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Quality Healthcare and Health Insurance Retention: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in the Kolkata Slums
Delavallade, Clara - eSocialSciences - 2014
Healthcare in developing countries is often unreliable and of poor quality, thus reducing individuals incentives to use …
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Innovation, Efficiency, Productivity and Intellectual Property Rights: Evidence from a BRIC Economy
Kanwar, Sunil - eSocialSciences - 2013
The innovation, efficiency and productivity responses to the stronger protection of intellectual property rights post … increase is found in the annual rates of technical change, efficiency change, and productivity growth – about 3, 8 and 0 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133188
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Industrialisation, employment and basic needs in a fast-growing agrarian state: a study of the Indian punjab.
Singh, A - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1983
productivity trends (1961-1978), relations between agricultural development and industrial development (partic. Small scale …
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EMPLOYEE REFERRAL, SOCIAL PROXIMITY AND WORKER DISCIPLINE: THEORY AND EVIDENCE FROM INDIA
Dhillon, Amrita; Iversen, Vegard; Torsvik, Gaute - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2013
We study an important mechanism underlying employee referrals into informal low skilled jobs in developing countries. Employers can exploit social preferences between employee referees and potential workers to improve discipline. The profitability of using referrals increases with referee stakes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010667501
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Employee Referral, Social Proximity and Worker Discipline: Theory and Evidence from India
Dhillon, Amrita; Iversen, Vegard; Torsvik, Gaute - CESifo - 2013
We study an important mechanism underlying employee referrals into informal low skilled jobs in developing countries. Employers can exploit social preferences between employee referees and potential workers to improve discipline. The profitability of using referrals increases with referee stakes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010674452
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Policy and Processes that Enable Honey Export: A Case Study from India
Sharma, Harish K; Partap, Uma; Gurung, Min B - eSocialSciences - 2012
India started exporting a small amount of honey in 1991-1992 and has now established itself as an important honey exporter to the world market. The quantity exported has increased substantially, and today India exports honey to 62 countries, including Germany, Saudi Arabia, the United States,...
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Sal Seeds, an Untapped Resource in India
Patnaik, Sanjoy - eSocialSciences - 2009
Sal seeds could provide effective livelihoods support for poor people when few alternative natural resource based strategies are available
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Traveling Agents: Political Change and Bureaucratic Turnover in India
Iyer, Lakshmi; Mani, Anandi - eSocialSciences - 2008
Politicians face high-powered electoral pressures while bureaucrats face longer-term, low powered incentives. Given … constitutional constraints, what incentives do politicians employ to control bureaucrats and how do bureaucrats respond to such … incentives? These issues are addressed using a sample model where politicians use posts of varying importance to motivate …
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Governance in Public Transport Systems: Comparing Indian Railways and Airways
Goyal, Ashima - eSocialSciences - 2009
are those that create incentives, broadly defined, for individuals to improve productivity. [IGIDR WP-2007-019]. … of ownership, industry and management structure, leadership, social norms, and institutional incentives to alleviating …
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From parastatals to private trade: Lessons from Asian agriculture
Rashid, Shahidur (contributor); Gulati, Ashok (contributor);  … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
In developing countries across Asia, food marketing parastatals have played an important role in agricultural policy, especially with regard to government efforts to stabilize food prices. Three broad market failures constitute the primary arguments for this form of government intervention: a...
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