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Research Activities<br />
political. affiliation. significantly. affect. fund.<br />
utilization..It.also.concludes.that.a.higher.level.<strong>of</strong>.<br />
awareness. <strong>of</strong>. general. citizens. and. better. law. and.<br />
order. conditions. in. States. restrict. the. MPs. from.<br />
misusing.funds.to.gain.political.mileage.<br />
Srijit. Mishra’s. “Counter. Conflict. through.<br />
Mutuality:. Lessons. from. Bayesian. Updating”.<br />
uses. Bayesian. updating. to. deterministic. priors,.<br />
and. explains. the. persistence. <strong>of</strong>. a. fundamentalist.<br />
belief.. Under. such. a. belief. system,. if. conditional.<br />
evidence. is. diametrically. opposite. and. is. also.<br />
deterministic,. then. a. process. <strong>of</strong>. change. can. set.<br />
in..In.situations.<strong>of</strong>.conflict,.this.could.be.explored.<br />
through.dialogue.that.calls.for.mutual.respect.and.<br />
allows. reasonable. pluralism.. In. situations. where.<br />
interaction. is. the. basis,. self-defeating. scenarios.<br />
can.be.avoided.by.giving.space.to.others..Thus,.in.<br />
the.political.sphere.one.has.to.be.accommodative..<br />
Showing.concern.towards.others.also.make.things.<br />
easier.for.deterring.conflicts.<br />
Labor economics<br />
In. the. paper. titled. “Impact. <strong>of</strong>. Communist. Parties.<br />
on. the. Individual. Decision. to. Join. Trade. Union:.<br />
Evidence.from.India”,.(The Developing Economies,.<br />
forthcoming.in.Vol..48,.No..4,.<strong>2010</strong>).Rupayan.Pal.<br />
analyzes. the. impact. <strong>of</strong>. the. reach. <strong>of</strong>. ‘communist.<br />
parties’,.the.degree.<strong>of</strong>.political.activism,.personal.<br />
attributes.<strong>of</strong>.workers,.and.industrial.characteristics.<br />
on. the. individual. decision. to. unionize. for. Indian.<br />
non-agricultural.regular.workers.using.micro.data.<br />
from.the.2004-05.Employment.and.Unemployment.<br />
Survey,. NSSO,. linked. to. state-level. factors..<br />
A. notable. result. is. that. the. reach. <strong>of</strong>. communist.<br />
parties. has. considerable. effect. on. unionization.<br />
probability..Moreover,.it.seems.that.mere.existence.<br />
<strong>of</strong>. ‘communist. parties’. in. a. state. also. facilitates.<br />
unionization. to. some. extent.. State-level. political.<br />
activism. and. unemployment. rate. also. influence.<br />
the. individual. decision. to. be. unionist.. The. paper.<br />
concludes.also.that.worker’s.gender,.marital.status,.<br />
ethnic.background,.employment.status,.experience,.<br />
occupation,. sector. <strong>of</strong>. employment,. establishment.<br />
size,.and.type.<strong>of</strong>.industry.remain.important.in.the.<br />
determination.<strong>of</strong>.union.membership.<br />
international trade<br />
In. their. paper. “Ranking. Countries:. What. Can. We.<br />
Learn.from.India’s.Imports?”.(Journal <strong>of</strong> Quantitative<br />
Economics,. Vol. 7,. No.2,. July. <strong>2009</strong>),. Abhiroop.<br />
Mukhopadhyay,. S.. Chandrasekhar. and. Rajendra. R.<br />
Vaidya. derive. country. ranks. using. disaggregated.<br />
Indian. import. data. over. 1991-2005. by. using.<br />
the. intuition. that. developed. countries. would.<br />
export.more.advanced.goods.to.India.earlier.than.<br />
other. countries.. Their. ranks. take. into. account.<br />
censorship. in. the. data,. i.e.. the. possibility. that.<br />
some. countries. may. be. too. advanced. or. too.<br />
primitive.to.export.a.commodity.during.the.period.<br />
<strong>of</strong>. our. study.. Their. results. highlight. the. rise. <strong>of</strong>.<br />
China. as. a. major. trading. powerhouse.. They. find.<br />
that. after. controlling. for. distance,. the. per. capita.<br />
GDP.and.workforce.<strong>of</strong>.the.country.are.significant.<br />
determinants.<strong>of</strong>.their.rank.ordering.<br />
It. has. been. observed. that. outward. direct.<br />
investment. from. China. and. India. has. surged.<br />
during. the. last. decade,. though. they. are. as. yet.<br />
developing. economies,. with. low. ranking. <strong>of</strong>. their.<br />
per. capita. domestic. output. at. current. exchange.<br />
rate.. In. order. to. explain. the. reasons. for. the.<br />
surge,. and. whether. or. not. such. outflows. follow.<br />
the. historical. pattern,. or. whether. they. represent.<br />
something. new. and. different,. R.. Nagaraj. in. his.<br />
note. “Outward. FDI. from. China. and. India:. A.<br />
Preliminary. Comparison”,. (in. Hideki. Esho. and.<br />
Peng. Xu. edited. International Competitiveness,<br />
Globalisation and Multinationalisation <strong>of</strong> Firms:<br />
A Comparison <strong>of</strong> China and India,. <strong>Institute</strong>. <strong>of</strong>.<br />
Comparative.Economic.Studies,.Hosei.University,.<br />
Tokyo). <strong>of</strong>fers. an. answer,. using. mostly. aggregate.<br />
economic.statistics..<br />
Trade. liberalization. is. expected. to. bring. about.<br />
<strong>Indira</strong> <strong>Gandhi</strong> <strong>Institute</strong> <strong>of</strong> Development Research 17