This paper uses a theory-based measure of productivity-based comparative advantage to examine the trade performance of developing Asian economies in manufacturing and services over the 1995–2011 perio...
by Ben Shepherd | On 20 Jan 2019 This paper analyses the dramatic spread of education and healthcare in Asia and also the large variations in that spread across and within countries over fifty years. Apart from differences in initial...
by Sudipto Mundle | On 14 Jan 2019 This paper presents an overview of India’s health capacity in managing disaster risks. It looks at demographic, epidemiological and developmental transitions in India and how that impacts decision mak...
by Supriya Krishnan | On 14 Jan 2019 Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the backbone of the Asian economy. They make up more than 96% of all Asian businesses, providing two out of three private-sector jobs on the continent. Th...
by Naoyuki Yoshino | On 02 Jan 2019 A large empirical literature finds that financial development is beneficial for economic growth, although some recent evidence suggests otherwise. The paper contributes to the finance–growth literatur...
by Gemma Estrada | On 19 Oct 2018 Lack of access to reliable information on environmental exposure limits opportunities for risk avoiding behavior, particularly in developing countries. Private markets could potentially play a role in...
by Ricardo Maertens | On 04 Oct 2018 This Policy Note assesses the extent to which the products of the Philippines and Taiwan compete with or complement each other using the Balassa revealed comparative advantage (RCA) index and other tr...
by Ritchelle J. Alburo | On 03 Oct 2018 This study aims to determine the effect of supply chain integration on the business performance and competitiveness of small and medium enterprises in the Philippines. A survey of 384 small and medium...
by Elaine Q. Borazon | On 20 Sep 2018 Risk management is a systematic approach to determine which goods and passengers need
to be examined in detail when entering a country. It involves (i) collecting, storing, and
analyzing data to und...
by Asian Development Bank | On 19 Sep 2018 The paper constructs a new measure of the changing generosity of deposit insurance for many countries, empirically model the international influences on the adoption and generosity of deposit insuranc...
by Charles W. Calomiris | On 03 Sep 2018 The reduction of poverty is at the heart of the development agenda both nationally and globally. This is reflected in the Philippine Development Plan, and the worldwide commitment toward the Sustainab...
by Jose Ramon G. Albert | On 27 Aug 2018 This paper analyzes a critical aspect of expanding private finance to infrastructure by examining the role of bank lending to public–private partnership (PPP) projects through the project finance moda...
by Vivek Rao | On 24 Aug 2018 The cost of finance has a relatively high impact on the returns and viability of clean energy projects compared with fossil fuel-based energy projects, because the operating costs for renewable energy...
by Purkayastha Dhruba | On 13 Aug 2018 This paper verifies the impact of bank account information, such as information on deposits and withdrawals, that is not necessarily fully accounted for in conventional internal ratings and that can a...
by Naoko Nemoto | On 10 Aug 2018 The paper analyses a nationally representative data set from India for the year 2013 in order to provide evidence on how short term migration is affected by household's ownership of land, and particip...
by Rajeswari Sengupta | On 25 Jul 2018 Gross capital inflows and outflows to and from emerging market economies (EMEs) have witnessed a significant increase since early 2000s. This rapid increase in these flows accompanied by sharp rise in...
by Ashima Goyal | On 25 Jul 2018 Ensuring the realization of the full potential of the incumbent DRRM policy requires appropriate sectoral and institutional translation of its espoused principles; reflecting more refined institutiona...
by Sonny N. Domingo | On 06 Jul 2018 This Policy Note revisits the risk management policy of BSP as a guide in strengthening the competitiveness of Philippine banks. It also recommends measures to further refine the banking system in the...
by Roberto Miguel S. Roque | On 29 Jun 2018 This paper reviews the existing framework for infrastructure development and the associated standards in India, and identifies areas for concern. Rather than deeply analysing any one standard, this pa...
by Sanhita Sapatnekar | On 15 Jun 2018 India has experienced a remarkable proliferation of 48 Government Funded Health Insurance Schemes (GFHIS) from 1997 to 2018. The paper places the rise of this policy pathway in historical perspective....
