India's sustained and rapid economic growth offers an opportunity to lift millions out of poverty. But this may come at a steep cost to the nation's environment and natural resources. This insightful book analyzes India's growth from an economic perspective and assesses whether …
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Examines how "price consultants" and retailers convince consumers to pay more for less, and how negotiation coaches offer similar advice for businesspeople cutting deals.
This dissertation explores the impacts of resource procurement on economic growth and urbanization in a county through a historical case study, moving on to discuss the welfare impacts of resource-sharing in two regions. The first two essays explore the impact of the Owens Valle…
Consumption binds the worlds of production and marketing to possession and ownership, satisfying the consumer’s functional wants and needs, but also fulfilling hedonic desires related to self-gratification and recreational aspiration. Across the last fifty years, growing consume…
Alibaba Cloud’s preemptible instances are marketed as a type of on-demand instances designed to minimize Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instance costs, similarly to the spot instances offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS). Clients purchase preemptible instances by submitting a bid…
Every year some 3.4 million people worldwide, mostly children, die from diseases associated with poor water quality, sanitation and hygiene. In Pakistan, it is estimated that about 200,000 children die every year of water-related diarrheal diseases. Piped water is commonly thoug…
Teacher retention is a concern in all educational sectors in America. It is of special importance to Islamic schools, which tend to lack the resources necessary in recruiting and training new teachers. This dissertation addressed this problem in full-time Islamic schools in New …
Estimating the value of preventing an episode of illness is a valuable part of the information base supporting the design and assessment of disease control policies and programs. This research measures the value people place on preventing malaria in themselves and members of the…
The water supply and sanitation situation in the developing world is still very inadequate. In Africa, for example, more than 47 percent of urban households are without access to safe water. The condition is even worse in rural areas. This study reports a meta-analysis of more t…
Numerous multinational manufacturers that are producing new or underutilized vaccines are seeking to broaden their focus from traditionally high income markets to low and middle income markets. This market, of over five billion consumers, has conventionally been disregarded duri…