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Social Fragmentation, Public Goods and Elections: Evidence from China
Miquel, Gerard Padro-i-; Qian, Nancy; Yao, Yang - eSocialSciences - 2013
religious fractionalization is taken as a proxy. [BREAD Working No. 366]. URL:[http://ipl.econ.duke.edu/bread/papers/working/366 …
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Whither Human Capital? The Woeful Tale of Transition to Tertiary Education in India
Chakrabarty, Manisha; Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar - eSocialSciences - 2012
In this paper the issue of high dropout rates in India is examined which has adverse implications for human capital formation, and hence for the country’s long term growth potential. Using the 2004-05 National Sample Survey employment-unemployment survey data, transition probabilities of...
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Cultural Proximity and Loan Outcomes
Fisman, Raymond; Paravisini, Daniel; Vig, Vikrant - eSocialSciences - 2012
Evidence is presented to show that shared codes, religious beliefs, ethnicity - cultural proximity - between lenders … data on the religion and caste of bank officers and borrowers from a bank in India, and a rotation policy that induces …
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Social Cleavages, Multiculturalism and Emerging Space for State in India under Globalisation Regime
Mishra, Sarojini; Palai, Nirod; Das, Kumar - eSocialSciences - 2006
This paper focuses on social cleavages based on class , caste,religion and ethnicity in India. It examines the … India. The authors argue that political conflict becomes more severe when social cleavages based on class, caste and … ethnicity help to mutually reinforce one another. It presents Indian evidences in order to demonstrate the link between social …
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Public Expenditure Benefit Incidence on Health: Selective Evidence from India
Chakraborty, Lekha; Singh, Yadawendra; Jacob, Jannet - eSocialSciences - 2012
This paper attempts to analyse the benefit incidence of health spending in the context of India. Benefit incidence analysis (hereafter BIA) is used here. This is a methodology that addresses this question. It brings together the elements of the supply of and demand for public services and can...
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Guidelines for Human-Leopard Conflict Management
eSocialSciences; Ministry of Environment and Forests GOI - 2011
are suggested for managing the humanleopard conflict situations in areas where leopards coexist among high densities of … humans. URL:[http://moef.nic.in/downloads/public-information/guidelines-human-leopard-conflict-management.pdf]. …
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Evaluate Anti-Naxal Policies of the Chhatisgarh Government: Naxal Conflict Monitor April 11, 2007
ACHR, Asian Centre for Human Rights - eSocialSciences - 2007
conflict with the Naxalites. …
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Aid to Fragile States: Do Donors Help or Hinder?
Browne, Stephen - eSocialSciences - 2010
The record of aid to fragile and poorly-performing states is the real test of aid effectiveness. Rich countries can justify aid to fragile states both through altruism and self-interest. But, with some exceptions, donors have appeared at the wrong times and with the wrong attitudes, even...
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From Conflict to Reconstruction
Addison, Tony - eSocialSciences - 2010
reform, the UN concentrates on conflict resolution and reconstruction, and the World Bank- whose operations span both the … agendas- has yet to integrate reform and conflict issues. However, reform and reconstruction can be kept separate if conflict …
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From Conflict to Reconstruction: Reviving the Social Contract
Addison, Tony; Murshed, S Mansoob - eSocialSciences - 2010
Contemporary civil wars are rooted in a partial or complete breakdown of the social contract, often involving disputes over public spending, resource revenues, and taxation. A feasible social contract gives potential rebels something akin to a transfer. When this is improbable, and the potential...
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