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Firewood Collections and Economic Growth in Rural Nepal 1995-2010: Evidence from a Household Panel
Baland, Jean-Marie; Libois, Francois; Mookherjee, Dilip - eSocialSciences - 2013
relatively small (but representative) sample of households residing in the mountainous regions of Nepal (i.e., excluding the low …-lying Terai regions) were surveyed in three successive rounds of the Nepal LSMS corresponding to 1995, 2003 and 2010, while other … is used to investigate the effects of economic growth on firewood collection in Nepal between 1995 and 2010.[BREAD …
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More and Better Jobs in South Asia
Nayar, Reema; Gottret, Pablo; Mitra, Pradeep; … - eSocialSciences - 2012
This report investigates how more and better jobs can be created in South Asia. It does so for two reasons. First, this region will contribute nearly 40 percent of the growth in the world’s working-age (15–64) population over the next several decades. It is important to determine...
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ASEAN Auto Market Growing in the Shadow of China and India
Heymann, Eric - eSocialSciences - 2011
The automobile industry in the ASEAN countries has expanded rapidly over the last few years. The growth potential of the ASEAN auto market and its now very major absolute importance for the industry warrant a more detailed analysis. In the following report depicts which opportunities the ASEAN...
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Historical Sources of Institutional Trajectories in Economic Development: China, Japan, and Korea Compared
Aoki, Masahiko - eSocialSciences - 2013
This essay provides a game-theoretic, endogenous view of institutions, and then applies the idea to identify the sources of institutional trajectories of economic development in China, Japan, and Korea. It stylizes the Malthusian-phase of East Asian economies as peasant-based economies in which...
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Urbanization in India: Evidence on Agglomeration Economies
Mitra, Arup - eSocialSciences - 2011
The paper examines the urbanization pattern with context of India. The paper deals with various demographic aspects of urbanization. Also the paper focuses on characteristics and classes of cities, and poverty and slums. [Working Paper 141]. URL: [http://fgks.in/IndexServer/tifac/article/141.pdf]
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The Indian Economy since Independence
Vyasulu, Vinod - eSocialSciences - 2007
India's has been a unique path of economic development—internally decided in a democratic framework, constantly debated between different ideologies and interest groups, and increasingly engaging with the world. The ultimate result is uniquely Indian. India has achieved a respectable...
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Budget 2014-15: The Continuing Neglect of the 'Rural'
Banerjee, Arindam - eSocialSciences - 2014
The Union Budget remains significant for the agricultural sector in the country for at least the following two reasons. First, the budget comes in the background of an agrarian crisis in the country, persistent since the late nineties, which also coincided with the period of a policy thrust on...
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Employment Growth in Rural India: Distress Driven?
Abraham, Vinoj - eSocialSciences - 2009
include low productivity, price instability and stagnation leading to indebtedness. Under the typical neoclassical tradition …
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The Persistence of Underdevelopment:Institutions, Human Capital or Constituencies?
Rajan, Raghuram G.; Zingales, Luigi - eSocialSciences - 2006
conditions may well be a legacy of the colonial past, and may well create a perverse political equilibrium of stagnation …
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Periurbanisation in Tamil Nadu: A Quantitative Approach
Oliveau, Sébastien - eSocialSciences - 2007
This paper is an attempt to measure the extent of peri-urbanisation that has taken place in TamilNadu. Geographical data is used based on the 1991 census for TamilNadu and Pondicherry. A systematic exploration of the relation between the 225 urban areas and the 16,085 villages in TamilNadu in...
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