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Up in smoke : the influence of household behavior on the long-run impact of improved cooking stoves
Hanna, Rema; Duflo, Esther; Greenstone, Michael - 2012
It is conventional wisdom that it is possible to reduce exposure to indoor air pollution, improve health outcomes, and decrease greenhouse gas emissions in rural areas of developing countries through the adoption of improved cooking stoves. This is largely supported by observational field...
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From Adoption to Innovation : The Dynamics of Indian Knowledge Firms’ Technology Learning
Banik, Arindam - 2013
It is critical that technology recipients have the prerequisite knowledge and scientific base to best exploit the information. This includes domestic private and public research laboratories and universities, in addition to a sound basis of technical skills and human capital. Each of these may...
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The Rise of China and India and the Commodity Boom : Economic and Environmental Implications for Low-Income Countries
Coxhead, Ian; Jayasuriya, Sisira - 2008
The rapid growth of China and, more recently, of India, is having major effects on every facet of the global economy …. The supply of labor-intensive manufactured exports (from China in particular) has been accompanied by a huge expansion in …
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Weather Shocks, Social Protection, and Crop Yields : Evidence from India
Taraz, Vis - 2019
India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), the world's largest public works program, has been demonstrated to have beneficial impacts on a wide range of outcomes, but its effects on agricultural productivity have been relatively understudied (Sukhtankar, 2017). We test whether...
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Economic Valuation of a Wetland in West Bengal, India
Mukherjee, Sacchidananda - 2010
In the Gangetic flood plain of West Bengal, wetlands are used for multiple purposes, and have significant role in the livelihoods of the local people. Over the years, these Multiple Use Systems (MUSs) are getting converted to single use systems due to economic and social pressure from dominant...
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Information Strategies for Energy Conservation : A Field Experiment in India
Chen, Victor; Delmas, Magali A.; Locke, Stephen; Singh, … - 2017
Little is known about the effectiveness of information strategies on energy conservation in developing countries. In this study, we conduct a field experiment in an apartment complex in India to test how information about electricity usage impacts the electricity consumption of urban middle...
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Can Decentralisation Be a Force for Bad? New Evidence from Decentralising Environmental Clearances in India
Zou, Eddy; Han, Brooklyn; Chong, Chloe; Baheti, Visheshika - 2021
We exploit India's 2006 reform of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) regulations to assess whether decentralising environmental regulations improve firms' pollution abatement behaviours and their impacts on firm performance. Using a nationally representative panel of registered manufacturing...
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Fiscal decentralization in China and India: Competitive, cooperative or market preserving federalism?
Singh, Nirvikar - 2007
This paper provides a comparative assessment of fiscal decentralization in China and India, including the standard … subnational authorities over general economic activity. In particular, the case of China, where town and village enterprises have …, despite decentralizing reforms. The implications of differences in decentralization for fiscal outcomes and economic growth …
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Economic reforms and infrastructure spending: Evidence from China and India
Chakraborty, Pinaki; Zhang, Yan - 2009
China we have examined how marketization and decentralization has affected the composition of provincial public expenditure … observed that in China with a lower marketization level in 1986-1992, fiscal decentralization had positive effect on …This paper examines the country specific effect of policy reform on infrastructure spending in China and India. In …
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Fiscal decentralization in China and India: Competitive, cooperative or market preserving federalism?
Singh, Nirvikar - 2007
This paper provides a comparative assessment of fiscal decentralization in China and India, including the standard … subnational authorities over general nomic activity. In particular, the case of China, where town and village enterprises have … decentralizing reforms. The implications of ferences in decentralization for fiscal outcomes and economic growth are discussed. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285340