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Global Capital and Peripheral Labour: The History and Political Economy of Plantation Workers in India (2009)
Book
Raman, R. (2009). Global Capital and Peripheral Labour: The History and Political Economy of Plantation Workers in India. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203869819

This book presents a historical account of plantations in India in the context of the modern world economy. It brings history up to the present, thereby showing how history can assist in explaining contemporary conditions and trends. The author focus... Read More about Global Capital and Peripheral Labour: The History and Political Economy of Plantation Workers in India.

New Policy Framework for Rural Drinking Water Supply – The Swajaldhara Guidelines (2009)
Journal Article
Cullet, P. (2009). New Policy Framework for Rural Drinking Water Supply – The Swajaldhara Guidelines. Economic and political weekly, 44(50), 47-54

This article discusses the central government policy
for drinking water supply in rural areas. It examines its
evolution from the 1970s onwards and focuses, in
particular, on the reforms of the past decade, looking
more specifically at the Swajal... Read More about New Policy Framework for Rural Drinking Water Supply – The Swajaldhara Guidelines.

Xin faxian Kang Hai sanqu ji Pandong yuefu houlu jiaojian (xia) 新發現康海散曲集《沜東樂府後錄》校箋（下）(A Collation and Annotation of Kang Hai’s Newly Discovered Song Collection Pandong yuefu houlu, Part 2) (2009)
Journal Article
Tan, T. Y. (2009). Xin faxian Kang Hai sanqu ji Pandong yuefu houlu jiaojian (xia) 新發現康海散曲集《沜東樂府後錄》校箋（下）(A Collation and Annotation of Kang Hai’s Newly Discovered Song Collection Pandong yuefu houlu, Part 2). Wenhua yishu yanjiu, 2(5), 145-175

Kang Hai is one of the major qu writers in the mid Ming. The newly discovered Pandong yuefu houlu kept in Taiwan is the sequel to Kang’s song collection Pandong yuefu, and it includes a total of 185 xiaoling songs and 82 song suites. This doubles the... Read More about Xin faxian Kang Hai sanqu ji Pandong yuefu houlu jiaojian (xia) 新發現康海散曲集《沜東樂府後錄》校箋（下）(A Collation and Annotation of Kang Hai’s Newly Discovered Song Collection Pandong yuefu houlu, Part 2).

State Ownership and Corporate Performance: A Quantile Regression Analysis of Chinese Listed Companies (2009)
Journal Article
Li, T., Sun, L., & Zou, L. (2009). State Ownership and Corporate Performance: A Quantile Regression Analysis of Chinese Listed Companies. China Economic Review, 20(4), 703-716. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chieco.2009.05.006

This study assesses the impact of government shareholding on corporate performance using a sample of 643 non-financial companies listed on the Chinese stock exchanges. In view of the controversial empirical findings in the literature and the limitati... Read More about State Ownership and Corporate Performance: A Quantile Regression Analysis of Chinese Listed Companies.

Microfinance and Gender Empowerment (2009)
Preprint / Working Paper
Ngo, T. M., & Wahhaj, Z. Microfinance and Gender Empowerment

In the past 30 years, microfinance has carried many promises of social and economic transformation, with the shift towards targeting women being seen as a major strategic move through which the promise of social development could be most e¤ectively d... Read More about Microfinance and Gender Empowerment.

Changing Policing in the PRC (2009)
Journal Article
Palmer, M. (2009). Changing Policing in the PRC. Taiwan in comparative perspective, 3, 48-80

Children’s participation in community-based disaster risk reduction and adaptation to climate change (2009)
Journal Article
Tanner, T., Garcia, M., Lazcano, J., Molina, F., Molina, G., Rodríguez, G., Tribunalo, B., & Seballos, F. (2009). Children’s participation in community-based disaster risk reduction and adaptation to climate change. PLA notes, 60, 54-64

As an emerging field, reflection and learning on community-based adaptation to climate change (CBA) and disaster risk reduction (DRR) are crucial. However, there is a danger that a focus on ‘the community’ fails to look within and understand the comm... Read More about Children’s participation in community-based disaster risk reduction and adaptation to climate change.

Child-friendly participatory research tools (2009)
Journal Article
Molina, F., Molina, G., Tanner, T., & Seballos, F. (2009). Child-friendly participatory research tools. PLA notes, 60, 160-166

Tips for trainers: Field-based action research on community-based adaptation to climate change needs to engage with all different sections of communities. Children form a significant group that is often overlooked by research and practice at communit... Read More about Child-friendly participatory research tools.

Why do parents socialize their children to behave pro-socially? An information-based theory (2009)
Journal Article
Adriani, F., & Sonderegger, S. (2009). Why do parents socialize their children to behave pro-socially? An information-based theory. Journal of Public Economics, 93(11-12), 119-125. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2009.08.001

We present a model of intergenerational transmission of pro-social values in which parents have information about relevant characteristics of society that is not directly available to their children. Differently from existing models of cultural trans... Read More about Why do parents socialize their children to behave pro-socially? An information-based theory.