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Enforcing the right to food in India: Bottlenecks in delivering the expected outcome
Cheriyan, George - 2006
Over the past decade, a series of events in India have brought the question of food security into sharp focus. Vast … Organization laws on agriculture and farmers, the media’s spotlight on starvation deaths and, finally, the Supreme Court of India … situation prevailing in India and reviews the obligations and initiatives by the government of India to ensure food security …
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Fatal fluctuations? Cyclicality in infant mortality in India
Bhalotra, Sonia - 2007
This paper investigates the impact of macroeconomic shocks on infant mortality in India and investigates likely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268267
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Volunteering and the State
Hackl, Franz; Halla, Martin; Pruckner, Gerald J. - 2009
This paper explores the capability of the state to affect the individual's decision to work for free. For this purpose we combine individual-level data from the European and World Values Survey with macroeconomic and political variables for OECD member countries. Empirically we identify three...
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Volunteering and the state
Hackl, Franz; Halla, Martin; Pruckner, Gerald J. - 2009
This paper explores the capability of the state to affect the individual's decision to work for free. For this purpose we combine individual-level data from the European and World Values Survey with macroeconomic and political variables for OECD member countries. Empirically we identify three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269121
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Pension and medicost reform - averting the demoghaphic/fiscal demise
Kotlikoff, Laurence - In: CESifo Forum 06 (2005) 4, pp. 37-41
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Aging and Economic Opportunities: Major World Regions around the Turn of the Century
Behrman, Jere R.; Duryea, Suzanne; Székely, Miguel - 1999
This paper presents new evidence for major world regions and for the most populous countries in each region on associations between the average ages of populations and three groups of economic outcomes: (1) macroeconomic aggregates (domestic saving as a share of GDP, GDP per capita, capital per...
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Fiscal rules and composition bias in OECD countries
Dahan, Momi; Strawczynski, Michel - 2010
Using a sample of OECD countries, this paper finds that while fiscal rules succeeded in reducing total government expenditures and budget deficits in the medium term, they significantly affected the composition of government expenditure: the ratio of social transfers to government consumption...
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Auswirkungen veränderter Transferzahlungen auf die wirtschaftliche Leistungsfähigkeit der ostdeutschen Länder
Kloß, Michael; Lehmann, Robert; Ragnitz, Joachim; … - 2012
Auf europäischer Ebene steht aktuell die Neuabgrenzung der Fördergebiete für die EU-Strukturfonds der Förderperiode 2014 bis 2020 zur Debatte. Ob eine Region förderfähig ist, hängt von der regionalen Wirtschaftskraft im Vergleich zum EU-Durchschnitt ab. Bei Bemessung anhand aktuell...
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Government electronic services delivery and the digital divide: The case of Andhra Pradesh, India
Balakrishna, Sundar - 2018
Despite garnering world-wide appreciation for her contribution to information technology services, India has to contend …
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Patterns of rainfall insurance participation in rural India
Giné, Xavier; Townsend, Robert; Vickery, James - 2007
to smallholder farmers in rural India and presents preliminary evidence on the determinants of insurance participation …
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