[Assam] Effective AID; India , China dance: World Bank Research E-Newsletter [September,2006]

umesh sharma jaipurschool at yahoo.com
Sun Oct 1 19:42:10 PDT 2006 

Mukul-da,
   
  You missed the point. Many MNCs are now trying to go to India and China and give jobs to yound people there only (no brain drain - no going to US etc) --but it seems 90% of Indian and Chinese engineers and doctors etc are not fit for hiring.
   
  Should that be a cause of concern?
   
  Umesh

mc mahant <mikemahant at hotmail.com> wrote:
      Cmments?
  It's just this:
      
   90% remain back to take China to Space and Beyond-and they get all the support 

  from their well-run State
  mm


  
    
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From:  umesh sharma <jaipurschool at yahoo.com>
Reply-To:  umesh.sh05 at post.harvard.edu
To:  assam at assamnet.org
Subject:  Re: [Assam] Effective AID;India , China dance: World Bank Research E-Newsletter [September,2006]
Date:  Sun, 1 Oct 2006 18:46:52 +0100 (BST)
  

  Was seeing a Discovery Channel presentation on the United Airlines flight from vancouver, canada to DC --about China's incredible growth. It seems China uses 50% of world steel production currently!
     
But in terms of quality of its graduates only 10% meet the standards required by US firms -as per McKinsey report (2005) as per the World Bank report (intro Page 8 ) from the link below.
      
     Any comments?
      
     Umesh
umesh sharma <jaipurschool at yahoo.com> wrote:
          
See the last few --good ones on 
     What is effective Aid -fro developing countries --some of us had reservations about Aid from deeloped countries: http://econ.worldbank.org/external/default/main?pagePK=64165259&theSitePK=469372&piPK=64165421&menuPK=64166093&entityID=000112742_20060911171427

     Also role of Agriculture in poverty reducation -seems promising (have to read it myself though).
      
     And also the one of increasing inequalties in developing countries -might be good. More later.
      
     Umesh
     Research <wbresearch at worldbank.org> wrote:
     
