Dundee Discussion Papers in Economics 210:Education and economic development in India [PDF]
, 2008 This brief survey examines the returns to education in India , and then examines the role of education on both economic growth and economic development with particular reference to India.
Chatterji, Monojit
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Tax reform, delocation and heterogeneous firms: Base widening and rate lowering rule [PDF]
We model international tax competition allowing for agglomeration forces and heterogeneous firms. This provides a new perspective since a tax schedules have different effects on the international relocation decision of small and large firms (large firms ...
Richard E. Baldwin, Toshihiro Okubo
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Nash equilibrium tariffs and illegal immigration: an analysis of preferential trade liberalization [PDF]
We use a version of the small-union Meade model to consider the effects of interdependent import tariffs in the presence illegal immigration. First, we analyze the condition under which illegal immigration is likely to increase (or decrease) in response ...
Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, Ryo Takashima
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Mutual Knowledge of Rationality in the Electronic Mail Game [PDF]
This paper reexamines the paradoxical aspect of the electronic mail game (Rubinstein, 1989). The electronic mail game is a coordination game with payoff uncertainty.
Koji Takamiya, Akira Tanaka
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Demographic Change, Intergenerational Altruism, and Fiscal Policy : A Political Economy Approach [PDF]
Our study employs an OLG model under which political strengths of different generations (the working and retirees with and without children) determine the distribution of the fiscal burden between the generations, including the future generation.
Aoki, Reiko +3 more
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Potential impact of intercropping on major cowpea field pests in Uganda
, 2002 Insect pests are perhaps the most important constraint to cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L. Walp) production. In Uganda, aphids, thrips, pod sucking bugs and pod borers are ubiquitous and very devastating, sometimes leading to total crop failure.
Nampala, P +11 more
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Services Trade in Developing Asia: A case study of the Banking and Insurance Sector in Malaysia [PDF]
This study reviews the development of the banking and insurance sectors in Malaysia since the 1980s, with a particular attention to the effects and sequencing of the various reforms as well as the impact of services trade liberalization and related ...
Muthi Samudram
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Do Global Credit Rating Agencies Think Globally? The Information Content of Firm Ratings around the World [PDF]
What is the information content of firm ratings? We disentangle the relative contribution to firms? ratings of sovereign risks and individual firms? performance indicators, reportedly employed by rating agencies. We reach three conclusions.
Li-Gang Liu, Ferri, Giovanni
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Developing an institutional model for the extension and adoption of environmental Best management Practices by pastoral farmers in New Zealand [PDF]
The practice of extension of environmental Best Management Practices (BMPs) involves the integration of a range of complex issues. Currently the practice of this in New Zealand is somewhat piece-meal, ad-hoc, and not well coordinated amongst the ...
Journeaux, Phil
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Cotrel Dubousset instrumentation in occipito-cervico-thoracic fusion. [PDF]
Eur Spine J, 2002 Fagerström T, Hedlund R.
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