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Sicherheitskooperation in Südasien: Bestandsaufnahme, Ursachen, Perspektiven
Wagner, Christian - 2014
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Bevölkerungsdynamiken in Südasien: Die Region riskiert, ihre demografische Chance zu verpassen
Popp, Silvia - 2014
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Fulfilling the promises of South Asian integration: A gravity estimation
Moinuddin, Mustafa - 2013
In all the regions of the contemporary world - including Asia - there is a growing trend in market consolidation through regional collaboration in the form of bilateral and regional trade agreements. Regional cooperation and integration can facilitate the way for expanding markets and creating...
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Impact of services trade liberalization on employment and people movement in South Asia
Chanda, Rupa - 2011
Services have been a key driver of overall economic growth in South Asia since the 1990s. This paper examines how the growth of services output, trade and investment have affected service sector employment in South Asia and the extent to which countries in this region are proactively undertaking...
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Deepening Intraregional Trade and Investment in South Asia: The Case of the Textiles and Clothing Industry
Tewari, Meenu - 2008
This paper draws on recent field work within South Asia and an extensive review of secondary data to examine the dynamics of cross border trade and investment in South Asia, exploring the potential for, and obstacles to, such trade through the lens of a sector that is salient throughout South...
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Regional Economic Integration and FDI in South Asia : Prospects and Problems
Aggarwal, Aradhna - 2008
The slow progress and modest achievements of regional integration in South Asia have generated a huge amount of skepticism about its role as an effective strategy of growth. The present study, however, argues that there is need to forge deeper integration within the region. It examines the...
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Do Labor Intensive Industries Generate Employment? Evidence from firm level survey in India
Das, Deb Kusum; Kalita, Gunajit - 2009
This study attempts to address the issue of declining labour intensity in India's organized manufacturing in order to understand the constraints on employment generation in the labour intensive sectors. Using primary survey data covering 252 labour intensive manufacturing-exporting firms across...
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Food Security in South Asia: Issues and Opportunities
Mittal, Surabhi; Sethi, Deepti - 2009
Food security is defined as economic access to food along with food production and food availability. Agriculture in the SAR (South Asian Region) is caught in a low equilibrium trap with low productivity of staples, supply shortfalls, high prices, low returns to farmers and area diversification...
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Improving donor support for urban poverty reduction
Banks, Nicola - 2011
The growing urbanization of poverty poses a significant challenge to governments and donors alike, particularly in Asia, which houses 60 per cent of the world's slum dwellers. Donors have been slow to respond to the urban challenge, however, both in their funding patterns and their priorities....
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The power of participation? Power relations and processes in employee-owned companies
Steger, Thomas; Hartz, Ronald - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (ZfP) 22 (2008) 2, pp. 152-170
Introducing employee participation in a company can be expected to change the power relations and the power processes … ownership interrelates with power relations and processes in the company. Moreover, some overarching patterns were derived from … the analysis finally resulting in seven propositions about how employee ownership and power are linked to each other. …
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