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on Central and Western Asia |
| By: | Chakrabarty K C |
| Abstract: | What is m-banking, Basic characteristics of m-commerce/e-commerce, Evolution of electronic financial services (e-banking/e-commerce/m-banking/m-commerce), Role of non-banks in Indian Payment Scenario. [Address at the India Telecom 2009 Conference organized by Department of Telecom, Government of India, in collaboration with FICCI at New Delhi]. |
| Keywords: | India, communications, cost benefit, sustainability, technology, efficiency m-banking, mobile, e-commenrce, electronic, Indian, payment, non-banks, Telecom |
| Date: | 2009 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ess:wpaper:id:2338&r=cwa |
| By: | Sunil Mani |
| Abstract: | The purpose of the paper is first to quantify the extent of high skilled migration from India and then to distil out two of its economic implications to her home economy. [WP 416]. |
| Keywords: | India, high skilled, brain drain, brain circulation, remittances, science and engineering work force, migration, skilled, |
| Date: | 2009 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ess:wpaper:id:2344&r=cwa |
| By: | Gordhan K Saini |
| Abstract: | This paper reports findings from the survey of India’s textiles and clothing exporters. The survey method has been used to identify and assess the impact of Non-Tariff Measures (NTMs) and the Cost of Compliance (COC) expenditure by the exporters. A structured questionnaire has been used to gather data from a sample of 135 exporters across eight export centers of India that is Bangalore, Chennai, Coimbatore, Ludhiana, Mumbai, New Delhi, Panipat and Tirupur. [WP-2009-008] |
| Keywords: | Coimbatore, Ludhiana, Mumbai, New Delhi, Panipat, Coimbatore, Ludhiana, Mumbai, textiles, clothing, Bangalore, Chennai, exporters, Non-tariff measures, NTM, compliance, expenditure, export, India, chemicals, pharmaceuticals |
| Date: | 2009 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ess:wpaper:id:2336&r=cwa |
| By: | Filippini Massimo (Istituto Mecop, Università della Svizzera italiana); Deb Kaushik (TERI University, New Delhi, India) |
| Abstract: | A number of static and dynamic specifications of a log linear demand function for public transport are estimated using aggregate panel data for 22 Indian states over the period 1990 to 2001. Demand has been defined as total passenger kilometers to capture actual market transactions, while the regressors include public transit fare, per capita income, service quality, and other demographic and social variables. In all cases, transit demand is significant and inelastic to the fare. Service quality is the most significant policy variable. Finally, social and demographic variables highlight the complex nature of public bus transit demand in India. |
| Keywords: | Demand Elasticities, Dynamic Panel Data, Bus Transport, India |
| JEL: | R41 |
| Date: | 2009 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:lug:wpaper:1002&r=cwa |
| By: | Bharat Ramaswami |
| Abstract: | 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 unapproved seeds on farmers and also examines the farmers' valuation of Bt seeds. |
| Keywords: | Gujarat, cotton seeds, India, bt seeds, cultivation, seeds, regulation, farmers, Intellectual propoerty rights, transgenic, institutions, transgenic crops, developing countries, hybrids, labour intensive, Andhra Pradesh |
| Date: | 2009 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ess:wpaper:id:2331&r=cwa |
| By: | Ahmed, S. Amer |
| Abstract: | Indian gross domestic product per capita increased rapidly between 2001 and 2006 in a climate of increasing services trade, with the export-oriented services sector responsible for rising shares of growth in gross domestic product. Due to its contribution to aggregate economic growth, there is a great need for empirical examination of the distributional consequences of this growth, especially in light of the challenges in obtaining theoretical solutions that can be generalized. This paper fills this gap in the literature by using a global simulation model to examine how sensitive factor incomes across different industries may have been to the historical changes in India's services exports and imports, and provides insight on the distribution of the national income growth attributable to the expansion of the services industry. Rent on capital in the service sector and wages of all workers would have increased as a result of greater services trade in this period, while income from capital specific to agriculture and manufacturing would have declined. The factors involved with the urban-based services sector may thus benefit from the services trade growth, while the total factor income involved in rural agriculture may decline. |
