The managerialism that marks the HEIs has altered the Liberal Arts’ perception of itself and the face it presents to the world. Can the academic manager build opinions, policies and decisions about th...
by Pramod K. Nayar | On 09 Oct 2021 Participation of citizen in local governance is a key component for good governance. It extends the citizens’ role beyond that of a voter . It ensures a more equal distribution of power and resources...
by Kedar Diwan | On 21 Feb 2021 Contents:
Editorial: Safdar Rahman, Tavishi Ahluwalia, Teresa Vanmalsawmi, Urwa Tul Wusqa
The Political Economy of Governmental Responses to the Covid-19 Crisis: A Migrant Workers’ Perspective: Kani...
by | On 02 Feb 2021 The me-first policy on vaccine sharing will bring losses of $203 billion to $5 trillion to rich countries, while the returns are the highest if they support global universal vaccination.
by Prabir Purkayastha | On 02 Feb 2021 The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has become a major global crisis that requires country, regional, and global intervention, as well as collaboration to mitigate damage to economies and peop...
by Asian Development Bank | On 25 Jan 2021 A major output of Urban Economy Forum is the Regent Park World Urban Pavilion by UN-Habitat (The Pavilion), a collaboration between the Urban Economy Forum, UN-Habitat and the Government of Canada. Th...
by | On 20 Oct 2020 Opening up India's market to neighbouring countries can be as strategic as access denial to others. The game should be played both ways, even if it upsets domestic business lobbies.
by T.N. Ninan | On 16 Aug 2020 Shadow States is a truly important work—well written and based on solid research—thatoffers a novel and necessary perspective from which to view the Sino-Indian border dispute in their shared Himalaya...
by Mahesh Shankar | On 01 Aug 2020 It's all good to be tactical - keep China out of strategic markets; hit back in the same coin if it looks to keep India's key sectors out - but don't shoot yourself in the foot.
by T.N. Ninan | On 21 Jun 2020 The present study used surely research methods to gauge the extent of knowledge regarding the SARS-CoV-2virus and the disease it causes, COVID19, among a section of the Indian population. Some 3500 pe...
by Gauhar Raza | On 16 Jun 2020 The book is extraordinarily well researched, drawing from newspaper accounts in almost thirty different states, and probably the most comprehensive record of the Black Barons and their significance in...
by David Lee McMullen | On 12 Jun 2020 The basic story of global inequality in the last three decades has been an overall decline, but one which is composed of quite intricate patterns. There has been a decline in between country inequalit...
by Ravi Kanbur | On 08 Jun 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 remains a significant issue for global health,
economics and society. A wealth of data has been generated since its emergence in December 2019
and it is v...
by | On 27 May 2020 For a COVID-19 like pandemic, the Achilles heel is an unsuspecting villain – rapid and global land use changes. The way governments, businesses and communities see, relate to and use land, not only in...
by | On 12 May 2020 Review of Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The Making of Calcutta by Debjani Bhattacharyya.
Studies in Environment and History Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Illustratio...
by | On 07 May 2020 Territorial colonialism may have ended long ago but this contemporary global health crisis can serve as a reminder that the colonisation of medicine, economics, and of politics, remains alive.
by | On 07 May 2020 The macroeconomic policy responses to COVID-19 pandemic and the
impact of the pandemic on economic growth, and the level of consumption are analysed. The COVID-19 crisis is a dual crisis - public hea...
by Divy Rangan | On 06 May 2020 The macroeconomic uncertainty created by COVID-19 is hard to measure. The
situation demands simultaneous policy intervention in terms of public health
infrastructure and livelihood. Along with the g...
by Lekha S. Chakraborty | On 29 Apr 2020 The current global health crisis is unlike any in the 75-year history of the United Nations — one that is killing people, spreading human suffering, and upending people’s lives. But this is much more...
by United Nations (UN) | On 24 Apr 2020 The chapter examines progress as well as continuing concerns in G-20 led financial reforms, with particular emphasis on emerging markets (EMs). Although risks remain they are of a lower order of magni...
by Ashima Goyal | On 25 Apr 2019 This paper analyzes the conduct and effects of macroprudential policy in 11 Asian economies. Of these, India, the People’s Republic of China, and the Republic of Korea frequently used loan-to-value ra...
by Soyoung Kim | On 23 Apr 2019 This paper identifies five factors that can capture 95% of the variance across 39 US dollar exchange rates based on the principal component method. A time-varying parameter factor-augmented vector aut...
by Hongyi Chen | On 01 Apr 2019 This paper empirically examines the “defensive innovation” hypothesis that firms with higher exposure to low-wage economy import competition intensively undertake more innovative activity by using a h...
by Nobuaki Yamashita | On 01 Apr 2019 Indian courts are clogged with large backlogs. Part of the reason for the problem is that cases take a very long time to move through the courts. It slows progress of court cases is harmful for the In...
by Pratik Dutta | On 30 Mar 2019 Along with the continuous development of the global economy, environmental deterioration has been widely recognized as a pressing issue nowadays, bringing environmental governance to the forefront of...
by Chun-Ping Chang | On 28 Mar 2019 World Report 2019 is Human Rights Watch’s 29th annual review of human rights practices around the globe. It summarizes key human rights issues in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide, draw...
by | On 27 Mar 2019 This paper introduces a taxonomy of service activities in GVCs and describes the main statistical challenges in assessing the contribution of manufacturing and services to output, value added, or trad...
by Sébastien Miroudot | On 07 Mar 2019 The goal of the note is to lay out and discuss a package of reforms that could be consistent with the objectives of the government. The fiscal instruments that we consider here include the division of...
by Roy Bahl | On 07 Mar 2019 Review of 'Nine Innings for the King: The Day Wartime London Stopped for Baseball, July 4, 1918' by Jim Leeke, McFarland, 2015. 216 pp. $19.99 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7864- 7870-5.
by Leslie Heaphy | On 01 Mar 2019 This paper reviews the rationale and potential for improving subnational development finance, outlines the overall landscape of institutional arrangements available for this purpose, and considers bro...
by Paul Smoke | On 18 Feb 2019 Reverse mortgages provide an alternative source of retirement funding by allowing older homeowners to borrow against their home. However, a recent pilot program of reserve mortgage products in several...
by Katja Hanewald | On 03 Feb 2019 This paper analyzes the conditions under which an existing bilateral free trade area (FTA) prefers to expand in size and when it prefers consolidation through customs union (CU) formation when the exi...
by Sunandan Ghosh | On 31 Jan 2019 This paper is a preliminary attempt to understand globalisation and social transformation in the rural Kerala. It addresses the socioeconomic changes in a village in the mid-land region of Kerala name...
by Mijo Luke | On 31 Jan 2019 In recent years, many emerging economies including India have adopted inflation targeting framework. Post the global financial crisis, there is a growing debate on whether monetary policy should targe...
by Ila Patnaik | On 23 Jan 2019 This paper analyses the dramatic spread of education and healthcare in Asia and also the large variations in that spread across and within countries over fifty years. Apart from differences in initial...
by Sudipto Mundle | On 14 Jan 2019 This paper describes and evaluates the range of P2P lending systems on offer to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in several countries, considering different regulatory regimes. In some countr...
by Naoko Nemoto | On 07 Jan 2019 An informal but informed Indian professional on assignment in Dhaka sends this engaging commentary on the general elections in Bangladesh.
by Srikanth S | On 05 Jan 2019 This paper shows that industrialization of developing countries, defined as start of production of investment goods, happens when their share in global production exceeds the global demand for consump...
by Tadateru Hayashi | On 02 Jan 2019 This paper provides 10 conclusions on the policies needed to achieve three goals of agricultural development in India. These are : (1) There is a need for change in the narrative in the new context; (...
by S. Mahendra Dev | On 26 Dec 2018 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 analyzes the effects of the current trade conflict on developing Asia using the Asian Development Bank’s Multiregional Input–Output Table (MRIOT), allowing us to calculate the impact on ind...
by Abdul Abiad | On 21 Dec 2018 This paper analyzes the evolution of the labor share of income in Asia, a region where countries have experienced steep declines and increases as well as stable labor income shares in the quarter-cent...
by Mitali Das | On 13 Dec 2018 The current global warming trends are extremely likely to be the result of human social and economic activity since the middle of the 20th century (NASA 2018). Evidence of rapid climate change varies...
by Kunmin Kim | On 21 Nov 2018 Selfless activists like Mr. Pai teach us the importance of continuously interrogating the functioning of our democracy. The NPA issue has persisted for almost a decade. It has eroded the profitability...
by Ashima Goyal | On 29 Oct 2018 The paper examines behavioral constraints in policy-making and in achieving coordination across policies. First it applies psychological concepts to understand policy inadequacies, and next examines h...
by Ashima Goyal | On 29 Oct 2018 A large empirical literature finds that financial development is beneficial for economic growth, although some recent evidence suggests otherwise. The paper contributes to the finance–growth literatur...
by Gemma Estrada | On 19 Oct 2018 This brief report documents facts of financial innovation in Asia and the Pacific that include: • Fintech redefines a specific sector at the intersection of financial services and technology sectors....
by Asian Bank | On 09 Oct 2018 This paper discusses public and private sector financing of infrastructure, and examines the factors driving infrastructure investment in this subregion. Using a panel of three large South Asian count...
by Shikha Jha | On 26 Sep 2018 This study provides an in-depth analysis of main causes of Vietnam’s low competitiveness from the country’s perspective. These are structural problems due to its factor-based growth model, expansionar...
by LE Quoc Phuong | On 11 Sep 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 constructs a new measure of the changing generosity of deposit insurance for many countries, empirically model the international influences on the adoption and generosity of deposit insuranc...
by Charles W. Calomiris | On 03 Sep 2018 The recent rise of dockless bike-sharing is dominated by two platforms: one started first in 82 Chinese cities, 59 of which were subsequently entered by the second platform. Using these variations, th...
by Guangyu Cao | On 01 Sep 2018 This paper attempts to determine the challenges and enablers of connecting small and medium businesses to global value chains. It uses data from a survey of SMEs in Metro Manila and a set of key infor...
by Jamil Paolo Francisco | On 30 Aug 2018 The People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) remarkable growth performance over the last 3 decades has been associated to very robust export growth, so much so that many refer to it as a clear example of ex...
by Jesus Felipe | On 29 Aug 2018 Asia is a hot spot for emerging and reemerging infectious diseases, including those with pandemic potential. At the same time, the region is grappling with growing antimicrobial resistance and the hea...
by Megan Counahan | On 24 Aug 2018 This paper examines the advantages and disadvantages of different financial schemes for introducing PV facilities in terms of the suitability of funding vehicles and investment mechanisms. Given the p...
by Ranaporn Tantiwechwuttikul | On 13 Aug 2018 The policy brief aims to mitigate the impact of natural disasters on food security, ASEAN established a rice reserve on 4 October 1979. The rice reserve was developed to alleviate poverty and to eradi...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 10 Aug 2018 The story of irrevocable erasure and thoroughgoing transformation is part of the story of ‘development’ around Hyderabad as it is elsewhere. A case study of the transformation affecting the villages i...
by Aloka Parasher Sen | On 26 Jul 2018 Gross capital inflows and outflows to and from emerging market economies (EMEs) have witnessed a significant increase since early 2000s. This rapid increase in these flows accompanied by sharp rise in...
by Ashima Goyal | On 25 Jul 2018 This paper discusses recent developments in financial inclusion and financial literacy in Kyrgyz Republic. While financial inclusion is considered one of the key drivers of today’s development, it is...
by Savia Hasanova | On 19 Jul 2018 This short paper has two main sections. The first section presents a more detailed picture and overview of the macroeconomic performance of the Philippines behind the Philippines’ remarkable growth. T...
by Maureen Ane D. Rosellon | On 06 Jul 2018 SME development as a major domestic policy objective that is consistent and reinforced within APEC would not only engender inclusive growth, but also enable SMEs to become drivers of growth for the do...
by Erlinda M. Medalla | On 06 Jul 2018 The Aquino administration through the Human Development and Poverty Reduction Cluster (HDPRC) and Good Governance and Anti-Corruption Cluster (GGACC) launched the Bottom-up Budgeting (BUB) exercise in...
by Rosario G. Manasan | On 05 Jul 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 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 Pakistan-China relations date back to the Silk Route, but the formal ties began in 1950. Pakistan was the first Muslim country to recognize China as People's Republic and Pakistan International Airlin...
by Mahmood A. Khwaja | On 28 Jun 2018 This paper evaluates the parental response to non-cognitive variation across siblings in rural Gansu province, China, employing a household fixed effects specification; the non-cognitive measures of i...
by Jessica Leight | On 26 Jun 2018 The paper begins with a brief overview of the characteristics of the bands. After that, it presents a review of the approaches different countries have taken while releasing this spectrum, and a secti...
by Suyash Rai | On 20 Jun 2018 The paper examines the relationship between financial globalization and growth. While the existing literature suggests divergent conclusions and mostly in the case of developed countries, there is dea...
by N R Bhanumurthy | On 14 Jun 2018 This paper provides knowledge the first analysis of the morbidity cost of PM2.5 for the entire population of a developing country. To address potential endogeneity in pollution exposure, it constructs...
by Panle Jia Barwick | On 12 Jun 2018 The paper identifies key features of International Monetary Fund (IMF)–supported programs following the 2008 global financial crisis. The statistical analysis of a large sample of countries that borro...
by Carlos De Resende | On 09 Jun 2018 This paper investigates and tests the role of regional exposures in financial contagion from advanced to emerging market economies through the global banking network using data on cross-border bilater...
by Cyn Young Park | On 31 May 2018 The provision of affordable health care is generally considered a fundamental goal of a wel-
fare state. In addition to its role in maintaining and improving the health status of individuals
and hou...
by | On 31 May 2018 This
comprehensive paper attempts to
critically evaluate the initiatives taken by India through the
Reserve Bank of India in achieving financial inclusion and the efforts made...
by | On 28 May 2018 Current global inequality measures assume that national-mean income does not matter to
economic
welfare at given household income, as measured in surveys. The paper questions...
by Martin Ravallion | On 16 May 2018 How do import tariffs and R&D subsidies help domestic firms compete globally? How do these policies affect aggregate growth and economic welfare? To answer these questions, the paper builds a dynamic...
by Ufuk Akcigit | On 02 May 2018 The widespread reforms were expected to bring about significant transformations in the structure, operations, allocation of resources (including capital) and competitiveness of the businesses in India...
by Nupur Bang | On 27 Apr 2018 The
2018 Global Food Policy Report
reviews major food policy developments and events from the past year.
Leading researchers, policy makers, and practitioners examine what happened in food polic...
by IFPRI International Food Policy Research Institute | On 24 Apr 2018 The Global Findex database is the world’s most comprehensive data set on how adults save, borrow, make payments, and manage risk. Launched with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the da...
by World Bank [WB] | On 21 Apr 2018 Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) cover a wide range of industries and play a major role in
both developed and developing economies. They are considered as significant sources of
ent...
by Navyashree G. R. | On 19 Apr 2018 At the moment, there are few industries in the world as fast changing as the solar energy industry.
The interest and use of solar energy is as old as mankind. However, the modern solar...
by | On 19 Apr 2018 Despite the resultant disutility, some people, in particular, the poor, are engaged in
behaviors that carry social stigma. Empirical studies on stigmatized behavior are rare,
largely due to the form...
by Xi Chen | On 12 Apr 2018 The study has developed three hypotheses based on two (rationalist and constructivist/sociological) strands of institutional theory. Based on a new dataset comprising the corporate membership in busin...
by Daniel Kinderman | On 12 Apr 2018 This report recalls and builds on the recommendations made in EJF’s 2015 report Pirates and Slaves.
by Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) | On 10 Apr 2018 Climate change is an environmental and a human rights issue. EJF views climate change as a primary threat to world peace and security, development and human rights in the 21st century.
by Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) | On 06 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 From 2015 there has been a spate of incidents of violence and intimidation around issues of cow
slaughter and beef. These ranged from the lynching of Mohammad Akhlaq for alleged cow theft,
slaughter...
by PUDR Peoples Union for Democratic Rights | On 04 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 The paper says that the mountains may appear to be one of the few geographic areas less affected by biological invasion.
by Bharat Shrestha | On 03 Apr 2018 The report maps the current status of research in the area of Sport for Development (SfD). This consists of a ‘snapshot’ of research completed since 2005, an inventory of research planned or in progre...
by | On 30 Mar 2018 To what extent do the World Health Organization, the World Trade Organization, and
the World Bank remain central today and how much influence do they still wield in shaping
the global agenda? While...
by | On 30 Mar 2018 This study investigates empirically how human capital, measured by educational attainment,
is related to income distribution. The regressions, using a panel data set covering a broad
range of countr...
by | On 30 Mar 2018 At the moment, there are few industries in the world as fast changing as the solar energy industry.
The interest and use of solar energy is as old as mankind. However, the modern solar industry truly...
by Françoise Pardos | On 26 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 The importance of (early) parental investments in children’s cognitive and noncognitive outcomes is a
question of deep policy significance. However, because parental investments are arguably endogeno...
by Chih Ming Tan | On 16 Mar 2018 As India looks towards further liberalisation, it must fi rst prepare its economic institutions
by re-orienting them from managing the economy to regulating the economy.
Without an enhancement of re...
by | On 16 Mar 2018 People-to-People Partnership (PPP) is an important and inevitable mode of interactions in the sphere of international relations. In any kind of developmental, diplomatic and cultural interactions and...
by | On 15 Mar 2018 The paper says that the recent (2007–09) global financial meltdown and the related economic recession
are seen as the worst since the Great Depression of 1930s.
by S.K. Sasikumar | On 12 Mar 2018 This paper seeks to draw lessons for developing countries based on a survey of the recent literature on financial globalization. First, while capital account openness holds promises (by potentially lo...
by Shang-Jin Wei | On 10 Mar 2018 Macroeconomic models often invoke consumption “habits” to explain the substantial persistence of aggregate consumption growth. But a large literature has found no evidence of habits in microeconomic d...
by Christopher D. Carroll | On 05 Mar 2018 The paper develops a trade model in which productivity—the result of a country’s ability to adopt global technologies—presents an arbitrary pattern of spatial correlation. The model generates the full...
by Nelson Lind | On 05 Mar 2018 This paper evaluates the current status of the Indian Rupee as an international currency using the Chinn and Frankel (2008) framework, and explores the possibility of future Indian Rupee international...
by Shekhar Hari Kumar | On 27 Feb 2018 The advent of Globalization has led to profound transformation in the global economy in terms
of policy paradigms, growth trajectories and developmental strategies of governance, in the
advanced eco...
by | On 26 Feb 2018 Prime Minister Narendra Modi seemed aware about the nuances that underpin India's cultural and political obligations in Asia. By making Bhutan as his first visit abroad followed by a visit to Nepal, h...
by | On 20 Feb 2018 The paper finds that the share of education in the State’s budget has reached an all-time low precisely when the State Domestic Product has been recording all-time high growth rates.
by K.K. George | On 16 Feb 2018 This paper aims to scrutinize the dilemmas involved in governing sustainable cities, and it offers a suggestion for how the challenge might be addressed.
by Joakim Öjendal | On 08 Feb 2018 The discussions in the workshop ranged from scrutinizing overall models of governance via technical and administrative applications to philosophical debates about the core values of democracy
by Bent Jörgensen | On 07 Feb 2018 This paper argues that support for citizen participation and accountability among civil society actors can consolidate local deliberative spaces and improve the performance of local government.
by Hans Antlöv | On 07 Feb 2018 The report says that many democratic decentralization reforms are well-crafted.
by James Manor | On 07 Feb 2018 This paper examines the institutional challenges facing the Indian Parliament. It argues that
over the years there has been a decline in the effectiveness of Parliament as an institution of
accounta...
by Pratap Mehta | On 05 Feb 2018 The issue of coal transitions is coming into focus in
both national and international climate policy discussions.
There are several drivers of this. At one level,
the Paris Agreement marked a signi...
by Oliver Sartor | On 02 Feb 2018 This research project studied the emerging challenges of small and medium towns in India to improve their finances and provide good services to their inhabitants.
by Yogesh Kumar | On 02 Feb 2018 The brief talks about supporting local democracy in forestry is crucial for enhancing local people’s wellbeing.
by Jesse Ribot | On 02 Feb 2018 The paper says that this idiosyncrasy of Korea’s current account surplus seems to be related to increasing saving propensity of households especially among aged people.
by Han Chirok | On 01 Feb 2018 India’s external sector continued to be resilient and strong in 2017-18 so far, with the Balance of
Payments situation continuing to be comfortable with the Current Account Deficit at 1.8 percent of
...
by Arun Jaitley | On 31 Jan 2018 The paper ends with a discussion of the implications of possible shift in China's overseas development finance strategy since 2011.
by Oh Ah | On 31 Jan 2018 This chapter draws on cross-country experience
to study the pattern of investment and saving slowdowns as well as recoveries in order to obtain
policy lessons for India. One finding is that investme...
by Arun Jaitley | On 31 Jan 2018 The paper talks about the main estimation results show that they have affected negatively the business investment over the period 1980-2014.
by Kim Sujin | On 29 Jan 2018 This is a modified and extended version of the paper presented at an international conference on ‘Sport, Culture and Society in Modern India’ held in Calcutta University in 2003.
by | On 27 Jan 2018 The paper aims to characterize and test performance differences between ecommerce and non-ecommerce firms or establishments.
by Lee Yub | On 26 Jan 2018 Book review of 'Playing through the Whistle: Steel, Football, and an American Town' by S L Price, Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, 2016. x + 550 pp. $27.00.
Journalist S. L. Price tells a story of h...
by | On 26 Jan 2018 The brief narrates that the twenty-first century marked paradigm shifts in the changing world order.
by W.Lawrence S.Prabhakar | On 22 Jan 2018 The brief says that invention of nuclear weapons, the ultimate among the three weapons of mass destruction, has given rise to completely novel conditions that have fundamentally affected the concept o...
by Animesh Roul | On 22 Jan 2018 Budget analysis entails analysis and assessment of budget from the lens of marginalised sections
of population with the objective of prioritisation of public
expenditures and collection of revenues...
by Happy Pant | On 17 Jan 2018 The paper narrates that in today’s age of globalization and trans-border connectivity, the Northeast is fast emerging as the potential gateway for India to Southeast and East Asia through
Myanmar.
by Namrata Goswami | On 17 Jan 2018 This paper introduces a new, publicly available database for tracking merchandise trade in the global value chains for apparel/textile/footwear, motor vehicles and parts, and electronics, developed or...
by Michael Ferrantino | On 16 Jan 2018 The paper also emphasize the need for regulatory consistency within and between jurisdictions to ensure a level playing field.
by Clive Briault | On 15 Jan 2018 ‘Lived place’ refers to the subject perception of place. It is concrete and based on experience. For the tribal communities staying or camping in the forest, it is their ‘lived place’ about which they...
by | On 12 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 The paper explored participatory aspects of local democracy in Aceh and some major challenges
in South Aceh for people’s participation in local decision-making processes.
by Leena Avonius | On 08 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 The overall goal of this paper is to review and document the likely impacts of climate change on China’s agricultural production, efforts that China might be able to make in reducing greenhouses gas e...
by Jinxia Wang | On 21 Dec 2017 The purpose of this paper is to propose specific ways in which developing countries can best fuel trade in the digital era.
by Kati Suominen | On 21 Dec 2017 This study constructs a new dependency ratio measure by taking into account the consumption needs of the young and elderly people, and the productivity of middle-aged people. Different from the way th...
by Xuehui Han | On 21 Dec 2017 Urban road infrastructure is crucial in determining air pollution. Yet, little is known about the roles played by road width vs. road length. This paper attempts to fill this gap by estimating the eff...
by Zhi Luo | On 18 Dec 2017 This paper evaluates the impact of oil price shocks on the Philippines—a developing country and a net oil-importing economy.
by Arlan Brucal | On 15 Dec 2017 This paper explores the co-evolution of entrepreneurship and cities. First, it provides a stylized model of development wherein the rise of cities (urbanisation) is the outcome of the activities of en...
by Wim Naudé | On 15 Dec 2017 Fifty-five years after China and India fought a war over an ill-defined “colonial” border in 1962, war clouds have gathered again during this monsoon season on the contested Himalayan ridges and valle...
by Anirudh Deshpande | On 14 Dec 2017 As young historians promptly discover on their own, the term "world history," as is its counterpart, "global history," is the most current trend in the study of history.
by Orel Beilinson | On 14 Dec 2017 This paper examines the role of democratic decentralisation in promoting inclusive governance (responsive, efficient equitable) and social security in the context of globalisation. Firstly, the paper...
by | On 07 Dec 2017 This paper presents and analyzes the key findings from a comprehensive review of value chain-related studies on the commodities and horticulture sectors, focusing on what this literature reveals about...
by Man-Kwun Chan | On 06 Dec 2017 This paper narrates about the challenge of meeting energy demand is likely to get more complex, as it is growing to keep pace with the population growth and expanding economy.
by Muhammad Iftikhar | On 01 Dec 2017 The study says that the pharmaceutical sector is crucial to health issues in developing economies and would be an ideal segment to focus on in improving trade relations between the two countries.
by Manoj Pant | On 29 Nov 2017 This paper uses detailed production data from a half million Chinese manufacturing plants over 1998-2007 to estimate the effects of temperature on firm-level total factor productivity (TFP), factor in...
by Peng Zhang | On 28 Nov 2017 This paper examines the effects of the 2008–09 global economic crisis on people’s pro-environmental behaviour and willingness to pay for climate change mitigation. The paper hypothesise that the crisi...
by Artjoms Ivlevs | On 28 Nov 2017 Using the Burke, Hsiang, and Miguel (2015) framework, we examine the nonlinear response effect of economic growth to historic temperature and precipitation fluctuations. We confirm that aside from the...
by | On 23 Nov 2017 Most empirical studies on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) use cross-sectional data or case studies, making causality hard to establish. The paper overcomes this limitation by using panel data on...
by Shuangqi Wu | On 23 Nov 2017 The study adopts a qualitative approach to understand the power dynamics and draws out conclusions from a wide variety of stakeholders regarding the issues at hand.
by Sadaf Liaquat | On 23 Nov 2017 There had been many wars in Europe before. But never before wars, that
had started in Europe, had become wars to be fought throughout the world.
There had been genocide before, but the scale of the...
by | On 22 Nov 2017 This report attempts to map the history of global responses to eradicate child marriage. However, child marriage is not an isolated issue, as it often encompasses early and forced marriages, though th...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 21 Nov 2017 Developing countries have seen a rapid rise in population urbanization in the past decades. At the same time, they have participated actively in the process of globalization. However, possible interli...
by | On 20 Nov 2017 This analysis has identified three major challenges, which need to be addressed to make module manufacturing competitive in India
by Bhupesh Verma | On 02 Nov 2017 This study analyzes the effect of daily movements in KSE-100 Index due to different policies announced as well as incidents/events happened in the country.
by Shahid Raza | On 31 Oct 2017 This paper examines in detail Pakistan’s export performance in the light of emerging global challenges and identifies key structural and policy issues that stifle Pakistan’s exports.
by Afia Malik | On 25 Oct 2017 There is a growing sense of anguish among the citizens across the world with the increasing number of public disclosures exposing how a small group of global elite (individuals as well as MNCs) have b...
by | On 25 Oct 2017 This informative note presents soil carbon sequestration as an option for offsetting this emissions through a market-based mechanism within the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International...
by Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO] | On 16 Oct 2017 The report says that conflicts, violence and natural disasters are among the root causes of migration and forced displacement.
by Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO] | On 16 Oct 2017 The report narrates that the Government of India has announced an ambitious solar power target of 100 GW by 2022.
by Bhupesh Verma | On 12 Oct 2017 The existing studies on trade misinvoicing have focussed on the discrepancy in reported trade statistics between developing and developed countries. The estimates based on such methods rely on the ass...
by Suranjali Tandon | On 10 Oct 2017 The paper aims at identifying the benefits and impediments of use of New Educational Technologies (NET) in higher educational institutions in National Capital Region. The study is based on data from s...
by | On 09 Oct 2017 We decompose India’s export performance in manufactured products during 2000-2015 into changes at the intensive and extensive margins. India’s performance, along different margins, is compared and con...
by Veeramani C | On 06 Oct 2017 The report says that the global growth is firming, contributing to an improvement in confidence.
by World Bank [WB] | On 04 Oct 2017 This Policy Note addresses this lack of a measure of chronic and transient poverty in the Philippines.
by Connie Bayudan-Dacuycuy | On 29 Sep 2017 Japan, an isolated, backward country in the 1860s, industrialized rapidly to become a major industrial power by the 1930s. South Korea, among the world’s poorest countries in the 1960s,joined the rank...
by Randall Morck | On 25 Sep 2017 The report narrates that the diversity of smugglers has been examined in the academic and grey literature.
by Marie McAuliffe | On 25 Sep 2017 Growing non-performing assets is a recurrent problem in the Indian banking sector. Over the past two decades, there have been two such episodes when the banking sector was severely impaired by balance...
by Rajeswari Sengupta | On 18 Sep 2017 The focus of this paper is on the political history of modern Gujarat, which has been an intriguing one. The paper identifies and discusses in the broad landscape of Gujarat’s politics three notable d...
by Tannen Neil Lincoln | On 14 Sep 2017 This paper analyses the effect of economic globalization indicators on economic growth through the channels of Total Factor Productivity (TFP) by using panel data approach and conducting policy simula...
by Sovna Mohanty | On 13 Sep 2017 This paper examines the nature, changes and factors responsible for issues and problems faced by the sugarcane growers and sugar mills in India. This paper is based on the latest available secondary d...
by Abnave Vikas B. | On 12 Sep 2017 This paper analyses the effect of economic globalization on income inequality in both cross-country and country-specific framework using panel data techniques and policy simulations. The sample compri...
by Sovna Mohanty | On 07 Sep 2017 Tamil Nadu is the eleventh largest state by area and the sixth most populous state in India with 75 million as per the 2011 census. The state was ranked sixth among the states in India according to th...
by S.Irudaya Rajan | On 06 Sep 2017 This paper explains the concept of triple burden of disease and its implications for public health policy.
by Danica Ortiz | On 06 Sep 2017 This paper, mainstreaming SMEs in the regional and global market loosely refers to the internationalization of SMEs.
by Philippine Institute Studies (PIDS) | On 05 Sep 2017 This has facilitated the growth of a (more) positive relationship between civil society and the local state reduced the governance gap and enhanced the legitimacy of the local state.
by Joakim Öjendal | On 01 Sep 2017 Regional integration (RI) is a process by which countries enter into an agreement to upgrade cooperation through common institutions and rules. The objectives of the agreement could range from economi...
by Research and Information System for Developing Countries | On 24 Aug 2017 The report says that a fresh wave of globalisation since the early 1990s has created both hope and despair.
by Sudarshan Iyengar | On 23 Aug 2017 This paper takes stock. It assesses the current market state and structure, surveys a cross-section of market participants to identify the relevant issues, and employs two case studies of EME peers, C...
by Renu Kohli | On 23 Aug 2017 BRICS is a hot topic today. It is the new “kid” or the next big thing in global governance and in macro economics today. Set up in 2009, in the aftermath of 2008 global financial crisis with four coun...
by Shubha Chacko | On 22 Aug 2017 This paper, based on a primary survey of companies engaged in organic food business in India and the United Kingdom (UK), examines how organic food can attract more investment (domestic and foreign) a...
by Arpita Mukherjee | On 08 Aug 2017 The report narrates the recent global financial crisis demonstrated the shortcomings of the frameworks to handle the failure of large and systemically important financial institutions, also known as “...
by Reserve Bank of India RBI | On 08 Aug 2017 Debashis Chakraborty visited Siliguri for the first time in 1952. After the final examinations of Class IV, this was his first trip to Siliguri to visit the part of his family that had relocated to th...
by Atig Ghosh | On 04 Aug 2017 Has the global financial crisis changed the pivotal determinants of corporate
leverage in EMEs? This paper attempts to address this issue using a panel-GMM
framework and quantile-analysis for 10 maj...
by Snehal S. Herwadkar | On 04 Aug 2017 Low carbon development has gained policy prominence and is a concern of both environment and development policy globally and in China
and India. This paper discusses the role of China and India as im...
by Shailly Kedia | On 03 Aug 2017 The world is becoming increasingly urbanized. Globally 54 percent population lives in urban areas today (UN 2014). Although Asia is still relatively more rural than the Americas and the Europe, it is...
by Tanuka Endow | On 02 Aug 2017 Over the last decade, gender gaps in the workforce, particularly those in leadership positions, have remained largely unchanged and progress has stalled, despite growth in the numbers of women acquiri...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 01 Aug 2017 This paper examines the implications of the establishment of the
New Development Bank (NDB) and the Contingent Reserve Arrangement
(CRA) for the international financial system and for the BRICS coun...
by Manmohan Agarwal | On 31 Jul 2017 RCEP member countries cover half the world population, 30 per
cent of world GDP and a quarter of world trade. The regional grouping has
several countries including China whose economies are among th...
by V Seshadri | On 31 Jul 2017 The expert paper further estimates significant potential for an overall improvement in balance of trade with increased blending in the context of an expected recovery in global crude oil prices.
by Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy CSTEP | On 27 Jul 2017 This paper also highlights the need for a coordinated approach to
SDG implementation by demonstrating the case of gender
equality and urban planning.
by Shrimoyee Bhattacharya | On 26 Jul 2017 This report summarizes the investments in clean energy made by the operations departments of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in 2014.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | 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 the local currency bond market in emerging East Asia continued to expand in 1Q15 to reach US$8.3 trillion at end-March.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 24 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 This report explores some of the ways forward. It highlights not just the need to inject more money into investments that contribute to sustainable development, but also to attract funds toward them—t...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 21 Jul 2017 The growth forecast for developing countries in Asia in 2015 is cut to 6.1% from 6.3%, amidst slower-than-expected economic activity in the United States and the People’s Republic of China.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 21 Jul 2017 Using Input-Output (IO) analysis, this study provides the time series estimates of domestic value added (DVA) content of India's merchandise and services exports for the period 1999-2000 to 2012-13 an...
by Veeramani C | On 21 Jul 2017 With export demand stronger than expected in the first quarter of 2017, the region’s GDP is forecast to expand somewhat faster than forecast in April in Asian Development Outlook 2017.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 20 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 The report discusses the most recent projections pertaining to climate change and climate change impacts in Asia and the Pacific, and the consequences of these changes to human systems, particularly f...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 14 Jul 2017 The report says that the bond investors typically have a long position in local currency bond markets. To manage their foreign exchange risk, they may want to hedge that exposure for a period of time.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 12 Jul 2017 This publication reviews various country aspects of SME finance covering the banking sector, nonbank sector, and capital markets. It is expected to support evidence-based policy making and regulations...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 11 Jul 2017 This publication summarizes the results of a pilot study to quantify water and energy use in high-effciency irrigation systems in Viet Nam.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 10 Jul 2017 The results of this study can be used to strengthen the institutional and statistical capacities of Viet Nam to routinely collect, compile, analyze, and disseminate internationally comparable FSIs tha...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 07 Jul 2017 The publication reviews recent developments in East Asian local currency bond markets along with the outlook, risks, and policy options. This issue includes a special section on Sukuk (Islamic bonds)...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 06 Jul 2017 This study measures the size of fossil fuel subsidies such as tax breaks for diesel and natural gas, market price support for natural gas for vehicles, and free electricity for low-income consumers as...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 04 Jul 2017 Most of us ride an elevator on a weekly if not daily basis without much thought. The contemporary ordinariness of the elevator, however, obscures its epochal importance. In "Lifted: A Cultural History...
by Nathan Cardon | On 28 Jun 2017 Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
At the 70th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in September 2015, member states adopted a new
global development agend...
by UNESCO Publishing | On 27 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 The report is an annual review of Asia’s regional economic cooperation and integration. It covers the 48 regional members of the Asian Development Bank. This issue includes Special Chapter: How Can Sp...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 23 Jun 2017 This issue of the Asia Bond Monitor includes two special discussion boxes. Box 1 discusses the risks to emerging Asia’s financial stability under tightening global liquidity conditions. Box 2 discusse...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 23 Jun 2017 The paper suggests that the impacts of climate change in Southeast Asia may be larger than previously estimated, possibly reaching 11% of gross domestic product by 2100.
by David Raitzer | On 19 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 The paper narrates that the risks are tilted to the downside as tightening US monetary policy may heighten financial volatility, further moderation in the People’s Republic of China could spill over i...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 14 Jun 2017 The report narrates that the Sanjiang Plain wetlands are among the most important wetlands in the People’s Republic of China with unique habitats, species, and ecology. There is a considerable body of...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 08 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 report reviews how the road sector in Myanmar can make the greatest contribution to the country’s
national ambitions as possible. It seeks to identify bottlenecks and attempts to formulate possi...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 01 Jun 2017 Myanmar has an extensive river network that is well positioned to serve the country’s main transport corridors, including the link between Yangon and Mandalay. However, main rivers are difficult to na...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 31 May 2017 This study of state-owned enterprises performance in the Pacific emphasizes political commitment to reform as a key driver for commercial results.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 23 May 2017 The report notes that yields for 2-year and 10-year local currency government bonds in emerging East Asia were mostly lower between 1 June and 15 August and stock markets in the region recorded gains...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 23 May 2017 The paper narrates that the specific needs of the Pacific in the process of urbanization must be recognized and adequately addressed in the post-2015 development agenda. Key priorities include upgradi...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 May 2017 This issue of the Asia Bond Monitor includes Local currency (LCY) government bond yields in advancedeconomies and emerging East Asia climbed between 31 October and 18 November due to increased concern...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 11 May 2017 The reports notes the regional cooperation and integration (RCI) in Asia and the Pacific continues to evolve, creating an important source for the region’s dynamic growth. This report assesses the RCI...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 10 May 2017 This publication highlights the results of a successful partnership between the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the International Centre for Environmental Management (ICEM) with cofinancing from the...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 10 May 2017 This paper argues that the recent policy rhetoric towards cities in India has been shaped by
their increasing economic importance in national output generation, as well as a series of
prominent glob...
by Indian Institute for Human Settlements | On 05 May 2017 This issue of the Asia Bond Monitor includes three special discussion boxes. Box 1 discusses the risk of Federal Reserve rate hikes to emerging Asia’s financial stability. Box 2 analyzes the risks to...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 05 May 2017 The Asia-Pacific Sustainable Development Goals Outlook report aims to develop a shared
understanding of the opportunities and challenges confronting the region. This report provides a goalby-goal
sn...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 04 May 2017 This study contributes to a growing body of research demonstrating that adoption of
internationally available and well-proven energy efficiency measures can improve the
effectiveness, sustainability...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 04 May 2017 The paper analyse data from two recent NSSO surveys to provide estimates of expenditure on higher education and loans availed for higher education. The average share of expenditure on higher educatio...
by S. Chandrasekhar | On 02 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 This book addresses many of these prevalent policy issues and suggests
measures to address them from the varied perspectives of space commerce, space policy, space security, global governance, and in...
by | On 14 Apr 2017 This new ILO Global Wage Report – the fifth in a series that now spans over a decade – contributes to this agenda by making comparative data and information on recent wage trends available to governme...
by International Labour Organization [ILO] | On 14 Apr 2017 For over 40 years Anand Patwardhan’s documentary films have stood for freedom of expression. He faced censorship on numerous occasions, took the government to court, and won each time. Anand is not ju...
by Vidya Bhushan Rawat | On 10 Apr 2017 Economists have long recognized the important role of formal schooling and cognitive skills on labor market participation and wages. More recently, increasing attention has turned to the role of perso...
by | On 16 Mar 2017 The Chameli Devi Jain Award for an Outstanding Woman Journalist for the year 2016 was given to independent journalist Neha Dixi on March 1, 2017, at a function at the Indian International Centre, Delh...
by | On 09 Mar 2017 Haryana Budget presented by Hon'ble Minister Capt. Abhimanyu.
by Haryana Government | On 07 Mar 2017 We provide evidence that promotion incentives influence the effort of public employees by studying China’s system of promotions for teachers. Predictions from a tournament model of promotion are teste...
by | On 06 Mar 2017 Kerala budget presented by Hon.Finance Minister Thomas Issac.
by T.M. Thomas Issac | On 06 Mar 2017 Between 1966 and 1976, China experienced a Cultural Revolution (CR). During this period, the education of around 17 birth cohorts was interrupted by between 1 and 8 years. In this paper we examine whe...
by | On 09 Feb 2017 As Asia finds itself in the limelight, whether in terms of major power relations, rising insecurity and potential for conflict, or economic governance, it is worth asking, even before broaching the re...
by | On 02 Feb 2017 This year has been marked by several historic economic policy developments. On
the domestic side, a constitutional amendment paved the way for the long-awaited and transformational goods and services...
by Arun Jaitley | On 31 Jan 2017 To translate Premchand into Tamil (or Tamil into Telugu) is not to translate into a neutral language in the manner of simply exalting, or improving, or diversifying, or nationally integrating. Rather...
by Nikhil Govind | On 12 Jan 2017 Secondary education is an important stage in the school education ladder as it equips students with skills important for higher education and the labour market. Besides helping students to choose diff...
by | On 10 Jan 2017 This paper examines the impacts of social pension provision among people of different ages. Utilizing the county-by-county rollout of the New Rural Pension Scheme in rural China, we find that, among t...
by | On 10 Jan 2017 The Global Wind Energy Council is pleased to present this 6th edition of the Global Wind Energy Outlook, looking at the future of our industry out to 2020, 2030 and ultimately to 2050. What happens in...
by | On 05 Jan 2017 Climate change mitigation is a global challenge, however its impact will be varied across regions and temperature zones. Small island states will be hit the hardest with sea level rise. In bigger coun...
by | On 28 Dec 2016 Global warming not only causes a change in average temperature and precipitation but also increases the frequency of floods, droughts, heat waves, and the intensity of typhoons and hurricanes followin...
by | On 28 Dec 2016 This WWF Living Planet Report comes at a critical juncture following the remarkable successes in 2015 of the Paris Agreement on climate change and the agreement on the Sustainable Development Goals fo...
by World Wide Fund | On 23 Dec 2016 Air pollution has been one of the most pernicious consequences of China’s last three decades of economic transformation and growth. Although Chinese governments—federal, provincial, and municipal—have...
by | On 23 Dec 2016 India is passing through the demographic transition and we hardly have 50 to 60 years more to utilise the demographic dividend. By mid of this century, India will have a huge population of 60 and old...
by Priya Sharma | On 23 Dec 2016 India's Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) outlines its intent to scale up the country's clean-energy capacity. At the same...
by | On 21 Dec 2016 India is a major source of migrants, especially of highly-skilled and well-trained workers. This paper attempts to show that even with a high number of Indian talents abroad, India – as well as destin...
by | On 19 Dec 2016 A benevolent dictator but one who sincerely loved the masses. She is unforgivably not a leader who believed in the collectivity of a Party to afford democracy. But she did what was needed. She display...
by Shyam Sundar | On 14 Dec 2016 A health system should be responsive, resilient, self-regulating. It should be able to respond to health emergencies and changing development scenarios. Governments all over the world should see to it...
by Rajeev B.R. | On 14 Dec 2016 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 Drawing attention to a high dropout rate in upper primary schools, Singapore Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam today said schools are facing the “biggest crisis” in India.
