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Why do many households remain exposed to large exogenous sources of non-systematic income risk? Why don’t financial markets develop to pool these risks? This paper uses a series of randomized field experiments to test the importance of price and non-price factors in the adoption of an...
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Given the commonalities in terms of history, culture, languages and trade complementarity in many cases, the Bangladesh-China-India …
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study of exports is undertaken from India and China by analysing the role of extensive and intensive margins in the export …Should India's export promotion policies be targeted at accelerating export growth at the extensive(new trading …
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Is the high degree of gender inequality in developing countries in education, personal autonomy, and more explained by underdevelopment itself? Or do the societies that are poor today hold certain cultural views that lead to gender inequality? This article discusses several mechanisms through...
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help the poor if local resources, accountability and governance are in good shape. The process in China and India had …
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Latin America, India, and China. Crude and standardised mortality rates are reported, standardized mortality ratios … and economic factors. Compared with the US, mortality was much higher in urban India and rural China, much lower in Peru … protective (pooled hazard ratio 0.93, 95% CI 0.89–0.98). Most deaths occurred at home, but, except in India, most individuals …
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In this context, higher education as well as research and development (R&D) have long since ceased to be purely the domain of the developed Western economies. Numerous regions of the world, some in the emerging markets in particular – the often-cited BRIC countries – are catching...
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India's trans-boundary riparian policies affect four countries - Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh - on three … river systems - the Indus, the Ganga and the Brahmaputra-Mehgna. China's riparian policies affect nine countries to the … south - Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam - on five river systems - the …
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This article reviews beer production, consumption and the industrial organization of breweries throughout history. Monasteries were the centers of the beer economy in the early Middle Ages. Innovation and increased demand later induced the growth of commercial breweries. Globalization and...
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The the population dynamics of the 21st century is shown here.
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