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Services Outsourcing and Productivity Growth 服务外包与生产力增长

South Asia Economic Journal Pub Date : 2018-09-01 DOI: 10.1177/1391561418794693

Sonia Mukherjee

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引用次数: 7

Tax Rates and Tax Evasion 税率和逃税

South Asia Economic Journal Pub Date : 2018-09-01 DOI: 10.1177/1391561418794690

H. Weerasekera

引用次数: 4

Book Review: Prem Shankar Jha, Dawn of the Solar Age: An End to Global Warming and to Fear 书评:Prem Shankar Jha，《太阳时代的黎明:全球变暖与恐惧的终结》

South Asia Economic Journal Pub Date : 2018-09-01 DOI: 10.1177/1391561418794696

Sunetra Ghatak

引用次数: 0

Investment in Physical, Human Capital, Economic Growth and Life Expectancy in Bangladesh 孟加拉国在物质、人力资本、经济增长和预期寿命方面的投资

South Asia Economic Journal Pub Date : 2018-09-01 DOI: 10.1177/1391561418799110

Biswajit Maitra

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引用次数: 8

Remittances and Real Effective Exchange Rate 汇款与实际有效汇率

South Asia Economic Journal Pub Date : 2018-03-01 DOI: 10.1177/1391561418761077

Ujjal Protim Dutta, P. Sengupta

引用次数: 8

Economic Growth, Structural Change and Productive Employment Linkages in India 印度的经济增长、结构变化和生产性就业联系

South Asia Economic Journal Pub Date : 2018-03-01 DOI: 10.1177/1391561418761074

A. Aggarwal

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引用次数: 9

Book Review: Jayant Menon and T. N. Srinivasan (eds), Integrating South and East Asia: Economics of Regional Cooperation and Development 书评:贾扬特·梅农和t·n·斯里尼瓦桑主编，《南亚与东亚一体化:区域合作与发展经济学》

South Asia Economic Journal Pub Date : 2018-03-01 DOI: 10.1177/1391561418767444

Durairaj Kumarasamy

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引用次数: 0

Book Review: Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay and Ashok Kapur, Modi’s Foreign Policy 书评:Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay和Ashok Kapur，莫迪的外交政策

South Asia Economic Journal Pub Date : 2018-03-01 DOI: 10.1177/1391561418765588

C. Xavier

引用次数: 0

Testing the Sustainability of Current Accounts for Major South Asian Economies 测试南亚主要经济体经常账户的可持续性

South Asia Economic Journal Pub Date : 2018-03-01 DOI: 10.1177/1391561418761064

Shruti Shastri, A. K. Giri, Geetilaxmi Mohapatra

引用次数: 8

Book Review: Prabir De (Ed.), Twenty Years of BIMSTEC: Promoting Regional Cooperation and Integration in the Bay of Bengal 书评:Prabir De(编)，《BIMSTEC二十年:促进孟加拉湾的区域合作与一体化》

South Asia Economic Journal Pub Date : 2018-03-01 DOI: 10.1177/1391561418776843

Rajeev Ranjan Chaturvedy

引用次数: 0