In an entrepreneurial university where quantification, evaluation and interdisciplinarity are insisted upon, we need several issues sorted out before embracing the idea.
by Pramod K. Nayar | On 07 Mar 2022 Predatory journals solely exist for monetary profit without any commitment to publishing ethics or quality of research. Not only do they damage the reputation of individual researchers and institution...
by Shubhada Nagarkar | On 03 Mar 2021 Constitutions and founding principles, including our own, were drafted by those who studied Humanities and its cognate fields, which helped them see far into the future. The plan and vision remains, a...
by Pramod K. Nayar | On 07 Jan 2021 To change the inequalities in medical research, women’s needs and desires must have a more prominent place in the research process. A formal set of policies will be needed to ensure that their interes...
by Renu Khanna | On 19 Oct 2020 Thailand, Vietnam and Mongolia have taken control of managing the pandemic with great alacrity. There is much to learn from their systematic, people-centred and research-based approach to dealing with...
by | On 06 Jul 2020 The pandemic has inevitably prompted a spike in the coverage of science, in the form of medical research and health sciences. Will this lead to better attention to science in the media? Will it promp...
by Padma Prakash | On 30 Jun 2020 Based on primary data from a large household survey in seven districts in West Bengal in India, this paper analyses the reasons underlying low labor force participation of women. In particular, we try...
by | On 09 Jun 2020 • The development of an effective treatment and vaccine for COVID-19 is key to ending the pandemic and resuming social and economic activity. An international research effort to this end is underway.
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by | On 02 Jun 2020 Using a decomposition approach on data collected by the Asian Productivity Organization (APO) as well as World Input-Output data, it shows that in most Asian economies the services sector makes the la...
by Matthias Helble | On 12 Mar 2019 This study provides an evaluation of five different methodologies of estimation commonly used in the labor share literature and propose a new measurement. Theglobal dataset of the labor income share a...
by Marta Guerriero | On 20 Feb 2019 This paper constructs a better proxy: expected work experience—the sum of the annual probabilities that an individual worked in the past. This measure can be generated using commonly available data on...
by Joseph E. Zveglich, Jr | On 28 Jan 2019 In various Asian countries, international trade has raised productivity, lowered mark ups through import competition (while increasing them through cheaper inputs that can be imported), raised wages,...
by Devashish Mitra | On 22 Jan 2019 Services are playing an increasingly important role in the global economy. Over the last few decades, the sector’s contribution to output, employment, and value-added trade has grown quite dramaticall...
by Valerie Mercer-Blackman | On 21 Dec 2018 This paper extends this literature by considering a heterogeneous labor market with capital-skill complementarity. Technological advancement, global integration, regulation of labor market and structu...
by Saumik Paul | On 21 Nov 2018 This paper overcomes the constraint and provides some preliminary outcomes from a novel dataset that the authors compile at the sectoral level (10 sectors) for 53 countries, including 20 developing co...
by Yoko Oishi | On 01 Oct 2018 Aging can be harmful to an economy over the long run, as an increase in the share of the elderly population reduces both the labor force and output per adult, and increases the social security burden....
by Hiroko Uchimura-Shiroshi | On 10 Sep 2018 The paper investigates the claim that national labor markets have become more globally interconnected in recent decades. It is done so by deriving estimates over time of three different notions of int...
by Liming Chen | On 10 Sep 2018 The paper presents a new model of charitable giving where individuals regard out-of-pocket donations and the matches they induce as different. The paper shows that match-price elasticities combine con...
by Daniel M. Hungerman | On 01 Sep 2018 Innovation is the synergistic use of resources, technology, capital, and information to achieve growth at different levels of the economy. Many studies abroad have already supported the hypothesis tha...
by Connie Bayudan-Dacuycuy | On 27 Aug 2018 The paper assesses the performance of India's managed float with respect to maintaining a real competitive exchange rate, its effect on trade, on stability of currency and financial markets, and on in...
by Ashima Goyal | On 24 Aug 2018 This research reviews the global experience on initiatives to counter the discriminatory impact of LMW and related labor regulations. It also summarizes the analyses done to date for similar programs...
by Aniceto C. Orbeta Jr. | On 03 Jul 2018 This study, an off-shoot of the third joint project of the Philippine Institute for Development Studies and Institute of Developing Economies, looked at the employment profile of adult women with disa...
by Christian D. Mina | On 03 Jul 2018 This paper seeks to address this gap in the literature by examining migration intentions of individuals from a high-emigration rural village in the Philippines. The results provide evidence of a cultu...
by Aubrey D. Tabuga | On 29 Jun 2018 This paper evaluates the implementation of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) K to 12 Adjustment Assistance Program, established following the full implementation of the Enhanced Basic Educatio...
by Alex Brillantes | On 29 Jun 2018 In many developing countries, the average firm is small, does not grow and has low productivity. Lack of market integration and limited information on non-local products often leave consumers unaware...
by Robert T. Jensen | On 12 Jun 2018 The relationship between a declining labor income share and a falling relative price of capital requires capital and labor to be gross substitutes at the aggregate level. It argues that this restricti...
by Saumik Paul | On 07 Jun 2018 This paper is to studies how manufacturing plants in India adjusted to trade liberalization during the period 1998–99 to 2007–08. It estimates how the labor share changed due to tariff reduction. The...
by Prachi Gupta | On 05 Jun 2018 The paper theoretically and empirically show that dismissal laws and laws that impose hurdles on firing of employees - spur innovation and thereby economic growth. Theoretically, dismissal laws make i...
by Krishnamurthy V. Subramanian | On 29 May 2018 This paper is an evidence review of
how intersecting forms of inequalities influence women’s
political participation and representation at the local level in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan.
The r...
by | On 11 May 2018 Lucas (1990) argues that the neoclassical adjustment process fails to explain the relative paucity of FDI
inflows from rich to poor countries. In this paper we consider a natural experiment: using Ch...
by | On 02 May 2018 An important segment of labour regulations concerns the protection aspects of social security. These regulations provide safety nets or fall back mechanisms to enable workers to cope with crises that...
by Anwarul Hoda | On 30 Apr 2018 Book Review of Sociology of Well-Being: Lession from India.
by Steve Derne Sage India,
2017, Rs.850 INR, (Harcover) Pp.xv+327, ISBN: 9789385985720
by Kishor Podh | On 24 Apr 2018 Existing research on “access to justice” has shown how the understanding of the term developed as the human rights approach gained ground. The conventional notion of access to justice was limited to s...
by HAQ: Centre for Child Rights | On 20 Apr 2018 This study proposes the use of partial least squares to determine the key parameters of the perpetual inventory method model of capital stock as a new approach to calculate research and development (R...
by Alejandro Nin Pratt | On 13 Apr 2018 The report says that the Bunkar Samiti was establised to create a common platform for sustainable livelihoods.
by National Alliance Risk Reduction (NAADRR) | On 05 Apr 2018 This paper analyses the way households in rural China use rural-urban migration and
off-farm work as a response to negative productivity shocks in agriculture. I employ
various waves of a longitudin...
by Luigi Minale | On 04 Apr 2018 Literature on the relationships and collaborations between universities, government aided
research institutions and industrial enterprises is very rich. However, most of the studies deal
with the Eu...
by N.S. Siddharthan | On 26 Mar 2018 This chapter reviews theoretical and empirical research on the relationship between legal
systems and innovation and culture and innovation. We highlight legal and cultural forces
that encourage inn...
by | On 23 Mar 2018 We examine the importance of total factor productivity (TFP) growth in middle-income countries based
on cross-country panel data for the period 1975–2014. We find that TFP growth contributed signific...
by | On 23 Mar 2018 The Preamble to The National Medical Commission Bill, 2017 lays down its
mission statement, which is to provide for a medical education system that ensures
availability of adequate and high quality...
by Rajya Sabha Secretariat | On 23 Mar 2018 This report assesses the state of economic research into those areas, with a
particular focus on empirical methodologies and their adequacy for an assessment of general-equilibrium outcomes. While di...
by Marc-Andreas Muendler | On 20 Mar 2018 The paper says that the role of workers’ remittances in economic development of recipient countries is considered to be an important area of research.
by Zafar Iqbal | On 15 Mar 2018 This paper reexamines the impact of merger on innovation. Unlike as in Federico et al (2017), it considers the scenario where merged firms combine their research labs. It shows that, in equilibrium, e...
by Piuli Roy Chowdhury | On 14 Mar 2018 The paper studies a dynamic model of the decision to continue or abandon a research project. Researchers improve their ideas over time and also learn whether those ideas will be adopted by the scienti...
by | On 07 Mar 2018 The paper studies a dynamic model of the decision to continue or abandon a research project. Researchers improve their ideas over time and also learn whether those ideas will be adopted by the scienti...
by Bernhard Ganglmair | On 06 Mar 2018 In the recent past researchers have observed paradigm shifts in the location and nature of
R&D activities undertaken by multinationals in host countries. India is one of the host
countries for the R...
by Savita Bhat | On 13 Feb 2018 Cambodia’s agriculture sector remains the backbone of the country’s economy. Most of Cambodia’s
people live in rural areas and rely heavily on agriculture for their livelihoods. In recent decades, th...
by Sam Oeurn Ke | On 06 Feb 2018 This paper is concerned with the way macro-economic strategies can affect the
incidence of poverty, especially among women, and also with the effectiveness of
various forms of government interventio...
by Jayati Ghosh | On 05 Feb 2018 The paper says that the productivity growth of the service sector would foster economy-wide productivity and it can be achieved by the mitigation of misallocation of resources in service sectors.
by Choi Hyelin | On 26 Jan 2018 This paper analyzes 2015-TPA voting patterns in the Congress in the context of the trade negotiating objectives.
by Yoon Joon | On 24 Jan 2018 The paper narrates about the proceedings that were centered on a wide range of community level risk reduction efforts that are effectively reducing vulnerabilities as well as influencing development p...
by National Alliance for Disaster Risk Reduction NADRR | On 10 Jan 2018 India’s agricultural research and extension system has grown tremendously to meet the country’s rapid change in research and development (R&D) needs over the past half century. Major activities in thi...
by | On 27 Dec 2017 Despite a growing literature on population aging, empirical studies exploring mechanisms between aging and income inequality are scarce. This paper estimates the impact of aging on inequality via the...
by | On 18 Dec 2017 Innovation plays a critical role in shaping the industrial and firm competitiveness of any nation. Innovation is often discussed in the setting of developed countries, but the rise of emerging economi...
by | On 15 Dec 2017 India’s stagnating manufacturing sector has become a serious cause of concern for Indian policy makers. Several reasons have been identified for this slowdown, including lack of policy focus, unsuppor...
by | On 01 Dec 2017 An important segment of labour regulations concerns the protection aspects of social security.
These regulations provide safety nets or fall back mechanisms to enable workers to cope with crises that...
by | On 30 Nov 2017 This paper examines the effect of occupational engagement and work intensity on the weight of urban working women and men in India. Using nationally representative data, a variety of specifications th...
by Archana Dang | On 14 Nov 2017 The banking sector of Pakistan has witnessed a notable transformation in its structure and business
activities following the implementation of financial sector reforms since the early 1990s. Specific...
by Mahmood ul Hasan Khan | On 09 Oct 2017 This paper explores the question of structural transformation and income distribution through the eyes of the pioneer in such analysis, Simon Kuznets.
by Ravi Kanbur | On 27 Sep 2017 This Policy Note analyzes the role of wage and attitudes toward gender roles within the family in determining the time allocated to housework.
by Connie Bayudan-Dacuycuy | On 08 Sep 2017 This report narrates that it is a matter of record that migration was not included in the 2000 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) framework
by Gervais Appave | On 30 Aug 2017 The yearly cap on H-1B visas became binding for the first time in 2004, making it harder for college-educated foreigners to work in the United States. However, academic institutions are exempt from th...
by Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes | On 17 Aug 2017 The analysis, based on extensive fieldwork carried out over a three-year period, shows successful implementation of GRB in the region to be hindered not only by barriers such as lack of political comm...
by Andrea Spehar | On 11 Aug 2017 The study attempts to investigate the factors affecting a firm’s decision to hire contract workers. The information from a specially commissioned survey of manufacturing firms undertaken in 2014 by IC...
by Jaivir Singh | On 08 Aug 2017 his series of project publications aims to capture the tools, methods, and processes developed under the EC and ILO joint project entitled “Strengthening the
Impact on Employment of Sector and Trade...
by Internaional Labour Organization [ILO] | On 28 Jul 2017 This study was conducted to understand the evolution of agricultural mechanization in Nepal, specifically
its determinants on both the demand and supply sides, as well as impacts on agricultural prod...
by Hiroyuki Takeshima | On 26 Jul 2017 This study explores three major points, namely, Singapore's development process,Singapore's model of economic development, and the economic challenges of post-war Sri Lanka. This study explores pages...
by Sanika Sulochani Ramanayake | On 25 Jul 2017 The report narrates that in Bangladesh, women-owned SMEs have different characteristics when compared with men-owned SMEs and tend to face specific challenges and obstacles.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 25 Jul 2017 This annual publication showcases the results of knowledge management initiatives of the East Asia Department of the Asian Development Bank in 2014.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 24 Jul 2017 Greater gains in energy savings are possible from improved energy efficiency and conservation measures, both as a smart business investment, and an imperative for the global community.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 18 Jul 2017 The People’s Republic of China (PRC) implemented a Fuel Tax Reform in 2009 that made significant changes to the way the country funds and delivers its ‘ordinary road’ program.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 17 Jul 2017 This study also describes trade facilitation projects that promote development through deepening regional cooperation and integration.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 14 Jul 2017 This publication is complemented by critical analyses to determine key issues, challenges, and opportunities for innovative strategies toward global competitiveness, increased productivity, and inclus...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 10 Jul 2017 This publication is part of a series of six country reports on technical and vocational education and training (TVET) and higher education in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. Each report presents cur...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 29 Jun 2017 This report identifies six key shifts and trends that have had critical implications on either skills supply and/or skills demand in Asia, thereby straining the previous alignment in this regard.
by Sungsup Ra | On 27 Jun 2017 This study, using an inclusive growth framework, has identified the critical constraints that Fiji needs to address to strengthen investor sentiment even further and achieve inclusive growth.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 27 Jun 2017 This report, a joint effort of the Asian Development Bank and the International Labour Organization, seeks to foster a deeper understanding of the context, constraints, and opportunities for increasin...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 21 Jun 2017 This report identifies some of Thailand’s critical development constraints and discusses policy measures and economic reforms needed to accelerate economic transformation toward a more modern and serv...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 20 Jun 2017 This report draws lessons from how Asian economic giants India and the People’s Republic of China leveraged education and skills development to advance economic growth.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 20 Jun 2017 The report also includes critical analyses to determine key issues, challenges, and opportunities for innovative strategies toward global competitiveness, increased productivity, and inclusive growth.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 20 Jun 2017 This report examines the challenges ASEAN member states face in achieving the goal of greater mobility for the highly skilled, including hurdles in recognizing professional qualifications, opening up...
by Demetrios G. Papademetriou | On 16 Jun 2017 In this fourth round of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Corporate Governance initiative of the Asian Development Bank and the ASEAN Capital Markets Forum, over 500 top publicly list...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 05 Jun 2017 This study highlights the role played by growing female workforce in the positive economic turnaround in Bangladesh. It is now essential to shift workers to more highly productive sectors through stru...
by Asian Bank | On 24 May 2017 This paper analyzes interdependencies between optimal trade policy and 'preferred' liability doctrine to assess infringement damages, when intellectual property rights are probabilistic, in a model of...
