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on Central and Western Asia |
| By: | Mukerji, Anirban |
| Abstract: | The note gives details of the implementation of Rural Digital Services Program in Karnataka |
| Keywords: | e-governance; rural; India; Citizen centric services |
| JEL: | H89 H83 |
| Date: | 2006–09–30 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:1583&r=cwa |
| By: | Kendall, Jake; Singh, Nirvikar |
| Abstract: | In this paper we investigate an example of a very widely applied model for the delivery of IT services to rural and poor populations. The model is one where limited intervention to support infrastructure and coordinate resources is combined with market-based delivery of IT services to the end user (what we call here the “sustainable franchise model”). Though this model has been deployed world-wide by governments, NGOs, and development institutions in the past few years, there has been little research into the determinants of success in such a model. In this paper we examine the example of n-Logue, a franchise of over 1000 locally-owned, Internet kiosks in rural villages in India. We seek to assess how this new sustainable franchise model has worked in practice by analyzing data from 74 of n-Logue’s kiosks. Among other things, we find that gender and education do not affect success, while location and other measures of social standing (age and caste) do. We also find that the uses that villagers have for IT services are not so different from those which first world users have. The lessons we draw from this example are that while local customs and practices must be taken into account (e.g. the caste system), it is not a foregone conclusion that social biases (e.g. against women) cannot be mitigated by good program design. |
| Keywords: | Internet; rural development; entrepreneurship; India; information technology |
| JEL: | O12 O3 P2 L8 |
| Date: | 2007–01 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:1566&r=cwa |
| By: | Racoceanu, Constantin |
| Abstract: | In a simple form, the basic relationship that can be used while exponential neat, is given by the expression: (for t ≥ 2) Where: St = the adjusted values of the dynamic series; yt = the levels of the empiric series; St-1 = the adjusted value of the term t – 1; w = a constant of adjustment with values between 0 ≤ w ≤ 1. The target of this analysis is to show the tendencies in the development of the textile confections production all over the country, having a particular importance in PIB, the volume of the industrial production, the export of Romania, the number of the workers in the industry. We can rely on this industry and it realizes competitive products for the internal and external market, has a linear and well-trained force of working, has a long tradition, values at a superior level the main materials in the country, has good machines, needs relatively low costs comparing to other industrial fields in order to make little and middle commercial societies. Many economic agents have had access ant non-pay back financial sources, offered by the UE member countries and international agencies. The development of this industry attracts also the development of the zootecnical and agriculture production that assures the fibers of flax, hemp and wool within UE. The industry of the textile confections made better the production structure realized in lohn, at present we see more and more exterior clothing articles with great tax added on value, the articles for women have been made more creatively. Starting with 1999, Romania occupies the first place among the Central and Eastern European countries that export textile confections in the UE, far from Poland that, in the past years, used to occupy the first place. The countries that will assure within the following 10 years the necessary of clothing for the UE remain China, Turkey, Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary. Taking into account the lack of economic stability of Turkey, we presume that in the following years Romania will become one of the greatest exporters of clothing in the UE. |
| Keywords: | empiric; adjusted; exponential neat |
| JEL: | C53 |
| Date: | 2006–10–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:1282&r=cwa |
| By: | Rao, B. Bhaskara; Kumar, Saten |
| Abstract: | This paper allows for endogenous structural breaks in the cointegration equation and investigates if there is a stable demand for money for Bangladesh. We have used the Gregory and Hansen framework and found that there was an intercept shift and a well- determined and stable demand for money in Bangladesh exists. |
| Keywords: | Endogenous structural breaks; Gregory and Hansen method; Demand for money; Bangladesh. |
| JEL: | E40 E4 |
| Date: | 2007–01–16 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:1546&r=cwa |
| By: | M Zia Sadique (Department of Economics, City University, London); M Niaz Asadullah |
| Abstract: | Using unit-level data from Matlab villages in rural Bangladesh, this paper examines the impact of an exogenously assigned health care intervention– Maternal and Child Health (MCH) program– on children’s immunisation status. In particular, we investigate how the program effect interacts with two key determinants of household immunisation choice, namely maternal education and risk perception of households. Results show that the MCH program has significantly enhanced immunisation status of children. In addition to directly improving immunisation demand, the MCH program also acts as a substitute for maternal education and compensates households for low access to public health information. Yet the MCH intervention does not have any influence on the household’s risk awareness and perception towards child health. On the contrary, prenatal-care visits and tetanus toxoid immunisation by pregnant mothers, services which are provided by government health facilities, have independent effects on the household’s demand for childhood immunisation. This suggests that the role of government health facilities cannot be ignored even in the presence of a very effective MCH program. |
| Date: | 2006–08 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cty:dpaper:0606&r=cwa |