Delivering the f...
by Tharman Shanmugaratnam | On 08 Dec 2016 India has a very rich history dating back several millenniums. Knowledge was preserved and propagated through an oral tradition. In this context, the teachers set up ‘residential schools’ in their own...
by | On 07 Dec 2016 With the farm sector continuing with unimpressive performance in terms
of the growth of value of output, agricultural infrastructure and also sustained
massive rise in the landless agricultural labo...
by Keshab Das | On 28 Nov 2016 The increasing number of migrants moving to cities, especially from rural areas, has posed a new set of issues for the authorities. In the mid-1990s, it was estimated that China had a floating populat...
by | On 22 Nov 2016 This article focuses on Chinese female rural migrant workers. Based on the survey data collected in Anhui and Sichuan provinces of China, the article investigates gender aspects of Chinese rural-urban...
by | On 22 Nov 2016 This Report on the World Social Situation seeks to contribute to rethinking poverty and its eradication. It affirms the urgent need for a strategic shift away from the market fundamentalist thinking,...
by United Nations (UN) | On 17 Nov 2016 Economists and social scientists have shown considerable interest in recent years to measure the gap between the observable economic activity and the actual economic activity. This has led to the conc...
by | On 09 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 inaugural report on the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is a first accounting of where the world stands at the start of our collective journey to 2030. The report analyses selected in...
by | On 03 Nov 2016 It will be argued that while modernization in India has allowed for small improvements to women's autonomy, in rural India today the little autonomy women do have is constricted through traditional no...
by | On 02 Nov 2016 This paper deals with the evolution of laws, institutions and polices relating to
environmental protection in India. It considers the following questions : (a) whether the
laws are evolved indigenou...
by U. Sankar | On 28 Oct 2016 Against the backdrop of the global financial and economic crisis, policy makers around the world took steps in the past year to make it easier for local firms to start up and operate. This is importan...
by World Bank [WB} | On 27 Oct 2016 The Population Reference Bureau informs people around the world about
population, health, and the environment, and empowers them to use that
information to advance the well-being of current and futu...
by | 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 The Global Crisis demonstrated to the world that Ratings Agencies had misled the public about the stability of financial institutions. The Finance literature had decided that it was impossible to have...
by | On 18 Oct 2016 Demographic transition due to population aging is an emerging trend throughout the developing world,
and it is especially acute in China, which has undergone demographic transition more rapidly than...
by Xinxin Wang | On 10 Oct 2016 This paper suggests a reinterpretation of global growth—encompassing notions of unconditional convergence and the middle income trap—in the past 50 years through the lens of growth theory. Two modes o...
by Sutirtha Roy | On 10 Oct 2016 Even almost eight years since resorting to the extraordinary monetary and
fiscal measures to counter the after-effects of the Global Financial Crisis, authorities are still
left wondering about rela...
by S.S. Mundra | On 10 Oct 2016 This is the third annual report for the MenEngage Alliance’s Global Strategic Plan 2012-2016, in which the main activities and achievements of 2015, based on the four strategic objectives are reported...
by MenEngage Global Alliance | On 07 Oct 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 This research evaluates the performance of free trade agreements by
analyzing the determinants of trade flows of Asian economies for a panel
of thirty-one countries during 2007-2014 using a Gravity...
by Sunder Ramaswamy | On 29 Sep 2016 the role of institutional innovations
and subsidy policy interventions in the diffusion of micro-irrigation across
the state in the recent years. While the first part makes a comprehensive
review o...
by Chandra Sekhar Bahinipati | On 26 Sep 2016 This paper studies the impact of international long-distance flights on the global spatial allocation of economic activity. To identify causal effects, it exploits variation due to regulatory and tech...
by Filipe Campante | On 21 Sep 2016 Financing problems, new global goals, and provision of good quality care are some of the key
challenges facing the next era of improving maternal health.
by The Lancet Maternal Health Series | On 20 Sep 2016 Climate change is a term that refers to major changes in temperature, rainfall, snow, or wind patterns lasting for decades or longer. Both human-made and natural factors contribute to climate change”...
by | On 14 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 In light of the United Nations’ SDGs1 and their global hunger directive, in particular Goal 2 to “end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition,” it is clear that food security will be a m...
by | On 09 Sep 2016 The objective
of the present study is to examine the effect of ICT investments on the sales growth of SMEs
from the food processing industry in India. Secondary data is collected from the Prowess
d...
by Navyashree G. R. | On 08 Sep 2016 In 2012, the World Health Assembly Resolution 65.6 endorsed a Comprehensive implementation plan on maternal, infant and young child nutrition (1), which specified six global nutrition targets for 2025...
by World Health Organisation (WHO) | On 07 Sep 2016 Global indicators are important for understanding progress towards each of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, they can mask sub-national and thematic variations. They cannot explain ho...
by | On 02 Sep 2016 China’s government is promoting the shift towards a consumption-based economy since a few years. The explicit goal to significantly raise the percentage of wages in the national household income is in...
by | On 31 Aug 2016 Macroeconomic analytical frameworks change with events they are unable to explain. The process is
closer to abductive reasoning that is based on both events and analysis, unlike induction which is
d...
by Ashima Goyal | On 31 Aug 2016 Using a global computable general equilibrium model, the paper analyzes the potential effects of Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) on the Philippine economy. The analysis involves an...
by | On 30 Aug 2016 This report continues documenting the narrative of violence and displacement in
Chhattisgarh in the name of development, by reporting on the findings of the encounter
killings and sexual violence in...
by PUDR Peoples Union for Democratic Rights | On 30 Aug 2016 Migration as an engine of development has been accepted by economists across the world and a clear understanding of its details are very essential in order to reap the best benefits of it. The paper e...
by | On 29 Aug 2016 Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (referred to as “Ningxia”
below) is one of the most water stressed regions in China. In order to help governments and corporations gain a better understanding of water s...
by Lijin Zhong | On 29 Aug 2016 China and India have successfully integrated into the world economy. Once specialised in textiles, they have developed new export-oriented sectors linked to the information and communication technolog...
by | On 24 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 The big challenge of the new century is the reduction of poverty. Virtually all countries and donors agree on the importance of reducing poverty and its attendant problems of inequity, lack of respect...
by Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO] | On 24 Aug 2016 The paper contributes to the measurement of poverty and vulnerability in three ways. First, we propose a new approach to separating poverty into chronic and transient components. Second, we provide co...
by | On 23 Aug 2016 In the era of globalisation, where opening of borders is being advocated all over the world, there is one issue over which no nation-state is ready to compromise with its territorial borders. The issu...
by | On 22 Aug 2016 China’s environmental regulators have sought to reduce the Yangtze River’s water pollution. This paper documents that this regulatory effort has had two unintended consequences. First, the regulation’...
by Zhao Chen | On 18 Aug 2016 The Ministry of Human Resource Development released a draft National Education Policy in July 2016. In this context,
some data on education indicators such as enrolment of students, drop-out rates, a...
by Roopal Suhag | 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 The Preliminary Report and the draft National Medical Commission Bill, 2016 is placed for seeking public opinion. Please send comments/suggestions/feedback on the draft bill latest by 31st August, 201...
by Niti Aayog GOI | On 11 Aug 2016 This report considers migration in the context of environmental change over the next 50 years. The scope of this report is international: it examines global migration trends, but also internal migrati...
by | On 10 Aug 2016 This report reviews the main trends in global poverty, assesses projections on poverty trends for the medium term, and considers the implications for antipoverty policy. Three main points emerge from...
by Armando Barrientos | On 10 Aug 2016 A new “Make in India” campaign to “transform India into a global manufacturing hub” aims to use manufacturing as a vehicle for job growth. Is this strategy realistic? This paper helps answer the quest...
by | On 10 Aug 2016 This paper analyses changes in China’s relations with socialist countries. It uses Chinese academic publications to add an inside-out perspective to the interpretation of Chinese foreign policy and ou...
by | On 05 Aug 2016 A further subsidy in the form of credit support was estimated to be between CNY 3.5 and 35.7 billion (USD 0.57 billion and USD 5.8 billion). The major subsidies included tax relief, investment in asse...
by | On 02 Aug 2016 Remittances to Asia plunged during the 1997 Asian financial crisis, but the drop was temporary as the flows were increasing once again after just 1 year. The current crisis, however, is fundamentally...
by | On 29 Jul 2016 Labor migration presents both challenges and opportunities in today’s global world. As the scale, scope, and complexity of the phenomenon have grown, states and other stakeholders have become aware of...
by Sridhar K. Khatri | On 27 Jul 2016 Drawing on data from the 2006 China General Social Survey, propensity score matching was used to investigate the impact of rural-to-urban migration on family and gender values in China at distinct sta...
by | On 25 Jul 2016 This is the second in IOM´s series of global reports on missing migrants. The first report was published in 2014 – Fatal Journeys: Tracking Lives Lost during Migration. This second report has two main...
by | On 25 Jul 2016 Although both infrastructure and innovation play an important role in fostering a country’s economic growth, discussion in the literature about how the two are connected is limited. This paper examine...
by Xu Wang | On 25 Jul 2016 In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 14 of the Building and Other Construction Workers’ Welfare Cess Act, 1996 (Act 8 of 1996). China has chosen not to take part in the ar...
by | On 20 Jul 2016 The paper examines vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by international migration and remittances, using a formal, practical, and ea...
by Ira N. Gang | On 19 Jul 2016 This paper analyses what is possible as a low carbon scenario for India using India Energy Security Scenarios-2047 tool developed by the erstwhile Planning Commission and later refined by its successo...
by Montek Ahluwalia | On 19 Jul 2016 China’s rejection of the Permanent Court of Arbitration ruling on its expansive claim to the South China Sea has set itself up for confrontation with maritime states in Southeast Asia. It will also he...
by | On 18 Jul 2016 The BRICS Summit process was inaugurated in 2009 as a signal that the global
governance system of the future would need to be constituted to reflect a
politically diverse, multipolar world. At this...
by | On 15 Jul 2016 This Evidence Report details key insights from the Institute of Development Studies Addressing and Mitigating Violence programme, which involved detailed political analysis of dynamics of violence as...
by | On 15 Jul 2016 By exploring the role of SEZs in China’s integration with the world economy, we also investigate the underlining challenges faced by the economy. The analysis brings forth the indisputable fact that S...
by | On 14 Jul 2016 This paper analyzes the absence of correlation between China-ASEAN economic interdependence and dispute settlement in the South China Sea, against liberals’ prediction. It argues that there are a few...
by | On 13 Jul 2016 The South China Sea disputes involve the interests of the United States, particularly with regard to freedom of navigation, international norms and law, relations with important partners and allies, a...
by | On 13 Jul 2016 Labour regulation in India has engaged the attention of not only policy makers but also social actors, researchers and practioners. Policy measures have started rolling out from the state governments...
by Shyam Sundar | On 11 Jul 2016 This paper makes use of the most recent social pension reform in rural China to examine whether receipt of the pension payment equips adult children of pensioners to migrate. Employing a regression di...
by Xi Chen | On 11 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 This paper studies the causal effect of maternal and paternal unemployment on child health in China, analyzing panel data for the period 1997-2004, when the country underwent economic reforms leading...
by Janneke Pieters | On 30 Jun 2016 In recent years, China has developed and implemented
a range of policies to address climate change, reduce
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and transition toward
a low-carbon and climate-resilient s...
by Katherine Ross | On 30 Jun 2016 The paper investigates the effect of pollution on worker productivity in the service sector by focusing on two call centers in China. Using precise measures of each worker’s daily output linked to dai...
by Tom Chang | On 30 Jun 2016 This paper estimates the monetary value of cutting PM2.5, a dominant source of air pollution in China. By matching hedonic happiness in a nationally representative survey with daily air quality data a...
by Xin Zhang | On 30 Jun 2016 Human society has witnessed adventure with knowledge
resulting in scientific understanding of the secrets of nature
and converting them into technological innovations resulting
in metamorphosis of...
by Prabuddha Ganguli | On 30 Jun 2016 Global commodity prices surge of 2007-08 sent an inflationary shock across the countries. 2014 global
prices descend resulted in significant disinflation in many countries and even deflation in some
...
by Muhammad Nadim Hanif | On 30 Jun 2016 Although global growth is projected to accelerate gradually, a wide range of risks threaten to derail the recovery, including a sharper-than-expected slowdown in major emerging markets, sudden escalat...
by World Bank [WB] | On 29 Jun 2016 The objective of the study is to assess the effectiveness of Panchayati Raj Institutions in Health Care System in the State of Kerala with a special reference to impact of duality and role of bureaucr...
by Jacob John | On 29 Jun 2016 This paper models an opposition group’s choice between peace, terrorism, and open conflict. Terrorism emerges if executive constraints are intermediate and rents are sizeable. Open conflict is predict...
by Michael Jetter | 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 The goal of this paper is to describe and analyze the relationship between ability tracking and student social capital, in the context of poor students in developing countries. Drawing on the results...
by Fan Li | 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 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 This paper analyses some of the major financial and governance challenges for attaining universal elementary education following RTE norms. The focus is on Karnataka. The analysis of financ...
by | On 22 Jun 2016 This technical note describes the data and methodology
used to calculate BWS-China, building on the
methodology described in previous Aqueduct publications
(Shiklomanov and Rodda 2014; Gassert et a...
by Jiao Wang | On 20 Jun 2016 This pper reviews major approaches and findings on the evaluation of the impact of different labour market institutions but pays particular attention to active labour market policies that play an impo...
by Werner Eichhorst | On 15 Jun 2016 Few challenges facing the global community today match the scale of malnutrition, a condition that directly affects one in three people. Malnutrition manifests itself in many different ways: as poor c...
by International Food Policy Research Institute | On 14 Jun 2016 Almost a billion people around
the world are now suffering from hunger and
malnutrition - a dramatic rise in number since the
soaring food prices over the last three years. Of
these, about half ar...
by Focus on the Global South FGS | On 10 Jun 2016 This paper argues that contrary to popular belief, in the bygone era, there was not one but two Silk Roads in Asia – the Northern and the less well-known South-western Silk Road (SSR). The SSR connect...
by | On 10 Jun 2016 Today’s food and farming systems have succeeded in supplying large volumes of foods to global markets, but are generating negative outcomes on multiple fronts: widespread degradation of land, water an...
by | On 10 Jun 2016 A number of initiatives have been taken by the government as well as the private sector to address the challenge of energy access in India. In this context, WWF-India conducted a study to measure/asse...
by | On 09 Jun 2016 According to a report from the Mckinsey Global Institute, India is set to witness a leap in urban population by almost 25 crore over the next 20 years. That translates to roughly 35,000 more people in...
by | On 09 Jun 2016 Global commodity prices surge of 2007-08 sent an inflationary shock across the countries. 2014 global prices descend
resulted in significant disinflation in many countries and...
by Muhammad Nadim Hanif | On 06 Jun 2016 The paper deals with the above issues by analyzing the scenario
in NEI, as to how the region with its present status fits into the
LEP regime. In this regard, the contemporary ma...
by Gorky Chakraborty | On 06 Jun 2016 Public expenditure data has been sourced from the State budget documents, detailed demand for grants of MoHFW and
other Central Ministries/Departments. This document gives in totality classification...
by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare MoH&FW | On 02 Jun 2016 The Global Slavery Index (‘the Index’) provides an estimate of the number of people in modern slavery, the factors that make individuals vulnerable to this crime, and an assessment of government actio...
by | On 01 Jun 2016 This paper discusses the underlying common concept of the rule of law as it bolsters courts, giving them their institutional status and enabling them to move toward a redesigned judiciary from diverse...
by Aung Htoo | On 31 May 2016 An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to children alleged and found to be in conflict with law and children in need of care and protection by catering to their basic needs through proper ca...
by Government of India Ministry of Women and Child Development | On 27 May 2016 The study directs the attention to the role of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in overcoming these structural rigidities and ushering-in structural transformation in an economy. To explore the iss...
by Mausumi Das | On 26 May 2016 This report reviews Afghanistan’s 2014 presidential election and the related political contests. Drawing on interviews in Kabul and the work of researchers in several provinces, this study does not se...
by International Crisis Group | On 26 May 2016 Political repression is reaching new highs in Bangladesh. The government’s abuse of rule of law institutions for political ends has created an atmosphere of injustice that is increasingly exploited by...
by International Crisis Group | On 26 May 2016 China needs Africa’s forests, and Africa knows it. Chinese investments in African forests and woodlands are growing fast. China is the largest importer of tropical timber in the world — possibly accou...
by | On 25 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 This paper aims to answer the question of how and under what circumstances civilian control can be established in newly democratised nations. To do this, the paper proposes a new theoretical argument...
by | On 23 May 2016 This paper focuses on the automobile industry and examines the nature of global value chains in it with reference to the case of India. The aim is to explore the relation between lead firms, particula...
by Saon Ray | On 23 May 2016 This paper aims to sensitize the
stakeholders, concerned organization and citizens towards need and importance of regulating
SEPs as well as facilitating their availability at Fair, Reasonable and N...
by Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion DIPP | On 19 May 2016 This study investigates the economic growth and catch-up of the Republic of Korea over the
past half-century. The gap of output per worker between the Republic of Korea and United
States has decreas...
by Jong-Wha Lee | On 19 May 2016 Biodiversity is the variability among living organisms, including genetic and structural difference between individual and within and between individual and within and between species. Biodiversity pl...
by | On 18 May 2016 Ten countries from the Pacific have gathered in Nadi, Fiji, for a regional consultation on the region’s biodiversity for food and agriculture. The consultation, on the State of Biodiversity for Food a...
by Nadi Fiji | On 17 May 2016 Now in its 11th edition, The Global Risks Report 2016 draws attention to ways that global risks could evolve and interact in the next decade. The year 2016 marks a forceful departure from past finding...
by [WEF] World Economic Forum | On 11 May 2016 The air pollution in Delhi is shown and how the air quality index is calculated and the health impacts are shown here.
by J.K. Bassin | On 11 May 2016 The Ministry of Food, Public Distribution and Consumer Affairs
has entrusted a study to the NCAER to assess whether, and to what extent, the weaknesses noted by past evaluation studies on the TPDS ha...
by Sohini Paul | On 09 May 2016 The Indian Railway (IR) system is one of the four railway systems in the world that transports more than one billion tonnes of traffic annually.
As against a growth of 4 per cent to 4.5 per cent in t...
by Saurabh Bandyopadhyay | On 09 May 2016 Accordingly, the agricultural outlook and situation analysis undertaken in this study refers to the main crop based food items: cereals (specifically rice, wheat, jowar, bajra, maize and overall coars...
by Rajesh Chadha | On 09 May 2016 The ruling United Democratic Front's chances of coming back to power in the forthcoming elections in Kerala seem bleak, while a resurgent Left Democratic Front is gearing up to form the government. Ho...
by N Rajendran | On 09 May 2016 The episode of volatility starting on May 22, 2013, when Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke first spoke of the possibility of the US central bank “tapering” its security purchases, had a sharp nega...
by Shekhar Shah | On 09 May 2016 Using 2000-2009 data, the report finds that, while spending on environmental infrastructure has visible positive environmental impact, city spending is strongly tilted towards transportation infrastru...
by | On 04 May 2016 Derivatives are an integral risk management tool for business entities and financial institutions. However, derivatives markets can also lead to excessive and opaque risk taking which may result in sy...
by Reserve Bank of India RBI | On 03 May 2016 This paper examines what the empirical evidence has to say about the strength of monetary transmission in India, using the structural vector autoregression (SVAR) methods that have been applied broadl...
by | On 02 May 2016 This study shows how 13 important stock markets in Asia namely, India, Bangladesh, Philippines, China, Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Pakistan, South Korea and Thailand...
by | On 02 May 2016 This study investigates the effects of the 2008 global financial crisis on the performance of different
microfinance ownership types. The analysis in this study relies on a novel methodological frame...
by Mahinda Wijesiri | On 02 May 2016 This report is aimed at better informing that debate by demystifying the
global and South Asian apparel markets, estimating the potential gains in exports and jobs (including for women), and identify...
by Gladys Lopez Acevedo | On 29 Apr 2016 Global competitiveness has redefined business strategies worldwide and the focus has certainly shifted to examining how our knowledge resources can reposition our stand in the world market. It means t...
by Sachin Mangal | On 28 Apr 2016 This report consists the findings of a survey carried out in February 2016 in Tamil Nadu. The purpose of the survey was to find out what voters really want from the Government and how they rate the pe...
by Association for Democratic Reforms ADR | On 28 Apr 2016 The 2030 Policy Framework confirms the EU's firm commitment to lead by example in tackling climate change. It sets out a binding, economy-wide domestic reduction target of at least 40% greenhouse gas...
by European union | On 26 Apr 2016 Worldwide it is recognized that copyright piracy is a serious crime which not only adversely affects the creative potential of the society by denying the creators their legitimate dues, it also causes...
by Ministry of Human Resource Development, GOI | On 12 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 India and Pakistan, the two large countries in South Asia, must work for the region’s collective good rather than moving closer to the United States and China, respectively, and promoting the interest...
by Shahid Javed Burki | On 28 Mar 2016 As an important global and regional economic power, the PRC’s growth slowdown may cause large spillover effects to its neighboring economies. Using a multi-sectoral global computable general equilibri...
by Fan Zhai | On 22 Mar 2016 This paper follows the lead in substituting variable names for national social systems from the project on “Democratization and Value Change in East Asia.” Specifically, it investigates the associatio...
by Robert Albritton | On 21 Mar 2016 This paper addresses the central question as to how and why caste still survives under conditions of democracy and modernity and what do we make of it. I try to explain this phenomenon by viewing it i...
by Sanjeeb Mukherjee | On 21 Mar 2016 The paper traces the impact of welfare and development on the Nicobarese not only in terms of economic and social domination, but in relation to its influence on cultural meanings and practices. The
...
by Ajay Saini | On 21 Mar 2016 The paper focuses on the constructive role that China can play in enhancing security in South Asia. The potential contribution that China can make to enhancing non-traditional security in the region i...
by Ramandeep Kaur | On 21 Mar 2016 This working paper outlines a set of indicators at the outcome and impact level for the agriculture and rural development sector. It does not focus on implementation (e.g. output level indicators such...
by European union | On 20 Mar 2016 Public finance systems in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) have evolved substantially over the last three decades. The evolution is continuing, with wide-ranging reforms in budget and debt managem...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 18 Mar 2016 Aid for Trade (AfT) flows have increased each year since 2006 in the region. And while regional aggregate trade costs continue to fall, many subregions continue to struggle with trade costs that are s...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 17 Mar 2016 This report recommends the creation of a National Roads and Funding Administration and a central road trust fund with dedicated revenues; changes to roles and responsibilities of different levels of g...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 17 Mar 2016 The opportunities for SMEs in global value chains are enormous. Participation in value chains exposes them to a large customer/buyer base, as well as opportunities to learn from large firms and from e...
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 The paper is an attempt to unveil the enigma of the ‘Indian model’ of development. After discussing the evolution of India’s development policies over the last six decades, the paper attempts to unfol...
by Amit S. Ray | On 16 Mar 2016 The Metaguidelines for Water and Climate Change were developed by the Asia–Pacific Water Forum (APWF) and Asian Development Bank (ADB) in collaboration with the Global Water Partnership (GWP). This pu...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 Mar 2016 The 1997 Asian financial crisis and the 2008 global financial and economic crisis further demonstrated the importance of financial stability. Both crises showed how balance sheets of financial institu...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 Mar 2016 The government has taken unprecedented steps to create a basic framework to achieve its long-term objective of improving water quality in Chao Lake and protecting and maintaining all of its economic,...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 Mar 2016 The education systems in Asia, including technical and vocational education and training (TVET), were well suited at the time to allow Asia to become the world’s assembly line. In simple terms, formal...
by Sungsup Ra | On 15 Mar 2016 Asia has been continuously growing, and this growth has alleviated poverty and increased the number of middle income countries in the region. However, the recent regional and global economic slowdown...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 Mar 2016 Developing countries continue to face substantial underemployment, working poverty and informality of employment across various regions. In particular, women are more likely to be affected by higher l...
by | On 15 Mar 2016 On January 25, 2012, one year has passed since the protests began on Cairo’s Tahrir Square. Events in the Middle East and North Africa over the past year have altered many previously held beliefs abou...
by | On 14 Mar 2016 Poverty alleviation is the cornerstone and mission of the development community. Yet perhaps the community’s focus on low-income countries (LICs) has skewed a healthy and accurate evaluation of the ef...
by | On 14 Mar 2016 Do global spillovers clog transmission channels of monetary policy through domestic financial markets? Drawing on stylised facts and using a dynamic factor model to develop an indicator of global spil...
by Michael Debabrata Patra | On 14 Mar 2016 Controlling healthcare costs while promoting maximum health impact in the recipient countries is one the biggest challenges for global health donors. This paper views global health donors as the regul...
by Han Ye | On 14 Mar 2016 The global economy is finding it hard to restore pre-Great Recession growth rates – every report of the IMF seemingly downgrades its previous growth forecasts. Why has the recovery been so slow? When
...
by Raghuram G. Rajan | On 14 Mar 2016 Arsenic contamination in water supplies continues to increase in many countries, especially in developing nations, thereby creating both environmental and health hazard. Its sources and effects are mu...
by Zareena Begum Irfan | On 13 Mar 2016 In the post-9/11 world, India’s nuclear establishment is threatened by nuclear terrorism. Some analysts suggest that India may be home to up to 36 active terrorist organizations. It is thus crucial th...
by | On 12 Mar 2016 China is unique among developing countries in achieving sustained economic and social success. So, policymakers in South Asia will do well to factor a robust Chinese economic future into their thinkin...
by Shahid Javed Burki | On 11 Mar 2016 This paper studies the effect of domestic macroeconomic news releases on the change in the bond yields of India, China and Japan. We apply event study method to observe whether the large set of new in...
by Sreejata Banerjee | On 10 Mar 2016 The EU has played an instrumental role in negotiating the interim agreement on Iran’s nuclear program. OzanSerdaroglu argues that while the prospective lifting of sanctions under a final deal brings w...
by | On 10 Mar 2016 In the present SAM, the input-output industry classifications have been condensed into five main production accounts namely agriculture, industry, health, education and other sectors. The SAM 1989-90...
by Rizwana Siddiqui | On 10 Mar 2016 Three major objectives of this study are: (i) to understand China’s success against poverty, particularly the mechanism through which, the economic reforms led to poverty reduction; (ii) to give a his...
by G. M. Arif | On 10 Mar 2016 This paper uses contract theory to suggest simple contract designs that could be used by the Global Fund. Using a basic model of procurement, we lay out five alternative options and consider when each...
by Liam Wren-Lewis | On 10 Mar 2016 The article provides an overview of the state of the art of sociological research on price formation. The dominant trait of the sociological approach to prices is to understand price formation not as...
by Jens Beckert | On 09 Mar 2016 How does the transfer of advanced technology spur innovation in developing countries? This paper exploits the large-scale introduction of high-speed railway (HSR) technology into China in 2004 as a na...
by Yatang Lin | On 09 Mar 2016 The paper investigates the political aspects of the coorperation between China, South Korea and Japan to address transboundary pollution in Northeast Asia. Investigating the motivations, modalities an...
by Reinhard Drifte | On 09 Mar 2016 This article intends to bring to light the energy security concept in the region, while analyzing how this multilateral cooperative energy scheme can contribute to building a new regional economic sec...
by Se Hyun Ahn | On 09 Mar 2016 This paper looks into the role of community based natural resource management focussing on the Joint Forest Management (JFM) in India. The analysis presented is the result of triangulation of critical...
by Madhusudan Bandi | On 09 Mar 2016 Why is unprecedented financialization failing to provoke a strong political backlash? The role of financial markets, motives, actors, and institutions has expanded continuously in recent decades, but...
by | On 08 Mar 2016 It is often said that history matters, but these words are often little more than a hollow statement. In the aftermath of the Great Recession, the view that the economy is a mechanical toy that can be...
by | On 08 Mar 2016 What is the impact of business interest groups on the formulation of public social policies? This paper reviews the literature in political science, history, and sociology on this question. It identif...
by | On 08 Mar 2016 Even after two decades of research on globalization, we still face open questions about the interplay between national capitalist institutions and transnational economic governance. How does embeddedn...
by | On 08 Mar 2016 Financial inclusion has rapidly ascended global development policy agendas. Between 2 billion and 2.5 billion adults worldwide do not use formal financial services, which a multifaceted coalition of a...
by Philip Mader | On 08 Mar 2016 A striking phenomenon of recent global economic change is the emergence of new development actors, with alternative development experiences and development financing capacity. These actors are now cre...
by Stephany Griffith-Jones | On 08 Mar 2016 While there had been agreements that the current global financial crisis which originated from the United States (US) would not be akin to the Asian Financial Crisis back in 1997- 1998, the resultant...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 06 Mar 2016 The year 2009 marks a new era of change. One would immediately associate it with the Obama administration and its promises for change, such as the US policies in addressing climate change. A shift has...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 06 Mar 2016 Against the backdrop of the changing global demographic trends, this edition highlights issues which mitigate migration as a viable strategy to cope with threats to human welfare and dignity. It does...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 06 Mar 2016 Notwithstanding the global financial crisis, energy security remains one of the top priorities for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The need to reduce reliance on fossil fuels in th...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 05 Mar 2016 Human rights issues within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations pose a significant challenge as it seeks to remain relevant in an increasingly interconnected global system. On 20 July 2009, ASEA...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 05 Mar 2016 By the end of the last decade, the total area of farmland globally that was acquired by government-backed foreign investors amounted to nearly half the size of Europe. In addition to Latin America, Af...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 05 Mar 2016 The United Nations, in its new report The Globalization of Crime, underscored the urgency of combating organised crime. The report examines major trafficking flows of drugs, firearms, counterfeit pro...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 04 Mar 2016 Since the end of January 2011, the state of food security in North Korea has been in question. External factors, particularly the recent spike in global food prices and the suspension of food aid supp...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 04 Mar 2016 The beginning of 2011 was marked by a series of rain-related disasters in various parts of the globe. Australia experienced one of the most severe (and most probably the costliest) wave of floods in i...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 03 Mar 2016 Amidst heightened expectations regarding ASEAN’s contribution to international order, particularly in the context of a trend towards multilevel security governance, ASEAN is attempting to transform it...
by Holly Haywood | On 02 Mar 2016 This paper examines the possibilities of using economic instruments, especially pollution taxes and bargaining approaches resulting in people’s participation for environmental management in India. It...
by M.N. Murty | On 02 Mar 2016 After three decades of double-digit growth, China is slowing as it is rebalancing its economy from export-driven to less-volatile domestic consumption driven economy. The paper looks at the impact of...
by Geetima Das Krishna | On 02 Mar 2016 The past decade has seen economic links between the Gulf Arab region and Southeast Asia increase considerably – from just USD20 billion in 2002 to about USD100 billion in 2010. Notable factors driving...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 01 Mar 2016 Rio+20, set for June 2012, offers an opportunity to review the current state of global environmental summitry. What can be expected of this latest round of global dialogue on sustainable development?...
by J. Ewing | On 01 Mar 2016 This paper analyses the various legal, political, military and economic circumstances of the two territorial disputes in the ECS, and it evaluates the approaches by both sides to turn the ECS from a `...
by Reinhard Drifte | On 01 Mar 2016 ATNI is a global initiative that evaluates the largest food and beverage manufacturers’ policies, practices and disclosure related to all types of poor nutrition. It provides companies with a tool to...
by Access to Nutrition Index (ATNI) | On 01 Mar 2016 In the closing decades of the twentieth century there has been an almost complete intellectual triumph of the twin principles of marketization (understood here as referring to the liberalization of do...
by D M NACHANE | On 01 Mar 2016 This paper joins the growing scholarship on the ontological security needs of states in international relations (IR) literature and explores its relevance to India-China relations. Ontological securit...
by | On 01 Mar 2016 With over a billion people in China, the issue of cultivated land conversion is extremely important both in terms of food security and environmental sustainability. This paper investigates the relatio...
by Shunji Cui | On 01 Mar 2016 The birth of Bangladesh in 1971 was an epoch-making event within the post-colonial order of South Asia. Led by the middle classes, a bitter and bloody war of Liberation from Pakistan was fought, based...
by Sanjay Bhardwaj | On 01 Mar 2016 Annual food production is enough to feed the 6.9 billion people in the world today. However, access and distribution of food in order that people do not have to die due to hunger continues to remain e...
by Ruth Kattumuri | On 01 Mar 2016 The 1994 Fiscal Reforms in China were spectacularly successful in meeting the immediate challenges that the economy faced at that time—a sharply dropping tax/GDP ratio, and limited ability of the cent...
by Ehtisham Ahmad | On 01 Mar 2016 From the existing development plans and vulnerability assessment report it is found that adverse effects of climate change including variability and natural disaster has a significant implication on t...
by | On 29 Feb 2016 This paper undertakes econometric analysis of innovation, learning, and exporting in automobiles and electronics firms in the PRC using a large-scale dataset to identify the most appropriate innovatio...
by Ganeshan Wignaraja | On 29 Feb 2016 This paper explores the “black box” of innovation in the electronics production network in East Asia through a mapping exercise of technological capabilities and an econometric analysis of exporting i...
by Ganeshan Wignaraja | On 29 Feb 2016 The Report assesses the development impacts of migrants in the countries of the Asia-Pacific region and provides guidance on the steps countries, regional organizations, civil society actors and other...
by United Nations Economic and Social Commission (UNESCAP) | On 29 Feb 2016 The toolkit contains a list of practical climate friendly initiatives that can be adopted by individuals, educational institutions, and workplaces with detailed calculations of annual CO 2 emissions r...
by Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Chang GOI | On 29 Feb 2016 The GoI, in collaboration with Global Environment Facility (GEF), has been addressing critical gaps related to policy, regulation, capacity, technology, management and finance. The completed GEF proje...
by Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Chang GOI | On 29 Feb 2016 Implementation of the Adaptation Fund and GCF direct access modalities is still in a relatively early stage. (The Adaptation Fund accredited its first implementing entities in 2010; the GCF did so in...
by Indira Masullo | On 29 Feb 2016 Nutritional anaemia due to iron and folate deficiency is a major global Public Health problem. South Asia ranks among the regions, which have the highest prevalence of anaemia in the world and India p...
by K.N. Agarwal | On 29 Feb 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 Against the trends of increasing global travel, rapid urbanisation and growing population, the threat of infectious diseases looms large on the horizon. In Asia, the series of health crises brought...
by Gianna Gayle Amul | On 27 Feb 2016 The issue of borders, their porosity and the security challenges they create amid a rapidly changing regional and global strategic environment is indeed a serious one for Southeast Asia. The criticali...
by | On 27 Feb 2016 This year is the 20th anniversary of the release of the 1994 United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) Human Development Report, which defined the concept of human security and brought it to int...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 27 Feb 2016 2015 is a critical year for global and regional institutions, and for the international community as a whole, as it represents a milestone in the big push for achieving global goals of peace, human se...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 27 Feb 2016 The most recent UNODC Global Report on Trafficking in Persons identifies East Asia and the Pacific is an origin area for victims of trafficking where most of the victims consist of both adult and unde...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 27 Feb 2016 This paper aims to first build a deeper understanding of the emergence of Basel banking norms (Basel I), and the transition to each of the subsequent regulations (Basel II and Basel III). The primary...
by Akshay Uday Shenoy | On 27 Feb 2016 Audit committees have received considerable attention globally in recent years. We examine the effects of the Satyam failure on changes in the composition and functioning of Indian audit committees. A...
by R. Narayanaswamy | On 27 Feb 2016 The forces of globalization, in tandem with realities of domestic natural resources, economics and politics, and the influence of international institutions such as the World Trade Organization (WTO),...
by | On 26 Feb 2016 THE NEWS has been coming in thick and fast. Floods and landslides caused by heavy rainfalls in parts of Southeast Asia seem to have become normal occurrences. As if this is not enough, we also hear of...
by Mely Caballero-Anthony | On 26 Feb 2016 WHILE the media incessantly highlights the Muslim world’s battle with Islamophobia and the political crises in Iraq, Gaza and Iran, another set of issues that is just as pertinent — but often overlook...
by Sofiah Jamil | On 26 Feb 2016 The prospect of nuclear energy as an alternative to traditional fossil fuels has increased sharply due to soaring oil prices. This has been further boosted by the challenge of global climate change. D...
by | On 26 Feb 2016 Global efforts to tackle climate change and food security are hampered by North-South differences over cost sharing. But rising interdependence and the South’s new pragmatism and bargaining power are...
by | On 26 Feb 2016 Differences in political ideology might lead to different views about the role of the state in the provision of public services across countries, or even in the same country over time.2 At the same ti...
by Ehtisham Ahmad | On 26 Feb 2016 In India, agriculture is inherently a risky venture due to uncertainty in production and volatility in price, and more so in the context of increased climatic aberrations and globalisation. Therefore,...
by Dr Mamata Swain | On 26 Feb 2016 This article analyzes the location determinants of foreign direct investment in services, both theoretically and empirically. It hypothesizes four sets of factors as the location determinants of FDI i...
by Feng Yin | On 26 Feb 2016 The issue of managing sub-national liabilities is not only an issue in the EU, but is also being a major concern in South Asia, China and Brazil as much of the public investment needed for sustainable...
by Ehtisham Ahmad | On 26 Feb 2016 Recent global food price shocks have demonstrated the urgent need to effectively address food insecurity in Southeast Asia – both at the national and regional level. This think-piece goes beyond issue...
by | On 25 Feb 2016 Oil prices have declined in recent months in tandem with the slowdown in the global economy. Its significant tumble by more than 50 percent in a short span of three months has nonetheless triggered an...
by | On 25 Feb 2016 The International Criminal Court’s unprecedented ruling to arrest the Sudanese president for crimes against humanity is a step further in advancing the doctrine of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P)....
by | On 25 Feb 2016 After years of concern about H5N1 bird flu, the new flu causing global alarm is a pig virus of the H1N1 family. As influenza reports erupt around the world, inevitable questions are arising. Is this t...
by Mely Caballero-Anthony | On 25 Feb 2016 As the current global economic crisis deepens, labour migrants have begun to experience the consequences of both political and economic insecurity. How effective are legal frameworks in protecting the...
by | On 25 Feb 2016 The international community is now faced with an influenza pandemic and the rhetoric of global health security has become more urgent. Whilst our preparedness for such an emerging infectious disease i...
by | On 25 Feb 2016 In the country’s first case of imported H1N1 flu, China quarantined all individuals who shared the same flight from Mexico City to Shanghai. Mexico’s complaint about unfair treatment of its nationals...
by | On 25 Feb 2016 In India, NCDs have surpassed communicable diseases as the most common causes of morbidity and premature mortality in the country. The indicators and targets are used to track progress of actions desi...
by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare H & FW | On 25 Feb 2016 There is the logical possibility of the creation of a Muslim society that is characterised by high levels of trust in and esteem for the State, and in which there is also a high level of trust in reli...
by Riaz Hassan | On 25 Feb 2016 The implementation of the "Higher Education Modernization Act of 1997", CHED Memorandum Order No. 20, and "Public Higher Education Reform Framework" granted state universities and colleges (SUCs) the...
by Rosario G. Manasan | On 25 Feb 2016 This paper is an integration of the studies commissioned under the DFA-PIDS memorandum of agreement to explore the priority areas during the Philippines' APEC hosting in 2015 under the theme: "Buildin...
by Erlinda M. Medalla | On 25 Feb 2016 A framework is proposed for understanding the potential value-added of massive open online courses (MOOCs) along the lines of curation, credentialling, and cost. MOOCs are likely to appeal differently...
by Emmanuel S. de Dios | On 25 Feb 2016 There is a growing emphasis on the role of trade in health services (telehealth, health tourism and retirement, investments and deployment of medical professionals) in easing fiscal constraints, gener...
by Maria Cherry Rodolfo | On 25 Feb 2016 Despite some recovery in recent years, Central Asian Republics (CARs) remain in difficult economic situation and they present a serious challenge to Asia. It is in the mutual interest of both CARs and...
by Ramgopal Agarwala | On 24 Feb 2016 Who would have thought thirty years ago China could become one of the world’s most influential trading nations? At that time the Chinese government was reluctant to open up its door for foreigners and...
by Alice Wang | On 24 Feb 2016 The recent riots and attacks in China’s western province of Xinjiang have brought to the forefront the long simmering tensions between the Han Chinese and Uyghur communities. What have often been capt...
by | On 24 Feb 2016 Many commentators assume that China will become the next world superpower. This may be a premature assessment. As Judo players know, size can be a weakness rather than a strength. It is the spirit of...
by | On 24 Feb 2016 On 10 December 2009, the annual Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to US President Barack Obama. A controversial recipient, his acceptance speech outlined his world vision, and provided insight into US eng...
by Alistair Cook | On 24 Feb 2016 The Accord adopted at the Copenhagen Climate Change summit has done little to advance global efforts on dealing with the impact of climate change. It does little to meet ASEAN expectations or ensure t...
by Lorraine Elliot | On 24 Feb 2016 Abstract: The development of China-ASEAN trade and economic relations within the recent 15 years has of great significance not only for both sides but also for the whole East-Asia region. This paper i...
by Zhao Jianglin | On 24 Feb 2016 The latest natural disaster in Chile, like the one in Haiti, comes as yet another test of Southeast Asia’s readiness in global humanitarian relief — five years after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. How...
by | 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 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 A recent conference in Singapore organised by the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies examined the worldwide response to the outbreak of H1N1 influenza last year. The lessons learnt from ear...
by | On 24 Feb 2016 Five years have passed since the signing of the 2005 World Summit Outcome Document, when United Nations (UN) member states agreed to the Responsibility to Protect (RtoP). Contained in paragraph 138 of...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 24 Feb 2016 Southeast Asia as a region has a unique history, and the evolving relationships between its communities, states, regional organisations and the international community reflect this. Given this context...
by Alistair Cook | On 24 Feb 2016 Japan’s small farming represents a puzzle. Currently nearly three-quarters of farmland is operated by farmers whose farm size is well under optimal size. Being too small is the main reason for the hig...
by Yoshihisa Godo | On 24 Feb 2016 The rise of Julia Gillard as Australia’s prime minister has given Kevin Rudd the dubious honour of being probably the first political leader to fall victim to climate change. What does this mean for A...
by | On 23 Feb 2016 Regardless of how strong a country’s national health system is, it is only as good as its neighbours’. National borders are not able to withstand the threat posed by pandemics and infectious diseases....