by Ila Patnaik | On 15 Jun 2018 The report says that the goal is to promote community leadership in strengthening capabilities and resource mobilization.
by National Alliance Risk Reduction (NAADRR) | On 05 Apr 2018 The issue of global labour standards has been at the forefront of both regional and
multilateral trade negotiations over the past two decades, and will likely remain high on the
agenda of future tra...
by | On 28 Mar 2018 The demand for environmental quality is often presumed to be low in developing
countries due to poverty. Less attention has been paid to the possibility that lack
of awareness about the adverse heal...
by | On 22 Mar 2018 The issue of land and water for crops. It examines the
kinds of production responses needed to meet demand. It also assesses the potential
of the world’s land and water resources to support these de...
by Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO] | On 22 Mar 2018 This paper seeks to draw lessons for developing countries based on a survey of the recent literature on financial globalization. First, while capital account openness holds promises (by potentially lo...
by Shang-Jin Wei | On 10 Mar 2018 This paper evaluates the current status of the Indian Rupee as an international currency using the Chinn and Frankel (2008) framework, and explores the possibility of future Indian Rupee international...
by Shekhar Hari Kumar | On 27 Feb 2018 UNICEF, WHO, World Bank global and regional child malnutrition estimates from 1990
to 2017 reveal that we are still far from a world without
malnutrition. The joint estimates, published in May 2017,...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 25 Jan 2018 The paper says that the Community Disaster Resilience Fund (CDRF) is viewed as a mechanism to direct resources for DRR to at risk and vulnerable communities in the context of local implementation of t...
by National Alliance for Disaster Risk Reduction NADRR | On 10 Jan 2018 With the onset of wide-ranging economic reforms in India in 1991, agents have been exposed to increased price risk in commodity markets. Futures markets are one important instrument for reducing price...
by Raushan Kumar | On 07 Nov 2017 About two-thirds of microfinance clients in India are reported to be in Self-Help Groups (SHGs). These mostly women’s groups have been promoted by nationalized banks since the early nineties to improv...
by Jean-Marie Baland | On 06 Nov 2017 This paper identifies the increasingly dominant role of intra-industry trade (IIT) in India’s total merchandise trade at different disaggregated levels of data during the post liberalization era (1990...
by | On 09 Oct 2017 The contribution of fisheries sector to Indian merchandise trade and to world fishery trade is substantial. The items traded have gained reputation over the years which will help to keep the momentum...
by Veena Renjini K K | On 13 Sep 2017 This paper, based on a primary survey of companies engaged in organic food business in India and the United Kingdom (UK), examines how organic food can attract more investment (domestic and foreign) a...
by Arpita Mukherjee | On 08 Aug 2017 The Report projects, under different scenarios, the capital requirements till March 2018 in order that provisions are prudent, there is adequate balance sheet growth to support the needs of the econom...
by Reserve Bank of India RBI | On 08 Aug 2017 The paper attempts to find out whether the credit risk regulatory capital of Indian banks is commensurate with the default experience associated with ratings assigned by the Indian rating agencies. Th...
by Ajay Kumar Choudhary | On 04 Aug 2017 This paper provides a comparative assessment of CPI and WPI in terms of its key characteristics, particularly on the method of compilation, distributional properties and measures of underlying inflat...
by Praggya Das | On 04 Aug 2017 An analysis of the impact of government borrowing from the scheduled banks on the credit to private
sector in Pakistan, using monthly data from 1998:M6 to 2015:M12. We find that a one percentage
poi...
by Sajjad Zaheer | On 31 Jul 2017 This study looks at the roles that local women leaders can play in addressing the important environmental health issue of sanitation and hand hygiene by improving access to quality sanitation and hygi...
