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Corruption and economic growth

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Corruption is a symptom and outcome of institutional deficiency, with potentially adverse effects on economic growth. This paper aims to provide a synthesis of the existing evidence on the relationship between corruption and economic growth - controlling for effect type, data sources, and country groupings. The findings indicate that corruption has a negative effect on per-capita GDP growth overall. This report also shows that corruption is relatively more detrimental in mixed countries as more...

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Sonia Hossain on May 09, 2012

The growing importance of risk in financial regulation

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"This paper traces the developments that have contributed to the importance of risk in regulation. Not only does it consider theories associated with risk, it also discusses explanations as to why risk has become so important within regulatory and governmental circles. Two forms of risk regulation, namely risk based regulation and meta regulation are considered."

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Sonia Hossain on March 09, 2010

Arab spring and reorganization of the state

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This paper is based upon the assumption that within the next five years or so, bulk of the Islamic world will get rid of their dictators and be governed by democratic regimes. If so, what kind of a state and what kind of an economic system will these countries have? But now that democracy is advancing, the future political and economic systems of Islamic countries will be decided by the peoples themselves. What then will be this system like? The author will argue that it should fulfill four more...

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Sonia Hossain on February 09, 2012

The impact of human capital outsourcing in Karachi pharmaceutical industry

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The aim of this research is to examine relationship between Human Capital Management (HRM) and Human Resource (HR) Outsourcing in the Pharmaceutical sector. The specific objective is to find out that how important is HRM for an Organization to perform its operations more efficiently, and at what level Human Resource Outsourcing is affecting it. The universe of study was the employees of Pharmaceutical industry in Karachi Pakistan. It is concluded that all Independent Variables have the more...

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Sonia Hossain on February 09, 2012

Integrated approach to solid waste management in Pune city

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The solid waste is increasing in Pune city due to growth of population, urbanization, higher per capita income and standard of living, changing lifestyle and food habits. The solid waste created by the household units, shops, restaurant and commercial units are higher. Solid waste is inevitable task in urbanization process and it will increase in future. The collection, segregation, storage, transports and processing of solid waste needs planning and more investment. Clean city improves more...

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Sonia Hossain on August 09, 2011

The Distribution of Income and Well-Being in Rural China

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This paper reviews the recent literature on inequality and income distribution in rural China utilizing panel datasets. We begin by brieﬂy summarizing and comparing available panel datasets for rural China that can be employed to explore issues on inequality and income distribution, and major data issues that might act as obstacles to research and policy enforcement are then analyzed. The paper then reviews the trend and spatial decompositions of rural income inequality, its major more...

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Sonia Hossain on February 09, 2010

Trade with time zone differences: factor market implications

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The main purpose of this study is to illustrate, with a simple two-factor (skilled labor and unskilled labor) trade model, how a time-saving improvement in business-services trade benefiting from differences in time zones can have an impact on national factor markets. For these purposes, the authors extend Marjit’s (2007) framework into the case with the night-shift work. By doing so, they intend to capture the situation where the night-shift work in one country is replaced by the day-shift more...

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Sonia Hossain on May 10, 2011

Gender disparities in primary education across siblings

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Strong son preference in developing countries often motivates parents to undertake sex selection at birth, infanticide, and subsequent neglect of daughters, leading to low child sex ratios in these countries. An interesting question is whether such attitudes also lead to gender discrimination in primary education. This paper asks the question: Do parents tend to educate sons more than daughters? Using unit level National Sample Survey Organization data for the 61st Round (2004-2005), the more...

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Sonia Hossain on May 10, 2011

Smallholder Participation in Agricultural Value Chains

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Supermarkets, specialized wholesalers, and processors and agro-exporters’ agricultural value chains have begun to transform the marketing channels into which smallholder farmers sell produce in low-income economies. The authors develop a conceptual framework through which to study contracting between smallholders and a commodity-processing firm. They then conduct an empirical meta-analysis of agricultural value chains in five countries across three continents (Ghana, India, Madagascar, more...

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Sonia Hossain on September 18, 2011

The roles and potentials of renewable energy in less-developed economies

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Increasing the renewable energy share in national energy mix remains one of the major energy policy goals across many economies. This paper assesses the roles and potentials of renewable energy sources in less-developed economies while citing Nepal as an example. Renewable energy has a significant role to play in the electrification of rural areas in developing economies and contribute towards sustainable development. Realizing full potentials of renewable, however, requires addressing both the more...

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Sonia Hossain on June 30, 2011

Environmental consequences of economic growth and foreign direct investment

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This paper is aimed at investigating non-linear relationship between foreign direct investment and environmental degradation using panel data of 110 developed and developing economies. The results indicated that environmental Kuznets curve exists and foreign direct investment increases environmental degradation.

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Sonia Hossain on August 09, 2011

Fighting poverty and child malnutrition

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In this paper, the authors develop a two period overlapping generation model on the effects of child nutrition in developing countries.The model gives rise to multiple equilibria including a poverty trap. It is shown that child nutrition status affects unfavorably the evolution of human capital and leads countries into poverty. The authors consider different exogenous foreign aid policies implemented by international organizations such as the World Food Program (WFP). It is found that school more...

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Sonia Hossain on September 18, 2011

Employment, unemployment and real economic growth

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Apart from the Introduction, section, this paper consists of two Sections and Conclusion. Section 1 introduces the integrated version of Okun’s law and also presents its modified form for the employment/population ratio. Section 2 describes some empirical results for a number of developed countries. The authors have modeled the employment/population ratio in the largest developed countries. The results show that the evolution of the employment rate since 1970 can be predicted with a high more...

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Sonia Hossain on August 02, 2011

Determinants of increased real prices of livestock in Balochistan

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The real prices of livestock in Balochistan have been increasing dramatically over the last decade and still there is no sign for them to recede. There is no study that accounts for determinants of this rise in the real prices of livestock in Balochistan. The purpose of this research was to find out the determinants for the increasing real prices of livestock. The research was mainly conducted in Balochistan including rural and urban areas of Quetta, Mastung and Kuchlaq. The study found that more...

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Sonia Hossain on August 09, 2011

Does financial instability increase environmental pollution in Pakistan?

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The present aims to explore the relationship between financial instability and environmental degradation within multivariate framework using time series data for the period1972-2009 in case of Pakistan. The long run relationship is investigated by ARDL bounds testing approach to cointegration, and error correction method is applied to examine short sun dynamics. The stationarity properties of the variables are tested by applying Saikkonen and Lütkepohl (2002) structural break unit root test. more...

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Sonia Hossain on August 09, 2011

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