| Keywords: | Economic Theory&Research,Labor Policies,Trade Policy,ICT Policy and Strategies,Emerging Markets |
| Date: | 2009–12–01 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:5155&r=cwa |
| By: | Anupama Roy |
| Abstract: | 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 democracy. It consists of three parts; the first examines the idea of representative democracy and the manner in which democratic politics may be sought to be crafted as a continuum between representation and participation; the second looks at the global experience and experiments in electoral designs and political reservation for women; and the third examines debates on women’s political participation and representation in India along with election data to identify possible patterns, followed by a discussion of the ways in which civil society organisations have sought to address themselves to reforming the electoral system, in particular by addressing the voter or empowering her through specific rights. [CWDS OP]. |
| Keywords: | electoral, political, India, election data, rights, voter, empowering, civil society, democratic citizenship, democracy, politics, participation, women, |
| Date: | 2009 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ess:wpaper:id:2333&r=cwa |
| By: | Hari Ram Lohano |
| Abstract: | This paper focuses on poverty dynamics and their determinants, using panel survey data for rural Sindh, Pakistan. Households interviewed by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) during 1986–91, were resurveyed in 2004–05 with minimal attrition. |
| Keywords: | food policy, rural, consumption, land ownership, panel data, rural poverty, shocks in agriculture, poverty transitions, Sindh, pakistan, poverty dynamics, panel survey data, households, crop, education, non-farm employment, poverty, farming, income change, econometric analysis, |
| Date: | 2009 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ess:wpaper:id:2334&r=cwa |
| By: | Naguib Shokralla, Rania |
| Abstract: | This paper aims at investigating the difference between the Egyptian and Argentinean approach to privatisation and FDI and how their different policies, institutions and regulations affected the progress of their respective privatisation programmes and FDI participation. The analysis indicates that, in Egypt, the legal framework of privatisation did not explicitly incorporate FDI participation. FDI regulations were developed separately from privatisation regulations. As a result, a foreign investor in Egypt is faced with multiple laws and multiple regulating agencies for FDI. Unlike in Argentina, the legal framework of privatisation explicitly incorporated the participation of FDI, and FDI regulations were totally liberalised. This explains why FDI participation in Argentine privatisation during 1989 – 2000 accounted for 63% of privatisation proceeds, while, in Egypt, FDI participation accounted for only 24% of privatisation proceeds during 1993 – 2000. |
| Keywords: | Privatisation; FDI; Egypt; Argentina; regulations |
| Date: | 2009 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:eid:wpaper:20/09&r=cwa |
| By: | HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC |
| Abstract: | A fact-finding mission was undertaken by HAQ: Centre for Child Rights in June 2006 at the request of the Child Welfare Committee, Nirmal Chhaya, Delhi, to follow-up on the children rescued from the Zari industry in June 2005 and January 2006 by Bachpan Bachao Andolan and Bandhua Mukti Morcha respectively. To get information about the traffickers, the practices they adopt for procuring children from the source area and their proximity to the vulnerable families in order to assess the possibilities and threats of children being re-trafficked. The ability of the traffickers to constantly lure young children in the name of better life and opportunities is not unknown. To identify if any services are being provided to the rescued and repatriated children by the Government and Non- Government agencies was yet another objective. |
| Keywords: | opportunities, child welfare, zari industry, children, services, traffickers, vulnerable families, young, village, poor families, work, Delhi, employ, agricultural labour, Bihar, school, India |
| Date: | 2009 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ess:wpaper:id:2342&r=cwa |
| By: | Buttenheim, Allison (University of Pennslyvania) |
