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Mahatma Gandhi and the Prisoner’s Dilemma: Strategic Civil Disobedience and Great Britain’s Great Loss of Empire in India
Siddiky, Chowdhury Irad Ahmed - eSocialSciences - 2006
This paper examines the relationship between statutory monopoly and collective action as a multi-person assurance game culminating in an end to British Empire in India. In a simple theoretical model, it is demonstrated whether or not a collective good enjoys (or is perceived to enjoy) pure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341777
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From a Rights Perspective
Nagaraj, Vijay Kumar - eSocialSciences - 2006
The collection of papers demonstrates that the human right to development in essence brings together several distinct but not mutually inconsistent streams of philosophical, political, economic and socio-legal thoughts and traditions.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009319346
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Social Business: A Step Toward Creating a New Economic and Social Order
Yunus, Mohammad - eSocialSciences - 2010
The concept of social business flows from a firm conviction that profit or benefit is not the only motivating factor for an entrepreneur and an entrepreneur can also be motivated by social goals and enjoy success. Social business, as advocated by the author, is essentially a non-loss,...
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An Approach to the 11th Five Year Plan: Towards Faster and More Inclusive Growth
Commission, Planning - eSocialSciences - 2006
The 11th Plan provides an opportunity to restructure policies to achieve a new vision of growth that will be much more broad based and inclusive, bringing about a faster reduction in poverty and helping bridge the divides that are currently the focus of so much attention. The first steps in this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699128
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Policymaking under Globalization Pressures: Reforming Public Utilities in Latin America
Murillo, Maria Victoria - eSocialSciences - 2006
To analyse the role of partisan beliefs and interests, this paper focuses on two industries—telecoms and electricity—which have been subject to strong pressures for policy diffusion and thereby are unlikely candidates for showing traces of partisanship. In the implementation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699196
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Effect of Structural and Conditional Rigidities on Moving a Beneficiary from Passive to Active State: An Empirical Investigation in a Poverty Reduction Programme in Rural India
Banik, Arindam - eSocialSciences - 2007
Most studies on poverty alleviation and reduction programmes emphasize structural bottlenecks, asymmetric information, and rent seeking behaviour. This paper provides an analytical characterization of the beneficiaries in a situation of much structural and conditional rigidity, where all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528156
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What’s Social Policy Got To Do With Economic Growth?
Kanbur, Ravi - eSocialSciences - 2006
So what’s social policy got to do with economic growth? Quite a lot, it would appear, if one takes the results of cross-country growth regressions at face value, as they are by many social policy analysts, even as they criticize the findings of the economic policy part of the very same...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699351
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487770
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Economic Backwardness in History: Deviation from a Eurocentric Theme
Hatekar, Neeraj - eSocialSciences - 2005
much ‘capitalistic’ as that of similar agents in contemporary Europe. The difference in the economic trajectories of … more accommodative and open process than in many parts of Europe. Further, the ecology of the Deccan has its own peculiar … Deccan as being ‘non-capitalistic’ in some way. At most, one can argue that economic agents in 18th century Europe acted …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528093
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Reflections on Global Account Imbalances and Emerging Markets Reserve Accumulation
Summers, Lawrence H. - eSocialSciences - 2007
The lecture focuses on some implications -- both positive and normative -- of the most surprising development in the international financial system over the last half dozen years. That development is the large flow of capital from the world’s most successful emerging markets to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699185