Economic reform in India : challenges, prospects, and lessons / / edited by Nicholas Hope [and three others] [[electronic resource]] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (viii, 536 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 330.954 |
ISBN |
1-139-88759-9
1-139-56447-1 1-139-55464-6 1-139-55093-4 1-283-94290-9 1-139-54968-5 1-139-09663-X 1-139-55589-8 1-139-55218-X |
Classificazione | BUS068000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | ; 1. Introduction / Nicholas C. Hope, Anjini Kochar, Roger Noll, and T.N. Srinivasan -- The Macro Economy: ; 2. Federalism and economic development in India: an assessment / Nirvikar K. Singh and T.N. Srinivasan; ; 3. India and China: trade and foreign investment / Arvind Panagariya; ; 4. Financial sector reforms and monetary policy: the Indian experience / Rakesh Mohan -- Institutional Reforms: Agriculture and Education: ; 5. Land reform, decentralized governance, and rural development in West Bengal / Pranab Bardhan and Dilip Mookherjee; ; 6. Market-driven agricultural growth: contrasting experiences in Punjab and Rajastham / Peter Hazell, Abhijit Sharma and Laurence Smith; ; 7 . India's higher education opportunity / Naushad Forbes; ; 8. Improving the quality of rural primary schools: an evaluation of a computer-aided learning program in south India / Verghese Jacob, Anjini Kochar, and Suresh Reddy -- Employment, Industrial Structure and Poverty: ; 9. The missing middle / Anne O. Kreuger; ; 10. Some aspects of the trends in employment and unemployment in Bihar and Kerala since the 1790x / T.N. Srinivasan and Treb Allen; ; 11. Size matters: urban growth and poverty in India, 1983-2005 / Peter Lanjouw and Rinku Murgai -- Infrastructure: Electricity and Transportation: ; 12. An assessment of Indian telecommunications reform / Roger Noll and Scott Wallsten; ; 13. Managing demand-side economic and political constraints on electricity industry restructuring process / Frank A. Wolak; ; 14. Moving India: the political economy of transport sector reform / Jessica S. Wallack and N.K. Singh. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786069703321 |
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Economic reform in India : challenges, prospects, and lessons / / edited by Nicholas Hope [and three others] [[electronic resource]] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (viii, 536 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 330.954 |
ISBN |
1-139-88759-9
1-139-56447-1 1-139-55464-6 1-139-55093-4 1-283-94290-9 1-139-54968-5 1-139-09663-X 1-139-55589-8 1-139-55218-X |
Classificazione | BUS068000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | ; 1. Introduction / Nicholas C. Hope, Anjini Kochar, Roger Noll, and T.N. Srinivasan -- The Macro Economy: ; 2. Federalism and economic development in India: an assessment / Nirvikar K. Singh and T.N. Srinivasan; ; 3. India and China: trade and foreign investment / Arvind Panagariya; ; 4. Financial sector reforms and monetary policy: the Indian experience / Rakesh Mohan -- Institutional Reforms: Agriculture and Education: ; 5. Land reform, decentralized governance, and rural development in West Bengal / Pranab Bardhan and Dilip Mookherjee; ; 6. Market-driven agricultural growth: contrasting experiences in Punjab and Rajastham / Peter Hazell, Abhijit Sharma and Laurence Smith; ; 7 . India's higher education opportunity / Naushad Forbes; ; 8. Improving the quality of rural primary schools: an evaluation of a computer-aided learning program in south India / Verghese Jacob, Anjini Kochar, and Suresh Reddy -- Employment, Industrial Structure and Poverty: ; 9. The missing middle / Anne O. Kreuger; ; 10. Some aspects of the trends in employment and unemployment in Bihar and Kerala since the 1790x / T.N. Srinivasan and Treb Allen; ; 11. Size matters: urban growth and poverty in India, 1983-2005 / Peter Lanjouw and Rinku Murgai -- Infrastructure: Electricity and Transportation: ; 12. An assessment of Indian telecommunications reform / Roger Noll and Scott Wallsten; ; 13. Managing demand-side economic and political constraints on electricity industry restructuring process / Frank A. Wolak; ; 14. Moving India: the political economy of transport sector reform / Jessica S. Wallack and N.K. Singh. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910810167603321 |
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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How capitalism was built : the transformation of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia / / Anders Åslund, Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington, DC [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Åslund Anders <1952-> |
Edizione | [Second edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xv, 423 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 330.9470009/049 |
Soggetto topico |
Post-communism - Former Soviet republics
Post-communism - Europe, Eastern Capitalism - Former Soviet republics Capitalism - Europe, Eastern |
ISBN |
1-139-79427-2