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 23 Feb 2016 The food crisis at the end of the last decade and the resulting food riots that occurred in cities all over the world exposed the vulnerability and fragility of the current global food system and high...
by | On 23 Feb 2016 The paper examines the changing size, shape and range of financial markets in the region indicates the extent to which regional markets have become more efficient and have improved in quality since th...
by Jenny Corbett | On 23 Feb 2016 Russia’s peatland fires, like those in Indonesia, have been triggered by high global temperatures. The heatwaves behind the current Russian fires bear similarities with the Indonesian experiences in 1...
by | On 23 Feb 2016 The rapid economic growth achieved after globalization by most of the developing countries, has imposed considerable social costs and has become a major threat to sustainable development. However it i...
by Prakash Nelliyat | On 23 Feb 2016 Arsenic poisoning of water is a serious problem in Bangladesh. It has significantly negative physical and social impact. There is an urgent need for the government to take effective steps to salvage t...
by | On 23 Feb 2016 The World Bank (2005) reported that from 1985 to 2003, per capita gross domestic product increased only by about 0.7% per year, well below the 3.7% average of neighboring countries (Indonesia, Malaysi...
by Eduardo Gonzalez | On 23 Feb 2016 The nuclear crisis in Japan has received heightened attention in the wake of the tsunami. Will it result in a catastrophic meltdown, as experienced in Chernobyl more than two decades ago, and trigger...
by | On 22 Feb 2016 The global food crisis of 2007 to 2008 drew attention to the importance of food security as a regional challenge for the Asia-Pacific. Regional strategies to achieve food security have recognised the...
by Lorraine Elliot | On 22 Feb 2016 Security sector governance (SSG) poses a huge challenge to states transitioning to democracy, particularly in cases where the military and other components of the security sector had been very influen...
by | On 22 Feb 2016 The global food crisis of 2007 to 2008 – which was characterised by both volatility in food prices and shortages of food – and the uneven but almost certainly largely negative impacts of climate chang...
by Lorraine Elliot | On 22 Feb 2016 In this paper we attempt to explain the China Puzzle: coexistence of accelerating economic growth and worsening growth outlook. The root cause lies in China’s unique liberalization approach, i.e., the...
by Huang Yiping | On 22 Feb 2016 Rapid trade-led economic growth in emerging Asia has been shifting the global economic and industrial centres of gravity away from the north Atlantic, raising the importance of Asia in world trade but...
by Kym Anderson | On 22 Feb 2016 A key lesson of the 2007–2009 global financial crisis (GFC) was the importance of containing systemic financial risk and the need for a “macroprudential” approach to surveillance and regulation that c...
by Masahiro Kawai | On 22 Feb 2016 One oft-neglected strategy to improve food availability is the simple act of reducing waste. Inefficiencies across the entire food supply chain – from ‘farm to fork’ – result in significant food losse...
by | On 22 Feb 2016 This paper discusses the financial landscape of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), a region engaged in building an economic community (a “single market and production base”) by 2015....
by Choong Lee | On 21 Feb 2016 This paper examines the impact of sectorial reforms on current account imbalances, with a special focus on the People’s Republic of China (PRC). In particular, we investigate to what extent reforms pe...
by Hiro Ito | On 21 Feb 2016 The rise of regional monetary arrangements poses a challenge for the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s global surveillance efforts. This paper reviews how the IMF has responded to earlier regional i...
by Barry Eichengreen | On 21 Feb 2016 Financial safety nets in Asia have come a long way since the Asian Financial Crisis (AFC) of 1997–98. Not wanting to rely solely on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) again, the Chiang Mai Initiati...
by Hal Hill | On 21 Feb 2016 This paper discusses Japan’s strategy for Asian monetary integration. It argues that Japan faces three major policy challenges when promoting intraregional exchange rate stability. First, there must b...
by Masahiro Kawai | On 21 Feb 2016 This paper is an excerpt from a FY 2008 survey for the promotion of oil and natural development and utilization as commissioned by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. Since 2008, the global L...
by Yoshikazu Kobayashi | On 21 Feb 2016 This article analyses the motivation and impact of the 2009 intervention of the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) in benchmark price negotiations. The impact of the transition from benchmark pri...
by Luke Hurst | On 21 Feb 2016 As global food security rises to the top of the policymaking agenda, new approaches are being explored. Within ASEAN, Singapore’s position as a food importer is changing to become an active contributo...
by | On 20 Feb 2016 In seeking to ensure its own food security Singapore, may be transforming itself from a passive food importer to an active contributor to the regional and global food system – through research and dev...
by | On 20 Feb 2016 The world’s biggest summit on environment and development in 20 years will take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June this year. What are the opportunities and challenges for this global multilater...
by | On 20 Feb 2016 The militaries of developing countries have often gone beyond the mission of external defence, to perform unconventional roles ranging from disaster relief and economic management to law enforcement a...
by | On 20 Feb 2016 The world’s biggest summit on environment and development in 20 years wrapped up last Friday in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Has the outcome of Rio+20 managed to meet its promise?
by | On 20 Feb 2016 The implications of the estimated 30-50 per cent global food wastage for energy, soil, water and human resources are substantial. Recognising the need to pay greater attention to this issue, the RSIS...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 19 Feb 2016 This issues brief outlines key points brought up at an Energy Security Seminar on ‘Risk and Resilience: Securing Energy in Insecure Spaces’ held on 29-30 October 2012 in Singapore. Energy vulnerabilit...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 19 Feb 2016 This NTS Issues Brief outlines themes highlighted at the roundtable workshop on Managing Cross-Border Movements of People in Southeast Asia: Promoting Capacity and Response for Irregular Migration hel...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 19 Feb 2016 Based on her work experience in post-Katrina New Orleans and post-Sandy New York City, the Municipal Art Society of New York’s Director of Urban Resilience and Livability, Mary Rowe, discusses the rol...
by Mary Rowe | On 19 Feb 2016 In his lecture on “Post-industrial dynamics and urban housing”, Hugo Priemus advocates a mixed urban housing strategy to provide high-quality urban housing for knowledge workers and affordable housing...
by Hugo Priemus | On 19 Feb 2016 The City Prosperity Initiative” presents UN-Habitat’s new global initiative that aims to reinforce local capacities for cities to improve well being and prosperity through a new monitoring tool (city...
by | 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 In this lecture Eugenie Birch demonstrates the growth of slums and associated solutions over time, explaining the reasons for their formation and the various approaches employed to improve substandard...
by | On 19 Feb 2016 This lecture is based on the realization that the current global approach to land systems cannot meet the needs of the majority of people in developing countries in regard to security of tenure and it...
by | On 19 Feb 2016 Michael Cohen in this lecture illustrates data about economic growth that demonstrate how cities act as engines of national economic development. In 2008, for the first time in human history, half the...
by | On 19 Feb 2016 China is the only country in the world with two sovereign investment vehicles dedicated to managing excess foreign reserves for return, not just safety and liquidity. As the investment profile and beh...
by Angela Cummine | On 19 Feb 2016 This paper aims to facilitate China’s globalisation process and to enable destination countries to benefit from Chinese ODI potential by having a clear understanding of the institutional background ag...
by Mei Wang | On 19 Feb 2016 China’s first attempt to establish a multilateral financial institution was met with some suspicion and caution in the west. According to one interpretation, China is frustrated with the United States...
by Mike Callaghan | On 19 Feb 2016 It has long been realised that factor accumulation and technological development are only proximate causes of economic development, and focus has now shifted to investigating the ‘deeper determinants’...
by Fazal Husain | 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 Reanalyses data sets, being temporally and spatially complete and available on six hourly timescales, are extremely convenient to use. Real observations represent the climate system with greater fidel...
by Richard Washington | On 18 Feb 2016 This NTS Policy Brief is based on the proceedings of the Expert Group Meeting on the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) 2015: Opportunities and Challenges for Food Security held in June 2013. A key messag...
by | On 17 Feb 2016 Food security at the national level is now recognised to be dependent on a complex set of factors which interact and collectively influence the availability of food, its supply chains, its affordabili...
by | On 17 Feb 2016 Food security encompasses multiple, inter-connected dimensions, from production-related concerns, to market and price dynamics, environmental trends and policy approaches. Given this, ‘robustness’, th...
by | On 17 Feb 2016 Agriculture is an important source of greenhouse gas emissions globally, but how do emissions differ among countries? The relative contribution of agriculture to countries’ emissions budgets can infor...
by Meryl Richards | On 17 Feb 2016 Despite being the biggest contributors to climate change and home to majority of the world’s population, cities have so far had little say in global climate negotiations. As the frontlines of climate...
by | On 16 Feb 2016 All eyes are on Paris where world leaders will meet for the much anticipated 2015 climate change conference. They are expected to reach a consensus on a legally-binding climate agreement for all count...
by | On 16 Feb 2016 WHO has declared the Zika outbreak as a global public health emergency. While uncertainty on the linkage between Zika and microcephaly remains, it is time to understand the potential formation of futu...
by | On 16 Feb 2016 The Paris Agreement on Climate Change hailed as the first truly universal and unanimous agreement on climate was celebrated as progress in humanity’s collective fight against climate change. But what...
by | On 16 Feb 2016 This ‘theory in practice’ paper examines the experiences of citizens groups seeking to hold Pakistan’s elected representatives and governance institutions accountable. A sustained period of democracy,...
by | On 16 Feb 2016 Financial globalization has gathered attention since the early 1990s because of its macrofinancial and crisis implications and its perceived large expansion. But financial globalization has taken diff...
by Francisco Ceballos | On 16 Feb 2016 The World Bank and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) face three sets of challenges: those that are common to others in the official development finance community; those that are common to the World Ban...
by Vikram Nehru | On 16 Feb 2016 Driven by the increasingly important role of supply chains in global production, this paper studies empirical association between global credit-market shocks and firm behavior towards liquidity needs...
by Yothin Jinjarak | On 16 Feb 2016 This paper evaluates the prospects for the renminbi’s role as an international currency and the implications for global financial markets. Although the People’s Republic of China (PRC) does not have e...
by Eswar Prasad | On 16 Feb 2016 This paper studies how East Asia’s trade composition and orientation have changed over the past decade and analyzes the implications for the region and beyond. Over the last 2 decades we have witnesse...
by Matthias Helble | On 16 Feb 2016 Afghanistan is a context where individuals have to cope with the most adverse of circumstances. In this paper, we use the tools provided by a new approach in economics, which relies on surveys of happ...
by Soumya Chattopadhyay | On 16 Feb 2016 This paper studies dynamic effects of agriculture trade in the context of domestic and global liberalisation. Being the largest sector of the economy, the agriculture sector contributes substantially...
by Rizwana Siddiqui | On 15 Feb 2016 Industrialized countries had their share of carbon emissions. Can the developing countries also get a fair share in their deal for reducing carbon emissions and clear their way to development?
by Aakriti Singh | On 15 Feb 2016 Like other developing countries, Bangladesh initiated financial sector reform program during 1990’s. The main objectives of the financial sector reform programs were: i) Gradual B 3 | P a g e eliminat...
by Sayera Younus | On 15 Feb 2016 Emergence of the global market has heightened the role of trade in world economy and made industrialization as an integral system of global trade and production. Bangladesh economy at present is more...
by Md. Nehal Ahmed | On 15 Feb 2016 The year 2007 marked a milestone in the fight against poverty and corruption. It represented the midway point on the road to meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the ambitious global pledg...
by Transparency International TI | On 14 Feb 2016 The National Integrity System encompasses the key institutions, sectors or specific activities (the ‘pillars’) that contribute to integrity, transparency and accountability in a society. When it funct...
by Transparency International TI | On 14 Feb 2016 The characteristics of the area of the Middle East and North Africa known as the MENA region tend to fuel corruption and result in low levels of transparency. Yet anti-corruption strategies have prima...
by Transparency International TI | On 14 Feb 2016 This article examines three elements of the popular narrative of China’s involvement in the development of Afghanistan’s vast natural resource wealth. It argues that Chinese companies invested in Afgh...
by Erica Downs | On 14 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 The Toolkit o#ers a step-by-step guide for integrating Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation into the coastal and marine ecosystem management that will be quite useful for the "eld pra...
by Sriyanie Miththapala | On 14 Feb 2016 Following the Hausmann, et al. (2005) methodology, an attempt is done to identify the constraints to growth in Pakistan. It is argued that governance failure and institutional shortcomings are the h...
by Abdul Qayyum | On 14 Feb 2016 The theories of institutional evolution put forth by Douglas North, Darron Acemoglu and Dani Rodrik and the historical experiences of different countries in the context of development (or non-developm...
by M. Idrees Khawaja | On 14 Feb 2016 India has the second largest population of elderly people after China. The living arrangement of the elderly is seen as a parameter of great importance in understanding their plight in developing coun...
by Mitali Sen | On 14 Feb 2016 The collapse of global financial markets in September 2008 has ignited a debate on what caused their quick undoing. As captured in the comments of the OECD Secretary-General, there is a growing sentim...
by Transparency International TI | On 13 Feb 2016 As the world’s largest democracy and the second most populous country in the world, India has experienced sea change since its independence in various facets of development. However as per public heal...
by Anuj Sabharwal | On 13 Feb 2016 The paper attempts to analyze the role of public policy adjustments in facilitating the medical tourism sector in Asian countries in response to recent global economic events. While falling incomes ma...
by Vinay Singh | On 13 Feb 2016 Using original data from a newly collected nationally representative survey for 40,000 households in India, we examine associations of various dimensions of social capital with each other and with con...
by Reeve Vanneman | On 13 Feb 2016 Using original data from a newly collected nationwide survey for 40,000 households in India, we examine variation in social capital in India across caste, tribe, and religion. Our primary measure uses...
by Reeve Vanneman | On 13 Feb 2016 Supporting and encouraging business to do its part in tackling corruption has been a global priority for Transparency International (TI) since its inception. Our approach is firmly anchored in the bel...
by Transparency International TI | On 12 Feb 2016 Transparency International’s (TI) 2009 Global Corruption Barometer (the Barometer) presents the main findings of a public opinion survey that explores the general public’s views of corruption, as well...
by Transparency International TI | On 12 Feb 2016 Globally, there are 26 ongoing armed conflicts and nearly one sixth of the world’s population lives in so-called ‘weak governance’ zones.1 In 2009 alone, the United Nations estimated that 42 million p...
by Transparency International TI | On 12 Feb 2016 The 2010 Corruption Perceptions Index draws on different assessments and business opinion surveys carried out by independent and reputable institutions. It captures information about the administrativ...
by Transparency International TI | On 12 Feb 2016 In Davos 2012, business leaders reviewed the output of The Future of Manufacturing project, which asked How are global value chains evolving? The Manufacturing for Growth initiative asks What should b...
by | On 11 Feb 2016 Foreign direct investment (FDI) is a powerful instrument for growth and development, and is key to enhancing prosperity worldwide and boosting the global economy. Building on its previous work on the...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 11 Feb 2016 The Global Competitiveness Report 2013-2014 features a record number of 148 economies, and thus continues to be the most comprehensive assessment of its kind. It contains a detailed profile for each o...
by | On 11 Feb 2016 Global megatrends such as climate change and resource scarcity force a rethinking of this crucial network, especially in the light of a reshuffling of global economic activity and significant demand g...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 11 Feb 2016 In this report, the World Economic Forum and the Foundation, with analytics provided by McKinsey & Company, acting as project adviser, joined forces to reconcile the concept of scaling a circular econ...
by | On 11 Feb 2016 This paper considers how technology trends and a globalized economy are reshaping the way we create, distribute and access content. The results of that study are intended to help everyone with an inte...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 11 Feb 2016 The Global Gender Gap Index seeks to measure one important aspect of gender equality: the relative gaps between women and men, across a large set of countries and across the four key areas of health,...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 11 Feb 2016 This report looks at what a new energy architecture might look like and how best-in-class enabling environments have already helped some high-ranking countries begin their transitions to more efficien...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 11 Feb 2016 The Global Risks 2014 report highlights how global risks are not only interconnected but also have systemic impacts. Based on a survey of the World Economic Forum’s multistakeholder communities, the r...
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 This Report produced by the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Employment analyses the need for the global economy to grow in order to create jobs, and the need for jobs in order to susta...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 11 Feb 2016 With growing urbanization what is required is the ease of transportation. It is now high time that Government Budgets need to have a substantial allocation for this. After all transportation is lifeli...
by Sudakshina Gupta | On 11 Feb 2016 This paper underlines that the WIPO DA presents a timely and valuable opportunity to re-evaluate the design and delivery of IP training and education. It points to possible lessons to be learned by lo...
by | On 10 Feb 2016 Mapping Prevailing Ideas on Intellectual Property by Professor Jean-Frédéric Morin, Universitélibre de Bruxelles, examines an overlooked yet critical dimension of global IP governance: where do IP ide...
by | On 10 Feb 2016 During the decades of the USSR, the Mongolian People’s Republic was a somnolent client of Moscow with only token relations with the West. After the break with the Soviet Union in 1990, and democratiza...
by | On 09 Feb 2016 The “global commons,” which refers mainly to the sea, the skies, outer space and cyberspace, has become more and more congested and contested in recent years. Stable and dependable access to the globa...
by | On 09 Feb 2016 On January 11, 2007, a state of emergency was declared in Bangladesh. A new caretaker government which condoned greater military involvement in the governing of Bangladesh was installed. This is the t...
by | On 09 Feb 2016 For Chinese researchers of international relations, to see a security challenge through the lens of conflict prevention and management represents a relatively fresh exploration that has begun to recei...
by | On 09 Feb 2016 We are living through a major power shift: the making of a post-Western world. The days of Western dominance on the global stage are gone. China, India and Brazil are on track to become the largest ec...
by | On 08 Feb 2016 Over the past four decades, the accumulation of policy legacies and public debt has led to a decline in fiscal flexibility in Germany and the United States. By applying an index of fiscal democracy to...
by | On 08 Feb 2016 Even after two decades of research on globalization, we still face open questions about the interplay between national capitalist institutions and transnational economic governance. How does embeddedn...
by | On 08 Feb 2016 This leads the present paper to reflect on the need for additional coordination mechanisms to address the challenges of an increasingly globalized and networked economy. In recognition of the fundamen...
by | On 08 Feb 2016 Although there is an extremely robust positive correlation between various measures of trade and financial development on the one hand, and economic growth, on the other, the evidence concerning the d...
by | On 08 Feb 2016 This report updates the global assessment provided in the first report on The State of the World’s Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, published in 2007. It focuses particularly on chan...
by Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO] | On 08 Feb 2016 Do leader networks promote efficient intergovernmental contracts? We examine a groundbreaking policy in China where subprovincial governments freely traded land conversion quotas and investigate the r...
by Nancy H. Chau | On 07 Feb 2016 This paper investigates how private transfers from internal migration in China affect the expenditure behaviour of families left behind in rural areas. Using data from the Rural-Urban Migration in Chi...
by Sylvie Démurger | On 07 Feb 2016 We use data from two rounds of the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) to study the determinants of subjective well-being in China over the period 2005-2010 during which self-reported happiness score...
by M. Niaz Asadullah | On 07 Feb 2016 The Promoting Revenue Transparency: 2011 Report on Oil and Gas Companies, published by Transparency International in partnership with Revenue Watch, rates 44 companies on their levels of transparency....
by Transparency International TI | On 07 Feb 2016 The Global Corruption Report is the first comprehensive publication of its kind to explore the corruption risks related to tackling climate change. From international policy-making to national level m...
by Transparency International TI | On 06 Feb 2016 Between 2010 and 2011, more than 7500 people were interviewed in six South Asian countries – Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka – on their views of corruption levels in their c...
by Transparency International TI | On 06 Feb 2016 The year 2015 signals the end date for development commitments that global leaders first made at the United Nations (UN) in 2000: the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). As the world looks beyond 201...
by Transparency International TI | On 06 Feb 2016 The Global Corruption Barometer 2013 draws on a survey of more than 114,000 respondents in 107 countries. It addresses people’s direct experiences with bribery and details their views on corruption in...
by Transparency International TI | On 06 Feb 2016 One way to do a reality check on the official numbers will be to develop a desi version of what came to be called the Li index in China.
by T.N. Ninan | On 06 Feb 2016 This paper proposes a mathematical model based on a Boolean algebra involving a 4×4 social capital matrix [Shah (2008)], that emerges through interaction within and across individuals, communities, in...
by Tariq Shah | On 06 Feb 2016 This exercise is envisaged to provide a brief account of the research studies on inter-relationship between remittance inflows from abroad and the poverty levels obtained in the country. This is discu...
by Mohammad Irfan | On 06 Feb 2016 Corruption and poor governance are acknowledged as major impediments to realising the right to education and to reaching global development goals. Corruption not only distorts access to education, but...
by Transparency International TI | On 05 Feb 2016 Transparency International conducted research into the public reporting practices of 100 emerging markets companies comprising a list of Global Challengers 2011. Based on the methodology of previous T...
by Transparency International TI | On 05 Feb 2016 Protecting Climate Finance: An Anti-corruption Assessment of the Global Environment Facility’s Least Developed Countries Fund and Special Climate Change Fund is the third in a series of reports by Tra...
by Transparency International TI | On 05 Feb 2016 One of the key strategic areas of Transparency International Bangladesh's research has always been the institutions of democracy and specialized pillars of governance and accountability, which constit...
by Transparency International TI | On 05 Feb 2016 The objective of the NIS report is to assess and evaluate the various key institutions of governance in the country. These institutions are responsible for integrity and the elimination of corruption....
by Transparency International TI | On 05 Feb 2016 Transparency International Nepal’s (TIN) National Integrity System Assessment Nepal 2014 describes the latest status of 11 pillars of NIS in terms of their capacity, governance and role besides pointi...
by Transparency International TI | On 05 Feb 2016 This think piece examines the emergence of global innovations networks and their implications for multilateral trade rules. After pointing out, that the WTO agreements were reached with little direct...
by | On 05 Feb 2016 Sport is a global phenomenon engaging billions of people and generating annual revenues of more than US$ 145 billion. But corruption and challenges to governance threaten to undermine all the good tha...
by Transparency International TI | On 05 Feb 2016 There are many barriers that prevent individuals from speaking up. Public trust in the ability of institutions to deal with corruption is low and reporting channels are often unclear or unreliable. La...
by Transparency International TI | On 05 Feb 2016 In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, many different cases of malfeasance and corruption at banks have been exposed. To date, settlements worth more than US$ 230 billion have been agreed be...
by Transparency International | On 05 Feb 2016 Transparency International’s 2015 Progress Report is an independent assessment of the enforcement of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD’s) Anti-Bribery Convention. The...
by Transparency International | On 05 Feb 2016 Between 2011 and 2014, Egypt experienced perhaps the most turbulent and uncertain phase in its modern history. The elimination of widespread corruption was one of the key issues galvanising Egyptians...
by Transparency International | On 05 Feb 2016 For the latest African edition of the Global Corruption Barometer, we partnered with the Afrobarometer, which spoke to 43,143 respondents across 28 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa between March 2014 a...
by Transparency International | On 03 Feb 2016 This paper is an attempt to analyze the age-old phenomenon of leaks - the deliberate disclosure of secret information - and its relationship with the principle of transparency in a democracy. Secrets...
by | On 03 Feb 2016 This study begins with an assessment of the years of US occupation in Iraq, focusing on its repercussions, explicating its outcomes, and exploring the horizons of political evolution in this country a...
by | On 03 Feb 2016 The study discusses the European position toward the peace process since the Oslo Accords in 1993, up to the Israeli onslaught against the Gaza Strip in 2009. The aim is to elucidate the European role...
by | On 03 Feb 2016 The empirical growth literature gives no clear indication as to how democracy impacts growth; there is evidence of both positive and negative effects and also of no direct link in democracy and growth...
by Madeeha Gohar Qureshi | On 03 Feb 2016 This study empirically explores the growth effects of rent seeking activity (RSA) for a group of 52 developing/transitional countries, using a dynamic panel data approach. The modelling framework is a...
by Nasir Iqbal | On 03 Feb 2016 This study attempts to analyse the impact of fiscal decentralisation on economic growth. It also examines the complementarity between fiscal decentralisation and democratic institutions in promoting g...
by Nasir Iqbal | On 03 Feb 2016 The World Bank was founded to correct failures in international capital markets. That role has shifted over the past 70 years. Modern analyses should proceed from the premise that the Bank’s central g...
by Michael Clemens | On 03 Feb 2016 This paper focuses on the Indian pre-crisis strategy of liberalization and integration into the world economy and its impact on labour market trends. It then examines the specific ways in which the cr...
by International Centre for Sustainable Trade and Development | On 03 Feb 2016 The present study empirically examines the short term under and overreaction effect in the Karachi Stock Exchange, Pakistan, in the context of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis considering the period f...
by Asiya Sohail | On 03 Feb 2016 Present study is conducted to measure the impact of financial integration on economic growth in Asian developing economies using panel data of twelve Asian countries from 1984-2012. In first part of a...
by Madiha Bashir | On 03 Feb 2016 Since the spirit of Islam is in stark and violent conflict with the spirit of Capitalism, the form taken by institutions designed to express this spirit must also be different. Capitalist financial in...
by Asad Zaman | On 03 Feb 2016 In September this year, world leaders will meet in New York at the United Nations General Assembly. Top of the agenda will be the passage of a resolution laying out global development goals for the fi...
by Charles Kenny | On 03 Feb 2016 This paper addresses the effects of changes in the level and composition of global demand, and especially of global rebalancing, on trade flows and employment from a demand perspective. It emphasizes...
by International Centre for Sustainable Trade and Development | On 03 Feb 2016 This contribution addresses the political and legal aspects of European and Asian membership and practice in the UNSC. First, it highlights the difficulties of the European Union (EU) becoming a fully...
by Jan Wouters | On 03 Feb 2016 In recent years, Central Asia has increasingly come under the focus of the European Union (EU). This development occurred not least due to a series of interruptions in the supply of Russian natural ga...
by Sijbren Jong | On 03 Feb 2016 This study evaluates infrastructure investment and finance in Asia from a global perspective. It provides an overview on infrastructure needs and the various sources of private finance, globally and w...
by Georg Inderst | On 02 Feb 2016 The paper discusses the North-South context for biopiracy, explains the process by which RiceTec acquired its patent, ascertains why it amounted to biopiracy and examines its implications for southern...
by Uzma Jamil | On 02 Feb 2016 Based on expert opinion from around the world, the Corruption Perceptions Index measures the perceived levels of public sector corruption worldwide. Not one of the 168 countries assessed in the 2015 i...
by | On 02 Feb 2016 Regardless of the final outcome of the Arab Spring, it is beyond doubt that the Arab Homeland is undergoing an exceptional revolutionary moment and has witnessed a formative year, which does not often...
by | On 02 Feb 2016 India’s engagement with Africa through trade, investment, aid and technological collaboration can support growth and structural transformation in African economies. This paper, which is part of a majo...
by Environmental Management & Policy Research Institute | On 02 Feb 2016 Investment incentives rank among the most important policy instruments governments employ to influence the locational decisions of multinational firms. In the wake of the recent increase in locational...
by International Centre for Sustainable Trade and Development | On 02 Feb 2016 In this report, we use political economy analysis to demonstrate that nutrition in Pakistan has remained off the policy agenda because of large disconnects between key sectors, a lack of integrated cr...
by Shehla Zaidi | On 02 Feb 2016 By 2020, road accidents are expected to be the third highest cause of death and disability globally. Transport safety concerns in poor countries have focused mainly on roads and motorised traffic, but...
by International Forum for Rural Transport and Develo IFRTD | On 01 Feb 2016 Remittances – money sent home by migrants – can help families survive conflicts or natural disasters. However, humanitarian agencies often fail to consider remittances when planning interventions. Thi...
by Paul Harvey | On 01 Feb 2016 This paper starts from the premise that economic inequality will be central to Arab policy makers concerns as they devise economic development strategies for the future. In this, the lessons from glob...
by | On 01 Feb 2016 This paper focuses on this new trend in global energy, and examines its influence on oil prices in the international markets, as well as its long-run economic, political, and geostrategic implications...
by | On 01 Feb 2016 This study is rooted in the various contexts in which the Ottomans adopted the Tanzimat, a series of reforms in the 19th century, which later gave rise to a constitution. The philosophy behind the Ott...
by | 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 This paper deals with the ‘swings and roundabouts’ encountered in water policy development in Sri Lanka. In recent decades, policy reforms for water resource management nationally-demanded but designe...
by Rajindra Ariyabandu | On 01 Feb 2016 Access to clean water is central to healthy and productive lives for the poor. Yet at the beginning of the 21st Century over one billion people still lack this vital resource (WWC, 2000). A decade ago...
by Water Policy Programme WPP | On 01 Feb 2016 In just over a year, the mid-2007 sub-prime housing debacle in the United States has escalated into a global financial crisis and pushed the world economy into recession arguably the deepest since Wor...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 Seventy-six years ago, in the midst of the Great Depression, the United States government introduced the New Deal. The New Deal effectively harnessed the fiscal stimulus for environmental as well as d...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 The rapidly unfolding global financial and economic crisis will severely disrupt economic growth worldwide, affect the livelihoods of billions around the world and endanger progress toward the poverty...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 In addition to providing multiple services and goods, forests can play a key role in tackling climate change. Forestry, as defined by the IPCC accounts for around 17.4 per cent of global GHG emissions...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 It is now beyond scientific doubt that the emissions of greenhouse gases need to be reduced significantly to prevent dangerous interference in the climate system and avoid dramatic consequences of glo...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 There is a broad consensus that without the active participation of developing countries, global temperatures cannot be stabilized at a safe level. It is also agreed that even if temperatures are cont...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 The United Nations estimates that more than half of the world’s population lives in urban areas. It is expected that the proportion of city dwellers globally will have risen to three quarters by 2050,...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 Are we heading towards a hard landing of the United States dollar? In recent months, the value of the dollar approached another historic low vis-à-vis other major currencies. This contrasts with the i...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 The danger to global economic recovery posed by the European debt turmoil throws a spotlight on a key missing international institution critical to global finance a sovereign debt resolution mechanism...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 Responding to the economic and financial crisis, a large number of countries introduced fiscal stimulus packages to support aggregate demand. These have been critical in avoiding the recession becomin...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 The United Nations World Economic Situation and Prospects 2011 cautions that the lack of policy coordination could further weaken the already modest recovery, or even precipitate a new global recessio...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 About 2.7 billion people do not have access to modern energy. Without it, they have little chance of achieving a decent living standard. Much more economic progress is needed to lift the living standa...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 Sustainable development requires a fundamental, global green technological transformation over the next 30 to 40 years. Otherwise, it will be impossible to simultaneously meet the goals of ending pove...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 Over the past decade, international donors increased financing for health in developing countries substantively. Much of the additional support has come from the rapid expansion of so-called vertical...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 Difficulties in raising sufficient resources to finance internationally agreed development goals and global objectives, such as combating climate change, have led the quest for new and innovative sour...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 Official development assistance declined in real terms in 2011 as a result, in part, of fiscal austerity in many donor countries. Traditional forms of funding have fallen well short of needs to financ...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 Arguably, ensuring food and nutrition security for all people in the coming decades is the major challenge for the global community. Food demand is increasing in aggregate and per capita values, in pa...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 In this paper a comparative analysis of the role of government policies in industrial learning and the development of capabilities of indigenous firms in Mexico and China in order to shed light on why...
by Kevin P. Gallagher | On 31 Jan 2016 It has become an article of faith in international trade negotiations that farmers in developing countries have much to gain from agricultural trade liberalization. This paper assesses the evidence fo...
by Timothy A. Wise | On 31 Jan 2016 This report is the result of the joint workshop on Building resilience for adaptation to climate change in the agriculture sector was organized by FAO and OECD. One of the conclusions of that 2010 Wor...
by Alexandre Meybeck | On 31 Jan 2016 China has emerged as one of the important factors in India-Sri Lanka relations. It is important to contextualise this intervening variable, before going into various aspects of China’s footprints in S...
by N Manoharan | On 31 Jan 2016 Savings behaviour is important because of the close relation between savings and growth. Further, the direction of causality between savings and growth is of critical importance for development policy...
by Ranjan Kumar Dash | On 30 Jan 2016 This paper takes stock of recent advancements in the literature on state capacity and connects them tothe study of inclusive development. Specifically, four particular lines of argument are presented....
by Matthias Hau | On 30 Jan 2016 This study provides trade negotiators, policy-makers and other stakeholders with a clear, practical comparative analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of the various safeguard clauses included i...
by | On 30 Jan 2016 In the last decade, the commodity issues have re-emerged as central to development initiatives and poverty alleviation strategies. The objective of this Issue Paper by Charles Mather is to contribute...
by | On 30 Jan 2016 Eugenio Diaz Bonilla and Juan Francisco Ron work up from the household level to connect international trade rules to the national strategies needed to achieve food security. Their paper surveys the po...
by | On 30 Jan 2016 Parliamentary oversight is one of the cornerstones of democracy. John Stuart Mill asserted that the most appropriate tasks of a representative body are to : oversee and clarify the government actions,...
by BRAC University | On 30 Jan 2016 The courts are one of the most fundamental institutions where power is contested in a constitutional democracy. A functioning and an independent judiciary can restrain and hold the executive accountab...
by . BRAC | On 30 Jan 2016 Currently, corruption is one of the most discussed topics in the everyday life of Bangladeshi people. They experience it at almost every stage from the top lair of the bureaucracy to the petty grocery...
by Harun Rashid | On 30 Jan 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 In this discussion paper, the question of technology transfer, intellectual property rights is addressed in the context of climate change. Technology development and transfer has been identified as a...
by K.Ravi Srinivas | On 30 Jan 2016 The primary objective of this paper is to find whether or not the governance and institutions matter for enhancing Asia’s trade. In this study, we have performed a comprehensive empirical analysis of...
by Prabir De | On 30 Jan 2016 The magnitude of the food crisis demands urgent action on the part of governments, multilateral agencies and all those who cherish the vision of a hunger-free world. A correct identification of the ca...
by Arindam Banerjee | On 30 Jan 2016 This study is an attempt to understand the relative contribution of culture and economic freedom to economic growth. Through applying fixed effect to the panel of fifty four developed, developing and...
by Yasir Khan | On 30 Jan 2016 The purpose of this research study was to examine the expansion and to evaluate the social sciences in Pakistan. The sample consisted of 60 departments of social sciences from five disciplines (Econom...
by Muhammad Arslan Haider | On 30 Jan 2016 It was expected that education would address these problems to a large extent. However, inspite of enhanced investment on expenditure, leading to increased enrolment, these issues remain largely unatt...
by (Field Action Project on Homelessness and Destitut Koshish | On 30 Jan 2016 The study presented here was designed to develop comprehensive baseline information on the glaciers of the entire HKH region organised by major basins and sub-basins. The glacier inventory was prepare...
by Samjwal Bajracharya | On 29 Jan 2016 This report presents selected results of the 2014 Arab Opinion Index from Palestine (the West Bank and the Gaza Strip). The Arab Opinion Index is the largest opinion poll of its kind in the Arab regio...
by | On 29 Jan 2016 For the two contending sides in any conflict, the give-and-take of pain-inducing blows is somewhat a given. Hamas, the Islamic Resistance Movement, has suffered a good many such blows over the course...
by | On 29 Jan 2016 The price of crude oil has lost 54% of its value since September 2014 and there are no indications that the fall in prices will stop here unless a major production cut by OPEC is declared. The reasons...
by | On 29 Jan 2016 The Arab Spring was a milestone for contemporary Middle Eastern history. The global phenomenon not only transformed the Arab world from within, but also challenged the regional status of major externa...
by | On 29 Jan 2016 Recent research suggests that trade and investment are closely linked as two-way economic complements. Trade liberalization facilitates investment, but even complete trade openness will not overcome a...
by | On 29 Jan 2016 Bangladesh has a rich legacy of establishing and promoting local government institutions, but the actual roles and contributions of these institutions to augment citizens’ participation and consolidat...
by Niaz Khan | On 29 Jan 2016 The Sachar Commission Report of 2006 on Social, Economic and Educational Status of the Muslim Community of India generated widespread awareness of the socioeconomic disparity and exclusion of religiou...
by Riaz Hassan | On 29 Jan 2016 The year 2015 has been dramatic for politics in Sri Lanka. A Presidential, as well as a General, Election within the first eight months of the year saw the country having a new President and a new gov...
by | On 29 Jan 2016 With the rise of global value chains (GVCs) and the growing prominence of services as both facilitators or very objects of supply chain dynamics, it has become commonplace for goods and services to be...
by | On 28 Jan 2016 Mountain communities in the developing world are often marginalised from political influence and economic opportunities and generally face high levels of poverty. The ecosystems they dwell in are amon...
by Mirjam Macchi | On 28 Jan 2016 In the light of growing globalization and the significant increase in the number of investor-state disputes that has taken place over recent years, this paper proposes that it is time to establish an...
by | On 28 Jan 2016 Of all the nations that border China, its comparison with Bhutan would appear to be a paradox. In comprehensive power terms, Bhutan is almost a nonentity to China. Bhutan’s biggest disadvantage is its...
by Tilak Jha | On 28 Jan 2016 The implications of an agreement between Bhutan and China would be substantial for India. The border conflict between India and China would be the last to be resolved by Beijing. This might result in...
by Marian Gallenkamp | On 28 Jan 2016 In order to understand the importance of reducing air pollution and its likely trans-boundary effects, it is important to first review the socioeconomic situation of the South Asian member states. Sou...
by Mahmood Khwaja | On 28 Jan 2016 People in the Himalayan region are confronted with changes due to global warming. Glaciers are melting, leading to changing river flows and an increased risk of floods (Richardson and Reynolds, 2000;...
by Norbu Wangdi | On 28 Jan 2016 This document elaborates the scientific framework of the Adaptation to Change Programme in an attempt to improve the connections between science, policy, practice, and stakeholders and to tackle chall...
by International Centre for Integrated Mountain Devel ICIMOD | On 28 Jan 2016 The last decade has witnessed remarkable developments in the digital economy, creating new opportunities for cross-border trade and investment and the ongoing emergence of novel and disruptive busines...
by | On 28 Jan 2016 This paper enquires into the implications of the technological paradigm
shift for small enterprises. Those who would not consider conforming to the regulatory framework (specifically enlisted under...
by Keshab Das | On 28 Jan 2016 This paper compares the experiences in India and China and draws lessons for policy formulation. The important lessons are: (a) self-financing nature of FLC/SWC is a crucial factor for achieving effec...
by Jeemol Unni | On 28 Jan 2016 The paper argues that the difference in the mode of programme implementation between Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat exerts an influence on the function and performance of the local institutions created as...
by R. Parthasarathy | On 28 Jan 2016 This paper seeks to examine the experiences with respect to subsidies and cost-sharing in the light of the various watershed programmes supported by the state as well as donor agencies and other non-g...
by Amita Shah | On 28 Jan 2016 One of the offshoots of the planned economic development model in India has been the increasing emphasis on effective local governance. With newer models of implementing programmes, incremental steps...
by R Parthasarathy | On 28 Jan 2016 An overview is provided of the state of knowledge on internal migration in developing economies, with particular emphasis on recent contributions to the literature. The overview is divided into five s...
by | On 28 Jan 2016 In April 2010 the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) released a report aimed at ‘awakening India’s cities, building inclusive ones and sustaining economic growth. This policy note summarises the report’s...
by Meera Chatterjee | On 28 Jan 2016 Rapid urbanisation in India, driven by a globalised economy and its accelerated growth, will increasingly demand attention of policy makers. The objective of this policy note is to throw light on heal...
by Rajeev Ahuja | On 28 Jan 2016 One of the critical dimensions of rural water supply has been participation by the local community in managing the source and finances. Drawing upon case studies of 20 villages (spread across 17 distr...
by Keshab Das | On 28 Jan 2016 The global economic downturn is impacting on unemployment. One young person in eight across the world is looking for work. Youth populations are large and growing. The wellbeing and prosperity of youn...
by United Nations Economic, Scientific and Cultural Organization | 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 The first report from the UN system on the Post-2015 Development Agenda – Realizing the Future We Want for All – recommends that new goals should build on the strengths of the Millennium Development G...
by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) | On 27 Jan 2016 The report assesses the impact of Samruddhi- the Madhya Pradesh model of financial inclusion that aims to improve access of the state’s poor to finance. It examines the current level and pattern of ac...
by | On 27 Jan 2016 The paper reviews the payment guidelines issued by the Reserve Bank of India, global experiences for non-banks in payments and the lessons therefrom. It also outlines the recent developments in financ...
by | On 27 Jan 2016 Voices around the world are demanding leadership and action in 2015 on poverty, inequality and climate change. These universal challenges demand global action, and this year presents unprecedented opp...
by United Nations Development Programme UNDP | On 27 Jan 2016 The purpose of this paper is to discuss the future of the multinational enterprise (MNE) and implications for the international investment regime. The paper begins by summarising current thinking on m...
by | On 27 Jan 2016 We estimate the effects of trade facilitation on the extensive margins of trade. Using OECD Trade Facilitation Indicators – which closely reflect the Trade Facilitation Agreement negotiated at the Bal...
by Robert Teh | On 27 Jan 2016 This case study explores the socioeconomic experiences of gender and sexuality minority peoples in India, especially in respect of ways in which sexual and gender ‘difference’ may be correlated to eco...
by | On 26 Jan 2016 In recent years, the global hunger and nutrition community has increasingly come to view political commitment as an essential ingredient for pushing food and nutrition security higher up public policy...
by | On 26 Jan 2016 The proposed SDGs constitute a comprehensive, universal and interactive agenda of structural transformations as the pathway to sustainable development, leaving no-one behind while creating green econo...
by | On 26 Jan 2016 The system of global agricultural and food trade is undergoing rapid processes of change, with important implications for economic development. In this paper we document and discuss these changes; inc...
by Johan Swinnen | On 26 Jan 2016 This paper analyses the role of services in international trade through the lens of global value chains (GVCs). Services account for more than 70% of world GDP but only for around 20% of world trade i...
by Rainer Lanz | On 26 Jan 2016 While conditions in trade finance markets returned to normality in the main routes of trade, the structural difficulties of poor countries in accessing trade finance have not disappeared – and might h...
by Marc Auboin | On 26 Jan 2016 This paper studies the effects of trade policy uncertainty on the extensive and the intensive margins of trade for a sample of 149 exporters at the HS6 digit level. We measure trade policy uncertainty...
by Nadia Rocha | On 26 Jan 2016 Globalization has led to large scale outsourcing of production activities to developing countries manifesting in global commodity chains.The study shows that given a choice, enterprises and workers pr...
by Jeemol Unni | On 26 Jan 2016 In order to understand the current phase of Naxalism, we need to understand different aspects of organizational transformation that have occurred within the Naxal movement, since the genesis and curre...
by | On 25 Jan 2016 Extrapolating from past trends, and taking to account emerging conditions, many countries of developing Asia will be expected to move on to the next phase of agricultural development; however even in...
by Roehlano M. Briones | On 25 Jan 2016 This paper examines how the decentralisation process has evolved over time in India from the ancient times through to the British regime to modern era. It focuses specifically on Panchayati Raj Instit...
by Madhusudan Bandi | On 25 Jan 2016 After the global financial crisis, India was exposed to many external shocks from commodity prices and foreign capital flows. Although capital flow fluctuations were largely due to global risk-on risk...
by Ashima Goyal | On 24 Jan 2016 This note proposes an analytical framework for the current phase of the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) programme of research on discriminatory social norms affecting adolescent girls. The curren...
by Caroline Harper | On 24 Jan 2016 Over the last few years, the government has taken a number of initiatives in terms of financial, fiscal, and related policies; adopted strategies; and implemented actions for promoting SME-led economi...
by Naima Nazneen Rikta | On 23 Jan 2016 A flurry of quick new glances at India from different sections of the international community reflects a surge of interest in a country freshly under Narendra Modi’s leadership of anticipatory asserti...
by | On 23 Jan 2016 The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) will have multiple impacts on India and South Asia, ranging from a short-term effect, such as the loss of preferential access for exports, to the longer-term impact...
by | On 23 Jan 2016 In the backdrop of rise in Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) in developing countries, particularly after the global financial and economic crisis, Bangladesh is still ambivalent in setting its strategies r...
by Khondaker Moazzem | On 23 Jan 2016 A number of studies have indicated that trade liberalisation did not have any significant impact on poverty reduction although the impact on employment generation had been positive (e.g. Raihan 2007)....
by Mehruna Chowdhury | On 23 Jan 2016 The jute manufacturing sector of Bangladesh has recently started to revitalise with the rise in global demand for jute goods, thanks to the environment-friendly nature of jute, and the price hike of p...
by Khondaker Moazzem | On 23 Jan 2016 In the backdrop of recent global developments, this note examines some of the characteristics of inflation in Bangladesh including the contribution of major commodity groups to overall inflation in ru...
by Bangladesh Bank | On 23 Jan 2016 The present global financial crisis shows that there is no substitute of prudent government intervention and careful regulation even when market determined incentive structures operate. The pursuit of...
by Bangladesh Bank | On 23 Jan 2016 Alliances’ of public and private actors can play a crucial role in accelerating the transition to sustainable energy systems, and these groupings can be ‘engineered’. Based on research findings from I...
by Institute of Development Studies IDS | On 23 Jan 2016 The BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) are increasingly prominent in development cooperation activities in low-income countries in Africa and worldwide, presenting a pote...
by Institute of Development Studies IDS | On 23 Jan 2016 The focus of this research is on the determinants of low-carbon investment in the world’s two largest emerging economies: China and India. While these countries are responsible for the biggest growth...
by Stephen Spratt | On 23 Jan 2016 To maximise the potential of working with men to ensure inclusion, and sustainability in the response to SGBV, the global programme on Effective Organised Activism against Gender-based Violence highli...
by Institute of Development Studies IDS | On 23 Jan 2016 The 2011 EFA Global Monitoring Report exposed the hidden crisis of education in conflict-affected countries. Two years later, to mark the birthday of Malala, the Pakistani schoolgirl shot by the Talib...
by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultura UNESCO | On 23 Jan 2016 There continues to be widespread criticism of the extension of patent rights on pharmaceuticals in the developing world as required by World Trade Organization membership. This paper examines argument...
by | On 22 Jan 2016 Could a rich-country social planner, capable only of forcing capital flows across borders but not directly into the hands of individual poor-country entrepreneurs, improve the efficiency of the global...
by | On 22 Jan 2016 New analysis suggests that the impacts of climate change in Southeast Asia may be larger than previously estimated, possibly reaching 11% of gross domestic product by 2100.
by | On 22 Jan 2016 The setting up of the New Development Bank was first suggested by India in early 2012 in order to fund its domestic energy and infrastructure needs, namely power transmission, 11 roads and ports. Fina...
by Stephen Spratt | On 22 Jan 2016 World trade has experienced a significant slowdown since the 2008 financial crisis. Over this period, the global ratio of trade expansion to income growth has halved. An effective global trade and inv...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 22 Jan 2016 The India Health Report: Nutrition 2015 surveys the trends in maternal and child undernutrition in India. It looks at trends and disparities in these outcomes across geographical regions, socio-econom...
by | On 22 Jan 2016 The transition to a clean and green energy system is an economic and social transformation that is exciting as well as challenging. The world today faces a formidable challenge in transforming its eco...
by A. Ganesh-Kumar | On 22 Jan 2016 In India, institutional arrangements around climate finance have mostly followed national policy responses to climate change. This paper maps the emergence of climate change policy in India and subseq...
by Vyoma Jha | On 21 Jan 2016 The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement was signed on 5 October 2015 by the US and 11 countries in the Asia- Pacific. The writers of the TPP expect the agreement to result in the dynamic evoluti...
by Geethanjali Nataraj | On 21 Jan 2016 This is the second collective effort from the Center for Euro-Atlantic Studies to address global issues that are largely unfamiliar to the Greek international affairs community. Last year we dealt wit...
by Stamatis Zachariadis | On 21 Jan 2016 This brief provides a historical-cum-ongoing account as well as an assessment of the future of China’s dam-building exercise, its rationale and consequences at all levels – geographically, environment...
by Dhanasree Jayaram | On 21 Jan 2016 In order to accelerate progress on undernutrition reduction we need to understand how the governance of nutrition programmes leads to successful outcomes. Based on evidence from six countries: Banglad...
by Institute of Development Studies IDS | On 21 Jan 2016 The paper argues that there is great disparity of incomes between developed and developing countries. Relative income gap of the developing countries which was 10.8 per cent in 2000 was 15.1 per cent...
by | On 21 Jan 2016 The “Rio plus 20” summit provides an opportunity to launch a process for forging a new global compact, underpinned by greater equity and policy space for the developing countries, for dealing with sus...
by Ambassador A. Gopinathan | On 21 Jan 2016 The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) has emerged as a major regional initiative for trade and investment liberalisation and towards enhancing competitiveness of the twelve participant countries drawn f...
by V. S. Seshadri | On 21 Jan 2016 The debate on the ‘brain drain’, or the emigration of skilled workers, is not new but it has taken on greater urgency in the context of a globalizing economy and ageing societies. Today, the developed...
by | On 20 Jan 2016 The World Public Sector Report 2008, People Matter, Civic Engagement in Public Governance presents a picture of the evolution of current governance challenges, especially from the point of view of the...
by UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs UNDESA | On 20 Jan 2016 Over one billion people around the world live with a disability. However, disability issues are not included in any of the Millennium Development Goals, targets or indicators, thereby representing a l...
by UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs UNDESA | On 20 Jan 2016 Growth of the world economy has weakened considerably during 2012 and is expected to remain subdued in the coming two years. The global economy is expected to grow at 2.4 per cent in 2013 and 3.2 per...
by United Nations (UN) | On 20 Jan 2016 Today, 54 per cent of the world’s population lives in urban areas, a proportion that is expected to increase to 66 per cent by 2050. Projections show that urbanization combined with the overall growth...
by United Nations (UN) | On 19 Jan 2016 The relationship between poor sanitation, water borne disease, mortality and malnutrition is well documented. Statistics about the number of deaths due to diarrhea as well as stunting caused by malnut...
by Deepak Sanan | On 19 Jan 2016 Published by the Division for Social Policy and Development (DSPD) of UN DESA, the report places special focus on policy and disadvantaged social groups, in addition to examining the consequences of h...
by United Nations (UN) | On 19 Jan 2016 This paper provides an overview of key issues relating to the achievement of gender equity in education, laying out some of the contradictions and tensions in donor discourse and policy efforts, and p...
by Ramya Subrahmanian | On 19 Jan 2016 The issue of land rights and that of gender equality are strongly affected by the prevalent economic and social policy regimes, at both national and global levels. The dominant policy regimes decide t...
by | On 19 Jan 2016 The last three decades have seen remarkable changes in economic structures and policies both within and across countries, loosely captured by the term globalization. This paper reviews evidence on how...
by Shahra Razavi | On 19 Jan 2016 This paper examines the relationship between employment and social policy specifically from a gender perspective. It first lays out, in section 1, the conceptual ground, drawing on a range of heterodo...
