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Self Help Groups and empowerment of women: Self-selection or actual benefits?

Husain, Zakir; Mukherjee, Diganta; Dutta, Mousumi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Evidence on success of SHGs in empowering females is mixed. In particular, researchers argue that such schemes often attract women who are already active in the public domain (referred to as ‘self-selection’), so that those who are most in need of assistance remain excluded. Simultaneously,...

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Climate Change and Development: Trade Opportunities of Climate Smart Goods and Technologies in Asia

Dinda, Soumyananda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This study focuses on trade opportunities of climate smart goods and technologies (CSGT) in Asia. Paper mainly … highlights the export gaps for climate smart goods and technologies (CSGT) in Asia and identifies the trade opportunities among … empirical literature in terms of measuring and identifying the potential trade opportunity of CGST in Asia. …

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Removing poverty and inequality in India: the role of infrastructure

Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Developing countries attach enormous importance to physical infrastructure for poverty reduction. We contend that this association is different across types of infrastructure and regions. The present paper explores the multidimensional association between infrastructure and poverty in India in a...

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Colonialism and Industrialization: Empirical Results

Alam, M. Shahid - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998

This paper presents theory and evidence to show that imperialism was a major factor impeding the spread of the …

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Climate Change, Trade, and Competitiveness: Climate Trade Performance of India, SAARC and Asia Pacific Region

Dinda, Soumyananda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

identifies India’s performance in CFG trade with other Asian nations. Most of the countries in Asia are importers of climate … China, Hong Kong and Japan, and Asia Pacific region are major exporter of CFG during 2002-2008. Competitiveness of India …

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Should Poverty Measurement Discount Expenditure on Pan, Tobacco and Alcohol? The Indian case

Motkuri, Venkatanarayana; Mishra, Uday Shankar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

Poverty in Indian context has always generated contests and controversies regarding its concepts, measurement, levels and implications on several aspects of human welfare. This paper cautions on the validity of poverty assessment indicated by reported expenditure per capita at household level...

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Learning across policy regimes: The impact of protection vis-à-vis competition in the Indian automotive industry

Saripalle, Madhuri - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

theory and literature. However, few models have attempted to relate the learning and growth literature with the industrial …

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La libéralisation des échanges a-t-elle un impact sur la croissance? Les expériences de l'Inde et de la Corée

Sarkar, Prabirjit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

Trade Liberalisation in developing countries over the last 20 years has often been implemented considering it as a pre-requisite to growth. This paper uses ARDL approach to cointegration and examines the relationships between growth and trade liberalisation in the context of India and Korea....

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Embodied human capital unemployment

Kumaraku, Klajdi; Naqvi, Nadeem; Rexhepi, Sara - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Adam Smith (1776) devoted the first three chapters to the division of labor in his Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. This process, carried far enough, eventually results in a divergence between the distributions of supplies and demands of such...

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The Global Economic Crisis: Impact on Indian Outward Investment

Pradhan, Jaya Prakash - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Indian outward FDI flows have declined in 2008 and the first half of 2009. The global financial and economic crisis appears to have seriously dented overseas investment plans of emerging Indian multinationals. This paper looks at the trends and patterns of Indian OFDI flows in the current crisis...

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