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Market Failure and the Poverty of New Drugs in Maternal Health
Fisk, Nicholas M; Atun, Rifat - eSocialSciences - 2008
A new survey finds that only 17 drugs are under active development for maternal health indications, which is less than 3% of the pipeline in cardiovascular health (660 drugs). The international agencies have forgotten pregnant women. Given the unacceptably high number of maternal and perinatal...
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Understanding Inflation and Controlling It
Basu, Kaushik; Marks, C - eSocialSciences - 2011
Inflation management is one of the hardest tasks an economic policymaker has to undertake. It appears, at first sight, that one can rely entirely on commonsense to carry out this task. But that will be a cardinal mistake. While inflation policy does require judgment and intuition, it is...
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Structural and Functional Loss in Restored Wetland Ecosystems
Mateos, David Moreno; Power, Mary E; Comín, Francisco A; … - eSocialSciences - 2012
Wetlands, which include tropical mangroves and boreal peatlands, are among the most valuable ecosystems in the world because they provide critical ecosystem goods and services, such as carbon storage, biodiversity conservation, fish production, water purification, and erosion control. As global...
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Reading Savarkar: Disequilibriums in Hindutva’s Notion of National-Unity-at-all-Costs
Govind, Nikhil - eSocialSciences - 2011
Sarvarkar’s case for Unity is at best a cumulative network of agile concepts that are open-ended, and can be used by future sympathetic thinkers. To not grasp this agility is to fundamentally misunderstand why the ideology of Unity-at-all-Costs is so available and compelling to many in...
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Geographical Agglomeration of Indian and Chinese Multinationals in Europe: A Comparative Analysis (Preliminary version)
Zhang, Haiyan; Yang, Zhi; Bulcke, Daniel Van Den - eSocialSciences - 2011
level dataset, this study maps Indian and Chinese direct investment in Europe. The geographical agglomeration of … multinational companies from these two large emerging countries is analysed and compared across Europe. The study focuses on the … impact of firm specific advantages on the co-location of Indian and Chinese multinationals in Europe. A non …
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State Aid and Competition in Banking: The Case of China in the Late Nineties
Cheng, Xiaoqiang; CAYSEELE, Patrick VAN - eSocialSciences - 2010
A reduced form model where banks can pursue other goals than profit maximization is presented. This allows us to test for behavioral changes of banks over time. This model provides a framework to evaluate whether moral hazard issues may plague banks receiving state aid, which concerns greatly...
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European Views on Asia and Europe-Asian Relations
Ramiah, Venil - eSocialSciences - 2010
burden sharing. It is these steps that will make Asia a worthy partner for Europe and an equal player in Europe …
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Global Financial Crisis: Causes, Consequences and India’s Prospects
Mohan, Rakesh - eSocialSciences - 2009
Presentation shows the global financial crisis, the difference between US, Europe and India, RBI’s policy response …
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Having Customers Share The Perception Of Quality Assessments On The French Wine Market
Teil, Geneviève - eSocialSciences - 2008
The wine market is a pretty paradoxical research object for the economical and marketing studies. In France alone, every year, hundreds of thousands of new brand differentiated products are marketed. How can so many brands survive to any rationalization process? The wine market is an interesting...
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Singapore: The Art of Building a Global City
Sanyal, Sanjeev - eSocialSciences - 2007
late entrants in Asia who can stiudy and understand the urban dynamics of existing global cities in Europe and North …
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