by | On 19 Jan 2016 The paper analyses the evolving politics of claims-making by women workers in the Global South in the context of a globalized economy. It addresses the following questions. What kinds of claims are pr...
by | On 19 Jan 2016 This is an Asia Foundation survey to document public knowledge and awareness of new government institutions and processes, and to gauge the political, social, and economic values held by people from d...
by The Asia Foundation | On 19 Jan 2016 The Indian Diaspora has a powerful influence on the global community where Indians constitute a diverse and a heterogeneous group that shares Indian origin and intrinsic values. Earlier migration was...
by | On 19 Jan 2016 This paper is organized in three main sections. The first section provides some definitions of the key terms and describes how both internal and international migration impact on development. An under...
by | On 19 Jan 2016 This dissertation tries to answer the puzzle of why the Maoist insurgency in India, which is considered to be the most important internal security threat to the world’s largest democracy, occurs in ce...
by Shivaji Mukherjee | 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 The Global Risks Report 2016 features perspectives from nearly 750 experts on the perceived impact and likelihood of 29 prevalent global risks over a 10-year timeframe. The risks are divided into five...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 18 Jan 2016 This text of Ilina Sen’s presentation,
the Second Anusandhan Trust’s Krishna Raj Memorial
Lecture on Contemporary Issues in Health and Social
Sciences, is a lucid account of the contradictions sett...
by Ilina Sen | On 18 Jan 2016 The Brics line-up has yielded to a shaky China-India story, with new question marks over China even as India remains a "B+" performer.
by T.N. Ninan | On 16 Jan 2016 This paper identifies the ingredients for what it calls “light-handed” industrial policy to address these obstacles. To a certain extent, emerging market hosts can carry out the policy interventions r...
by Theodore H Moran | On 15 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 Individual level census and household survey data are used to present a rich profile of the young developing migrants around the world. Youth are found to comprise a large share of all migrants, parti...
by David McKenzie | On 14 Jan 2016 This article consists in three parts. The first part deals with theory. We evaluate the pros and cons of government involvement in urban housing and of renting versus ownership. In the second part, we...
by Yves Zenou | On 14 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 Eldis has brought together an editorially selected range of over 170 research resources from diverse perspectives and publishers. The theme focuses on gender equality and the role that both women and...
by E. Esplen | On 14 Jan 2016 For years, civil society organisations and researchers have highlighted that, as weather patterns become increasingly unpredictable and extreme events such as floods, heatwaves or storms become more c...
by A Otzelberger | On 13 Jan 2016 The study of international organizations inevitably leads to consideration of the role of several that have been at the heart of international efforts to promote development after World War II, primar...
by David Malone | On 13 Jan 2016 India has highly populated states and a highly devolved budget; in fact, over half of all India’s public expenditures are through state budgets, including a large share of development expenditures on...
by International Budget Partnership IBP | On 13 Jan 2016 Regional integration efforts have intensified at varying levels over the years to implement the regional integration initiatives of ASEAN, ASEAN+3 and ASEAN+6. Current efforts are still not enough to...
by OECD Development Centre | On 13 Jan 2016 Research and practice related to social policy and poverty alleviation have left a legacy of a very broad agenda of “things that need to be done”, along with important unanswered questions about how t...
by | On 13 Jan 2016 Discrimination against women and girls carries a high development cost. This third edition of the SIGI captures and measures gender-based discrimination in social institutions- social norms, practices...
by OECD Development Centre | On 13 Jan 2016 The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were introduced to monitor implementation of the United Nations Millennium Declaration which set out a vision for inclusive and sustainable globalization based...
by Sakiko Fukuda-Parr | On 13 Jan 2016 The new role that middle-income countries (MICs) play in the global landscape obliges international community to review the configuration of the development cooperation system. On the one hand, MICs s...
by | On 11 Jan 2016 The paper discusses the progress of Indian economy and its policies since the broadbased structural reforms initiated in 1991 with a special focus on the recent downturn following the global financial...
by | On 11 Jan 2016 China has departed from the East Asian model of development by letting inequality to rise to a high level, which is contributing to China’s current problems of macroeconomic imbalance, declining effic...
by | On 11 Jan 2016 How can young people and their future education and employment be put at the forefront of the solution to the current crisis as they represent the future of the world? These are some of the issues tha...
by Emmanuel Akoto | On 11 Jan 2016 The conclusion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations has major implications for India, which is aspiring for a larger role in the regional architecture of the Asia-Pacific. India will ha...
by Amitendu Palit | On 10 Jan 2016 The Trade and Development Report 2007, subtitled "Regional cooperation for development", recommends that developing countries should strengthen regional cooperation with other developing countries, bu...
by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNCTAD | On 09 Jan 2016 The implications of recent events in Maldives go far beyond the pristine shores of that enchanting archipelago. The paper discusses the larger geopolitical implications of the suspension of democracy,...
by Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury | On 09 Jan 2016 The Trade and Development Report 2010 focuses on the need to make employment creation a priority in economic policy. Unemployment is the most pressing social and economic problem of our time, not leas...
by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNCTAD | On 09 Jan 2016 The Trade and Development Report (TDR) 2012 reviews recent trends in the global economy and explores the links between income distribution, growth and development. Global output growth is slowing down...
by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNCTAD | On 09 Jan 2016 Five years after the onset of the global financial crisis the world economy remains in a state of disarray, with global output growing at around 2 per cent and global trade growth virtually grounding...
by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNCTAD | On 09 Jan 2016 The Trade and Development Report (TDR) 2015: Making the international financial architecture work for development reviews recent trends in the global economy and focuses on ways to reform the internat...
by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNCTAD | On 09 Jan 2016 India and China, viewing themselves as key players within the BRICS which they see in a worldwide perspective, had in fact made two different global commitments on the eve of this Brisbane G20 summit....
by P S Suryanarayana | On 09 Jan 2016 In the 1970s, the oil-producing and exporting countries of the Middle East delivered a shock to the global economic system that had many unexpected consequences. The then-quadrupling of the price of o...
by Shahid Javed Burki | On 09 Jan 2016 The South China Sea (SCS) disputes are regarded as one of the most difficult regional conflicts in the Asia-Pacific, in an ‘arena of escalating contention. This paper looks at India’s interests and st...
by Rajeev Ranjan Chaturvedy | On 09 Jan 2016 This paper looks at the ‘BCIM Regional Cooperation’ and the related proposal to revive the ‘Southern Silk Route’ connecting China and India through Bangladesh and Myanmar. The aim is to understand the...
by | On 09 Jan 2016 This paper discusses revival of the Maritime Silk Road. It begins with a narration of the historical background of MSR, its origin and development, followed by an analysis of latest announcements by t...
by | On 09 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 Pakistan Army’s ideological hegemony, especially in the country’s Punjabi-speaking heartland, the continuing focus on the state’s narrative of a religion-based unitary identity which is under a co...
by Aasim Akhtar | On 08 Jan 2016 Sustaining anything in the region of 7% growth should be good enough in a troubled and risk-laden world.
by T.N. Ninan | On 08 Jan 2016 This monograph tries to analyse the nature of poverty in India in its various dimensions, particularly emphasising its social underpinnings, and Government initiatives to alleviate rural poverty. It d...
by Neepa Saha | On 08 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 Understanding the demographic changes that are likely to unfold over the coming years, as well as the challenges and opportunities that they present for achieving sustainable development, is important...
by United Nations (UN) | On 08 Jan 2016 This chapter examines the food security situation in Nepal and the impact of the recent armed conflict on the food security situation. It argues that food security is understood in different ways and...
by Bishnu Upreti | On 07 Jan 2016 This paper discusses mechanisms to prevent and resolve foreign exchange crises in East Asia. Policies and mechanisms at the country level as well as regional and global levels are discussed. Policies...
by Andrew Cooper | On 07 Jan 2016 The formation of regional production networks in East Asia has occurred mainly through market forces, without much help from regional institutions in promoting the creation of a single Asian market. W...
by Masahiro Kawai | On 07 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 Most projections envision continued rapid growth in the members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the People’s Republic of China (PRC), and India (collectively, ACI) over the next...
by Fan Zhai | On 07 Jan 2016 International trade is redefined today in terms of trade in value added and global value chains. Most countries trade both in finished goods as well as intermediates. India, a less talked about countr...
by | On 07 Jan 2016 This paper looks at the Pakistan Army’s ideological hegemony, especially in the country’s Punjabi-speaking heartland, the continuing focus on the state’s narrative of a religion-based unitary identity...
by | On 07 Jan 2016 The global financial crisis and the recent growth slowdown in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) have led to questions about the sustainability of the PRC’s growth. The commonly used argument is tha...
by Yuqing Xing | On 07 Jan 2016 Japan’s “two lost decades” perhaps represent an extreme example of a weak recovery from a financial crisis, and are now referred to as “Japanization.” More recently, widespread stagnation in advanced...
by Masahiro Kawai | On 07 Jan 2016 Motivated by the proliferation of free trade agreements (FTAs) in Asia over the last decade, this paper studies the challenges faced by the Asian “noodle bowl” — overlapping, multiple trade rules, reg...
by Richard Baldwin | On 07 Jan 2016 The paper looks at some issue-based plurilateral agreements — such as the Information Technology Agreement (ITA), the Financial Services and Basic Telecommunication Services Agreements, and the Anti-C...
by Michitaka Nakatomi | On 07 Jan 2016 The Asian financial crisis (1997-1998) and the global financial crisis (2007-2009) highlighted the potential value of financial regionalism, i.e., regional-level cooperation in financial policy. This...
by Masahiro Kawai | 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 outlines the nature of the issues surrounding hospitals in emerging markets and makes the case for early action to bridge the abyss of neglected hospital investments and the path needed to...
by | On 06 Jan 2016 The evidence that antibiotic use in agriculture creates a pool of resistant bacteria in farm animals is not in dispute. The key questions relate to the magnitude of the risk to human health, and the p...
by | On 06 Jan 2016 This paper explores the long-term challenges for trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The region has emerged as an important production base...
by Masahiro Kawai | On 06 Jan 2016 Japan has suffered from sluggish economic growth and recession since the 1990s, a phenomenon dubbed “Japan’s Lost Decade.” The People’s Republic of China, many countries in the eurozone, and the Unite...
by Naoyuki Yoshino | On 06 Jan 2016 As the program on Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC) continues to grow, through this comprehensive study, IDCR analyzes the evolution of ITEC, and its impact on India’s bilateral relatio...
by Centre for Policy Research (CPR) | On 05 Jan 2016 The processes of informal or soft regionalism driving China’s engagement with the regional and global economy are resulting in nuanced understandings of state, security and the conduct of internationa...
by Nimmi Kurian | On 05 Jan 2016 This article explores the relationship between internal migration and economic growth and development in Asia, concentrating on four countries: China, India, Vietnam and Indonesia. Levels of internal...
by | On 05 Jan 2016 Based on the Asia Foundation’s , "Afghanistan in 2006: A Survey of the Afghan People." , the papers in this volume analyze survey data on the opinions and perceptions of Afghans towards government, pu...
by | On 02 Jan 2016 Global capital flows into emerging markets, including those in Asia, continue to be volatile, generating both benefits and costs. The latter are associated with episodes of currency and banking crises...
by Ramón López | On 01 Jan 2016 Open educational resources made their appearance in early 2002 as a promising tool for enhancing the quality of and access to education and were perceived to have the potential to reduce costs by reus...
by Jouko Sarvi | On 01 Jan 2016 This paper examines the trends in urbanization in the People’s Republic of China.
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is experiencing a trend toward population concentration in its large coastal c...
by Zhao Chen | On 01 Jan 2016 Changes in climate and global warming may require population to migrate, which can lead to acculturation stress. It can also lead to increased rates of physical illnesses, which secondarily would be a...
by | 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 presents a simple model of industrial upgrading as a result of backward and forward information linkages between upstream and downstream relations. It also serves as an empirical investigat...
by Tomohiro Machikita | On 30 Dec 2015 This paper argues that calls for a New Bretton Woods system in the aftermath of the global economic crisis — similar to the remarkable 1944 Bretton Woods conference that led to the establishment of va...
by Pradumna Rana | On 30 Dec 2015 This paper focuses on the relevance to emerging economies of three major financial reforms following the global financial crisis of 2007–2009: the improved capital requirements intended to reduce the...
by Duncan Alford | On 30 Dec 2015 The present report presents an overview of some recent trends and future challenges regarding the deepening of the social dimensions of regional integration, in light of the Recommendations of the Rep...
by | On 29 Dec 2015 This paper takes issue with simplistic views of inefficient state and efficient civil society as well as undifferentiated accounts of civil society that do not distinguish among particular association...
by | On 29 Dec 2015 The objectives of this paper are to develop initiatives on how to measure the flexibility of the labour markets of transition countries and shed some light on the ongoing debate on the role of labour...
by | On 29 Dec 2015 Intense climate-related natural disasters—floods, storms, as well as droughts and heat waves—have been on the rise worldwide. Is there an ominous link between the global increase of these hydrometeoro...
by Ramón López | On 29 Dec 2015 Southeast Asia is vulnerable to climate change, yet is also on a carbon intensive development trajectory.The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has analyzed the potential role the region can play in climate...
by Jindra Samson | On 29 Dec 2015 The paper examines ASEAN’s political and security challenges and prospects in the coming two decades. The challenges facing ASEAN could be classified into six broad categories: (1) the shifting balanc...
by Amitav Acharya | On 29 Dec 2015 This paper discusses how financial crises in emerging Asia and Japan worked as catalysts for legal reforms. Findings show that six Asian countries pursued significant legal and judicial reforms follow...
by Masahiro Kawai | On 29 Dec 2015 The purpose of this study is to better understand the likely impact on Asian economies and financial institutions of various recent global financial reforms, including Basel III capital adequacy and l...
by Peter Morgan | On 29 Dec 2015 Nepal's lackluster economic performance during the post-conflict period (that is, after November 2006) has been driven by remittances from the export of labor services and the improved performance of...
by Pradumna Rana | On 29 Dec 2015 With closer regional integration there is increasing interest within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and on the part of ASEAN's dialogue partners in the potential gains of closer co...
by Termsak Chalermpalanupap | On 29 Dec 2015 In this publication UN Women highlights the commitments made on gender equality, and explores women's contributions to sustainable development and policy around the world. Focusing on priority areas—s...
by UN Women | On 28 Dec 2015 This paper examines issues of women’s employment and decent work in the context of the on-going global financial and economic crisis. Recognizing that financial and economic crises affect men and wome...
by UN Women | On 28 Dec 2015 The Independent Impacts and Recovery Monitoring Nepal (IRM) assesses longitudinally five issues – aid delivery and effectiveness; politics and leadership; social relations and conflict; protection and...
by ASIA FOUNDATION | On 26 Dec 2015 Findings from The Asia Foundation's eighth survey in Afghanistan - the broadest public opinion poll in the country of 6,290 Afghan citizens across all 34 provinces.
by Palwasha Kakar | On 26 Dec 2015 This paper attempts to map the availability of skills (or supply of skills) in India. After a comprehensive assessment fo the magnitude and types of supply of skills presently available, the paper aim...
by Anup Karan | On 26 Dec 2015 This study examines the relationship between firm characteristics and borrowing from commercial banks by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the People's Republic of China (PRC) and five Sout...
by Ganeshan Wignaraja | On 24 Dec 2015 In this paper, income distributions for developing countries in Asia are modeled using beta-2 distributions, which are estimated by a method of moments procedure applied to grouped data. Estimated par...
by Duangkamon Chotikapanich | On 24 Dec 2015 The goal of this paper is to examine the impact of crude oil price movements on two macro variables, the gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate and the consumer price index (CPI) inflation rate, in...
by Naoyuki Yoshino | On 23 Dec 2015 India and the United States – the world’s ‘two largest democracies’ – share many structural similarities like multi-party democracy, federalism, constitutionally-guaranteed basic rights and the pre-em...
by Rahul Mukherji | On 23 Dec 2015 New powers, such as China, India and Brazil, are challenging the traditional dominance of the US in the governance of the global economy. It is generally taken for granted that the rise of new powers...
by Kristen Hopewell | On 23 Dec 2015 Global regulatory standard setting is one of the most lucrative battlefields of the international political economy. Asymmetric influence and regulatory capture in setting such standards can undermine...
by Roman Goldbach | On 23 Dec 2015 This paper examines the domestic sources of the internationalization of national oil companies (NOCs) in China and India. It argues that – counter to notions of state-led internationalization – the go...
by Jonas Mecklinga | On 23 Dec 2015 Despite growing interest in the phenomenon of ‘latecomer innovation,’ the nature of this challenge – and its relationship to globalization – remain poorly understood. This article develops a theoretic...
by Andrew Kennedya Kennedya | On 23 Dec 2015 It has become clear that as governments pursue trade facilitation, those that take a “horizontal” approach achieve the most success. This approach involves identifying industries with the highest pote...
by | On 22 Dec 2015 It is recognized that there are close links between sport and politics, and in particular between sport and national consciousness. The Olympic Games and the football, rugby and cricket World Cups hav...
by | On 22 Dec 2015 Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) was launched to address the growing challenges of urbanization by improving infrastructure, governance and the quality of life in cities. This...
by Sama Khan | On 21 Dec 2015 This paper addresses the issue of migration and its public health implications within the human rights framework. Migrants have always been conceptualized as problematic in the context of policies bot...
by | On 21 Dec 2015 The strengthening of El Niño weather phenomenon has led to lower than average rainfall for India’s monsoon season, thereby raising concerns for paddy crops production.
by Aritra Chakrabarty | On 21 Dec 2015 Disaster risk now presents one of the most serious threats to inclusive and sustainable socioeconomic development. Coupled with anticipated increases in the frequency and intensity of weather-related...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 21 Dec 2015 It is vital for countries to identify climate risks, reduce these risks through mitigation, and adapt to these risks—thereby increasing resilience and reducing vulnerability. This study informs decisi...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 21 Dec 2015 Preparing and implementing a K–12 transition absorbs considerable financial and human resources. It follows that the reasons for restructuring must be compelling. It follows that the reasons for restr...
by | On 21 Dec 2015 This note builds on lessons learned from the Center for Global Development’s work on intergovernmental fiscal transfers for health and lays out three strategies for donors that fund organizations and...
by Amanda Glassman | On 21 Dec 2015 The World Trade Organization (WTO) is in trouble. Its negotiating mechanism has mostly seized up, as reflected in the failure to conclude the long-running Doha Round. No obvious solution to this conun...
by | On 21 Dec 2015 This project will study and document these barriers in a carefully chosen sample. Privately-managed higher education institutions have been chosen for the study. This will include a study of the three...
by Parth Shah | On 18 Dec 2015 This note focus on some aspects relating to China’s currency. The paper discusses the twin surpluses which have been continuing in China’s external payments, especially in relation to trade which went...
by Sunanda Sen | On 18 Dec 2015 It is most likely that the current reserve currencies will retain their status in the near future, given the persistence in the composition of reserve holdings. However, since we do not have complete...
by Menzie D. Chinna | On 18 Dec 2015 This paper highlights the emerging significance of newer and non-major ports and the consequent changes in the port system, both hierarchical and regional. The relevance of port focused development co...
by Gloria Kuzur | 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 The report attempts to provide a comprehensive overview of the
constitutional developments in the Kingdom of Bhutan. Starting from the premonarchy era and looking closely at the different phases of m...
by | On 17 Dec 2015 This research paper is divided into two parts to provide a more complete view of how both countries think in term of their ambitions and the methods they deem important to achieve them. This paper arg...
by | On 17 Dec 2015 Sri Lanka, home to a plethora of ethnically diverse communities, saw horrific
communal bloodshed in July 1983. Over three decades down the line, history seems to be repeating itself as hordes of Budd...
by Chaarvi Modi | On 17 Dec 2015 The report sheds light on the prevalence of different forms of violence against children, with global figures and data from 190 countries. Where relevant, data are disaggregated by age and sex, to pro...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 17 Dec 2015 In this joint publication, UNICEF and the World Health Organization report that between 2000 and 2015, malaria mortality rates among children under age 5 fell by 65 per cent, saving an estimated 5.9 m...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 17 Dec 2015 The challenge of climate change is huge; it requires an urgent response from all generations. As the effects of climate change become more visible and extreme, they are likely to affect adversely the...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 17 Dec 2015 This policy brief recommends that these include commitments to: ending extreme poverty and inequality, with a special focus on gender equity and women’s rights; aligning with environmental and social...
by Oxfam International | On 17 Dec 2015 This essay examines India’s position in international negotiations on climate change and domestic mitigation actions, based on scientific evidence and equity. It is argued that India’s stance has larg...
by D Raghunandan | On 17 Dec 2015 Food security and nutrition is a major global challenge. SDC’s Global Programme Food Security(GPFS) represents an innovative initiative of Switzerland in addressing food security and nutrition challen...
by Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC | On 17 Dec 2015 This paper examines how parental migration affects children’s health and education outcomes. Using the Rural-Urban Migration Survey in China data we are able to measure the share of children’s lifetim...
by Xin Meng | 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 metabolic rift describes the relation between the relatively short extractive cycles of the economy and the very long cycles involved in the creation and restitution of natural resources. This rif...
by Barbara Harriss-White | On 17 Dec 2015 This paper reconsiders the link between welfare state provision, globalisation and competitiveness empirically. We challenge the conventional wisdom that welfare states, large-scale public provision o...
by Yu-Fu Chen | On 16 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 Main causes of inpatient death and uncured discharges are concerned by all stakeholders of healthcare sector. This paper studies determinants of inpatient death and uncured discharges in China. Based...
by Qiao Yu | On 16 Dec 2015 Back in 2004, when I ran the Chinadesk at the International Monetary Fund, my team some written questions to Beijing ahead of our meetings with Chinese officials. China’s central bank had claimed that...
by Eswar Prasad | On 16 Dec 2015 Is there an ominous link between the global increase of the hydrometeorological and climatological events on the one side and anthropogenic climate change on the other? This paper considers three main...
by Vinod Thomas | On 15 Dec 2015 This study explores the outcomes of food subsidies to the poor in the case of
India and the Philippines. Both countries operate in-kind food subsidy programs with similar mandates, commonalities in...
by Shikha Jha | On 15 Dec 2015 The bilateral relationship between India and China is much more complex and multifaceted today and elicits resolution strategies from the straight out simplistic18 to the near irreconcilable19. And af...
by Namrata Goswami | On 15 Dec 2015 The key challenge is to develop a policy that facilitates the adaptive capacity of migration rather than inhibiting it. Such an endeavour and subsequent shift in policy where it is sub-optimal is impe...
by Richard Black | On 15 Dec 2015 Limiting global warming to 2° Celsius above global mean temperature in pre-indus- trial times has become a widely debated possible goal for climate policy. It has been supported by many scientists, th...
by | On 13 Dec 2015 The SkyShares model helps policy-makers explore a range of diffe ent policy scenarios. It enables users to relate a target limit for temperature change to a global emissions ceiling; to allocate this...
by Owen Barder | On 11 Dec 2015 This paper reviews the adaptation components of the Intended
Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) submitted by developed,
emerging, and least developed nations, and suggests how such measures...
by | On 11 Dec 2015 The thesis that Asian values are less supportive of freedom and more concerned with order than discipline than are Western values and that the claims of human rights in the areas of political and civi...
by Amartya Sen | On 10 Dec 2015 A framework for comparing mitigation effort is drawn, drawing from a set
of principles for designing and implementing informative metrics. A template for organizing metrics on mitigation effort is pr...
by William Pizer | On 09 Dec 2015 The Kyoto Protocol is an international treaty, 1998, which extends the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that commits State Parties to reduce greenhouse gases emissi...
by United Nations UN | On 07 Dec 2015 Review of
India: The Urban Transition - A Case Study of Development by Henrik Valeur, Copenhagen: Arkitektur B, 2014. Illus- trations, graphs. 344 pp. $44.50 (paper), ISBN 978-87-92700-09-4.
by Preeti Chopra | On 06 Dec 2015 This paper analyses the trends and patterns of economic inequality across Indian states since the early 1990s. The inter-state inequality in per capita income and consumption expenditure show a clear...
by | On 04 Dec 2015 This paper is a literature review that emphasizes institutional analyses of trade law, and explores some of the linkages with the development literature. The paper contends that the development of tra...
by | On 02 Dec 2015 To inform the formulation of policies and interventions to strengthen women’s land rights, this paper analyzes nationally representative data from Bangladesh,
Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, and Vietnam to...
by Kathryn Sproule | On 02 Dec 2015 Using plausibly exogenous variations in the ethnicity-specific assigned birth quotas and different fertility penalties across Chinese provinces over time, the paper provide new evidence for the transf...
by | On 01 Dec 2015 An important element of the socio-economic impact of HIV is
how it disproportionately affects women and girls, in terms of
their vulnerability to infection, constrained access to services
and the a...
by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) | On 01 Dec 2015 This paper surveys the voluminous literature on migration affecting trade and the somewhat less developed literature linking aid flows to migration. It aims to guide the reader through the two literat...
by | On 27 Nov 2015 In Arab countries, a widespread lack of human security undermines human development, according to the Arab Human Development Report 2009: Challenges to Human Security in the Arab Countries. This repor...
by | On 26 Nov 2015 The Arctic sea ice has refrozen after a relatively longer summer this year compared with 2011. There are encouraging reports for the shipping industry and it is believed that similar navigation condit...
by Vijay Sakhuja | On 24 Nov 2015 The Global Gender Gap Report quantifies the magnitude of gender based disparities and tracks their progress over time. While no single measure can capture the complete situation, the Global Gender Gap...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 24 Nov 2015 This issue brief reflects on the prevalence of terror networks in South Asia as Al Qaeda is attempting to expand into new territories in South Asia, “suitable” for safe housing themselves and their il...
by Reshmi Kazi | On 23 Nov 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 The vast majority of the world’s displaced people are hosted in the global South, in the poorest countries in the world. This is also a space with the highest numbers of disabled people, many of who l...
by | On 13 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 The Global Employment Trends for Youth 2015 provides an update on key youth labour market indicators and trends, focusing both on the continuing labour market instability and on structural issues in y...
by | On 28 Oct 2015 Bangladesh is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change. People are getting educated at different levels on how to deal with potential impacts. One such educational mode was the preparati...
by | On 21 Oct 2015 This interview is with D Raghunandan of Delhi Science Forum on India’s pledge regarding climate changes negotiations in Paris. The pledge was recently revealed in the documents presented by Prakash J...
by D Raghunandan | On 20 Oct 2015 This interview with Teesta Setalvad on the series of awards being returned by various writers post lynching of a person in Dadri and PMs silence. Teesta explained that, this government functions on th...
by Teesta Setalvad | On 20 Oct 2015 This interview with Teesta Setalvad on the series of awards being returned by various writers post lynching of a person in Dadri and PMs silence. Teesta explained that, this government functions on th...
by Teesta Setalvad | On 20 Oct 2015 The instrumental role of government in the development of social work in China has led to questions about its political function. So far, little has been reported on how the government has “made” soci...
by | On 20 Oct 2015 This paper attempts to discuss India’s options to collaborate with
China at the event of the formation of new financial institutions and how should India engage with
China’s new Silk Road strategy.
by Ajay Chhibber | On 16 Oct 2015 Globalized production networks, or global value chains, provide an opportunity for small and medium enterprises to upscale their business models and to grow across borders, though with global opportun...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 16 Oct 2015 Using a theoretical framework that
combines the essence of Ramsay’s growth model and the New-Keynesian macrodynamics,
and applying the Kalman filter estimation technique, this paper finds that
Indi...
by Harendra Behera | On 16 Oct 2015 Population ageing is one of the greatest trends shaping the 21st century social, economic and political life. As the world approaches 2020 there will be 1 billion people over the age of 60 and virtu...
by | On 16 Oct 2015 As the Indian Ocean region increasingly becomes a more important geopolitical space, global powers and smaller states are laying down their stakes. This paper examines the military build-up of major I...
by | On 15 Oct 2015 This paper critically examines the ‘Varieties of Capitalism’ (VoC) School’s approach to constructing typologies of capitalisms with reference to the specific case of Indian capitalism. It emphasizes t...
by Surajit Mazumdar | On 14 Oct 2015 Intentionally or unintentionally the globalised television has brought about significant changes in people’s attitude, lifestyle, behaviour, etc, the various elements of culture. Thus globalised TV ha...
by Dr. B K Ravi | On 14 Oct 2015 Review of Creating a New Medina: State Power, Islam, and the Quest for Pakistan in Late Colonial North India New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 554 pp. Rs 940 (Hardcover) ISBN 978-1-107-05212...
by Gail Minault | On 14 Oct 2015 Present study has been
undertaken to understand that to what extent reforms measures in terms of repeal of
the act has affected investment in agricultural marketing infrastructure. The present
s...
by Vijay Intodia | On 14 Oct 2015 This scheme was rolled-out in 2008-09 and at present is in its fourth phase. The objective includes a comparative analysis of the scheme with similar schemes of the government, an evaluation of select...
by Indian Council for Research on International Econo ICRIER | On 13 Oct 2015 The extent to which growth reduces global poverty has been disputed for 30 years. A major problem is that consumption measured from household surveys, which is used to measure poverty, grows less rapi...
by Angus Deaton | On 13 Oct 2015 The paper focuses on within-country inequalities. It discusses in particular how the consequences of inequality are shaped by specific mechanisms that operate at the national, community and individual...
by | On 13 Oct 2015 Based on a newly-developed data set combining information on industrial relations and labour law, various dimensions of globalization, and controls for demand and supply of skilled labour, this paper...
by | On 12 Oct 2015 The echoes of the execution of the Syrian archaeologist, Khaled al-Assad by ISIS for trying to protect the antiquities at Palmyra, and the attempts to brutally erase intellectual inquiry, are to be he...
by Anuradha Kumar | On 11 Oct 2015 The new dread-word is deflation. What does this mean for India? This can cause a threat for domestic producers. This is because of the global situation. We can be prepared and by improving efficiency...
by T.N. Ninan | On 09 Oct 2015 Existing studies that evaluate the impact of pollution on human beings understate its negative effect on
cognition, mental health, and happiness. This paper attempts to fill in the gap via investigat...
by Xin Zhang | On 08 Oct 2015 This paper studies how status competition for marriage partners can generate surprising effects on the real exchange rate (RER). In theory, a rise in the sex ratio (increasing relative surplus of men)...
by Qingyuan Du | On 08 Oct 2015 This year’s annual State of Food Insecurity in the World report takes stock of progress made towards achieving the internationally established hunger targets and reflects on what needs to be done, as...
by Food and Agriculture Organization | On 07 Oct 2015 This paper examines the impact of changing population age structure on economic growth in China and India. The paper present various theoretical perspectives and supporting evidence to emphasis the si...
by William Joe | On 06 Oct 2015 The paper discusses India’s rapid services-led growth has always seemed rather fortuitous and unsustainable. For, both historical experience and economic reasoning lead us to expect growth at India’s...
by | 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 This paper argues that the state is an important institution for initiating economic reforms in India. Ideas held within the state are especially important. When the state reposed faith in a closed ec...
by | On 28 Sep 2015 How did India respond to globalization in the realm of inward foreign direct investment (FDI)? This paper presents the economic institutional change favouring FDI inflows at the union level of India b...
by | On 25 Sep 2015 The Global Nutrition Report 2015 is a report card on the world’s nutrition globally, regionally, and country by country and on efforts to improve it. It assesses countries’ progress in meeting global...
by International Food Policy Research Institute | On 24 Sep 2015 Is democracy in Bangladesh on a reverse course? Is there a culture of intolerance being engendered by deliberate design? Will creeping extremisms create an inevitable schism within the nation? The pap...
by | On 23 Sep 2015 This report from the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Geo-economics maps out the challenges that current geo-economic trends pose for globalisation. Findings show that the rise in strat...
by | On 22 Sep 2015 This Report draws on all of this experience, to make sharp recommendations for the place of education in the future global sustainable development agenda. The lessons are clear. New education targets...
by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultura [UNESCO] | On 22 Sep 2015 Review of . Nomads as Agents of Cultural Change: The Mongols and Their Eurasian Predecessors. Reuven Amitai, Michal Biran, eds.
Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2014. ix + 345 pp., ISBN 978-0-8...
by Stewart Gordon | On 21 Sep 2015 Bhutan is one of the youngest democratic countries in the world. The constitution of Bhutan was formally signed on July 18, 2008 by the fifth King of Bhutan, elected members of Parliament, and the Chi...
by | On 21 Sep 2015 Seven years after the financial crisis, countries have done well. India is also doing well but there is a lot of difference in the programmes announced and how they are implemented.
by T.N. Ninan | On 19 Sep 2015 In this paper results are analysed from a field experiment exploring the response of poor households in China to food price subsidies. Many developing countries use food price subsidies or price cont...
by | On 18 Sep 2015 The establishment of a development bank by the BRICS association
of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa is being described by both proponents and opponents of globalization as a rebellion...
by | On 18 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 compares, in historical perspective, the conditions for democracy, economic development and well-being in India and Scandinavia. Within India, it compares the states of Kerala and West Beng...
by | On 16 Sep 2015 This paper discusses the different agreements and
decisions reached in the Bali Ministerial Conference and the potential implications for the post-Bali work
program. The results of the Bali Minister...
by Eugenio Díaz Bonilla | On 16 Sep 2015 Review of Climate Insurgency: A Strategy for Survival by Jeremy Brecher. Boulder: Paradigm Publishers, 2015. 170 pp. Rs. 8.925/- Hardcover, IISBN-13: 978-1612058207.
by Peter St. Clair | On 15 Sep 2015 This paper encompasses two major themes - local governance and citizens' participation in five neighbouring countries in South Asia, their trials, achievements and failures. Whether their experiences...
by | On 14 Sep 2015 "The problems of knowledge are central to feminist theorizing which has sought to destabilize androcentric, mainstream thinking in the humanities and in the social and natural sciences". The feminist...
by | On 14 Sep 2015 The report reveal the magnitude of the challenge that the world still faces in the quest for gender equality. This report promotes the cause of inclusion of women by informing research and policy disc...
by World Bank | On 11 Sep 2015 The possibility of developing regional production networks in specific sectors
between nations of South Asia has been explored in this paper. The case
of the leather and leather goods cluster in T...
by Keshab Das | On 11 Sep 2015 The goal of this study is to examine whether promising a Conditional Cash Transfer (conditional on matriculation) at the start of junior high increases the rate at which disadvantaged students matricu...
by Fan Li | On 09 Sep 2015 This report highlights the global nature of malnutrition and the successes and bottlenecks in addressing it. Malnutrition continues to affect the lives of millions of children and women worldwide. Eve...
by International Food Policy Research Institute | On 08 Sep 2015 This document presents data by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) on adult and youth literacy in 151 countries and territories from eight regions: Arab States, Central Asia, Central and Eastern...
by | On 08 Sep 2015 In India, Basel III capital regulation has been implemented from April 1, 2013 in phases and it will be fully implemented as on March 31, 2019. Do we need Basel III for a country like India? What are...
by N.S. Viswanathan | On 08 Sep 2015 The subject of this essay is formed from three classic pieces of writing: The End of Laissez-Faire by John Maynard Keynes, The End of History? by Francis Fukuyama, and The Structure of Scientific Revo...
by Ravi Kanbur | On 07 Sep 2015 The paper highlights the importance of “broad-based growth” as a framework to support economic growth and inclusiveness at the same time. Different countries show different dynamics between economic g...
by Jong Woo Kang | On 07 Sep 2015 This paper summarizes the preliminary findings of Global Nutrition Report (GNR), which we shared at the GNR stakeholder roundtable in New Delhi. The primary recommendations suggested are a set of core...
by | On 04 Sep 2015 The findings of the paper highlights the role of fertility policies in women’s empowerment of last century. This paper investigates the impact of the birth control policies on teenage girls’ education...
by Wei Huang | On 03 Sep 2015 The study tries to evaluate the impact of recent crisis episodes viz. the global recession of 2008-09 and the Eurozone debt crisis of 2010-122
on the Emerging Market Economies (EMEs) of China and Ind...
by Pami Dua | On 03 Sep 2015 IDMC estimates that as of July 2015 at least 31,400 people are internally displaced as a result of conflict and violence in Indonesia. Nearly all are protracted internally displaced persons (IDPs) who...
by Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre | On 03 Sep 2015 This paper studies the mutual effects of globalization, liberalization and income inequality using a case study of China. Comparing the trends of economic growth and income distribution, it found that...
by Jinjun Xue | On 03 Sep 2015 The paper analyses the nexus between growth, employment and poverty and points out situations where high economic growth may fail to bring about a commensurate rate of poverty reduction if simultaneo...
by | On 02 Sep 2015 The emerging interest in our past prompts unsettling questions and issues throwing up controversies. How we handle them will mark our maturity as a civilisation.
by Padma Prakash | On 30 Aug 2015 The Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 (GBD 2013) aims to bring together all available epidemiological data using a coherent measurement framework, standardised estimation methods, and transparent da...
by | On 29 Aug 2015 Social scientists theorize that the inverse relationship between socio-economic status and family size represents a trade-off between the quality and quantity of children. Evaluating this hypothesis e...
by Susan Averett | On 26 Aug 2015 The Global Wage Report 2014/15 presents both the latest trends in average wages and an analysis of the role of wages in income inequality. The first part of the report shows that global wage growth in...
by International Labour Organisation ILO | On 26 Aug 2015 This paper argues that India’s foreign economic policies were shaped to a substantial extent by developmental ideas within the Indian state and by the international context of the Cold War. Individual...
by | On 25 Aug 2015 This paper examines the issue of internet governance and analyzes the developments and challenges in reforming the current system. With state and non-state actors alike seeking to influence the way th...
by | On 25 Aug 2015 How is the RBI helping the government to create the conditions for a sustainable growth? Structural reforms will help
strengthen this growth – two weeks ago, the Government announced Indradhanush, la...
by Raghuram G. Rajan | On 25 Aug 2015 One of the most important forces that have shaped India’s economy in the last two and a half decades is the process of globalization. This has been a world-wide phenomenon, and India could not have re...
by B.N. Goldar | On 24 Aug 2015 The impacts of climate change, including increasingly severe weather patterns, reach across every country and citizen worldwide, compelling nations to implement sustainable adaptation measures. In ord...
by | On 24 Aug 2015 Global market is in a turmoil. How can India have a stable economy? There are no easy solutions but to play safe.
by T.N. Ninan | On 21 Aug 2015 This paper analyses an overview of china human development in Time and Space. The paper covers themes like regional inequality in China Since 1952 and Urban-Rural Inequality, 1980-2000. The paper is a...
by | On 21 Aug 2015 This paper compares the experience of poverty reduction in China and India. It finds that more than economic growth per se, what has mattered crucially is the nature of the growth: whether it is assoc...
by Jayati Ghosh | On 21 Aug 2015 Continuous enterprise restructuring is needed for the transition and emerging market economies to become and remain competitive. However, the beneficial effects of restructuring in the medium run are...
by Hartmut Lehmann | On 21 Aug 2015 Review of Shifting Stones, Shaping the Past: Sculpture from the Buddhist Stupas of Andhra Pradesh. Shifting Stones, Shaping the Past: Sculpture from the Buddhist Stupas of Andhra Pradesh. New York: Ox...
by Padma Kaimal | On 20 Aug 2015 Cross-border migration for the purpose of marriage is on the rise, and at present it constitutes one of the most common forms of long-term international mobility in East Asia. The articles included he...
by | On 20 Aug 2015 Unemployment rates in countries across the world are typically positively correlated with GDP. China is an unusual outlier from the pattern, with abnormally low, and suspiciously stable, unemployment...
by Shuaizhang Feng | On 19 Aug 2015 This publication attempts to study major concepts of WTO and present some perspectives on Nepal’s membership in this rule based global trading organization. The chapters presents an introduction with...
by Nepal Rastra Bank NRB | On 17 Aug 2015 The concern of climate change have emphasized in the field of economics too owing to the challenge of adapting to global warming for sustainable development and growth. This challenge becomes central...
by | On 17 Aug 2015 This ILO paper highlights the relationship between inadequate mechanisms of recruitment and forced labour in its third Global Report on Forced Labour in 2009, stating that “there is growing awareness...
by Peter Swiniarski | On 12 Aug 2015 This working paper records the findings of the project and discusses the key principles that underpin the Danish and Finnish welfare states. The paper reflects on the critical issues that must be cons...
by Valerie Koh | On 11 Aug 2015 IMF in its World Economic Outlook (WEO) released in April 2015 has projected global growth for 2015 and 2016 to be at 3.5% and 3.8% respectively, a 0.1% increase for 2016 projection from the January 2...
by Ministry of Commerce and Industry Government of India | On 10 Aug 2015 Asian Societies with linguistic diversity have faced serious problems of loss or decline of vernacular and indigenous languages in modern times. Globalisation and urbanisation have brought a sea chang...
by P. Ishwara Bhat | On 10 Aug 2015 Of all the markets in which politicians interfere with prices, the land market is probably the last that will be reformed.
by T.N. Ninan | On 08 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 project aims to assess the impact of IPR rules on economic growth (including investment), environmental protection (including biodiversity) and social goals (including rural development). There w...
by IPDEV . | On 06 Aug 2015 A survey's design determines its findings; understanding the logic behind measurement is key to interpretation.
by T.N. Ninan | On 01 Aug 2015 Newer production processes with changing global spaces have produced newer division of labour and work categories. The two studies presented here draw attention to the shrinking space for articulation...
by Swati Ghosh | On 31 Jul 2015 This paper examines the concept of monetary policy credibility from both the theoretical and practical viewpoints. It also discusses the advantages of high credibility and explains measures that can b...
by Naveen Srinivasan | On 31 Jul 2015 This paper examines wealth distribution in China and India. As China and India have witnessed significant growth rates between 1980 and 2000s, how this growth has been distributed amongst its citizens...
by | On 30 Jul 2015 This paper reviews the long run developments in the distribution of personal income and wealth. It also discusses suggested explanations for the observed patterns. It tries to answer questions such as...
by | On 30 Jul 2015 Th is paper reassesses national income inequalities in this era of globalization. Th e main conclusion is that two opposite forces are at work: one ‘centrifugal’ at the two extremes of the distributio...
by | On 30 Jul 2015 The report looks beyond the proclamations and communiqués to assess what has really changed since the crisis erupted. While not exhaustive, the report looks at: Overseas Development Assistance, both i...
by | On 30 Jul 2015 This report, produced by the United States of America's Department of State, catalogues the state of human trafficking as of 2015 across the world.
by Department of State United States of America | On 30 Jul 2015 This study extends the understanding of global production network (GPN) analysis by considering the post-consumption activities of the product in question, namely mobile phones. The authors examine th...
by Parvez Alam | On 29 Jul 2015 The co-operative movement in India is more than a century old; regulation thereof is also more than a century old with the first major impetus provided by the passage of the Co-operative Society Act i...
by R. Gandhi | On 29 Jul 2015 The paper aims to analyse points of contention among economists and policymakers. This paper will discuss the pre-crisis conditions in the euro zone nations to gauge the extent of vulnerability of the...
by | On 28 Jul 2015 This paper talks about the right to marry as an essential freedom of all human beings as it relates to their right to self-expression and their right to associate with a person of their choice. The au...
by | On 27 Jul 2015 China and India have approached trade negotiations very differently: the former with confidence, the latter in a defensive crouch.
by T.N. Ninan | On 25 Jul 2015 This volume contains three research papers, entitled “Heat of the Barbed Wire: Engendered lives along the borderlands of West Garo Hills” by Anjuman ara Begum; “Sanitized Societies and Dangerous Inter...
by Anjuman Ara Begum | On 24 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 This paper reviewed the existing accreditation processes and roles of accrediting bodies of Philippine to present a clearer perspective on the current situation of higher education institutions. Simil...
by Marites M. Tiongco | On 20 Jul 2015 This paper discusses a wide range of issues in engaging civil society to deepen and sustain decentralization and local democracy. It examines the concepts of democratic local governance and decentrali...
by | On 07 Jul 2015 Banks and financial institutions are easy prey to fraudsters. As long as banks and financial institutions handle huge sums of money as financial intermediaries they will always be the target of ingeni...
by R. Gandhi | On 06 Jul 2015 If the entry of foreign banks results in a concentrated banking sector, as has been the case in several Central and Eastern European countries, then the goals of achieving financial inclusion are adve...
by Ramkishen S. Rajan | On 05 Jul 2015 Review of The Oxford Companion to Pakistani History ed. Ayesha Jalal. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 558 pp. Rs. 4,488.75. ISBN-13: 978-0195475784.
by Rohit Wanchoo | On 02 Jul 2015 Applying ‘spatial’ lens to Northeast India (NEI) is merely not for hermeneutic purposes but for a nuanced understanding of the flux accompanying the region. Spatial analysis helps us to move beyond th...
by Gorky Chakraborty | On 01 Jul 2015 This paper argues that the presumption that the Indian economy was on a robust growth trajectory decoupled in important ways from the international system is questionable. Rather, the recent boom was...
by C.P. Chandrasekhar | On 29 Jun 2015 Social enterprises (SEs) are crucial both for the development of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and labor generation. The goal of SEs is to provide public goods to communities. In the Philippines...
by | On 29 Jun 2015 This report is the first of its kind to measure health service coverage and financial protection to assess countries’ progress towards universal health coverage.