| Abstract: | There is growing interest in impact evaluation in both the humanitarian and the development sectors. Several recent reports have identified post -disaster impact evaluation (PDIE) as a particular challenge and have galvanized interest in pushing the field forward. This study reviews existing work, synthesizes a set of guiding principles and analytic frameworks for PDIE, and applies those to a design for the evaluation of relief and recovery programs following the 2005 Pakistan earthquake. The study contributes to ongoing discussions of impact assessment within the humanitarian sector while also introducing impact evaluation practitioners to the specific issues related to conducting quality impact evaluations in post -disaster settings. |
| Keywords: | impact evaluation; post disaster; earthquakes; Pakistan |
| Date: | 2009–12–15 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ris:iiierp:0000_000&r=cwa |
| By: | Bragoli, D; Ganugi, P; Ianulardo, Giancarlo |
| Abstract: | The damage and the recurrence of financial crises have increased the concern of investors and policymakers on one hand and the interest of macroeconomists on the other. This paper presents an original non parametric methodology, whose aim is to give a very intuitive and rigorous method for variable selection in order to analyze financial crises. The transvariation analysis compares the distributions of two different groups of countries (sound and distressed) with respect to a single macroeconomic variable and selects the indicators on the basis of a low transvariation probability index. The current account deficit to GDP ratio, differently from other studies on financial crises, seems to be a suitable variable in discriminating distressed countries from sound ones, and the case of Argentina and Turkey confirms this finding. |
| Date: | 2009 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:eid:wpaper:16/09&r=cwa |
| By: | Kanerva, Minna (UNU-MERIT) |
| Abstract: | Nano science and technology (nano S&T) has potential to change our lives for the better, but at the same time, it causes also a significant amount of concern in terms of related health, environmental, ethical and societal risks. It is increasingly recognized that addressing these concerns requires appropriate governance of nano S&T, which should arguably involve a number of different stakeholders, including various publics. Nano S&T is seen as having particular positive and negative implications in the Global South, and it appears that discourses around such issues in the South have not yet been systemically researched. This paper will therefore investigate nano S&T discourses in South Africa, India, Hong Kong and Kenya by analysing newspaper media in these countries. Most nano S&T media studies done previously in the Global North have looked at the risk-opportunity dichotomy, but here a somewhat different approach is taken by testing concepts such as risk actions and complexity in the context of media discourse analysis. Using both qualitative and quantitative methods, this paper will examine which risk actions are prominent in the newspaper stories, analyse the complexities included in the discourse, as well as the general framing of nano S&T. Trends over the last decade will also be investigated. Finally, the results from the included countries will be compared with each other, as well as with similar studies done in the North. This paper will argue, firstly, that, although they share some features, media discourses around nano S&T in the South and the North vary considerably. Secondly, a more methodological argument will also be made. Looking at risk actions and complexities included in various discourses is potentially an interesting analytical method, which could contribute to analysing risk discourses and to successful and inclusive risk governance in general, also regarding other global risk issues. |
| Keywords: | nano S&T, governance, Global South, risk assessment, risk awareness, risk |
| JEL: | O30 O32 O33 O38 O53 O55 O57 |
| Date: | 2009 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:dgr:unumer:2009063&r=cwa |
| By: | Julian Lindley-French |
| Abstract: | NATO’s ISAF is entering a critical phase. The arrival of the Obama Administration and the crafting of the AFPAK strategy affords the NATO mission in Afghanistan four vital new departures: a balanced regional strategy that considers Afghanistan and Pakistan; a more coherent overall strategy, an audit of effect in Afghanistan; and an all-important new approach to political reconciliation. Hitherto ISAF has been Afghanistan-lite. The new effort will help to ease that in the short-term but will only bear fruit if the three strategic phases envisaged in planning (security by end 2011, Afghan capacity building by end 2014 and Afghan civil primacy by end 2017) are bound together by a strategic campaign plan worthy of the name, that includes Asian partners first and foremost and an enhanced role for the UN. |
| Date: | 2009–03 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ngi:dpaper:09-04&r=cwa |