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On the Road: Access to Transportation Infrastructure and Economic Growth in China
Banerjee, Abhijit; Duflo, Esther; Qian, Nancy - eSocialSciences - 2012
This paper estimates the effect of access to transportation networks on regional economic outcomes in China over a twenty-period of rapid income growth. It addresses the problem of the endogenous placement of networks by exploiting the fact that these networks tend to connect historical...
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Women’s Economic Empowerment as the “Magic Potion†of Development?
Blumberg, Rae Lesser - eSocialSciences - 2008
enhance both gender equality and development that female economic empowerment may be close to being a “magic potion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005696027
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Consequences of Unequal Urbanization on Development
Bhagat, Ram - eSocialSciences - 2014
Historically, urbanization has been a great force of economic transformation, modernization and social change in the developed world. On the flip side, migration has been blamed for the woes of modern cities overlooking the fact that urban planning and governance are equally responsible. Indian...
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Innovation and Growth: Role of the Financial Sector
Mohan, Rakesh - eSocialSciences - 2008
ensuring price and financial stability. [Bharti Annual Lecture at the Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India …
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Implications of Market and Coordination Failures for Rural Development in Least Developed Countries
Kydd, Jonathan; Dorward, Andrew - eSocialSciences - 2006
economic actors, the impacts of these problems on markets and economic development, and the ways that these have been addressed … 2003: Globalisation and Development] …
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‘A People United In Development’: Developmentalism In Modern Malayalee Identity
Devika, J - eSocialSciences - 2007
The attempt is to draw upon public sphere debates in Malayalee society in the immediate post-independence decades, more specifically on speech and writing accruing around the distinctiveness of Malayalee culture and Aikya Keralam (United Kerala). Also, the centrality of Developmentalism in both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699228
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Gender Development Indicators: Issues, Debates and Ranking of Districts
Rustagi, Preet - eSocialSciences - 2010
The present study emphasizes on independent variable analysis in assessing gender development at the disaggregated … district level to account for problems such as the major contradiction facing this century which relates to development sans …, the second section deals with some of the debates and measures of development indicators. Section three presents the …
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Deforestation in the Himalayas: Myths and Reality
Baland, Jean Marie; Mookherjee, Dilip - eSocialSciences - 2014
include economic growth, local poverty, and inequality, all of which are generally believed to accelerate the process. Of …
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Remoteness and Unbalanced Growth: Understanding Divergence Across Indian Districts
Das, Samarjit; Ghate, Chetan; Robertson, Peter E. - eSocialSciences - 2013
The existing literature on Indian growth finds no evidence of convergence across states. This represents a puzzle given the relatively free flows of capital, labor and commodities across state borders. A new data set of district level income and socio-economic data is used to explore the...
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Measures, Spatial Profile and Determinants of Dietary Diversity: Evidence from India
Das, Mousumi - eSocialSciences - 2014
dietary diversity profile across adjoining regions highlights the persistence of uneven development in terms of consumption …
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