386 research outputs found
Moving up the value chain with South-South cooperation for trade and technology? An analysis of India's trade with East Africa
Full text linkPurpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an early assessment of India’s South-South cooperation
for trade and technology (SSTT) with East Africa, focusing on Ethiopia, Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda and
Tanzania. It aims to analyse the role of SSTT in providing support to targeted sectors.
Design/methodology/approach – The paper examines SSTT, focusing on India and East Africa over a
specific period (2000–2016) of its emergence, and extends the public sponsorship literature in international
business (IB) to better understand the relationship between SSTT and value addition – applying to a
particular case study of SSTT interventions in spices.
Findings – The paper highlights SSTT as a pathway to support value addition in global value chains
(GVCs). Trade between India and East African countries has grown, with three developments over the period
of analysis in particular: shifting trade patterns, growing share of intermediate goods trade and differences in
GVC insertion. However, East African exports are largely of lower value. Capacity building to support
processing capability and thriving markets can encourage greater value addition. Preliminary findings
suggest early gains at the margins, as SSTT interventions have been focusing on capacity boosting with
buffering and bridging mechanisms for increased volume of trade. Moving up the value chain however
requires that specific value-enhancing activities continue to be targeted, building on regional capacities. Our
high-level case study for spices suggests that activities are starting to have a positive effect; however, more
focus is needed to specifically target value creation before export and in particular higher levels of processing.
Practical implications – While findings are preliminary, policy implications emerge to guide SSTT
interventions. There is capacity for building higher value-added supply chains as is evident among East
African countries that trade with each other – future SSTT programmes could tap into this and help build capacity in these higher-value value chains. Future SSTT programmes can take a comprehensive approach
by aiming at interventions at key points of the value chain, and especially at points that facilitate higher value
addition than initial processing. An example is that Ethiopia and Rwanda are likely to benefit from an
expanded spice industry, but the next phase should be towards building processing for value-addition
components of the value chain, such as through trade policies, incentivising exporters to add value to items
before export. From a development perspective, more analysis needs to be done on the value chain itself – for
instance, trade facilitation measures to help processers engage in value chains and to access investments for
increasing value add activities. (iv), Future research should examine more closely the development impacts of
SSTT, namely, the connection between increased trade, local job creation and sustained innovation, as it is
these tangible benefits that will help countries in the Global South realise the benefits of increased trade.
Originality/value – The paper underlines how the SSTT approach can contribute to the critical IB and
GVCs literature using a theoretical grounded approach from public sponsorship theory, and with a unique
lens of development cooperation between countries in the global south and its emerging impact on
development outcomes in these countries
Transition-Metal-Promoted C-N Bond-Formation Processes - Low-Spin FeIII, FeII, and NiII Complexes of 2-[(Arylamido)phenylazo]pyridine - X-ray Structure, Redox- and Spectroelectrochemistry
No full textThe market response to corporate scandals involving CEOs
No full textThis article examines corporate scandals of both a financial and nonfinancial nature between 1993 and 2011 which is expressly linked to a firm’s CEO. Findings suggest that in the short run, investors react adversely to such events and that recalcitrant CEOs end up costing their shareholders dearly. Such scandals are more likely to occur among large firms, firms with insiders on the board and where the value of options granted to a firm’s managers is substantial. However, firms with more cash flows are less likely to be mired in such scandals, and their stock returns are less likely to be affected. There is an increase in stock price volatility of affected firms in the days following the announcement of the scandal. A point of respite for investors is the damage being confined to the short run. The stock price performance of the firms affected by the scandals matches the performance of control firms in the long run post-announcement. However, the operating performance of the sample firms is better than their matched counterparts in the years after the scandal. We contribute to the extant literature by considering corporate scandal events that are the doings of a firm’s CEO and not necessarily financially motivate
Cover Story piece on the author and his wife, Amrita, who recently and unsucce
No full textCover Story piece on the author and his wife, Amrita, who recently and unsuccessfully auditioned with Dee Cooke, a modeling agent from Belgrade
Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia: A Conversation Among Artemis Christinaki, Amrita Narayanan, and Avgi Saketopoulou
