RETHINKING THE EAST ASIAN MIRACLE JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ AND SHAHID YUSUF Editors RETHINKING THE EAST ASIA MIRACLE JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ AND SHAHID YUSUF Editors A copublication of the World Bank and Oxford University Press i Oxford University Press Oxford • New York • Athens • Auckland • Bangkok • Bogotá • Buenos Aires • Calcutta • Cape Town • Chennai • Dar es Salaam • Delhi • Florence • Hong Kong • Istanbul • Karachi • Kuala Lumpur • Madrid • Melbourne • Mexico City • Mumbai • Nairobi
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D. Gupta & M. Sathye Financial Turnaround of the Indian Railways ASARC WP 2007/13 3 On 15 April 2006, the Washington Times carried a lead story on the turnaround of the Indian Railways (IR) — a departmental organisation run by the Government of India (GOI). It stated ‘…few now doubt that Mr. Yadav (Minister for Railways) has presided over an impressive business turnaround ….more importantly, he’s taken the world’s largest employer — a government giant of 1.5 million employees — and boosted revenues
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C H A P T E R 4 THE ECONOMY IN THE VERY LONG RUN: The Economics of Growth LEARNING OBJECTIVES After reading and studying this chapter, you should be able to: ̈ Understand that economic growth is due to growth in inputs, such as capital and labour, and to improvements in technology. ̈ Understand that capital accumulates through savings and investment. ̈ Understand that the long run level of output per person depends positively on the savings rate and
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place of respect in the society as mentioned in Rigveda and other scriptures. Volumes can be written about the status of our women and their heroic deeds from the vedic period to the modern times. But later on, because of social, political and economic changes, women lost their status and were relegated to the background. Many evil customs and traditions stepped in which enslaved the women and tied them to the boundaries of the house1. The official statistics showed a declining sex-ratio, health
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............................................................... 27 Reference ................................................................................ 27 1 Abstract The BRIC is the acronym of four nations, including Brazil, Russia, India and China. The conception of the BRIC was first created in 2001 by Jim O’Neil, a world famous economist. It was a book published called “Dreaming with BRICs: The Path to 2050” in 2003 by him to make the BRIC become a well-known word because it explains
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How China rises What lessons can be drawn from China's spectacular and sustained economic growth? As Hu Jintau remarked at the 17th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, the period since the previous Congress five years ago has been extraordinary. China's economic achievements have been arousing not only astonishment and admiration but also some anxiety. In the past twelve months alone, The People's Republic of China (PRC) has overtaken Canada as the biggest source of imports to the USA
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regulated banking system was felt. The British government began to pay attention towards the need for an organised banking sector in the country and Reserve Bank of India was set up to regulate the formal banking sector in the country. But the growth of modern banking remained slow mainly due to lack of surplus capital in the Indian economic system at that point of time. Modern banking institutions came up only in big cities and industrial centres. The rural areas, representing vast majority of Indian
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ON “STANDARD LIVING OF BANGLADESH ” Submitted to- Md. Rezwanur Rahman Associate Professor Department of Management Carmichael College, Rangpur. Department of Management Carmichael College, Rangpur. Submitted By- Md. Amin Hossain Class Roll: 4092 Roll: 9818619 Registration: 1768100 Mobile: 01744480430 Submission Date: ............................. Letter of Transmittal Shehab Jil Karnine Lecturer Department of Management Carmichael
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2010 A Grand Project Report on Credit Risk Management at State Bank of Mysore N. R. Institute of Business Management 23/3/2010 A Grand Project Report on Credit Risk Management at State Bank of Mysore N. R. Institu of Business Manag itute agement A Grand Project Report on rand Credit Risk Manag anagement at State Bank of M k Mysore (IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF PROJECT STUDY COURSE, IN TWO YEARS FULL TIME LMENT O WO YEAR MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMIN SS ADMINISTRATION PROGRAMME OF GUJARAT
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December 2004 / Published online: 22 November 2005 © Springer-Verlag 2005 Abstract Since the 1970s Britain has gone from being a country of net emigration to one of net immigration, with a trend increase in immigration of more than 100,000 per year. This paper represents the first attempt to model the variations in net migration for British and for foreign citizens, across countries and over time. A simple economic model, which includes the selection effects of differing income distributions at home
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