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The agriculture sector can play an important role in poverty reduction and sustained growth in Afghanistan, primarily through job creation, improved productivity, and inclusiveness. Using an 'agricultural jobs lens' and multidimensional approach, this report explores the sector's direct and indirect roles in explaining the dynamics of rural employment. The report critically examines three dimensions. First, it evaluates the current jobs structure in rural areas and finds that rural jobs are concentrated in cereal agriculture, especially in wheat, which reflects why the returns from jobs in agriculture are low in Afghanistan. Second, it analyzes the inclusive nature of agriculture jobs for vu...
Shivam meets Shivi on board a train, as he makes his way from Varanasi to Kota. He is all set to chase his dreams of becoming a student at IIT, when he realizes he falls in love with Shivi. He loses her number on the train, and begins to think he may never see her again: when life plays cupid and brings them both under one roof, through the most uncanny of circumstances. The two of them spend many moments together, courting each other and enjoying the joys of young love: but life has a different hand to deal. Will Shivam and Shivi’s love last forever?
Eternally Enchanted is a riveting love story between two young medical professionals Dr. Abhishek and Dr. Kanimozhi. The story begins when young and suave Dr. Abhishek join as a senior resident in general medicine in a hospital in Pondicherry. The story narrates how two of them meet in an unlikely place in an unlikely circumstances and how slowly they attracted to each other. The story takes a poignant turn when Dr. Kanimozhi is diagnosed with cancer and how Abhishek stands with her in thick and thin like rock solid. The love story between them is enchanting and love between them is eternal.
This report investigates the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in helping developing countries participate in global value chains (GVCs). It combines the perspectives and strategies from three types of players: multinational corporations, domestic firms and governments. It aims to provide practical guidance for developing countries to develop strategies that use FDI to strengthen GVC participation and upgrading. The report has six main chapters: 1.FDI and GVCs. Assesses the trade-investment nexus and analyzes the effect of FDI in countries’ GVC participation and upgrading at the country level. 2.MNCs shape GVC development. Highlights MNCs' contribution to global economy and how their...
This book covers several new areas in the growing field of analytics with some innovative applications in different business contexts, and consists of selected presentations at the 6th IIMA International Conference on Advanced Data Analysis, Business Analytics and Intelligence. The book is conceptually divided in seven parts. The first part gives expository briefs on some topics of current academic and practitioner interests, such as data streams, binary prediction and reliability shock models. In the second part, the contributions look at artificial intelligence applications with chapters related to explainable AI, personalized search and recommendation, and customer retention management. T...
Manufacturing-led development has provided the traditional model for creating jobs and prosperity. But in the past three decades the conventional pattern of structural transformation has changed, with the services sector growing faster than the manufacturing sector. This raises critical questions about the ability of developing economies to close productivity gaps with advanced economies and to create good jobs for more people. At Your Service? The Promise of Services-Led Development (www.worldbank.org/services-led-development) assesses the scope of a services-driven development model and policy directions that can maximize the model’s potential.
This book contains the proceedings of 5th International Conference on Advances in AI for Biomedical Instrumentation, Electronics and Computing (ICABEC - 2023), which provided an international forum for the exchange of ideas among researchers, students, academicians, and practitioners. It presents original research papers on subjects of AI, Biomedical, Communications & Computing Systems. Some interesting topics it covers are enhancing air quality prediction using machine learning, optimization of leakage power consumption using hybrid techniques, multi-robot path planning in complex industrial dynamic environment, enhancing prediction accuracy of earthquake using machine learning algorithms and advanced machine learning models for accurate cancer diagnostics. Containing work presented by a diverse range of researchers, this book will be of interest to students and researchers in the fields of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Computer Science Engineering, Information Technology, Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, Computer applications and all interdisciplinary streams of Engineering Sciences.
Materials and manufacturing techniques are a few of the vital processes in production industries. Most of the materials processing and manufacturing techniques currently used in industries are a major cause of environmental pollution and are hence unsustainable. This book provides in-depth knowledge about challenges faced during the processing of advanced materials and discusses possible ways to achieve sustainability in manufacturing. This book: Covers advances in cryogenic machining, optimization, and economical and energy assessment of machining Provides case studies and numerical design with analysis using computational fluid dynamics of minimum quantity lubrication mist droplets Reviews...
Global value chains (GVCs) powered the rapid expansion of international trade after 1990. Countries import not only for domestic consumption, but also to export, and transactions typically involve long-term, firm-to-firm relationships rather than anonymous spot market transactions. Trade and the rise of GVCs enabled an unprecedented convergence: poor countries grew faster and began to catch up with richer countries. More than 1 billion people escaped poverty as a result. Since the Great Recession, the growth of trade has been sluggish and the expansion of GVCs has slowed down. At the same time, potentially serious threats have emerged to the model of labor-intensive, trade-led growth. New la...