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Political Clientelism and Capture: Theory and Evidence from West Bengal, India
Bardhan, Pranab; Mookherjee, Dilip - eSocialSciences - 2013
There are relatively few theoretical models or empirical analyses of clientelism which analyse the sources and consequences of clientelism. Data from household surveys in rural West Bengal are used to analyse the political clientelism. [BREAD working paper no. 369]....
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Integrating Urban Datasets: The Path to Effective Socio-Economic Planning in Urban Pakistan
Khan, Sohaib; Aslam, Amal; Zubair, Maria; Rehan, Ali - eSocialSciences - 2012
Effective urban policy making and implementation in Pakistan is impeded by the problem of integrating data containing incompatible spatial references. There is great heterogeneity across spatial units being used by different urban government departments for data collection and reporting in...
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A Primary Evaluation of Service Delivery under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM): Findings from a Study in Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Rajasthan
Gill, Kaveri - eSocialSciences - 2009
This paper seeks to evaluate quantity and quality of service delivery in rural public health facilities under NRHM. On appropriate and feasible measures, the former is assessed on the static and dynamic condition of physical infrastructure; by the numbers of paramedical, technician and medical...
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Realising The Potential Of Panchayati Raj In India
Saxena, Naresh C. - eSocialSciences - 2005
Rural decentralisation and panchayati raj institutions (PRIs) are a profound change in the Indian rural institutional scene. They may ultimately offer a better option for rural development and poverty alleviation. However, it was a mistake to think that PRIs would emerge as caring institutions...
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Micro and Small Enterprises During Reforms: Policy and Concerns
Das, Keshab - eSocialSciences - 2008
This paper addresses some key policy issues relating to the micro and small enterprises in India during the reforms period. A close look into the definitional changes in terms of the criterion of investment limits and a pronounced emphasis on export-orientation points to the neglect of the...
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Information System for Brand-Variety Performance and Decisions: Study and Application for Cotton in India
Gandhi, Vasant P - eSocialSciences - 2010
Information on brand-variety performance is critical for small farmers in India since every year they need to make crucial decisions on which brand-variety seeds to plant. The livelihoods from their small farms and returns on all the inputs used depend critically on this decision. Yet no...
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Offshoring in a Ricardian World
Rodríguez-Clare, Andrés - eSocialSciences - 2007
Falling costs of coordination and communication have allowed firms in rich countries to fragment their production process and offshore an increasing share of the value chain to low-wage countries. This paper proposes a Ricardian model where both of these effects are present and analyzes the...
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Outsourcing Versus Foreign Direct Investment: A Welfare Analysis
Grover, Arti - eSocialSciences - 2010
country may avail options like – Joint venture, technology licensing, franchising, outsourcing etc. A host country’s choice of … outsourcing in the host country using Grossman-Helpman quality ladders framework. If the host absorptive capacity is above a … threshold level, outsourcing is more welfare enhancing vis-à-vis FDI; while even with lower than threshold absorptive capacity …
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Strategic Orientation of Outsourcing Firms: Demystifying Key Differentiators
Sharda, Kirti - eSocialSciences - 2010
Despite the importance of outsourcing firms and the highly competitive nature of the outsourcing industry, there has … been minimal examination of outsourcing firm strategy. This paper investigates the strategic focus of 60 outsourcing firms …. Factor and cluster analysis reveal three outsourcing firm archetypes based on their strategic orientation, namely, super …
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The Role of Technological Complexity and Absorptive Capacity in Internalization Decision
Grover, Arti - eSocialSciences - 2010
Technology transfer costs have a profound influence on the firm’s entry mode into a production sharing relationship. To explore this nexus, they associate technological complexity of the off-shored input with the organizational mode of international production sharing by extending the Antràs...
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