1-316-09013-2 1-107-25472-8 1-139-77991-5 1-139-78290-8 1-139-77687-8 1-139-20785-7 1-283-74147-4 1-139-77839-0 |
Classificazione | BUS068000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Machine generated contents note: Introduction: a world transformed; 1. Communism and its demise; 2. Radical reform versus gradualism; 3. Output: from slump to recovery and boom; 4. Liberalization: the creation of a market economy; 5. From hyperinflation to financial stability; 6. Privatization: the establishment of private property rights; 7. The social system; 8. The politics of transition; 9. From crime toward law; 10. The importance of the European Union; 11. The global financial crisis, 2007-2012; Conclusions: a world transformed. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779349203321 |
Åslund Anders <1952-> | ||
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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How capitalism was built : the transformation of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia / / Anders Åslund, Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington, DC [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Åslund Anders <1952-> |
Edizione | [Second edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xv, 423 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 330.9470009/049 |
Soggetto topico |
Post-communism - Former Soviet republics
Post-communism - Europe, Eastern Capitalism - Former Soviet republics Capitalism - Europe, Eastern |
ISBN |
1-139-79427-2
1-316-09013-2 1-107-25472-8 1-139-77991-5 1-139-78290-8 1-139-77687-8 1-139-20785-7 1-283-74147-4 1-139-77839-0 |
Classificazione | BUS068000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Machine generated contents note: Introduction: a world transformed; 1. Communism and its demise; 2. Radical reform versus gradualism; 3. Output: from slump to recovery and boom; 4. Liberalization: the creation of a market economy; 5. From hyperinflation to financial stability; 6. Privatization: the establishment of private property rights; 7. The social system; 8. The politics of transition; 9. From crime toward law; 10. The importance of the European Union; 11. The global financial crisis, 2007-2012; Conclusions: a world transformed. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910827671103321 |
Åslund Anders <1952-> | ||
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The limits of institutional reform in development : changing rules for realistic solutions / / Matt Andrews, Harvard Kennedy School of Government [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Andrews Matt <1972-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 254 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 338.9009172/4 |
Soggetto topico |
Institution building - Developing countries
Economic development - Developing countries |
ISBN |
1-139-61034-1
1-107-23514-6 1-139-60875-4 1-139-61220-4 1-139-62522-5 1-139-61592-0 1-139-06097-X |
Classificazione | BUS068000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Change rules, change governments, and develop? -- 2. Deconstructing the puzzling evidence of reform -- 3. Overlooking the change context -- 4. Reforms as overspecified and oversimplified solutions -- 5. Limited engagement, limited change -- 6. Expecting reform limits in development -- 7. Problem-driven learning sparks institutional change -- 8. Finding and fitting solutions that work -- 9. Broad engagement, broader (and deeper) change -- 10. Reforming rules of the development game itself. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786032103321 |
Andrews Matt <1972-> | ||
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The limits of institutional reform in development : changing rules for realistic solutions / / Matt Andrews, Harvard Kennedy School of Government [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Andrews Matt <1972-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 254 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 338.9009172/4 |
Soggetto topico |
Institution building - Developing countries
Economic development - Developing countries |
ISBN |
1-139-61034-1
1-107-23514-6 1-139-60875-4 1-139-61220-4 1-139-62522-5 1-139-61592-0 1-139-06097-X |
Classificazione | BUS068000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Change rules, change governments, and develop? -- 2. Deconstructing the puzzling evidence of reform -- 3. Overlooking the change context -- 4. Reforms as overspecified and oversimplified solutions -- 5. Limited engagement, limited change -- 6. Expecting reform limits in development -- 7. Problem-driven learning sparks institutional change -- 8. Finding and fitting solutions that work -- 9. Broad engagement, broader (and deeper) change -- 10. Reforming rules of the development game itself. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910814057603321 |
Andrews Matt <1972-> | ||
