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Who benefits from piped water in the house? : empirical evidence from a gendered analysis in India
Sedai, Ashish Kumar - 2021
The disproportionate burden of water collection, maintenance, and service for women in developing economies calls for a juxtaposition of water infrastructure and gender differences at the household level. We use spatiotemporal data from the largest gender disaggregated human development survey...
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Water Supply in Chennai : Desalination and Missed Opportunities
Vedachalam, Sridhar - 2012
Desalination may provide a reliable supply of water to a city with chronic water shortage, but it is hardly the best option for more than one reason. Alternatives such as reuse of treated waste water can address the twin problems of water supply and waste discharge. Moreover, desalination only...
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Can The Inclusion Of India and China Within The OECD Group Break The Growth Effect to Transitority?- An Empirical Enquiry
Sinha, Abhrajit - 2020
permanent. Next, we are also going to enquire about the alteration in results, if any, when both India and China are included in …
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Sovereign states and surging water : Brahmaputra river between China and India
Mahapatra, Sushanta Kumar; Ratha, Keshab Chandra - 2015
, extreme monsoon rainfall and sea level rise. Water is emerging as a new possible irritant between China and India. For India … diversion projects in Tibet by China is a matter of grave concern for lower riparian states. For China, it is having hidden … requirement of fresh water as the pollution grows and population rise has forced China to have the Tsangpo-Brahmaputra River …
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Sovereign States and Surging Water : Brahmaputra River between China and India
Mahapatra, Sushanta - 2015
, extreme monsoon rainfall and sea level rise. Water is emerging as a new possible irritant between China and India. For India … diversion projects in Tibet by China is a matter of grave concern for lower riparian states. For China, it is having hidden … requirement of fresh water as the pollution grows and population rise has forced China to have the Tsangpo-Brahmaputra River …
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Trends for smart city strategies in emerging Asia
Matsumoto, Tadashi; Crook, Jonathan N.; Tanaka, Kensuke - 2019
Smart cities represent the future of urban development in Emerging Asia as more and more cities and countries resort to smart technologies to build more efficient and liveable urban environments, boost economic growth, foster well-being and facilitate citizen engagement. Policy makers in the...
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Revisiting Night Lights as Proxy for Economic Growth : A Multi-Year Light Based Growth Indicator (LBGI) for China, India and the U.S
Kulkarni, Rajendra - 2011
estimate economic activity at the sub-regional level in the U.S., India and China. The night lights based estimates of economic …
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Key sectors in economic development : a perspective from input-output linkages and cross-sector misallocation
Leal, Julio - 2015
For a typical developing country, this paper shows that once inter-sectoral linkages are taken into account, closing the productivity gap in a number of services gives bigger gains in aggregate productivity than closing it in agriculture or in manufacturing. This is performed in the context of...
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Impact of services trade on India's economic growth and current account balance : evidence from post-reform period
Thomas, Mini P. - 2016
Economic Growth and External Stabilisation (defined in terms of Current Account Balance as a percentage of GDP) is a top priority for policy-makers, while laying out the macroeconomic framework for Indian economy. Government of India had targeted for an average GDP growth rate of 9 percent and a...
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Efficiency of Indian Banks : private versus public sector banks : a two-stage analysis
Patra, Biswajit; Padhan, Purna Chandra; Padhi, Puja - In: Cogent economics & finance 11 (2023) 1, pp. 1-17
This paper estimates and compares various efficiencies, namely, business, profit, and Z-Score efficiencies for private and publicly owned Indian banks. It uses the data envelopment analysis (DEA) following variable returns to scale, under input and output orientation, for measuring efficiency....
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