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A conference report on UNESCO and Fundacion Bariloche sponsored conference with policy-oriented scientists from Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the United States of December 1976. The focus was on global modelling, its formalization and reliability. The applications were to problems of...
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This paper chooses a Malaysian state in Borneo Island, Sarawak, as the case study to examine the relationship between population growth and economic development. The findings imply that there is no statistically significant long-run relationship, but a causal relationship between population...
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The precise relationship between population growth and per capita income has been inconclusive in the literature and the nexus has been found not clearly explain the determinants of rapid population growth in developing countries that lacks fertility control and management framework. This forms...
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Urban water demand is rapidly growing in India due to high growth in urban population and rapid industrialization …. Meeting this growing demand is a big challenge for the urban planners in India. Incidentally, urban areas in arid and semi … arid regions of India are experiencing rapid growth. As a result, the supplies from local water resources including …
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prospects. Using state-level data from India, we show that the pace of demographic transition varies across states, and that …-age population in total population. The BIMARU states are expected to contribute 58% of the increase in India’s working … social and physical infrastructure. Whether India can turn demographic dividend into a boon or whether the dividend will …
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The study investigates disparities in social development in 144 countries worldwide. In the paper we aim to investigate cross-country differences in social development level in year 2011, as well as to estimate inequalities on the field. Secondly, we assess relative social development level...
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The ultimate objective of the present paper is to empirically investigate the effectiveness of competition policy in developed and developing countries. Although its importance is continuously increasing, the effectiveness of competition policy still seems to lack the attention that it would...
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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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discusses the nature of services, their distinction from products, and their categorization. It provides an overview of India … growth potentials. Based on this evidence, it appears that India’s manufacturing sector development may have been constrained … of different growth paths, the challenges of education and manpower training to support and sustain India’s development …
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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 issues with respect to India’s federal system in terms of their developmental …
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