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the forefront of tertiary education in colonial India, but they established many high quality colleges following Indian …
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Many countries in the developed world are ageing in terms of their distribution of population. Conversely, a number of … countries in the south have younger population. India for example, has 60% of its population in the age group of 15-59, with the … physical infrastructure are conducive to rapid economic growth commensurate with the projected demographic dividends for India …
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Indian diaspora in the development of India's IT sector. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of the analysis …
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-growing economies in the world. This paper examines drivers of female labor force participation in urban India between 1987 and 2004 …In the past twenty years, India's economy has grown at increasing rates and now belongs to the fastest … minority of India's women. So despite India's economic boom, it appears that for all but the very well educated, labor market …
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This paper provides estimates of the economic impact of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in China and India for the … five main NCDs will total USD 27.8 trillion for China and USD 6.2 trillion for India (in 2010 USD). For both countries, the … that the costs are much larger in China than in India mainly because of China's higher income and older population. Rough …
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more clearly relevant. Using state-level panel data for India, we contribute the first estimates of the impact of changes …
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We provide an analysis of enforcement policies applicable to formal sector in dual labor markets. We use a framework with heterogeneous firms, endogenous determination of informal wage and politically dictated enforcement strategies. Firms which operate both in the formal and informal sectors do...
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We model the aid allocation decision where the donor government has announced that good governance is the criterion for receiving aid. Potential recipients must compete for the aid funds. The structure of the competition is important to the donor in terms of achieving good governance, and to the...
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There is no significant relationship between the improvement in happiness and the long term rate of growth of GDP per capita. This is true for three groups of countries analyzed separately - 17 developed, 9 developing, and 11 transition - and also for the 37 countries taken together. Time series...
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Will an aging population lower economic growth? Economists are generally concerned that the increase in life expectancy could lower economic growth, however, theory does not make a prediction. As life expectancy increases, so should household savings, which results in more physical capital per...
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