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We analyze the demand and supply characteristics of the Indian telecommunications market, in order to assess the potential effectiveness of universal access policies in developing countries. We provide some empirical evidence on the supply and demand characteristics, using a small...
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An important evaluation problem in developing countries is assessing the value and optimal use of environmental resources as inputs into production. This is a key methodology required for many general evaluation approaches, e.g. ensuring the most efficient use of a resource requires...
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In 2006 the Center for Global Development's report 'When Will We Ever Learn? Improving lives through impact evaluation' bemoaned the lack of rigorous impact evaluations. The authors of the present paper researched international organizations and countries including Mexico, Colombia, South...
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reduction credits from projects in developing countries. Various studies have concluded that India is likely to be one of the … status of the CDM stakeholders in India, assesses risk perspectives of CDM projects and provides suggestions for approaches …
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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 …
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I evaluate India's transition from an inward-oriented development strategy to greater participation in the world … economy. While tariff rates have decreased significantly over the past decade, India is still one of the more autarkic … countries. Despite improvement over the past in export performance, India continues to lag behind its South- and East Asian …
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The rise of the emerging southern economies – China, India, Brazil, and South Africa (CIBS) – as both economic and …
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The paper departs from the perception that trade in services in general and developing countries' exports in services in particular are dynamic segments of world trade. Both total trade data as well as US import trade figures do not support this perception. Success episodes such as the recent...
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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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speaks the language of religious, political and/or mandated CSR. India, in recent times came into the limelight with its …
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