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Drivers of Academic Research and Patenting in India: Econometric Estimation of the Research Production Function

Ray, Amit Shovon; Saha, Sabyasachi - 2010

India. Academic research is conceptualised as a research production process where research inputs (like research time and …. Our results clearly identify several drivers of academic research and patenting in India, in terms of faculty background … India. In particular, we argue that putting in place institutional structures will not serve the purpose without addressing …

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Higher Education in India: Seizing the Opportunity

Kaul, Sanat - 2006

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A structural model of demand for apprentices

Mühlemann, Samuel; Schweri, Jürg; Winkelmann, Rainer; … - 2005

It is a widely held opinion that apprenticeship training represents a net investment for training firms, and that therefore firms only train if they have the possibility to recoup these investments after the training period. A recent study using a new firm-level dataset for Switzerland showed,...

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The biocultural origins of human capital formation

Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc - 2014

This research explores the biocultural origins of human capital formation. It presents the first evidence that moderate fecundity and thus predisposition towards investment in child quality was conducive for long-run reproductive success within the human species. Using an extensive genealogical...

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Mineral Policy Issues in theContext of Export and Domestic Use of Iron Ore in India

Firoz, A. S. - 2008

This study examines the utilization of iron ore in India. It takes into account thesignificant reserves of iron ore in … India and allays fears that the country's steel industrywill run out of iron ore resources if exports continue at the … betweenproduction and consumption of lumps and fines as nearly 80 of exported ores are fineswhich are not adequately used in India. This …

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Deconstructing China's and India's Growth: the Role of Financial Policies

Aziz, Jahangir - 2008

This paper uses the standard one-sector neoclassical growth model to investigate why China's consumption has been low and investment high. It finds that the low cost of capital has been quantitatively an important factor. Theory predicts that the price of capital may have been significantly...

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Design of Incentives in Community based Health Insurance Schemes

Ahuja, Rajeev; Jütting, Johannes - 2003

... This paper discusses solutions to important incentive problems in micro-health insurance schemes which threaten their sustainability. In particular, three issues explored are : (i) if defining household as unit of insurance always mitigates adverse selection problem; (ii) how ex ante moral...

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Access of the poor to water supply and sanitation in India: Salient concepts, issues and cases

Jha, Nitish - 2010

Access to safe water is necessary for lives and livelihoods. In India, a mid-term assessment reveals that the country … factors constrain access to safe drinking water and proper sanitation in India for both the urban and rural poor, and that …

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The social policies of emerging economies: Growth and welfare in China and India

de Haan, Arjan - 2013

reference to China and India, with their very distinctive public policy approaches. Much of the economics literature either does …

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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...

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