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Japan's foreign direct investment experiences in India : lessons learnt from firm level surveys
Choudhury, Srabani Roy - 2009
Ever since India decided to globalize, concentrated effort was made to attract Japanese participation through foreign direct investment. However, response from Japan has been rather subdued. This paper attempts to gain some insight into this reluctance of Japanese investors by studying the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003913780
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Sectoral infrastructure investment in an unbalanced growing economy : the case of India
Ghate, Chetan; Glomm, Gerhard; Liu, Jialu - 2012
We study the sectoral allocation of public infrastructure investments in the agriculture and manufacturing sectors in India. In addition to the changing employment and output shares of these two sectors, the capital output ratio in agriculture in India has fallen, while it has risen in...
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The dimensions of household food insecurity in Zimbabwe 1980 - 1991
Christensen, Garry; Stack, Jayne - 1992
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Inter-temporal changes in welfare : preliminary results from nine African countries
Stifel, David; Sahn, David E.; Younger, Stephen D. - 1999
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Social policy and social spending in Zimbabwe : 1980 to 2015
Mate, Rekopantswe - 2018
This paper examines social policy in the first three decades of Zimbabwe's independence. The analysis provides answers … to four sets of questions: What is the historical background of social policies in Zimbabwe and how has social spending … fairly and transparently, social policy deepens democracy. However, Zimbabwe's experience shows that mustering national …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012020406
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Contestation and resource bargaining in Zimbabwe : the minerals sector : prepared for the UNRISD project on Politics of Domestic Resource Mobilization for Social Development
Saunders, Richard - 2017
This paper explores the emergence and evolution of social contestation over mineral resources in Zimbabwe through three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011793579
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High-value minerals and resource bargaining in a time of crisis : a case study on the diamond fields of Marange, Zimbabwe : prepared for the UNRISD project on Politics of Domestic...
Saunders, Richard - 2018
In 2006, the discovery of world-class deposits of alluvial diamonds in Marange District in eastern Zimbabwe offered …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011793581
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Export restrictions on minerals and metals : estimation and analysis of supply chain effects from Zimbabwe's chromium ore export ban
Perry, Anna; Schreiber, Samantha; Guberman, David - 2024
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014514397
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Drought and civil war in Sub-Saharan Africa
Couttenier, Mathieu; Soubeyran, Raphael - 2010
In this paper, we show that drought has a positive effect on the incidence of civil war over the 1945-2005 period in Sub-Saharan Africa. We use the Palmer Drought Severity Index which is a richer measurement of drought than the measures used in the literature (rainfall and temperature) as it...
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The effect of foreign direct investment on employment in manufacturing industry sectors in sub-Saharan African countries
Kang, Hyojung - 2022
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