by Apurva Dey | On 16 May 2017 The report narrates that the SDGs are integrated and indivisible with a clear focus on equity, including equity focused monitoring and evaluation (M&E), to ensure not only that the targets are being m...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 May 2017 ADB recognizes four types of fragile and conflict-affected situations (FCAS)—conflict-affected, fragile,transitional, and subnational—and each situation has its own unique set of characteristics, and...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 12 May 2017 The outlook for developing Asia remains broadly as forecast in Asian Development Outlook 2016 Update. Despite an extraordinary and temporary growth dip affecting one of the region’s largest economies,...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 10 May 2017 The reports in this series draw on the insights of 387 regional and international experts and practitioners through their
participation in focus group discussions, meetings, and surveys. Contributors...
by Jeanne Batalova | On 08 May 2017 The focus of this report is on energy storage for the power grid in support of larger
penetration of renewable energy. The emphasis is on energy storage and associated
power electronics that are dep...
by Pramod Jain | On 05 May 2017 Work and employment around the globe change continuously, but there are potentially more rapid and fundamental transformations ahead as new technologies can have major impact on what jobs will exist i...
by | On 27 Apr 2017 Replication studies are considered a hallmark of good scientific practice. Yet they are treated among researchers as an ideal to be professed but not practiced. To provide incentives and favorable bou...
by | On 01 Mar 2017 Conceptualising the Northeast as a singular territory is problematic. But this construction determines the way the region is governed by the Indian state that propagates the idea of a shared identity...
by N. Atungbo | On 21 Feb 2017 David West's detailed study on the life and work of Fritz Müller, an
evolutionary biologist and colleague of Charles Darwin, is the
culmination of three decades of inquiry. The depth and scope of
r...
by Amy Cox Hall | On 15 Feb 2017 Cash, alas, is not free; its use comes at a significant cost. I have studied the cost of cash in over 70 countries, in research outlined in a recent article in the Harvard Business Review, titled ‘The...
by | On 04 Jan 2017 Sulabha Bramhe was a remarkable scholar-activist. Daughter of an eminent economist and trained in top notch universities, she could have launched into a focused career in economics in any global inst...
by | On 14 Dec 2016 India is committed to solve many problems that it is facing today. the human condition can improve more
here in the next two decades than anywhere in the world. And the benefit, to
India and to the...
by Bill Gates | On 30 Nov 2016 This study investigates the consequences of poor implementation in public workfare programs, focusing
on the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in India. Using
national...
by Sudha Narayanan | On 29 Nov 2016 The scope of this project was defined by the mandate of the ILO. It therefore focused on the employment relationship as it relates specifically to migrant and ethnic minority workers. The normative ba...
by | On 28 Nov 2016 This paper exploits a quasi-natural experiment the U.S. Granting of Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) to China after China’s accession to the World Trade Organization – to examine whether t...
by Liqiu Zhao | On 03 Nov 2016 This issue is particularly crucial in the present climate of privatization associated with structural adjustment policies. The intellectual tradition behind these policies assumes that the withdrawal...
by Sonalde Desai | On 02 Nov 2016 This paper examines four time phases beginning with the period after independence up to mid-2000 in order to trace a timeline for work and family research in the Indian context. As compared to work-fa...
by | On 02 Nov 2016 Urbanization has both benefits and costs. In a market economy, the trade-off between
benefits and costs determines the level, speed, and place of urbanization. This paper
summarizes research finding...
by Kala Seetharam Sridhar | On 28 Oct 2016 This article describes recent trends in female education and labor force participation
in developing countries. It also reviews the literature on the causes and effects of the recent
changes in fema...
by Rachel Heath | On 21 Oct 2016 Numerous studies have explored urban growth and the emergence of the megapolitan phenomenon through increasing growth in the number of cities with over 10 million inhabitants. Similarly, the processes...
by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultura [UNESCO] | On 19 Oct 2016 If the public institution is committed to public interest, then privatization of research and teaching cannot be allowed. Work done should be seen, heard and critiqued. Innovation in knowledge can com...
by Pramod K. Nayar | On 13 Oct 2016 The rapid rise of service sector in India, as in its developing counterparts in Asia, follows the pattern of skipped
industrialization and raises concern for sustaining economic growth in India. Whil...
by K L Krishna | On 10 Oct 2016 Kerala has ushered a new paradigm in higher education sector by granting autonomy to a few colleges in the recent times. Though it has been in the practice only for the last two years, CPPR finds it i...
by Nikhitha Mary Mathew | On 07 Oct 2016 The paper begins with a discussion of Indian labour law and the increasing use of ‘contract labour’ in Indian formal manufacturing. It questions the widespread perception that employment of contract l...
by Jaivir Singh | On 30 Sep 2016 It is conventional wisdom in the
economic development literature that there is a significant underinvestment in agricultural R&D in
developing countries. Evidence supporting this belief is provided,...
by Alejandro Nin Pratt | On 30 Sep 2016 Black women in current cohorts ages 50 to 72 years have lower employment than similar white women, despite having had higher employment when they were middle-aged and younger. Earlier cohorts of older...
by Joanna Lahey | On 28 Sep 2016 India can substantially increase her production and yield in
pulses with a strategic emphasis on research in public and private sector, expanding irrigation
infrastructure, provision of MSP to pulse...
by Satish Y Deodhar | On 23 Sep 2016 Among U.S. publicly traded firms, the average firm's capital share has declined, even though the aggregate capital share has increased. This paper attributes the secular increase taken together capita...
by Barney Glaser | On 22 Sep 2016 Though labor market conditions steadily improved following the Great Recession, underemployment among recent college graduates continued to climb, reaching highs not seen since the early 1990s. This p...
by Jaison Abel | On 21 Sep 2016 Expanded international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills allows this paper to analyze potential sources of the cross-country variation of comparably estimated labor-market returns to skills i...
by | On 19 Sep 2016 Current efforts to address global warming largely focus on mitigating climate change. However, in light of predictions of increased temperatures, rising sea levels, and changing disease patterns in In...
by | On 14 Sep 2016 There is a closing of the gender gap in many parts of the world in terms of female access to education and enrolments at various levels of secondary and tertiary level. The World Economic Forum recent...
by | On 09 Sep 2016 A bill to create a world class medical education system that ensures high quality medical education system.
by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare H & FW | On 08 Sep 2016 Discrimination against dalits and minority communities has only become more brazen and open. Freedoms – of thought and expression, of scientific enquiry and of rational dissent – continue to be stifle...
by Newsclick Newsclick | On 06 Sep 2016 Store formats exist in three forms of convenience, variety and experience. Shopping involvement
tends to change across these formats. This current study (a) establishes the role of store formats
on...
by Piyush Kumar Sinha | On 01 Sep 2016 In the paper, an informal preschool program is described that Akshara Foundation administered over 12 months in a set of non-notified slums in Bengaluru. The intervention is particularly noteworthy be...
by K. Vaijayanti | On 29 Aug 2016 This paper addresses some aspects related to these two important research questions, and thus builds on the base of knowledge. The paper is organized as follows. First, we discuss the economic growth...
by | On 24 Aug 2016 We study the evolution of trade liberalization’s effects on local labor markets, following
Brazil’s early 1990s trade liberalization. Regions that initially specialized in industries facing
larger t...
by Rafael Dix-Carneiro | On 16 Aug 2016 The Global Forest Watch (GFW) Climate online platform
catalyzes action on climate change by providing timely and
credible answers to questions about the impacts of tropical
deforestation on global...
by nancy Harris | On 12 Aug 2016 This paper overviews the research opportunities made possible by a NIA-funded program project, Early Indicators, Intergenerational Processes, and Aging. Data collection began almost three decades ago...
by Dora Costa | On 09 Aug 2016 The extent of market integration and transmission of food price shocks is a major determinant of price
stability and overall food security, particularly in developing countries. Few studies have exam...
by Jarilkasin Ilyasov | On 08 Aug 2016 Over the past few years CSR, as a concept, has been the focus of many deliberations and research. It has grown in importance both academically as well as in the business sense. It captures a spectrum...
by Ernst and Young | On 04 Aug 2016 Migration research commonly assumes that youth migrate as dependent family members or are motivated by current labor opportunities and immediate financial returns. These perspectives ignore how migrat...
by | On 25 Jul 2016 This essay reviews the development of neoclassical growth theory, a unified theory of aggregate economic phenomena that was first used to study business cycles and aggregate labor supply. The focus of...
by Edward Prescott | On 21 Jul 2016 Facing scarcity of a production factor, a firm can develop technologies to either substitute the scarce factor
(price effect) or complement the more abundant factors (market size effect). Whether th...
by zhibo Tan | On 06 Jul 2016 India claims to have achieved financial growth of 7% but despite this high growth rate, poverty and
inequality has also grown exponentially and social security, standard of life, security of labor ha...
by Child Rights and You CRY | On 27 Jun 2016 The existence of an inverse relationship between farm size and output per unit of land is well documented. However, little research focuses on if and how an inverse relationship between farm size and...
by Klaus Deininger | On 27 Jun 2016 The study attempts to measure the total benefits from rice varietal improvement research in China and India using variety adoption and performance data over the last two decades. It then uses informat...
by | On 23 Jun 2016 This study proposes a framework for product innovation to identify what strategies determine the drivers and outcomes of product innovation. Specifically, this meta-analytic study identifies key antec...
by Dheeraj Sharma | On 23 Jun 2016 This paper proposes an overlapping generations multi-sector model of the labor market for developing countries with three heterogeneities – heterogeneity within self-employment, heterogeneity in abili...
by Arnab K. Basu | On 22 Jun 2016 Over the last decade, trans-national and local advocacy networks have been projecting the low-cost unregulated schools market in India as a cost-efficient, high-quality and equitable solution for educ...
by | On 22 Jun 2016 This paper investigates the economic fortunes of coerced vs. free workers in a global supply chain. To identify the differential treatment of otherwise similar workers we resort to a unique exogenous...
by Alexander M. Danzer | On 22 Jun 2016 The meta-analysis, by combining and synthesizing research of past two decades, attempts to identify key constructs that explain the details of online retail performance in a more coherent manner. The...
by Dheeraj Sharma | On 22 Jun 2016 This study is an attempt to use group information collected from different farmers (e.g.marginal, small, and medium farmers and tenants) in eastern Uttar Pradesh in India to address a question relevan...
by Amarnath Tripathi | On 16 Jun 2016 Throughout the conference it became clear that there are two emerging trends in humanitarian action across the Asia–Pacific. The first is the increasing activity of selected Asia-Pacific states engage...
by | On 09 Jun 2016 This paper evaluates the relative importance of these
mechanisms that potentially underly the link between adult stature and labor market productivity. Drawing on twelve waves of longitudinal survey...
by Daniel LaFave | On 31 May 2016 People’s Science Institute carried out the first trials of the
System of Wheat Intensification (SWI) during rabi 2006-
07. Starting with systematic research trials on farmers’
fields, SWI practice...
by Ravi Chopra | On 27 May 2016 This working paper studies broader areas of Dalits and Disability in India and explores in-depth consequences of inter-relation between the two. It draws corollary between the two concepts that is phy...
by Gobinda Pal | On 26 May 2016 Governments in South Asia are progressively acknowledging that child stunting is both a marker and a maker of poor development. UNICEF regional and country offices in South Asia work with regional
bo...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 24 May 2016 The Act covers conservation, use of biological resources and associated knowledge occurring in
India for commercial or research purposes or for the purposes of bio-survey and bio-utilisation. It prov...
by National Biodiversity Authority NBA | On 17 May 2016 There is a growing recognition of the importance of academic
research in India and is being monitored by public institutions. However
the focus in these assessments has remained largely confined to...
by Amit S. Ray | On 16 May 2016 The aim of the Department of Health Research (DHR) is to bring modern health technologies to the people
through research and innovations related to diagnosis, treatment methods and
vaccines for prev...
by Rajya Sabha Secretariat | On 05 May 2016 Measurement of achievement or progress towards the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) should be suggestive of the issues involved
in intertemporal comparison. Commonly, we observe that the
measure...
by Udaya S. Mishra | On 03 May 2016 Agricultural water use is the main one among all water uses. Despite this use plays an essential role in food and fiber world supplies, provides for mitigating poverty in many regions, and produces a...
by Luis Santos Pereira | On 13 Apr 2016 A gradual moderation in growth is currently underway in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). This is the result of a combination of factors, including a shrinking working-age population, the natural...
by | On 06 Apr 2016 This chapter is concerned with the identification and estimation of models of labor supply. The focus is on the key issues that arise from unobserved heterogeneity, nonparticipation and dynamics. We e...
by Richard Blundell | On 21 Mar 2016 This series is a continuation of WRI’s ‘Environmental Accountability in Africa’ working paper series (Working Papers number 1 through 22). The series was renamed to reflect the Equity Poverty and Envi...
by Institue World Resources | On 20 Mar 2016 As part of a national experiment, in 2008 Chengdu prefecture implemented ambitious property rights reforms, including complete registration of all land together with measures to ease transferability a...
by Songqing Jin | On 20 Mar 2016 This paper documents the changing structure of wages in India over the post-reform era, the roughly two-decade period since 1993. To investigate the factors underlying these changes, a supply-demand f...
by Basab Dasgupta | On 20 Mar 2016 This report identifies four critical constraints to inclusive growth in the Maldives: (1) inadequate and poor quality maritime infrastructure that constrains connectivity, limits provision of basic go...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 17 Mar 2016 The 8th Lecture of Krishna Raj Memorial Lecture Series On Contemporary Issues in Health and Social Sciences: ‘The Golden Rule: a remedy for decadence in global health’ By Dr Eric Suba
by ... CEHAT | On 16 Mar 2016 This paper presents an economic analysis of science research and knowledge creation in Indian universities. We posit that faculty’s research effort is an outcome of her optimum time allocation decisio...
by Sabyasachi Saha | On 15 Mar 2016 The paper examines human capital’s contribution to economy-wide technological progress through two channels – imitation
and innovation – innovation being more skilled-intensive than innovation. It d...
by Sujata Basu | On 15 Mar 2016 This report discusses the experiences and commonly encountered issues when developing railway interchange hubs. It proposes basic design principles as well as research approaches. The report focuses o...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 Mar 2016 The DOST, chiefly through Sectoral Councils and R&D performers, has been successfully undertaking or supporting a considerable share of R&D activities in the country, while noting limited resources av...
by Jose Ramon G. Albert | On 14 Mar 2016 The row between the United States and China, caused by the indictment of five Chinese military officers on account of cyberespionage against private companies in the U.S., illustrates the importance o...
by | On 12 Mar 2016 When it comes to measuring inflation persistence, a common practice in empirical research is to estimate univariate autoregressive moving average (ARMA) time series models and measure persistence as t...
by Naveen Srinivasan | On 11 Mar 2016 The relationship between gender and poverty is a complex and debatable topic more than ever and thus a potential area for policy makers to focus. The aim of this paper is to review existing literature...
by Sukanya Das | On 10 Mar 2016 The present study ascertains the prevalence and possible causes of overweight and obesity among adult population using Pakistan Panel Household Survey for 2010. The results of the present research sho...
by Maryam Naeem Satti | On 10 Mar 2016 This paper empirically tests the role of search frictions in driving qualification mismatches in the labor market. Using new data from several low-income economies in urban Asia we find that overeduca...
by Kenn Chua | On 10 Mar 2016 This paper analyses whether in developing countries mass education is more growth enhancing than to have a minority well educated elite. Using the Indian census data as a benchmark and enrollment rate...
by Amparo Castelló-Climent | On 09 Mar 2016 That social capital matters is an established fact in the social sciences. How different forms of social capital affect gender disadvantages in career advancement is less clear, however. Qualitative r...
by | On 08 Mar 2016 The upcoming 2010 FIFA World Cup scheduled to take place in South Africa between 11 June and 11 July 2010 has once again raised concerns over the possibility of human trafficking. A study by the Human...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 05 Mar 2016 The International AIDS Conference 2010 was held in Vienna, Austria from 18 to 23 July to gather those working in the field of HIV such as policymakers, scientists and researchers, those living with HI...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 04 Mar 2016 In the main, this study uses the large sample National Sample Surveys (NSS) for the years 1983, 1993/94, 1999/2000, and 2004/5. There are two surveys that the NSS conducts in each of the large sample...
