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Taking ICT to Every Indian Village : Opportunities and Challenges
Garai, Atanu; Shadrach, B. - 2006
What can ICT bring for the inhabitants of 600,000 Indian villages? How India is empowering the poor and marginalised citizens to participate in the emerging knowledge society? How will India provide voice to her millions of citizens? "Taking ICT to every Indian village: Opportunities and...
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Formal and informal institutions and the economic development in Latin America
Pavarina, Paula Regina de Jesus Pinsetta; Cella, Daltro - 2015
This paper aims to collaborate with the discussion about the factors that try to explain the economic behavior in Latin America countries, considering the importance of some attributes related to social capital (ie interpersonal trust, which leads to association and civic commitment, performing...
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Truth vs. justification : contrasting heterodox and mainstream thinking on development via the example of austerity in Africa
Sindzingre, Alice - 2021
The differences between mainstream and 'heterodox' theories and policies have become increasingly blurred, and this dynamic has also affected heterodox analyses of development. Being trapped by the primacy of the statistics-based methodological imperative, much heterodox thinking on development...
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History without evidence : Latin American inequality since 1491
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2009
Most analysts of the modern Latin American economy hold to a pessimistic belief in historical persistence -- they believe that Latin America has always had very high levels of inequality, suggesting it will be hard for modern social policy to create a more egalitarian society. This paper argues...
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Inequality and Democracy
Soci, Anna - 2019
The paper is about the political consequences of increasing economic inequality in Western economies. Political theorists have often stressed that democracy is in troubles when its population is not broadly uniform in income and wealth because unequal economic resources can easily translate into...
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Political Stability and Economic Development in the New Nation of South Sudan
Mohamed, Issam A.W; Akongdit, Addis - 2012
The newly born, one year old State of Southern Sudan faces multiple challenges, economic, administrative, ethnic and most of all, civil conflicts with its previous mother country, Sudan. Building a state is an arduous mission and building a nation comprised of many ethnicities is the most...
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Culture, Innovation, and Economic Development : The Case of the South Indian ICT Clusters
Täube, Florian A. - 2014
The Indian software industry has often been cited as an example of a 'role model' for other developing countries trying to catch up, or leapfrog certain stages of industrial development. Having started with basic programming services India has climbed the value chain in IT industries. The...
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Religion as a Tool of Economic Development : Exploring the Idea of Social Justice Through a Comparative Analysis of Religions in India
Kuriakose, Francis - 2015
The scope of this paper is to widen the conversation on critical, moral and ethical implications of economic deprivation in India. The paper analyses how religion can unify the spiritual with the social and material fulfilment of a human being by advocating social justice through ethical...
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Cashing in on education : women, childcare, and prosperity in Latin America and the Caribbean
Mateo Díaz, Mercedes; Rodriguez-Chamussy, Lourdes - 2016
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Cashing in on education : women, childcare, and prosperity in Latin America and the Caribbean
Mateo Díaz, Mercedes; Rodriguez-Chamussy, Lourdes - 2016 - Online-Ausg.
Economic gains from increasing women's participation in the labor market -- Why is childcare a key policy? -- Female … labor force participation in Latin America and the Caribbean -- Use of childcare services -- Childcare provision: service … features for working mothers -- International benchmarking: female labor supply and childcare -- Assessing childcare demand: a …
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