Dissecting culture at work: Conversation with Indian immigrant scientists & engineers in the US industrial sector

Although, there is an apparent consensus about the contagion effects of the current US subprime crisis. However, the transmission and repercussions of US subprime crisis, as well as the nature of the transformation suffered by different economic sectors between the US and other markets are such empirical questions that have not been dealt with comprehensively, yet. In this paper, by utilizing the multivariate GARCH analysis of Engle and Kroner (1995) for which a BEKK representation is adopted, we examine the transmission of the US subprime crisis across BRIC financial markets. Moreover, to identify the extent of contagion, we also inspect the diffusion of US subprime crisis to BRIC equity markets financial and industrial sectors. We found interesting evidence of volatility spillovers from US financial sector to all the BRIC markets financial sectors both in the full sample and crisis period. Similarly, except Chinese industrial sector, we observe contagion effects from US to Brazilian, Russian and Indian equity markets industrial sectors. Our results exhibit direct linkage for both returns and volatility between the US equity market and the BRIC markets. Equity markets of Russia and India, however, were found hardly hit during the crisis period among the BRIC countries. Finally, we found no support for the decoupling view while investigating the fastest growing emerging markets, the BRIC countries.

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Dynamic assessment of agro-industrial sector efficiency and productivity changes among G20 nations

Energy & Environment ◽

10.1177/0958305x211056030 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 0958305X2110560

Author(s):

Ying Feng ◽

Ching-Cheng Lu ◽

I-Fang Lin ◽

Jia-Yan Lin

Keyword(s):

Saudi Arabia ◽

Agricultural Sector ◽

Dynamic Assessment ◽

Dynamic Network ◽

Industrial Sector ◽

Forested Area ◽

The Us ◽

The Uk ◽

The Impact ◽

Efficiency And Productivity

In this study, the Group of 20 (G20; excluding EU economies) were selected as the research objects, and the dynamic network slacks-based model (SBM) was used to evaluate the impact of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and forested area on the efficiency and productivity of the industrial and agricultural sectors from 2011 to 2015. Empirical results showed that: (1) The efficiency of the industrial sector was superior to that of the agricultural sector among the G20 countries. Argentina, Australia, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, the UK, and the US maintained the best industrial sector efficiency values, falling on the efficiency boundary, whereas Argentina, Brazil, Canada, France, Indonesia, South Korea, Russia, and the US had the best agricultural sector efficiency values. (2) Argentina, Indonesia, and the US had the best overall efficiency value of G20 countries. Saudi Arabia (0.0303), China (0.2721), and the UK (0.2809) had the lowest efficiency values. (3) Only France and Germany had higher than average total factor productivity, while Indonesia and Saudi Arabia had declining industrial and agricultural sector productivity. (4) The proportion of forested area (546.02%) was the most important variable to be improved due to the influence of desert topography, followed by the proportion of agricultural output values (60.86%) and the proportion of industrial output values (38.02%) in some countries.

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Adolescent-Parent Relationships in Indian and Indian Immigrant Families in the US

Psychology and Developing Societies ◽

10.1177/097133360802000207 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 20 (2) ◽

pp. 257-275 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Shagufa Kapadia

Keyword(s):

Immigrant Families ◽

Parent Relationships ◽

The Us ◽

Adolescent Parent ◽

Indian Immigrant

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The 'desegregation' of English schools

10.7228/manchester/9781526124852.001.0001 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Olivier Esteves

Keyword(s):

