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The Institution of Douglass North
McCloskey, Deirdre Nansen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
North, with many other Samuelsonian economists, thinks of “institutions” as budget constraints in a maximization problem. But as Clifford Geertz put it, an institution such as a toll for safe passage is “rather more than a mere payment,” that is, a mere monetary constraint. “It was...
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The Caloric Costs of Culture: Evidence from Indian Migrants
Atkin, David - eSocialSciences - 2013
Can culture constrain caloric intake and contribute to malnutrition? Inter-state migrants within India consume fewer calories per Rupee of food expenditure compared to their non-migrant neighbors, even for households with very low caloric intake. [BREAD Working Paper No. 389]....
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On Researching Organisations
Nayak, Dhanwanti - eSocialSciences - 2011
Review of Anthropologists Inside Organisations: South Asian Case Studies Edited by Devi Sridhar, Sage India , New Delhi …
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Can ‘Beautiful’ Be ‘Backward’? India’s Tribes in a Long-Term Demographic Perspective
Maharatna, Arup - eSocialSciences - 2009
The paper examines the present condition of tribals in India with a demographic perspective. Construction of a long-term demographic perspective on India’s tribal population rests on the premise that aggregation over diverse tribal groups is valid not only in statistical and quantitative...
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‘A People United In Development’: Developmentalism In Modern Malayalee Identity
Devika, J - eSocialSciences - 2007
The attempt is to draw upon public sphere debates in Malayalee society in the immediate post-independence decades, more specifically on speech and writing accruing around the distinctiveness of Malayalee culture and Aikya Keralam (United Kerala). Also, the centrality of Developmentalism in both...
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THE CHANGING GLOBAL ECONOMY: ROLES OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE EUROPEAN UNION IN THE EVOLVING CONTEXT
JOSEPH, MCKINNEY - In: ЭКОНОМИКА РЕГИОНА (2014) 3, pp. 57-68
The United States and the countries comprising the European Union have dominated the global economy during the past seventy years. However, momentous change is underway. China will soon be the largest economy in the world, and other countries of the developing world are rapidly increasing in...
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CCS Retrofit: Analysis of the Globally Installed Coal-Fired Power Plant Fleet
Finkenrath, Matthias; Smith, Julian; Volk, Dennis - Agence Internationale de l'Énergie - 2012
Electricity generation from coal is still growing rapidly and energy scenarios from the IEA expect a possible increase from today's 1 600 GW of coal-fired power plants to over 2 600 GW until 2035. This trend will increase the lock-in of carbon intensive electricity sources, while IEA assessments...
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Asia's rising complex energy interdependence
Naughten, Barry - In: International Journal of Global Energy Issues 29 (2008) 4, pp. 400-433
an important consideration. Hence, natural gas from West Asia could be an important resource, especially for China. The …
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United States Economic Policy Toward Asia
Noland, Marcus - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The relationship between the US and Asia will be the single biggest determinant in the evolution of the global economic … regional blocs. Asia holds the key, combining both dissatisfaction with existing global arrangements with the resources to … reconstitute, at least at the regional level, an alternative set of institutions and practices. How Asia responds will partly …
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Identifying Trade and Investment Opportunities
ESCAP, United Nations - In: Asia-Pacific Trade and Investment Report 2011: …
face economic slowdown, and acceptance is growing that the Asia-Pacific region will be the world's next engine of economic … growth. Developing economies in Asia and the Pacific are rapidly increasing their importance in the world economy, having …
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