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Poverty Index with Time-Varying Consumption and Income Distributions
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-11-01)Poverty is defined as degree of deprivation in consumption of an essential commodity. Employing Ernst Engel’s approach we derive a hierarchy of needs and identify the basic needs. We then use the Engel curve for that ... -
Prior Startup Experience, Social Networks, and Transnational Entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-01-04)This paper contributes to our understanding of the role played by startup experience and social networks in two countries – India and the US – in influencing and enabling immigrant diaspora entrepreneurs to found cross-border ... -
The Promise & Pitfalls of ICT for Agriculture
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-07-14)In this talk, he will be talking of the research based on two experiments. The first one is about 'the effectiveness of "information only" interventions'. The authors examine the role of a very low-cost, "light-touch" ... -
Promise and politicians in an uncertain world: Evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment in India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-01-09)In parliamentary democracies, politicians play an obvious and critical role in choosing and implementing policies. A key question in implementation failures, especially due to the uncertainty about the true state of nature, ... -
Public secrets of law: rape trials in India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014-03-19)Sexual violence in general, and rape in particular, is under-reported in India. The social stigma associated with rape is the biggest hurdle that a rape survivor faces right from the time of reporting the matter to the ... -
Public versus Private Provisioning: Role of Education and Political Participation
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-06-28)This paper studies the role played by education in the public provision of private ‘merit goods’, such as healthcare, schooling, security and so on. Corruption is endemic in public provision. Better educated individuals ... -
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Rational Choices: An Ecological Foundation
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-11-16)We address the oft-repeated criticism that the demands which the rational choice approach makes on the knowledge and cognition of a decision maker (DM) are way beyond the capabilities of typical human intelligence. Our key ... -
The reading brain
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A Recombination-Based Internationalization Model: Findings from Narayana Health’s Journey from India to the Cayman Islands
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-01-11)We present a longitudinal study of the expansion of Narayana Health (NH), a healthcare provider, within India and its subsequent development of a tertiary care hospital in the Cayman Islands. Contrary to past research ... -
Relationship between state and NGO service providers in South Asia with focus on sanitation
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2012-08-23)Non-government organisations (NGOs) have become a critical constituent of the larger civil society, and their activities have been institutionalised into the development process. Under the title ‘NGO’, they are only a few ... -
Religious beliefs and local government financing, investment and cash holding decisions
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Research Seminar on An Economic Analysis on Naxalism
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015-02-19)The R & P seminar held at Wing 11 IIM Ahmedabad on February 19, 2015 by Mr. Dhruv Gupta, IPS -
Rethinking inclusion in urban participatory governance
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Riding the wave of corporate freedom: a comparative study on practices of worker employment and management of workplace health and safety in the maritime and dock sectors
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014-04-19)The R & P seminar held at Wing 11 IIM Ahmedabad on August 19, 2014 by Dr Syamantak Bhattacharya, Plymouth University -
Rural Water and Sanitation in India: Achievements and Challenges
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014-12-11)The R & P seminar held at Wing 11 IIM Ahmedabad on Dec 11, 2014 by Ms. Smita Misra, Lead Water & Sanitation Specialist, World Bank -
Search: then and now with particular reference to the web
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-12-10)Nowadays, we take web search engines for granted. For many people, their favourite search engine (Google or some other) is their primary or even sole entry-point to the web. Not only that -- it also, in some sense, _is_ ... -
Selection of Inputs and Outputs in Data Envelopment Analysis
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2017-01-09)Productive efficiency lies in producing the maximum output from a given bundle of inputs or using the minimal input for a target bundle of outputs. The method of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) introduced in the OR/MS ... -
Skilled Migrants' Relocation Decisions and Resettlement Processes: The Embedded Role of Emotional Labour
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-03-11)International mobility of skilled migrants involves their agency in shaping their social, cultural, economic, and symbolic capitals. This research emphasises the rationality embedded in skilled migrants’ migration decisions. ... -
The Social Life of Trade Union Politics in Argentina
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-09-19)I will discuss my recent ethnographic work on the ethical lives and collective political action of two unions of state employees in Argentina. I examine how activists in both unions create themselves as particular kinds ...