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Service Sector Led Economic Growth in India and Some Measurement and Database Issues

Saikia, Dilip - 2017

In recent years there has been a rapid and sustained growth of the service sector in the Indian economy. But unfortunately, while the importance of the services is growing statistical data and other relevant information of the services are abysmally low. There are problems relating to the...

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SPATIAL integration of the rice market: emprirical evidence from mid-west and far-west Nepal and the Nepalese-Indian border

Sanogo, Issa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper studies the integration of rice markets in the mid-west and far-west districts of Nepal. The data were drawn … mainly from the World Food Programme (WFP) database on Nepal. Results indicate that the rice markets of the hinterland are … of Nepal. Moreover, the poor road infrastructure determines the price differentials. Poor infrastructure impedes price …

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The Integration of Financial Markets: Empirical Evidence from South Asian Countries

Qayyum, Abdul; Mohsin, H - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

Lanka and Nepal. All the variables are found to be integrated of the same order in the case of Pakistan, India and Nepal …

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The Global Economic Crisis: Impact on Indian Outward Investment

Pradhan, Jaya Prakash - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Indian outward FDI flows have declined in 2008 and the first half of 2009. The global financial and economic crisis appears to have seriously dented overseas investment plans of emerging Indian multinationals. This paper looks at the trends and patterns of Indian OFDI flows in the current crisis...

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Embodied human capital unemployment

Kumaraku, Klajdi; Naqvi, Nadeem; Rexhepi, Sara - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Adam Smith (1776) devoted the first three chapters to the division of labor in his Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. This process, carried far enough, eventually results in a divergence between the distributions of supplies and demands of such...

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Looking East, looking West: Penang as a knowledge hub

Gerke, Solvay; Evers, Hans-Dieter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Penang has always been a focal point, absorbing knowledge (and popular culture) from civilizations to the East and West. In modern Penang the pattern of cultural contacts has changed over time. Research institutes and universities in Penang cooperate with foreign partners to produce research...

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Services-led industrialization in India: Assessment and lessons

Singh, Nirvikar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This paper provides an integrated analysis of the role of the service sector in recent Indian economic development. It discusses the nature of services, their distinction from products, and their categorization. It provides an overview of India’s overall growth experience, and a detailed...

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Federalism and economic development in India: An assessment

Singh, Nirvikar; Srinivasan, T.N. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This paper examines India’s federal system in the context of prospects for India’s future economic growth and development. After a brief review of India’s recent policy reforms and economic development outcomes, and of the country’s federal institutions, the analysis focuses on the major...

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China-Africa’s Emerging Economic Links: A review under the Core-Periphery perspective

Maswana, Jean-Claude - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

the idea that China’s involvement in Africa is of a conventional center-periphery type; which suggests the existence of …

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Human capital in Qing China: economic determinism or a history of failed opportunities?

Xu, Yi; Foldvari, Peter; Van Leeuwen, Bas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The traditional education system in Qing China has been widely debated over the past decades. Some have argued it was efficient and furthered economic growth, while others have stressed its inefficient nature, which led to the introduction of the modern education system in the closing decades of...

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