Predominantly White ◽

Social Engineering ◽

Immigrant Children ◽

Local Schools ◽

The Us ◽

Asian Children ◽

Indian Immigrant ◽

1960S And 1970S ◽

The 1960S ◽

Ethnic Associations

In 1960–62, a large number of white autochthonous parents in Southall became very concerned that the sudden influx of largely non-Anglophone Indian immigrant children in local schools would hold back their children’s education. It was primarily to placate such fears that ‘dispersal’ (or ‘bussing’) was introduced in areas such as Southall and Bradford, as well as to promote the integration of mostly Asian children. It consisted in sending busloads of immigrant children to predominantly white suburban schools, in an effort to ‘spread the burden’. This form of social engineering went on until the early 1980s. This book, by mobilising local and national archival material as well as interviews with formerly bussed pupils in the 1960s and 1970s, reveals the extent to which dispersal was a flawed policy, mostly because thousands of Asian pupils were faced with racist bullying on the playgrounds of Ealing, Bradford, etc. It also investigates the debate around dispersal and the integration of immigrant children, e.g. by analysing the way some Local Education Authorities (Birmingham, London) refused to introduce bussing. It studies the various forms that dispersal took in the dozen or so LEAs where it operated. Finally, it studies local mobilisations against dispersal by ethnic associations and individuals. It provides an analysis of debates around ‘ghetto schools’, ‘integration’, ‘separation’, ‘segregation’ where quite often the US serves as a cognitive map to make sense of the English situation.

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Power to the Producers

10.1093/oso/9780199593903.003.0003 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Kenneth C. Shadlen

Keyword(s):

State Policy ◽

Industrial Sector ◽

Patent Law ◽

Export Structure ◽

Pharmaceutical Firms ◽

Health Community ◽

The Us ◽

Us Government ◽

Utility Models ◽

Drug Patents

This chapter analyses Argentina’s minimalist response to the global sea change. The pathway from the President Menem’s 1991 proposal for a new patent law to the 1996 Law on Invention Patents and Utility Models reveals intense Executive–Legislative conflict over how Argentina should introduce drug patents. The US Government and the Argentine Executive fought tirelessly for over-compliance, but failed to secure this outcome. Argentina’s national pharmaceutical firms were able to construct a broad coalition against over-compliance, benefiting from its own considerable resources as well as the support of other actors in the industrial sector and health community. In contrast, the transnational sector was unable to attract allies that could widen its own coalition, as the country’s export structure meant that the principal instrument used to expand coalitions for over-compliance was ineffective. By the end of the 1990s, minimalism had become state policy in Argentina.

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Realities may constrain Russia's naval strategy

Emerald Expert Briefings ◽

10.1108/oxan-db201598 ◽

2015 ◽

Keyword(s):

East Asia ◽

Prime Minister ◽

Industrial Sector ◽

Content Type ◽

Naval Power ◽

Deputy Prime Minister ◽

The Us ◽

German Newspaper ◽

The Government ◽

Vladimir Putin

Subject Russian Naval doctrine Significance The Russian navy's next-generation reconnaissance ships, the Admiral Yury Ivanov-class, are capable of locating gaps in the US Aegis sea-based missile defence system, German newspaper Bild reported on August 6. The first ship was delivered to the fleet on July 26, Russia's Navy Day, at a ceremony attended by President Vladimir Putin and Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, who oversees Russia's military-industrial sector. On the same day the government also released a revised Maritime Doctrine updating the original 2001 text, (revised slightly in 2011). The government is now developing new maritime legislation on the basis of the doctrine. Impacts The new doctrine more explicitly describes NATO as a threat to Russia than previous published military doctrines. Russia's military has reversed its planned East Asia pivot to reinforce its western and northern fronts with NATO. Russia will remain primarily a regional naval power for at least the next decade.

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Fear for Manufacturing? China and the Future of Industry in Brazil and Latin America

The China Quarterly ◽

10.1017/s0305741011001482 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 209 ◽

pp. 59-81 ◽

Cited By ~ 37

Author(s):

Rhys Jenkins ◽

Alexandre de Freitas Barbosa

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

Latin American ◽

Industrial Sector ◽

Export Markets ◽

Technology Products ◽

The Us ◽

Manufactured Exports ◽

The Impact ◽

Latin American Countries ◽

Considerable Concern

AbstractThere has been considerable concern in Latin America over the implications of increased competition from China for local industry. These concerns include the possibility of “deindustrialization,” the increased “primarization” of the region's exports and the difficulties of upgrading manufactured exports into higher technology products. This article examines the impact of Chinese competition both in the domestic market and in export markets on Brazilian industry. It documents the increased penetration of Chinese manufactures in the Brazilian market and the way in which Brazilian exports have lost market share to China in the US, European Union and four Latin American countries. Brazil, because of its more developed and locally integrated industrial sector, is not typical of other Latin American countries and the article also discusses the relevance of the Brazilian experience for the region as a whole.

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