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Duflo, Esther; Pande, Rohini - 2005

The construction of large dams is one of the most costly and controversial forms of public infrastructure investment in developing countries, but little is known about their impact. This paper studies the productivity and distributional effects of large dams in India. To account for endogenous...

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Gross National Happiness: Can Environmental Economics Offer a Way Forward?

Sharrock, Guy - 1999

The aim of this article is to suggest that economic planning concepts and tools currently exist which might be of practical interest to those individuals working within the Royal Government of Bhutan (RGOB) who are responsible for interpreting and applying in practice the concept of Gross...

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Globale Strukturen und deren Steuerung : Auswertung der Ergebnisse eines Förderprogramms der VolkswagenStiftung

Mayntz, Renate - 2005

Das Vorhaben, über das hier zu berichten ist, geht auf eine Anregung des Max-Planck-Instituts fürGesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG) im Frühjahr 2003 zurück, die von der VolkswagenStiftung aufgegriffenund als Projekt finanziell gefördert wurde. Ausgangspunkt war die Beobachtung, dass in den...

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Convergence within national diversity : a comparative perspective on the regulatory state in finance

Lütz, Susanne - 2003

The institutional governance approach sees national economies embedded in a bundle of non-market types of coordination (e.g. corporate hierarchies, networks, associations and the state). Governance oriented research explores configurations of governance types in sectoral, regional and national...

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Steuerbarkeit gesamtwirtschaftlicher Entwicklung aus systemtheoretischer Sicht - Nachhaltigkeit durch Innovationsf?rderung und die japanische Umwelt- und Wirtschaftspolitik

K?ster, Ilona - 2004

Die Dissertation versucht, durch eine Synthese aus Entwicklungs- und Systemtheorie in Kombination mit Umselt?konomie einen alternativen Ansatz f?r die Erkl?rung von wirtschaftlicher Entwicklung allgemein und den Aufstieg der japanischen Umweltindustrie im besonderen zu finden. Neben einem...

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International Trade Openness and Gender Gaps in Pakistani Labor Force Participation Rates Over 57 Years

Hyder, Asma; Behrman, Jere R - 2011

rates in broad occupational categories in Pakistan. The method used controls for average gender differences in these …

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Identifying Asset Poverty Thresholds New methods with an application to Pakistan and Ethiopia

Naschold, Felix - 2005

is whether such threshold points exist in Pakistan and Ethiopia and, if so, where they are located. Methodologically, the … growth. Moreover, the dynamic asset equilibria are very low. In Pakistan it is below the average asset holdings of the poor … insufficient for rural households in Pakistan and Ethiopia to escape poverty. …

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Remittances and Economic Development in India and Pakistan

Ballard, Roger - 2005

The document contains a chapter of a World Bank report on remittances, its development impact as well as future prospects. It was published in 2005. The articles originated in 2003 during a conference organized by the Department for International Development, IMF, and World Bank, in London.

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The Implementation of Value Transfers in an Era of Financial Volatility: meeting the logistical challenge

Ballard, Roger - 2008

Presented at a workshop at the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation, this document explores the logistical solutions deployed within contemporary Hawala-style value transmission systems. It suggests that those frustrated by the lack of an effective global payments system for retial...

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Macroeconomic Determinants of the Happiness of the Poor: A Case Study of Pakistan

Shahbaz, Muhamm; Aamir, Naveed - 2008

time in Pakistan. Inflation influences the purchasing power of poor segments of population and definitely affects the … happiness of poor individuals in a small developing economy like Pakistan. Trade-openness improves happiness rankings of poor …

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