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Japan's foreign direct investment experiences in India : lessons learnt from firm level surveys

Choudhury, Srabani Roy - 2009

Ever since India decided to globalize, concentrated effort was made to attract Japanese participation through foreign direct investment. However, response from Japan has been rather subdued. This paper attempts to gain some insight into this reluctance of Japanese investors by studying the...

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Sectoral infrastructure investment in an unbalanced growing economy : the case of India

Ghate, Chetan; Glomm, Gerhard; Liu, Jialu - 2012

We study the sectoral allocation of public infrastructure investments in the agriculture and manufacturing sectors in India. In addition to the changing employment and output shares of these two sectors, the capital output ratio in agriculture in India has fallen, while it has risen in...

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The dimensions of household food insecurity in Zimbabwe 1980 - 1991

Christensen, Garry; Stack, Jayne - 1992

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Inter-temporal changes in welfare : preliminary results from nine African countries

Stifel, David; Sahn, David E.; Younger, Stephen D. - 1999

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Zimbabwe : A Quest for a Nominal Anchor

Kovanen, Arto - 2006

This study examines the appropriateness of alternative intermediate monetary policy targets for Zimbabwe in light of …

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Social policy and social spending in Zimbabwe : 1980 to 2015

Mate, Rekopantswe - 2018

This paper examines social policy in the first three decades of Zimbabwe's independence. The analysis provides answers … to four sets of questions: What is the historical background of social policies in Zimbabwe and how has social spending … fairly and transparently, social policy deepens democracy. However, Zimbabwe's experience shows that mustering national …

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Contestation and resource bargaining in Zimbabwe : the minerals sector : prepared for the UNRISD project on Politics of Domestic Resource Mobilization for Social Development

Saunders, Richard - 2017

This paper explores the emergence and evolution of social contestation over mineral resources in Zimbabwe through three …

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High-value minerals and resource bargaining in a time of crisis : a case study on the diamond fields of Marange, Zimbabwe : prepared for the UNRISD project on Politics of Domestic...

Saunders, Richard - 2018

In 2006, the discovery of world-class deposits of alluvial diamonds in Marange District in eastern Zimbabwe offered …

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Export restrictions on minerals and metals : estimation and analysis of supply chain effects from Zimbabwe's chromium ore export ban

Perry, Anna; Schreiber, Samantha; Guberman, David - 2024

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Drought and civil war in Sub-Saharan Africa

Couttenier, Mathieu; Soubeyran, Raphael - 2010

In this paper, we show that drought has a positive effect on the incidence of civil war over the 1945-2005 period in Sub-Saharan Africa. We use the Palmer Drought Severity Index which is a richer measurement of drought than the measures used in the literature (rainfall and temperature) as it...

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