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Emerging States at Crossroads
Tsunekawa, Keiichi (ed.); Todō, Yasuyuki (ed.) - 2019
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license. This volume analyzes the economic, social, and political challenges that emerging states confront today. Notwithstanding the growing importance of the ‘emerging states’ in global affairs and governance, many problems requiring immediate...
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Facets of India's Economy and Her Society Volume I : Recent Economic and Social History and Political Economy
Jha, Raghbendra - 2018
perspective and a profound understanding of how India has evolved into a major economic power set standards of scholarship and … should be valuable not just for those studying India, but also for those interested in global developments.’ -Mukul Asher …-volume work provides an account of how India has been meeting its myriad of economic, political and social challenges and how …
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Post-Industrial Development in East Asia : Taiwan and South Korea in Comparison
Chiang, Min-hua - 2018
This book purports to investigate and compare the economic development experiences in both Taiwan and South Korea in last two decades. Taiwan and South Korea’s economic development after WWII is a well-known story. However, their development after the successful post-war industrialization has...
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Restoring the Middle Class through Wage Policy : Arguments for a Minimum Wage
Levin-Waldman, Oren M. - 2018
This book delivers a fresh and fascinating perspective on the issue of the minimum wage. While most discussions of the minimum wage place it at the center of a debate between those who oppose such a policy and argue it leads to greater unemployment, and those who favor it and argue it improves...
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Rentier Capitalism : Disorganised Development and Social Injustice in Pakistan
Ahmed, Shahid - 2016
Vietnam) have, despite war and other challenges, managed to transform the lives of their people, whereas South Asia (India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014019828
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The Social Life of Economic Inequalities in Contemporary Latin America : Decades of Change
Ystanes, Margit (ed.); Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter (ed.) - Workshop on Inequality in Latin America <2015, Bergen, … - 2018
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This edited volume examines how economic processes have worked upon social lives and social realities in Latin America during the past decades. Through tracing the effects of the neoliberal epoch into the era of the so-called pink tide, the...
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The Primacy of Regime Survival : State Fragility and Economic Destruction in Zimbabwe
Simpson, Mark; Hawkins, Tony - 2018
1. Introduction -- 2. The Economics of State Fragility -- 3. Zimbabwe’s First Decade: Building the One-Party State and Controlling the Economy -- 4. Regime Interests and the Failure of Economic Reform in the 1990s -- 5. Regime Survival and the Fast Track Land Reform Programme -- 6. Regime...
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Reflecting on India’s Development : Employment, Skill and Health
NILERD (ed.) - 2018
Economy -- 3. Structural Transformation and Its Impact on Rural-Urban Households in India -- 4. Regional Imbalances in MSME … Growth in India -- Part 2 -- 5. Skill Development Efforts in Higher Education: Trends and Issues -- 6. Impact of Education … Disparity on Wages, Employment and Occupation in Rural and Urban India -- 7. Skill Crisis in Organised Sector: Chaos in …
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Rice Productivity and Food Security in India : A Study of the System of Rice Intensification
Varma, Poornima - 2017
security. Conducted on behalf of the Government of India’s Ministry of Agriculture from October 2014 to March 2016, the study … collected detailed and extensive household-level data. As the second largest producer and consumer, India plays an important … role in the global rice economy. Food security in India has been traditionally defined as having a sufficient supply of …
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Health and Well-Being in India : A Quantitative Analysis of Inequality in Outcomes and Opportunities
Borooah, Vani Kant - 2018
The theme of this book is health outcomes in India, in particular to outcomes relating to its caste and religious …1.Health Outcomes and Policy in India -- 2. Sanitation and Hygiene -- 3.The Social Orientation of India’s Integrated …
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