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given to the re-emergence of the Asian giants, the People's Republic of China (PRC) and India. Both countries have attained …
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given to the re-emergence of the Asian giants, the People's Republic of China (PRC) and India. Both countries have attained …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012995197
The GDP growth rates recorded during the first 15 years of Indian planning are far higher than those recorded during the colonial era. The prevalent view amongst economists, therefore, is that the introduction of central economic planning caused a significant improvement in India's economic...
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In China and India broad economic reforms since the 1980s progressively opened to private initiative and international …, qualitatively more complex and politically less palatable. This paper identifies the turning points in China's and India's long … growth process. In China, the priorities are to foster new growth engines by boosting domestic consumption and improving …
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Ownership is the essence of economic citizenship. Beyond actual possession, a sense of personal welfare and proprietorship, or at least the hope of achieving them, constitute a necessary and important complement to being stakeholders in a society. Together with efficacy and legitimacy, these are...
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In view of rising inequality in fast growing Asian developing countries, it is important to study the relationship … between economic growth and income inequity. We develop a simple model to establish that economic growth and inequality can … bear a complex and non-linear relationship if policy makers try to impact on one (say, inequality) by influencing the other …
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female political leadership on the governance of projects implemented under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in … panel of audit reports, governance improves as female leaders accumulate experience. These results suggest that female … political leadership may generate gains in governance but only after the initial, gendered disadvantages recede. Our findings …
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This paper is a first attempt to apply a robust political economy framework to explain when Special Economic Zones (SEZs) can contribute to economic development. A robust political economy is one that channels the actions of self-interested individuals with limited information to promote...
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significant approaches to drawing connections from governance institutions to development outcomes. Next, it reviews some of the … India’s experience for the application of different theories of governance and development. The central lesson is that the …
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The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act of 2005 is a major development in the history of poverty reduction strategies and rural development policies in India. Though the successful passage of the Act is due to the long struggle by NGOs, academics, and some policymakers, its successful...
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