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Assessing the role of energy in development and climate policies conceptual approach and key indicators
(2011-09-07)
The paper discusses a number of key conceptual issues related to the role of energy in development and its potential synergies
and tradeoffs with climate change. The relationship between economic development and energy ...
Gendered behaviour of men and women in the workplace: time to move on
(2011-05-04)
When a dual career couple engages in a job search
and the wife waits for the husband to get his best
job and then starts her own search; or when a woman
decides to take a career break for caring for the twin
babies the ...
Unique identification for Indians: a divine dream or miscalculated heroism
(2011-09-07)
Happy New Fear” – that was how a placard held by some of the students of
the Indian Institute of Science read. It was a part of a silent demonstration
outside the gate of the Institute, earlier this year after the UIDAI ...
Chikungunya epidemic related mortality
(2011-09-07)
Port Blair, the capital city of the Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the
republic of India, witnessed an outbreak of chikungunya (CHIK) fever in 2006. Although no
deaths attributable to CHIK fever were ...
Economic and enviromental implications of demand-side management options
(2011-09-07)
End-use electricity efficiency improvements offer an inexpensive way to reduce power shortages. The
present study estimates the potential of demand-side management efficiency improvement targeted at
(1) short-term ...
Carbon competition up above: estimating greenhouse gas emissions of Indian domestic airlines
(2011-09-07)
The Indian domestic aviation sector is on a growth path and this progress can be attributed to several factors such as an expanding
economy, an increase in the average income of Indians, low and economic air fares, more ...
Configurations of outsourcing firms and organizational performance: a study of outsourcing industry in India
(2011-09-08)
There is an increasing recognition of outsourcing firms as new organizational forms with
unique systems and practices. This paper seeks to use a configurational approach to integrate
learning from outsourcing literature, ...
An exploration of the Indian mindset
(2011-05-04)
Eight hundred and twenty-nine adults, drawn from 12 locations in all four parts of India, participated
in a study that explored the joint effects of Indians’ discrepant mindset, context sensitivity, and quality of
environment ...
Sustainable energy transformation in India under climate policy
(2011-09-08)
The paper uses an integrated assessment model, GCAM, to analyze two emission
stabilization approaches for India – a conventional approach relying on carbon price to
typically influence fuel switch and carbon capture and ...
SB-robustness of directional mean for circular distributions
(2011-09-07)
In this paper we study the robustness of the directional mean (a.k.a. circular mean) for
different families of circular distributions. We show that the directional mean is robust
in the sense of finite standardized gross ...