The paper is motivated by concerns about the depletion of traditional knowledge and recent efforts to preserve this knowledge through commercial use. The study looks at incentives that can induce companies to invest in bio-prospecting and persuade traditional communities to share their knowledge.

A priori on pourrait croire qu'il y a un consensus sur la relation entre l'ouverture commerciale et la productivite des firmes. Il n'empeche qu'il manque une evidence empirique concluante sur les effets de l'ouverture commerciale sur la productivite des firmes. Dans cette etude, nous evaluons...

A very basic and core issue for the Indian banking system and that is the challenge of achieving Financial Inclusion. Without being inclusive, financial and economic stability cannot be sustainable. First issue staring in the face of banking industry is capital. Even though reasonably well...

This article is a research on the water services available in north eastern parts of Mumbai. It aims as highlighting the ability of communities to design and run functional systems to overcome the shortcoming in the public services. The authors also suggest some ways in which such shortcoming...

John Van Reenen sketches the evolution of CEP research on the drivers of productivity growth - and its impact on policies to foster competition.