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Does Public Good Provision Determine Incumbent’s Fate? Evidence from India

Paul, Saumik; Denzau, Arthur - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

In this paper we empirically examine whether public facilities like providing primary school, medical clinics, electricity etc help incumbents to stay in power. Specifically, we analyze the parliamentary election outcomes in 483 constituents in rural India from 1971 to 1991. This study is based...

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Does Modernization Improve Performance: Evidence from Indian Police

Kumar, Surender; Kumar, Sudesh - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper aims to measure the role of police modernization scheme in its performance in crime repression. We use output distance function as an analytical tool and estimate it using stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) framework in a ‘single stage’. We find that the police modernization...

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Crime and Economic Growth: Evidence from India

Kumar, Surender - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper empirically examines the causality between crime rates and economic growth using state level data in India. A reduced form equation has been estimated using instrumental variable approach to correct for joint endogeneity between crime and economic growth. Higher crimes may reduce...

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Women labour force participation and domestic violence: Evidence from India

Paul, Sohini - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Domestic violence is recognised as a serious violation of women’s basic rights. Conventional economic models of domestic violence suggest that higher participation by women in the labour force leads to a decrease in domestic violence. In this paper, we study the relationship between women...

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Partnerships for Women's Health - Striving for Best Practice within the UN Global Compact / United Nations University Research Brief 1/2009 (www.unu.edu)

Timmermann, Martina; Kruesmann, Monika - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Every minute, at least one woman dies from pregnancy and childbirth complications; a further 20 suffer injury, infection or disease. Despite medical advances, and years of policy declarations, this tragic situation remains particularly severe in developing countries, violating a fundamental...

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Conundrums in public distribution system in India: an assessment by states and social groups

Goli, Srinivas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Growing number of studies accentuated enigmas in PDS system, many of them provided evidences based on National Sample Survey (NSS) and other official statistics, more particularly by major states. Many of them also highlighted theoretical and operational difficulties in existing policy...

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Child Rights Convention and its Implementation

Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

Child labour is one of the severe problems faced by developed and developing economies. The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) adopted on 20 November 1989 and entered into force on 2 September 1990. Nevertheless the challenges faced by the children remained the same. In some of the...

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Terrorist Incidents in India, 1998–2004: A Quantitative Analysis of Fatality Rates

Borooah, Vani - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Using data from the University of Maryland’s Global Terrorism Database II, this paper first provides information on the nature of terrorist incidents in India in the period 1998-2004: the Indian states that were worst affected by terrorist incidents and fatalities; the terrorist groups...

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Determinants of crime rates: Crime Deterrence and Growth in post-liberalized India

Dutta, Mousumi; Husain, Zakir - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Becker’s analysis of crime and punishment has initiated a series of theoretical and empirical works investigating the … address this deficiency. The paper investigates the relative impact of deterrence variables (load on police force, arrest … endogeneity. The results show that both deterrence and socioeconomic factors are important in explaining crime rates. However …

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