by Surjit S. Bhalla | On 01 Mar 2016 In this paper, a review of the literature on the global efficiency consequences of migration and assess a new strand of that literature. This is the new economic case for migration restrictions, which...
by Michael Clemens | On 27 Feb 2016 This paper introduces a model of gender inequality and economic growth that focuses on the determination of women’s time allocation among market production, home production, child rearing, and child e...
by Jinyoung Kim | On 27 Feb 2016 This year’s Economic Survey comes at a time of unusual volatility in the
international economic environment. Markets have begun to swing on fears
that the global recovery may be faltering, while ris...
by Arun Jaitley | On 26 Feb 2016 This study marks the culmination of a long process, first initiated in 2000 when the Ministry of Tourism Commissioned National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) to undertake a feasibility s...
by Dr. Rajesh Shukla | On 25 Feb 2016 An established method for identifying the different components of a discipline is author cocitation analysis (ACA). ACA is a bibiometric technique that enables a map of the discipline, over a finite t...
by Peter Warning | On 25 Feb 2016 East Asia is one of the three main economic blocks in the world. Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries – as New Industrial Economies (NIEs) – and China – as an emerging power – are...
by | On 25 Feb 2016 Due to a long history of strained political relations between India and Pakistan, trade possibilities between the two neighbouring countries have rarely been studied [Nabi and Nasim (2001), Mukherji (...
by Abid Burki | On 24 Feb 2016 Japanese corporations and American and European corporations take different approaches when it comes to business in China in general: (i) American corporations are concentrated in the music, motion pi...
by Yoshio Iteya | On 24 Feb 2016 South Asian organizations in countries like Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka are trying to professionalize management practices in recent years. Inspite of such efforts, employees indiscipli...
by Zafar Qureshi | On 24 Feb 2016 This paper reports on an Internet-based survey designed to collect information on the state of workplace practices from labor experts and practitioners around the world -- the 2004 Global Labor Survey...
by Richard B. Freeman | On 24 Feb 2016 The paper seeks to take stock of some of the key APEC documents/reports relevant to social protection and safety net programs, and also of the experience of APEC member-economies, with special focus o...
by Janet S. Cuenca | On 24 Feb 2016 The loss of ecosystem services due to industrial pollution in the Noyyal River Basin was estimated through physical research studies of water and soil quality and bio-mapping followed by economic valu...
by Paul Appasamy | On 23 Feb 2016 Since the elasticity of substitution between capital and labor is not always one, and since technical progress is not always Harrod-neutral, it is desirable to have an endogenous growth model that adm...
by Hing-Man Leung | On 23 Feb 2016 Over the last decade, the Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) framework has become a workhorse for macroeconomic analysis in both academic and policy circles. Following this emerging trend,...
by Parantap Basu | On 21 Feb 2016 This document is the culmination of a process that unfolded over two years in Bangladesh, which benefitted from contributions from individuals and organisations too numerous to mention by name here. H...
by Erin Roberts | On 21 Feb 2016 This paper provides structural estimates of heterogeneous returns to work experience for Japanese married women. A dynamic model of labor force participation is used to account for dynamic selfselecti...
by Ken Yamada | On 19 Feb 2016 The consumption-leisure choice model implies that an exogenous change in tax rates will induce a change in labor supply. This implication is expected to be important to labor supplied by secondary ear...
by Ken Yamada | On 19 Feb 2016 The employment shock of late 2008 in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) may have been a product of three different events: (i) the contractionary macroeconomic policies introduced by the government...
by Xin Meng | On 19 Feb 2016 The adoption of the Paris Agreement on 12 December by 195 governments is a major turning point in the global fight against climate change. To date, 190 governments have committed to specific actions t...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 18 Feb 2016 It is a pleasure to introduce this book, the major output of the second phase of the Sustainable Mekong Research Network (SUMERNET). Since its start in 2005, the SUMERNET program has aimed to strength...
by Institute Stockholm Environment | On 18 Feb 2016 This workshop was conducted as part of the mitigation strategies in rice production project, implemented with support from the agriculture initiative of the Climate and Clean Air Coalition. The projec...
by B. Sander | On 18 Feb 2016 The increasing use of disaster risk governance today suggests that there is a deeper problem with how disasters are being managed. It does not mean governments have been ineffective. But they do have...
by | On 17 Feb 2016 In his 1987 entry on ‘Perfect Competition’ in The New Palgrave, the author reviewed the question of the perfectness of perfect competition, and gave four alternative formalisations rooted in the so-ca...
by M. Ali Khan | On 17 Feb 2016 Low emissions development strategies (LEDS) are national economic and social development plans that promote sustainable development while reducing GHG emissions. While LEDS programs have helped to mai...
by Sonja Vermeulen | On 17 Feb 2016 Climate change demands new approaches to agriculture: farmers’ practices will need to change in order to adapt to and mitigate changing conditions. Gender is central to this change. Agriculture is a f...
by Sophia Huyer | On 17 Feb 2016 With the growing urgency of energy security in an era of climate change, the option to increase the share of renewables and nuclear energy in the energy mix will increasingly become attractive in Asia...
by | On 16 Feb 2016 This commentary discusses the importance of preventive and preparedness actions and inclusive participatory collaboration with all stakeholders to sustain the efforts of a transboundary haze-free ASEA...
by | On 16 Feb 2016 This essay, published originally by the National Bureau of Asian Research, discusses the long-term and current relationship between Pakistan and Afghanistan, the intertwined militancy in the two count...
by Vanda Felbab-Brown | On 14 Feb 2016 To help lay the groundwork for successful multistakeholder collaborations for healthy living, the World Economic Forum, in collaboration with Bain & Company, has produced the insights brief “Collabora...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 11 Feb 2016 To this day, the general public thinks of the Arctic in visions of unspoiled ocean and landscapes, expansive ice, clean water, unique species and aboriginal cultures – essentially it reminds everyone...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 11 Feb 2016 Can self-identification of occupation be applied in web surveys by using a look-up table with coded occupational titles, in contrast to other survey modes where an open format question with office-cod...
by | On 10 Feb 2016 We examine the causal impact of China's higher education expansion on labor market outcomes for young college graduates using China's 2005 1% Population Sample Survey. Exploiting variation in the expa...
by Dongshu Ou | On 07 Feb 2016 The migrant selection literature concentrates primarily on spatial patterns. This paper illustrates the implications of migration duration for patterns of selection by integrating two workhorses of th...
by Joyce Chen | On 07 Feb 2016 This paper estimates the effect of local labor market conditions on crime in a developing country with high crime rates. Contrary to the previous literature, which has focused exclusively on developed...
by Rafael Dix-Carneiro | On 07 Feb 2016 Attempts to explain why ending hunger has been so hard, so here the focus is on four main themes: the complex role of markets, the importance of government policies, the historical process of structur...
by C. Peter Timmer | On 03 Feb 2016 This study examines the challenges the labor market faces in a number of Arab countries with rentier economies - namely, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. One of the major challenges the lab...
by | On 02 Feb 2016 Based on the results of a research covering the eight years of the Bush administration (2000-2008), we may from the outset assert that whenever the materialistic interests engaged in fierce conflict w...
by | On 02 Feb 2016 The idea of primary health care (PHC) emerged in the 1960s, in recognition of the shortcomings of the health systems inherited by developing countries after independence. The urban, centralised and cu...
by Institute of Development Studies IDS | On 01 Feb 2016 The National Alliance of Disaster Risk Reduction (NADRR) was launched at a two-day workshop held in New Delhi on November 3rd and 4th, 2007. The workshop brought together over 150 participants represe...
by National Alliance for Disaster Risk Reduction NADRR | On 01 Feb 2016 In emerging economies like India, banking sector is very important. But banking sector is at 'crossroads'. There are many issues which this sector is facing and research which would generate fresh i...
by S.S. Mundra | On 01 Feb 2016 ‘Seeing like a citizen’ encapsulates within it the notion of being “heard as a citizen”. And it is in this context that the issue of voice has been explored in the research on ‘Deepening democracy, bu...
by Simeen Mahmud | On 30 Jan 2016 Owing to a dearth of government data and research studies on the urban existence of Pardhis, one of the principal aims of this study was to render visibility to the issue.
by Paankhi Agrawal | On 30 Jan 2016 This paper presents a theoretical model that can analyze the impact of gender inequality on long-term economic growth.
by Jinyoung Kim | On 30 Jan 2016 The present paper titled Poverty-Environment Nexus: An Investigation of Linkage and Policy Implications has been prepared under the CPD-UNDP collaboration programme on Pro-Poor Macroeconomic Policies...
by Centre for Policy Dialogue CPD | On 29 Jan 2016 South Asia has attracted global attention because it has experienced rapid GDP growth over the last two decades. What is not so well known is that South Asia is the least integrated region in the worl...
by Ejaz Ghani | On 29 Jan 2016 Drawing strongly upon recent International Relations literature on the foreign affairs of small states, this paper elaborates several arguments on the trajectory of Qatar’s foreign policy: (1) An “act...
by | On 29 Jan 2016 The Survey on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for Education in India and South Asia was commissioned by infoDev to be undertaken by PricewaterhouseCoopers, India. The Survey is a third...
by The Survey on Information and Communication Techno ICT | On 28 Jan 2016 New thinking and practical approaches are needed to address the threats to human security that climate change combined with social vulnerability pose for current and future patterns of loss and damage...
by Koko Warner | On 28 Jan 2016 This policy note aims to achieve a coherent and mutually beneficial labor
migration system. It argues that migrant workers may importantly
contribute to economic growth and development both in sen...
by Robert Holzmann | On 28 Jan 2016 A basic premise of representative democracy is that all those subject to
policy should have a voice in its making. However, policies enacted by electorally accountable governments often fail to refle...
by Rohini Pande | On 28 Jan 2016 This paper draws from a field research experiment to examine the
gendered aspects of willingness to pay for index-based insurance in Bangladesh. Participants were
presented with risky lotteries and...
by Daniel J. Clarke | On 28 Jan 2016 This paper reviews the agricultural policy environment in Myanmar up until 2014 with an eye towards identifying policies that can help to accelerate productivity and profitability in the agricultural...
by Ulrike Nischan | On 28 Jan 2016 Under the 2014 US Farm Bill, US cotton producers will receive significant subsidies which will have trade-distorting effects irrespective of future cotton prices. At a futures market cotton price of U...
by | On 27 Jan 2016 The primary motivation behind this research is the need to accelerate the supply of renewable energy because of the important role that it plays in mitigating climate change and in fostering sustainab...
by | On 26 Jan 2016 This case study explores the relationship between socioeconomic opportunity and exclusion in relation to minority gender and sexualities in Nepal.The study, a component of a wider programme on Sexuali...
by | On 26 Jan 2016 This paper uses the Malmquist Productivity Index (MPI) to estimate change in total factor productivity (TFP) and its constituent components for software companies in India during 1999–2008. On average...
by Nira Ramachandran | On 24 Jan 2016 This publication summarises CDKN’s partnership work with Bangladesh to date, highlighting key achievements and signposting further information. We are involved at many levels, by investing in policy-r...
by Climate and Development Outlook CDO | On 23 Jan 2016 This synthesis paper presents the findings from a multi-country research project which assesses the extent to which gender has been incorporated into the design and implementation of a wide range of s...
by Rebecca Holmes | On 23 Jan 2016 Research suggests that development interventions that do not take mountain specificities into account may threaten rather than facilitate development for the inhabitants in a sustainable mountain envi...
by Brigitte Hoermann | On 23 Jan 2016 A recent project under the CMI-CPD institutional collaboration agreement has looked at the effect of corruption on investment in the energy sector. A distinction is made between the extraction of ener...
by Arne Wiig | On 23 Jan 2016 This brief reports on civil society organization (CSO) engagements of ADB in 2014, highlighting representative ADB operations and technical assistance projects approved or ongoing in 2014 that have CS...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 22 Jan 2016 In the fiscal year 2011–12, under-recoveries1 incurred by Indian oil-marketing companies for diesel rose to an all-time high of INR81,192 crore (US$15 billion) (Government of India, 2012a). Diesel con...
by Gayatri Khedkar | On 21 Jan 2016 This paper is a study of climate change discourse in urban India. It suggests that the policies being articulated to deal with climate issues are premised on incremental changes rather than radical re...
by Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay | On 21 Jan 2016 This book collects the findings of a group of scientists and economists who have taken stock of climate change impacts on food and agriculture at global and regional levels over the past two decades....
by Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO] | On 20 Jan 2016 India also tops the charts globally in the prevalence of risk factors for several chronic diseases. Although Public Health Nutrition (PHN) - both as an academic field as well as a means to improved he...
by Shweta Khandelwal | On 19 Jan 2016 This working group on Disadvantaged Farmers, including women is one of the key working groups for defining agricultural policy in the Twelfth Five Year Plan. Eighty-three percent of India’s farmers cu...
by Bina Agarwal | On 19 Jan 2016 There are India studies programs around the country in many institutions, but no university has made the commitment to dedicate a graduate level and senior research level focus on contemporary India i...
by Steve Coll | On 19 Jan 2016 In recent decades, research and development has become a key new arena of globalization. Whereas multinational corporations once conducted R&D primarily in their home countries, it is now often disper...
by Andrew Kennedy | On 18 Jan 2016 A novel dataset is used to study the impact of male scarcity on marital assortative matching and other marriage market outcomes using the large shock that WWI caused to the number of French men. Using...
by | On 18 Jan 2016 In this paper, we analyze the sources of output growth in the past three decades
and discuss the outlook going forward. Projections are made for the growth of factors of
production and the growth of...
by Ila Patnaik | On 18 Jan 2016 In the recent past, attention has focused on the ethical, legal and social
issues in the conduct of clinical trials. This is largely based on reports of
people being harmed when participating in a t...
by Annelies den Boer | On 18 Jan 2016 This paper focuses on the question whether public infrastructure capital matters for labor productivity in China, both over time and across regions. It finds that public infrastructure is a significan...
by | On 15 Jan 2016 This paper summarizes the micro-level survey evidence from Central Asia generated and analyzed between 1991 and 2012. We provide an exhaustive overview over all accessible individual and household-lev...
by Tilman Brück | On 15 Jan 2016 This paper reviews four decades of economics research on the brain drain, with a focus on recent contributions and on development issues. We first assess the magnitude, intensity and determinants of t...
by Frédéric Docquier | On 14 Jan 2016 Our goal is to develop, over a period of time, a collaborative, multi-level
and interdisciplinary project to generate and anchor a range of new research activities to help fill this gap. The idea is...
by | On 14 Jan 2016 Millions of job seekers in South Asia, including many tribals, are forced by lack of local employment opportunities to migrate towards urban areas. This fieldwork-based study aims to understand specif...
by Rajib Dhar | On 13 Jan 2016 In this paper, an attempt has been made to understand the general, reproductive, and mental health status of migrant women from Kerala who stay in the working women’s hostels. The present study is bas...
by R. S. Reshmi | On 13 Jan 2016 This paper tries to analyse the effects of TRIPS on public welfare in the context of the pharmaceutical sector. It takes a closer look at the policies of some developing countries and their usage of t...
by Deeparghya Mukherjee | On 09 Jan 2016 The study of geography of poverty and peoples’ changing livelihood and their relation with globalization are some of the major areas of geographic research in the present context (Subedi, 2005). So, P...
by Basant Adhikari | On 08 Jan 2016 Land is regarded as an important source of livelihoods to many people, especially rural people. For those people, access to and control over land resources is the source of livelihoods. Therefore, lan...
