Daily Archives: August 6, 2012

Public Debt Management: quarterly report April-June 2012

Published by Finance Ministry, Governmentof India, July 2012 This report pertains to the first quarter of the fiscal year 2012-13, viz., April-June 2012.The report gives an account of the debt management and cash management operations during the quarter, and attempts … Continue reading

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EPI 2012 :Environmental Performance Index and Pilot Trend Environmental Performance Index

Published by Yale Centre for Environmental Law and Policy, 2012 The 2012 EPI ranks 132 countries on 22 performance indicators in the following ten policy categories: – Environmental Health – Water (effects on human health)  - Air Pollution (effects on … Continue reading

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Valuation of 2G spectrum in India- A real option approach

by Pankaj Sinha and Sathiyanarayanan MPRA Paper No.40470, May 2012 The phenomenal growth of telecommunication sector in India has largely been possible due to the contributory factors such as the efforts made by private and public telecom service providers to … Continue reading

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On a Distance Function-Based Inequality Measure in the Spirit of the Bonferroni and Gini Indices

S. Subramanian Working Paper No. 2012/62 A natural way of viewing an inequality or a poverty measure is in terms of the vector distance between an actual (empirical) distribution of incomes and some appropriately normative distribution (reflecting a perfectly equal … Continue reading

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Two TRIPs to Innovation: Pharmaceutical Innovation Systems in India and Brazil by Verena Schüren

SFB-Governance Working Paper Series • No. 37 • June 2012 Abstract So far, the implementation of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) and the dynamics of innovation systems have been discussed fairly separately from each other. … Continue reading

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