Why do many households remain exposed to large exogenous sources of non-systematic income risk? We use a series of randomized field experiments in rural India to test the importance of price and non-price factors in the adoption of an innovative rainfall insurance product. Demand is...

This book examines the impact of outsourcing on workers and their employment conditions in the new economy. To do so, the call centre industry in Mexico City is analysed through a large number of in-depth interviews with workers and managers, available statistics and visits to leading firms in...

Key Features:Helps readers understand India's long history, with reference to a thousand years of decline and five decades of socialismExplains the underlying long-term dynamics of the country to make definite predictions about India's future and the likely impact on the worldFocuses on economic...

9780719069000 -- 9780719069000 -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of tables and boxes -- Preface -- List of abbreviations -- List of translations -- Introduction -- 1 A brief history of India up to independence (1947) -- 2 The democratization of Indian politics -- 3 Identities and the Indian...

Across the Ocean contains nine essays, each dedicated to a key question in the history of the trade relations between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean from Antiquity to the Early Modern period: the role of the state in the Red Sea trade, Roman policy in the Red Sea, the function of...

COVER -- CONTENTS -- CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION TO COMPENSATION -- CHAPTER 2: STRATEGIC PERSPECTIVES IN COMPENSATION -- CHAPTER 3: MANAGING COMPENSATION -- CHAPTER 4: PERFORMANCE BASED COMPENSATION -- CHAPTER 5: WAGES AND SALARY ADMINISTRATION -- CHAPTER 6: INCENTIVE PLANS AND FRINGE BENEFITS --...

Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. INDIA CIRCA 1980 -- III. HOW HAS INDIA CHANGED SINCE THE EARLY 1980S? -- IV. THE STATES' STORY -- V. UNDERSTANDING POST-1980 PERFORMANCE -- VI. LOOKING AHEAD -- Appendix: Data Sources and Description -- REFERENCES.

pt. 1. Industrial labour in India -- pt. 2. Trade unionism -- pt. 3. Industrial relations -- pt. 4. Resolution of industrial conflicts -- pt. 5. Settlement machinery -- pt. 6. Industrial relations legislation -- pt. 7. Labour welfare and education -- pt. 8. Industrial relations and related...