  
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World Development Report 2007: Development and the Next Generation
World Bank Research Digest: Research Findings Every Quarter
Upcoming Book: Dancing with Giants: China, India, and the Global Economy
Research Article: Implementing Market-based Agrarian Reforms in Vietnam
Research Article: Investing in Early Childhood Development
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World Development Report 2007: Development and the Next Generation
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     Developing countries which invest in better education, healthcare, and job training for their record numbers of young people between the ages of 12 and 24 years of age, could produce surging economic growth and sharply reduced poverty, according to 
the World Bank’s World Development Report 2007, released at the Bank-Fund Annual Meetings in Singapore this month. With 1.3 billion young people now living in the developing world—the largest-ever youth group in history—the report says there has never been a better time to invest in youth because they are healthier and better educated than previous generations, and they will join the workforce with fewer dependents because of changing demographics. "Such large numbers of young people living in developing countries present great opportunities, but also risks," said François Bourguignon, the World Bank's Chief Economist and Senior Vice President for Development Economics. "The opportunities are great, as many countries will have a larger, more skilled labor force and fewer dependents. But these young people must be well-prepared in order to create and find good jobs."   
     Full text, overview, and more about the report       
Watch video or listen to audio clips
     More than 3,000 young people in over 35 countries were consulted while writing this report on youth. The main messages of the report are available in a special package for young people on the World Bank’s youth website, Youthink! 
     Join François Bourguignon, the Bank's Chief Economist and Senior Vice President, Development Economics, and Emmanuel Jimenez, the report's director, on 
October 5, 2006 at 9am EDT (13:00 GMT/UTC) in a live online chat session to talk about what developing countries can do to invest in youth and what youth-friendly policies can be adopted to boost economic growth and reduce poverty.
More information    
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World Bank Research Digest: Research Findings Every Quarter
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     Every quarter, the new World Bank Research Digest will offer a number of summaries of noteworthy World Bank research.  The objective of this new publication is to disseminate research findings, a global public good, to development practitioners as widely as possible.  All issues will be available online on the World Bank Research website and linked from this newsletter. The 
first issue, published this month, features an editorial by François Bourguignon, and several research articles on topics ranging from medical practice in New Delhi, to bank supervision and corruption in lending, to child labor, and to the importance of public disclosure of industrial emissions. 
Read the Research Digest online.   
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Dancing with Giants: China, India, and the Global Economy
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     China is now the world's fourth largest economy and growing very fast.  India's economic salience is also on the rise. Together these two countries will profoundly influence the pace and nature of global economic 
change. Drawing upon the latest research, Dancing with Giants, due January 2007, analyzes the influences on the rapid future development of these two countries and examines how their growth is likely to impinge upon other countries. It considers international trade, industrialization, foreign investment and capital flows, and the implications of their broadening environmental footprints. It also discusses how the two countries have tackled poverty, inequality and governance issues and whether progress in these areas will be a key to rapid and stable growth. An early draft of the book is available online. 
Early draft.   
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Implementing Market-based Agrarian Reforms in 
Vietnam
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     Vietnam has probably gone further than any other developing economy in implementing market-based agrarian reforms. The country’s agrarian reforms have followed closely the two steps of the standard policy prescription for transforming a socialist command economy into a market economy: privatize productive assets and then undertake legal reforms to permit free transactions in those assets. The first step entailed breaking up the collectives (where land had been farmed by organized brigades) and assigning the land to individual households by administrative means. The second stage introduced land titles and allowed the use rights over land to be legally transferred and exchanged, mortgaged and inherited. Recent research by World Bank economists Martin Ravallion and Dominique van der Walle finds evidence that land was re-allocated in Vietnam in a way that made up for the initial 
inefficiencies of the administrative assignment of land at the time of de-collectivization. “We found no sign that the transition favored the ‘land rich’ or that it was thwarted by local officials”, said Ravallion, Senior Research Manager, Poverty Research. “In fact, the transition process favored the ‘land poor’—those households who started out with the least holdings.”   
     Read article and working paper
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Investing in Early Childhood Development
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     Profound nutritional and cognitive deficits early in life doom many children in developing countries to 
low educational achievement and low economic productivity. World Bank economists Harold Alderman and Elizabeth King summarize evidence from several studies on Uganda, Madagascar, Bolivia, and the Philippines that investing in nutrition during the pre-school years—as early as possible—reaps significant long-term human capital and economic dividends. Conversely, the damage done by malnutrition (currently to nearly half of under-five children in low-income countries) is difficult and costly to reverse. “Impact evaluation suggests that integrated programs that combine nutritional and health interventions with training in parenting skills and cognitive stimulation may yield the most benefits,” said Elizabeth King, Research Manager, Human Development and Public Services. “These are complex to implement, but worthwhile investments in the long run.”   
     Feature story
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New Policy Research Working Papers
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     These papers, and all older papers, are also available using the Document Search on the Bank's Development Economics Research website and on the Social Sciences Research Network.
     3995. The value of mortality risk reductions in Delhi, India. (Soma Bhattacharya, Anna Alberini, Maureen L. Cropper)
     3996. The African Growth and Opportunity Act, exports, and development in Sub-Saharan Africa. (Paul Brenton, Mombert Hoppe)
     3997. Local inequality and project choice : theory and evidence from Ecuador. (M. Caridad Araujo, Francisco H.G. Ferreira, Peter Lanjouw, Berk Ozler)
     3998. Dimensions of urban poverty in the Europe and Central Asia region. (Infrastructure Department, Europe and Central Asia Region)
     3999. Openness and industrial response in a Wal-Mart world : a case study of Mexican 
soaps, detergents, and surfactant producers. (Beata Javorcik, Wolfgang Keller, James Tybout)   
     4000. Who gets debt relief ? (Nicolas Depetris Chauvin, Aart Kraay)
     4001. Superstition, family planning, and human development. (Quy-Toan Do, Tung Duc Phung)
     4002. Latin American universities and the third mission : trends, challenges, and policy 
options. (Kristian Thorn, Maarja Soo)   
     4003. Access and risk - friends or foes? Lessons from Chile. (Osvaldo Adasme, Giovanni Majnoni, Myriam Uribe)
     4004. The quality of fiscal adjustment and the long-run growth impact of fiscal policy in Brazil. (Fernando Blanco, Santiago Herrera)
     4005.What is effective aid? How would donors allocate 
It? (Charles Kenny)   
     4006. Financial system structure in Colombia : a proposal for a reform agenda. (Javier De la Cruz, Constantinos Stephanou)
     4007. Increasing inequality in transition economies : is there more to come? (Pradeep Mitra, Ruslan Yemtsiv)
     4008. Group versus individual liability : a field experiment in the 
Philippines. (Xavier Gine, Dean S. Karlan)   
     4009. Azerbaijan's household survey data : explaining why inequality is so low. (Lire Ersado)
     4010. Rural vulnerability in Serbia. (Lire Ersado)
     4011. Fairtrade and market failures in agricultural commodity markets. (Loraine Ronchi)
     4012. Governance matters V: aggregate and individual governance indicators for 1996 - 2005. (Daniel Kaufmann, Aart Kraay, Massimo Mastruzzi)
     4013. The role of agriculture in poverty reduction an empirical perspective. (Luc Christiaensen, Lionel Demery, Jesper Kuhl)
     4014. The World Trade Organization and antidumping in developing countries. (Chad P. 
Bown)   
     4015. Regional impacts of Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization. (Thomas Rutherford, David Tarr)



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