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The Global History of Corporate Governance : An Introduction
Steier, Lloyd - 2013
, Germany, Japan, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Together, the studies …
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The Efficacy of Parochial Politics : Caste, Commitment, and Competence in Indian Local Governments
Munshi, Kaivan D. - 2010
Parochial politics is typically associated with poor leadership and low levels of public good provision. This paper explores the possibility that community involvement in politics need not necessarily worsen governance and, indeed, can be efficiency-enhancing when the context is appropriate....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758392
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Pitfalls of Participatory Programs : Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Education in India
Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2010
efficiency. In India, the current government flagship program on universal primary education organizes both locally elected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758422
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Factor Utilization in Indian Manufacturing : A Look at the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys Data
Fernandes, Ana M. - 2010
We use the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys data to analyze the employment of both labor and capital in Indian manufacturing. We focus on disparities among states in manufacturing employment patterns, and provide reduced form evidence of their relationship to both (i) institutional...
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Affirmative Action in Education : Evidence from Engineering College Admissions in India
Bertrand, Marianne - 2010
in India for quot;lower-castequot; groups. We find that it successfully targets the financially disadvantaged: the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759394
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Aging and Death Under a Dollar a Day
Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2010
This paper uses household survey data form several developing countries to investigate whether the poor (defined as those living under $1 or $2 dollars a day at PPP) and the non poor have different mortality rates in old age. We construct a proxy measure of longevity, which is the probability...
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Mortality Risks, Health Endowments, and Parental Investments in Infancy : Evidence from Rural India
Datar, Ashlesha - 2010
this hypothesis using nationally representative data from rural India. We use birth size as a measure of initial health …
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Mosquitoes : The Long-Term Effects of Malaria Eradication in India
Cutler, David M. - 2010
prevalence in India prior to a nationwide eradication program in the 1950s. We find that the program led to modest increases in …
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Testing Limits to Policy Reversal : Evidence from Indian Privatizations
Dastidar, Siddhartha - 2010
We examine the effect of regime change on privatization using the 2004 election surprise in India. The pro-reform BJP …
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Misallocation and Manufacturing TFP in China and India
Hsieh, Chang-Tai - 2010
establishments to quantify the potential extent of misallocation in China and India compared to the U.S. Compared to the U.S., we … India. When capital and labor are hypothetically reallocated to equalize marginal products to the extent observed in the U ….S., we calculate manufacturing TFP gains of 30-50% in China and 40-60% in India …
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