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The Structural Relationship Between Current and Capital Account Balance in India : A Time Series Analysis
Chakraborty, Debashis; Mukherjee, Jaydeep; Sinha, Tanaya - 2010
aftermath of the Southeast Asian crisis, the limitation of the liberal capital regime for a developing country like India is … often highlighted in the literature. However, the probable impact of introducing KAC on CAB in India generally is discussed … theoretically. Though some of the existing studies in India have earlier focused on this research question, they have done so by …
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Socioeconomic Progress Across the Major Indian States : Converging or Diverging
Goli, Srinivas; Arokiasamy, P.; Reddy, Bheemeshwar - 2013
The purpose of this paper is to examine the progress in socioeconomic conditions across the major states of India by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014154852
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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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Estimating the causal effect of forced eradication on coca cultivation in Colombian municipalities
Reyes, Luis Carlos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Coca eradication has been aggressively pursued by the Colombian government to reduce the amount of land that agricultural households in the Andean country devote to this illegal crop. However, little work has been done to assess the causal effect of the policy on land allocation decisions. I use...
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Employment, migration and livelihoods in the Hill Economy of Uttaranchal
Mamgain, Rajendra P. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
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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Who Does Bear the Costs of Compliance with Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures in Poor Countries?
Shafaeddin, Mehdi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Abstract This article is a part of a twin study. Drawing on the available evidence, in this paper the author examines the cost of compliance with Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) measures for poor countries with reference to Africa. He shows that the burden of cost of compliance is entirely on...
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Environmental pressures and rural-urban migration: The case of Bangladesh
Herrmann, Michael; Svarin, David - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Bangladesh, like other least developed countries (LDC), has a large rural population and agricultural labor force. At the turn of the Millennium 75 percent of the LDCs’ population still lived in rural areas and 71 percent of the LDCs’ labor force was involved in agriculture. Yet, even the...
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Agriculture, Development and Urban Bias
Bezemer, Dirk J; Headey, Derek - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Throughout history, agriculture-led development strategies with state support programs have been essential to achieving rapid economy-wide growth, poverty reduction and structural transformation at early stages of development. Yet over the last three decades, the domestic and international...
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Mapping the organic vegetable value chain along the EWEC
Lord, Montague J.; Tangtrongjita, Pawat - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The present study maps the organic vegetables value chain in the East West Economic Corridor (EWEC) of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). It covers horizontal and vertical linkages, information and support services, price differentials, and packaging, branding and certification processes in an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110466
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Improving Livelihoods and Prosperity through Value-Added Agriculture: East-West Economic Corridor of Greater Mekong Subregion
Lord, Montague J; Tangtrongjita, Pawat; Chadbunchachai, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The study describes the creation four clusters for organic vegetables along the East West Economic Corridor (EWEC) of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). These clusters have three goals: (a) to foster the conversion of conventional agricultural farming to organic production, and thereby enable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112559