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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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Federal Budget of Pakistan-2011-12

eSocialSciences; Minister of Finance Pakistan - 2012

BUDGET SPEECH 2011-2012 by DR. ABDUL HAFEEZ SHAIKH, Minister for Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Planning & Development.

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National Policy for Senior Citizens: 2011

Justice, Ministry of Social; GOI, Empowerment - eSocialSciences - 2011

. Social deprivations and exclusion, privatization of health services and changing pattern of morbidity affect the elderly. All …

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Book Review: Promoting Economic Cooperation in South Asia

Iyer, Sandhya S . - eSocialSciences - 2010

Review of 'Promoting Economic Cooperation in South Asia'; S. Ahmed, S. Kalegama and E. Ghani (Editors). Published by Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2010

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Cost and Time Overruns in Infrastructure Projects: Extent, Causes and Remedies

Singh, Ram - eSocialSciences - 2009

Various issues related to delays and cost overruns in publically funded infrastructure projects are investigated. The study is based on, by far, the largest data-set of 850 projects across seventeen infrastructure sectors. The focus is on the causal factors behind time and cost overruns. [CDE WP...

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Water Democracy: Reclaiming Public Water in Asia

FGS, Focus on the Global South - eSocialSciences - 2010

, presents examples of ongoing struggles against water privatization and commercialization as well as inspiring examples of …

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Access to Utilities by the Poor

Komives, Kristin; Whittington, Dale; Wu, Xun - eSocialSciences - 2010

This paper presents a global perspective on infrastructure coverage and the poor that many people will think they have seen before but they have not. In this paper they introduce a new data source for infrastructure statistics, the World Bank's Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS)....

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