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In the aftermath of globalization it is now, perhaps, industry alone – especially small scale industry – that holds the pass – key to employment and economic progress, which accounts for the high priority assigned to the growth and development of the small scale industry both by central...
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The Japanese Professional Football League (J-league) was established in 1993. Based on individual level data, this study investigated how emergence of the league affected Japanese people playing football using the differences-in-differences method. The following main findings were obtained. (1)...
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Abstract: More than 30 percent of total population in Bangladesh is extremely poor. Halving the existing poverty level as per the millennium development goals of the UN by 2015 is the major challenge of the country. The question arises as to how to eradicate extreme poverty quickly? Successful...
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Based on primary survey data, the study begins with a brief overview of the theoretical and empirical evidence on employment and livelihoods for rural households in Chapter I. A macro picture of the economy of Uttaranchal is presented in Chapters II and III based on the secondary data. The...
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This article examines the creation of industrial enterprises and the basic models of firm-level technological learning behaviour of the last 20 years in China. Six case studies of technological learning and links to external sources of know-how from the South of China in the Pearl River Delta...
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Industrial development is often accompanied by massive migration from agricultural to industrial areas. This paper compares two steady states, the first and the second, which emerge before and after the termination of such migration, respectively. The paper shows that 1) the employment rate must...
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both questions is yes. Using bilateral manufactured goods exports data from 28 developing countries during 1978-2005, we … find that South-South PTAs have a significantly positive effect on manufactured goods exports. In contrast, no such effect …
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The debate over the Brazilian national steel-making problem took shape in the end of the 1900 decade and lasted until 1941, with the creation, by the Brazilian federal government, of the Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional (CSN – National Steel Company) to build and exploit the Volta Redonda steel...
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that account for 82% of all developing country manufactures exports between 1978 and 2005, this paper explores the effects … exports in GDP, and total exports in South-South trade. In contrast, no such significant or robust effect of financial … technology-and-skill-intensive manufactured goods exports significantly more than total manufactured or merchandise goods exports. …
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The recent spurt of economic growth in India has been described as ‘jobless growth’. In this paper an attempt has been made to examine the question of when industrial development provides required dynamism for generating desired employment opportunities for labour force and when it does not....
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