It shows that at least 400 million...
by World Health Organisation (WHO) | On 25 Jun 2015 There are an estimated 750 million internal migrants in the world, yet the effects of access to internal migration for rural households are not well understood. Internal migrants may provide wealth tr...
by Cynthia Kinnan | On 25 Jun 2015 This paper aims at understanding the different dimensions of life cycle of a
seaport enabling the port-planners to decide on their strategies. There are
different stages in the life cycle of an orga...
by Deepankar Sinha | On 19 Jun 2015 The 2015 Global Peace Index shows that the world is becoming increasingly divided with some countries enjoying unprecedented levels of peace and prosperity while others spiral further into violence an...
by | On 17 Jun 2015 After decades of isolation, Myanmar is now actively re-engaging with the global economy. For successful re-engagement, Myanmar needs to implement comprehensive economic reforms based on a shared visio...
by So Umezaki | On 10 Jun 2015 Nepal is currently experiencing perhaps one of the most turbulent phases in its contemporary political history. In 2008, the 240-year-old institution of monarchy—for long seen as a symbol of unity, in...
by Akanshya Shah | On 05 Jun 2015 India and China, two of the world's oldest civilisations, have had little historically relevant interactions with one other. Separated by the world's highest mountain range, the Himalayas, neither of...
by Himanil Raina | On 04 Jun 2015 Like hazardous waste, the problem of e-waste has become an immediate and long term concern as its unregulated accumulation and recycling can lead to major environmental problems endangering human heal...
by Rajya Sabha | On 04 Jun 2015 This Food and Agriculture Organization publication assesses the extent of the "double burden" of malnutrition in six developing countries – China, Egypt, India, Mexico, the Philippines and South Afric...
by Food and Nutrition Division FAO | On 01 Jun 2015 Recalling resolutions on malaria control, and accelerating efforts to control and eliminate malaria in developing countries, particularly in Africa, by 2015. Acknowledging the progress made towards th...
by World Health Organisation (WHO) | On 27 May 2015 In May 2012, the Sixty-fifth World Health Assembly endorsed the global vaccine action plan in resolution and requested the Director-General to monitor progress and report annually, through the Executi...
by World Health Organisation (WHO) | On 27 May 2015 At the Sixty-sixth World Health Assembly the executive board drafted a global strategy targets for tuberculosis prevention, with a aim to accelerate the global expansion of tuberculosis care and contr...
by World Health Organisation (WHO) | On 26 May 2015 Child labour is a complex problem basically rooted in poverty. The Government of India has formulated policies since the economic reforms of the early 1990s. Children under fourteen comprise 3.6 per c...
by Mita Bhattacharya | On 14 May 2015 The Odisha State Youth Policy 2013 aims to give a strategic direction and make timely interventions to enable the youth to get the best out of the changing scenario in the state and the country due to...
by Environmental Management & Policy Research Institute | On 12 May 2015 The youth policy, has as its ultimate vision, an inclusive approach that hopes to ensure a `take away` for each segment of the youth. The policy also aims at making the structures and institutions of...
by | On 12 May 2015 This article, written during the 2014 civil disobedience 'Umbrella Revolution' in Hong Kong, suggests that this protest became a turning point in China Hong Kong relations. Suggesting that the protest...
by Willy Lam | On 29 Apr 2015 This report by Ministry of Rural Development is an analytical anthology of all major research studies done on Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Act (MGNREGA) that were published in various acad...
by | On 29 Apr 2015 Displacement is by no means a new phenomenon in South Asia.
As they emerged as independent states, at least half of the South
Asian countries experienced mass displacement. In Bangladesh it
is esti...
by | On 28 Apr 2015 Since the revolution of 1932 that ended absolute monarchy, Thailand has experienced sporadic military interventions, with 19 coups and coup attempts over those decades. This article explains these mil...
by | On 27 Apr 2015 The World Malaria Report 2014 summarizes information received from malaria-endemic countries and other sources, and updates the analyses presented in the 2013 report. It assesses global and regional m...
by World Health Organisation (WHO) | On 24 Apr 2015 In context of contemporary debates about censorship, net neutrality and the role of the state in today’s globalising world, it becomes vital to examine the stand taken by various Asian governments tow...
by Nandini Bhattacharya | On 17 Apr 2015 Review of Home, Uprooted: Oral Histories of India's Partition. New York: Fordham University Press, 2014. 288 pp. Rs. 1875.00, ISBN 978-0-8232-5644-0.
by Nishat Zaidi | On 17 Apr 2015 This study reviews and re-conceptualizes the ideas of democracy and the public sphere through the receptive medium of the Internet. Through exploring the transformational concept of the public sphere...
by Jonathan Cunha | On 15 Apr 2015 Internet service providers (ISPs) have played an important role in China's internet regulation regime. This article illustrates how ISPs are governed to serve the government's regulatory goals.
by Henry L. Hu | On 15 Apr 2015 After 30 years of economic reforms, what is the comparative situation of men and women in the People’s Republic of China? How can we analyse the policies for promoting gender equality? Have inequaliti...
by | On 14 Apr 2015 The paper provides an in-depth empirical analysis of Thai political history in an attempt to understand why democracy has failed to consolidate since the 1932 revolution that ended the absolute monarc...
by | On 08 Apr 2015 The paper assesses the current status of governance institutions in Myanmar, as well as their performance, in comparison to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and selected other countr...
by Cullen Hendrix | On 02 Apr 2015 The basic purpose of this paper is to contextualise and highlight the issue of labour and working conditions in industries in the global South engaged in subcontracting operations under the control of...
by Keshab Das | On 31 Mar 2015 A comprehensive overview of a few empirical studies is presented that have explored the issue of Trilemma in the Indian context. Based on these studies an analysis is done on how have Indian policy ma...
by Satish Y Deodhar | On 30 Mar 2015 In this paper People’s Republic of China’s (PRC’s) potential growth rate during the last 30 years is analysed. The PRC’s potential growth rate is not demand constrained, in particular by the balance...
by Juzhong Zhuang | On 27 Mar 2015 President Xi has remarked that China’s current model of economic development is “unbalanced,
uncoordinated and unsustainable”1
and China’s leadership has signalled its intention to “accelerate
the...
by | On 25 Mar 2015 On 5 January, the first anniversary of the deeply contested 2014 elections, the most violent in Bangladesh’s history, clashes between government and opposition groups led to several deaths and scores...
by International Crisis Group | On 24 Mar 2015 This document studies the Trade Policies and Institutions of BRICS, India and BRICS: issues of trade and technology; and examines the scope for deepening cooperation in services among BRICS members. T...
by | On 24 Mar 2015 Budget speech of Haryana Finance Minister
by Capt. Abhimanyu | On 24 Mar 2015 Southeast Asia has been one of the key components of Japan's foreign policy in the post-Cold War period. It is one region where Japan's diplomacy has accomplished considerable success in coming to ter...
by | On 24 Mar 2015 There is no doubt that freedom of speech plays an important role in the process of democratization. Freedom of speech is a guarantee to citizens to participate effectively in the working of democracy....
by | On 24 Mar 2015 This paper aims to show that culture is an important determinant of the effectiveness of formal democratic institutions, such as elections. It is found that social capital complements democratic insti...
by Gerard Padro -i-Miquel | On 23 Mar 2015 The World Social Science Report captures a world undergoing deep change, rocked by multiple crises, including in the environment. This World Social Science Report examines the social dynamics of the...
by UNESCO Publishing | On 18 Mar 2015 This paper examines the developmental causes and consequences of the shift from a parliamentary to a semi-presidential system in Sri Lanka in 1978, examining its provenance, rationale, and its unfoldi...
by | On 16 Mar 2015 This report covers the judicial use of the death penalty for the period January to December 2012. Amnesty International records figures on the use of the death penalty based on the best available info...
by Amnesty International AI, | On 13 Mar 2015 Review of Shifting Ground: People, Animals and Mobility in India's Environmental History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. 308 pp. Rs. 818 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-19-809895-9.
by | On 13 Mar 2015 Territorial disputes between China and Japan over the
Senkaku/Diaoyu islands in the East China Sea and between Japan and
South Korea over the Takeshima/Dokdo islands in the Sea of Japan have,
parti...
by | On 12 Mar 2015 The paper intends to revisit this argument, particularly in the light of the change in deficits and surpluses in the world economy. The paper tries to trace the genesis of BWII to the debates which or...
by Krishnakumar S | On 10 Mar 2015 This report addresses East and South-East Asian youth’s sense of involvement and empowerment as democratic
citizens, their assessments of institutions and quality of governance, and how they particip...
by United Nations Development Programme UNDP | On 10 Mar 2015 Expanding women’s access to the labour market and enhancing their employability, apart from all its other impact, contributes to the GDP substantially. It is important to generate creative partnership...
by G.D Bino Paul | On 10 Mar 2015 This paper outlines the political reforms and reconciliation process presently
underway in Myanmar and the challenges posed to it. A detailed analysis of
changing power dynamics in Myanmar, and the...
by | On 04 Mar 2015 The global strategy for women’s and children’s health reports the challenges on health and services provided to women and children around the world. It sets out the key areas where action is urgently...
by United Nations UN | On 03 Mar 2015 Ahead of the Union Budget, Civil Society Organizations ask for policy strategies to support drinking water and sanitation for vulnerable sections. Civil society budget groups, collectively as a networ...
by Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability | On 26 Feb 2015 People want to live in a safe prosperous country where they enjoy freedom of thought and action, and where they can exercise their democratic rights to choose their government. But how do countries en...
by Raghuram G. Rajan | On 24 Feb 2015 This paper attempts to study the conditions under which China's manufacturing sector thrived in the last few decades. Some distinctive policies (such as in decentralisation, foreign direct investmen...
by Pravakar Sahoo | On 19 Feb 2015 In the recent decade, India has made significant strides in the financial sector. Some of the important developments are strengthening of banks, de-regulation of interest rates and sector competition...
by Ministry of Finance | On 19 Feb 2015 Development economists have considered physical infrastructure to be a precondition for industrialization and economic development. Yet, two issues remain to be addressed in the literature. First, whi...
by Yasuyuki Sawada | On 16 Feb 2015 Review of Citizenship and Its Discontents: An Indian History. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013. viii + 366 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-06684-7.
by Environmental Management & Policy Research Institute | On 09 Feb 2015 This report outlines the wide-ranging risks investors and companies face from water scarcity and how global climate change will heighten those risks in many parts of the world. The report makes clear...
by | On 04 Feb 2015 Do we really have the time to waste on controversies like what ancient India did or did not achieve by way of scientific discoveries? This is when there is the huge unfinished agenda to use the best o...
by Sunita Narain | On 03 Feb 2015 This briefing discusses Sri Lanka’s presidential election promises. It promises more competition than was initially anticipated but with that comes a great risk of violence. Long-term stability and po...
by Crisis Group | On 02 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 Indonesia until recently, was the product of two dictatorships, the last of which ended only in 1998. This extended dose of dictatorship in Indonesia has lead to a failure of institutional growt...
by Navrekha Sharma | On 28 Jan 2015 This paper provides a review of the national experiences of six emerging and developing economies, two from Latin America (Brazil and Mexico), three from Asia (China, India, and Malaysia), and one fro...
by Pooja Sharma | On 23 Jan 2015 Formerly entitled Global Employment Trends, the World Employment and Social Outlook – Trends 2015 includes a forecast of global unemployment levels and explains the factors behind this trend, includin...
by International Labour Organisation ILO | On 22 Jan 2015 Gender balance is increasingly seen as good for business. The growing participation
of women in the labour market has been a major engine of global growth and
competitiveness. And a growing number o...
by International Labour Organisation ILO | On 16 Jan 2015 The report argues the recent setback in global economy and ways to strengthen the growth in developing countries. with a view to undertake growth and recovery in high-income countries, there is need t...
by World Bank | On 14 Jan 2015 Across the great Eurasian plate these days, one can find leaders dispensing with truly competitive politics. But traverse the Himalayas to South Asia and the climate is different: Democracy is on a w...
by Chandrani Sharma | On 13 Jan 2015 China's one-child family policy has had a great effect on the lives of nearly a quarter of the world's population for a quarter of a century. When the policy was introduced in 1979, the Chinese govern...
by | On 13 Jan 2015 This brief discusses China's political, economic, territorial, and security relations with North Korea. It suggests that although China remains North Korea's most important ally as well as its biggest...
by | On 26 Dec 2014 The lack of social protection for the elderly in rural areas of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has, since the 1990s, been seen by the government as a critical issue. The central government intro...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 23 Dec 2014 The bilateral Joint Announcement on Climate Change Agreement released by the US and China on 11 November on the sidelines of the APEC Meeting in Beijing has imparted a new momentum to the troubled neg...
by D Raghunandan | On 21 Dec 2014 Up-to-date evidence on levels and trends for age-sex-specifi c all-cause and cause-specifi c mortality is
essential for the formation of global, regional, and national health policies. In the Global...
by | On 19 Dec 2014 Ensuring food and nutrition security is a challenge for India, given its huge population and high
levels of poverty and malnutrition. India is a net agricultural exporter, particularly of milk, fruit...
by T. Nanda Kumar | On 18 Dec 2014 India continues to suffer from
under-nutrition among large
sections of its population. The
country is unlikely to realise the
first millennium development
goal by 2015. How can
agriculture be us...
by Suneetha Kadiyala | On 18 Dec 2014 Recently, the U.S. and China signed a bilateral treaty according to which they would equalise green house emissions by 2030, followed by a gradual reduction in emissions. Not part of the treaty, India...
by Sunita Narain | On 17 Dec 2014 The basic objective of the study is to examine the impact of public expenditure on health and education after
incorporating the linkages between health status of children and their educational achiev...
by Runu Bhatka | On 12 Dec 2014 Parliament performs several essential functions including that of making laws, scrutinising and passing the budget, conducting oversight on the activities of the government and representing citizens....
by Prianka Rao | On 06 Dec 2014 The US “peaked” its emissions in 2012. Countries which were required to cut emissions did not do so at the scale or pace needed. The Durban CoP agreed that the world would work to finalise a new agree...
by Sunita Narain | On 03 Dec 2014 It investigate whether food price subsidies affect household nutrition using
a dramatic expansion of the availability of subsidized rice in the Indian
state of Chhattisgarh in the early 2000’s. Hous...
by Prasad Krishnamurthy | On 28 Nov 2014 The usual explanations for the
divergence between calorie intake
and consumption expenditure
in India ignore the enormous
squeeze on food budgets arising
from dispossession (leading to
loss of a...
by Deepankar Basu | On 28 Nov 2014 Food security has emerged as a fundamental issue at global level since the global food crisis of 2008. Now, investment in agriculture, food, and nutritional security is a prime concern for every natio...
by Palwinder Kaur | On 27 Nov 2014 This article seeks firstly to look at the three aspects of food security in India, viz., food availability, accessibility, and absorption. Secondly, an attempt has been made to study food security in...
by Reshmi Banerjee | On 27 Nov 2014 This background paper aims first is to outline the rationale and merits for
enhancing the nutrition-sensitivity of agricultural interventions in general, highlighting
recognised pathways which lin...
by Toni Darbas | On 20 Nov 2014 Young people matter. They matter because an unprecedented 1.8 billion youth are alive today, and because they are the shapers and leaders of our global future. They matter because they have inherent h...
by United Nations Population Fund UNFPA | On 19 Nov 2014 This Global Nutrition Report is the first in an annual series. It tracks worldwide progress in improving nutrition status, identifies bottlenecks to change, highlights opportunities for action, and co...
by Independent Expert Group (IEG) | On 17 Nov 2014 The Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions (APF) is pleased to present Promoting and
Protecting the Rights of Migrant Workers: The Role of National Human Rights Institutions.
Nati...
by Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions | On 17 Nov 2014 India has been a land of myths. Industrial relations are no exception to this trend. The arguments in the name of supporting the chorus for labour law and governance reforms, when reviewed carefully w...
by K.R. Shyam Sundar | On 14 Nov 2014 India has shown an impressive economic growth of about 8 percent per year in the last decade. But
the coexistence of impressive growth with widespread poverty and hunger is a real worry and a
seri...
by Asia-Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutions | On 12 Nov 2014 Urbanisation in India is neither unique nor exclusive but is similar to a world-wide phenomenon. Indian urbanisation has proceeded as it has elsewhere in the world as a part and product of economic ch...
by K.C. Sivaramakrishnan | On 11 Nov 2014 This paper documents an unusual and possibly significant phenomenon: the export of skills, embodied in
goods, services or capital from poorer to richer countries. A set of stylized facts is presente...
by Aaditya Mattoo | On 06 Nov 2014 This paper estimates the impact of China’s exchange rate changes on exports of competitor
countries in third markets, which is called as the “spillover effect. Recent theory is used to
develop an id...
by Aaditya Mattoo | On 29 Oct 2014 HFC has been a bugbear in the India-US relationship. One item on the agenda of the much-discussed Narendra Modi-Barack Obama meeting that has Indian commentators flummoxed is hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)...
by Sunita Narain | On 29 Oct 2014 Productive employment generation is an important objective in most of the developing countries this motivation has probably induced firms to adopt capital intensive techniques.
Based on the country s...
by Arup Mitra | On 29 Oct 2014 Social and economic challenges facing young people today must be understood in terms of the
complex interaction between unique demographic trends and specific economic contexts. There
has been an...
by Ragui Assaad | On 27 Oct 2014 This paper examines the effect of tariff policies on evasion of customs duties, in the context of the
trade reform in India of the 1990s. We exploit the variation in tariff rates across time and
p...
by Petia Topalova | On 22 Oct 2014 The World Trade Report 2014 looks at how four recent major economic trends have changed how developing countries can use trade to facilitate their development. These trends are the economic rise of de...
by World Trade Organisation WTO | On 21 Oct 2014 The authors estimate the respective contributions of institutions, geography, and trade in determining income levels around the world, using recently developed instrumental variables for institutions...
by Arvind Subramanian | On 21 Oct 2014 In this book, Arvind Subramanian presents the following possibilities: What if, contrary to common belief, China's economic dominance is a present-day reality rather than a faraway possibility? What i...
by Arvind Subramanian | On 20 Oct 2014 In 2008, two earnest young men set out to boost soya bean yields in the semi-arid region of Bundi in Rajasthan. Rainfall there is meagre and the soil lacks nutrients. But there are ready buyers for so...
by Civil Society | On 20 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 India has the dubious distinction of having the highest burden of malnutrition in
the world – higher than Sub-Saharan Africa. Nearly 50 per cent of our children
are underweight and stunted and 70...
by National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, India | On 16 Oct 2014 A staggering 2 billion people get so little essential vitamins and minerals from the foods they eat that they remain undernourished, according to the 2014 Global Hunger Index (GHI) being released toda...
by International Food Policy Research Institute | On 14 Oct 2014 Deforestation in developing and middle income countries is an urgent global problem, affecting climate change, soil erosion, major river basins, and livelihoods of poor households living near the fore...
by Jean Marie Baland | On 24 Sep 2014 Civil society in Independent India has perhaps never been as active as it is today, except in the years before and during the emergency. The author explores the role it has played in strengthening and...
by Trilochan Sastry | On 18 Sep 2014 India’s recent development cooperation activities with the South have provoked global curiosity. Two factors shape this interest. First, the strong growth of some countries like India, China and Brazi...
by Sachin Chaturvedi | On 18 Sep 2014 The concept of food security has undergone considerable changes in recent years. Food availability and stability were considered good measures of food security till the seventies and the achievement o...
by K. Venkata Reddy | On 18 Sep 2014 In spite of the rapid growth of the Indian economy, the fraction of the rural population living in poverty has declined only modestly. Increasing indebtedness, rises in input prices, and rapid commerc...
by Raj M. Desai | On 17 Sep 2014 This brief is one of series on scaling up in agriculture, rural development, and nutrition. PepsiCo is a global business operating in more than 200 countries and territories and rooted in creating and...
by Beth Sauerhaft | On 17 Sep 2014 Over the past 40 years, China’s population has been aging at a rate that took more than 100 years in developed countries. In 2010, the number of people over 60 years old reached 178 million in China,...
by World Bank | On 09 Sep 2014 Every 40 seconds a person dies by suicide somewhere in the world. “Preventing suicide: a global imperative” is the first WHO report of its kind. It aims to increase awareness of the public health sign...
by World Health Organisation (WHO) | On 09 Sep 2014 The 2013/4 Education for All Global Monitoring Report shows why education is pivotal for development in a rapidly changing world. It explains how investing wisely in teachers, and other reforms aimed...
by UNESCO UNESCO | On 25 Aug 2014 Given the phenomenal scale of internal migration in China, migrant health has become a prominent policy issue. Various policy actors are now involved in the development of migrant health policy. Howev...
by Yapeng Zhu | On 23 Aug 2014 From 2003, the Indian economy enjoyed a boom in growth coupled with moderate inflation for five years. The economy grew at a rate close to 9 percent per year, until it was punctured by the global fina...
by Pankaj Kumar | On 19 Aug 2014 Is the high degree of gender inequality in developing countries in education, personal autonomy, and more explained by underdevelopment itself? Or do the societies
that are poor today hold certain cu...
by Seema Jayachandran | On 11 Aug 2014 An act to consolidate and amend the law relating to children in conflict with law and children in need of care and protection by catering to their developmental needs through proper care, protection a...
by Government of India Ministry of Women and Child Development | On 08 Aug 2014 The Union Budget remains significant for the agricultural sector in the country for at least the following two reasons. First, the budget comes in the background of an agrarian crisis in the country,...
by Arindam Banerjee | On 04 Aug 2014 This paper is an attempt to reconstruct the Keezhvenmani Dalit massacre of 1968 by placing it in the larger socio-political scenario, giving it a ‘pre-history,’ scouring the various narratives of the...
by Nithila Kanagasabai | On 24 Jul 2014 The report provides an account
of the State, the Party and the political system in China, which will enable a
more accurate appreciation of the Planning System and Process of the
People’s Republic....
by Institute of Chinese Stuies ICS | On 21 Jul 2014 Given the commonalities in terms of history, culture, languages and trade complementarity in many cases, the Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar (BCIM) Corridor is a win-win arrangement. The linkages of tr...
by Pravakar Sahoo | On 15 Jul 2014 The publication Sustaining Progress on Population and Development in Asia and the Pacific: 20 years after ICPD contains an analysis of the ICPD beyond 2014 Global Survey in Asia and the Pacific and th...
by United Nations Economic and Social Commission (UNESCAP) | On 24 Jun 2014 Nine out of ten parliamentarians in India are men. Such dismal figures reveal the lasting grip of unfavourable social norms. Women’s disadvantage on a complex set of social and economic factors effect...
by Lucy Dubochet | On 17 Jun 2014 Incidence of child labour is a disturbing feature of an emerging market econ¬omy. In the present article, the authors try to explore whether globalization policies, namely, agricultural trade liberali...
by Rakhi Banerjee | On 09 Jun 2014 This policy study seeks to move the debate on labour standards beyond the present stalemate onto a more constructive plane. While closely examining the economic arguments in this controversy, it is al...
by Ajit Singh | On 09 Jun 2014 The study had examined the functioning of women representatives and Presidents of gram
panchayats in Karnataka, where reservations for these seats and posts have been in place for
nearly twenty year...
by Anand Inbanathan | On 02 Jun 2014 This issue of Global Employment Trends for Youth provides an update on youth labour markets around the world, focusing both on the continuing labour market crisis and on structural issues in youth lab...
by International Labour Organisation ILO | On 30 May 2014 One of the key challenges confronting organizations is to improve the talent pipeline of women in the organization. Anecdotal evidence from the IT industry in India appears to suggest that a number of...
by Vasanthi Srinivasan | On 23 May 2014 This position paper identifies that there is a strong need for a new and forward-looking education agenda that completes unfinished business while going beyond the current goals in terms of depth and...
by UNESCO UNESCO | On 16 May 2014 The Report highlights the unique aspects of youth development in various regions but emphasizes that young people the world over are ultimately constrained in their efforts to contribute to their own...
by United Nations UN | On 16 May 2014 The report closely examines four areas of increasing concern that of particular importance when addressing the issue of employment: jobless growth, global informalisation of the labour market, economi...
by United Nations UN | On 16 May 2014 The dynamics of the market post liberalization of the Indian economy in the 1990s have permeated both, the urban middle class and rural households, setting a trend of negotiation with the ‘exotic fore...
by Shweta Ghosh | On 13 May 2014 The paper records oral narratives of first generation migrants from Dera Ismail Khan (DIK), a small district located in the North West Frontier Province in Pakistan, who moved across the border and li...
by Shilpi Gulati | On 13 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 Political parties and elections lie at the center of modern democratic politics. Elections function as the chief means of holding leaders accountable for their actions in democratic societies. Politic...
by Erik Kuhonta | On 28 Apr 2014 The recent global food crisis can be seen as a wake-up call which can be turned into an opportunity by developing countries and the international community to revitalize global agriculture producti...
by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development | On 22 Apr 2014 This paper proposes to explore “the issues of exclusion and inclusion in decentralized local governance institutions in India”. It also tries to explore how the marginalized groups are excluded in the...
by Dr. Dasarathi Bhuyan | On 14 Apr 2014 Should India's export promotion policies be targeted at accelerating export growth at the extensive(new
trading relationships) or at the intensive margin (increase in trade of existing relationships)...
by C. Veeramani | On 08 Apr 2014 PUCL
through this statement, wishes to bring to the attention of the people of India, the serious
threat to democracy itself and the human rights challenges posed by the electoral alliances
and cal...
by People's Union of Civil Liberties PUCL | On 03 Apr 2014 Drawing on the convergence theory, one would expect that as a latecomer to integrate with the globalized economy India’s export performance would be at least on par with that of China because China’s...
by Kaliappa Kalirajan | On 12 Mar 2014 The Indian economy is expected to grow by over 8 per cent per annum until 2020 and can become the second largest in the world, ahead of the United States, by 2050, and the third largest after China an...
by S.P. Parashar | On 11 Mar 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 This paper compares alternative ways of measuring participation of a country in Global Value Chains (GVCs) and estimates distribution of gains between countries in terms of Countries' shares in total...
by Rashmi Banga | On 10 Mar 2014 Global trade in goods and services, which today amounts to more than $20 trillion, includes a significant amount of double counting. Raw material extracted in one country may be exported first to a se...
by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development | On 10 Mar 2014 This article builds a theoretical framework to help explain governance patterns in global value chains. It draws on three streams of literature – transaction costs economics, production networks, and...
by Gary Gereffi | On 10 Mar 2014 What children need are effective institutions, equitable services and adequate resources,
combined with political will and accountable leadership. This is what political leaders can
promise them. [H...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 20 Feb 2014 This paper studies the potential impact of the programme ‘SimSmoke Tobacco Control Policy’ in China. China is home to about one third of the world's smokers and reducing smoking in China could have an...
by David Levy | On 19 Feb 2014 This paper focuses on the fishing hamlet of Adimalathura located
on the coast of the Thiruvananthapuram district in Kerala, which has
been identified as an area of extreme developmental disadvantage...
by J. Devika | On 11 Feb 2014 In order to conceptualize the
transforming political and economic orders of today’s South
Asia, the perspective of contemporary history is taken. For this, Public-Private Partnership – which is bei...
by Sonali Chakravarti Banerjee | On 24 Jan 2014 Studying conflicts is a big intellectual enterprise. More than 60 per cent of the top 100 think-tanks listed in the University Pennsylvania survey (2012) study conflicts and issues related to conflict...
by S. D. Muni | On 22 Jan 2014 The Asian Development Bank (ADB) Sustainability Report has been issued every 2 years since 2007. The current Sustainability Report contains selected performance highlights of ADB’s operations and corp...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 20 Jan 2014 This paper discusses the two leading views of history and political institutions. For some scholars, institutions are mainly products of historical logic, while for others, accidents, leaders, and dec...
by Abhijit V. Banerjee | On 20 Jan 2014 This article systematically compares maritime territorial disputes in the East and South China Seas. It draws on the bargaining model of war and hegemonic stability theory to track the record of confl...
by Andy Yee | On 02 Jan 2014 With the two leaders of Japan and South Korea having failed to hold an official meeting between them since coming to
office, historical issues remain a thorn in the the betterment of Japanese-South K...
by Bert Edström | On 02 Jan 2014 Determining the characteristics of the labour market is one of the fundamental tasks faced by those with responsibility for policy on skills and employment. There is, therefore, a need to identify the...
by International Labour Organisation ILO | On 09 Dec 2013 This policy note offers a preliminary assessment of the compatibility between the WTO and efforts to protect the human right to adequate food as part of the post-crisis food security agenda. Existing...
by Olivier Schutter | On 02 Dec 2013 ASEAN, for China, is the focal point for Chinese diplomacy with Southeast Asian countries. Beyond ASEAN, China’s overall relations with Russia, Central Asia and most South Asian countries are relative...
by Chaobing Qiu | On 29 Nov 2013 This paper has investigated the effects of various factors of political instability on economic growth in selected ten Asian economies during 1990-2005. The empirical findings show a close relationshi...
by Muhammad Younis | On 28 Nov 2013 This paper examines a range of possible outcomes in strategic Asia and evaluates the likelihood of each outcome based on the prospective performance of the U.S and the Chinese economies, potential pol...
by Aaron Friedberg | On 26 Nov 2013 Global risks would meet with global responses in an ideal world, but the reality is that countries and their communities are on the frontline when it comes to systemic shocks and catastrophic events....
by World Economic Forum WEF | On 22 Nov 2013 Reading copies of The Lancet from the 19th century will produce uncomfortable feelings among today's readers. The journal is littered with reports of disease and injury from parts of the world under B...
by Richard Horton | On 22 Nov 2013 The continued difficulties of the World Trade Organization to achieve further multilateral trade liberalization in the Doha Round negotiations have raised questions about its continued relevance. This...
by Biswajit Dhar | On 19 Nov 2013 The paper describes of some of the critical challenges to democratization in Bangladesh. While electoral challenges are included, the paper looks beyond elections and describe other factors that can h...
by ASIA FOUNDATION | On 14 Nov 2013 This paper examines how left-behind children influence return migration in China. A simple illustrative model based on Dustmann (2003) is presented that incorporates economic
and non-economic motive...
by Sylvie Démurger | On 13 Nov 2013 Globalization makes all products costlyfor workers. Canadian women face same problems as women in India. They face domestic violence, sexual harassment at work place.
by Lorraine Michael | On 25 Oct 2013 China has achieved miraculous economic growth over the past 30 years to become the world’s second largest single-country economy. The economic boom is attributed to China’s market-oriented reforms, wh...
by Dr. Junjie Zhang | On 23 Oct 2013 According to new assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), human influence on the climate is clearly evident.
It is extremely likely that human influence has been the domina...
by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC | On 23 Oct 2013 Modern slavery includes slavery, slavery-like practices (such as debt bondage, forced marriage, and sale or exploitation of children), human trafficking and forced labour.
This is the first year of...
by Walk Free Foundation | On 18 Oct 2013 The 2013 Global Hunger Index (GHI), which reflects data from the period 2008–2012, shows that global hunger has improved since 1990, falling by one-third. Despite the progress made the level of hunger...
by International Food Policy Research Institute | On 16 Oct 2013 China and India are in the vanguard of a wave of urban expansion that is restoring the global prominence that Asia enjoyed before the European and North American industrial revolution.
Never before i...
by Richard Dobbs | On 15 Oct 2013 The Monsoon Session ended with the passage of Bills on food security, land acquisition, companies, and pension. During the session, significant time was lost due to frequent disruptions over issues su...
by Kusum Malik | On 12 Sep 2013 In the aftermath of the anti-governmental Gezi demonstrations of May-June and the conclusion of the Ergenekon trial earlier this month, clear fault-lines are crystallizing in the Turkish political lan...
by Ozan Serdaroglu | On 05 Sep 2013 This Tenth Nani A. Palkhivala Memorial lecture lecture centres around the role and responsibility of a central bank in a democratic structure. Central banks make macroeconomic policy that influences t...
by Duvvuri Subbarao | On 30 Aug 2013 In China’s foreign affairs and security studies, the concept of the ‘neighborhood’
(zhoubian) has a special meaning that has changed gradually over time. As China has developed, its leadership has be...
by Zhang Chi | On 12 Aug 2013 This paper is an attempt to understand the emerging migration patterns in India and issues underlying it. With globalisation, urbanisation and accompanying changes in socio-economic conditions, migran...
by Sandhya Rani Mahapatro | On 07 Aug 2013 Obituary: Sharmila Rege (1964 to 2013)
by Vibhuti Patel | On 30 Jul 2013 Parliament convened for the Budget Session 2013 for 32 days between February 21 and May 8. Both Houses
were adjourned sine die on May 8, two days ahead of the planned schedule. There was a month long...
by Priya Soman | On 03 Jun 2013 The farmers, predominantly the small and tribal, particularly in regions of rich agro-biodiversity immensely contribute to the on-farm conservation and enrichment of this diversity, often at personal...
by Prabhakaran Raghu | On 22 May 2013 The overall goal of this paper is to analyse the political economy of food price policies in
China during the global food crisis. The results show that given China’s unique economic and
political co...
by Jikun Huang | On 18 Apr 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 The importance of the political parties in Myanmar and their role as the
creators of the future of the country. The course of the present developments
relies on the ability of the political parties....
by Aung Aung (IR) | On 09 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 Following is the full text of report on the implementation of central and local budgets in 2012 and on draft central and local budgets for 2013, which was submitted for review on March 5, 2013 at the...
by Ministry of Finance China | On 21 Mar 2013 The ambitious development plans for the Lancang-Mekong River Basin (LMRB) could have serious environmental, social, cultural and even geopolitical ramifications that could in turn destabilise the Meko...
by Apichai Sunchindah | On 15 Mar 2013 Asset quality of banks has come under increasing pressure with rising NPAs and Restructured loans. The Gross NPA ratio for the banking system, which was 2.4% in March 2011, increased to 3.6 per cent b...
by Chakrabarty K C | On 07 Mar 2013 Is the Finance Minister going to do a salvage operation? [BS week end ruminations].
by T.N. Ninan | On 27 Feb 2013 Modernization, encouragement to PPP, integration of MGNREGA, has been given importance in the railway budget.
by IRIS India IRIS | On 27 Feb 2013 This study is a cross-sectional comparative study between baseline (2006), mid-line (2009) and end-line (2011) surveys in 50 sub-districts from the first phase of the programme. Thirty thousand househ...
by Sifat Rabbi | On 22 Feb 2013 New Delhi launched its SEZ revolution in April 2000 to secure the country a
two digit growth rate, copying from China what during the previous two decades proved
to be an excellent strategy, this pa...
by Claudia Astarita | On 21 Feb 2013 Review of the book 'Child and Adolescent Mental Health' edited by Usha Nayar, United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children; February 2013; pp 363; Rs 115...
by Aarti Salve | On 07 Feb 2013 Chinese hydropower companies and banks are now the largest dam builders in
the world. Chinese banks have stepped in to fill the gap left by traditional dam
funders such as the World Bank. The Chines...
by International Rivers Network IRN | On 15 Jan 2013 Following the international financial crisis that started in 2007, market growth and MFI performance started to deteriorate. Over the last decade the market has matured and become more efficient. Is...
by Cédric Lützenkirchen | On 14 Jan 2013 This study examines how the economic effects of elections in rural China depend on voter
heterogeneity, for which religious fractionalization is taken as a proxy. [BREAD Working No. 366]. URL:[http:/...
by Gerard Padro-i- Miquel | On 09 Jan 2013 Review article of Churning the Earth: The Making of Global India; Aseem Shrivastava, Ashish Kothari;
Penguin Viking, New Delhi;
Pp. 394, Rs 699.
by Suryanarayana M H | On 10 Dec 2012 The Corruption Perceptions Index is constructed by the Transparency International. The Corruption Perceptions Index measures the perceived levels of public sector corruption in countries worldwide. Ba...
by Transparency International TI | On 07 Dec 2012 Essayist, journalist and novelist Pankaj Mishra was at Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC) September 19, 2012, to discuss his new book From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Agains...
by Pankaj Mishra | On 07 Dec 2012 This paper provides a
detailed analysis of trade flows between the two emerging economies and investigates on
which type of products and in which sectors the Indian government applies antidumping
m...
by Hylke Vandenbussche | On 23 Nov 2012 Son preference is widespread in a number of developing countries. Anecdotal evidence
suggests that women may contribute to the persistence of this phenomenon because they
derive substantial long-run...
by Laura Zimmermann | On 19 Nov 2012 Three strategies are discussed to integrate institutional
analysis into resource and development econometrics: (1) recognition of institutional variables; (2) use of multilevel
thinking and estimati...
by Vikram Dayal | On 25 Oct 2012 A rigorous econometric
analysis of a civil conflict is conducted that the Indian Prime Minister has called the single biggest internal
security challenge ever faced by his country, the so-called Mao...
by Davesh Kapur | On 13 Oct 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 This article discusses the
cultural basis and origins of the idea of this strategy from the point of view
of China’s traditional culture and historical development and analyzes the
the reality of C...
by Wang Dewen | On 27 Sep 2012 This study examines the moral economy of firm-farmer contracts in contract farming schemes in India,
bringing together data from field surveys, conducted between 2007 and 2010, of 42 agribusinesses a...
by Sudha Narayanan | On 20 Sep 2012 This paper examines whether an individual-level transfer of property rights increases
the individual's bargaining power within the household. The question is analyzed in
the context of a housing ref...
by Shing-Yi Wang | On 18 Sep 2012 This paper focuses on the assessment of energy savings potential in seven highly energy consuming industries. The paper estimates the energy savings potential for each of these industries using unit l...
by Manish Gupta | On 17 Sep 2012 This paper examines the potential gender impacts of the trade
reforms in plantation agriculture in the emerging context of the two
prominent FTAs, viz. the Indo-ASEAN and the proposed EU-India FTA....
by Viswanathan P K | On 14 Sep 2012 This is an inclusive policy, which recognizes diversity in gender, caste, class, religion, language and reiterates the commitment of the State to this vibrant and significant population group and look...
by Ministry of Youth and Sports Affairs YAS | On 12 Sep 2012 A primary census-type panel household survey is show that in 18 villages in rural China, child health status has barely improved in the past decades despite more than double digit of annual per capita...
by Xi Chen | On 07 Sep 2012 This Report is focused on the informal or the unorganized economy which accounts for an overwhelming proportion of the poor and vulnerable population in an otherwise shining
India. It concentrates on...
by NCEUS NCEUS | On 05 Sep 2012 The Editors examine the lack of correlation between the size of a city and its air quality, noting that the strength of environmental laws and the accountability of the country's government have a gre...
by PLoS Medicine Editors | On 30 Aug 2012 As sex ratio imbalances have become a problem in an increasing number of countries, it is important to understand their consequences. With the defeat of the Kuomintang Party in China, more than one mi...
by Simon Chang | On 28 Aug 2012 Spot fire disputes have sparked across Asia, with the winds of nationalism spurring them on. If one
flares up it could ignite a region. Escalating tensions should have mediators vigilant and with pai...
by Elliot Brennan | On 24 Aug 2012 Review of the book Challenges for Development in 21st Century by Ruby Ojha, B.R. Publications, 2011.
by Vibhuti Patel | On 14 Aug 2012 The paper examines the debates and makes specific policy recommendations by which regionalism, the engagement of small states (through the role of Singapore and the 3-G coalition), and the expansion o...
by Andrew F Cooper | On 09 Aug 2012 Environmental change is regarded by many geopolitical experts as one of the biggest threats to international security in the coming
years. In Southern Asia, its impact on rivers, and thus water secur...
by Dhanasree Jayaram | On 07 Aug 2012 What is ‘good’ governance?
Can the quality of governance be measured? And how do state
governments in India measure up by such a measure?
[Working Paper no. 104]. URL:[http://www.nipfp.org.in/neww...
by Sudipto Mundle | On 02 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 Government owned Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) raised the price of petrol on 23rd May 2012. After the
inclusion of local taxes, this amounted to a hike of Rs 7.54 per litre in Delhi. A snapshot of t...
by Karan Malik | On 24 Jul 2012 F rom its headwaters in the Tibetan Plateau to its estuary in Burma, the Salween River
supports over ten million people. For many decades, it was the longest free-flowing
river in Southeast Asia. It...
by International Rivers Network IRN | On 17 Jul 2012 Developing Asia is the driver of today's emissions intensive global economy. As the principle source of future emissions, the region is critical to the task of global climate change mitigation. Reflec...
by Stephen Howes | On 16 Jul 2012 The Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River is the world’s largest and most
controversial hydropower project. The 600 kilometer-long reservoir has displaced
1.3 million people and is wreaking havoc wi...
by International Rivers Network IRN | 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 Over the last few decades India has emerged as an economic giant. In 2000 the Special Economic
Zone (SEZs) policy became part of a strategy to maintain high growth and promote India’s manufacturing
...
by Ebba Mårtensson | On 11 Jul 2012 The food and beverages industry has not yet established strong and vibrant
linkages with the local communities to develop value added products and
share the benefits. The paper lists seven models fo...
by Anil K Gupta | On 11 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 examines the roles and challenges of small holding agriculture in India. It covers trends in agricultural growth, cultivation patterns, participation of small holding agriculture, productiv...
by S. Mahendra Dev | On 06 Jul 2012 Review of the book From Individual to Community: Issues in Development Studies--Essays in Memory of Malcolm Adiseshiah by Nandan Nawn.
by Nandan Nawn | On 05 Jul 2012 Bhutan Education Bill. [National Assembly of Bhutan]. URL:[http://www.nab.gov.bt/downloads/59Bill%20Eng.pdf].
by National Assembly of Bhutan | On 02 Jul 2012 Pension assets have seen rapid growth world-wide over the past decades, although they suffered large losses during the global financial crisis of 2007–2008. Such growth is notably due to both structur...
by Yuwei Hu | On 02 Jul 2012 This study investigates the effects of introducing elections on public goods and redistribution in rural China. A large and unique survey was collected to document the history of political reforms and...
by Yang Yao | On 05 Jun 2012 The paper examines the Chinese Economy on the basis of four factors namely, human development, education, growth and inequality.
[IZA DP No. 6550]
URL: [http://ftp.iza.org/dp6550.pdf]
by James J Heckman | On 01 Jun 2012 The research was undertaken to better
understand the current policy and plans of the Cambodian government for the electricity
sector; map the decision-making process; develop a greater understanding...
by Carl Middleton | On 25 May 2012 This paper takes a broader view and explores the multiple effects that global warming and climate change could have on food production and food security. Dealing with climate change would require stre...
by S. Richa | On 24 May 2012 The paper investigates the profitability of 78 Islamic banks in 25 countries for the period of 1992-2009. The Fixed Effect Model (FEM) used to analyse profitability shows that profit efficiency is pos...
by NOR HAYATI BT AHMAD | On 24 May 2012 This paper reviews the
debate surrounding the “deeper determinants” of economic performance. It
reviews the work of Institutional School and Geography School and their interpretation of the
long-r...
by Lubna Hasan | On 24 May 2012 This study used social
capital as an organizing framework to capture VO members’ group behaviour, and
their current status along programme activities. The study compared the status of
intervention...
by Nayma Qayum | On 22 May 2012 Regional governance systems and national frameworks to address climate change and accelerate green growth in Asia are reviewed and tools to address climate change are outlined. Options for regional le...
by Heinrich-Wilhelm Wyes | 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 aim of this paper
is to examine the driving forces behind China’s military modernization efforts
followed by an assessment of the goals and foci of China’s military modernization
at present and...
by Jiao Liang | On 08 May 2012 A broad overview of the current state of pension systems in the People’s Republic of China, Indonesia, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Viet Nam is provided. An anal...
by Donghyun Park | On 30 Apr 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 India's trans-boundary riparian policies affect four countries - Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh - on three river systems - the Indus, the Ganga and the Brahmaputra-Mehgna. China's riparian pol...
by Gopal Siwakoti Chintan | On 25 Apr 2012 Persistence and
breakdowns of democracy are the dominant features of
Nepali politics.Democracy continues to be attractive amidst
setbacks and discontinuity. So it remains perennially elusive,
desp...
by Lok Raj Baral | On 23 Apr 2012 The paper examines the implications of Myanmar's reforms for its neighbours- China, India, Thailand and Bangladesh. Issues of major concern to the four countries include energy, humanitarian consequen...
by Lina Gong | On 20 Apr 2012 This paper examines the larger issue of how a ‘free’ media performs during times of
war with particular reference to US and India using case studies. It focuses on ‘national
security’ becoming a maj...
by Aradhana Sharma | On 20 Apr 2012 The audiovisual sector is a significant component of the economy in terms of wealth creation and employment and audiovisual industries also play an important cultural role. This study reviews the main...
by Gillian Doyle | On 20 Apr 2012 This paper reviews economic development and the regulatory environment of audiovisual services in the Republic of Korea (hereafter, Korea). The paper specifically examines motion pictures and broadcas...
by Yeongkwan Song | On 19 Apr 2012 Th is study, which is supported by the ministries of fi nance and
the central banks of the BRICS, focuses on synergies and complementarities
between the economies, highlighting their role as growth
...
by Ministry of Finance | On 18 Apr 2012 This paper provides a synthesis of the experiences of six countries (Brazil, China, India, Malaysia, Mexico, and Nigeria) in enhancing food security of their population. Approximately 46 per cent of t...
by Pooja Sharma | On 16 Apr 2012 What India has to do to overcome the dents that India has suffered in its international image? India will have to play a delicate game of exercising autonomy in its pursuit of national objectives with...
by T.N. Ninan | On 10 Apr 2012 The link between poverty, the middle class and institutional outcomes are analyzed using a
newly developed cross-country panel dataset containing detailed information on the
distribution of income a...
by Norman Loayza | On 09 Apr 2012 China–India association in the BRICS bloc of countries is an example of multilateralism at its height. For China, the BRICS
group holds a strategic significance as it is targeted towards the Western...
by Jagannath P Panda | On 04 Apr 2012 Major credit rating agencies give out the sovereign credit rating of each nation as an absolute grade. How other nations fare over the period under consideration does not matter in a particular nation...
by Kaushik Basu | On 02 Apr 2012 The populous, fast growing emerging economies of Brazil, China, Egypt, India and South Africa face daunting challenges on the energy, environment and climate change fronts. These five countries accoun...
by Kirit Parikh | On 02 Apr 2012 Adult height, as a marker of childhood health, has recently become a focus in
understanding the relationship between childhood health and health outcomes at
older ages. However, measured height of t...
by Wei Huang | On 02 Apr 2012 Jetz and Fine that we are in the midst of the sixth
mass extinction event on this planet and
the cause is us. By achieving greater
understanding of the underlying causes
and correlates of current-...
by Jonathan Chase | On 29 Mar 2012 Since the elections of 2010, Myanmar’s political landscape has changed significantly;
the old military junta has officially been dissolved and a new
civilian government, led by President Thein Sein,...
by Christopher O’Hara | On 27 Mar 2012 Rapid demographic ageing is a growing public health issue in many low- and middle-income countries
(LAMICs). Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a construct frequently used to define groups of people...
by Ana Luisa Sosa | On 19 Mar 2012 REPORT ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF CENTRAL AND LOCAL BUDGETS
FOR 2011 AND ON DRAFT
CENTRAL AND LOCAL BUDGETS FOR 2012. [Ministry of Finance Report]. URL:[http://www.npc.gov.cn/englishnpc/news/...
by Ministry of Finance China | On 15 Mar 2012 To greatly develop trade in services and realize the transition from a big trade country to a strong trade country, the 12th Five Year Plan is formulated based on Outline of the 12th Five Year Plan f...
by Ministry of Commerce China | On 15 Mar 2012 BUDGET SPEECH 2011-2012 by
DR. ABDUL HAFEEZ SHAIKH, Minister for Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and
Planning & Development.
by Minister of Finance Pakistan | On 12 Mar 2012 The purpose of this report is twofold. First, a compendium of relevant data is presented on the state of the services sector in the ACI (ASEAN, PRC and India) countries, focusing on its contribution t...
by Ben Shepherd | On 12 Mar 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 The challenges of providing insurance to Indian agricultural sector in a
manner that is both meaningful and sustaining. Critical
assessment of the existing initiative and present possible options fo...
by M J Bhende | On 09 Mar 2012 In the context of various policy initiatives made during the last two decades to reform the Indian
economy in general and corporate sector in particular, the present paper attempts to assess how
the...
by Rakesh Basant | On 07 Mar 2012 The implications of the rule of Chiang
Kai-shek and his son Chiang Ching-kuo in Taiwan (1950–1988) for the Taiwan
Strait Crises is examined, especially the third one af??ter the Cold War and potenti...
by Lu Jinghua | On 05 Mar 2012 The vital status of 12,373 people aged 65 years and over was determined 3–5 years after baseline survey in
sites in Latin America, India, and China. Crude and standardised mortality rates are reporte...
by Cleusa P Ferri | On 05 Mar 2012 Poor governance and lack of state capabilities
in around 45 countries pose a
threat to global security and development.