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Rising inequality in China : challenges to a harmonious society / / Li Shi, Beijing Normal University, China, Hiroshi Sato, Hitotsubashi University, Japan, Terry Sicular, University of Western Ontario, Canada [[electronic resource]] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxix, 499 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 305.800951 |
Soggetto topico | Equality - China |
ISBN |
1-139-89031-X
1-107-52926-3 1-107-25072-2 1-107-24989-9 1-139-03505-3 1-107-24823-X 1-107-24740-3 1-107-24906-6 |
Classificazione | BUS068000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Rising inequality in China: key issues and findings / Li Shi, Hiroshi Sato, and Terry Sicular -- Overview: Income inequality and poverity in China, 2002-2007 / Li Shi, Luo Chuliang, and Terry Sicular -- Housing Ownership, incomes, and inequality in China, 2002-2007 / Hiroshi Sato, Terry Sicular, and Yue Ximing -- Educational inequality in China: The intergenerational dimension / John Knight, Terry Sicular and Yue Ximinhg -- Inequality and poverity in rural China / Luo Chuliang and Terry Sicular -- The evolution of the migrant labor market in China, 2002-2007 / John Knight, Deng Quheng and Li Shi -- A new episode of increased urban income inequality in China / Deng Quheng and Bjorn̈ Gustafsson -- Unemployment and the rising number of nonworkers in urban China: causes and distributional consequences / Bjorn̈ and Ding Sai -- Do employees in the public sector still enjoy earnings advantages? / Yang Juan, Sylvie Deḿurger and Li Shi -- Redistributive impacts of the personal income in urban China / Xu Jing and Yue Ximimg -- Changes in gender-wage gap in urban China, 1995-2007 / Li Shi and Song Jin -- Intertemporal changes in ethic urban earnings disparities in China / Luo Chuliang, Li Shi, Terry Sicular, Deng Quheng and Yue Ximing. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779998303321 |
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Rising inequality in China : challenges to a harmonious society / / Li Shi, Beijing Normal University, China, Hiroshi Sato, Hitotsubashi University, Japan, Terry Sicular, University of Western Ontario, Canada [[electronic resource]] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxix, 499 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 305.800951 |
Soggetto topico | Equality - China |
ISBN |
1-139-89031-X
1-107-52926-3 1-107-25072-2 1-107-24989-9 1-139-03505-3 1-107-24823-X 1-107-24740-3 1-107-24906-6 |
Classificazione | BUS068000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Rising inequality in China: key issues and findings / Li Shi, Hiroshi Sato, and Terry Sicular -- Overview: Income inequality and poverity in China, 2002-2007 / Li Shi, Luo Chuliang, and Terry Sicular -- Housing Ownership, incomes, and inequality in China, 2002-2007 / Hiroshi Sato, Terry Sicular, and Yue Ximing -- Educational inequality in China: The intergenerational dimension / John Knight, Terry Sicular and Yue Ximinhg -- Inequality and poverity in rural China / Luo Chuliang and Terry Sicular -- The evolution of the migrant labor market in China, 2002-2007 / John Knight, Deng Quheng and Li Shi -- A new episode of increased urban income inequality in China / Deng Quheng and Bjorn̈ Gustafsson -- Unemployment and the rising number of nonworkers in urban China: causes and distributional consequences / Bjorn̈ and Ding Sai -- Do employees in the public sector still enjoy earnings advantages? / Yang Juan, Sylvie Deḿurger and Li Shi -- Redistributive impacts of the personal income in urban China / Xu Jing and Yue Ximimg -- Changes in gender-wage gap in urban China, 1995-2007 / Li Shi and Song Jin -- Intertemporal changes in ethic urban earnings disparities in China / Luo Chuliang, Li Shi, Terry Sicular, Deng Quheng and Yue Ximing. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910811138103321 |
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Small and medium scale enterprises in India : infirmities and asymmetries in industrial clusters / / Satyaki Roy |
Autore | Roy Satyaki |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (204 p.) |
Disciplina | 338.6/420954 |
Collana | Routledge studies in the growth economies of Asia |
Soggetto topico |
Small business - India
Industrial clusters - India |
ISBN |
0-203-59303-0
1-299-14126-9 1-135-07142-X |
Classificazione | BUS068000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Small and Medium Enterprises in India; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures and tables; Preface; List of abbreviations and acronyms; 1 Introduction; Trends in growth and employment in India; Trends in global manufacturing; Cluster of small firms; The plan; 2 Spatial organization of production: contesting themes; The context; Region as a determinant in production; Spatial organization of production; The rise of 'small' in policy discourse; Knowledge intensity and industrial clusters; Dynamics of power relations; 3 Shifts in policy: SSI sector to SME cluster
