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Women Political Leaders, Corruption and Learning: Evidence from a Large Public Program in India
Afridi, Farzana; Iversen, Vegard; Sharan, M - eSocialSciences - 2013
the impact of female political leadership on the governance of projects implemented under the National Rural Employment …
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Transparency and Accountability in Employment Programmes The case of NREGA in Andhra Pradesh
Burra, Neera - eSocialSciences - 2010
initiated by the Government of Andhra Pradesh under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act this study finds that a new …
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Myanmar’s Ethnic Insurgents: UWSA, KNU and KIO
Christopher O’Hara; Selling, Niels - eSocialSciences - 2012
Since the elections of 2010, Myanmar’s political landscape has changed significantly; the old military junta has officially been dissolved and a new civilian government, led by President Thein Sein, has been inaugurated. Together with the new constitution of 2008 and the...
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Economic Survey 2012-13: A Comedy of Errors?
H, Suryanarayana M - eSocialSciences - 2013
There is lack of clarity and concepts in the Economic Survey. The Survey has not covered many topics which it was expected to cover.
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Human Development Index for Andhra Pradesh
Bedi, Jatinder S; H, Ramachandran - eSocialSciences - 2009
considering indicators such as economic attainment, longevity and education. The estimates are worked out with and without …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004993767
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Impact of Special Economic Zones on Employment, Poverty and Human Development
Aggarwal, Aradhna - eSocialSciences - 2007
There are three channels through which SEZs address these issues: employment generation, skill formation (human capital … channels. ‘Employment generation’ has been the most important channel through which SEZs lend themselves to human … development concerns, in India. Employment generated by zones is remunerative. Wage rates are not lower than those prevailing …
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Preliminary Evidence on Internal Migration, Remittances, and Teen Schooling in India
Mueller, Valerie; Shariff, Abusaleh - eSocialSciences - 2013
Migration can serve as an outlet for employment, higher earnings, and reduced income risk for households in developing …
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Dishonesty and Selection into Public Service
Hanna, Rema; Wang, Shing-Yi - eSocialSciences - 2013
corruption. Students who demonstrate lower levels of prosocial preferences in the laboratory games are also more likely to prefer … corruption do not systematically predict job preferences. [BREAD Working Paper No. 404]. …
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Does Economic Growth Reduce Corruption? Theory and Evidence from Vietnam
Bai, Jie; Jayachandran, Seema - eSocialSciences - 2013
Government corruption is more prevalent in poor countries than in rich countries. This paper uses cross …-industry heterogeneity in growth rates within Vietnam to test empirically whether growth leads to lower corruption. The analysis uses survey …
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Political Clientelism and Capture: Theory and Evidence from West Bengal, India
Bardhan, Pranab; Mookherjee, Dilip - eSocialSciences - 2013
There are relatively few theoretical models or empirical analyses of clientelism which analyse the sources and consequences of clientelism. Data from household surveys in rural West Bengal are used to analyse the political clientelism. [BREAD working paper no. 369]....
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