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The Impact of Production Fragmentation on Skill Upgrading: New Evidence from Japanese Manufacturing

Yamashita, Nobuaki - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2008

This paper examines the hypothesis that industries engaged in international fragmentation of production experience greater skill upgrading using a panel dataset of Japanese manufacturing over the period 1980-2000. The novelty of the study comes from the use of a newly constructed index using...

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West and Central African Iron Ore: A Lesson in the Contestability of the Iron Ore Market

Hurst, Luke - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2012

term resources consumption growth path. It then outlines the potential of major iron ore export countries to meet China … Africa to enter the export market over the short and medium terms. To assess this, three export capacity scenarios (low … pressure on the price of iron ore exports over the short to medium term. The impact of the excess export capacity on iron ore …

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How do the poor handle money? What do the financial diaries of char dwellers tell us about financial inclusion?

Kuntala Lahiri–Dutt - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2012

Derived from livelihoods surveys and ethnographic material about people living on the chars, or river islands, in deltaic lower Bengal, this paper illustrates the complex, diverse and ingenious ways that the poor manage money. These islands constitute some of the most vulnerable locations...

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Networks and Anti-Poverty Programs: The NREG Experience

Shankar, Shylashri; Gaiha, Raghav - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011

Governments struggle with the reality that the beneficiaries of anti-poverty programs are powerless to influence policies and stem the possibility of capture of benefits by the nonpoor. Networks – social and political – are supposed to increase the ability of the lesspowerful to access their...

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Should Candidates Smile to Win Elections? An Application of Automated Face Recognition Technology

Horiuchi, Yusaku; Komatsu, Tadashi; Nakaya, Fumio - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011

Previous studies examining whether the faces of candidates affect election outcomes commonly measure study participants' subjective judgment of various characteristics of candidates, which participants infer based solely on the photographic images of candidates. We, instead, develop a smile...

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CONSTRUCTING A 2001 SOCIAL ACCOUNTING MATRIX OF TAJIKISTAN

Zavkiev, Zavkidjon - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2005

The paper documents constructing a 2001 social accounting matrix for Tajikistan in order to develop a model of the country. As necessary and reliable statistics are difficult to obtain for compiling a social accounting matrix, alternative techniques and approaches have been used to extend,...

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National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme in Andhra Pradesh: Some Recent Evidence

Jha, Raghbendra; Gaiha, Raghav; Shankar, Shylashri - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2008

This paper, a sequel to our earlier paper on Rajasthan, presents results on the participation of rural workers in the National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme based on a pilot survey of three villages in the Chittoor district, Andhra Pradesh, India. These villages are Kaligiri, Obulayyapale...

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National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme in India - A Review

Jha, Raghbendra; Gaiha, Raghav; Shankar, Shylashri - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2008

This paper presents results on the participation of rural workers in the National Rural Employment Guarantee Program based on a pilot survey of three villages in Udaipur district, Rajasthan, India. Three villages (Dhundiya, Karanpur and Prithvisingh Ji Ka Khera) were covered. Total number of...

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National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme in India - A Review

Jha, Raghbendra; Gaiha, Raghav; Shankar, Shylashri - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2008

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Impact of Household Size and Family Composition on Poverty in Rural India

Meenakshi, J.V.; Ray, Ranjan - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2000

This paper utilises micro data on consumption, family composition and land ownership of nearly 70,000 rural Indian households to analyse poverty in rural India. The study, conducted at the disaggregated level of individual States, examines the impact of household size and composition, caste,...

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