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Accounting for Results: Ensuring Transparency and Accountability in Financing for Climate Change

Ballesteros, Athena; Ramkumar, Vivek - eSocialSciences - 2009

This brief seeks to address questions on how the funds are collected, dsitributes at the international level, mechanisms to ensure that the recipient countries are managing the funds in a transparent manner based on an examination of existing and proposed climate change finance mechanisms and...

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The Economics of Adaptation to Extreme Weather Events in Developing Countries

Dasgupta, Susmita; Laplante, Benoit; Wheeler, David; … - eSocialSciences - 2010

be difficult for climate negotiators and donor institutions to determine the appropriate levels and modes of adaptation …

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Tax Challenges Facing Developing Countries

Bird, Richard M. - eSocialSciences - 2008

Most developing countries continue to face serious problems in developing adequate and responsive tax systems. This paper reviews the three principal ways in which developing countries may expand and improve their taxation systems - base-broadening, rate reduction, and administrative improvement...

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India as a Global Leader in Science: A Vision for India

PM, Science Advisory Council to PM SAC to - eSocialSciences - 2010

In the next two decades, India is likely to become an economically prosperous nation and move significantly towards being a far more inclusive society, with the bulk of its population gaining access to facilities for education and health care and living a life with hope and security. To realize...

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Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries

Naude, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Goedhuys, Micheline - eSocialSciences - 2011

How does innovation impact on development? How, and under what conditions, do entrepreneurs in developing countries … innovate? And what can be done to support innovation by entrepreneurs in developing countries? This policy brief addresses … these questions and explains the relationship between entrepreneurship, innovation and development. Policy lessons are drawn …

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Start With a Girl: A New Agenda for Global Health

Levine, Ruth; Temin, Miriam - eSocialSciences - 2009

Sheds light on the realities of girls' health and wellbeing in developing countries, on the links between the health of girls and the prospects for their families, and on the specific actions that will improve health prospects for millions. This report describes the most prevalent and serious...

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Policy, Economic Federalism & Product Market Entry: The Indian Experience

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Gangopadhyay, Shubhashis; … - eSocialSciences - 2007

Productivity growth has long been associated with, among others, contestability of markets which, in turn, is dependent on the ease with which potential competitors to the incumbent firms can enter the product market. There is a growing consensus that in emerging markets regulatory and...

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Informal Values and Formal Policies:A study of Japanese Technology Policy and Significance for India

Bhaduri, Saradindu; Chandra, Janashruti - eSocialSciences - 2008

understand how the various informal institutions (shared mental models) have influenced key dimensions of technology strategy …

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Dynamics of Irrigation Institutions: Case Study of a Village Panchayat in Kerala

Menon, Vineetha; Paul, Antonyto; Nair, K.N. - eSocialSciences - 2006

working of irrigation institutions, the present study reveals that successful management of irrigation is contingent upon the … level of participation of the water users in the management. By comparing irrigation institutions under different property … institutions. It is found that albeit the physical characteristics of irrigation systems and the heterogeneities of the members of …

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Livelihood Risks and Coping Strategies: A Case Study in the Agrarian Village Of Cherumad, Kerala

Menon, Vineetha; Paul, Antonyto; Nair, K.N. - eSocialSciences - 2008

The various dimensions of livelihood risk as informed by a in-depth case study of an agrarian village namely, Cherumad in Kerala is examined. [WP no. 394].

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