by Samana Adhikari | On 08 Jan 2016 This brief suggests that those seeking an in-depth understanding of the social and political world need to apply a feminist curiosity – that is, a curiosity about the roles gender plays at all levels...
by | On 07 Jan 2016 This paper analyzes the impact of remittances on the labor supply of men and women in post-conflict Tajikistan. It is found that on average men and women from remittance-receiving households are less...
by Olga Shemyakina | On 07 Jan 2016 This report identifies the main constraints to Thailand’s transition to a more modern industrial and service economy. Further major transformation is in order: this includes accelerating market reform...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 07 Jan 2016 As cross-border movements of goods, capital, and labor are intensifying, it is likely that goods markets in East Asia will become increasingly integrated. This study investigates the current state of...
by Woosik Moon | On 07 Jan 2016 There have been few empirical studies in the developing world and the agricultural sector, on the impact of negative health shocks on household well-being. Does the pervasive effect of a negative hous...
by | On 07 Jan 2016 This paper covers threes issues: first, defining and measuring inclusive growth; second, the relationship between international trade and inequality; and third, the links between infrastructure and in...
by Juzhong Zhuang | On 07 Jan 2016 This paper—which draws on inputs to, and discussions at, a methods development workshop—highlights the various concepts, methods, and tools that SoC researchers are considering to measure nutrition-re...
by | On 04 Jan 2016 The Malaysia Business Environment Index (BEI) Pilot Study 2012 is the first survey that investigates firms' perceptions about the business environment at the district level. Utilizing data collected f...
by The Asia Foundation | On 02 Jan 2016 Indonesia has made significant progress in promoting gender equality. Gender gaps in the youth literacy rate have been eliminated. Near parity in enrollment rates in elementary up to tertiary levels h...
by Uzma Hoque | On 01 Jan 2016 With many environmental assets, and industrial pressure only beginning to develop, Myanmar could effectively form policies and regulations that ensure sustainable growth and conservation of key natura...
by Sakiko Tanaka | On 01 Jan 2016 Switzerland changed its migration policy in the 1990s from a “non-qualified only” policy to one of almost free movement of labor. To analyze the impact of this policy change on the schooling outcomes...
by Maria Cattaneo | On 01 Jan 2016 This study examines the differential effects of the unemployment rate at labor market entry,defined as the time of leaving school, on subsequent wages across gender and race using the National Longitu...
by Ayako Kondo | On 01 Jan 2016 This paper explores the impacts of more rapid growth in labor productivity in the service sector in Asia based on an empirical general equilibrium model. The model allows for input-output linkages and...
by Jong-Wha Lee | On 30 Dec 2015 We study urban, private sector Chinese employers’ preferences between workers with and without a local permanent residence permit (hukou) using callback information from an Internet job board. We find...
by | On 30 Dec 2015 This paper explores how inflows of low-skilled immigrants impact the tradeoffs women face when making joint fertility and labor supply decisions. I find increases in fertility and decreases in labor f...
by Delia Furtado | On 30 Dec 2015 This Discussion Paper examines the relevance of social capital theories in explaining the migration-development nexus. The author uses three case studies to investigate this relationship, namely devel...
by | On 29 Dec 2015 This article focuses on the gender digital divide. It reviews the gender dimensions of ICT and how the United Nations has addressed the issues of gender equality and ICT. It explores potentials for em...
by UN Women | On 29 Dec 2015 This paper reviews the development of the social security system and trends in the urban labor market in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Despite its remarkable economic achievement, the PRC face...
by Wang Dewen | On 29 Dec 2015 This briefing paper reviews UNIFEM and UNDP experiences in building the capacity of police services to respond to women's security needs. The paper distinguishes between internal reforms to facilitate...
by UN Women | On 29 Dec 2015 The implementation of the Agreement on Textile and Clothing (ATC) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) renders both threats and opportunities to India’s Textile and Clothing (T&C) industry in the wak...
by Vinoj Abraham | On 26 Dec 2015 This joint ODI-UNDP paper looks at whether development aid will remain important in the post-2015 era, and asks how the old aid model should change in response to a dramatically new world and new sust...
by GAIL HURLEY | On 24 Dec 2015 Severe chronic poverty persists in India, partly because of the poor capacity of the state in India to provide for its poor. An action research project, underway in five poorest districts in the count...
by Sajjad Hassan | On 23 Dec 2015 This brief explores the potential future policy options for the Indian government and does not touch upon the initiatives already undertaken by New Delhi in Afghanistan. New Delhi must try to optimise...
by Rajeshwari Krishnamurthy | On 23 Dec 2015 We develop a new survey instrument to codify CEOs’ diaries in large samples and use it to measure the
labor supply of 1,114 family and professional CEOs of manufacturing firms across six countries...
by Oriana Bandiera | On 18 Dec 2015 This article reviews the diagnostic needs and challenges of resource poor settings and the impact of present institutional and policy regime on the development of ecosystem for innovation making in ca...
by Dinesh Abrol | On 18 Dec 2015 Pelvic organ prolapse (POP) is a global women’s health concern; uterine prolapse (UP), one of the five types of POP, has significant prevalence in Nepal. Studies indicate that over 600,000 women in Ne...
by Sherrie Palm | On 18 Dec 2015 Rural-urban migration continues to attract much interest, but also growing concern. Migrants are often blamed for increasing urban poverty, but not all migrants are poor. In many cities, however, migr...
by David Satterthwaite | On 17 Dec 2015 Major health problems persist, particularly in tropical countries, which are still struggling with infectious diseases while increasingly having to deal with noncommunicable diseases. Several classic...
by David E. Bloom | On 17 Dec 2015 The agenda for the Third International Conference on Financing for Development suggests there will be less focus on aid, and more on how developing countries can generate their own financial resources...
by Mick Moore | On 16 Dec 2015 This article talks about some of the important concerns regarding commercialisation in surrogacy arrangements and issues that are left unaddressed in the guidelines on ART issued by government.
by Ashok Vaidya | On 16 Dec 2015 The article presents the inconsistencies in the revised Draft ART Bill of 2010, particularly with regard to provisions about surrogacy and citizenship of the babies born from a surrogate mother.
by Aastha Sharma | On 16 Dec 2015 The Paris Conference of the Parties (COP) of the United Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is expected to be an important milestone in global efforts to combat climate change. Such effort...
by | On 16 Dec 2015 This paper uses worldwide firm-level data to scrutinize the governance factors that favor gender diversity in leadership positions. Our results reveal that the gender of the dominant shareholder is ke...
by Khalid Sekkat | On 16 Dec 2015 We use a natural experiment in Indonesia to provide causal evidence on the role of location-specific human capital and skill transferability in shaping the spatial distribution of productivity. From 1...
by Samuel Bazzi | On 08 Dec 2015 With a view to undertake the exercise the of health assessment of Ganga River River during Kumbh 2013 a water quality monitoring was done during Kumbh 2013. The present report is based on the socio-cu...
by People's Science Institute PSI | On 08 Dec 2015 Policies that mandate public data archiving (PDA) successfully increase accessibility to data underlying scientific publications. However, is the data quality sufficient to allow reuse and reanalysis?
by Dominique G Roche | On 02 Dec 2015 In thinking about the implications of HIV/AIDS, considerable attention was initially drawn to its clinical aspects. More recently, other dimensions of HIV, including economic, have been explored. The...
by | On 01 Dec 2015 While much progress has been made over the last 25 years in measuring global poverty, there are
a number of challenges ahead. The paper discusses three sets of problems: (i) how to allow for
social...
by Martin Ravallion | On 16 Nov 2015 One of social science’s core roles is to inform evidence-based policy making and policy interventions that produce pro-poor outcomes. This paper explores prominent debates on research uptake and polic...
by | On 05 Nov 2015 IFPRI and India’s partnership played a particularly important role following the Green Revolution when that partnership analyzed the necessary policies to both promote domestic food production and to...
by International Food Policy Research Institute | On 03 Nov 2015 This paper examines the relationship between inequality and collective action, and identifies a range of mechanisms that shape the association between income inequality and local collective action. Th...
by | On 29 Oct 2015 This report presents the findings of an operations research study conducted to assess the implementation of the Government of Bangladesh’s National Nutrition Services Program (NNS) and to identify the...
by Nkosinathi V.N. Mbuya | On 01 Oct 2015 In this report, MGI explores the economic potential available if the global gender gap were
to be closed. The research finds that, in a full-potential scenario in which women play
an identical role...
by Jonathan Woetzel | On 30 Sep 2015 Almost three years since the enforcement of POSCP Act is a good time to review its implementation and
build evidence that can be used to seek improvement and/or appropriate changes.
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 24 Sep 2015 The Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act 2005, an inheritance law that covers 83.6% of the population of India, corrected some of fundamental inequalities in the law bringing the women in equal status to...
by Sohini Pal | On 23 Sep 2015 The rising incidence of suicides, and mental health problems in India, especially among youth, cannot be wished away. There is a critical need to recognise the malevolent neglect of the state of ment...
by Nikhil Govind | On 20 Sep 2015 The Global Innovation Index (GII) aims to capture the multi-dimensional facets of innovation and provide the tools that can assist in tailoring policies to promote long-term output growth, improved pr...
by | On 18 Sep 2015 This paper critiques the last decade of research on the effects of high-skill emigration from developing countries, and proposes six new directions for fruitful research. The study singles out a cor...
by Michael Clemens | On 16 Sep 2015 Ramaswamy Iyer, former union secretary of Water Resources for the government of India, and professor at the Center for Policy Research, and well known advocate of alternatives to big dams, passed awa...
by Aravinda P | On 11 Sep 2015 The study provides evidence in support of an effective national response to addressing stigma faced by people living with HIV and other high-risk groups and guide future research on the subject. In In...
by | On 11 Sep 2015 The broad objective of the survey is to assess the availability of schooling facility for primary, upper-primary, secondary and higher secondary stages within the habitations (including SC/ST) in diff...
by National Council of Educational Research &Training NCERT | On 10 Sep 2015 After generations of wanderlust, that often snapped ties with their roots, Goans from far and near are returning with renewed interest to trace their origins. And they may be the lucky ones. Goa with...
by Frederick Noronha | On 09 Sep 2015 So what does it mean to be working in Pasteur’s quadrant (use-inspired research)? First, it means that the science and research we do is aimed towards an ultimate use. This has to be ac- knowledged. U...
by A. P. Ravishankara | On 07 Sep 2015 As a long-term investor in space technology and infrastructure, India aspires to be one among the top nations in the world in terms of government space investment. Though space investment has been gro...
by | On 07 Sep 2015 The article begins with a discussion of definitional issues regarding human trafficking and modern slavery and then briefly critiques some popular claims regarding each problem. Examples of macro-leve...
by Ronald Weitzer Weitzer | On 03 Sep 2015 This paper explores why migrants at their destination fare better than nonmigrants, across different socio-economic classes in India, while the general perception of migrants is that they are less end...
by Vamsi Vakulabharanam | On 03 Sep 2015 The publication includes research studies conducted over 2012-14 to foster understanding about MGNREGA and its impact in India with the aim to facilitate focused discussions between policymakers, rese...
by | On 01 Sep 2015 This paper is the result of a lab experiment conducted to assess whether gender of dictators and recipients, and distributional preferences affect allocations in a modified dictator game where both pa...
by Smriti Sharma | On 01 Sep 2015 This paper seeks to bridge the gap by summarizing the research, making policy recommendations based on this research, and suggesting an implementation roadmap for the 12th Plan. The main findings repo...
by Karthik Muralidharan | On 20 Aug 2015 This study undertakes a choice experiment in order to identify differences in local demand for watershed services in the Koshi basin of Nepal. The paper first examines the possibility of using a non-m...
by Rajesh Kumar Rai | On 20 Aug 2015 Notwithstanding its impressive economic growth, food insecurity in South Asia continues to be a stark reality for a large number of households. Despite several successful policy interventions by Gover...
by K. S. Kavi Kumar | On 19 Aug 2015 This paper presents a novel analytical framework to study transnational activism in the context of today’s international governance architecture. While there is a considerable amount of literature on...
by Sabrina Zajak | On 07 Aug 2015 This study shows that many global clinical trials organisations have relocated their clinical trial (CT) research units to India. The Indian CT industry has become one of the most cost-efficient desti...
by Dinesh Abrol | On 23 Jul 2015 This paper studies the policy determinants of economic transition and estimates the demand for labor in the infant private sector in urban China. It shows that a reform that untied access to housing i...
by Lakshmi Iyer | On 20 Jul 2015 Given the growing emphasis on research productivity in management schools in India, composite indicator (CI) of research productivity is developed, using the directional benefit-of-doubt (D-BOD) model...
by Biresh K Sahoo | On 20 Jul 2015 The Alternative Report has been prepared by Save the Children UK (Pakistan office) and the Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (SPARC). It reflects the views of a large number of civ...
by ECHO Save the Children (U.K) | On 17 Jul 2015 Child labor (CL) has been a major concern for the developing world, especially for India with its goal towards ‘inclusive growth’. However, impact (or vulnerabilities) of major domestic or external sp...
by Sahana Roy Chowdhury | On 16 Jul 2015 The paper aims to explore few aspects of academic entrepreneurship. Besides dwelling upon the conceptual definition, there is an attempt to understand the processes and stages of academic entrepreneur...
by Deepthi Shanker | On 30 Jun 2015 This review of the published academic literature on internal and regional migration for domestic work shows a dearth of studies on internal migration for domestic work in South Asia. The existing lite...
by Priya Deshingkar | On 23 Jun 2015 This study analyses the urban planning efforts of the government for an explanation of some unintended outcomes. A popular perception is that development in Thimphu city could do with better planning....
by Manka Bajaj | On 16 Jun 2015 It is proposed in this study that the development experience in Kerala has resulted ultimately in weakening the material basis of public action. On limited evidence it is pointed out that the poor in...
by P.K.Michael Tharakan | On 10 Jun 2015 India has always given importance to the development of space technology for peaceful purposes. The Indian space programme is one of the biggest national space programmes in the world, which has trans...
by Narayan Prasad | On 04 Jun 2015 This paper examines a number of questions that have a bearing on women’s employment in South Asia. The characteristic features of the region such as the predominantly rural, agrarian economy; patriarc...
by | On 04 Jun 2015 This Advocates’ Guide has been developed based on the ecommendations made in the World Health Organization’s “Ensuring human rights in the provision of contraceptive information and services: Guidance...
by Renu Khanna | On 01 Jun 2015 This report mainly focuses on agricultural research and education so as to make the system demand-driven, enhance technology flow to farmers and bring transformational changes in Indian agriculture. T...
by Planning Commission | On 28 May 2015 This report draws on IDMC’s report on internal displacement in Myanmar published in July 2014 and also uses information collected since then. It is based on documents published by international organi...
by Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre | On 27 May 2015 More than seventy five percent of the world’s population dwells in countries where state restrictions on religious freedom prevail. Despite laudable strides towards democratic reform, Myanmar is amon...
by Engy Abdelkader | On 26 May 2015 Health research is the key to a well functioning and effective health sector in the country. The focus of the report is to identify major issues, areas for policy research in health sector for 12th Fi...
by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare H & FW | On 22 May 2015 The Rohingya are an ethno-religious minority group from the Rakhine region, which today is encompassed within the borders of Myanmar and is adjacent to Bangladesh. The majority of Rohingya in Myanmar...
by The Equal Rights Trust | On 14 May 2015 This policy is expected to serve as a beacon to guide health research in India which should contribute towards attainment of better health for all Indians. A Committee of Experts reviewed the situatio...
by Indian Council of Medical Research ICMR | On 14 May 2015 This year the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will formally establish the ASEAN Community, which is set to enhance regional community building among its member states. Ramses Amer makes...
by | On 13 May 2015 Despite armed internal conflict and the global financial crisis, Sri Lanka has made remarkable progress in recent years, enjoying healthy economic growth and substantially reducing poverty. Moreover,...
