Over 70% of the population in India lives in the rural areas of the country. The needs of this vast population, subsistence or otherwise (livelihood related), have been addressed by several programmes and initiatives guided by central or state policies. The policies or ensuing programmes have, however, been sectoral—planned and managed by specific ministries or departments. Energy too has been ...

BACKGROUND At the hilum of the liver, there is a structure called the hilar plate, which is of great surgical importance because all variations in the bile ducts and blood vessels occur within this region. The Rex-Cantlie line does not always pass the point of portal bifurcation. Classifying portal vein (PV) variations based on the shape and origin of anterior sectoral trunk (AST) within the he...

this paper estimates the effects of increase in iran’s non-oil exports on its economic growth as well as sectoral outputs, using a single country, comparative static, exogenous policy computable general equilibrium (cge) model. the paper also investigates the share of tradable sectors in reaching to the targeted growth rate (8%) in 5th socio-economic development plan. for this purpose, the para...

INTRODUCTION Management of the biliary ducts during liver resection is one of the most important challenges for hepatobiliary surgeons. Here, we report the case of a left hepatic trisectionectomy for hilar cholangiocarcinoma with a rare aberrant biliary duct of segment 5, which, to the best of our knowledge, has never been reported in previous literature. CASE PRESENTATION A 56-year-old Asian...

Latecomer sectors in late-industrializing economies follow different patterns in their development and growth processes, which largely determine the share acquired from the global value chain. The development and growth process of the sectors is generally argued to be the result of the interaction of macro level specific institutional context and micro level firm strategic choices. In this stud...

This paper explores the relationship between output volatility and economic development. We develop a methodology to assess countries’ extent of sectoral diversification. The productive structure of a country tends to be risky when the country (i) specializes in highly volatile sectors, (ii) has high sectoral concentration, and/or (iii) specializes in sectors highly affected by country-specific...

BACKGROUND The burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and their risk factors is increasing in sub-Saharan Africa, and there have been calls for adopting a multi-sectoral approach in developing policies and programs to address this burden. Evidence exists largely from high-income countries on the success (and lack thereof) of multi-sectoral approach in improving population level health outco...

PURPOSE To quantify the effects of using the fovea to Bruch's membrane opening (FoBMO) axis as the nasal-temporal midline for 30° sectoral (clock-hour) spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SDOCT) optic nerve head (ONH) minimum rim width (MRW) and area (MRA) calculations. METHODS The internal limiting membrane and BMO were delineated within 24 radial ONH B-scans in 222 eyes of 222 par...

We document sectoral differences in changes in output, hours worked, prices and nominal wages in the US during the Great Depression. We explore whether contractionary monetary shocks combined with different degrees of nominal wage frictions across sectors are consistent with both sectoral as well as aggregate facts. To do so, we construct a two-sector model where goods from each sector are used...

This paper uses a multisector sticky price model with cash-in-advance constraint to examine the implications of sectoral nominal price rigidities for the cyclical behavior of sectoral and aggregate movements in prices and output. The data suggest that correlations between sectoral output and price changes are substantially lower than would be implied by a flexible price model with sectoral tech...