Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 336
Cover Image
Mainstreaming Migration in Development Agendas : Assessment of South Asian Countries
Wickramasekara, Piyasiri - 2015
There has been increased emphasis on the linkages between international migration and development at international, regional and national levels in the past two decades. This recognition of migration as a developmental tool has generated calls for mainstreaming migration in development with some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028369
Cover Image
Economic reforms: Policy and institutions some lessons from Indian reforms
Virmani, Arvind - 2004
Economic policy and policy reform over the last few decades has been motivated by the need to accelerate growth or equivalently to reverse a decline in growth rate. The economic literature on the determinants of growth has burgeoned and disagreement has followed consensus on the policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807531
Cover Image
Cultural assimilation, cultural diffusion and the origin of the wealth of nations
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2007
This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318954
Cover Image
Northern states versus Southern states: A Comparative analysis
Joseph, Mathew - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807544
Cover Image
The Cost Competitiveness of Manufacturing in China and India: An Industry and Regional Perspective
van Ark, Bart - 2008
manufacturing sector of China and India. We first provide a comparison between India and China using a broad international … perspective. We find that China has increased its labor productivity to a level above that of India, but due to a somewhat higher … compensation level, China is still somewhat at a disadvantage in terms of unit labor cost in manufacturing relative to India. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807634
Cover Image
What Can Be Learned About the Economies of China and India from Purchasing Power Comparisons?
Heston, Alan - 2008
Comparisons of India and China have been made for over 50 years. This paper focuses on purchasing power estimates in … China and India in the 2005 round of the UN International Comparison Programme (ICP) that was coordinated by the World Bank … currencies and real product per capita for 146 countries, and the results for China and India are discussed in the context of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807635
Cover Image
The Engendered Spaces in the Villageat the Edge of the Capital:A Case Study of Al Gharaza/Sudan
Badri, Balghis; Knuth, Hardine - Universität <Berlin, Humboldt-Universität> / … - 2008
öffentlichen Raum im Dorf zu öffnen. Kräfte vonaußerhalb – wie Entwicklung und Islamisierung – bleiben fremd. Die Dorfbewohner …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009302561
Cover Image
Geographical origins of language structures
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2018
This research explores the geographical origins of the coevolution of cultural and linguistic traits in the course of human history, relating the geographical roots of long-term orientation to the structure of the future tense, the agricultural determinants of gender bias to the presence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012058635
Cover Image
Truth vs. justification: Contrasting heterodox and mainstream thinking on development via the example of austerity in Africa
Sindzingre, Alice - 2021
The differences between mainstream and 'heterodox' theories and policies have become increasingly blurred, and this dynamic has also affected heterodox analyses of development. Being trapped by the primacy of the statistics-based methodological imperative, much heterodox thinking on development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012437885
Cover Image
Services Trade and Policy
Francois, Joseph F.; Hoekman, Bernard - 2009
Since the mid-1980s a substantial body of research has taken shape on trade in services. Much of this is inspired by the WTO or regional trade agreements, especially the EU. However, an increasing number of papers focus on the impacts of unilateral services sector liberalization. The literature...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294845