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The story of South Asia is a topsy-turvy one. Soon after independence from British rule, the region seemed to have a much better prospect than many other parts of the Third World; the prospects soon dimmed, however, as South Asia crawled while East and Southeast Asia galloped away. But a large...
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This study takes as its starting point what Gunnar Myrdal had to say about Viet Nam in the context of his seminal work, Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations, published in 1968. Myrdal pointed to the decisive nature of the Vietnamese people; and subsequent developments, which are...
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In this paper we reassess the relationship between inequality and human development, focusing on the differential … distributive data consistent across countries and over time (World Income Inequality Database companion datasets). We show how the … concentration of income at the bottom and top, rather than overall inequality, is negatively associated with human development. This …
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of suppliers in supermarket value chains, and affect the development of their capabilities. The impact on the competitive …
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capabilities and investments required by suppliers to access shelf space and remain competitive. Finally, the paper looks at the … role of supermarkets and governments in developing local supplier capabilities and the importance of harmonizing policies …
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Over the past two decades, southern African countries have experienced rapid growth in the number and spread of supermarkets. Several factors have been attributed to this growth, including increasing urbanization, increased per capita income, the rise of the middle class, economies of scale and...
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. Recommendations for addressing the challenges and building capabilities to adopt new technologies are provided, emphasizing the role …
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With data from the World Bank Enterprise Survey, this paper examines how firm-level resilience capabilities interact … variables to approximate resilience-related capabilities before (static) and after (dynamic) the COVID-19 pandemic. We create … four counterfactual groups using a Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation to assess which resilience capabilities help firms …
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Building on Rawls' theory of justice and Sen's theory of capabilities, I present an outline of social justice under … climate shocks, illustrating it with the experiences of persons with disability. Social justice holds when inequality is … injustice, such as when persons with disability shoulder extra losses in capabilities, especially being without drinking water …
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examine the managerial capacity associated with elite status, highlighting which capabilities enable them to control changes …
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