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region. Bhutan and Nepal together have an economically feasible potential of 60,000 MW of hydroelectric power generation … the 336 MW Chukha Hydel Project in Bhutan could serve as a model with regards to the transfer of risks, management of …
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Bhutan during the COVID-19 pandemic. We find that food-insecure households are more likely to collect wild foods, suggesting …
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succession and/or polyandry. This study was done in the Kingdom of Bhutan where matrilineal succession and polyandry were …
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measurement is Bhutan, which produces the Gross National Happiness (GNH) Index. However, until the first GNH Survey, in 2008 …, Bhutan did not have any sense of the size and distribution of unpaid work, despite its strong societal norms about the value … of volunteering and community work. This paper is the first to estimate the value of unpaid care work in Bhutan. It shows …
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Income growth in rural areas may be one of the greatest challenges to further poverty reduction and economic development. Using a new survey of rural Bhutanese households we investigate the short-term economic, social, and psychosocial benefits of a vocational skills training program that was...
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This paper develops a 2012 Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Bhutan with a detailed representation of the agricultural … supply and use matrices. In case of missing data, the SAM relies on information from Bhutan's 2007 supply and use table. The … of subsistence farming in Bhutan and the differences in prices due to transportation and trade margins. Important …
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In den späten 1970er Jahren erklärte der König des südasiatischen Kleinstaates Bhutan, dass für sein Land nicht das … Bruttoinlandsprodukt wichtig sei, sondern vielmehr das Bruttonationalglück. Dieser Beitrag analysiert das Bruttonationalglück in Bhutan aus …
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Central banks in developing countries, wanting to devalue the domestic currency, usually intervene in the foreign exchange market by buying up foreign currency using domestic money-often backing this up with sterilization to counter inflationary pressures. Such interventions are usually...
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This paper provides the first firm-level econometric evidence on the skill-bias of ICT in developing countries using a unique new dataset of manufacturing firms in Brazil and India. I use detailed information on firms’ adoption of ICT and the educational composition of their workforce to...
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Access to safe water is necessary for lives and livelihoods. In India, a mid-term assessment reveals that the country has already met its MDG (Millennium Development Goal) in terms of expanding access to water infrastructure although in the parallel subsector of sanitation progress is falling...
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