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The total return to higher education is the rate of return based on earnings plus non-monetary private and social benefits beyond earnings that captures higher education's contribution to development.A theory of endogenous development offers a new scholarly contribution where firm and household...
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educate a whole family. Women empowered means mother India empowered”. When women who contribute almost half of the population … access to education notwithstanding, gender discrimination still persists in India and lot more needs to be done in the field … of women's education in India. Women have so much unexplored potential which has never been tapped. As education is both …
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manufacturing sector of China and India. We first provide a comparison between India and China using a broad international … perspective. We find that China has increased its labor productivity to a level above that of India, but due to a somewhat higher … compensation level, China is still somewhat at a disadvantage in terms of unit labor cost in manufacturing relative to India. In …
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This study contributes to the empirical literature on regional economic performance by analyzing the role of political institutions in explaining economic growth of selected South Asian economies. The empirical analysis is based on panel co-integration techniques and the model used is an...
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This study analyses the relationship between entrepreneurial dynamics and the level of competitiveness in Latin American countries. Based on a stage of economic development model we demonstrate that Latin American countries under the model followed different paths related to competitiveness....
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Nowadays, many successful examples prove that universities have a significant role in the enhancement of different regions. The competitiveness of regions is affected and altered by globalization and other background processes that serve as arrangers of regional structure and for this reason...
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This paper describes the very different role played by female elites in contemporary developing countries, as compared to the 'early' industrializing countries of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. It shows that women are far more important in business and politics in today's developing...
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Science and technology is seen as the key factor supporting the performance of regional innovation systems. Furthermore … examine the potential link between the economic development of the region and the intensity of science and technology … activities proxied by the share of employees in science and technology. The analysis is based on panel data for NUTS2 regions of …
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