The involvement of the international
community is required to help
these st...
by Wim Naudé | On 02 Mar 2012 This paper estimates the effect of access to transportation networks on regional economic
outcomes in China over a twenty-period of rapid income growth. It addresses
the problem of the endogenous pl...
by Abhijit Banerjee | On 02 Mar 2012 Five years age, International Rivers started monitoring the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean
Development Mechanism (CDM), concerned that funds marked for climate change mitigation would be
used to encourage c...
by Barbara Haya | On 01 Mar 2012 In the last ten years, economic issues related to currency policy have become the major ongoing
dispute between China and the U.S. Especially the U.S. Congress is stridently demanding
a tougher poli...
by Nicola Nymalm | On 01 Mar 2012 More than 13% of the global burden of
disease for mental disorders is due to
neuro psychiatric disorders, and over 70%
of this burden lies in low- and middleincome
countries. Suicide is one of the...
by Mark Tomlinson | On 01 Mar 2012 Outward-oriented economies seem to grow faster than inward-looking ones. Does the literature on convergence have anything to say on this? In the dynamic Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson model, with factor-pr...
by Partha Sen | On 28 Feb 2012 Institutions in developing countries, particularly those inherited from the colonial period, are often thought to be subject to strong inertia. This study presents the results of a unique randomized t...
by Abhijit Banerjee | On 27 Feb 2012 This paper explores the key reasons behind the movements in the terms of trade and the real net
gain and loss from trade in the long run. Like some selected Asian countries (Vietnam, China and
South...
by Mohammad Masuduzzaman | On 23 Feb 2012 The increasing occurrence of national, regional, and global financial crises, together with their rising costs and complexity, have increased calls for greater regional and global monetary cooperation...
by Mario Lamberte | On 21 Feb 2012 Since 1999 the Chinese government implemented budget reform measures to streamline administrative processes. The government made considerable technical and process advances in just a few years, includ...
by Julian Wu | On 19 Feb 2012 This paper argues that the collective action in Asia by its regional organizations has historically
suffered from a “capability–legitimacy gap”: a disjuncture between the capability (in terms of
mat...
by Amitav Acharya | On 17 Feb 2012 Saving is an important part of the economic process that gives rise to investment and
economic growth. In this paper an attempt is made to explore the relationship between saving
and investment in t...
by Sanjib Bordoloi | On 14 Feb 2012 Data from two surveys of twins in China are used to contribute to an improved
understanding of the role of economic development in affecting gender differences in the
trends in, levels of, and retur...
by Mark Rosenzweig | On 13 Feb 2012 This study is an attempt to assess the importance and potential impact of any further
development of the credit cooperative sector; identify development interventions that will result in a strong Fil...
by Gilberto M Llanto | On 13 Feb 2012 A prototype incentive system is developed for promoting rapid reduction of forest clearing in tropical countries. The proposed Tropical Forest Protection Fund (TFPF) is a cash-on-delivery system that...
by David Wheeler | On 09 Feb 2012 The aim of this paper is to compare the technical efficiency of Indian Banks operating
abroad and foreign banks operating in India and to investigate the effect of openness of the
country, ownership...
by Vivek Kumar | On 08 Feb 2012 he caste system – a system of elaborately stratified social hierarchy – distinguishes India
from most other societies. Among the most distinctive factors of the caste system is the close
link betwee...
by Ira Gang | On 07 Feb 2012 The study measures the contribution of MNCs to the generation of innovations from India.
The focus is on innovations that are carried out in foreign R&D Centres. After having
mapped out the size of...
by Rakesh Basant | On 06 Feb 2012 The international business literature has yet to adequately explore international
competitive strategy choices made by firms in developing countries. This study aims
to address this gap by investiga...
by Ping Lv | On 02 Feb 2012 Wetlands, which include tropical mangroves and boreal
peatlands, are among the most valuable ecosystems in the
world because they provide critical ecosystem goods and
services, such as carbon stora...
by David Moreno Mateos | On 01 Feb 2012 After a decade of rapid economic growth, many developing countries have attained middle-income status. But poverty reduction in these countries has not kept pace with economic growth. As a result, mos...
by Amanda Glassman | On 31 Jan 2012 The aim of this case study is to understand the challenges the frozen food industry in a
developing country like Pakistan has faced in the past, and is facing currently. The study
reveals that inste...
by Shehla Riza Arifeen | On 27 Jan 2012 The paper discusses the pros and cons of
the already proposed international cooperative mechanisms toward climate change
mitigation and highlights the problem of information revelation, particularly...
by Meeta Keswani Mehra | On 27 Jan 2012 Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, independent entrepreneurial migrants
from China have been increasingly flocking to Africa in search of “greener pastures.” This
paper scrutinizes the...
by Laurence Marfaing | On 25 Jan 2012 This policy review is set in the
context of a highly uncertain global
environment and a delicately poised
domestic balance between growth
and inflation. It should be read and
understood together...
by Duvvuri Subbarao | On 25 Jan 2012 The Growth outlook has weakened as
a result of adverse global and domestic factors
that have been mentioned above. Business
and consumer confidence has been impacted.
Professional forecasters now...
by Reserve Bank of India RBI | On 25 Jan 2012 For the last half-century, the Tibetan people have endured the brunt of some of the Chinese governments most brutal policies. In the 1990's, an international activist movement, which attracted a small...
by Anthony Lappe | On 25 Jan 2012 While studying the economic growth of the two rising giants of Asia (India and China) it is seen that India is far behind China in many aspects. URL:[http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/t-n-ni...
by T.N. Ninan | On 23 Jan 2012 Review ofEconomy, Democracy and the State: The Indian Experience,
By Ramashray Roy,
Sage Publications, New Delhi;
2009, Pages: viii + 247, Rs 650.
by Bhanoji Rao | On 22 Jan 2012 This paper is an account of recent developments at Paka's mini-museum, which
culminated in the production of English text panels for its collection in March
2005. As it turned out, working on these...
by Liana Chua | On 19 Jan 2012 It has been widely documented that the poor spend a significant proportion of their income on gifts even at the expense of basic consumption. We test three competing explanations of this phenomenon—pe...
by Xi Chen | On 10 Jan 2012 The current global financial crisis has reopened an old debate on the international monetary system by baring weaknesses and flaws that have long been known. The debate is centred on both stability an...
by Alok Sheel | On 10 Jan 2012 The rapid and massive increase of rural-to-urban migration in China has drawn attention to
the welfare of migrant workers, particularly to their working conditions and pay. This paper
uses data from...
by Jason Gagnon | On 06 Jan 2012 The recent global financial crisis (2007-09) has clearly highlighted the gravity of high financial inter-connectedness within the financial system. In the Indian context, this brief study attempts to...
by Karunagaran A | On 05 Jan 2012 Based on the variable rate of gross domestic product per capita growth and its sources, this
paper first identifies five phases of economic development that are common to China, Japan,
and Korea: M...
by Masahiko Aoki | On 04 Jan 2012 A simple method is applied to study the relative quality of Chinese versus European products
exported in the clothing sector after the end of the Multi-Fiber Arrangement. Based on the
model of Foste...
by Hylke Vandenbussche | On 03 Jan 2012 This Policy Brief discusses the proposed amendments to Republic Act No. 7653 (RA 7653). The
first part briefly presents the mandate of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP). It then describes the
fi...
by Senate Economic Planning Office SEPO | On 29 Dec 2011 The services sector has provided steady support to Pakistan’s economic
growth. It share in GDP now stands a more than 50 percent. The paper analyses
its continuation in the growth of the economy in...
by Ayaz Ahmed | On 29 Dec 2011 This paper uses a large panel database to investigate the determinants of forest clearing in
Indonesian kabupatens since 2005. The study incorporates short-run changes in prices and demand
for palm...
by David Wheeler | On 28 Dec 2011 This paper develops an index for measuring the economic power of governments viewed as entities in themselves. The basic idea is to encapsulate the economic representative power of a nation’s governme...
by Kaushik Basu | On 27 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 Review of the book Workers, Unions and Global Capitalism: Lessons from India,
Rohini Hensman,
Tulika Books, New Delhi, 2011, pp. xix + 415
by Sharit Bhowmik | On 27 Dec 2011 This paper examines how the neoliberal policies have influenced the water
sector reform policies and interventions in India, particularly, in the states
of Maharashtra and Gujarat. In doing so, the...
by Viswanathan P K | On 26 Dec 2011 Delivering the third Business Standard lecture on Thursday night, Raghuram Rajan provided an interesting insight into the reason for high inflation in India. The professor of finance at Chicago, who i...
by T.N. Ninan | On 23 Dec 2011 The three year journey of the G-20 Heads of Government Summit from Washington in 2008 to Paris this November is signified by two markers of the depth of the global capitalist crisis. First, that the c...
by Louise Ross | On 14 Dec 2011 Until recently, the World Trade Organization (WTO) has been an effective framework for
cooperation because it has continually adapted to changing economic realities. The current Doha
Agenda is an ab...
by Aaditya Mattoo | On 13 Dec 2011 Possible scenarios for China and the world economy until
2015 is looked at. In all of them, China will continue to accumulate FX reserves, so that
reserve assets will remain the largest component of...
by Catherine Shu Ling Tan | On 08 Dec 2011 The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Commerce examined the subject of Foreign and Domestic Investment in the Retail sector beginning April 5, 2007 under the chairmanship of Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi....
by Anirudh Burman | On 05 Dec 2011 Climate change is increasingly being recognised as a global crisis, but responses to it have so far been overly focused on scientific and economic solutions. How then do we move towards more people-ce...
by Emmeline Skinner | On 03 Dec 2011 India's development challenges. The India growth story was thrown off track by the global financial crisis which engulfed virtually every country in the world. We recovered from the crisis sooner than...
by Duvvuri Subbarao | On 30 Nov 2011 The purpose of this paper is to analyze the making of markets. The paper identifies two
ideal-typical processes in which markets are made – organized making and spontaneous
making – which are often...
by Patrik Aspers | On 29 Nov 2011 This paper analyses the impact of the retail FDI policy on Indian consumers and make policy recommendations for the Indian government. Based on a primary survey of Indian consumers, the paper examines...
by Arpita Mukherjee | On 28 Nov 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 Rural households in developing economies frequently use precautionary saving to cope with income risk. Such prudent behavior can be strengthened in transition economies where more risks are typically...
by Ling Jin | On 23 Nov 2011 The present paper adopts a diagnostic approach; problems of non-farm employment in
rural sector are identified by studying pattern and process of rural employment using data
from the NSS quinquennia...
by Brajesh Jha | On 22 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 It is widely agreed by economists and political scientists that the middle class is vital to progress
because of its many virtues. But it is difficult to define a middle class by income in a manner t...
by Charles Kenny | On 16 Nov 2011 Sexual harassment is a global issue. In a recent case in Mumbai, two young men, Keenan Santos (24) and Reuben Fernandez (29) were stabbed on 20 Oct 2011 while confronting some unknown men eve-teasing...
by Indira Gartenberg | On 14 Nov 2011 India has embarked upon an economic model driven by the free market incorporating processes of liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation. Our children today live, in what some describe as “Brand...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 10 Nov 2011 This paper discusses Asia’s infrastructure needs and its
corresponding financing needs and challenges. It proposes ways to address financing gaps by identifying potential
financing sources and instr...
by Biswa Nath Bhattacharyay | On 09 Nov 2011 The paper scrutinizes the functioning of the G20 and its role in increasing coordination. and cooperation between Asian countries. It highlights divergent
agendas amongst the A6 as regards the future...
by Hugo Dobson | On 09 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 Review of Economy, Democracy and the State: The Indian Experience by Ramashray Roy, Sage Publications, New Delhi;2009, pp. viii + 247, Rs 650.
by Bhanoji Rao | On 07 Nov 2011 This paper attempts to explain why internationalization processes to China are growing
despite the significant difficulties that foreign direct investments into China encounter.
The answer to this q...
by Geny Piotti | On 04 Nov 2011 The deletion of Three Hundred Ramayanas from B.A. History course of Delhi University. Professor Biswamoy Pati of History Department of D.U. calls this intolerance a dangerous trend.
Video interview o...
by Jyotsna Singh | On 02 Nov 2011 The brief is based on the experience and the success of a hospital
based Crisis Centres for women facing domestic violence in Mumbai - Dilaasa.
It is a joint initiative of the MCGM and CEHAT, establ...
by ... CEHAT | On 02 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 With the exception Brander and Drazen (2008), who use a comprehensive cross-country
database consisting of both developed and developing countries, the hypothesis that rapid
growth helps incumbents...
by Poonam Gupta | On 31 Oct 2011 This paper examines three software and/or information technology enabled services (ITES) industries—two in the early stages of development (in the People’s Republic of China [PRC] and the Philippines)...
by F Ted Tschang | On 25 Oct 2011 This study focuses on gender equality and democratic governance in the five largest states of the South Asian region, namely, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Beginning with a general...
by Seema Kazi | On 20 Oct 2011 This study estimates the transaction costs entailed in maintaining Farmer
Managed Irrigation Systems (FMIS) in Nepal based on a case study of
60 irrigation systems in the Kathmandu valley. It analyz...
by Ram Chandra Bhattarai | On 18 Oct 2011 This paper focuses on the two-way relationship between China and the international economic system. China’s embrace of the global institutions and their rules and norms helped guide its spectacular ec...
by Wendy Dobson | On 17 Oct 2011 When India purchased 200 tonnes of gold under the International Monetary
Fund's limited gold sales programme, it was interpreted inter alia that it may further
inflate the gold price when the price...
by Karunagaran A | On 17 Oct 2011 This article formulates an analytical framework for the detachment of militaries from politics and identifies positive and negative factors for a withdrawal. It then applies this framework to the case...
by Marco Bünte | On 17 Oct 2011 In response to the Second Micro Finance Crisis in Andhra Pradesh, which took place in October 2010,
the Ministry of Finance has pro- posed a new Micro Finance Institutions (Development & Regulation)
...
by Shubho Roy | On 17 Oct 2011 This article reviews beer production, consumption and the industrial organization of breweries throughout history. Monasteries were the centers of the beer economy in the early Middle Ages. Innovation...
by Eline Poelmans | On 14 Oct 2011 The Indian economy has shown considerable resilience to the global economic crisis by maintaining one of the highest growth rates in the world. The services sector accounted for around 88 per cent of...
by Abhijit Das | On 13 Oct 2011 NTP-2011 has the vision Broadband on Demand and envisages leveraging telecom infrastructure to enable all citizens and businesses, both in rural and urban landscape, to participate in the Internet and...
by Ministry of Communication & Information Technology GOI | On 13 Oct 2011 This study analyses the behaviour of monetary and fiscal policies
interaction in India using quarterly data for 2000Q2 to 2010Q1. It finds that,
even after the elimination of automatic monetisation...
by Janak Raj | On 11 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
automobile industry in the ASEAN countries has expanded rapidly
over the last few years. The growth potential of the ASEAN auto
market and its now very major absolute importance for the industr...
by Eric Heymann | On 03 Oct 2011 This paper starts by examining some of the variables that have been considered important
determinants of openness and how views of these have changed over the last twenty
years. It then considers th...
by Kenneth E Jackson | On 29 Sep 2011 The Optional Protocol (OP) on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of
Children in Armed Conflict was ratified by India on November 30, 2005, and is
in effect since December 30, 2005. This is t...
by Government of India Ministry of Women and Child Development | 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 Income originating within geographical boundaries of urban and rural areas of Gujarat is estimated
for three benchmark years – 1993-94, 1999-00 and 2004-05 - at current prices following the broad
me...
by Ravindra H Dholakia | On 26 Sep 2011 The purpose of this guide is to support groups addressing the impacts of dams built by Chinese
companies and financiers. The guide is intended for use by non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
and in...
by International Rivers Network IRN | On 19 Sep 2011 An SIIO paradigm, based on structure and ideas that become engraved in institutions and affect
outcomes, is developed to examine and assesses monetary policy in India after independence. Narrative
h...
by Ashima Goyal | On 16 Sep 2011 A
Bill
to provide for food and nutritional security, in human life cycle approach, by
ensuring access to adequate quantity of quality food at affordable prices, for people to
live a life with dign...
by Department of Food and Public Distribution Fcamin | On 14 Sep 2011 China’s expected growth slowdown - from 10.3 per cent yoy in 2010 to 8.9 per cent this year and 8.3 per cent in 2012 - will impact the global economy. An in-depth look at how important China really is...
by Steffen Dyck | On 09 Sep 2011 The global Reality of Aid Network has been working in preparation for Busan alongside CSO colleagues
from women’s rights organizations, trade unions, farmers’ organizations, faith-based organizations...
by Brian Tomlinson | On 30 Aug 2011 The paper paper reviews the 'model' central and state government bills, pertaining to groundwater, through a conceptual framework and discusses the Andhra Pradesh experience in the developing governme...
by G.Ananda Vadivelu | On 30 Aug 2011 This paper examines whether ownership and increased competitive pressure affect food retailers’ market power, analysing whether all actors involved in the food supply chain deviate from the pricing be...
by Eleni A Kaditi | On 29 Aug 2011 The Research Unit on International Migration at the Centre for
Development Studies undertook this study on the request of Department
of Non-Resident Keralite Affairs (NORKA), Government of Kerala.
...
by K. C. Zachariah | On 24 Aug 2011 The aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2007–2009 has called the export-led growth model of Asian economies into question. This paper describes the contribution that macroeconomic policy can m...
by Peter Morgan | On 23 Aug 2011 Globally, we are applying
excessive nitrogen (N) fertilizers
to our agricultural crops, which
ultimately causes nitrogen pollution
to our ecosphere. The atmosphere
is polluted by N2O and NOx
gas...
by Allen G Good | On 17 Aug 2011 In this study the analytical framework for identifying and benchmarking systemically important financial institutions is discussed. First, the main concepts underlying the SIFI definition are laid out...
by Christian Weistroffer | On 12 Aug 2011 Poverty and well-being are multidimensional. Nobody questions that deprivations and achievements
go beyond income. There is, however, sharp disagreement on whether the various dimensions of
poverty...
by Nora Lustig | On 11 Aug 2011 The role played by Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the banking system in India in strengthening education system. Realizing the importance of education for the economic development and the overall liv...
by Chakrabarty K C | On 10 Aug 2011 Review of
Gourmets in the Land of Famine: The Culture and Politics of Rice in Modern Canton Seung-joon Lee; Stanford University Press, 2011. 320 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8047-7226-6.
H-Net R...
by Edward Melillo | On 07 Aug 2011 The study seeks to examine the extent of financial inclusion in West Bengal. It is observed from
the study that although there has been an improvement in outreach activity in the banking sector,
the...
by Sadhan Kumar Chattopadhyay | On 03 Aug 2011 This paper reviews India.s low-carbon high growth inclusive
policy initiatives, comments on their financial sustainability and
environmental sustainability and suggests desirable changes. The focus...
by U. Sankar | On 29 Jul 2011 Information and Communication
Technology (ICT’s)
bring lot of opportunities to women in the work situations and small business.
Teleporting, flexi time and work from home arrangements are some of t...
by Government of India Ministry of Women and Child Development | On 29 Jul 2011 The paper begins with an overview of fertiliser consumption trends and then identifies important determinants of fertiliser demand and develops projects demand scenarios for fertilisers in India in 20...
by Vijay Paul Sharma | On 29 Jul 2011 In this paper, the overall goal is to examine the impact of the Rural
Primary School Merger Program on academic performance of students using a dataset from a
survey that we designed to reflect tran...
by Alexis Medina | On 27 Jul 2011 The importance of academia- industry linkages for development of an economy is well
recognized. With a view to make the higher technical education relevant, by forging and
catalyzing functional link...
by Jancy Ayyaswamy | On 26 Jul 2011 This study investigates the impact of global crisis shocks on India’s trade and industry. Both panel data modeling and vector autoregression techniques are used to understand the dynamic effects of gl...
by Prabir De | On 22 Jul 2011 In this paper the evolution of beer consumption is analyzed between countries and over time. Historically, there have been major changes in beer consumption in the world. In recent times, per
capita...
by Liesbeth Colen | On 18 Jul 2011 This paper analyses the impact of domestic and external shocks on the Indian economy.
A macro-modelling framework is developed that evaluates the impact of two
domestic shocks (rainfall shortfall an...
by B B Bhattacharya | On 15 Jul 2011 A documentation of different aspects of human deprivation in the old age other than the
measurement of income poverty is done. Aspects of economic, health and social aspects of
deprivation and how i...
by Syam Prasad | On 14 Jul 2011 This study was not alone in demonstrating that a deal on the Doha Round
could be of huge benefit to the global economy. Assuming plausible
enhancements in the course of further negotiations, the big...
by Klaus Deutsch | On 06 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 Sah and Shah (2003) have shown that the incidence of poverty in the South-Western tribal belt of Madhya Pradesh is alarmingly high. About three fifths of the households in this tribal belt were catego...
by D.C. Sah | On 04 Jul 2011 Approximately three-fourths of the world’s 1.5 billion young people live in developing countries. Globally, young people make up nearly half of the ranks of the world's unemployed. Unemployment rates...
by CommonWealth Secretariat | On 01 Jul 2011 The global record on HIV prevention is bleak. The $8 billion spent each recent year on international AIDS assistance has been split about evenly between AIDS treatment and prevention. But while treatm...
by Mead Over | On 29 Jun 2011 One year into the global economic crisis, it has become clear that the paradigm for international development has changed irrevocably. With leadership, moral authority and the capacity of the West in...
by Wim Naudé | On 22 Jun 2011 The Jubilee 2000 movement, which called for the cancellation of the foreign debts of the poorest nations, reached its zenith in the late 1990s and 2000—and then, by design, shut down. In the space of...
by David Roodman | On 22 Jun 2011 Despite the enormous potential of globalization in accelerating economic growth through greater integration into the world economy the impact of globalization on poverty reduction has been uneven. Asi...
by Machiko Nissanke | On 21 Jun 2011 The the population dynamics of the 21st century is shown here.
by Sanjeev Sanyal | On 21 Jun 2011 The Indian economy reached the trillion US dollar GDP milestone in 2007 and joined other countries of the trillion dollar club, namely, the US, UK, Japan, Germany, China, France, Italy, Spain, Canada,...
by Chakrabarty K C | On 21 Jun 2011 The slowdown and in some years reversal of poverty reduction in China forcefully demonstrates that growth is not sufficient for combating poverty even if that growth is of unprecedented magnitude. Pol...
by Guanghua Wan | On 16 Jun 2011 Education for Sustainable Development: Challenges, Strategies and Practices in a Globalizing World, Edited by Nikolopoulou, Anastasia, Taisha Abraham and Farid Mirbagheri, Sage, Publications Pvt. Ltd,...
by Lakshmi Narayanan | On 15 Jun 2011 The UNU-WIDER project on 'Spatial Disparities in Human Development' has collected and analysed evidence on the extent of spatial inequalities within developing countries. The studies find that spatial...
by Ravi Kanbur | On 15 Jun 2011 Robert Solow’s model of exogenous growth driven by the global diffusion of technology is out of fashion
because it ill fits the empirical evidence. Today, economic growth is considered endogenous, an...
by Charles Kenny | On 14 Jun 2011 The article is a report of RBI Minister Duvvuri Subbarao on issuesing concerning the G-20 countries and also issues effecting all the countries collectively.
by Duvvuri Subbarao | On 13 Jun 2011 India’s economic growth has accelerated in recent years, and its share
of world trade has expanded. These are welcome developments for
the country and, given India’s large share of the world’s popul...
by Sandra Polaski | On 10 Jun 2011 The
importance of non-financial reporting in the overall assessment of a company's
performance, its risk-return trade off is steadily gaining ground, both globally and in
India. [Address by Dr K. C...
by Chakrabarty K C | On 10 Jun 2011 On June 13, the GAVI Alliance will hold its first pledging conference, seeking to obtain commitments for US$ 3.7 billion for the 2011–15 period. Remarkably, in the midst of a historic global recession...
by Lisa Carty | On 09 Jun 2011 The National Steel Policy (NSP-2005) lays stress
on accelerating growth in domestic production and
consumption of steel to achieve global competitiveness
not only in terms of cost quality and produ...
by R Venkatesan | On 07 Jun 2011 The class and social structure of developing nations has undergone profound
transformation in recent decades as each nation has incorporated into an increasingly
integrated global production and fin...
by William I. Robinson | On 03 Jun 2011 In this paper the authors argue that two major factors underlie improved global health outcomes: first,
the discovery of cheap technologies that can dramatically improve outcomes; second, the adoptio...
by Ursula Casabonne | On 03 Jun 2011 Vietnam has been among the most successful East Asian economies, especially in
weathering the external shocks of recent globalization crises—the 1997-98 Asian
financial crisis and the 2008-09 great...
by Philip Abbott | On 02 Jun 2011 A closer look at the developments in 35 cities across
China, looking for potential regional real estate bubbles. An assessment is done about the success of the various policies and
their potential n...
by Ulrich Clemens | On 02 Jun 2011 This paper examines the relationship between women’s vulnerability to poverty and their management of domestic natural resources. It finds that gendered experiences of poverty often derive from discri...
by Jessica Espey | On 01 Jun 2011 The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) was established in 1969 to generate resources for family planning and provide global leadership on population issues. Since then, the diverse needs of countr...
by Centre for Global Development | On 30 May 2011 Good public infrastructure management means more than increasing
the quantity of infrastructure stocks; it also involves improving the
quality of infrastructure. This study seeks to document the...
by Chengfang Liu | On 25 May 2011 The Indian economy was in the mode of globalization and liberalization. But global
financial melt down and consequent economic recession in developed economies have clearly
been a major factor in...
by Ministry of Labour and Employment | On 24 May 2011 This paper presents the proceedings of the workshop on Youth and Globalisation, jointly organized by Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Youth Development, and the Tata Institute of Social Sciences. There were...
by Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development | On 20 May 2011 Globalisation is a concious and deliberate effort of a socio-economic system to permit the factors of production, the produce and the socio-economic forces to permeate across boundaries and remove any...
by S.K. Mishra | On 20 May 2011 This paper argues four theses and outlines an action plan.
1. The Global Financial Collapse has created a climate among the intelligentsia -
that strongly supports fundamental changes in economi...
by Edward Fullbrook | On 17 May 2011 Everyday Nationalism: Women of the Hindu Right in India Kalyani Devaki Menon;
University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia; 224 pp. $49.95(cloth).
[H-Net Reviews.https://www.h-net.org/reviews/s...
by Sunila S. Kale | On 17 May 2011 IDRC builds the skills and expertise of people and institutions in developing countries to undertake the research that they believe is most needed. The Parliament of Canada created IDRC as a Crown cor...
by International Development Research Centre | On 16 May 2011 India embarked on reintegration with the world economy in the early 1990s. At first, a certain limited opening took place emphasizing equity
flows by certain kinds
of foreign investors. This openin...
by Ajay Shah | On 10 May 2011 The policy of free hiring and firing, leading to a high labour turnover is in nobody’s interest: employers lose industrially accumulated useful skills while workers lose jobs and incomes. Yet job secu...
by Snehal Barai | On 09 May 2011 Great novelists through their writings placed the history of the Indian national and social awakening movement in literature.The context of this article is great three novels of three great littérat...
by Sarmistha Ghoshal | On 09 May 2011 The author advocates liberal and secular ideas in a country, Pakistan, too-often torn by religious extremism and strives for the defence and promotion of press freedom under difficult circumstances an...
by Najam Sethi | On 08 May 2011 In the past three years, two journalists for El Diario have been killed by drug-cartels and since 2000 more than 64 journalists have been killed throughout the country. The armed conflict between orga...
by Rocio Gallegos | On 08 May 2011 Each year, Reporters Without Borders awards a Netizen prize (sponsored by Google) to a blogger, online journalist or cyber-dissident who has helped to promote freedom of expression on the Internet. Th...
by David C. Drummond | On 08 May 2011 Review of Policy and Practice in Asian Distance
Edited by Belawati Tiawati and Baggaley Jon Education,
Sage, Publications, India 2010, 260 pages, Rs. 650/-
by Madhu Parhar | On 06 May 2011 The rise of China in the world economy and in international trade has raised the
possibility of a rise of the Yuan as an international currency, particularly after the
Chinese authorities have under...
by Vimal Balasubramaniam | On 05 May 2011 The author joined the World Press Freedom Day campaign this year, 2011, to highlight the plight of WAN-IFRA's 2011 Golden Pen of Freedom laureate, Dawit Isaak, incarcerated without charge for nearly a...
by Peter Englund | On 04 May 2011 In this World Press Freedom Day editorial, the authors explore the events taking place in the Middle East and North Africa and the positive outcomes for freedom of expression the peoples' revolutions...
by Martti Ahtisaari Ahtisaari | On 04 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 world’s biggest carbon offset market, the Clean Development Mechanism, is a global shell game that is
increasing greenhouse gas emissions behind the guise of promoting sustainable development. It...
by International Rivers Network IRN | On 28 Apr 2011 GDP growth likely to average 8.2 per cent over 11th Plan: short of the 9% target, but remarkable given the global crisis and drought. Basic objective : Faster, More Inclusive, and Sustainable Growth
...
by Planning Commission | On 25 Apr 2011 In 2010 and 2011, there has been a fresh wave of interest in cap-
ital controls. India is one of the few large countries with a complex
system of capital controls, and hence others an opportunity to...
by Ila Patnaik | On 21 Apr 2011 There have been significant developments in the global economy since we met in the fall of 2010. The IMF too has moved on several fronts under its mandate which has strengthened its position in a chan...
by Duvvuri Subbarao | On 20 Apr 2011 Unique survey data is used to study whether the introduction of local elections in China
made local leaders more accountable towards local constituents. A simple model is developed
to predict the e...
by Monica Martinez Bravo | On 18 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 Global
container throughput rose by at least 11% last year, after declining for the first time
ever in 2009 (-9%). The level of global container throughput was thus higher again
than before the cri...
by Eric Heymann | On 12 Apr 2011 This paper explores the competitive threat posed by the People’s Republic of China to markets
in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). It focuses on the impact of PRC’s rise as a major
exporter of...
by Sanjaya Lall | On 05 Apr 2011 Climate change is one of the complex problems facing mankind today.
The overriding complexity of the problem is attributed to its deeper global
ramifications on a vast range of issues impacting the...
by Government of Madhya Pradesh | On 30 Mar 2011 For decades until the crisis hit in mid-1997, East Asian economies led
the developing world in achieving high rates of economic growth,
accomplishing what had come to be known as the East Asian Mira...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 30 Mar 2011 This paper discusses the banking regulatory and supervisory practices in People’s Republic of China (PRC) with reference to the international standard for banking supervision, namely, the Basel Core P...
by Luo Ping | On 28 Mar 2011 Growing evidences demonstrate that the mountainous societies in South and
Southeast Asian countries are underway of dynamic agrarian transition in the
context of market integration leading to emerge...
by P.K. Viswanathan | On 25 Mar 2011 At the end of 2004, the macroeconomic balance in the People’s
Republic of China (PRC) raises some interesting options. The external sector
enjoys a huge surplus, with significant increases in the cu...
by Toshiki Kanamori | On 25 Mar 2011 MNEs are increasingly seeking to augment, as well as exploit, their global competitive
advantage. Foreign direct investments are being directed to augmenting the competitive
ownership specific...
by De Beule Filip | On 23 Mar 2011 Centre for Gandhian Studies of K.J.Somaiya College of Arts and Commerce organized One-day Seminar on the Legacy of the Gandhian Approaches: Vinoba to Obama on 24 February, 2011.
by Hemali Sanghavi | On 22 Mar 2011 In simple language and with numerous concrete examples, this policy brief analyses the impact - among others - of key ex-ante factors such as acute 'horizontal inequality' between social groups in the...
by Jeni Klugman | On 22 Mar 2011 In recent years, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has emerged as the world’s largest
recipient of foreign direct investment (FDI). Many analysts and government officials in the
developing world...
by Busakorn Chantasasawat | On 22 Mar 2011 Lines of the Nation: Indian Railway Workers, Bureaucracy, and the Intimate Historical Self by Laura Bear. The Culture of History Series, Columbia University Press, New York 2007. 360 pp. $49.00 (cloth...
by David A. Campion | On 22 Mar 2011 This brief examines one particular criticism of Constituency Development Funds (CDFs): they infringe upon the doctrine of separation of powers. It also discusses whether CDFs adhere to other important...
by Christina Murray | On 18 Mar 2011 Over 1975-2003 nearly 200 new constitutions were drawn up in countries at risk of conflict, as
part of peace processes and the adoption of multiparty political systems. The process of writing
cons...
by Michael Kellerman | On 18 Mar 2011 The advent of microfinance lending in the last two decades has been hailed as a key development in the fight against poverty. The New York Times (1997), for example, on its editorial page, has promote...
by Rajeev Dehejia | On 17 Mar 2011 This
paper aims to review the main considerations around food price
movements. It includes a discussion on the impact of speculation. URL:[https://www.dbresearch.com/PROD/DBR_INTERNET_EN-PROD/PROD00...
by Claire Schaffnit Chatterjee | On 16 Mar 2011 There are large
variations among the G20 countries in their deceleration experiences, transmission
mechanisms and their current macroeconomic outlook. Hence, this paper argues that
each country nee...
by Sudipto Mundle | 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 In the global context of State of the Environment (SoE)
Reporting, India is probably unique. Over the last two decades,
the Indian SoE reporting experience has ranged from grassroots
initiatives li...
by Ministry of Environment and Forests GOI | 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 study focuses on the nature of safety violence in Delhi, the perceptions of safety among women and
men, infrastructure to redress their causes and their outcomes. URL: [http://wcd.nic.in/].
by Society for Development Studies | On 08 Mar 2011 Infectious diseases are still recognized as severe public health problems at present in China,
especially in poor rural areas. About 24% of total disease burden in terms of DALYs was
attributed to i...
by Qingyue Meng | On 08 Mar 2011 There is no doubt that part of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows to
the People’s Republic of China (PRC) FDI belongs to the return of Chinese
capital that has gone abroad. The World Bank and o...
by Xiao Geng | On 08 Mar 2011 The problems of failed states, including the repeated return to power of former warlords are examined. It is argued that this causes institutions to become weaker and people to get poorer. It is argue...
by Raghuram G. Rajan | On 04 Mar 2011 This policy brief is intended to outline suggestions and stimulate discussion at a time when the world community is thinking about, and is engaged in, a debate on global governance. The policy brief n...
by Deepak Nayyar | On 04 Mar 2011 There is a view favoured by anti-globalisation activists, left economists
and the global/international socialists that faster growth in India has not
reduced poverty. A sub-set of these personalitie...
by Arvind Virmani | On 04 Mar 2011 The multidisciplinary research project on the Forest in the North and the South, organised by UNU-WIDER, shows that, in spite of modest forest expansions in the North, the ongoing deforestation of the...
by Patrick Humphreys | On 28 Feb 2011 India and China are important players in an evolving process of
globalization of research and development (R&D). Focusing on
pharmaceuticals and biotechnology industries, this paper analyses the
ch...
by Jayan Jose Thomas | On 28 Feb 2011 Although forests have diminished globally over the past 400 years, forest
cover has increased in some areas, including India in the last two decades.
Aggregate time-series evidence on forest growth...
by Mark Rosenzweig | On 25 Feb 2011 The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is a relative latecomer to
modern industry and is—by most standards—a highly successful
one. Its market-oriented reforms have produced remarkable
results: the m...
by Tracy Yang | On 23 Feb 2011 Sharp increase in house prices combined with the extraordinary lending growth in
Mainland China during 2009 has led to concerns of an emerging real estate bubble. We find that, for China as a whole...
by Ashvin Ahuja | On 19 Feb 2011 This Policy Brief is based on the articles originally appearing in the Perspectives series of ADB Institute’s e-Newsline from March 2005 to March 2006. This is also regarded as a continuation of Polic...
by Toshiki Kanamori | On 18 Feb 2011 Since the government announced the Revitalise the North East policy in 2002 there has
been a new focus to regional policy following on from the previous, but continuing, Develop
the West policy. For...
by John Weiss | On 17 Feb 2011 This paper estimates the long run impact of famine on survivors in the context of
China's Great Famine. To address problems of measurement error of famine exposure and
potential endogeneity of famin...
by Xin Meng | On 16 Feb 2011 Australia’s engagement with, and serious study of, China is not a recent
phenomenon. It has been a strong part of our heritage, as this lecture series
amply demonstrates. But this does not mean that...
by Kevin Rudd | On 10 Feb 2011 Globalization provides a strong potential
for a major reduction in poverty in the
developing world because it creates an environment conducive to faster economic
growth and transmission of knowledg...
by Machiko Nissanke | On 10 Feb 2011 The paper provides an assessment of India’s role in the final years of the civil war in Sri Lanka (2003‐2009). In particular, it looks for explanations for India’s in...
by Sandra Destradi | On 10 Feb 2011 The 6th Session of the First Parliament commenced on the auspicious 13th Day of 10th Month of Iron Male Tiger Year corresponding to November 19, 2010 with Zhugdrel Phuensum Tshogpai ceremony where His...
by Jigme Tshultim | On 08 Feb 2011 The following bills were resolved to be passed with corrections: The Child Care and Protection Bill; Penal Code Amendment Bill; Anti Corruption Act 2010; and others
by Jigme Tshultim | On 08 Feb 2011 List of Contents
Articles
Arindam Samaddar, Prabir Kr. Das and Stephen R. Morin, 'Technology Adoption and its Constraints: The Cascading Effects in Two West Bengal Villages'
Erick Tejada Sanchez, '...
by SEPHIS | On 07 Feb 2011 Since the beginning of the second quarter of 2009, Asia has
staged an impressive recovery. The People’s Republic of China
(PRC), Indonesia, Republic of Korea, and Singapore grew by an
average annua...
by Yung Chul Park | On 07 Feb 2011 The environment industry has witnessed rapid growth over the last two decades. Industry surveys in the mid- 1990s had estimated that the global environment industry revenue would increase from US$ 469...
by Aparna Sawhney | On 04 Feb 2011 Institutions and the way they evolve shape economic performance. Institutions affect economic performance by determining (together with technology employed) the cost of transacting and producing. They...
by Douglass C. North | On 04 Feb 2011 The purpose of this policy brief is to draw lessons from the
recent and ongoing macroeconomic policy experience of Asia’s
economies. To do so, in each of three policy areas (monetary,
fiscal, and e...
by Shinji Takagi | On 04 Feb 2011 As in recent years, the major risks for emerging market economies in 2011 will come not from the
policies and actions of the countries themselves, but from developments in advanced economies. There...
by Liliana Rojas Suarez | On 03 Feb 2011 Is there a history of the Chinese overseas? If there is such a single history, how does it square with the fact that migration has brought Chinese into numerous non-Chinese societies, where their “his...
by Philip A. Kuhn | On 02 Feb 2011 Through over a century-long history, the women’s movement in India has been engaged with law as an
instrument with which to negotiate women’s rights. To a great extent this strategy has been successf...
by Centre for Women's Development Studies | On 31 Jan 2011 This year's Global Employment Trends report is the first to assess how the world’s labour markets have been faring during the ongoing economic recovery and provide projections of employment and unempl...
by International Labour Organisation ILO | On 31 Jan 2011 Philip Oldenburg. India, Pakistan, and Democracy: Solving the Puzzle of Divergent Paths. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2010. x + 273 pp. $145.00 (cloth), $39.95 (paper). [H-Net Review]
by Sumit Ganguly | On 30 Jan 2011 As the conception of and debates on regional powers have been led by political science, this paper aims to contribute to the discussion from an economics perspective. Based on the discussion of differ...
by Robert KAppel | On 28 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 Despite low expectations, the UN climate change negotiations in Cancún made important progress thanks to decisive Mexican diplomacy and a renewed conviction that reducing emissions can drive green gro...
by Caio Koch Weser | On 25 Jan 2011 This paper reviews the challenges and experiences in rebuilding fiscal institutions in
postconflict environments, based on advice from the IMF’s Fiscal Affairs Department to
selected countries. Th...
by Sanjeev Gupta | On 20 Jan 2011 This paper constructs and analyses a long-run time-series for regional inequality in
China from the Communist Revolution to the present. There have been three peaks of
inequality in the last fifty...
by Ravi Kanbur | On 17 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 This study seeks to derive lessons from the French nuclear energy experience that can be
used to guide the Indian programme as it steps on the pedal to fast track nuclear expansion. [Occasional Paper...
by Manpreet Sethi | On 13 Jan 2011 In this paper they use large survey data sets of firms provided by the World Bank for China, India,
and Brazil—Investment Climate Surveys—to address the important question: what
determines the loc...
by Kala Seetharam Sridhar | On 12 Jan 2011 This paper discusses the difficulties associated with measuring entrepreneurship in
developing countries. Three important dichotomies in the research on entrepreneurship
are discussed: formal-info...
by Sameeksha Desai | On 11 Jan 2011 Vietnam’s development performance since the early 1990s has been one of the strongest
in the world, following the introduction of its doi moi (‘renovation’) economic reform
programme in 1986. The...
by John Thoburn | On 11 Jan 2011 In the last 30 years, China has achieved high economic growth and successfully
transformed its economy from a planned economy to a market-based system. The
country, to a large extent, has attaine...
by Yang Yao | On 10 Jan 2011 The Center for Global Development’s Drug Resistance Working Group urges
pharmaceutical companies, governments, donors, global health institutions,
health providers, and patients to collectively and...
by Rachel Nugent | On 10 Jan 2011 This paper proposes a structural VAR model which extends the frameworks of
Hoffmaister and Roldós (2001) and Prasad (1999). The model is then used to analyse
the sources of China’s trade balance flu...
by Yin Zhang | On 07 Jan 2011 Using a CGE model, PRCGEM, with an updated 2002 I/O table, this paper explores
how earnings will be affected in each of 40 separate industries across 31 regions (or 8
regional blocks) of China for...
by Jiao Wang | On 05 Jan 2011 The financial intermediation–growth nexus is a widely studied topic in the literature of
development economics. Deepening financial intermediation may promote economic
growth by mobilizing more...
by Jun Zhang | On 03 Jan 2011 BRAC introduced a programme designed to meet the special needs of the extreme poor called, ‘Challenging the Frontier of Poverty Reduction: Targeting Ultra Poor (TUP)’ programme in 2002. The programme...
by Karishma Huda | On 03 Jan 2011 The paper focuses on the non-linearity of the transmission of the impact of globalization
on poverty and the existence of threshold effects. Institutions constitute a critical factor
for the creatio...
by Alice Sindzingre | On 31 Dec 2010 This paper proposes a semi-parametric method for poverty decomposition, which
combines the data-generating procedure of Shorrocks and Wan (2004) with the Shapley
value framework of Shorrocks (1999...
by Yin Zhang | On 29 Dec 2010 This paper investigates some major changes in the wealth distribution in China using
the data from two national household surveys conducted in 1995 and 2002. The surveys
collected rich informatio...
by Shi Li | On 27 Dec 2010 ‘Globalization’ implies change, and uncertainty over future change may affect
household welfare. They use data on Lorenz curves over the last fifty years for a sample
of 53 (mostly developing) cou...
by Ethan Ligon | On 24 Dec 2010 The impact of globalization on poverty is a matter of keen debate but empirical work in
this area has been dominated by cross-country regressions. This paper attempts to link
the more macro impact...
by Rhys Jenkins | On 23 Dec 2010 Livelihoods of the rural poor in developing countries are critically dependent on the
health of the local ecosystems. In this paper they examine the various mechanisms
through which globalization...
by Rimjhim M. Aggarwal | On 23 Dec 2010 In Bangladesh, patriarchal norms, ideology and social institutions shape women's role and
status in the society. Within this patriarchal system, some forces like NGOs may affect the
relationship bet...
by Amina Mahbub | On 23 Dec 2010 This paper proposes that aid flowing to smaller (less populous) countries has a negative
impact on the quality of institutions in terms of performance and policy as opposed to
that flowing to larg...
by Chakriya Bowman | On 20 Dec 2010 This paper uses a game-theoretic framework to explain how collectivist values hamper
societies’ efforts to elicit cooperation in inter-group games of prisoners’ dilemma (PD) and
draws on the resul...
by Ke-young Chu | On 15 Dec 2010 This paper provides high-resolution estimates of the global potential and cost of utility-scale photovoltaic and
concentrating solar power technologies and uses a spatially explicit model to identif...
by Kevin Ummel | On 15 Dec 2010 With deregulation and globalization, and the impact of these developments on economies
worldwide, it has become necessary for the PRC authorities to consider an approach that
would further attune it...
by Tracy Yang | On 14 Dec 2010 This study examines the role of institutions and their change related to the rapid economic
development and the 1997 Korean financial crisis. In Korea, the government built a state-
led financial s...
by Kang-Kook Lee | On 13 Dec 2010 The very rapid economic growth of the People’s Republic of China (henceforth PRC), its dramatic
success in world export markets and its heavy receipts of foreign direct investment (FDI) have
generat...
by John Weiss | On 10 Dec 2010 The paper argues that if the Chinese economy had failed, mainstream economics would have described this as completely predictable, given the extent and nature of involvement of the Chinese state in th...
by Kaushik Basu | On 06 Dec 2010 Open regionalism and trade cooperation between the world’s two largest developing countries,
the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and India, can foster outward-oriented development and
intra-regio...
by Swapan K. Bhattacharya | On 06 Dec 2010 There has been much debate about how much poor people in developing countries gain
from trade openness, as one aspect of ‘globalization’. The paper views the issue through
both ‘macro’ and ‘micro’...
by Martin Ravallion | On 02 Dec 2010 The supply chain management is at the core of globalising world. Today the large
corporations are able to source materials from all around the world and sell it in the
most interior parts of the dev...
by Anil K Gupta | On 01 Dec 2010 The following essay has three parts. The first is a story about fluctuations in the balance
of the relationship between impersonal and personal principles of social organization.
