Are Europeans Spending Too Little On Health Care ComparedTo The US? – Tomas Philipson
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New institutional economics and corruption — Indian perspective
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Great blog with many interesting posts
A nice paper from Murali Patibandla of IIM-B.
He brings these interesting insights from New Institutional economics to help understand issues and corruption in India:
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Uneven development, uneven sex ratios
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Hey, you got your postmodern technology in my premodern ideology!
A new article in the Lancet shows convincing evidence of increasing sex-selective abortion in India. The evidence for sex ratio at birth shows an increase in the number of boys born when older children in the family are girls – the best (indirect) indicator that people with a preference for sons are having abortions when ultrasounds show a female fetus.
In a population where no one tampers with the sex ratio at birth, there will be about 104 boys born for every 100 girls – nature’s way of correcting for the tendency of the weaker sex (males) to die more. In India, that number is about 106 now. That’s not so bad, compared with some other countries, such as Vietnam (111) and Taiwan (109) — or China’s colossal 118. But when you look at the ratios…
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Security services can be stretched quite easily in their surveillance of terrorist suspects
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