Organizational Barriers to Adoption of New Technology
From the Blog lahoreschoolofeconomics *An experiment in the production of soccer balls suggests that sharing production gains with workers helps firms embrace change*. Slow diffusion of promising new technology has long been the bane of inventors, innovators, company owners, and enterprising employees who recognize opportunities to improve productivity. In Organizational Barriers to Technology Adoption: Evidence from Soccer-ball Producers in Pakistan (NBER Working Paper No. 21417), David Atkin, Azam Chaudhry, Shamyla Chaudry, Amit K. Khandelwal, and Eric Verhoogen explore reasons for resistance to change. A traditional soccer ball has 20 hexagons and 12 pentagons cut from sheets of artificial leather known as rexine. A metal die and hydraulic press are used to cut the panels from laminated rexine sheets. In the coupakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
Mixing politics and cricket
From the Blog mehmalThere is a cricket series scheduled between India and Pakistan in December 2015 but due to the tense political relations between the two neighbours, nobody is certain whether it will take place or not. Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) officials — Chairman Shaharyar Khan and PCB executive committee chief, Najam Sethi — were recently invited to Mumbai by BCCI President Shashank Manohar for talks to chart the way forward. Shiv Sena members stormed the BCCI headquarters on the day the meeting was scheduled to be held, which compelled the BCCI to postpone the talks until after next Sunday’s match with South Africa. The Pakistani media is now speculating whether the series has been cancelled or not. According to Mr Najam Sethi, if the BCCI had wanted to cancel the series it would have sipakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
Pakistan Earthquake 26 October 2015: Relief and Support
From the Blog chowrangi Earthquake in Pakistan: October 26, 2015 A powerful earthquake struck Pakistan and Afghanistan at 2.09pm on Monday afternoon. The quake was 213 km (132 miles) deep and centered 254 km (158 miles) northeast of Kabul in Badakhshan province. The U.S. Geological Survey initially measured the magnitude at 7.7, then revised it down to 7.5. Forty [...] The post Pakistan Earthquake 26 October 2015: Relief and Support appeared first on Chowrangi. pakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
Earthquake Aftermath: Death toll in Chitral crosses 30, more than 200 injured
From the Blog pamirtimes[image: DSC00864]Islamabad/Chitral: The Chitral district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhawa province, located in the close proximity of Afghanistan, has been devastated by the 7.7 magnitude earthquake. The Deputy Commissioner of Chitral, quoting hospital sources, has put the death toll at 28, adding that more than 200 people have sustained medium to severe injuries in earthquake triggered disasters across the mountainous district. […]pakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
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