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Infl ows of foreign knowledge are the key for developing countries to catch up with the world technology frontier. In this paper, I construct a simple tractable model to analyze (a) the incentives of foreign fi rms to bring their know-how to a developing country and (b) the incentives of...
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The United Nations General Assembly declared 2012 the "International Year of Sustainable Energy for All", officially recognising the urgent need to put energy at the centre of the global development agenda. In parallel, a strong international policy effort is being made to achieve the goal of...
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Despite the promise in the Constitution of India (1950) to establish universal elementary education within a decade …, education in India is still under-resourced, and there remain problems of retention and of the quality of education, which has … India - in which the needs for focus on learning, for attention to the training and accountability of teachers and for …
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Bangladesh-Bhutan-India-Nepal (BBIN) region - specifically on the North-East region of India and No …
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This paper examines how rural households cope with climate change related rainfall shocks by re-allocating children's time between domestic activities and school attendance. Households affected by an unanticipated rainfall shock face an inter-temporal trade-off between current household income...
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