All three of Apple’s major contract manufacturers have operations located in the southern Indian state ofTamil Nadu. The state is a national powerhouse when it comes to electronics and hardware – accounting for 20 percent of the national production. The state is aiming to increase the s...
But first things first. Nowhere is the immigration dimension more evident than in employment — and never has the issue been more urgent, given that unemployment has reached rates not seen for a generation. Nearly eight million jobs have vanished since December 2007. Economists estimate that 100,...
The interlinked insurance and credit contract is an emerging model of agricultural insurance in China. However, the development of interlinked insurance and credit contract and farmers’ demands for it are poorly understood. Based on the wheat farmers on the Loess Plateau in China, a field experimen...
School of Economics and Finance, Xi’an Jiao-Tong University, Xi’an 710049, China 5 School of Economics & Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100864, China 6 Department of Agricultural Economics, EXIM Bank Agricultural University Bangladesh, Chapainawabganj 6300, Bangladesh...