by Halil Dundar | On 07 May 2015 This Report is an update of the Rural Food Insecurity Atlas of 2001 released by the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) and the World Food Programme (WFP). Since then, numerous new programmes...
by V B Athreya | On 06 May 2015 Academic research has been paying little attention to the net neutrality debate in developing countries, where large content providers such as Facebook, Google and Twitter have long been executing agr...
by | On 14 Apr 2015 Workers in Cambodia’s garment factories—frequently producing name brand clothing sold mainly in the United States, the European Union, and Canada—often experience discriminatory and exploitative labor...
by Human Rights Watch | On 20 Mar 2015 The paper attempts to trace the origin and idea of Make in India through time and identifies what needs to be done to turn the Make in India mantra into a reality. Free market is the engine of growth...
by Satish Y Deodhar | On 13 Mar 2015 This brief is review of an electoral analysis of Sri lanka Presidential Elections. Paper discusses the various measures of failure on the part of the Rajapaksa government and strategies for new govern...
by Saman Kelegama | On 09 Feb 2015 This paper outlines the trends and patterns of migrants . It also discusses the impact and socioeconomic characteristics of migration in Delhi.
by | On 05 Feb 2015 This paper makes a case for sustained investments in research and extension to address the numerous challenges along the pathway from agriculture production and distribution to consumption and utiliza...
by | On 30 Jan 2015 This study aims to highlight the status of agricultural R&D in South Asia and contends that creating an effective agricultural research and innovation systems is a vital element to ensure food securit...
by | On 22 Jan 2015 This study analyzes the link between labor productivity of tea-plantation workers in Sri Lanka and their living conditions. The results indicate a significant negative relationship between Indoor Air...
by Ajantha Kalyanaratne | On 16 Dec 2014 The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) is approaching eight years of
implementation. Since 2006, it has offered up to 100 days per year of guaranteed public works
employm...
by Anil K. Bhargava | On 28 Nov 2014 The authors review the conceptualisation, and implementation of policies related to the welfare of minority communities in India, with a special focus on Muslims
as a minority group. Using the case s...
by Ritu Dewan | On 21 Nov 2014 Using rich longitudinal survey data from the Indonesia Family Life Survey (IFLS), evidence is
presented on the relationship between three measures of health- and education-related human capital
of c...
by Daniel LaFave | On 17 Nov 2014 This paper examines the assumptions underlying educational incentive schemes with the help of data collected on the status and implementation of three
such schemes for minority communities in Mahara...
by Disha Nawani | On 11 Nov 2014 Maharashtra’s multicultural milieu is marked by crucial contribution made by Muslims. The Sachar Committee Report, 2006 stated that the condition of Muslim in Maharashtra demands
special attention o...
by Vibhuti Patel | On 11 Nov 2014 This study project was undertaken by SATHI and CEHAT to make a small contribution in this emerging field of study of health inequities in India, and with the objective of strengthening advocacy on hea...
by Srijit Mishra | On 11 Nov 2014 The use of maternal health care is limited in India despite several programmatic efforts for its improvement since the late 1980's. The use of maternal health care is typically patterned on socioecono...
by Praveen Kumar Pathak | On 06 Nov 2014 This report by the Observer Research Foundation Mumbai titled “Whither Science Education in Indian Colleges?” places its study of tertiary science education in India in the context of reclaiming India...
by Catarina Correia | On 03 Nov 2014 India has followed an idiosyncratic pattern of development, certainly compared with other fast-growing Asian economies. While the importance of services rather than manufacturing has been widely noted...
by Kalpana Kochhar | On 22 Oct 2014 This book originates from a conference of the Association of Asian Social Science Research Councils and contains writings and research reports on Youth in Transition in the Asia and Pacific region. Th...
by UNESCO UNESCO | On 16 Oct 2014 The authors of this paper assert that under average conditions in Indian agriculture healthy, problem-focused and client oriented research and extension systems rely on strong socio-economic inputs an...
by D Jha | On 26 Sep 2014 To develop a measure of unemployment that takes into account both the level and intensity of unemployment and that satisfies several desirable properties, including distribution sensitivity (dealing w...
by Sripad Motiram | On 25 Aug 2014 Many aspects of the Indian scientific development are extremely unsatisfactory, lacking in both quality and quantity. Although the outreach of teaching and research programmes has increased considerab...
by Gautam Desiraju | On 29 Jul 2014 Dr. Kalam speaks about science and youth in the Inauguration of National Conference on "Declining Interest in Science Education and Research Among Students: Reasons and Remedies"
IICT/CCMB Auditoriu...
by Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam | On 29 Jul 2014 The article discusses science education and scientific research within the nation of India. It is attested that the country has established numerous commissions, committees, and learned panels intende...
by Sabyasachi Bhattacharya | On 29 Jul 2014 Although Obaid Siddiqi’s major research focus in neurogenetics was on chemosensation and olfaction in Drosophila, he made seminal contributions to the study of temperature-sensitive paralytic mutants...
by Barry Ganetzky | On 29 Jul 2014 Fertilizer policy in the country has evolved from pervasive interventionism in the
1970s to today's market-oriented regime. Government has abandoned price policies and
subsidies, focusing rather on...
by Roehlano M. Briones | On 20 Jun 2014 The Brazilian Dream Project is a non-profit social responsibility endeavour with no consumption bias, that arose from the ever more clearly awareness that Brazil has reached an unprecedented moment in...
by Box 1824 | On 18 Jun 2014 The Indian labour market is characterised by abysmally low participation of women in the labour market, enormity of low wage informal employment, and scarcity of decent regular
wage employment. The c...
by IRIS Knowledge Foundation IKF | On 17 Jun 2014 Job seekers can influence the arrival rate of job offers by the choice of search effort and the search methods they use. In this paper we empirically investigate the contribution of the use of differe...
by Andrea Weber | On 23 May 2014 This report presents data and analysis to better understand the factors driving the expansion in undergraduate and graduate education across Asia. By looking at the system as a whole, the authors eval...
by David W. Chapman | On 16 May 2014 Gender equality is one of the six goals of the global Education for All campaign that UNESCO leads. This was launched in 2000, when the countries of the world agreed to “eliminate gender disparities i...
by Edward B. Fiske | On 12 May 2014 In the hopes of earning money for a better life, and with few other alternatives, millions migrate to big cities or across borders to work as live-in nannies, caretakers for the elderly, and house-cle...
by Nisha Varia | On 08 May 2014 The paper analyzes causes of movements in Indian wages for rural unskilled male laborers, and
assesses their impact on inflation. Theoretical priors derived from an analytical framework based on the
...
by Ashima Goyal | On 10 Apr 2014 There have always been differences of view on what poverty means in conceptual terms, and even greater differences on how to measure it. These differences span a broad spectrum of normative and ideolo...
by Peter Saunders | On 09 Apr 2014 This paper offers a first comprehensive study of the relationship between labor market institutions and policies and labor market performance in the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, which...
by Hartmut Lehmann | On 10 Mar 2014 In 2006 Sachar Committee prepared a report on the social, economic and educational status of the Muslim community in India. The Indian Constitution is committed to the equality of citizens and the res...
by Ministry of Human Resource Development, GOI | On 20 Feb 2014 "About 167 million children under five years of age —almost one-third of the developing world's children —are malnourished. If they survive childhood, many of these children will suffer from poorer co...
by Lisa C. Smith | On 22 Jan 2014 There are great opportunities for Open Access publications to advance human health, provided the medical research and publishing communities can rise to the challenges that come with them. There are m...
by Plos medicine Editors | On 06 Jan 2014 There are great opportunities for Open Access
publications to advance human health,
provided the medical research and publishing
communities can rise to the challenges
that come with them. There a...
by Plos medicine Editors | On 02 Jan 2014 We invite RESEARCH PAPERS FOR THE 2014 ISSUE. The last date for submission is 2nd January, 2013. Please send two sets of hard copies of your papers with the title RESEARCH HORIZONS 2013 on the envelop...
by Anonymous | On 18 Dec 2013 Labor migration to Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries has massive effects on the GCC, the
countries migrants come from, and the migrants themselves and their families. Yet existing research on
...
by Michael Clemens | On 12 Nov 2013 While bans against child labor are a common policy tool, there is very little empirical
evidence validating their effectiveness. In this paper, it is examined that the consequences of India’s
landm...
by Prashant Bansode | On 01 Nov 2013 India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) is one of the largest public works programs globally. Understanding the impacts of NREGS and the pathway through which its impacts are realiz...
by Songqing Jin | On 14 Oct 2013 This paper estimates the short-and-medium-run effects of participating in a sub-
sidized vocational training program aimed at improving labor market outcomes of
women residing in low-income househol...
by Pushkar Maitra | On 30 Sep 2013 Migration can serve as an outlet for employment, higher earnings, and reduced income risk for households in developing countries. The 2004–2005 Human Development Profile of India survey is used to exa...
by Valerie Mueller | On 06 Sep 2013 A large-scale randomized experiment was conducted in the Philippines testing the impact of unilaterally facilitating international labor migration. [BREAD Working Paper No. 396].
by Emily Beam | On 03 Sep 2013 This paper considers the welfare and distributional
consequences of higher relative food prices in rural India
through the lens of a specific-factors, general equilibrium, trade model applied at the...
by Hanan G Jacoby | On 22 Aug 2013 Migration literature has always considered environmental constraints as one of the prime movers of populations, especially from dry regions, where water rather than land is the primary limiting factor...
by Amita Shah | On 28 Jun 2013 This paper provides a theoretical model of the impact of recession (income shock) on household's
child labor (CL) decision. Parental altruism is endogenized; as their choice of substituting child lab...
by Sahana Roy Chowdhury | On 25 Jun 2013 This paper presents a choice experiment designed to estimate the willingness-to-pay (WTP) of rural farmers to mitigate damages caused by invasive plant species, particularly Mikania micrantha, in the...
by Rajesh Kumar Rai | On 27 May 2013 The State of the Urban Youth India 2012: Employment, Livelihoods, Skills developed and produced by IRIS Knowledge Foundation, Mumbai on a commission from the UN-HABITAT Global Urban Youth Research Net...
by Padma Prakash | On 14 Apr 2013 This paper records the findings of a small investigation into a fragment of experiences of people living on streets and into the social, economic, nutritional situation of urban homeless men, women, b...
by Harsh Mander | On 10 Apr 2013 This study examines the impact of inflows of foreign workers on Korean natives’ economic
performance – namely, employment – through the Employment Permit System, the basis of
Korea’s system by which...
by Jungho Kim | On 03 Apr 2013 In the paper there is a use of nation-wide policy of randomly allocating village council headships to women to identify the impact of female political leadership on the governance of projects implemen...
by Farzana Afridi | On 07 Mar 2013 The experiment is designed to explore the effectiveness of such sanctions in
improving repayment incentives. Groups of 10 members are provided with joint-liability loans
for a specific investment pr...
by Jean Marie Baland | On 07 Mar 2013 Society for Research and Initiatives for Technologies and Institutions [SRISTI] has pioneered a knowledge intensive model for transforming institutional context of problem solving at community level....
by Anil. K Gupta | On 07 Mar 2013 This paper analyses the property tax system in India, examines the reasons for its low revenue productivity, reviews the recent reform initiatives and identifies further reform areas. [NIPFP Working P...
by M. Govinda Rao | On 06 Feb 2013 The one and only one government hospital for children in the country supported by the
Central Government with a budget of Rs. 55.40 Crore in the year 2012-13 is once again in
news for miserable cond...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 26 Nov 2012 This report reviews the input and output policies for cereals implemented in Pakistan during the period 1996–2010. Pakistan has a long and varied history of intervening in farm input and output market...
by Abdul Salam | On 16 Nov 2012 This paper considers two major issues that need to be treated as matters of urgency. First, internal (within country) migrations in the Asian (ACI) region are mostly undocumented and large. It is show...
by E J Wilson | On 05 Nov 2012 In 2011 the US National Institute of Mental Health launched the Grand Challenges to Global Mental Health on the lines of earlier initiatives on ‘Global Health’ and on ‘Global Chronic Non-Common-commun...
by Anonymous | On 05 Oct 2012 A bill to establish an Authority and such other regulatory bodies for regulation of radiation
safety or nuclear safety and achieving highest standards of such safety based on
scientific approach, op...
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 01 Oct 2012 A brief outline of the economic and financial structure of the State and the various financial inclusion initiatives taken by the Reserve Bank is highlighted. But there are some policy challenges in s...
by Deepak Mohanty | On 03 Sep 2012 A bill to provide for the establishment and incorporation of Universities for Research and
Innovation and for enabling them to emerge as centres for ecosystems to develop as
hubs of education, resea...
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 08 Aug 2012 Drawing on secondary data, insights and ideas from an all-India consultation meet
at NIAS, four regional / zonal consultations, data from a project in Chamarajanagar district (Karnataka),
and select...
by P Veerbhadranaika | On 01 Aug 2012 The main aim of this paper is to examine two core features of on-the-job search in India. First, based on National Sample Survey (NSS) 66th round unit level data, we identify the factors influencing t...
by Krishna M | On 27 Jul 2012 What are the implications
of a green economy for the poor and hungry? How can the poor benefit
from and thrive under a green economy? What role can agriculture
play? What are the possible trade-off...
by Shenggen Fan | On 17 Jul 2012 A
bill
to promote autonomy of higher educational institutions and universities for free pursuit
of knowledge and innovation and to provide for comprehensive and integrated
growth of higher educati...
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 12 Jul 2012 The Philippines has often been cited as the global model in managing international
labor migration. Despite the complexity of our management infrastructure, however,
some gaps still remain. This pap...
by Julyn S Ambito | On 12 Jul 2012 The different role of intra- and inter-national university-industry collaboration in industrial
innovation in emerging economies are investigated. Based on a national firm-level survey database from...
by Xiaolan Fu | On 09 Jul 2012 This paper estimates the gender wage gap and its composition in China’s urban labor market
using the 2009 survey data from the Chinese Family Panel Studies. Several estimation and
decomposition meth...
by Biwei Su | On 01 Jun 2012 The ecosystem of the Eastern Himalayas are vulnerable to climate change as a result of their ecological fragility and economic marginality. The conservation policies at national and regional levels ar...
by Karma Tse-ring | On 28 May 2012 This paper focuses on the effects of domestic and international remittances on children’s
well-being. Using data from the 1992/93 and 1997/98 Vietnam Living Standards Surveys, an investigation of the...
by Michele Binci | On 11 May 2012 Efforts to strengthen capacity in health research have, so far, concentrated on
countries where there is existing capacity rather than those where it is almost
completely lacking.
Judged by absolut...
by Martin McKee | On 10 May 2012 The objective of the study was to review media coverage (print ) related to HIV/AIDS in three states (Gujarat, Haryana and Madhya Pradesh) in order to determine the gaps in reporting. [CCMG Working Pa...
by Biswajit Das | On 10 May 2012 The PRC’s leading position in high-tech exports is a myth created by outdated trade statistics which are inconsistent with trade based on global supply chains. It is argued that a value-added-based ap...
by Yuqing Xing | On 27 Apr 2012 The study examines the different aspects of labor in the rural household economy. It
identifies the factors that significantly determine the rural households' labor allocation decisions.
