This paper explores the features of political economy in the dynamics of representative politics in India. Politics is seen as enhancing economic benefits through acquiring and maintenance of power in the realm of democratic set up. The system of representation is riddled with competitive populism. Emerging leaders and parties are forced to accommodate their ideologies in coping with competitiv...

In this evolutionary model, random shocks create differences in the rate of return on capital, while individual saving and investment behavior can reduce these differences over time. Firms with either low total factor productivity (TFP) or a low average return on capital are selected for exit, and new firms enter to take their place. As would be expected, a higher turnover rate improves TFP and...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the validity and responsiveness of the World Health Organization Disability Schedule II (WHODAS II) in patients with established RA. METHODS In 85 RA patients admitted for rehabilitation, the WHODAS II (0-100) was applied at admission and 6 weeks after discharge. Additional assessments included measures of physical and psychological functioning, disease activity and q...

Early or voluntary retirement (ER) can be defined as the full exit from an organizational job or career path of long duration, decided by individuals of a certain age at the mid or late career before mandatory retirement age, with the aim of reducing their attachment to work and closing a process of gradual psychological disengagement from working life. Given the swinging movements that charact...

The nature of the magnetic state of LiNiO2 has been controversial. In this compound Ni spins sS=1/2d form a triangular lattice with the possibility of magnetic frustration, but the exact state of spin correlation has not yet been known in spite of the extensive research work. A factor that complicates understanding of the magnetic state is the orbital state of Ni3+ which is a Jahn-Teller sJTd i...

Earth with 4 station receiver chain The ionosphere lies approximately in the 80 — 500 km altitude range. As the satellite passes over head it sends dual frequency radio signals at 150 and 400 MHz respectively which undergo different amounts of Doppler phase shift along each ray path before they are simultaneously received by the ground stations. The difference of Doppler shift encountered by ea...

Growth theory has often been perceived by development economists as being orthogonal to their main concern, namely, that of understanding the sources of persistent poverty and stagnation in households and villages, and of designing policies aimed at overcoming them. Growth theory, they would argue, is a subdiscipline of macroeconomics: it features economies with representative producers and con...

Krugman, Young, Kim & Lau and Collins & Bosworth have argued that the extraordinary record of economic growth in East Asia can be explained adequately by factor accumulation deriving from Abread-and-butter economic forces@ such as high savings rates, good education, and the movement of under-employed peasants into the modern sector. Yet this explanation that it was all based on Aworking harder,...

In this paper we determine the main driving forces underlying the structural transformation and urbanization process in rapidly industrializing countries. We use a dynamic, small open economy model with an abundant supply of surplus labor in rural areas, two types of traded goods manufactured in urban areas, and barriers to both trade and migration. The model is supplemented with quantitative a...

PURPOSE To compare the agility demands of 4 small-sided games (SSGs) and evaluate the variability in demands for elite Australian Football (AF). METHODS Fourteen male elite Australian Football League (AFL) players (mean ± SD; 21.7 ± 3.1 y, 189.6 ± 9.0 cm, 88.7 ± 10.0 kg, 39.4 ± 57.1 games) completed 4 SSGs of 3 × 45-s bouts each with modified designs. Video notational analysis, GPS at 5 Hz, a...