Rationale for protective policiesReservation policy: a brief appraisal; The new context of liberalized regime; Beyond the small/large framework; Industrial clusters in India; 4 Horizontal expansion or fragmentation? A tale of artisanal clusters; Introduction; Footwear cluster in Kolkata; Surgical instruments cluster in Baruipur; Concluding remarks; 5 Foundries in Howrah: impediments in institutions and organizations; Institutions and organizations; Trajectory of growth: past and present; Is the labor responsible?; Changes in backward and forward linkages X-inefficiency and flexible labor delays 'creative destruction'Absence of appropriate institutions; Concluding remarks; 6 Garments cluster in NCR: fluid labor and footloose industry; Garments industry: a brief overview; Introducing the NCR garments cluster; Horizontal expansion by multiple plants; Footloose industry and its forward linkages; Relying on fluid labor; Industrial estate or cluster?; 7 Tiruppur knitwear cluster: global links and local networks; Introduction; Composition of the cluster; Dense network of subcontracting; Boundaries of social auditing and labor standards Export markets and impacts of external shocksCollective action and associational voice; 8 Export enclave within a natural cluster: Agra, a different story; Agra cluster in retrospect; A brief overview; No great technology distance between large and small firms; Challenges to reproducing skills; Why are big firms always exporters?; Export enclave within artisanal cluster; 9 FDI in the automobile sector: myth of creation and diffusion of knowledge; Introduction; Emerging patterns of production organization; FDI and diffusion of technology; Concluding remarks 10 Dynamics of size distribution: explaining self-exploitative fragmentationSize distribution of firms: contesting themes; Stylized facts from field survey; Self-exploitative fragmentation: the model; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786276503321 |
Roy Satyaki | ||
Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Small and medium scale enterprises in India : infirmities and asymmetries in industrial clusters / / Satyaki Roy |
Autore | Roy Satyaki |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (204 p.) |
Disciplina | 338.6/420954 |
Collana | Routledge studies in the growth economies of Asia |
Soggetto topico |
Small business - India
Industrial clusters - India |
ISBN |
0-203-59303-0
1-299-14126-9 1-135-07142-X |
Classificazione | BUS068000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Small and Medium Enterprises in India; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures and tables; Preface; List of abbreviations and acronyms; 1 Introduction; Trends in growth and employment in India; Trends in global manufacturing; Cluster of small firms; The plan; 2 Spatial organization of production: contesting themes; The context; Region as a determinant in production; Spatial organization of production; The rise of 'small' in policy discourse; Knowledge intensity and industrial clusters; Dynamics of power relations; 3 Shifts in policy: SSI sector to SME cluster
Rationale for protective policiesReservation policy: a brief appraisal; The new context of liberalized regime; Beyond the small/large framework; Industrial clusters in India; 4 Horizontal expansion or fragmentation? A tale of artisanal clusters; Introduction; Footwear cluster in Kolkata; Surgical instruments cluster in Baruipur; Concluding remarks; 5 Foundries in Howrah: impediments in institutions and organizations; Institutions and organizations; Trajectory of growth: past and present; Is the labor responsible?; Changes in backward and forward linkages X-inefficiency and flexible labor delays 'creative destruction'Absence of appropriate institutions; Concluding remarks; 6 Garments cluster in NCR: fluid labor and footloose industry; Garments industry: a brief overview; Introducing the NCR garments cluster; Horizontal expansion by multiple plants; Footloose industry and its forward linkages; Relying on fluid labor; Industrial estate or cluster?; 7 Tiruppur knitwear cluster: global links and local networks; Introduction; Composition of the cluster; Dense network of subcontracting; Boundaries of social auditing and labor standards Export markets and impacts of external shocksCollective action and associational voice; 8 Export enclave within a natural cluster: Agra, a different story; Agra cluster in retrospect; A brief overview; No great technology distance between large and small firms; Challenges to reproducing skills; Why are big firms always exporters?; Export enclave within artisanal cluster; 9 FDI in the automobile sector: myth of creation and diffusion of knowledge; Introduction; Emerging patterns of production organization; FDI and diffusion of technology; Concluding remarks 10 Dynamics of size distribution: explaining self-exploitative fragmentationSize distribution of firms: contesting themes; Stylized facts from field survey; Self-exploitative fragmentation: the model; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910809940603321 |
Roy Satyaki | ||
Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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