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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...

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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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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 …

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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 …

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How do crises affect schooling decisions? Evidence from changing labor market opportunities and a policy experiment

López Bóo, Florencia - 2008

This paper examines the effect of labor market opportunities on schoolingemployment decisions in 12 urban areas in Argentina over 12 years, emphasizing the recession/crisis years 1998-2002. Over 'typical' years deteriorating job rates increase the probability of attending school and decrease the...

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Occupational upgrading, social inclusion and collective skill formation in the transition to the knowledge economy

Durazzi, Niccolo; Tonelli, Simone - 2024

Collective skill formation systems were central to sustaining a high-road approach to economic development in industrial societies while maintaining social inclusion. But can they still deliver in knowledge-based societies, both economically and socially? This article argues that nothing...

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Higher Education in India: Seizing the Opportunity

Kaul, Sanat - 2006

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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...

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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,...

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Early starts, reversals and catchup in the process of economic development

Chanda, Areendam; Putterman, Louis - 2004

Early states like China, India, Italy and Greece have been experiencing more rapid economic growth in recent decades …

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