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Seduce the Scientist
(2009-04-29)
There is worldwide indifference among formal and institutional
scientists about local knowledge and people’s
ability to solve problems. This indifference has only increased
by the use of short cut methods of learning, ...
The honey bee network: voices from grassroots innovators
(1996-07-15)
An assumption behind most approaches to the alleviation of poverty is that poor people are
too poor to be able to think and plan on their own. The result is that most interventions are
designed by others: civil servants, ...
Tapping the entrepreneurial potential of grassroots innovation
(Stanford Social Innovation Review, 2013)
The article discusses the author's views on the complex challenge of tapping the social entrepreneural potential in developing countries to leverage grassroots innovation. He explains that the imperative search for inclusive ...
Union budget: processes and procedures
(Yojana, 2015)
(An) important reform required is the establishment of a high powered committee consisting of economists and macroeconomic managers to be in charge of preparing fiscal policy for the country similar to the proposed Monetary ...
A two-stage integer programming model considering transaction equivalence for privacy preservation
(Elsevier, 2022-08-17)
Preserving privacy is one of the fundamental requirements of firms that share data with their business partners for building advanced data mining models. Firms often aim to protect the disclosure of sensitive knowledge or ...
Informal land leasing in rural India persists because it is credible
(Elsevier, 2022-08-11)
While insecure property rights are considered ‘perverse’ with respect to development, we examine what are the features most amenable for their persistence. Applying a Credibility Thesis framework in the context of rural ...
Research and market structure: evidence from an antibiotic-resistant pathogenic outbreak
(Elsevier, 2023-01)
We provide causal evidence that upstream research shocks impact unconnected downstream product markets. Focusing on the Indian pharmaceutical market, we use a natural experiment involving a publication that identified a ...
Pay-for-performance, procedural justice, OCB and job performance: a sequential mediation model
(Emerald, 2022-10-20)
Purpose:
Building on the arguments of expectancy theory and social exchange theory, the present study provides insights into the process by which pay-for-performance (PFP) impacts employee job performance.
Design/meth ...
Intervening on impostor phenomenon: prospective evaluation of a workshop for health science students using a mixed-method design
(BioMed Central Ltd., 2022-11-17)
Background
Unaddressed impostor feelings that impede developing interest in science and self-efficacy in conducting research have a dispiriting effect that perpetuates unsatisfactory diversity in the health science ...
Evaluating the efficacy of demand-side communication interventions on claiming rights: evidence from an action research field experiment in India
(International Communication Association, 2022-11-08)
Communication-based interventions increasingly characterize attempts to strengthen policy implementation, especially policies targeting disadvantaged populations who despite their eligibility often fail to access potential ...