This draws heavi...
by Keith Hart | On 01 Dec 2010 An important channel through which globalization affects poverty is introducing new
technologies to developing countries. Adoption of new technologies can be hindered by
uncertainties about their...
by Jinhua Zhao | On 30 Nov 2010 This paper introduces two composite indices of globalization. The first is based on the
Kearney/Foreign Policy magazine and the second is obtained from principal component
analysis. They indicate...
by Almas Heshmati | On 30 Nov 2010 The paper studies the relation between globalization, inequality and marginalization,
within and across nations. It reviews the existing evidence on globalization and global
inequality and argues,...
by Kaushik Basu | On 29 Nov 2010 The paper offers a critical literature review of the debate surrounding the globalization-
poverty nexus, focusing on channels and linkages through which globalization affects
the poor. After intro...
by Machiko Nissanke | On 26 Nov 2010 Historically, nations have modified their IP policies to support their development
agenda. With the advent of TRIPS, the ability of countries to choose between different
IP policy options has reduce...
by Rakesh Basant | On 23 Nov 2010 China’s recent accession to the WTO is expected to accelerate its integration into the
world economy, which aggravates concerns over the impact of globalization on the
already rising inter-region in...
by Guanghua Wan | On 16 Nov 2010 In recent years, China has dramatically expanded its financing and foreign direct investment to Africa. This
expansion has served the political and economic interests of China while providing Africa...
by Benedicte Vibe Christensen | On 15 Nov 2010 This article views the four economies of the South in a long run historical perspective of
1500-2000. It contrasts the history and the initial endowments of the two Northern
hemisphere economies C...
by Meghnad Desai | On 15 Nov 2010 Trade liberalization, by aligning domestic prices with world prices, is envisaged to bring
welfare gains to a country. In the case of Indian agriculture, owing to the vastness and
diversity of the s...
by Nilabja Ghosh | On 11 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 China is not only on the path to Great Power status, it also means to exercise its newfound muscle. What is difficult to understand is why it wants to behave like a rogue power when the world would wa...
by T.N. Ninan | On 05 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 This paper estimated the pass-through effects of yuan’s exchange rates on prices of the US and Japanese imports from the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Empirical results show that, a 1% nominal app...
by Yuqing Xing | On 04 Nov 2010 The Asia and Pacific region and Latin America and Caribbean region are two regions divided not only by vast geographic distance, but also by disparities in economics, politics, culture, and history. M...
by Erlinda M. Medalla | On 04 Nov 2010 This paper investigates the prevailing financial regulatory structures and impact of the current financial turmoil on banking performance in four Asian economies: the People's Republic of China (PRC);...
by Chen-Min Hsu | On 03 Nov 2010 They conducted a global study of the long-term issuer ratings of nonfinancial firms from Standard and Poor's Ratings Services (S&P) for the period 1998–2003. Specifically, they focused on the solicite...
by Winnie P. H. Poon | On 02 Nov 2010 This paper examines the impact of globalization on two transitional economies in Asia.
Both countries have undergone a radical economic reform process over the past decade,
assisted by increases in...
by Nick. J Freeman | On 01 Nov 2010 The present paper compares the strategies, capacity building processes and outcomes/impacts of three projects during the period 2005-10. The project area covered by the study are located as follows:
...
by Neela Mukherjee | On 29 Oct 2010 The development path that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has been following during the past thirty years has led to both internal and external economic imbalances, and is now greatly challenged...
by Ming Lu | On 29 Oct 2010 In the run-up to the 2008 global financial crisis, there was frequent discussion of Asia having
decoupled from economic shock transmission originating in Europe or North America. Much
of the basis f...
by Douglas H. Brooks | On 29 Oct 2010 Infrastructure services, from both hard and soft infrastructure, play a vital role in facilitating
Asia’s export-led growth by keeping the prices of delivered goods in export markets
competitive. Ef...
by Douglas H. Brooks | On 28 Oct 2010 This paper argues that the Republic of Korea (hereafter Korea) is not immune to global crises, but that a more than proportional response of gross domestic product to global crises does not seem to be...
by Dongchul Cho | On 25 Oct 2010 The growth of government financial institutions in India both in terms of number of branches and quantum of credit has been impressive, especially in the post-blank nationalisation period. [Working Pa...
by D. Rajasekhar | On 23 Oct 2010 The
perspective of global commodity chain or GCC framework and social
embeddedness are used to understand the organizational and social linkages in the
embellishment production network in garment i...
by Jeemol Unni | On 21 Oct 2010 This brief shows how three of the biggest donors to global HIV/AIDS programs can go beyond their stated commitments to address gender inequality and more effectively combat HIV and AIDS.
by Christina Droggitis | On 20 Oct 2010 The Mekong is under threat. The governments of Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand
are considering plans to build eleven big hydropower dams on the Mekong River’s
lower mainstream. If built, these dams wou...
by International Rivers Network IRN | On 19 Oct 2010 The three issues laid out in today’s agenda are particularly relevant at this juncture
and how we answer them in the months ahead will determine how the world
regains and then sustains economic grow...
by Duvvuri Subbarao | On 18 Oct 2010 This paper unveils a systematic pattern in the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC)
processing trade. In a cross-section of the PRC’s provinces, the average distance traveled
by processing imports (...
by Alyson C. Ma | On 18 Oct 2010 The recent global financial crisis reflects numerous breakdowns in the prudential discipline of
financial firms. This paper discusses ways to strengthen micro- and macroprudential
supervision and...
by Larry D. Wall | On 18 Oct 2010 This paper attempts to analyse the economic implications of the rise of China, India,
Brazil and South Africa, for developing countries situated in the wider context of the
world economy. It exami...
by Deepak Nayyar | On 15 Oct 2010 This is a brief sketch of the Self Employed Women’s Association’s (SEWA) three-
decade-long journey from the local to global and informal to formal sector in search of
finding work and income for n...
by Reema Nanavaty | On 15 Oct 2010 The global economic and financial crisis has sparked an unprecedentedly large, generalized
fiscal policy response in practically all major industrial and emerging economies, which will
change the fi...
by Pier Carlo Padoan | On 15 Oct 2010 This study is a comprehensive, empirical analysis of the linkages between governance, institutions, and regional infrastructure. The empirical results indicate that governance and institutions are cru...
by Prabir De | On 14 Oct 2010 This paper argues that poverty originates in the structural injustices of a social order
which incapacitates the poor from participating in the growth generating sectors of the
economy and leaves th...
by Rehman Sobhan | On 13 Oct 2010 In this paper I review the use of precautionary measures aimed at mitigating emerging markets’ exposure to fragility associated with financial integration. The discussion draws possible lessons from t...
by Joshua Aizenman | On 13 Oct 2010 Economic growth and poverty reduction require for a country to establish efficient rules
for economic and political transactions. Poor countries suffer from inadequate, inefficient
transaction rules...
by Ke-young Chu | On 12 Oct 2010 The current global economic crisis has led to greater prominence for the issue of strengthening social protection systems in Asia. This paper analyzes the key factors determining and the possible aven...
by Mukul G. Asher | On 12 Oct 2010 The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has emerged as a major player in the global economy and considers free trade agreements (FTAs) an important part of its global trading strategy. The PRC’s export i...
by Yunling Zhang | On 12 Oct 2010 China’s consumers are better understood when looked at as two distinct classes: urban consumers and rural consumers. The urban households are much richer than their rural counterparts and consume thre...
by Syetarn Hansakul | On 12 Oct 2010 The ongoing global economic crisis has punished Asian economies severely, despite the fact that its origins derive from outside the region. The global economic crisis was transmitted through real and...
by Michael G. Plummer | On 11 Oct 2010 They conduct an experimental study to investigate the causal impact of social identity on individuals' response to economic incentives. They focus on China‟s decades old household registration...
by Farzana Afridi | On 08 Oct 2010 In this paper they examine whether absorptive capacity can constitute sufficient
justification for rejecting the proposal of a large aid increase to support the ‘big push’.
They argue that the pro...
by Patrick Guillaumont | On 08 Oct 2010 The present paper looks at the various dimensions of contributions by
forests in the context of the Indian economy. Based on a detailed review of
literature on importance and valuation of forests, s...
by Archana S Mathur | On 08 Oct 2010 The global economic slowdown has again highlighted the vulnerability of export-led development models and economies to downturns in export markets. Economic deepening or “rebalancing” with an emphasis...
by Mark Stoughton | On 08 Oct 2010 The global economic crisis has affected the East Asian economies via trade and investment. The export-led model which had been responsible for the “East Asian Miracle” now must redirect the basis of g...
by Siow Yue Chia | On 08 Oct 2010 This paper examines fiscal policy issues in the Republic of Korea (hereafter Korea) after the 2009 global financial crisis, including the timing of fiscal policy responses, the effectiveness of expans...
by Kiseok Hong | On 07 Oct 2010 The global financial crisis and the resulting economic slowdown may be assumed to have at
least the benefit of also reducing environmental degradation in the individual countries. This
paper discu...
by Venkatachalam Anbumozhi | On 07 Oct 2010 This essay draws on the work of the Center for Global Development’s Study Group on
U.S. Development Strategy in Pakistan and on the ideas in the group’s open letters to Ambassador
Richard Holbrooke...
by Nancy Birdsall | On 05 Oct 2010 East Asian countries were seriously affected by the 2008 global crisis through a steep fall in exports. This experience exposed the vulnerability of the East Asian growth model and emphasized the impo...
by Mahani Zainal Abidin | On 05 Oct 2010 The global economic and financial landscape has been transformed over the past decade by the growing economic size and financial power of emerging economies. The new G20 summit process, which includes...
by Masahiro Kawai | On 05 Oct 2010 Languages have their own laws of evolution, ones that are not too different from those about species. Some languages survive, grow. Others become extinct. Some merge themselves into other languages. O...
by The Hindu | On 04 Oct 2010 In the next two decades, India is likely to become an
economically prosperous nation and move significantly
towards being a far more inclusive society, with the bulk of
its population gaining acces...
by Science Advisory Council to PM SAC to PM | On 01 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 considers the choices facing the Asian tiger economies regarding growth
strategies that foster trans-Pacific rebalancing. A review of historical data spanning 2000 to
2008 reveals only...
by Hwee Kwan Chow | On 30 Sep 2010 It is being acknowledged that a macro prudential perspective is critical in designing and pursuing micro prudential regulation of institutions and markets. Two distinct but highly inter-related constr...
by Shyamala Gopinath | 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 The need for fiscal consolidation and sustainability is one of the key macroeconomic issues confronting Indian economy. This paper attempts to understand India’s current fiscal situation, its likely f...
by Rajiv Kumar | On 28 Sep 2010 An issue that has attracted surprisingly little notice is the size and growth of the trade deficit. Even more worrisome is the flat trajectory for exports — which escapes notice because comparisons ar...
by T.N. Ninan | On 24 Sep 2010 This paper studies the impact of taxation on poverty and ex ante vulnerability of households
in rural China based on national household survey data in 1988, 1995 and 2002. It has been
confirmed that...
by Katsushi S. Imai | On 21 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 This paper reviews the prevailing policy environment to evaluate its efficacy in ensuring that India is successfully able to address these challenges in the education sector. Given the well establishe...
by Sanat Kaul | On 17 Sep 2010 This paper examines various measures of synchronization of recessions, including clustering
of the onset of recession across economies, proportion of economies in expansion and the
diffusion index...
by Pami Dua | On 16 Sep 2010 In 1956 Susanne Rudolph and I arrived in India for the first of many research years there. We were among the second batch of Ford Foundation Foreign Area Training Fellows. As area scholars we were com...
by Lloyd I. Rudolf | On 15 Sep 2010 This paper speaks to companies seeking practical ways to alleviate global poverty. The
private sector has several inherent competitive advantages to bring to bear in this effort
through which they c...
by Staci Warden | On 15 Sep 2010 This volume contains summaries of 12 case studies for three categories of business
organisations defined by ownership, i.e. foreign, state and (local) private. The case
studies explore the history a...
by Anisha Sabhlok | On 06 Sep 2010 This paper analyze the colonial institutions set up by the British to collect land revenue in India, and show that differences in historical property rights institutions lead to sustained differences...
by Abhijit Banerjee | On 03 Sep 2010 This study provides an in-depth assessment of Concentrating solar power (CSP) potential in China and
India using high-resolution spatial data for site selection and modeling of plant performance, ass...
by Kevin Ummel | On 03 Sep 2010 This editorial is about the debate on globalising the way money is counted in India.
by T.N. Ninan | On 26 Aug 2010 This paper investigates the evolution of earnings inequality in urban China from 1989 to
2006. After decomposing the variance of log of earnings into transitory and permanent two
parts, we find that...
by Zhong Zhao | On 23 Aug 2010 The Indian software industry is at the bottom of knowledge hierarchy, where the bottom is highly segmented. The political process that successfully thwarted the automation of Indian manufacturing sect...
by Pradosh Nath | On 20 Aug 2010 Comparisons of India and China have been made for over 50 years. This paper
focuses on purchasing power estimates in China and India in the 2005 round of the
UN International Comparison Programme (I...
by Alan Heston | On 20 Aug 2010 Review of 'Promoting Economic Cooperation in South Asia'; S. Ahmed, S. Kalegama and E. Ghani (Editors). Published by Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2010
by Sandhya S . Iyer | On 17 Aug 2010 Climate change has become one of the most important global issues of our time, with far-
reaching natural, socio- economic, and political impacts. In order to equip the community to
deal with the...
by Vidhi . | On 12 Aug 2010 This lecture series is about the new vistas in Global Comunication for Science and Education.
by Gregory S. Cole | On 09 Aug 2010 With the alarming rate of growth in vehicle population and travel demand, the energy consumption has increased significantly contributing to the rise of GHG emissions. Therefore, the development of a...
by P. Balachandra | On 30 Jul 2010 The paper is based on the 8 Input – Output (I-O) tables for the Indian economy
available over a period of 36 years from 1968-69 to 2003-04. The technical
progress (TP) in the context of the I-O tabl...
by Ravindra H Dholakia | On 22 Jul 2010 The turmoil that has characterised the global financial markets
since the 1990s, and particularly the crisis in East Asia, has generated
a great deal of support for proposals to add some frictions t...
by Ramkishen Rajan | On 21 Jul 2010 Two features of East Asia’s recovery from the financial turmoil of 1997-
98 appear to be rather paradoxical. First, the regional economies (except
Hong Kong, China and Malaysia) have allowed a relat...
by Ramkishen S. Rajan | On 20 Jul 2010 For a country to be a democracy, certain things are expected to be in place, such as freedom of
expression and little or no censorship. While one person would find it perfectly acceptable to
publici...
by Garima Gupta | On 15 Jul 2010 Given the economic distress worldwide, the micro, small and medium scale enterprises
(MSME) had been hit hard. Large numbers of workers have been laid off because of
depressed demand, piled up inven...
by Anil K Gupta | On 14 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 As a consequence of the flexibility mechanisms incorporated in the Kyoto Protocol (KP), incentive-based policies
such as emissions trading and the clean development mechanism (CDM) are being widely d...
by Shreekant Gupta | On 07 Jul 2010 In consonance with the global trend of redefining the role of the government in
developing and transition economies from producer to facilitator, there is today a lively
debate in India on governm...
by J.V. Meenakshi | On 07 Jul 2010 Enormous trade surpluses are problematic for the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the
rest of the world. They primarily stem from processing trade. This paper investigates how
exchange rate ch...
by Willem Thorbecke | On 30 Jun 2010 The impact of globalization on global and local inequality is hotly debated in the recent
literature. This study considers the separate issue of the impact of globalization on
poverty through quan...
by Adriaan Kalwij | On 28 Jun 2010 Since its emergence before the Cancun Ministerial in September 2003, the Group of 20 developing countries (which includes South Africa, India, China, Indonesia, Thailand and Pakistan) has become an im...
by Prabhash Ranjan | On 21 Jun 2010 Prior to the Asian financial crisis, most Asian exchange rates were de facto pegged
to the US Dollar. In the crisis, many economies experienced a brief period of extreme flexibility. A `fear of float...
by Ila Patnaik | On 18 Jun 2010 Vietnam's (re) discovery in recent years by the international investor community gives the country a second chance to become and Asia tiger. The article looks into the economic, social, political, per...
by Tamara Trinh | On 16 Jun 2010 The paper excavates how the advent of commercial audiography, through 'Recording Expeditions' between 1902 and 1907, shaped configurations of the nascent business in, and culture around, 'music on rec...
by Vibodh Parthasarathi | On 16 Jun 2010 The present study shows that informal barriers/para-tariff in India-Bangladesh trade are already high and further trade liberalisation without improving the infrastructure and reducing corruption woul...
by Samantak Das | On 14 Jun 2010 They are providing systematic evidence that intermediaries play an important role in facilitating trade using a firm-level the census of China's exports. Intermediaries account for around 20% of China...
by Jaebin Ahn | On 14 Jun 2010 Though there has been much general debate recently about the pros and
cons of capital controls, there remains substantial confusion and uncertainty about what
exactly is entailed by the term ‘restra...
by Ramkishen Rajan | On 11 Jun 2010 This paper intends first to give a brief overview of the rise and growth of some of those separatist groups, with a special focus on the Nagas, the Mizos and the Assam movement.
An analysis of the de...
by Renaud Egreteau | On 10 Jun 2010
The paper looks at the growth and commercialization of microfinance in India. It starts out be looking at how the commercial microfinance has evolved internationally by discussing two specific ex...
by M S Sriram | On 08 Jun 2010 Review of Women Work and Health: Current Concerns,
Amita Sahaya and Sunita Kaistha (Editors).
Published by The Women Press, New Delhi-110007 in association with
Women Work and health Initiatives (...
by Ruby Ojha | On 03 Jun 2010 Without a better
understanding of the interactions between international players, households and public sector, it will be difficult for climate negotiators and donor institutions to
determine the...
by Brian Blankespoor | On 01 Jun 2010 In this
paper an argument is made that the concept of inclusive growth should go beyond the traditional emphasis on the poor
(and the rest) and take into account changes in the size and economic c...
by Nancy Birdsall | On 31 May 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 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 20 May 2010 Is Asia a cohesive analytical unit in any practical sense?
by T.N. Ninan | On 17 May 2010 The world’s biggest carbon offset market, the Clean Development Mechanism, is a global shell game that is
increasing greenhouse gas emissions behind the guise of promoting sustainable development. It...
by Patrick McCully | On 14 May 2010 This paper attempts to question the state of ‘women community” at large with situation
depicting the growing rate of crime, oppression and subjugation which is historically
unprecedented and its re-...
by Chitra Mishra | On 03 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 This paper aims at touching on the main divisions of fisheries management, with an insight into the state mechanism and the extra legal systems in place. The principal focus is the history of Indian m...
by Rohan Dominic Mathews | On 16 Apr 2010 The principal constraint to raising living standards in this
century will come neither from scarce resources nor limited technologies. Rather it will come from our
limited capacity to discover and i...
by Paul Romer | On 12 Apr 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 12 Apr 2010 The purpose of this study to help shed light on the entrepreneurship, entrepreneurs and enterprise growth in
Wenzhou. The study is done by relying on a probabilistic firm survey that we carried out i...
by John Strauss | On 08 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 Report from the 11th Media Dialogue ’North East: Fallen off the Media Map? or Why Does the Media Give so Lettle Space to this Vast Region?
by Shambhu Ghatak | On 07 Apr 2010 The overall
effort of the paper is to highlight the ambiguities of ‘liberation’ in 20th
century Keralam and to problematise the tradition/modernity binary
that too often organises the writing of th...
by J Devika | On 02 Apr 2010 The paper discuses the role played by institutional behavior in determining the policy outcomes of a state. Apart from secondary data the paper is also based on information collected from selected sta...
by Deepita Chakravarty | On 19 Mar 2010 In this paper, an attempt is made to enquire into the politics of the government and
business relation and how it affects the industrial development in general and expansion
of manufacturing sector...
by Alivelu G | On 02 Mar 2010 A reduced form model
where banks can pursue other goals than profit maximization is presented. This allows us to test
for behavioral changes of banks over time. This model provides a framework to
e...
by Xiaoqiang Cheng | On 23 Feb 2010 With the support of the labour geography framework, this study
tries to analyse how the economic geography of capitalism is shaped by
the spatial practices of labour. The model that is taken up is n...
by Neethi P | On 22 Feb 2010 West Bengal is not among the best performing states with regard
to NREGA. The performance of all districts in the state
is not equally discouraging. Some districts, in fact, have done well in
gener...
by Subrata Mukherjee | On 19 Feb 2010 This paper is about deconstructing the middle class
perception of the domain of the ‘folk’ in this region. With these questions,
the paper sets out an agenda for writing the history of rain and weat...
by Sadan Jha | On 16 Feb 2010 FDI by firms in developing countries is a recent phenomenon and demands a
study of relationship between firm productivity and different modes of globalisation
activities. This paper attempts to unde...
by Dilek Demirbas | On 16 Feb 2010 If it had not been for the vision and tenacious dedication of early pioneers, the
difficulties encountered in the creation of the specialty of sport and exercise
medicine may not have been overcome....
by L Reynolds | On 06 Feb 2010 Capital account openness and exchange rate flexibility in 11 Asian countries are examined. Asia has made slow progress on de jure capital account openness,
but has made much more progress on de facto...
by Ila Patnaik | On 04 Feb 2010 A detailed analysis of the stakes and dynamics at play in the public, civil and self-regulation of companies in India is offered.
With the rapid growth and modernization of the country as the backdro...
by Damien Krichewsky | On 02 Feb 2010 In this paper the issue of indirect tax reform,
with a special focus on customs duty reform is examined. [WP]
by Arvind Virmani | On 28 Jan 2010 In this paper, we seek to make a twofold contribution. On outcomes, we focus on manufacturing exports as well as on manufacturing output both in the aggregate and in selected sectors. On policy, the i...
by Aaditya Mattoo | On 19 Jan 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 India has an elaborate system of capital controls which impede cap-
ital mobility and particularly short-term debt. Yet, when the global
money market fell into turmoil after the bankruptcy of Lehman...
by Ila Patnaik | On 19 Jan 2010 India is a stable democratic political system with rising economic fortunes and global ambitions make it a potential power that could play a very important role in world affairs. But India has to tack...
by Teresita C Schaffer | On 15 Jan 2010 This paper aims to highlight the critical importance of cost recovery in attracting and
sustaining private investment for power development. Based on a brief review of Indian
experience, it suggests...
by Vishvanath V. Desai | On 24 Dec 2009 Discusses about the different poverty measuements.
by T.N. Ninan | On 22 Dec 2009 Kerala’s success in human development demonstrated that efficient functioning of government
health care delivery system opens the doors of prosperity for the poor and vulnerable sections
of the popu...
by Varatharajan D | On 21 Dec 2009 Climate change is one of the most important issues of the next
decades and has the potential to severely impact societies,
economies and human wellbeing.
by Caio Koch-Weser | On 16 Dec 2009 This brief seeks to address questions on how the funds are collected, dsitributes at the international level, mechanisms to ensure that the recipient countries are managing the funds in a transparent...
by Athena Ballesteros | On 15 Dec 2009 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 This paper is an attempt to explore the meaning and significance of political
participation within (a) the conceptual framework of democratic citizenship and
(b) debates surrounding representative d...
by Anupama Roy | On 10 Dec 2009 This paper examines these difficulties of regulation in the context of spread of unapproved
transgenic Bt cotton seeds in India. This paper also examines the impact of the cultivation of approved and...
by Bharat Ramaswami | On 08 Dec 2009 The objective of the study is to undertake watershed based planning for integrated community management of natural resources for livelihood security. Separate studies were done in Nepal and in Uttarak...
by Debashish Sen | On 04 Dec 2009 This paper presents some of the findings of our recent study on women’s representation and participation in panchayats. Some of the findings of the study (Buch; 1999) of women in panchayats after the...
by Nirmala Buch | On 04 Dec 2009 The paper examines the genesis of Climate Change which has been referred to as the defining human development issue of our generation. Also studied is the impact of this problem in the global as well...
by H A C Prasad | On 01 Dec 2009 This document is at the behest of KMVS and is an effort to hold up a mirror to their journey. It is a documentation of their history, context, evolution, and experiences since its emergence in 1989. A...
by Vimala Ramachandran | On 01 Dec 2009 China and India have both attempted distorting the exchange rate in order to foster exports-led growth. This is described as the Bretton Woods II framework, where developing countries buy bonds in the...
by Ila Patnaik | On 30 Nov 2009 A detailed historical review of the research to date spanning more than 50 years, and includes a perspective on the impact of climate change on the glaciers. The Ministry invites comments on the Paper...
by V K Raina | On 30 Nov 2009 Ills of the banking system that caused the crisis. An extensive analysis of the causes is given. A brief synopsis to provide a backdrop for the ‘boring banking’ discussion is given. [Speech at the Int...
by Duvvuri Subbarao | On 25 Nov 2009 In this paper the diverse dimensions of gender development are examined using
individual indicators for the districts of the western region of India. The western
region for the purpose of this study...
by Preet Rustagi | On 24 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 The time may have come to stop thinking of five-year plans, and to focus instead on 10- and 20-year scenarios.
by T.N. Ninan | On 23 Nov 2009 This paper mainly addresses the economic dimensions, concentrating on the importance of international trade to state-building and the need for global public goods in a global market economy. The focu...
by Tony Addison | On 23 Nov 2009 Sheds light on the realities of girls' health and wellbeing in developing countries, on the links between the health of girls and the prospects for their families, and on the specific actions that wil...
by Miriam Temin | On 17 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 Questions about the processes of empowerment generated under each of these interventions and also suggests synergistic linkages between the two are raised.
by Joy Deshmukh Ranadive | On 13 Nov 2009 A variety of institutional forms of microfinance are being
introduced in Asia including by the ADB-and financial institutions pursue different
objectives, so it is difficult to assess how well micro...
by Richard L Meyer | On 13 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 Questions about Chinese aid—how large it is and how fast it is growing; how decisions are made on how much aid is provided each year; which countries receive it and how much they get; how the aid is m...
by Carol Lancaster | On 10 Nov 2009 This joint paper attempts an unusual collaborative approach that offers an understanding of the problems that registered nurses of India have faced. Through this paper, the problem of ‘social status’...
by Sreelekha Nair | On 10 Nov 2009 This paper on political sociology of poverty in India is based upon the assumption that
a) the caste system and economic inequality complement each other in the case of the poorer sections of Indian...
by Anand Kumar | On 10 Nov 2009 The Renaissance Hospital: Healing the Body and Healing The Soul by John Henderson. New Haven Yale University Press, 2006. xxxiv + 458 pp. $60.00 (cloth).
by Brian Nance | On 05 Nov 2009 The repo rate has been kept unchanged at 4.75%. The reverse repo rate left steady at 3.25%. The bank rate has been retained unchanged at 6.0%. The cash reserve ratio (CRR) of scheduled banks has been...
by D Subbarao | On 27 Oct 2009 This paper describes the major institutional weaknesses in global nutrition and presents two recommendations to address the joint problems of incoherence, lack of institutional leaders, and persistent...
by Ruth Levine | On 27 Oct 2009 The government simply has to find a way to deliver the basics. That is what will defeat the Maoists and hold off China.
by T.N. Ninan | On 27 Oct 2009 China’s economy is booming at the expense of its environment. The country’s resource efficiency is nowhere near the level of western nations. Per unit of gross domestic product China consumes more tha...
by Eric Heymann | On 22 Oct 2009 The paper discusses the impacts of climate change to the environment of China and most especially to the livelihood of Chinese people there. It analyzed the Chinese government’s position and enumerate...
by Dale Jiajun Wen | On 16 Oct 2009 Did you know that there has been no warming of the globe over the past decade?
by T.N. Ninan | On 16 Oct 2009 BRAC health programme (BHP) initiated a pilot maternal, neonatal and child
health project (MNCH) in Nilphamari in 2006 to improve the health status of
women of reproductive age including neonates an...
by Shahnawaz Mohammad Rafi | On 15 Oct 2009 Can ‘participatory’ approaches to development constitute a viable strategy for promoting
citizenship? This paper addresses this question by scrutinising the equivocal reaction of a
peasant community...
by Katsuhiko Masaki | On 13 Oct 2009 Rising food prices cause considerable policy dilemmas for developing country
governments. Letting domestic prices adjust to reflect the full change in international prices generates inflationary pres...
by Nora Lustig | On 09 Oct 2009 The paper discusses the impacts of free-trade policy on the agricultural exports of Kerala.
by Ranjit Devraj | On 08 Oct 2009 Review of the most salient issues in ecological economics when the subject is applied to the field of economic development. The aim here has
not been to be scholastic but to examine the lives of the...
by Partha Dasgupta | On 06 Oct 2009 The emergence of a large and dynamic middle class raises Asia’s profile as an attractive market destination for products ranging from consumer goods to financial services. There are even hopes that th...
by Steffen Dyck | On 06 Oct 2009 This new report discusses the experience with environmental standards and how it can be useful for new financiers. It contains ten papers written by experts from civil society, financial institutions...
by International Rivers Network IRN | On 01 Oct 2009 In this paper, with empirical data, the Capabilities Approach to identify
'conversion factors' that are not typically addressed in the utility approach is used.
The two approaches are juxtaposed to...
by Jeemol Unni | On 01 Oct 2009 Private practice in the health sector was re-introduced from 1980, when China began its economic reform from a planned economy to a market economy. But today the total number of private sector provide...
by Ying Bian | On 30 Sep 2009 There is a growing recognition that global warming is a problem, but little attention
has been paid to the likely impact at the country level, especially in the developing
world. The stakes for worl...
by William R Cline | On 23 Sep 2009 This paper assesses the condition and outlook of the financial sectors—in particular, the banking sector—in the East Asia region in the aftermath of the current global financial crisis. The risks in t...
by Michael Pomerleano | On 07 Sep 2009 The best economic news of the past two years can be that the worst recession in 80 years may be over.
by T.N. Ninan | On 31 Aug 2009 The report attempts to contextualize the exploitation of those who are aafected by the one of the worst communal riots in history and document
how dominant interests have used this situation of chron...
by People's Union of Civil Liberties PUCL | On 31 Aug 2009 There are various historical water conservation structures and water-mills in the Rispana valley near Rajpur. There are some of the more important structures and discusses the possibility of preservin...
by William Stichter | On 12 Aug 2009 This study analyzes the factors leading to the emergence of these Indian IST firms as multinationals in
the global market. Applying the theoretical framework of national innovation system (NIS), the...
by Jaya Prakash Pradhan | On 07 Aug 2009 This paper attempts to compare the characteristics of South-South FDI versus North-South FDI in the context of India. The analysis is carried at two levels. First t the overall trends of FDI flows (bo...
by Subhasis Bera | On 28 Jul 2009 Politics of Patronage and Protest: The State, Society, and Artisans in Early Modern Rajasthan
by Nandita Prasad Sahai,
Oxford University Press, 2006;
304 pp, $35.00 (cloth), ISBN978-0-19-567896...
by Tirthankar Roy | On 23 Jul 2009 Despite the negative impact of the current crisis and many
remaining uncertainties about the actual economic recovery path,
the medium-term outlook for Hong Kong’s banks remains
favourable.
by Robert Mülhaupt | On 15 Jul 2009 In the context of the formation of G-20, the paper points out the absence of reform in the global financial architecture (GFA) after the East Asian crisis, and assesses factors that can improve the ch...
by Ashima Goyal | On 15 Jul 2009 Access to clean water should be declared a basic human right for three reasons. First, access to clean water can substantially reduce the global burden of disease caused by water-borne infections. Sec...
by PLoS Medicine | On 09 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 The third Annual Statistics Day Conference of the Reserve Bank. It has now become a tradition for to mark the Statistics Day as a tribute to late Professor P.C. Mahalanobis and his colossal contributi...
by D Subbarao | On 02 Jul 2009 The paper attempts to analyse the emerging contours of regulation of financial institutions with an emphasis on the emerging challenges and dynamics. [Paper prepared for Financial Stability Review of...
by Rakesh Mohan | On 29 Jun 2009 At this moment, the world is undergoing the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression of 1930s. It is not clear exactly which factors instigated the crisis, but there are many candidates; the f...
by H. N. Thenuwara | On 15 Jun 2009 The article focuses on understanding of the economics of the exchange control liberalisation in macroeconomic perspectives and, therefore, the article does not attempt to interpret or explore the lega...
by P Samarasiri | On 12 Jun 2009 This report is intended as a wake-up call to anyone who thinks the developing world debt crisis has been resolved. In fact, it assesses fears of a new debt crisis, more serious than before, spreading...
by Sarah Edwards | On 11 Jun 2009 The global economy is passing through its deepest financial and economic crisis of our time. Protecting the Indian economy from the worst impact of the crisis has been a big challenge for the governme...
by D Subbarao | On 08 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 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 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 Thirty years ago, a vast share of the poor and the middle income countries were heavily state-controlled. The effects of the liberalizations in the 1980s and 1990s differed strongly between regions in...
by Johan F.M. Swinnen | On 02 Jun 2009 This background paper focuses on the implications of investment liberalization on ASEAN nations.
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by Ignacio Jose Minambres | On 31 May 2009 Many developing countries have taken interest in learning from the Honey Bee Network experience for replicating the model. In a UNESCO conference, the author was asked to identify the key steps that n...
by Anil K Gupta | On 27 May 2009 During the global financial turmoil of 2007 and 2008, no major derivative clearing house in the world encountered distress while many banks were pushed to the brink and beyond. An important reason for...
by Jayanth R Varma | On 26 May 2009 Many developing countries have taken interest in learning from the Honey Bee Network experience for replicating the model. In a UNESCO conference, the author was asked to identify the key steps that...
by Anil K Gupta | On 21 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 In 2008, three global crises converged to threaten development in the Asia-Pacific
region, bringing to the fore particularly testing challenges for policymakers – a Great
Recession in developed coun...
by Economic and Social Commission for Asia Pacific ESCAP | On 16 May 2009 Multinational companies exercise their impact on the economic development of the host countries and regions through Foreign Direct Investments (FDI). The host countries tap the benefits from these FDI...
by Filip De Beule | On 15 May 2009 Capitalizing on the most recent worldwide estimates of the impacts of climate change on agricultural production, this paper assesses the economic effects of climate change for Southeast Asian countrie...
by Fan Zhai | On 14 May 2009 Medicines are important in curing and preventing diseases, and hence, the ultimate goal of `Health for All’ cannot be achieved if people do not have adequate access to essential drugs. Evidences show...
by Lalitha N | On 14 May 2009 This paper reassesses the nature of the epidemiological evidence underpinning one of the Global Burden of Disease topics: the estimate for the global burden of depression. Specifically, we look at the...
by Petra Brhlikova | On 14 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 In this article hard realities of people’s health in India today, and some of the maladies of recent health
policies are examined. This is followed by core recommendations to strengthen and
reorient...
by Jan Swasthya Abhiyan JSS | 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 This paper talks of good outcomes of Globalisation which needs to be further inproved wherein Institutional response mechanisms should be designed to address any problems that may arise in specific ar...
by Jagdish Bhagwati | On 03 May 2009 Capitalizing on the most recent worldwide estimates of the impacts of climate change on agriculture production, this paper assesses the economic effects of climate change for Southeast Asian countries...
by Fan Zhai | On 01 May 2009 Presentation shows the global financial crisis, the difference between US, Europe and India, RBI’s policy response and impact, lessons from the crisis, medium-term issues and challenges. [Speech deliv...
by Rakesh Mohan | On 29 Apr 2009 The focus of this paper is on the
potential economic factors underlying voter behaviour in a democracy. It develops a
simplified model based on economic theory (welfare & conditional probabilities)...
by Arvind Virmani | On 28 Apr 2009 In many countries political financial regulations have been introduced.
by Marcin Walecki | On 28 Apr 2009 Attacks on journalists throughout the world -- by organised crime groups in Latin America, autocratic regimes in the Middle East, repressive governments in Africa and by combatants in war zones -- pos...
by World Association of Newspapers WAN | On 28 Apr 2009 The
paper’s focus is on successful Chinese policies that can be emulated by other countries to an extent (within certain bounds) which mentined in the article. The author is not trying to draw lesson...
by Arvind Virmani | On 22 Apr 2009 History matters, and it matters in important and interesting ways for policy
today. But it is not just actual events in the past. It is how they are recorded, interpreted,
and the interpretation...
by Ravi Kanbur | On 22 Apr 2009 The paper examines the division of tasks required between politicians and bureaucrats to run an effective rural employment guarantee scheme (EGS) in India, in the context of Indian history and habits.
by Ashima Goyal | On 21 Apr 2009 2009 Budget speech
by Ministry of Finance and Planning Sri Lanka | On 20 Apr 2009 The indecent haste shown by Political Executive and Parliament on December16-17, 2008 while dealing with security related issues substantiates the argument that security and defence agenda of the Indi...
by C. P. Bhambhri | On 16 Apr 2009 The main question that the Governor is asking to the RBI staff is "how can I do my job better so that I can make a positive difference to the country?"
by Duvvuri Subbarao | On 08 Apr 2009 FEER, April 2009 Table of Contents
by FEER | On 06 Apr 2009 A comprehensive and logically rigorous analysis of the issues raised by the recommendation of the Chief Election Commissioner N.Gopalaswami for the removal of Election Commissioner Navin Chawla, the...
by Ramaswamy R. Iyer | On 03 Apr 2009 Budget speech by finance minister Dr. Thomas Issac
by Government of Kerala Govt | On 23 Feb 2009 This paper argues that it is becoming increasingly difficult for
most developing countries to achieve rapid growth through industrialization, and especially through export oriented activities. But th...
by Peter Sheehan | On 03 Feb 2009 The speech tries to underline some lessones that be drawn from the financial crisis relevant to regulation, financial markets and the market infrastructure and to reflect on these. [Annual Conference...
by Shyamala Gopinath | On 15 Jan 2009 Whether timing of the elections leads to riots or not within India. In other
words, does timing of elections instigate riots? Using time series crosssectional
data for 16 major Indian states for the...
by Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati | On 09 Jan 2009 This paper attempts a critical review of the performance and policy concerning the
micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in globalizing India since the early
1990s whence economic reforms were...
by Keshab Das | On 02 Jan 2009 The present paper aims at driving home a hitherto-neglected and perhaps often muted (but important) point, namely, that the
confusions and identity crisis that had gripped development economics in th...
by Arup Maharatna | On 31 Dec 2008 Perspective on the current global turmoil, its impact on India, the outlook for the Indian economy and the challenges that lie ahead for the Indian banking system, in particular. [Speech delivered at...
by D Subbarao | On 19 Dec 2008 The main objectives of this report are to identify and propose policies,
factors and conditions that could mitigate or avoid double mismatches. policies here means any course of action pursued and ad...
by Khee-Giap Tan | On 19 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 The history and evolution and the factors underlying the success of primary education in Kerala. [CDS WP 189].
by P R Gopinathan Nair | On 10 Dec 2008 This is an initiative by the Planning Commission to formulate “Common Guidelines for Watershed Development Projects in order to have a unified perspective by all ministries.These guidelines are theref...
by Government of India GOI | On 08 Dec 2008 Two major economic problems are currently shadowing Asian economies. On the one hand,
the slowdown in the US economy, ignited by the subprime mortgage crisis, may not be
confined to the US region...
by Kwanho Shin | On 05 Dec 2008 A case study in Goa is used to examine whether tenure security and asset re-distribution can lead to environmentally sustainable outcomes.
by Pranab Mukhopadhyay | On 28 Nov 2008 Using product-level data on exports from different cities within China, this paper investigates the contributing factors to the rising export sophistication. [WP no. 226].
by Zhi Wang | On 26 Nov 2008 What does citizenship mean to poor and socially excluded people? How do their views help us understand and analyse what 'inclusive' citizenship means?
by Naila Kabeer | On 20 Nov 2008 The competitiveness among the firms in Indian cement industry has also been
evaluated. For the year 2006-07, out of the sample of seventeen firms (90.21% of the total market share), about 47% have re...
by G Burange | On 19 Nov 2008 The paper is a report of a survey done in Chitradurga District, Karnataka to know the functioning of NREGA and awarness of people about this Act.
by Centre for Budget and Policy Studies CBPS | On 19 Nov 2008 This study presents a comprehensive picture of poverty chnages in China in the period of 1978-95. Using two micro data sets from Household Income Surverys of 1988 and 1995, the author examines poverty...
by Li Shi | On 18 Nov 2008 In a poor, growing economy with academic costs well below the market value of educational training, the tag of disadvantage has come to acquire value and, ironically, the desire for mobility has brou...
by Rohini Somanathan | On 18 Nov 2008 The paper provides an overview of the nature of trade in health services in the world economy. It oulines some of the general implications of trade in health services for national health systems for a...
by Rupa Chanda | On 13 Nov 2008 Can Asia Consume A Way Out of Crisis?
Hugo Restall, editor of the REVIEW, looks at the prospects of Asian governments' efforts to jump start domestic demand through Keynesian stimulus packages.
