Comment on Das Gupta’s comment

On Explaining Asia’s “Missing Women”: Comment on Das Gupta

IN AN EARLIER issue of this journal, Monica Das Gupta (2005) comments on a recent paper of mine. Her comment was based on Oster (2005a), a working paper version of Oster (2005b); in general, the two versions do not differ , but I will distinguish between them when they do. In that paper, I attempt to connect the issue of the gender imbalance in Asia—the " missing women " —with the prevalence of...

Comment 9: Comment on Chapter 13

Under EMU,monetary policy is oriented towards union-wide economic conditions, and cannot effectively address country-specific macroeconomic disturbances. Should national fiscal policy be used more actively, for stabilizing individual economies, now that exchange rate changes among member countries are no longer possible? Several recent studies answer this important normative question, based on ...

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Identical Starting-Points. A consequence of the globalization of our lives is also manifest in the similarities in the discussion about the phenomenon "information society" in such countries as Thailand and Germany, which are so far apart in distance, history and culture. At first glance, the subject-matter, structure and rhetoric of this discussion are the same here as there. The main concern ...

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