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We investigate how the selection process of a leader affects team performance with respect to social learning. We use a lab experiment in which an incentivized guessing task is repeated in a star network with the leader at the center. Leader selection is either based on competence, on...
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combining these financing mechanisms. We draw on a cluster RCT in rural India of a sanitation labelled microcredit program …, implemented by chance around the onset of a large sanitation policy comprising partial subsidies – Swacch Bharat or ‘Clean India …, we provide rigorous evidence of the impacts of labelled microcredit on household sanitation investment and borrowing …
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We analyse the marriage decisions of men and women in rural India, focusing on the added attractiveness of sanitation … within the marital living arrangement. We demonstrate that the Government’s Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) changed marriage …
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coordination failure. Focusing on shared sanitation facilities for slum residents in two major Indian cities, we randomly allocate …
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This paper attempts to identify and examine labor intensive industries in the organized manufacturing sector in India … (Government of India, various issues), the labor intensity for 97 industries at the 4-digit disaggregate level was computed for … the period 1990-91 to 2003-04. The study identifies 31 industries as ‘labor intensive industries’ within India’s organized …
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This study attempts to address the issue of declining labour intensity in India’s organized manufacturing in order to …
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The study suggests an approach to reduce India's sensitive list under SAFTA. The concept of Revealed Comparative … Advantage has been used to pair the RCAs for products on India's sensitive list with the corresponding RCAs of the SAARC … countries. Four categories of items are generated based on whether India or the SAARC country is competitive in each of the …
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services trade, investment and cooperation between South and Southeast Asia, taking the example of India and Thailand, by … analysis of the trade agreements involving India and Thailand, the paper finds that the present level of physical and people … agreement. India and Thailand have singularly liberalised key services sectors in their concluded bilateral and regional trade …
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