by Atonu Rabbani | On 25 Jul 2017 The purpose of this note is to help development practitioners gather relevant information, conduct analysis, and present both in a standardized diagnostic framework. In addition to the guidance note i...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 14 Jul 2017 This publication is a continuation of the APWF Framework Document on Water and Climate Change Adaptation, developed for leaders and policy-makers in Asia and the Pacific in 2012.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 12 Jul 2017 This report describes the conduct of the cost-benefit analysis of climate proofing investment projects. An important message is that the presence of uncertainty about climate change does not invalidat...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 10 Jul 2017 The results of this study can be used to strengthen the institutional and statistical capacities of Georgia to routinely collect, compile, analyze, and disseminate internationally comparable financial...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 07 Jul 2017 This paper presents a summary of a technical assistance project on the development of disaster risk financing solutions for the cities of Can Tho and Hue and, by extension, for other cities in Viet Na...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 26 Jun 2017 The paper suggests that the impacts of climate change in Southeast Asia may be larger than previously estimated, possibly reaching 11% of gross domestic product by 2100.
by David Raitzer | On 19 Jun 2017 This report reviews trade and transport procedures in Bangladesh, highlights the importance of monitoring trade and transport facilitation, and lays a foundation for future studies and establishment o...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 12 Jun 2017 The report sets out the experience, analysis and conclusions of VisionFund International and their Philippine microfinance operation Community Economic Ventures Incorporated (CEVI). This analysis foll...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 09 Jun 2017 The report notes that yields for 2-year and 10-year local currency government bonds in emerging East Asia were mostly lower between 1 June and 15 August and stock markets in the region recorded gains...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 23 May 2017 This paper draws on the background research by Saumya Mitra. PSDI thanks Erik Aelbers for preparing Appendix 2: Credit Guarantee Schemes in the Pacific, and Melissa Dayrit and Amanda Lucas-Frith for h...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 11 May 2017 The Asia-Pacific Sustainable Development Goals Outlook report aims to develop a shared
understanding of the opportunities and challenges confronting the region. This report provides a goalby-goal
sn...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 04 May 2017 This paper investigates the information role of algorithmic traders (AT) in the Nifty index option market.
I analyse a unique dataset to test for information-based trading by looking at the effect of...
by Rohini Grover | On 04 May 2017 The paper asks what drives insurance coverage in low income households by analysing repurchase
patterns of micro-insurance policies. The paper uses data on customers of a financial services provider...
by Renuka Sane | On 03 May 2017 South Asia continues to be one of the most important crisis regions in the 21st century. It is characterized by an interlocking web of old and new security risks. There are unresolved territorial disp...
by | On 17 Apr 2017 This new ILO Global Wage Report – the fifth in a series that now spans over a decade – contributes to this agenda by making comparative data and information on recent wage trends available to governme...
by International Labour Organization [ILO] | On 14 Apr 2017 The National Mental Health Survey is a joint collaborative effort of nearly 500 professionals,
comprising of researchers, state level administrators, data collection teams and others from the
12 sta...
by National Institute of Mental Health & Neurosciencn NIMHANS | On 07 Apr 2017 We derive a non-standard unit root serial correlation formulation for intertemporal adjustments in the labor force participation rate. This leads to a tractable three-error component model, which in c...
by | On 01 Mar 2017 We test the hypothesis, based on popular and theoretical perspectives, that entrepreneurs are more action-oriented than other occupational groups. We compare their playing strategies in an optimal sto...
by | On 21 Feb 2017 Data from two recent NSSO surveys are analysed to provide estimates of expenditure on higher education
and loans availed for higher education. The average share of expenditure on higher education out...
by S. Chandrasekhar | On 03 Jan 2017 The promise of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) is that evidence gathered through the evaluation of a
specific program helps us—possibly after several rounds of fine-tuning and multiple replicatio...
by Abhijit Banerjee | On 14 Dec 2016 Global Burden of Diseases is an annual effort to measure the health of populations at regional, country, and selected subnational levels. GBD produces estimates of mortality and morbidity by cause, a...
by | On 29 Nov 2016 The increasing level of competition for foreign direct investment (FDI) in the ‘90s triggered
many countries to offer various fiscal incentives. Specifically, many Asian countries persistently
keep...
by Ma. Laarni D. Revilla | On 11 Nov 2016 This study examines the savings and investment pattern of select college going students (Age: 17-25 years) in the city of Mumbai who has just begun to earn. The study also looks into the basic financi...
by | On 25 Oct 2016 This research explores the effects of culture on technological diffusion and economic development.
