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    BRICS and South-South cooperation in medicine: emerging trends in research and entrepreneurial collaborations

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2012
    Though there is huge spectrum of South-South collaboration, led by the economies from the BRICS countries in the medical field there is a lack of studies examining the extent and characteristics of these collaborations and evaluating their benefits.
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    Assessing barriers to trade in services in India

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2011
    International trade in services has become more important in recent years as advances in technology have permitted new means of providing services across borders. Services have emerged as crucial economic activities in India, more prominently since the last decade.
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    India 2050: can we celebrate the centenary of the republic as a developed country?

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2012
    Today, there is a great disparity of incomes between developed and developing countries perhaps partly as a legacy of the colonial period. According to the World Bank figures, in 2009, per capita income of developing countries in terms of dollars adjusted for purchasing power parity (in 2005 prices) was about $5000, only 15 per cent of that of the developed countries.
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    Productivity in the era of trade and investment liberalization in India

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2011
    Over recent years India has witnessed wide-ranging economic reforms in her policies governing international trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) flows. Consequently, both trade and FDI flows have risen dramatically since 1991. Using firm-level panel data this paper finds that significant productivity improvements have taken place in the period since 2000.
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    Financial crisis of 2008 and shifting economic power: is there convergence

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2013
    There is a vigorous debate about shifting economic power in the world system. It is believed that the developed countries and in particular the US are losing their predominance in the world economy and the so-called emerging economies (EEs) are becoming more important.
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    Balancing state and community participation in development partnership projects: emerging evidence from Indian SDPS in Nepal

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2013
    Since early nineties when ‘East Asian miracle’ aroused heated debate among revisionists and neoclassical economists on economic development and the role of state, two different approaches have emerged in the realm of development cooperation.
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    The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP)

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2013
    The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) has emerged as a major regional initiative for trade and investment liberalisation and towards enhancing competitiveness of the twelve participant countries drawn from either side of the Pacific. The United States has taken a leadership role in advancing this initiative for which eighteen rounds of negotiations have already been held.
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    Logistics, trade and production networks: an empirical investigation

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2013
    Logistics services contribute to not only expansion in trade and production networks within or across countries but also help to build countries’ productive capacities.
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    Transatlantic trade and investment partnership

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2013
    Efforts are underway to forge a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the United States and the European Union for which negotiations have commenced in 2013.
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    Social action plan 1992-95: government of NWFP

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 1992
    Economic growth in Pakistan has been high, averaging 6 per cent over the last three decades, but it has not been reflected in the social sectors, partly because it received only 4 per cent of the GDP even by 1990/91. As a result, social indicators have remained low.

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