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Urbanization in India: Evidence on Agglomeration Economies
Mitra, Arup - eSocialSciences - 2011
urbanization. Also the paper focuses on characteristics and classes of cities, and poverty and slums. [Working Paper 141]. URL …
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Seasonal Migration and Risk Aversion
Bryan, Gharad; Chowdhury, Shyamal; Mobarak, A. Mushfiq - eSocialSciences - 2011
seasonal famines force millions of people to succumb to poverty and hunger. An incentive of $8.50 is assigned to households in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009399611
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Oil to Cash: Fighting the Resource Curse through Cash Transfers
Moss, Todd - eSocialSciences - 2011
same time, a growing number of developing countries have initiated cash transfers as a response to poverty, and these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008799608
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Developing Asia’s Competitive Advantage in Green Products: Learning from the Japanese Experience
Lino, Fukuya; Lim, Alva - eSocialSciences - 2010
€œgreen†economic growth, which can not only provide the new markets and jobs needed immediately for alleviating poverty, but also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671973
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Economics of Migration and Remittances: A Review Article
Guha, Puja - eSocialSciences - 2014
The aim of this paper is to analyse the different generations of migration theory and remittances from the development economics perspective, examining in particular the dichotomy between economic and social theory in explaining the nexus between migration and development. [ProGlo Working Paper...
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Listen Up Economists, Why Might History Matter for Development Policy?
Kanbur, Ravi - eSocialSciences - 2009
History matters, and it matters in important and interesting ways for policy  today. But it is not just actual events in the past. It is how they are recorded, interpreted, ...
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Factor Employment, Sources and Sustainability of Output Growth: Analysis of Indian Manufacturing
Virmani, Arvind; Hashim, Danish A. - eSocialSciences - 2010
The manufacturing sector in India is crucial for two main reasons: It has significant potential to provide modern employment to a growing labour force, especially that of less skilled type and second by its own healthy growth, stimulate and provide a foundation for, organic growth in other...
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Scheme for “New Initiative in Skill Development through PPP†- Guidelines for Grants-in-Aid and Other Heads
Planning Commission, India - eSocialSciences - 2011
The scheme would facilitate improving both qualitative and quantitative aspects of skill development in Mission Mode by harmonizing efforts of Central / State Governments as well as private sector through State Skill Development Missions. Accordingly, a frame work has been laid for long-term...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002303
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Conceptualizing Economic Marginalization
Kanbur, Ravi - eSocialSciences - 2007
What exactly is 'economic marginalization'? How should one conceptualize it, and what are the implications of such conceptualization? Economic marginalization can be conceptualized as outcome or as process (or structure). On outcomes, marginalization can be a static description, or a dynamic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528133
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Minimum Wages And Poverty
Kanbur, Ravi; Fields, Gary - eSocialSciences - 2005
analyze the effects of a higher minimum wage in terms of poverty rather than in terms of unemployment. Second, we extend the … in which a higher minimum wage raises poverty, others where it reduces poverty, and yet others in which poverty is … unchanged. We characterize precisely how the poverty effect depends on four parameters: the degree of poverty aversion, the …
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