Moreover, i...
by Maria Teresa C Sanchez | On 18 Apr 2012 The main objective of this paper is to explore the potential role of social pensions and other noncontributory schemes in Asia, informed by insights from theory and international experience. The paper...
by Armando Barrientos | On 13 Apr 2012 Using a case study of two districts in South India, farmers’ information needs and information search behavior, factors affecting their search behavior, and their willingness to pay for information a...
by Suresh Chandra Babu | On 10 Apr 2012 The salient features of the budget estimates of 2012-13 of Madhya Pradesh. [Ministry of Finance Madhya Pradesh]. URL:[http://www.mp.gov.in/finance/index.htm].
by Madhya Pradesh Government | On 04 Apr 2012 In this context, higher education as well as research and development (R&D) have long since ceased to be purely the domain of the developed Western economies. Numerous regions of the world, some in th...
by Ingo Rollwagen | On 09 Mar 2012 This paper assesses how the economic support provided by parents to young adults as they
complete their education and enter the labor market is related to the family’s socioeconomic
circumstances. W...
by Deborah Cobb clark | On 07 Mar 2012 PLoS Medicine, Olav Lindqvist and colleagues describe the range of non pharmacological care giving activities provided by palliative care staff for cancer patients in the last days of life. Their find...
by Plos medicine Editors | On 01 Mar 2012 This research focuses on religious changes among hunter-gatherers in Borneo.
A two month archival research was carried out that will be used in the understanding
of the relationship between traditi...
by Gotzone Gray | On 28 Feb 2012 Budget speech 2012.
by Mahinda Rajapaksa | On 24 Feb 2012 Unpredictable rainfall is an important risk for agricultural activity, and farmers in developing
countries often receive incomplete insurance from informal risk-sharing networks. The demand for, and...
by A. Mushfiq Mobarak | On 10 Feb 2012 This paper examines the long-term impacts of improved school quality at the elementary school stage on subsequent schooling investments and labor market outcomes using unique data from a recent survey...
by Futoshi Yamauchi | On 31 Jan 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 workin...
by Reema Nayar | On 30 Jan 2012 The single row facility layout problem (SRFLP) is the problem of arranging facilities with given lengths on a line, while minimizing the weighted sum of the distances between all pairs of facilities....
by Ravi Kothari | On 23 Jan 2012 Major differences between the Lok Pal Bill 2011 and the Lok Pal and Lokayuktas Bill, 2011.URL: [http://www.prsindia.org/uploads/media/Lok%20Pal%20Bill%202011/Major%20differences%20between%20the%20Lok%...
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 28 Dec 2011 A synthesized version of Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) and its possible
applications in Management problems is presented. The main contribution of the paper
is its simple description of a some...
by Tathagata Banerjee | On 27 Dec 2011 The single row facility layout problem (SRFLP) is a NP-hard problem concerned with the arrangement of facilities of given lengths on a line so as to minimize the weighted sum of the distances between...
by Ravi Kothari | On 14 Dec 2011 With a vast and diverse SME sector India’s industrialization owes much to the
technological dynamism of enterprises. Various institutional interventions have
been made to promote innovativeness in t...
by Keshab Das | On 13 Dec 2011 Review of the book 'Social Income and Insecurity: A Study in Gujarat' by
Guy Standing, Jeemol Unni, Renana Jhabvala, and Uma Rani
Routledge India, 2010 216 pages.
by N. Vijayamohanan Pillai | On 12 Dec 2011 A review of the progress in controlling of doping in sports and the current state of research in the field.
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 01 Dec 2011 This policy brief takes a preliminary look at portability of social
security in ASEAN, particularly old-age, retirement, and
survivor benefits. The next section discusses the growth of
intra-ASEAN...
by Gloria O. Pasadilla | On 28 Nov 2011 This paper reviews the literature on the informal economy, focusing first on empirical
findings and then on existing approaches to modelling informality within both
partial and general equilibrium e...
by Nicoletta Batini | On 24 Nov 2011 What is 'visual methodologies? How is it defined? What are the challenges in grappling with the interdisciplinary nature of this multifaceted research approach? This issue of Global South features e...
by SEPHIS | On 22 Nov 2011 The outward FDI from emerging economies to developed countries is of great interest to
international business researchers and policy makers, also with regard to their location and sectoral
patterns....
by Haiyan Zhang | On 21 Nov 2011 A
bill
to provide for the establishment of an Authority to promote old age income security by
establishing, developing and regulating pension funds, to protect the interests of
subscribers to sche...
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 17 Nov 2011 The Program CEA extends to the study to an impact analysis of the Radio programs to assess
whether the expenditure being made for this intervention is helping the students in improving
their learnin...
by Shubhashansha Bakshi | On 16 Nov 2011 The rapid export growth of China's township-village enterprises (TVEs)
has not been well understood and explained. Using a simple analytical model
and exploring a unique dataset on China's TVEs the...
by Changqi Wu | On 08 Nov 2011 This article outlines the potential mechanisms through which ICT could
facilitate agricultural adoption and the provision of extension services in developing countries. It
then reviews existing prog...
by Jenny C Aker | On 07 Nov 2011 This brief presents a review of the potential opportunities
and challenges of using nanotech applications for agriculture, food, and
water in developing countries. [IFPRI Policy Brief 19]. URL:[http...
by Guillaume Gruère | On 01 Nov 2011 In most universities, sharp disciplinary and departmental divisions continue to this day and have regrettably translated into the life sciences being taught with scarce attention to their historical a...
by Giovanni Frazzetto | On 31 Oct 2011 Physical spaces may significantly shape social interaction. This study has explored how
the residential provisions (Dormitories) for students at IIM-Ahmedabad impact their
social life. This paper ad...
by Arvind Shatdal | On 21 Oct 2011 This essay attempts to look beyond the long-standing qualitative-quantitative
tug of war in studying society. It takes as an example one approach, the case study,
that often acts as a bridge between...
by Ipsita Sapra | On 19 Oct 2011 This study contributes to the literature by estimating discount rate for
environmental health benefits and value of statistical life of workers in
India. The discount rate is imputed from wage-risk...
by K. R. Shanmugam | On 19 Oct 2011 Women workers In India constitute one third of the total workforce. Majority of these
women are engaged in the un-organized sectors such as agriculture, construction,
domestic services etc. The over...
by Bharat Jyoti BJ | On 18 Oct 2011 This research is about multinational enterprises (MNEs) and their subsidiaries abroad.
The specific focus of the research is on the foreign subsidiaries? local embeddedness, global
integration and m...
by Filip De Beule | On 10 Oct 2011 The paper discusses the issues relating to the provisions, practices and curricular concerns for
children with Special Educational Needs (SEN). Though SEN may result from a number of
factors, in thi...
by National Council of Educational Research &Training NCERT | On 29 Sep 2011 The growth of East Asia’s intra-regional trade is driven largely by increased component
trade within global electronics production networks. Data on both electronics trade and
production elucidate a...
by Byron Gangnes | On 29 Sep 2011 Inflation management is one of the hardest tasks an economic policymaker has to undertake. It appears, at first sight, that one can rely entirely on commonsense to carry out this task. But that will b...
by Kaushik Basu | On 28 Sep 2011 Expenditure Management is critical to effective public service delivery, especially at the local
government level. Leveraging on information systems to aid in expenditure management is viewed as an
...
by Sandeep M S | On 20 Sep 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 develo...
by Wim Naude | On 16 Sep 2011 This paper focuses on macroeconomic linkages with agriculture. From an extensive
literature review the question that emerges is: is there a structural constraint in Indian
agriculture or does Indian...
by Munish Alagh | On 02 Sep 2011 Trade policy reforms which lead to changes in world prices of agricultural commodities or
domestic policies aimed at affecting agricultural prices are often seen as causing a policy
dilemma: a fall...
by Sandra Polaski | On 26 Aug 2011 The contribution of technology to the Indian banking industry, the role played by IDRBT and the significance of banking technology awards, in fostering the technological developments of banks. Issues...
by Anand Sinha | On 23 Aug 2011 Review of
The Emperor of all Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Siddhartha Mukherjee;
Fourth Estate, London;
2011, paperback, pp.572. Rs.499.
by Mohan Rao | On 18 Aug 2011 Evolutionary Psychology
(EP) views the human mind as
organized into many modules, each
underpinned by psychological adaptations
designed to solve problems
faced by our Pleistocene
ancestors. It...
by Johan J Bolhuis | On 09 Aug 2011 Parliament meets for the Monsoon Session between August 01 and September 08, 2011. There will
be a total of 26 sittings.
The agenda for government Bills includes 35 pending Bills for consideration...
by Kusum Malik | On 01 Aug 2011 This note examines recent trends in the labor market and employment situation in Bangladesh and draws some policy implications keeping the poverty reduction imperatives in view. [BB PP No. 0807]. URL:...
by Md. Habibur Rahman | On 26 Jul 2011 Review of
Anthropologists Inside Organisations: South Asian Case Studies
Edited by Devi Sridhar, Sage India , New Delhi; 2008, 184 pp., Rs 585.
by Dhanwanti Nayak | On 12 Jul 2011 A scientific reputation is not immediate,it is acquired over a lifetime and is akin to
compound interest—the more you have the more you can acquire. It is also very
easy to lose, and once gone, ne...
by Philip E. Bourne | On 10 Jul 2011 The two day consultation on access to health care of vulnerable groups in Mumbai
was organised by the Mumbai chapter JSA. Vulnerable groups taken are people
living in institutions, queer women, sex...
by Jan Swasthya Abhiyan | On 08 Jul 2011 Board interlocks and corporate elites are an engaging field of ongoing academic and policy research around the world, especially because of the concentration of economic power in few individuals or en...
by Bala N Balasubramanian | On 08 Jul 2011 This paper considers the potential role of marriage in improving labor market outcomes through the expansion of an individuals' networks. The impact of a father-in-law on a young man's career using pa...
by Shing-Yi Wang | On 05 Jul 2011 A new framework for understanding
migration as a series of phases,
defining categories of people affected by
migration and suggesting estimates of the
likely size and importance of each group is g...
by PLoS Medicine Editors | On 04 Jul 2011 This report presents its key messages from ten years of research. The report highlights that tackling chronic poverty can be done, but involves a somewhat different set of policies and programmes addi...
by Chronic Poverty Research Centre | On 29 Jun 2011 This paper investigates the conditions for the desirability of exclusive intellectual property rights for innovators,
as opposed to weak rights allowing for some degree of imitation and ex-post compe...
by Vincenzo Denicolòyand Luigi A. Franzoni | On 23 Jun 2011 Alcohol industry is a
massive and growing US$150 billion
global business—have not yet received
adequate prominence in medical journals.
Indeed, attention to and scientific research
on the alcohol...
by PLoS Medicine Editors | On 15 Jun 2011 This paper presents findings from research into expectations of government, based on
focus group discussion sessions with over 100 poor and very poor people in rural and
urban Bangladesh. The resear...
by Tariq Ali | On 15 Jun 2011 This operational research aimed to assess the acceptability, comprehensibility and
reported influence of behaviour change communication tools such as interpersonal
communications (IPC), print mate...
by Atiya Rahman | On 30 May 2011 The college environment has totally altered with the extensive use of mobile phones. What is the nature of this change? What is the nature of use of different categories such as students, teachers an...
by Omkar Khandekar | On 16 May 2011 Vasant Gupte would have been 84 this May. These tributes, one by his family and the second by his comrades and colleagues, celebrate his life and life philosophy.
by Girija Gupte | On 16 May 2011 The paper is part of a broader study of the human rights of women who migrate or are
trafficked to Hong Kong for the purposes of working in the commercial sex industry.
The study is being conduct...
by Robyn Emerton | On 12 May 2011 This paper presents the condition of minority in India in the year 2009. URL: [http://www.southasianrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Minority-Right-Situation-in-India.pdf]
by South Asians for Human Rights | On 09 May 2011 The articles in each section of this analogy of the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics represents major debates on the ethics of healthcare technology- its development and its application. They cover is...
by Sandhya Srinivasan | On 03 May 2011 The study looks at
the relationship between indigenous people and
their forest homes using a novel field field experiments approach. [Policy Brief No. 48-10]. URL:[http://www.sandeeonline.org/upload...
by South Asian Network for Development SANDEE | On 29 Apr 2011 This paper, tries to put the
current Unique Identity Project (UID) project of India into a perspective to evaluate the set of issues and
concerns, as pointed by various stakeholders and try to under...
by Rajanish Dass | On 19 Apr 2011 The Global Youth Help Desk, an initiative of the Youth Programme, was launched with much fanfare on Tuesday 12 April from 6 pm to 8 pm at the UN-HABITAT Headquarter fountain area.
by Padma Prakash | On 15 Apr 2011 Despite nearly a century of use, Bacille Calmette-Gue´rin
(BCG) remains controversial, with known
variations in BCG substrains, vaccine
efficacy, policies, and practices across the
world. Global i...
by Alice Zwerling | On 12 Apr 2011 This report analyzes the key education-related issues raised in these interviews
as well as available studies on the needs of ethnic minority communities, press
reports, government reports and edu...
by Kelley Loper | On 01 Apr 2011 The population and poverty nexus is not new but remains an important development issue for many countries. Recent research has added the crucial dimension of vulnerability to poverty to the debate on...
by Aniceto C. Orbeta, Jr. | On 21 Mar 2011 Starting from the early nineteenth century, when Britain began experimenting
with policies to control child labor, a lot about policy interventions for controlling child labor have been learned. At t...
by Kaushik Basu | On 17 Mar 2011 March 15, 2011: The 16-member Dr Rajinder Kumar committee, constituted by the Department of Health Research to evolve guidelines for accreditation of health research organisations has submitted its re...
by | On 15 Mar 2011 The Secretary, DHR, constituted a Committee under the chairmanship of Rajinder Kumar, Retired Professor of Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore to evolve guidelines for accreditation of health resea...
by Department of Health Reserach DHR | On 15 Mar 2011 Policy coherence implies that donors in pursuing domestic policy objectives should avoid adversely affecting the development prospects of poor countries. To achieve policy coherence donors and multila...
by Amelia U. Santos Paulino | On 14 Mar 2011 This Policy Brief focuses on links between the developing countries of Brazil, India, China and South Africa and the global economy, with a special emphasis on the implications of China’s spectacular...
by Amelia U. Santos Paulino | On 11 Mar 2011 The Chin State of Burma (also known as Myanmar) is an isolated ethnic minority area with poor health
outcomes and reports of food insecurity and human rights violations. A report on a population-base...
by Richard Sollom | On 09 Mar 2011 This paper assesses the state of research and examines priorities for future work in the area of urbanization and growth. This is done by reviewing and summarizing
the findings of five scoping papers...
by Patricia Clarke Annez | On 09 Feb 2011 This policy brief summarizes the main arguments and conclusions of a forthcoming book by United Nations University Press, which examines the regulation of bioprospecting for drug research from an inte...
by Padmashree Gehl Sampath | On 08 Feb 2011 The draft policy document aimed at guiding the future of research in the country raises serious questions about how quality of health research is perceived.
by Oommen C. Kurian | On 30 Jan 2011 The Indian Council of Medical Research, an autonomous agency within the
Ministry of Health, was the apex organization responsible for guiding, supporting
and conducting medical research in the c...
by Indian Council of Medical Research ICMR | On 30 Jan 2011 The World Health Report (WHR) for 2012 will be on the theme of ‘‘No Health
without Research’’. The WHR 2012 aims to provide impetus for a change to the problematic state of affairs of health researc...
by Tikki Pang | On 27 Jan 2011 This study aimed to explore the causes, types, and consequences of authorship conflicts among
the researchers of selected research institutions in Dhaka, Bangladesh; and suggest ways to
reduce confl...
by Hasan Shareef Ahmed | On 27 Jan 2011 The focus of this paper is the effect of contemporary globalization on poverty and
inequality in cities of the ‘global south’. Specifically it addresses the impact of
globalization on marginalize...
by Janice E. Perlman | On 13 Jan 2011 Based on the programmatic lessons and research knowledge accumulated from
CFPR phase I, CFPR phase II was designed to expand its outreach while
incorporating greater diversity in support packages. T...
by Narayan C Das | On 12 Jan 2011 This study assessed the sex preferences in intra-household food distribution among school going siblings
in a rural area of Bangladesh. The study also examines the effect of women's involvement in BR...
