Showing 1 - 10 of 2,425
large dams in India. To account for endogenous placement of dams we use GIS data and the fact that river gradient affects a … estimates suggest that large dam construction in India is a marginally cost-effective investment with significant distributional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369167
The recent decline in gross domestic product (GDP) growth in India raised a debate about whether it is a trend or a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011432712
needed a public forum with a global reach to involve the best minds working on economic development in India as well as to … honour its founder, Dr K.R. Narayanan, President of the Republic of India. The K.R. Narayanan Oration series was developed in … both an expert account of key aspects of the economic development process in India and a peek into India's potential in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012990242
Economic policy and policy reform over the last few decades has been motivated by the need to accelerate growth or equivalently to reverse a decline in growth rate. The economic literature on the determinants of growth has burgeoned and disagreement has followed consensus on the policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807531
Growing criticism of inefficient development aid demanded new planning instruments of donors, including international NGOs (INGOs). A reorientation from isolated project-planning towards holistic country concepts and the increasing rationality of a result-orientated planning process were seen as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011327904
In the past decades the involvement of local experts in the planning and evaluation of development programs has steadily increased. Ownership of development planning is propagated as major aim of bilateral and international development co-operation. Yet, the quality and performance of many local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011331378
Häufig wird erst bei der Schlußevaluierung von TZ-Projekten erkannt, daß das Nichterreichen von Teilzielen oder gar das Scheitern des gesamten Projektes auf die mangelnde Berücksichtigung sozialer und soziokultureller Voraussetzungen zurückzuführen sind. Es reicht nicht aus, technische,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011331406
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011295046
the Government of India. The three critical dimensions of human development identified by the UNDP are (i) a long and … these three dimensions across states in India. This is done using the methodology to estimate a new index called the … study has made appropriate revisions to the goalposts with reference to the mainstream states in India. This is done in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010397195
German Social Democracy is faced with tremendous challenges of societal and economic changes: party dealignment, a bourgeoisifying of society, the rise of media democracy and economic and cultural globalisation. The party's reaction - a third order change in its ideological objectives and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298492