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Building a better rat trap: technological innovation, human capital and the Irula
Terjesen, Siri A. - 2007
This case follows Sethu Sethunarayanan, Director of the non-profit Center for the Development of Disadvantaged People (CDDP), which is dedicated to the improvement of the Irula tribe in rural villages of southeast India. The Irulas specialize in catching rats, an activity which provides the bulk...
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Doing business in India: a review of research in leading international journals
Rienda, Laura; Claver, Enrique; Quer, Diego - In: Journal of Indian Business Research 3 (2011) 3, pp. 192-216
Purpose – India has emerged as one of the major players on the new international business scene. Its unstoppable economic growth since reforms in 1991 has become the focus of attention of researchers in the area of international business and management. The purpose of this paper is to review...
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The impact of public spending in education and health on human development in India
Ruzima, Martin; Veerachamy, P. - In: Journal of the Asia Pacific economy 28 (2023) 2, pp. 390-403
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The Great Education Muddle: State Failure and Judicial Jigsaw
Radhakrishnan, P. - eSocialSciences - 2005
A comprehensive White Paper on India’s higher education policy for a pragmatic programmatic for at least the next 20 … consideration the size of the age-cohort population in the relevant age-groups, and cover all issues relating to higher education … such as ensuring social justice through education for all, relevance of public-private partnership, admission policy …
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Rural Nonfarm Employment and Incomes in the Eastern Himalayas
Rahut, Dil Bahadur; Micevska, Maja B. - 2007
implications of the analytical framework. We conduct an empirical inquiry that reveals that education plays a major role in …
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Entrepreneurship Culture of SMEs in India's Tourism Sector
Baporikar, Neeta - In: International Journal of Strategic Information … 7 (2016) 2, pp. 14-27
Travel and tourism is a promising service sector of this century. Tourism is one of the major forces for economic, social, and cultural change in any region and India is no exception. Tourism is the world's largest industry and a sector emphasized by many countries to advocate economic...
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Measuring Externalities in Program Evaluation
Janssens, Wendy - 2005
Impact evaluations of development programmes usually focus on a comparison of participants with a control group. However, if the programme generates externalities for non-participants such an approach will capture only part of the programme’s impact. Based on a unique large-scale quantitative...
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What Explains the Stagnation of Female Labor Force Participation in Urban India?
Klasen, Stephan; Pieters, Janneke - 2013
1987 and 2009. Despite rising growth, fertility decline, and rising wages and education levels, women's labor force …'s education, stigmas against educated women engaging in menial work, and falling selectivity of highly educated women. On the …
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What explains the stagnation of female labor force participation in urban India?
Klasen, Stephan; Pieters, Janneke - 2013
1987 and 2009. Despite rising growth, fertility decline, and rising wages and education levels, women's labor force …'s education, stigmas against educated women engaging in menial work, and falling selectivity of highly educated women. On the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330026
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Poverty and ethnicity in Asian countries
Gradín, Carlos - 2016
factors that contribute to ethnic disadvantaged groups being poorer are the strongly persistent high inequalities in education …
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