by Rita Das Roy | On 06 Jan 2011 The use of monetary policy in India has been constrained by a loose fiscal policy and capital flows. Capital inflows have the potential to cause a Dutch Disease-type situation. The RBI has carried out...
by Partha Sen | On 06 Jan 2011 In 1992, BRAC extended its comprehensive Rural Development Programme (RDP) to 100 villages of
Matlab thana (sub-district) where the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
(...
by Marty Chen | On 30 Dec 2010 Usually not much attention has been paid to people’s perspective towards their own well-being. In fact
it is rare to find national level studies on the realities about people’s well-being. Further mo...
by Amian Mahbub | On 27 Dec 2010 Globally, AIDS is well documented as both a disease and a development problem. This study seeks to identify the determinants of AIDS awareness within a rural, agrarian population from data collected i...
by Elisabeth L. Fulton | On 27 Dec 2010 The analysis focuses on immigrants and native-born individuals because employers are likely
to have less reliable signals of productivity for an immigrant than a native-born individual. Using
multip...
by Shing-Yi Wang | On 21 Dec 2010 Even with advanced statistical techniques
and complex modeling tools it is often
frustratingly difficult to interpret and judge
that the global estimates results
complete accuracy.
by PLoS Medicine | On 10 Dec 2010 Many studies simply demonstrate that there is paucity of
empirical data, research findings and literature on the status of
children dependent on prostitutes in Uttar Pradesh. Thus, it is
imperative...
by Government of India Ministry of Women and Child Development | On 02 Dec 2010 In 2010, many questions have come up regarding the actual practices of different donors—
those
over which they have
control and those that are likely to affect their long-run effectiveness
in term...
by Nancy Birdsall | On 26 Nov 2010 The paper investigates the labor market and social impacts of the global financial and economic crisis in Asia and the Pacific as well as national policy responses to the crisis. It draws on recent ma...
by Phu Huynh | On 08 Nov 2010 This paper analyzes the impacts of the 1998 and 2008 financial crises on the Korean labor market. They study the historical background of the Korean Employment Insurance System and the change of labor...
by Sung Teak Kim | On 04 Nov 2010 Recently, a dramatic accumulation in foreign exchange reserves has been widely observed in developing countries. This paper explores the possible long-run impacts of this trend on macroeconomic variab...
by Shin-ichi Fukuda | On 01 Nov 2010 The primary objective of this research is to identify key factors that explain the observed
wide variation in patterns of inclusiveness of economic growth—defined here as gross
domestic product (GDP...
by Cielito F. Habito | On 26 Oct 2010 The economic crisis that began in the United States had an effect on the developed world, including the European Union, Japan, and Singapore. The downturn of the economy in the United States, coupled...
by Shankaran Nambiar | On 26 Oct 2010 The relationship between large enterprises (LEs) and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Japan has undergone major changes during the long-term recession since 1991. While SMEs still play the impor...
by Shuji Uchikawa | On 23 Oct 2010 The PLoS Medicine Editors argue that drug companies should be held much more accountable for their human rights responsibilities
by PLoS Medicine | On 20 Oct 2010 The paper attempts to capture the construction of 'community' in Indian communication research. This paper attempts to trace the genealogy, interrogates its usage in Indian communication studies and s...
by Biswajit Das | On 05 Oct 2010 This report studies the ongoing resettlement for the middle route of the South-North Water
Transfer Project at Danjiangkou in Hubei Province, China. The Water Transfer Project is China’s
biggest wat...
by International Rivers Network IRN | On 30 Sep 2010 This paper focuses on the relationship between wages and supply of informal care to elderly
parents. Unlike most of the previous research estimating wage elasticities of informal care
supply, this...
by Olena Nizalova | On 28 Sep 2010 We study firms’ advertised gender preferences in a population of ads on a Chinese internet
job board, and interpret these patterns using a simple employer search model. The model
allows us to dis...
by Peter Kuhn | On 28 Sep 2010 This paper focuses on comparisons of productivity, (unit) labor cost and industry-level competitiveness for the manufacturing sector of China and India. They first provide a comparison between India a...
by Bart Van Ark | On 20 Sep 2010 The government gave out some interesting numbers on Monday. The revenue secretary told a news conference that nearly 96 per cent of the 32.5 million who pay income tax reported a taxable income of und...
by T.N. Ninan | On 14 Sep 2010 In this paper, the influence of stronger intellectual property protection on technology transfer into developing countries via licensing is analyzed. Using panel data for the post-TRIPs period 1995-20...
by Sunil Kanwar | On 09 Sep 2010 Qualitative research in development sector is an important paradigm which is used
standalone or in conjunction with quantitative research. There is quantitative-qualitative
paradigma...
by Manish Naithani | On 13 Aug 2010 This study attempts to address the issue of declining labour intensity in India’s
organized manufacturing in order to understand the constraints on employment
generation in the labour intensive sect...
by Deb Kusum Das | On 13 Aug 2010 Historically, in virtually all developed economies there seems to be clear evidence of an
inverse relationship between female labor supply and fertility. However, particularly in the last
decade or...
by Patricia Apps | On 10 Aug 2010 The question of protecting intellectual property rights by academic inventors was never seriously contemplated until the introduction of the Bayh-Dole Act in 1980 in the US. The Act allowed universiti...
by Amit Shovon Ray | On 30 Jul 2010 In response to increased international policy attention to youth unemployment this study investigates post-secondary school transitions of school leavers. Multinomial log it models are estimated for m...
by Regina T. Riphahn | On 09 Jul 2010 The development business has become much more complex in the past decade, with actors proliferating and
collaboration fragmenting. This trend is characteristic of the change from collective action t...
by Jean-Michel Severino | On 08 Jul 2010 We show that the ‘skill-bias’ of a country’s tariff structure is
positively correlated with long-term per capita GDP growth. Testing for
causal mechanisms, we find evidence consistent with the exist...
by Nathan Nunn | On 28 Jun 2010 The paper is based on study of policies, research reports and experience of
working in the area of maternal health over last several years. The paper
describes how policies restrict basic doctors*fr...
by Dileep V. Mavalankar | On 07 Jun 2010 This background paper discusses the conceptual and empirical linkages between trade liberalization and gender equality in the context
of development; and the impact of the WTO and PTA/FTAs on gender....
by Ranja Sengupta | On 07 Jun 2010 This paper explores whether child labourers come from, not only the poor, but also the poorest households in Bangladesh or not. The paper also tries to explain what determines the participation of chi...
by | On 04 Jun 2010 This paper is a study on Access, Participation, and Performance of Girls in Science and Technology in Nepal. This study was undertaken essentially to achieve four objectives, viz. to review curricular...
by Dr. Vidya Nath Koirala | On 03 Jun 2010 This
paper will focus on different instances of community assertions by the
Syrian Christians in twentieth century Travancore/Kerala. [Working Paper 427]
by J Devika | On 02 Jun 2010 This paper discusses the conceptual and empirical linkages between trade liberalization and gender equality in the context
of development; and the impact of the WTO and PTA/FTAs on gender. It then pr...
by Ranja Sengupta | On 01 Jun 2010 This paper reviews the capacity of colleges and universities to serve poor and vulnerable populations during past and present economic shocks. The main argument is that the environment of the global r...
by Gerard Postiglione | On 27 May 2010 The discussion focusses on women in poverty their
concentration in rural and urban areas, and the organisational approach for their mobilization
and empowerment. Maximum emphasis has been placed on...
by Narayana K Banerjee | On 17 May 2010 The paper seeks to
prove the point that the Indian OTC derivatives markets, unlike many other
jurisdictions, are well regulated. Only contracts where one party to the contract is an
RBI regulated e...
by Dayanand Arora | On 03 May 2010 In this paper we attempt to provide a comprehensive understanding of the drivers of
academic research and patenting in India. Research inputs by a faculty member are considered to be an outcome of
h...
by Amit Shovon Ray | On 20 Apr 2010 The editors stress the impact of inadequate road safety on global health, in both developed and low- and middle-income countries. "Research into the risk factors for injury from road traffic crashes,...
by PLoS Medicine | On 08 Apr 2010 Railway Budget 2010-11.
by Mamata Banerjee | On 25 Feb 2010 The paper first gives a brief history and comparison of Japanese foreign direct investment
into India and other Asian countries, highlighting the fact that Japanese investment into India
is quite lo...
by Srabani Roy Choudhury | On 19 Jan 2010 Declaration made at the end of two days national seminar on Food security and Sustainability in India held on November 7-8, 2009 organized by GAD Institute of Development Studies, PO Naushera, Amritsa...
by Gursharan Singh Kainth | On 14 Dec 2009 Introducing patent rights in developing country markets might stimulate greater R and D investment targeting their specific health needs – areas long neglected. This paper examines this argument using...
by Jean O Lanjouw | On 26 Nov 2009 Health data, poverty, and inequality exist in a complex global co-dependency, therefore making meaningful comparisons of health across widely different settings challenging. Less data exist on the hea...
by Peter Byass | On 24 Nov 2009 This paper is aganist the popular assertion regarding the links between innovation and clustering and it is found that the main sources of knowledge transfer and innovation among key firms in Bangalor...
by Aya Okada | On 23 Nov 2009 The paper is a research which studies the government policies and agendas that affect the poor in India. For the research 8 to 10 families, who had been intervened several years ago were re-interviewe...
by Solomon Benjamin | On 16 Nov 2009 This paper presents summary of findings from research
conducted in the Indian diamond industry over a period of last four years. Insights about the remarkable rise, growth and the unique working of t...
by Indu Rao | On 10 Nov 2009 This paper presents some such case studies for co-and tri-generating various cold and hot utilities using innovative designs of Matrix and Tube-Tube Heat Exchangers and Multi-Utility Heat Pumps develo...
by Rane M V | On 27 Oct 2009 The focus of this paper is to examine the ways in which regulatory framework affect the pharmaeutical innovations in developing countries using member countries of the Association of South-east Asian...
by Sauwakon Ratanawijitrasin | On 16 Oct 2009 The paper discusses the impacts of free-trade policy on the agricultural exports of Kerala.
by Ranjit Devraj | On 08 Oct 2009 This concept papers aims at demystifying some of these
social, economic and political myths, and stimulate discussion, debate and deliberation
on various aspects of child labour. This paper, further...
by Child Rights and You CRY | On 07 Oct 2009 This paper is written as a practical and accessible guide to some key issues in mixed methods research. It explores six broad strategies that can underpin the mixing of methods and linking of differen...
by Jennifer Mason | On 12 Aug 2009 To explore the relationship between government and BRAC in the
implementation of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) programme this
qualitative research was undertaken. This involved purposive samp...
by Shamim Ahmed | On 06 Aug 2009 The authors shows the problems that can arise when research is done in the context of humanitarian relief work and also notes that ethical oversight of such research needs to be rigorous, but also pra...
by Plos medicine Editors | On 06 Aug 2009 The paper takes a closer look at an experiment of NREGA training mates (worksite supervisors) in Rajasthan to improve worksite management. It is based on a four-day field visit (11-14 February, 2008)...
by Reetika Khera | On 05 Aug 2009 This paper attempts to identify and examine labor intensive industries in the organized manufacturing sector in India in order to understand their employment generation potential. Using the data from...
by Deb Kusum Das | On 13 Jul 2009 This paper addresses the issue of establishing a regulatory regime along the production, supply and value chains of multinational corporations in terms of setting labor standards and protecting worker...
by Fichter Michael | On 08 Jul 2009 Over the life of RACHNA, three sets of population based surveys were conducted: 1. Program wide baseline and endline surveys for INHP-II and Chayan to assess program performance; 2.Rapid Assessments S...
by Rachna Program | On 07 Jul 2009 North-South free trade agreements (FTAs), bilateral investment treaties (BITs) and World Trade Organization (WTO) commitments often contain a number of provisions that can increase the likelihood of a...
by Third World Network | On 28 Jun 2009 The introduction of the Target Free Approach (TFA) has been a major policy shift in
the health and family welfare programme of India. This study reviewed the process of
change in the implementation...
by B L Kumar | On 17 Jun 2009 In this paper, in order to study the impact of offshoring on sectoral and economy wide rates of unemployment, we construct a two sector general equilibrium model in which unemployment is caused by sea...
by Devashish Mitra | On 16 Jun 2009 Medical research indicates that breastfeeding suppresses post-natal fertility. The implications for breastfeeding decisions are modelled and test has been done to predict model's predictions us-
ing...
by Seema Jayachandran | On 09 Jun 2009 China’s experience demonstrates the importance of technological development and public investment in improving agricultural productivity, farmer income, and food security in a nation with limited supp...
by Jikun Huang | On 07 Jun 2009 Widespread discontent among the people has plagued the Indian polity for sometime now. It has often led to unrest, sometimes of a violent nature. Over the years, statutory enactments and institutional...
by Expert Group Planning Commission | On 06 Jun 2009 The paper revolves around Anthropology and Ethical Guidelines: from a stand alone code to everyday disciplinary practice [NCRM]
by Maya Unnithan Kumar | On 06 Jun 2009 Many NGOs occupy a space between public and private sector organisations, and the papers in this special issue demonstrate that the mechanisms required for effective accountability by these NGOs are u...
by Kalpana C Satija | On 06 Jun 2009 The paper summarises the main ethical issues in social science and social care research. It outlines what is meant by research governance, especially as set out in the Department of Health Research Go...
by Jan Pahl | On 05 Jun 2009 This is a Transcript of A Witness Seminar held at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine,London, on 9 June 1998. The Witness Seminar is a particularly specialized form of oral history wher...
by L Reynolds | On 04 Jun 2009 The 1994 Marrakesh Agreement establishing the World Trade Organization (the WTO Agreement), requires each WTO member to “ensure the conformity of its laws, regulations and administrative procedures wi...
by Chaisse Julien | On 04 Jun 2009 Emergency Obstetric Care (EmOC) is crucial for preventing maternal deaths for which the policy has been to establish First Referral Units (FRUs). Twenty seven facilities from 6 districts from each adm...
by Raman Parvathy | On 03 Jun 2009 China and India, Asia's two largest and most dynamic societies, have come to be important players in regional and global decision-making. Both countries have had their share of experience in colonial...
by Swaran Singh | On 03 Jun 2009 This paper seeks to evaluate quantity and quality of service delivery in rural public health facilities under NRHM. On appropriate and feasible measures, the former is assessed on the static and dynam...
by Kaveri Gill | On 02 Jun 2009 This paper discusses and develops a typology of research methods in the social sciences. Such a typology will be relevant for various aspects of the work of the ESRC National Centre for Research Metho...
by Gabriele Beissel Durrant | On 01 Jun 2009 While in the era of globalization, millions of women got paid employment in labour-intensive industries in developing countries, they still face precarious working conditions. Women rights violations...
by Franziska Humbert | On 01 Jun 2009 The rapid spread of modern supply chains in developing countries is profoundly changing the way food is produced and traded. In this paper we examine the gender implications in modern supply chains. W...
by Miet Maertens | On 29 May 2009 Using a survey of 1774 users and non-users in 84 slums in three metropolitan cities (Delhi, Ahmedabad and Kolkata), we try to understand the impact of mobiles on their social and economic lives. Urban...
by Ankur Sarin | On 27 May 2009 Despite the rapid development of economic interaction between the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries, their trade and investment ties are still in their...
by Masahiro Kawai | On 20 May 2009 This paper analyzes Singapore’s multi-pronged approach to managing prolonged low fertility which has led to population aging, labor force shortages, increasing elderly dependency ratios, and feminizat...
by Mukul. G Asher | On 15 May 2009 The focus of this paper is on food miles issues associated with the import of products from developing countries. As the concept of food miles has been an issue in organic agriculture since before the...
