the existence of the patent system. The paper then concentrates on the three important ICT industries viz., telecommunication equipment, computer hardware and semiconductor industries. The issues...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341678
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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 …
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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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Ethics in Social Science Research: Reflections from a Student of Economics
Swaminathan, Padmini - eSocialSciences - 2006
If poverty and nutrition are issues also of social justice and the commitment that a democratic state makes to its citizens (namely, ridding the country of hunger and malnutrition and also of ensuring food security) then the discipline of economics needs to pose its problem differently. The...
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Application Of Ethical Principles With Cultural Sensitivity: Case Study Of Research Among Tribal Population
Sajitha O.G; Ramanathan, Mala - eSocialSciences - 2006
This paper aims to bring out the need to incorporate cultural sensitivity to ensure the principle of essentiality in research processes while undertaking research among tribal populations. The authors establish the difference in the outcome of obtaining consent between tribal and other...
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