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A Green Venture Fund to Finance Clean Technology for Developing Countries

Wheeler, David; Nassiry, Darius - eSocialSciences - 2011

A structure for the green venture fund (GVF) and explain the design rationale, operating principles and key parameters for two funds of funds for technology innovation and deployment is proposed. Some key issues to be considered, including differential treatment of public and private investors...

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Drug Regulation in the Philippines

Sobrepeña, Allan Grand A. - eSocialSciences - 2009

Access to essential drugs is vital for the promotion of better health for the entire population. High prices of drugs are being used as an argument for greater government role in the drugs sector through effective regulation of the drug market. The high prices of drugs in the Philippines will...

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Who Owns Children and Does It Matter?

Schoonbroodt, Alice; Tertilt, Michele - eSocialSciences - 2010

In this paper a particular market failure that may lead to inefficiently low equilibrium fertility and therefore to a need for government intervention are analysed. The friction which is investigated is related to the ownership of children. If parents have no claim on their childrenâ€™s...

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Implications of Market and Coordination Failures for Rural Development in Least Developed Countries

Kydd, Jonathan; Dorward, Andrew - eSocialSciences - 2006

or ignored in different policies and policy approaches in Asia and Africa in the last 40 years. [DSA, Annual conference …

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Conceptualizing Economic Marginalization

Kanbur, Ravi - eSocialSciences - 2007

What exactly is 'economic marginalization'? How should one conceptualize it, and what are the implications of such conceptualization? Economic marginalization can be conceptualized as outcome or as process (or structure). On outcomes, marginalization can be a static description, or a dynamic...

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Consultation Paper on Media Ownership

TRAI, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India - eSocialSciences - 2008

policy relating to cross media and ownership restrictions in India. The comments of all stakeholders on the issues discussed …

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Dowry and Property Rights

Anderson, Siwan - eSocialSciences - 2007

policy debate [BREAD WP 080]. …

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Comprehensive Sports Policy 2007

Affairs, Ministry for Youth; India, Sports Govt of - eSocialSciences - 2007

The Policy aims at building on previous sports policies with a view to accomplishing the unfinished agenda and … Comprehensive National Sports Policy, with all other stakeholders playing a promotional, supportive and convergent role. The Policy … measures to operationalize the Policy. [Policy has been put on the website of the Ministry with the purpose of inviting …

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Policy Processes and Policy Advocacy

Kumar, V. Anil - eSocialSciences - 2005

groups to policy makers that the tools such as advocacy are useful. Policy advocacy is an important tool to democratise the … policy making process. In discussing the relation between policy process and policy advocacy this paper delineates the … changing context for both. It looks at the nature of policy process, the connections between policy research and advocacy and …

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A test of Governance: Education, Health and Family Planning in Areas Annexxed toKarnataka, Maharashtra and AP from Hyderabad State

Bhat, P. N. Mari - eSocialSciences - 2006

At the time of reorganization of states on the basis of the linguistic formula, the territory that belonged to erstwhile state of Hyderabad was broken down to three parts and annexed to Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Karnataka. About one-third of the territory went to Maharashtra, one-sixth to...

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