by Els Wynen | On 14 May 2009 The growth of ethical consumerism in developed countries has led to increased imports of environmentally and socially certified products produced by the poor in developing countries, which could poten...
by Sununtar Setboonsarng | On 13 May 2009 A lively debate is taking place over the impact of free trade agreements (FTAs) on East Asia's business between those who view the agreements as a harmful Asian "noodle bowl"—i.e., overlapping regiona...
by Masahiro Kawai | On 13 May 2009 A brief but comprehensive overview of linkages between higher education
and the high tech sector and study the major linkages in India is provided. It is found that the links
outside of the labor ma...
by Rakesh Basant | On 08 May 2009 This paper discusses if the Olymipic Games presented a change- not change along the lines of South Koreas leap towards democracy after the Seol Olympics, but some small shift- and how the nature of it...
by Jane Macartney | On 05 May 2009 Agriculture sector, world over, has experienced a phenomenal growth since the mid-twentieth century. The growth, driven by Green Revolution technology, has made a significant dent on aggregate supply...
by Amita Shah | On 02 May 2009 Evaluations of Balika Shikshan Shivir of Lok Jumbish Rajasthan was carried out with the
objective of capturing the tangible and intangible outcomes, areas of concern thrown up
by this experience and...
by Vimala Ramachandran | On 29 Apr 2009 The purpose of this paper is to provide evidence, and argue, that stunning as India’s success is, the potential – and need – is for still more reform and more rapid growth. 8 percent is a good rate of...
by Anne O. Krueger | On 17 Feb 2009 The free/open source software movement is an economic, social and political movement that has triggered a new recognition of the importance of open knowledge systems, especially in developing countrie...
by Shambhu Ghatak | On 06 Feb 2009 In order to examine if the impact of oil price shocks depends on the structure of an economy, a vertical (VSC) and a horizontal (HSC) long-run supply curve identification are successively imposed on a...
by Ashima Goyal | On 05 Jan 2009 Building upon a larger research project at four sites in the Western Ghats
of peninsular India, this study examines the link between stream flow, agricultural water use and
economic returns to agric...
by SHARACHCHANDRA LELE | On 02 Jan 2009 In this paper an overview of
India’s technological trajectory with a view to understanding the nuances of India’s
technological capability and the role it has played in the process of India’s econom...
by Amit Shovon Ray | On 26 Dec 2008 The pharmaceutical industry is expanding worldwide. For some years now, it has been benefiting from the particular dynamics of the Asian economies as both purchasers and producers. It is not only the...
by Uwe Perlitz | On 12 Dec 2008 Concerns of the community needs to be taken into account for water resources
development and management. The success of the National Water Policy will depend entirely on evolving and maintaining a na...
by Ministry of Water Resources GOI | On 02 Dec 2008 Tomotaoes which are produced in Gujarat, north west India are small, so the growers were not organized enough to raise funds to sponsor research at public R&D institutions in the area. That task was t...
by Girja Sharan | On 25 Nov 2008 The current system of publication in biomedical research provides a distorted view of the reality of scientific data that are generated in the laboratory and clinic. This system can be studied by appl...
by Neal S Young | On 12 Nov 2008 Review of Behaviour Therapy Techniques, Research and Applications by SPK Jena, Sage Publications
by Leelamma K E | On 16 Oct 2008 The paper analyzes the determinants of internationalisation, defined in terms of export intensity and overseas investments, of the IT firms in India. In particular, the paper examines the role of tech...
by Narayanan K | On 01 Oct 2008 Men who will stop the water: vignettes from Goa's mining heartland
by Hartman de Souza | On 26 Sep 2008 In India, year-on-year percentage changes of price indexes are widely used as the measure of inflation. In terms of monthly data, each observation of a one-year change in inflation is the sum of twelv...
by Rudrani Bhattacharya | On 25 Sep 2008 In our analysis, attempts have been made to quantify the proportion of births attended by health workers other than doctors, nurses and midwives in order to show the proportion of births conducted by...
by World Health Organisation WHO | On 08 Aug 2008 The objectives of the policy on organic farming, the strategies of the policy are explained here.
by Centre for Sustainable Agriculture CSA | On 26 Jul 2008 This report engages questions and connections of considerable contention, such as typical justifications for child labor, governmental policies and their impact on child labor, M.V.F.’s strategy for t...
by David Ledet | On 11 Jun 2008 The growth of clinical research in the UK since the Second World War is examined, including the 1953 Cohen Report and the subsequent creation of the Medical Research Council’s Clinical Research Board....
by The Wellcome Trust Centre for History of Medicine WTC UCL | On 02 May 2008 While sections of the central ministry of agriculture might recognize that major developments in the sector can only come about now with drastic and comprehensive changes little is being done to revol...
by Prabhakar Tamboli | On 14 Apr 2008 Social networking is about more than just friends reunited; it’s a framework for
understanding even the most basic of biological processes. Two papers in the month of March PLoS Medicine illustrate t...
by PLoS Medicine | On 26 Mar 2008 This paper deals with the integration of gender in policies relating to information and communication technology to empower socially excluded poor women as producers of this technology. In this contex...
by Mohanan Pillai P | On 25 Mar 2008 The paper starts with a brief review of some criticisms of the Peer Review system – labelled ex-ante top-down PR system – for the evaluation of academic works. The critiques are grouped into efficienc...
by Grazia Ietto-Gillies | On 24 Mar 2008 Recent behavioral and neuroimaging studies with humans and monkeys provide compelling evidence of shared numerical capacities across species. In this primer, it is explained why our understanding of t...
by Michael J. Beran | On 12 Feb 2008 This paper introduces wage bargaining in the framework of Milgrom and Roberts
where the workers' reservation wage is
the relevant information parameter critical for entry. The authors show that ent...
by Rupayan Pal | On 06 Feb 2008 This paper highlights the status of the Indian biopharmaceutical industry and also makes a comparison with the global scenario. It also discusses the current situation regarding patenting biopharmaceu...
by Lalitha N | On 05 Feb 2008 Commenting on recent research articles which look at the potential health benefits of behaviour change, the PLoS Medicine Editors say that publication of the findings of such research is only one part...
by PLoS Medicine | On 01 Feb 2008 A new survey finds that only 17 drugs are under active development for maternal health indications, which is less than 3% of the pipeline in cardiovascular health (660 drugs). The international agenci...
by Nicholas M Fisk | On 30 Jan 2008 This study, entitled “Municipal Finance in India – An Assessment”, undertaken for the Development Research Group (DRG), Reserve Bank of India examines the performance of Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) in I...
by P K Mohanty | On 29 Jan 2008 Three important aspects of the Canadian pharmaceutical industry-viz. compulsory licence, price control on patented drugs and the R&D scenario. Unlike other developed countries, which have adopted the...
by Lalitha N | On 18 Jan 2008 This paper analyzes the situation of the Indo US Knowledge Initiative on Agriculture, by using the science studies approach.
by C. Shambu Prasad | On 16 Jan 2008 KIA proposes to bring a paradigm shift in Indian Agriculture in terms of human resource development, research, technology generation, technology dissemination and commercialization. In the short run,...
by Ramanjaneyulu G V | On 05 Jan 2008 One of the principal mechanisms through which inequality is reproduced is language, specifically the language used as the medium of instruction. The
learner’s mother tongue holds the key to making sc...
by Carol Benson | On 21 Dec 2007 When research takes place within the context of clinical care, how can we distinguish which activities constitute care, and which research? The editors of PLoS Medicine believe that open access to res...
by PLoS Medicine | On 30 Nov 2007 Although PLoS Biology does not often publish articles that grapple with issues like poverty and human development, it was chosen to do so here because it is believed that the collective output of scie...
by Liza Gross | On 12 Nov 2007 A method of collecting family histories that would act as a means of linking households from the panel studies with individual life histories is proposed. The procedure used to construct a three-gener...
by Robert Miller | On 07 Nov 2007 There are many reports of ghost writings and ghost management of medical journal articles. Such articles are “ghostly” because signs of their actual production are largely invisible—academic authors...
by Sergio Sismondo | On 17 Oct 2007 A research framework is proposed that needs to be pursued in order to achieve RCH goals in time bound manner. It is being argued that need for additional research inputs largely stems from the current...
by Dinesh Agarwal | On 01 Oct 2007 Hands-on training in qualitative research in the context of health, nutrition and development. The training included all major steps in qualitative research: deciding objectives, designing tools, data...
by Shubhada Kanani | On 28 Sep 2007 Qualitative methods can be used to understand why some patients are not using certain types of health care services. Researchers should also use some quality control while analyzing data [Plos Medicin...
by PLoS Medicine | On 28 Aug 2007 This paper reports on the human aspect of a two-and-half-year collaboration between mathematics teachers of the City University of New York (CUNY), and grassroots organizers in rural Tamil Nadu. Repor...
by Vrunda Prabhu | On 19 Aug 2007 Findings from 116 focus group discussions are presented, which took place in eleven districts in Bangladesh in mid-2006. It forms the first part of three phases of research in an integrated qualitativ...
by Peter Davis | On 01 Aug 2007 Increased voter ethnicization, defined as a greater preference for the party representing one's ethnic group, affects politician quality. If politics is characterized by incomplete policy commitment,...
by Abhijit Banerjee | On 19 Jul 2007 Falling costs of coordination and communication have allowed firms in rich countries to fragment their production process and offshore an increasing share of the value chain to low-wage countries. Thi...
by Andrés Rodríguez-Clare | On 05 Jul 2007 This draft chapter of a reader on Health Care Case Laws in India addresses the following issues: Have reproductive rights been recognized in India? What has been the approach of the courts towards rep...
by Vijay Hiremat | On 04 Jul 2007 Work related accidents are a major cause of death and disability. Occupational health is not a minority interest but one that must involve all of society. One important industry where the consumers e...
by PLoS Medicine | On 03 Jul 2007 Considering the Indian context as the basis of enquiry into industrial clustering three important issues that largely determine the performance and strategy of firms to survive compete and grow are id...
by Keshab Das | On 27 Jun 2007 Do the short and medium term adjustment costs associated with trade liberalization influence schooling and child labor decisions? This question is examined in the context of India's 1991 tariff reform...
by Eric Edmonds | On 13 Jun 2007 The essay is to provides a detailed overview of the state of the recent empirical literature on why and how children work as well as the consequences of that work. It provides a descriptive overview o...
by Eric Edmonds | On 01 Jun 2007 A dynamic heterogeneous agent general equilibrium model is constructed to quantify the effects of child labor legislation on human capital accumulation and the distribution of wealth and welfare. Cruc...
by Dirk Krueger | On 23 May 2007 In December 2004 three news stories in the popular press suggested that the side
effects of single-dose nevirapine, which has been proven to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV, had been cove...
by Gary Schwitzer | On 22 Mar 2007 Knoweldge itself is seamless, as ideas spark other ideas, or reject unworkable ones. Through public access to science, at last we will have the advantage of being able to move from primary literature...
by | On 14 Feb 2007 Ethical codes of conduct cannot be effectively implemented in isolation and may
be enforced in several different ways. One, is to conscientise the
members of the profession to observe the rules, sec...
by Amar Jesani | On 06 Feb 2007 The role of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in the current stage of reform is crucial. The need for research and information collection not just at the national level but at the state-level has never...
by Vidya Pitre | On 05 Dec 2006 Open access (OA) to the research literature has the potential to accelerate recognition and dissemination of research findings, but its actual effects are controversial. This was a longitudinal biblio...
by Gunther Eysenbach | On 27 Sep 2006 Senators John Cornyn (Texas) and Joseph Lieberman (Connecticut)
have introduced a bill whereby federal agencies with research expenditure
over US$100 million per year must ensure that research arti...
by Hemal Prathasarathy | On 27 Sep 2006 The paper discusses the relationship between two approaches to the integration of research with teaching practice, the Design Experiment and Teaching-Research. The Design Experiment approach is based...
by Bronislaw Czarnocha | On 26 Sep 2006 This paper models how the evolving field of pharmacogenomics (PG), which is the science of using genomic markers to predict drug response, may impact drug development times, attrition rates, costs,and...
by John A. Vernon | On 17 Aug 2006 This paper aims to bring out the need to incorporate cultural sensitivity to ensure the principle of essentiality in research processes while undertaking research among tribal populations. The author...
by Sajitha O.G | On 24 Jul 2006 Demographic research, has increasingly become field-based involving primary data collection and the nature of inquiry and its scope has widened a great deal in recent years. The ethical considerations...
by Leela Visaria | On 19 Jul 2006 If poverty and nutrition are issues also of social justice and the commitment that a democratic state makes to its citizens (namely, ridding the country of hunger and malnutrition and also of ensuring...
by Padmini Swaminathan | On 19 Jul 2006 Disagreements and confrontations are common among social scientists regarding conclusions obtained by two researchers on a similar premise. Such disagreements highlight two critical aspects of researc...
by Udaya S. Mishra | On 19 Jul 2006 Consistent with international trends, the role of a Defined Contribution (DC) schemes is expected to grow substantially in India. The payout phase of DC schemes has received relatively less attention...
by Mukul Asher | On 17 Jul 2006 The Indian software industry has grown very rapidly for more than a decade. In this study we report the results of a multivariate statistical analysis of the determinants of sales revenue growth and p...
by N.S. Siddharthan | On 03 Jun 2006 The science base in the developing world cannot be strengthened without access to the global library of research information. Currently, this is nearly impossible due to the high costs of journal subs...
by Leslie Chan | On 25 May 2006 Any exercise in mapping the current status of any social science discipline is a mammoth task, as it involves the normative concerns as well as the personal perceptions of the sociologist who treads t...
by Paramjit S Judge | On 16 May 2006 What are the critical areas in social science research and intervention which might require systematic attention to ethical issues? A national level consultation on ‘ Ethics in Social Science Research...
by Sunita Bandewar | On 09 May 2006 Closing Gaps to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals: Roles
by Indian Council of Medical Research | On 08 Feb 2006 Central Ethics Committee on Human Research (CECHR) was
constituted under the chairmanship of Honourable Justice Shri M.N.
Venkatachaliah by the then Director General, Dr. G.V. Satyavati to consider
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by Indian Council of Medical Research | On 08 Feb 2006 Using longitudinal survey data collected in collaboration with a treatment program, this paper is the first to estimate the economic impacts of antiretroviral treatment in Africa. The responses in two...
by Harsha Thirumurthy | On 30 Dec 2005 The concept of ‘agricultural biotechnology’ covers two main categories of activities, one of which is characterised by genetic modification using recombinant DNA techniques (GM-technology), while the...
by A. Indira | On 22 Nov 2005 The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF) is a highly prestigious award for science and engineering (S&E) graduate students. This paper uses data from 1952 to 2004 on...
by Richard B. Freeman | On 22 Sep 2005 This note highlights the main issues and outlines the proposed action plan in respect of the following five major areas in Agriculture and Irrigation:
(1) Augmentation of water resources for irrigati...
by C.H. Hanumantha Rao | On 09 Sep 2005 Code of ethics for practitioners and professionals
by | On 01 Sep 2005 These guidelines have been developed by the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology as a guide to the professional and ethical responsibilities that practicing anthropologists should uph...
by Anonymous | On 12 Aug 2005 Anthropologists work in many parts of the world in close personal association with the peoples and situations they study. In a field of such complex involvements, misunderstandings, conflicts, and th...
by Anonymous | On 12 Aug 2005 Code of Ethics for Practitioners and Professionals
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by Anonymous | On 08 Aug 2005 This paper attempts to discuss the implications of the European slave trade in the Indian Ocean from 15th century onwards; duplicity of the European policy of slave trade; the conflict of interests am...
by Aparajita Biswas | On 08 Aug 2005 With China’s access to World Trade Organization in November 2001, global competitions and local just-in-time productions became even more intense. Millions of migrant workers, in particular the young...
by Pun Ngai | On 31 Mar 2005 |