No full textThis transcribed conversation of an online dialogue between Artemis Christinaki, Amrita Narayanan, and Avgi Saketopoulou introduces readers to Saketopoulou’s recently published book, Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia. With astute questions and through a series of probing observations, Christinaki and Narayanan engage the author, opening up crucial dimensions of psychoanalysis, gender and sexuality studies, and politics. The exchange tracks the three main signifiers of the book, risk, race, and traumatophilia, and articulates Saketopoulou’s critical concern with the traumatophobic logics rippling through the field. What emerges is a rich discussion of how Saketopoulou’s three terms work within psychoanalysis and the risks, opportunities, and challenges they unfurl in the clinic and in the broader field of psychosocial and psychoanalytic studies.<br/
Synthesis, structure and redox properties of isomeric [RuCl2(L)2] (L=N-aryl-1,2-arylenediimine) complexes formed by the oxidative dimerization of coordinated aromatic amines
No full textRuthenium Complexes of 2-[(4-(Arylamino)phenyl)azo]pyridine Formed via Regioselective Phenyl Ring Amination of Coordinated 2-(Phenylazo)pyridine: Isolation of Products, X-ray Structure, and Redox and Optical Properties
No full textDynamic Super Round Based Distributed Task Scheduling for UAV Networks
Full text linkNetworks of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are emerging in many application domains, e.g., military surveillance. To perform collaborative tasks, the involved UAVs exchange several types of information, e.g., sensor data and commands. The major question here is how to schedule the tasks under dynamic traffic flows to provide network services. Existing solutions use the Round-Robin Strategy (RRS), where the tasks are scheduled statistically by dividing the time into fixed-length rounds. However, the RRS wastes significant network and device resources due to task scheduling in each round. This paper proposes DROVE – a novel clustering approach that allows the UAVs for dynamic task scheduling. However, determining the task scheduling is crucial, as it significantly affects several network parameters, e.g., throughput. Therefore, we devise the problem of distributed task scheduling under dynamic traffic flow scenarios to optimize the throughput. We propose a clustering task scheduling algorithm to serve dynamic traffic flows. Particularly, we integrate the dynamic traffic flows into the Lyapunov drift analysis framework, and determine the throughput optimality of our proposed scheduling algorithm. We perform extensive simulations to validate the effectiveness of DROVE. The results show that DROVE outperforms the state-of-the-art solutions in terms of energy consumption, clustering overhead, throughput, end-to-end delay, flow success rate and packet drop rate. </p
Amrita Nandy. Motherhood and Choice: Uncommon Mothers, Childfree Women
Full text linkIn Motherhood and Choice: Uncommon Mothers, Childless Women the author wishes to shed light on gender roles and gendered structures in ideas and practices of motherhood and (non-) mothering in (North) India across “institutions, experience and agency” through a feminist post-structuralist perspective. Struck by her own uncertainty about motherhood despite the apparent ubiquity and compulsions of pro-natalism and the naturalization of women as mothers, Amrita Nandy selected the theme for her d..
Reliable unicast and geocast protocols in underwater inter-vehicle communications
No full textUnderwater networks are envisioned to enable several applications for oceanographic data collection, environmental monitoring, navigation and tactical surveillance. Many applications make use of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) equipped with underwater sensors. Underwater communication links are based on acoustic wireless technology, which poses challenges due to the unique underwater environment such as high propagation delays, high bit error rates, and temporary losses of connectivity caused by multipath and fading phenomena. For data collection and monitoring tasks, underwater vehicles can either periodically send the measured data to the surface station (sink) or the sink can initiate a query to the sensors asking for the information of interest. The former case is reduced to unicasting, where the data is sent periodically by nodes to a specific destination, i.e., the surface station. In the later case, query dissemination can involve either broadcasting or geocasting technique, depending on whether the query is sent to all the nodes, or a subset of nodes based on location respectively. As broadcasting can be viewed as a special case of geocasting, geocast protocols provide a general routing scheme for query dissemination. In either of the cases, reliability is a crucial factor for underwater communications.
Reliability, especially in a mobile environment, is a major concern due to network dynamics. Due to the high propagation delays involved in underwater communications, we do not consider transport solutions for reliable communications. Rather, we consider the lower layers for ensuring reliability. In this work, three versions of unicasting and geocasting protocols have been proposed, which integrate Medium Access Control (MAC) and routing functionalities and leverage different levels of neighbor knowledge for making optimum routing decisions. Performance evaluation has been done for unicast protocols in terms of different end-to-end metrics for static and mobile scenarios with an aim of finding an optimal level of neighbor knowledge required in either of these scenarios. It is observed that based on different end-to-end metrics considered, one version of unicast protocol outperforms the other. Thus, based on the application requirements and scenarios considered, an optimum level of neighbor knowledge can be utilized for periodic data delivery from nodes to the surface station.M.S.Includes bibliographical references (p. 60-62)
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