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Social Responsibility in India: International Arena and Social Development -- Chapter 4: Politics of Corporate Social … international governance framework pertaining to CSR, that is primarily based on soft law attributes. Such international soft law … research work on assessing the Regulatory and Governance aspects of the Indian case of Corporate Social Responsibility. She has …
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of a local area development fund. We find that MPs facing criminal accusations exhibit on average about 5% lower … model, these differences depend on the development level of the constituency, a proxy for rent-seeking possibilities and …
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We investigate the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) and trade, as two measures of globalization, on female labor force participation in a sample of 80 developing countries over the last decades. Contrary to the mainstream view in the literature, which is mainly based on country-case...
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Most analysts of the modern Latin American economy hold to a pessimistic belief in historical persistence -- they believe that Latin America has always had very high levels of inequality, suggesting it will be hard for modern social policy to create a more egalitarian society. This paper argues...
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With about five children born per woman and a population growth rate of 2.5 per cent per year, sub-Saharan Africa has been the world's fastest growing region over the last decade. Economists have often argued that high fertility rates are mainly driven by women's demand for children (and not by...
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The closed economy neoclassical model predicts lung-run convergence in per-capita income. We show, within a neoclassical framework, that international trade among two countries differing only in their initial capital endowment generates long-run income differences. Our results suggests that...
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changes of infrastructure governance in the Philippines, but this book assesses policy changes in infrastructure development …Introduction -- Finance and Procurement Options for Infrastructure Development -- Theory of PPP -- Overview of PPP … Infrastructure Development in Developing Countries -- Current Status of Infrastructure Development and Achievements for PPP in the …
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Institutional Approach to Financial Development: Panel Study for the MENA Region. . … development and brain drain. Providing a comprehensive understanding of the most important and urgent economic challenges in the …
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Development -- To Enrich People is the First Step in Improving National Strength -- Reasonably Defining the Governance Boundaries … Reform: Development, Transition, and Globalization -- Experience from China’s Reform -- Three Stages of China’s Economic … Reform and Development -- Straightening out Ten Basic Relationships and Promoting the Construction of Long …
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we show that the suppression of such trade may also impede the development of property rights in the South, but that even …
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