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This Consultation Paper, being issued with a view to making recommendations to the Government under section 11(1)(a)(iv) of the TRAI Act, focuses on the need to bring about convergence in all aspects of regulation of the telecommunications and broadcasting industries. Convergence is a powerful...
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Open access journal publishing is currently at a systematic disadvantage relative to the traditional subscription …-based journal publishing. A simple, cost effective remedy to this inequity is proposed that would put open access publishing on a … path to become a sustainable, efficient system, allowing the two journal publishing systems to compete on a more level …
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tradition of measurement of inequality that follows from this conceptualisation have not paid adequate attention to the need for …
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economics perspective, examining in particular the dichotomy between economic and social theory in explaining the nexus between …
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A review and extended discussion is presented of The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice and Lives by Deirdre McCloskey and Stephen Ziliak, a work that raises important issues related to the practice of statistics and that has been widely commented...
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opportunity costs, reflecting economics and tradition). It then outlines promising approaches for increasing female education. The …
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Falling costs of coordination and communication have allowed firms in rich countries to fragment their production process and offshore an increasing share of the value chain to low-wage countries. This paper proposes a Ricardian model where both of these effects are present and analyzes the...
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This paper evaluates the real-time performance of the growth rate of the DSE-ECRI Indian leading index for exports for predicting cyclical downturns and upturns in the growth rate of Indian exports. The index comprises the 36-country real effective exchange rate and leading indices of...
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Policy makers, therefore, often encounter the following questions while formulating the social security schemes. What are the priority social security needs of unorganized workers? What existing mechanisms and strategies do they use to meet the social security needs? Do social security needs and...
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economics. …
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