F...
by FEER | On 10 Nov 2008 Taiwan is an incredible success story and it is time that the US, and the new President elect Barak Obama, take a lead in renewing relations with the country.
by Paul Wolfowitz | On 10 Nov 2008 This paper aims at developing an explicit ‘vertical’ dimension to chronic poverty research that focuses on ‘adverse incorporation and social exclusion’ (AISE). an effort is made here to sensitise lite...
by Stefano Ponte | On 31 Oct 2008 The paper starts by recapitulating the basic arguments provided by economic theory to explain the existence of the patent system. The paper then concentrates on the three important ICT industries viz....
by C Niranjan Rao | On 30 Oct 2008 The ongoing global financial turmoil represents an end of an era of exuberant financial capitalism. But the transition to a more sedate and scaled down financial sector will be traumatic for the world...
by Mukul Asher | On 15 Oct 2008 This paper proceeds with approach that it is the constitutional obligation of
the State to provide adequate quantity of drinking water to the citizens and
also protect water resources as common good...
by Ramachandraiah C | On 13 Oct 2008 Two agendas of the heterodox economics programme; the stock-flow consistent models pioneered by Wynne Godley, and the monetary circuit approach researched in France and Italy are discussed. The object...
by Romar Correa | On 10 Oct 2008 This paper uses the standard one-sector neoclassical growth model to investigate why China’s consumption has been low and investment high. This paper looks into the role played by the financial sector...
by Jahangir Aziz | On 07 Oct 2008 This paper examines steady states of an overlapping generations economy with a given
distribution of household locations over a one-dimensional interval. Parents decide whether
or not to educate the...
by Dilip Mookherjee | On 06 Oct 2008 Over the last decade countries across the world have embarked on changing existing economic models in favour of ones driven by the free market, incorporating the process of liberalisation, privatisati...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 03 Oct 2008 India Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) 2006 and Global School Personnel
Survey (GSPS) 2006 were undertaken region-wise, namely, North, South, East, West, Central and North East, covering 99.7% of t...
by Dhirendra Narain SInha | On 29 Sep 2008 The environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis is revisited using 1987-1995 data for Chinese provinces.
by Catherine Yap Co | On 29 Sep 2008 Demographic transition is a global phenomenon; population growth is inevitable in the initial phases of the transition. For India the current phase of the demographic transition is both a challenge an...
by Prema Ramachandran | On 26 Sep 2008 The lecture is about the payment system in India, which is an important element of the financial sector infrastructure. The lecture also shows the evolution and objectives of the Indian payment system...
by Leeladhar V | On 25 Sep 2008 India, the largest economy of South Asia, has recently announced its National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC). This is of special significance given the mounting pressure on fast growing economi...
by Centre for Trade and Development CENTAD | On 22 Sep 2008 Liping argues from a Chinese perspective for a continued role of the NPT as the main nuclear non proliferation mechanism, but also identifies its main shortfalls and conflicts of interest between majo...
by Xia Liping | On 09 Sep 2008 The comparison of the key features of trade integration processes and the economic outcomes in China and India reveals that while much has already been achieved in both these economies, the Chinese re...
by Przemyslaw Kowalski | On 09 Sep 2008 The emergence of China and India as economic giants has impacted the influence of Malaysia. Despite its remarkable economic and social success, Malaysia’s three main races – Malays, Indians and Chines...
by Asian Centre for Human Rights ACHR | On 08 Sep 2008 The main objective of this paper is to analyse some aspects of Japanese policy in the post World War-II period and understand how the various informal institutions (shared mental models) have influen...
by Saradindu Bhaduri | On 02 Sep 2008 Most developing countries continue to face serious problems in developing adequate and responsive tax systems. This paper reviews the three principal ways in which developing countries may expand and...
by Richard M. Bird | On 25 Aug 2008 India represents a sharp contrast to China in the small size of its goods trade. Although India’s GDP is a third that of China, its global trade is only about 12 percent as large while its trade with...
by Barry Bosworth | On 22 Aug 2008 The paper examines the current problems with the IMF which include: 1) the institution is no longer fulfilling the functions it used to fulfil, nor is there a clear vision of any new functions for it;...
by Roberto Frenkel | On 21 Aug 2008 The International Monatory fund is facing an uncertain future. Notewithstanding the important contributions it has made in helping the global economy deal with major economic and financial changes and...
by Jack Boorman | On 06 Aug 2008 Review of
In An Outpost of the Global Economy: Work and Workers in India's Information Technology Industry.
Edited by Carol Upadhya and A.R. Vasavi;
Routledge, London, New Delhi;
2008.
by Rahul De | On 06 Aug 2008 This paper analyses the determinants of growth and profit behaviour of the Chinese and Indian IT Software firms.
by N.S. Siddharthan | On 30 Jul 2008 This paper investigates the drivers and the effects of the internationalisation of innovation activities in SMEs based on a large data set of German firms covering the period 2002-2007. Globalisation...
by Anja Schmiele | On 01 Jul 2008 King Gyanendra of Nepal took over as a king after the royal massacre incidence in 2007. But soon after taking the power people of Nepal were fed up of his authoritarian tendencies and the continuous u...
by South Asians for Human Rights SAHR | On 24 Jun 2008 This paper presents an overview of Indo-Japan cooperation since late 18th and early 19th century till date. In the light of the changing paradigm in India-Japan relations over the past several years,...
by PG Rajamohan | On 23 Jun 2008 Table of Contents
Agriculture: More Pain Ahead for China’s Food Prices
Huang Jikun, Qiu Huanguan and Scott Rozelle, agricultural economists, show that expensive oil is driving China’s high food pric...
by FEER | On 18 Jun 2008 The earthquake has certainly revealed that NGOs can play a positive role, but the question of “deviation” is of greater concern to the ruling party and where the challenge will lie for these young org...
by Amy Gadsden | On 18 Jun 2008 Debolina Dutta and Oishik Sircar: From Sex Worker to Entertainment Worker: Strategic
Politics of DMSC
Madhurima Mukhopadhyay: Virginity Lost and Regained: Hymenoplastic Honour in Urban India
Nandit...
by SEPHIS | On 15 Jun 2008 With the liberalization of trade Viet Nam became the 150th member of World Trade Organization in January 2007. The country became an example to the world on how trade can spur the economic and social...
by David Kinley | On 03 Jun 2008 In this Issue: Amar Jesani writes about the problems and process affecting health in Nicaragua; Malini Karkal discusses the population policy in China and Padma Prakash draws attention to the changes...
by Radical Journal of Health RJH | On 01 Jun 2008 How is it that India’s leading language does not even have a national magazine,
commercial or otherwise, worth its name but can yet support a number of literary periodicals with readerships running...
by mahmood farooqui | On 28 May 2008 Review of:
Democracy in the Family: Insights from India.
Edited by Joy Deshmukh-Randive
Sage Publications. New Delhi
2008.
by Tulsi Patel | On 26 May 2008 The transcript of a Witness Seminar held by the Wellcome Trust Centre
for the History of Medicine at UCL, London on March 12, 2002. Edited by D A Christie and E M Tansey.
Rachel Carson’s 'Silent Spr...
by Wellcome Witness WW Seminars | On 15 May 2008 Medical ethics did not become a recognized subject in the syllabus of Britain's medical schools until 1993. This Witness Seminar transcript records the development of international ethical codes, the...
by The Wellcome Trust Centre for History of Medicine WTC UCL | On 02 May 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 Review of
Freud's Free Clinics: Psychoanalysis and Social Justice, 1918-1938 by Elizabeth Ann Danto. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005.
by Eric J. Engstrom | On 14 Apr 2008 This report on the state of displaced persons in the North and East of Sri Lanka analyses the security condition and concerns of those who live in makeshifts and camps in conflict affected areas. It p...
by South Asians for Human Rights SAHR | On 11 Apr 2008 The impressive growth of the Indian media is largely taking place outside of the voting classes, ensuring that the media are not playing a significant public service role. Ultimately, the author sugge...
by James Mutti | On 11 Apr 2008 Budget presented by Goa finance minister for the year 2008-09.
by Goa Government | On 01 Apr 2008 Budget and Annual Financial Statement for the year 2008-09.
by West Bengal Government | On 25 Mar 2008 Last fall, the United Kingdom issued a major government report on global climate change directed by Sir Nicholas Stern, a top-flight economist. The Stern Review Report on the Economics of Climate Chan...
by Kenneth J. Arrow | On 24 Mar 2008 Critics of the Stern Review do not think serious action to limit CO2 emissions is justified, because there remains substantial uncertainty about the extent of the costs of global climate change, and b...
by Kenneth J. Arrow | On 17 Mar 2008 The good times may be ending. There have been worries for years about the global imbalances caused by America’s huge overseas borrowing. America, in turn, said that the world should be thankful: by li...
by Joseph E. Stiglitz | On 17 Mar 2008 The good times may be ending. There have been worries for years about the global imbalances caused by America’s huge overseas borrowing. America, in turn, said that the world should be thankful: by li...
by | On 17 Mar 2008 In this paper the authors share their experience in attempting to critically engage a set of young persons on their understanding of the present regime of globalisation through a semester-long course...
by Rahul Varman | On 13 Mar 2008 Considering the reproductive health information and service needs of adolescents and youth, the Population Council’s Frontiers in Reproductive Health (FRONTIERS) Program, in collaboration with the Min...
by Laila Rahman | On 12 Mar 2008 This paper focuses on the policy direction required to achieve socio-economic growth in developing countries while addressing air pollution concerns at both local and global levels. While greenhouse g...
by Deepa Menon Choudhary | On 25 Feb 2008 So far, no Islamist party has managed to win a majority of the popular vote in any of the Muslim countries where reasonably clean elections are held. If anything, the Islamist share of the vote has be...
by Amir Taheri | On 24 Feb 2008 Opinion polls show less than 20 per cent of Pakistanis now approve of President Musharraf, who has been described as an indispensable ally in the war against terrorism by some members of the Bush admi...
by Husain Haqqani | On 24 Feb 2008 Review of The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anti-Colonial Nationalism by Erez Manel
For the full issue please see http://www.lrb.co.uk
by Pankaj Mishra | On 24 Feb 2008 Pankaj Mishra reviews
The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anti-Colonial Nationalism by Erez Manela
[Available on eSS]
Stephen Burt on Robert Creeley
And more
...
by London Review of Books LRB | On 24 Feb 2008 Pankaj Mishra reviews
The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anti-Colonial Nationalism by Erez Manela
[Available on eSS]
Stephen Burt on Robert Creeley
And more
...
by London Review of Books LRB | On 24 Feb 2008 An analysis of the various parameters of manufacturing competitiveness of the Indian economy is provided. The paper notes that India is one of the leading producers and exporters of a number of commod...
by Lakshmanan L | On 19 Feb 2008 The working of money lenders in Kerala are analysed. Based on a sample survey, the paper has estimated the volume of deposits and credits extended by money lenders in Kerala and has brought out the un...
by P D Jeromi | On 13 Feb 2008 The paper compares policy responses of China and India to the global requirements of trade and environment regimes as well as the domestic compulsions are compared.
by Sankar U | On 11 Feb 2008 Shows how the macro economic variables of Indian Economy are performing.
by P Chidambaram | On 11 Feb 2008 The political strategies of India and China
by T.N. Ninan | On 11 Feb 2008 The various dimensions of livelihood risk as informed by a in-depth case study of an agrarian village namely, Cherumad in Kerala is examined. [WP no. 394].
by K.N. Nair | On 06 Feb 2008 The industry and firm-level patterns of anti-dumping (AD) use across 18 most active AD user countries are analysed. For the analysis, the study makes use of the newly available “Global Anti-dump...
by Aradhna Aggarwal | On 06 Feb 2008 It is proposed to amend the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Rules, 1957 (SCRR) to make provisions to implement the proposals as suggested at Para 11 in the paper. The comments on these proposals are...
by Ministry of Finance | On 05 Feb 2008 The work of the IPCC has helped the world to learn more on all aspects of climate change, and the Nobel Peace Prize Committee has acknowledged this fact. [Speech delivered in Oslo]
by Pachauri R K | On 04 Feb 2008 A historical survey of transport to demonstrate that transport has always been recognised as of paramount importance for the wellbeing of the whole community, that a combination of collective and indi...
by Ralph Harrington | On 01 Feb 2008 This paper discusses the emerging contradictions that may have serious implications for the sustainable growth and performance of China’s rubber industry in the era of internal restructuring and globa...
by Viswanathan P K | On 30 Jan 2008 This paper focuses on both expanding and refining the analytical scope of the “social” (or non-economic) aspects of chronic poverty, and thereby, to enhance efforts to respond more effectively to it....
by Michael Woolcock | On 25 Jan 2008 Review of Globalisation and Opening Markets in Developing Countries and Impact on National Firms and Public Governance: The Case of India by Jean-Francois Huchet & Joel Ruet, Scientific Coordinators,...
by Lakshmanan L | On 19 Jan 2008 This study analyses the changes in prevalence of undernutrition between the 1980s and 1990s at the national and sub-national levels in India and focuses on the rural-urban comparisons. The study explo...
by Meenakshi J V | On 17 Jan 2008 Review of Erika Langmuir Imagining Childhood. New Haven: Yale University Press,
2006. 256 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-10131-7.
by Loren Lerner | On 15 Jan 2008 Three years ago Yahoo!, Intel, Nokia and Ericsson, formed the Beijing Association of Online Media (BAOM) ostensibly to ensure a check on media content especially pertaining to pornography, etc. Today...
by David Bandurski | On 10 Jan 2008 Essays: Pulling the Strings of China’s Internet By David Bandurski
Bling! Bang! Boom! China’s Stocks Zoom By Jonathan Anderson
Is Wal-Mart Good for Asia? By Greg Rushford
Retaining the Loyalty of X...
by FEER | On 10 Jan 2008 Management of capital accounts in the global context and in the Indian context. [Inaugural address delivered by Dr. Y. V. Reddy, Governor, Reserve Bank of India at the Annual Conference of the Indian...
by Y V Reddy | On 08 Jan 2008 Despite the stark warning contained in the recently released report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), endorsed even by governments the world over, that GHG concentrations in the...
by D. Raghunandan | On 07 Jan 2008 Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global avera...
by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC | On 07 Jan 2008 That Sen, in May, chose to return and face the law should have been reason enough for any court to grant him bail.
Reposted with permission from Tehelka Magazine, Vol. 4, Issue 50, December 29, 2007
by Apoorvanand | On 24 Dec 2007 With the re-election of Narendra Modi and the BJP will the current disarray in the party give way to strong optimism to strive for power at the centre?
by Ram Puniyani | On 24 Dec 2007 Chindia isa word that came up recently. There are comparisons between the two countries about their economic growth. But there are differences between the two countries.
by T.N. Ninan | On 13 Dec 2007 Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) will be an integral and significant part of global financial and capital markets even in the medium term. It is important for India to put in place domestic safeguards ag...
by Mukul Asher | On 12 Dec 2007 The speech mainly gives insights into aspects like what is globalisation, urban growth in the next 30 years, new challenges of Globalisation for Cities, the poor that emerges along with the cities, th...
by Rakesh Mohan | On 06 Dec 2007 The EFA Global Monitoring Report offers an authoritative reference for comparing
the experiences of countries, understanding the positive impact of specific policies
and recognizing that progress ha...
by UNESCO Publishing | On 05 Dec 2007 The United Nations Development Programme has just put out its latest Human Development Report, containing the human development index (HDI) for 177 countries, with the data being for 2005. India ranks...
by T.N. Ninan | On 03 Dec 2007 The growing importance of India and other emerging economies in the globalized world are given in this lecture. This group of economies is not easy to define. However, some reflections on the implicat...
by Jean-Claude Trichet | On 30 Nov 2007 This Essay examines the factors retarding democracy in Pakistan and asserts that now, more than ever, the country’s political forces must work together to fight common foes.
by Colum Murphy | On 27 Nov 2007 Asia’s Bill of Health:
A REVIEW Focus On Health Care
Pakistan’s Last Bid for Democracy
By Colum Murphy
Pakistan:
Defusing Pakistan’s Tribal Rebellion
By Shaukat Qadir
Taiwan:
The Father of Tai...
by FEER | On 27 Nov 2007 One of the burning issues at the moment relates to increasing the “voice” or representation of emerging-market economies in international financial institutions such as the IMF and World Bank. There a...
by Mboweni T.T. | On 13 Nov 2007 The present paper analyzes the possibilities of Traditional Chinese Medicine to become a perfect medicine.
by Qian Jia | 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 Only when (and if) the “haves” develop genuine empathy for the “have-nots,” and come to acknowledge their own long-term interdependence with all other humans, will the global economy be improved to an...
by PLoS Medicine | On 06 Nov 2007 Recognising the growing activity in the non deliverable forward (NDF) market in the recent years, the paper attempts to present a detailed analysis of the NDF market with special focus on Indian rupee...
by Sangita Misra | On 22 Oct 2007 A monthly compilation by IRIS.
by IRIS India IRIS | On 22 Oct 2007 Even after five years of after the liberalisation of the investment regime India has failed to attract FDI to come to the mining sector. In the last decade, many developing countries have significantl...
by Planning Commission, India | On 18 Oct 2007 The nature of the financial turbulence that happened recently in US and Europe, why it happened, where it happened, and the implications for central banks. Some of the forces that led up to and charac...
by Rakesh Mohan | On 12 Oct 2007 The ways in which the public learns about the histories of transport and travel are explored. The role of displays put on by museums and by heritage transport attractions - organisations such as steam...
by Colin Divall | On 11 Oct 2007 In a globalising economy, regional or national benchmarks do not suffice any more. Be it technology or business method or practices, Indian small scale entrepreneurs will have to benchmark their curre...
by Anil K Gupta | On 10 Oct 2007 The key elements of effective central banking that account for much of the improvement in monetary policy around the world today are outlined and explained. The past quarter of the century has been a...
by Marvin Goodfriend | On 09 Oct 2007 The 73rd and 74th Amendments to the Constitution of India were made with an
express objective or purpose of restoring power back to people by legally
encouraging “local self-governance”. At the same...
by A.K. Shende | On 08 Oct 2007 Model bill to amend the laws relating to the Municipalities and to institutionalise citizens’ participation in municipal functions, e.g. setting priorities, budgeting provisions, etc. by setting up of...
by Ministry of Urban Development MoUD | On 08 Oct 2007 As we celebrate 60 years of political independence and take pride in our dynamic private sector, our remarkable IT successes and all the other usual dimensions of success, let us remind ourselves that...
by Shankar Acharya | On 08 Oct 2007 This paper is concerned with some aspects of the way one particular railway occupation – that of locomotive driver – has been perceived in Great Britain from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th. The...
by Ralph Harrington | On 07 Oct 2007 Anthropology is a science of inquiries about the origins and continuities of the patterned differentiation of human beings into distinguishable groups. During
the last hundred years, most such inquir...
by Sidney W. Mintz | On 04 Oct 2007 In popular belief, Bhagat Singh and Gandhi occupy two antipodes in India's struggle for freedom – the former representing the young generation impatient to overthrow foreign rule by any means necessar...
by Niranjan Ramakrishnan | On 03 Oct 2007 Some of the company managers tune their business strategy to match the quarterly cycle of results announcements. Rapidly growing economies will deliver such high valuations, and many of them will be s...
by T.N. Ninan | On 01 Oct 2007 Reports have been pouring in that the Burmese soldiers today used baton and tear gas against the Buddhist monks and civilian protesters at Shwedagon pagoda, the holiest Buddhist place in Rangoon. The...
by Asian Centre for Human Rights ACHR | On 26 Sep 2007 Government has done a lot for the development of textile industry. But India is not at all doing well in the international markets compared to countries like China and Bangladesh. Government has not d...
by T.N. Ninan | On 24 Sep 2007 Main Articles
Women's Stories, Discourse, and "the Power of Feelings" in China: A Case from a Muslim Neighborhood
Maris GILLETTE
Speaking Bitter-Sweetness: China's Urban Elderly in the Reform Peri...
by Anthropology Department Chinese University of Hong Kong | On 07 Sep 2007 Main Articles
Hahoe: The Appropriation and Marketing of Local Cultural Heritage in Korea
- Okpyo MOON
The Polder Museum of Ogata-mura: Community, Authenticity, and Sincerity in a Japanese Village
...
by Anthropology Department Chinese University of Hong Kong | On 07 Sep 2007 The railway accident as an agent of traumatic experience occupies an important place in the history of mid- and late-nineteenth-century medical and medico-legal discourses over trauma and traumatic di...
by Ralph Harrington | On 06 Sep 2007 Historians have been rather unconcerned about how the provision and use of transport, both personal and collective, might have influenced consumption in these and related areas up to 1939. In particul...
by Colin Divall | On 05 Sep 2007 The past and present of India can be seen in many different perspectives. There is a case for focusing particularly on the long history of the argumentative tradition in India, and its continuing rele...
by Amartya Sen | On 17 Aug 2007 Organizing Empire: Individualism, Collective Agency, and India.
By Purnima Bose;
Duke University Press, Durham and London,
South Asian Reprint, Zubaan, New Delhi, 2006.
by Barnita Bagchi | On 13 Aug 2007 The recently concluded conclave of Indian corporate leaders in Palampur to discuss the scary situation of climate change in the world left the delegates more bewildered than clear on the strategies to...
by Manu N. Kulkarni | On 10 Aug 2007 This paper tries to advance the perspective that the poor and the marginalized in society lack a sense of “participatory equity,” by building a new model where a person’s community identity matters, e...
by Kaushik Basu | On 07 Aug 2007 A talk with Nobel economics laureate Robert Mundell on how Beijing can keep the yuan’s value fixed and still avoid inflation. China’s high balance of payments surplus and pressure on the yuan could be...
by Hugo Restall | On 04 Aug 2007 Satisfuy China's Demand for Money by Hugo Restall
Monetary Policy: China’s Last Option: Let the Yuan Soar by Michael Pettis
Stop the Specter of a Rising Rupee by Vivek Moorthy
Hong Kong’s Arreste...
by FEER | On 04 Aug 2007 The problem of corruption has become very important in recent thinking on development policy. But corruption is only a part of the more general issue of economic governance, and of more general policy...
by Avinash K Dixit | On 17 Jul 2007 Review of
Foreign Capital Inflows to China, India and the Caribbean: Trends, Assessments and Determinants by Arindam Banik and Pradip K. Bhaumik; Palgrave-Macmillan, London.
by Anurag Kaushik | On 13 Jul 2007 Despite the major uncertainties mentioned at the beginning that afflict both dimensions of climate change, this analysis has demonstrated a clear trend: the regulatory-market economy dimension of clim...
by Eric Heymann | On 13 Jul 2007 Review of High-Tech Industries in China by Chien-Hsun Chen and Hui-
Tzu Shih. RBI Occasional Papers, Vol. 27, No. 1 and 2, Summer and Monsoon 2006.
by Brijesh Pazhayathodi | On 05 Jul 2007 Review of Public Finance in Developing and Transitional Countries by
Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and James Alm in RBI Occasional Papers, Vol. 27, No. 1 and 2, Summer and Monsoon 2006.
by Jai Chander | On 05 Jul 2007 The lecture focuses on some implications -- both positive and normative -- of the most surprising development in the international financial system over the last half dozen years. That development is...
by Lawrence H. Summers | On 05 Jul 2007 Risk and chances of urban sustainability are presented. The new concepts of urban governance and its implications are also explained [Power point Presentation].
by Frauke Krass | On 28 Jun 2007 A pilot testing of the new WHO Rapid Advice Guidelines Group is done. It also talks about the International Health Regulations (IHR). These regulations are an international legal instrument designed t...
by PLoS Medicine | On 25 Jun 2007 Globalisation promises positive economic impact through faster growth, increase in foreign direct investment and poverty reduction. However, there are growing evidence showing that the undesirable eff...
by Mohammed Yasin Salleh | On 19 Jun 2007 Earlier this year, the Indian government’s High Powered Expert Committee (HPEC) put forward its recommendations on how Mumbai could be made into an International Financial Center. The HPEC’s report co...
by Sanjeev Sanyal | On 19 Jun 2007 A pilot testing of the new WHO Rapid Advice Guidelines Group is done. It also talks about the International Health Regulations (IHR). These regulations are an international legal instrument designed t...
by PLoS Medicine | On 19 Jun 2007 Review of:
Globalizing Rural Development: Competing Paradigms and Emerging Realities
by M. C. Behera; Sage Publications, 2006.
by Mohan Kanda | On 12 Jun 2007 Comments about the different sessions in the conference is given here.
by Lakshmi Priya | On 29 May 2007 - What would post-autistic trade policy be?
Alan Goodacre (UK)
On the need for a heterodox health economics : Robert McMaster (University of Aberdeen, UK)
- True cost environment...
by PAER Post Autistic Economic Review | On 17 Apr 2007 Economic growth in China and India is exponentially increasing the global
demand for skills. In turn, this will cause a severe talent shortage in
the world over the next few years. What does this...
by Sanjeev Sanyal | On 02 Apr 2007 The world poultry-meat industry is growing the fastest among all the meat categories due to increasing concerns for health, safety, convenience and variety, and price-competitiveness. Issues related t...
by Subrata Mitra | On 08 Mar 2007 Multilateral agencies and economists with much influence have been urging laissez-faire in agriculture. While success with the rich countries has been minimal despite the commitments under the WTO, ma...
by Sebastian Morris | On 07 Mar 2007 The objective of universal access to good quality, appropriate healthcare, envisaged over half a century ago at the dawn of Independence, today remains unrealised. Public health haseffectively remaine...
by Jan Swasthya Abhiyan | On 16 Feb 2007 The paper examines Australian Indymedia collectives as a means to improve understanding of the practices of alter-globalisation movements. Indymedia, which emerged around the anti-World Trade Organisa...
by Jenny Pickerill | On 30 Jan 2007 This paper, one among a series for the Jan Swasthya Abhiyan addresses the issue of the impact of globalisation on health. How has globalisation affected different countries and who are the winners an...
by Jan Swasthya Abhiyan | On 25 Jan 2007 In its launch issue in October 2004, PLoS Medicine signaled a strong
interest in creating a journal that to the social conditions in which
people live and work. The socially disadvantaged have less...
by Scott Stonington | On 23 Jan 2007 Social medicine is as important now as it has ever been. The fi eld of social
medicine includes various social and cultural studies of health and medicine
, and in this article, the focus is o...
by Timothy H. Holtz | On 23 Jan 2007 Productivity growth has long been associated with, among others, contestability of
markets which, in turn, is dependent on the ease with which potential competitors to the incumbent firms can enter t...
by Sumon Kumar Bhaumik | On 11 Jan 2007 This essay briefl y examines some of the diverse developments of social
medicine as an academic discipline and its links to political conceptualizations of the role of medicine in society. The...
by Dorothy Porter | On 10 Jan 2007 The paper reports a study to investigate the structural changes in the manufacturing sector of India (possibly) brought about by liberalization and globalization of the economy. It assesses the struct...
by S.K. Mishra | On 09 Jan 2007 This paper focuses on social cleavages based on class , caste,religion and ethnicity in India. It examines the political salience of caste and class conflicts and addresses the translation of social c...
by Sarojini Mishra | On 29 Dec 2006 People in poor countries live shorter lives than people in rich countries so that, if we scale income by some index of health, there is more inequality in the world than if we consider income alone. S...
by Angus S. Deaton | On 28 Dec 2006 The importance of supermarkets in the world food economy has increased radically
since the early 1990s. They are now major sellers and buyers of food items not only in developed but also in developin...
by Mehmet Arda | On 27 Dec 2006 This paper examines the changing role of the government and market in regulating
the telecommunications sector since 1996 in Taiwan. It also explores changes in the institutional framework for regula...
by Kuo-Tai Cheng | On 22 Dec 2006 This paper discusses the key issues related to foreign direct investment flows to developing countries in the globalised world. In particular, the paper focuses on the recent trend and direction of fo...
by Sandy Kyaw | On 22 Dec 2006 In the context of the changing economic environment, this analysis is of particular relevance to Third World countries, who are currently being asked and/or actively encouraged to implement the "globa...
by Mozammel Huq | On 22 Dec 2006 This paper compares and contrasts the performance of India and China in attracting foreign direct investment (FDI). Both economies are large emerging markets that had rather similar profiles in 1978....
by John S Henley | On 22 Dec 2006 To analyse the role of partisan beliefs and interests, this paper focuses on two
industries—telecoms and electricity—which have been subject to strong pressures for policy diffusion and thereby are u...
by Maria Victoria Murillo | On 21 Dec 2006 China and India have one of the largest telecommunications equipment markets in the world. The paper employs a sectoral system of innovation framework towards understanding the differential outcomes i...
by Sunil Mani | On 19 Dec 2006 This paper takes advantage of the possibility of a critical perspective
afforded by the feminist perspective in analyzing the interactions between
political and civil societies in the shaping of spe...
by J Devika | On 19 Dec 2006 Nuclear weapons have security, economic and political implications. In the ultimate analysis, however , the issue of nuclear weapons is an ethical question. It is question or right and wrong, good and...
by Amulya K.N. Reddy | On 14 Dec 2006 This paper discusses the integration of religious minorities in China, in particular, of the Hui Muslims. From the pre-Islamic relations between Arabia and China, to the Song period, the Mongol period...
by Donald Daniel Leslie | On 14 Dec 2006 Taking into account the latest data of exports of textiles and clothing to the European Union from South Asia and China, a year-end assessment of the impact of the Generalised System of Preferences (...
by C. Satapathy | On 14 Dec 2006 All foreign observers have interpreted China through the filter of their own era, as well as their personal background and experiences. A virtual academic industry has developed, not on China itself b...
by Beverley Hooper | On 14 Dec 2006 The paper investigates the complex system of causes affecting tropical deforestation at a worldwide level. There is no generally accepted theory in the deforestation literature to indicate which varia...
by Silviu S. Scrieciu | On 27 Nov 2006 This paper uses aggregate and firm level data to examine the characteristics of
the Chinese pharmaceutical industry in general and its geographical agglomeration
in particular. It addresses the foll...
by Hayan Zhang | On 27 Nov 2006 The effect of globalization on knowledge exchange, which is mediated very largely through scientific journals being published in English, and having their origins in Europe and North America, has resu...
by Academy of South Africa | On 27 Nov 2006 Now that President Hu has finished a visit that is generally seen as having been useful but less than a triumph, and has hopped across to Pakistan to announce a free trade pact and faster growth in tr...
by T.N. Ninan | On 26 Nov 2006 This report examines Chinese labour market developments since 1990. The purpose of the report is to to review major shifts, to highlight important interactions between labour and other aspects of Chin...
by Thomas Rawski | On 23 Nov 2006 Fiscal incentive is closely related with extra budgetary revenues.This paper examines the impact of fiscal revenues under decentralisation on responsiveness of public goods provision to real local nee...
by Xin-Qiao Ping | On 21 Nov 2006 Reform in the People's Republic of China has seen a dramatic change in the discourse of localism, which has now moved from being a political crime to being a technique for encouraging entrepreneuriali...
by David S. G. Goodman | On 21 Nov 2006 What is the character of our cities? What are the attributes of inequalities and social exclusions in towns, metropolises and mega cities? How do urban structures and forms characteristic of pre capit...
by Sujata Patel | On 18 Nov 2006 This overview of trends and issues concerning young people and the media is based on a broad review of existing print and electronic sources, interviews with child media experts from different regions...
by Susan Gigli | On 14 Nov 2006 The article analyzes the Singapore government’s determination to protect the founding myths of the PAP despite new challenges from technology and globalization.
by Garry Rodan | On 03 Nov 2006 Singapore’s Founding Myths vs. Freedomby Garry Rodan
The Charade of Meritocracyby Michael D. Barr
Financial Center Pipedreamsby Hugo Restall
Thailand:Bangkok’s Elitist Coupby Michael H. Nelson
Put...
by FEER | On 03 Nov 2006 Malaysia is finding it difficult to translate current favourable macro-economic environment, and the commodity boom into sustainable competitive advantage in manufacturing and services and to cope wit...
by Mukul Asher | On 03 Nov 2006 Malaysia is finding it difficult to translate current favourable macro-economic environment, and the commodity boom into sustainable competitive advantage in manufacturing and services and to cope wit...
by Mukul Asher | On 03 Nov 2006 Globalization, or integration with the world economy via WTO membership, was expected to increase foriegn investment and benefit the labour intensive manufacturing sector in China. Yet, although forei...
by Anita Chan | On 26 Oct 2006 To power national development, the government organized electricity
production and distribution as a state-owned vertically integrated utility, structured and operated under central planning. Electri...
by Chi Zang | On 25 Oct 2006 In the long term, there is little doubt that China will be better
off with a single and unified pension insurance system covering the whole
country, just as most of other countries do. In the short...
by Shaoguang Wang | On 25 Oct 2006 Decentralising health services – the transfer of power and responsibility from the central to the local level should help the poor if local resources, accountability and governance are in good shape....
by Hiroko Uchimura | On 25 Oct 2006 The most critical factor for maintaining regional stability in East Asia over the next few decades is the relations between the three great powers in the region: China, Japan and the United States. Th...
by Ezra F.Vogel | On 24 Oct 2006 This paper synthesises the different explanations and presents an overview of the development and characteristics of the Chinese rural enterprises (REs). The rural industrialization history of the Chi...
by Justin Yifu Lin | On 18 Oct 2006 In the 1980s the life and work of Chen Yinke, who had died in 1969 during the Cultural
Revolution, re-emerged in print. Chen was a former Tsinghua historian and an
intellectual luminary who had enj...
by Wen-hsin Yeh | On 18 Oct 2006 As China has become an increasingly important part of the global trading system over the past two decades, interest in the country and its international economic policies has increased among internati...
by Lee Branstetter | On 13 Oct 2006 While talk of a 'China-India axis complete with 2.4 billion people' is no doubt fanciful, the progress in relations over the seven years following the nuclear crisis of 1998 is claiming the close atte...
by David A. Kelly | On 03 Oct 2006 Review of Vincent C. Peloso(ed) Work, Protest, and Identity in Twentieth-Century
Latin America, Jaguar Books on Latin America Series.
The book is obviously designed for those teaching courses on 20t...
by Peter Blanchard | On 25 Sep 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 Do we aspire to be a ‘global’ city like Shanghai, with all the spit and polish to attract foreign investors by the drove? Or can we aim to be a city with a sustainable plan for its development – one t...
by Kalpana Sharma | On 13 Jul 2006 The cultural demands made of women by migrant communities struggling to establish a new identity and the stereotypes of women of other races often promoted by host communities are important forces in...
by Delia Davin | On 07 Jul 2006 This paper addresses the following question: why are we still arguing about
globalisation? It analyses the recent evolution of debates relating to the impact of
globalisation on poverty and economic...
by Andrew Sumner | On 02 Jun 2006 simple schedule of governmental contributions, of paying for global public-goods and common purposes: use of IMF Special Drawing Rights (SDRs); the United Kingdom’s International Finance Facility (IFF...
by Anthony Clunies-Ross, | On 02 Jun 2006 This paper dwells on the essential requirements of economic
development and the role of international credit,. It is also an incursion into
the operational principles and strategies of the World Ba...
by Musa Jega Ibrahim | On 01 Jun 2006 Recognising that the construction of large dams has also led to incalculable loss, destruction, and damage of cultural resources ranging from shrines of local communities to world heritage monuments,...
by Steven A. Brandt | On 01 Jun 2006 This paper explores some of the challenges ahead in terms of strengthening civil society networks working for ethical globalisation and in turning their shared vision of ethical globalisation into an...
by Maureen Leen | On 23 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 The country’s export of automobiles has grown faster than software over the last four years. it does look as though automobile manufacture will be a new arrow in the country’s quiver. [Editorial . B...
by T.N. Ninan | On 03 May 2006 It does look as though automobile manufacture will be a new arrow in the country’s quiver. This may be hard to believe, when one looks at the strengths of the automobile industries in the US and Japa...
by T.N. Ninan | On 03 May 2006 Based on field work in a village panchayat in Kerala, analyzing
the complex issues concerning the development and working of irrigation
institutions, the present study reveals that successful manage...
by Vineetha Menon | On 27 Apr 2006 Global outsourcing, technical change, and falling barriers to trade worldwide have
transformed the structure of production and global competition in the textile and apparel industry. This sector has...
by Meenu Tiwari | On 20 Apr 2006 Kanak Dixit was arrested in Kathmandu on Saturday, April 8, with a host of other professionals for defying curfew to press for democratic rights in Nepal. He remains in detention still. This column wa...
by Kanak Mani Dixit | On 14 Apr 2006 Media Studies is an emerging discipline in Asia and is of enormous significance at a time when many of the counties in this region which is witnessing struggles, both within the state apparatus and...
by Yasemin Inceoglu | On 07 Apr 2006 The recent judgments and orders from various levels of higher judiciary indicate a drastic shift in their outlook and approach. A close look reveals two trends developing within the judiciary. Firstly...
by M.B.Rajesh | On 31 Mar 2006 This paper presents some features of the contradictions in Andhra Pradesh’s economy today: the fast growth of IT and other technology-intensive industries in Hyderabad, and the alarming levels of dist...
by Jayan Jose Thomas | On 30 Mar 2006 A SWOT analysis of the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry (IPI) in the WTO regime
reveals that the much acclaimed IPI’s expertise in process development skills
were made possible by the amendments made...
by N. Lalitha | On 28 Mar 2006 Why is underdevelopment so persistent? One explanation is that poor countries do not have institutions that can support growth. Because institutions (both good and bad) are persistent, underdevelopmen...
by Raghuram G. Rajan | On 26 Mar 2006 An analysis of regional differences in the flow of FDI in China and India is important as in both these countries a few regions account for the bulk of FDI inflows. There are very few studies on regi...
by N.S. Siddharthan | On 23 Mar 2006 Much more than comparative advantage and free markets have been at play in shaping China's export success. Government policies have helped nurture domestic capabilities in consumer electronics and oth...
by Dani Rodrik | On 04 Mar 2006 Why has India has performed poorly in attracting export oriented foreign direct investment (EFDI) as compared to its peer groups such as China. The empirical literature on the location of EFDI indic...
by Jaya Prakash Pradhan | On 20 Feb 2006 Despite numerous empirical studies examining various facets of the topic, the degree of intraregional financial integration in East Asia remains a matter of vigorous debate. This paper offers a select...
by Tony Cavoli | On 07 Feb 2006 Not all forms of tradition are good. How does civil society attempt to change these conventions? In particular can legislation be effective at all in such cases? Have there been instances when societ...
by Neeraj Hatekar | On 07 Feb 2006 Review of: A State of Health: New Jersey's Medical Heritage by Karen Reeds. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, 2001. Pp 142; $ 45.
[Published on HNet, November 2005]
A State of Health, like C...
by Sandra Moss | On 06 Feb 2006 There are several themes which emerge from the comparative analysis of social security systems in Southeast Asia. Each country will need to address the limitations of their respective system in relati...
by Mukul Asher | On 06 Feb 2006 Contents
I. The Real Economy -- 1
Agricultural Situation
Industrial Performance
Business Expectations Surveys
Services Sector
II. Fiscal Situation 14
Combined Government Fi...
by Reserve Bank of India | On 25 Jan 2006 The paper presents an analysis of the reproductive health care services
available to women in rural areas in Karnataka, and the various factors
influencing them. Based on survey data on the status o...
by Poornima Vyasulu | On 19 Jan 2006 This paper looks at one of the most important conditions that defines democracy as a system of self-governance. This condition is that all individuals in a society must have the right to communicate f...
by Dattathreya Subbanarasimha | On 13 Jan 2006 In tribute: Gautam Chattopadhyay's life and times.
by Kunal Chattopadhyay | On 11 Jan 2006 The objective of this paper is to unpack the dynamics of local governance in
Karnataka by studying the interaction between two sets of rural institutions,
(a) the formal, elected Gram Panchayats(GPs...
by Kripa Ananthpur | On 09 Jan 2006 The article exposes the shortcomings of China’s stock markets and examines the failed attempts by the government to introduce meaningful stock-market reform. China has largely avoided major policy blu...
by Weijian Shan | On 07 Jan 2006 Though Paul Kennedy and other scholars of National Security, Diplomacy and
Foreign relations have emphasized the importance of the economy in National Power, not many economists have taken an interes...
by Arvind Virmani | On 24 Dec 2005 The Supreme Court judgement of Augutst 12, 2005 on four questions regarding higher education in unaided educational institutions including quota and fee structure.
Q.1. Unaided educational instituti...
by Supreme Court of India | On 08 Dec 2005 A fresh wave of globalisation since the early 1990s has created both hope and despair. Failure of state has reaffirmed faith in market based institutions. Expansion in trade across national borders an...
by Sudarshan Iyengar | On 07 Dec 2005 In many Asian countries the ratio of male to female population is higher than in the
West -- as high as 1.07 in China and India, and even higher in Pakistan. A number of authors (most notably Sen, 19...
by Emily Oster | On 27 Nov 2005 We explore the hypothesis that macroeconomic polices are influenced by political structure, through a systematic comparison of reform period macroeconomic policy choices and outcomes, in China and Ind...
by Ashima Goyal | On 23 Nov 2005 In his early years, B S Minhas, who passed away recently, enriched economics with his valued theoretical contributions that are today an integral part of economic literature. These were both acknowled...
by Deena Khatkhate | On 21 Nov 2005 India was a major player in the world export market for textiles in the early 18th century, but by the middle of the 19th century it had lost all of its export market and much of its domestic market....
by David Clingingsmith | On 10 Nov 2005 EU's response to the East Asian community has to take account of several dimensions including Issues and dynamics of East Asian regional cooperation and integration; Scenarios of regional Community-bu...
by Willem vd Geest | On 08 Nov 2005 China has adopted a wide-ranging program of pension reform since the late 1990s. The new pension system has replaced the pre-existing enterprise-based system. This paper analyzes the background of t...
by Minxin Pei | On 08 Nov 2005 This paper accepts Rodrik’s premise that globalization and associated changes have increased the urgency of developing social safety nets to: Cushion transition;
Help maintain legitimacy of reform, a...
by Mukul Asher | On 08 Nov 2005 China, as the most populous country in the world, is ageing rapidly. Against the background of dramatic demographic changes in this century, China’s current pension system is badly structured, and not...
by Yu-Wei Hu | On 22 Oct 2005 This paper aims to demonstrate that the economic behaviour of ordinary men and women in the pre-colonial Deccan was as much ‘capitalistic’ as that of similar agents in contemporary Europe. The differe...
by Neeraj Hatekar | On 21 Oct 2005 Pravit Rojanaphruk:Thainess and its History: Reflection on the Problematic Nature of Nationalism with Emphasis on the Case of Recent Violence in Pattani and other Southern-most Provinces of Thailand.
...
by SEPHIS | On 17 Sep 2005 Rural decentralisation and panchayati raj institutions (PRIs) are a profound change in the Indian rural institutional scene. They may ultimately offer a better option for rural development and poverty...
by Naresh C. Saxena | On 10 Sep 2005 On political and social developments in Nepal
by Anonymous | On 30 Aug 2005 Trapped for close to a decade in a vicious cycle of violence and counter-violence, the royal proclamation of 1 February 2005 declaring an emergency, suspending the constitution and fundamental rights,...
by Anonymous | On 30 Aug 2005 Pradeep Giri is a central committee member of the Sher Bahadur Deuba led Nepali Congress (Democratic).
by Prashant Jha | On 30 Aug 2005 The Indian media has reported the major events and developments in Nepal. Editorial stands of some newspapers have consistently urged the parties to be wary of an autocratic monarch, an advice that th...
by Prashant Jha | On 30 Aug 2005 THE project on the State of Democracy in South Asia (SDSA) is a 30 month study undertaken to evaluate the democratic enterprise in five South Asian countries: Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sr...
by Peter Ronald deSouza | On 30 Aug 2005 India has repeatedly asserted that there is no military solution to the Maoist insurgency in Nepal. It is time that concrete and relevant initiative is taken by India in the direction of a viable poli...
by S. D. Muni | On 30 Aug 2005 Despite its many limitations, the processes of mobilization of socially diverse groups representing diverse constituencies and interests itself manifest a democratic practice at the lower level. Metho...
by Mukta Singh Lama | On 29 Aug 2005 Another solution is needed now. An honest solution, a lasting one. One that might bring with it a republican Nepal. For this, certainly, is the call of the times: the monarchy must retreat to a strict...
by Manjushree Thapa | On 29 Aug 2005 This paper examines the future of democracy in Nepal against the current debate on political reforms, referred to in popular discourse as ‘restructuring the state'
by Krishna Khanal | On 29 Aug 2005 The ideological antipathy towards Maoism in particular and the left in general, forces international architects of Nepali democracy to conceal the monarchy's record of tyranny and bloodshed that far...
by Hari Roka | On 29 Aug 2005 There is no doubt that the supine parliamentary democratic system has been snuffed out and autocratic monarchy restored in Nepal. Hence the questions arise: How could the limited bourgeois democratic...
by Baburam Bhattarai | On 29 Aug 2005 Nepal's democratic order faces a serious setback with King Gyanendra's decision to assume all powers on 1 February 2005 for a period of three years. Now with a despotic monarch at the helm of politica...
by B. C. Upreti | On 29 Aug 2005 This paper examines two sets of questions related to the meanings of ‘democracy' in Nepal. The first explores the various meanings that different groups of people currently attach to democracy. The se...
by Anil Bhattarai | On 29 Aug 2005 THE PROBLEM
A short statement of the issues involved
CLARITY AMID EXTREMISM
Manjushree Thapa, author and political commentator, Kathmandu
WILL THE MONARCH SURVIVE?
B.C. Upreti, Senior Facul...
by Anonymous | On 29 Aug 2005 The dynamics of a 21st century city are very different from those that created the urban agglomerations of the past. The economics of post-industrial cities are driven are driven by lifestyle, consump...
by Sanjeev Sanyal | On 27 Aug 2005 The entire project of SAARC is dependent on India’s capacity to bind the neighbouring states in multiple networks of ties to promote regional cooperation. India not only shares frontiers with all the...
by Rajen Harshe | On 13 Aug 2005 The frequency with which ‘innocents’ are charged, sometimes even convicted only to be let off later is alarming. Fortunately, the Supreme Court has demanded an impartial and speedy enquiry into the Ge...
by Harsh Sethi | On 08 Aug 2005 Introduction to the issue on Revitilising Science, a symposium on the importance of science and technology in our society.
by Anonymous | On 08 Aug 2005 The working paper offers a conceptual basis for action research on internal controls in community finance institutions (CFIs) in rural Cambodia. A CFI is defined as “an institution that specializes in...
by Brett Matthews | On 31 Mar 2005 |