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Property rights and elites
Amsden, Alice H. - 2010
An elite derives its status from its relationship to property, whether physical or human capital. While stable property rights are necessary for everyday business, unstable property rights that result in major institutional changes (such as land reform) may have a positive impact on economic...
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Capacity development for the transformation of Africa
Léautier, Frannie A. - 2014
Countries need capacity for a variety of reasons, including sustaining economic growth, generating jobs, reducing poverty, effectively managing development programmes, and transforming societies and economies. A lot of effort has been expended to develop capacity in Africa with mixed results....
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The tangled web of associational life
Meagher, Kate - 2010
This paper examines how decentralization and informalization are reshaping urban governance in contemporary Africa. By exploring the interface between urban institutional failures and popular organizational solutions, the paper considers how informal governance processes feed into wider...
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Industrial development in Asia : trends in industrialization and industrial policy experiences of developing Asia
Chang, Ha-joon; Zach, Kiryl - 2018
, China, and India - to describe some of the strategies which Asian economies used in order to induce industrial development …
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A (time) series of unfortunate events : structural change, globalization, and the rise of occupational injuries
Chari, Amalavoyal - 2023
global markets. In this study, I compile a rich database on workplace injuries in India covering a five-decade period. I use … trending sharply upwards starting in the 1990s. This phenomenon does not appear to reflect sectoral shifts in employment …
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Employment effects of joining global production networks : does domestic value added matter?
Wannaphong Durongkaveroj - 2021
industry in Thailand with an emphasis on employment generation and equity. The analysis is based on a balanced panel data set … that industries with high value-added ratios have more potential to create export-induced employment. The policy … implication of the results is that in this era of economic globalization, national industrial policy needs to be guided by the …
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Liberalized trade policy and inequality : evidence from post-Multi-Fibre Arrangement India and some theoretical issues
Kar, Mausumi; Kar, Saibal - 2015
global south. The textile and clothing industry is the largest foreign exchange earner and the largest employment provider in … India. We show that since the withdrawal of the quota, the industry has witnessed unprecedented concentration of firm … wage bill of export-oriented firms in India actually rose during this period. However, the aggregate state-level wage bill …
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The gendered crisis : livelihoods and mental well-being in India during COVID-19
Afridi, Farzana; Dhillon, Amrita; Roy, Sanchari - 2021
urban informal-sector workers in India. First, we find that men's employment declined by 84 percentage points post …This paper studies the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the gendered dimensions of employment and mental health among … did not experience any significant impact on employment post pandemic, as reported by their husbands. Second, we document …
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Old-age pensions and female labour supply in India
Unnikrishnan, Vidhya; Sen, Kunal - 2020
-age women's labour supply decisions in India, where female labour force participation continues to decline over time. We find …'s labour force participation is mostly in flexible employment, e.g. self-employment and agricultural and non-agricultural wage … employment, and is particularly evident for poorer households. …
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Administrative failures in anti-poverty programmes and household welfare : an investigation of India's employment guarantee programme
Basu, Parantap; Raj, Rajesh S. N.; Sen, Kunal - 2020
administrative failure - the persistent delay in paying beneficiaries on time in India’s iconic anti-poverty programme, the National … Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA). Using a life cycle model, we argue that a long wage payment lag in this flagship … employment options. Empirical evidence based on primary data lends support to our key theoretical prediction that wage payment …
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