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Gender bias in household education expenditure: the case of West Bengal

Majumder, Amita; Mitra, Chayanika - In: Indian Growth and Development Review 9 (2016) 2, pp. 129-150

Purpose This paper aims to detect gender bias in education expenditure on “students”, who are children and young adults, in a household in the rural and the urban sectors of West Bengal. Outlay equivalent ratios have been calculated using the Engel curve approach, where the budget share...

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Organizational forgetting in local governments: a study from rural India

Bagchi, Soumyabrato; Chakrabarti, Bhaskar - In: Journal of Organizational Ethnography 10 (2021) 3, pp. 289-302

Purpose The aim of this paper is to develop a theory of organizational forgetting in the context of local governments from the paradigmatic lens of existing research orchestrated in management literature. The paper empirically explores how and why local governments forget and discusses the role...

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Higher Education Analytics: A Study of the Flow of College Applicants between US States

Joseph, Adrian; Rutz, Patrick; Stachowiak, Sean; Jaume, … - In: International Journal of Information Systems and Social … 8 (2017) 1, pp. 58-70

The dispersion of talent within the United States is not uniform. There is sufficient statistical evidence to suggest that there is an interstate brain drain phenomenon occurring within the country. The authors set out to examine this by first determining whether states could be classified into...

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Human capital, migration and rural entrepreneurship in China

Liu, Jialu - In: Indian Growth and Development Review 4 (2011) 2, pp. 100-122

Purpose – Many countries have experienced, or are experiencing, urbanization. One such example is China. Even though …

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Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Wetland Cover Changes in East Kolkata Wetlands, India from 1972 to 2011

Li, Xia; Mitra, Chandana; Marzen, Luke; Yang, Qichun - In: International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research (IJAGR) 7 (2016) 2, pp. 1-13

Land use and land cover change has a slow but prolonged impact on various aspects of environment on local, regional and global scales. In developing countries especially population pressure and food demand have compelled conversion of wetlands to built-up and agricultural lands. One such unique...

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Urban Development Through Smart Cities in India

Baporikar, Neeta - In: International Journal of Civic Engagement and Social … 3 (2016) 3, pp. 36-49

India is on the path of developing its smart cities at a faster pace in near future. But what constitutes a smart city and what is purpose of this focus remains to be explored. Through in depth literature review and grounded approach this paper, appraises the genesis of smart city to develop a...

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The Contractual Nature of the City

Lu, Qian - In: Man and the Economy 3 (2016) 1, pp. 129-145

Abstract Urbanization is a process in which separated and dispersed property rights become concentrated in a specific … various and high transaction costs. Efficient urbanization implies the reduction of these costs. This paper studies how … efficient urbanization reduces transaction costs in the real world, based on a series of contracts rather than the coercive …

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Landscape Political Ecology: Rural-Urban Pattern of COVID-19 in Nigeria

Nwankwo, Cletus Famous; Ayadiuno, Romanus U. - In: Statistics, Politics and Policy 12 (2021) 2, pp. 269-298

has not been understood in Africa. The study used spatial techniques to explore the pattern of urbanization-COVID-19 nexus …

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Economy, Commerce, and Energy: How Do the Factors Influence Carbon Dioxide Emissions in Japan? An Application of ARDL Model

Rahman, Syed Mahbubur; Ogura, Yasuhiro; Uddin, Md. Nasir; … - In: Statistics, Politics and Policy 13 (2022) 2, pp. 219-233

Abstract Carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) traps heat from the sun, and thereby prevents oceans from becoming frozen solid to keep the earth habitable. CO 2 emission also stimulates global warming and increases the pace of climate change. For such contradictory influences, researchers across the globe have...

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Chinese regional productivity and urbanization: a county-level study in 2007-2010

Jin, Fei; Zhang, Qi - In: Journal of Chinese Economic and Foreign Trade Studies 8 (2015) 2, pp. 82-105

-level data, and the impact of the urbanization policy on TFP is discussed. Design/methodology/approach – The data envelopment …) institution divides Chinese urbanization into halves, which have the opposite correlation on TFP growth. Research limitations … factors that can influence productivity in the course of urbanization. Originality/value – The achievement of the first …

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