It shows that culture’s direct effects on development and barrier effects to
technological diffusio...
by Ani Harutyunyan | On 07 Oct 2016 This paper attempts to address some of these shortcomings and to move the debate beyond the simplistic focus of including vulnerable groups within disaster risk reduction (DRR) policy-making. By promo...
by | On 26 Sep 2016 Although evidence shows that women are both victims of climate change and important contributors of knowledge and skills in disaster risk, adaptation and mitigation strategies, the gender perspective...
by | On 23 Sep 2016 Rising prices and declining consumption of pulses cause concern in terms of both nutrition and food
inflation in India. This paper outlines policy strategies to increase the availability of pulses at...
by P.K. Joshi | On 16 Sep 2016 A randomized controlled trial of an Indian school library program were conducted.
Overall, the program had no impact on students’ scores on a language skills test
administered after 16 months. The e...
by Evan Borkum | On 02 Sep 2016 Many developing countries have made progress in political openness and economic management but still struggle to attract private sector investments, at least outside of narrow, resource-based enclaves...
by Alan Gelb | On 01 Sep 2016 This study provides a snapshot of the sustainability of selected Indian cities by employing 57 indicators
in four dimensions to develop an overall city sustainability index. In recent years, its comp...
by B.Sudhakara Reddy | On 29 Aug 2016 This paper examines how to manage urban climate-related impacts by promoting planned and autonomous adaptation to improve climate change resilience. An analytical framework is developed by combining u...
by | On 29 Aug 2016 The ultimate goal of the resource manual is to ensure that all children
may equitably exercise their educational and environmental rights
in totality, as described in the Convention. The resource ma...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 29 Aug 2016 This paper studies the entire class of liability rules,
and considers the bilateral care accidents. It is shown that the ‘causationconsistent’ liability provides a basis for an efficiency characteriz...
by Ram Singh | On 19 Aug 2016 The economic cost of dealing with the consequences of diabetes is not only a threat to health systems but is a far broader economic and social problem and thus a threat to future long-term sustainable...
by Nicholas J Wareham | On 16 Aug 2016 Over 20 percent of prison and jail inmates in the United States are currently awaiting trial, but little is known about the impact of pre-trial detention on defendants. This paper uses the detention t...
by Will Dobbie | On 16 Aug 2016 Hourly plant-level wind and solar generation output and real-time price data for one year from the California ISO control area is used to estimate the vector of means and the contemporaneous covarianc...
by | On 12 Aug 2016 This paper outlines the history of the FDA’s recent attempts to regulate cigarettes and other tobacco products and how they have valued foregone consumer surplus in cost-benefit analyses. It discusses...
by Helen Levy | On 03 Aug 2016 It is widely believed that teacher turnover adversely affects the quality of instruction in urban schools serving predominantly disadvantaged children, and a growing body of research investigates vari...
by Eric Hanushek | On 03 Aug 2016 The time is opportune to ensure the causes and consequences of this urgent issue are better addressed. Policy makers are pushing for concerted progress across humanitarian and sustainable development...
by | On 01 Aug 2016 This paper examines the changes in regulation in four G7 countries post the financial sector breakdown of 2008 and suggestions made by the Financial Stability Board with respect to e.g. capital adequa...
by Jaimini Bhagwati | On 07 Jul 2016 The Climate Knowledge and Development Network supported a Vulnerability and Risk Assessment process in Uttarakhand to provide the Government of Uttarakhand with the evidence base to refine and priorit...
by Climate and Development Knowledge Network CDKN | On 30 Jun 2016 This study is to scout, spawn and sustain grassroots green innovations and outstanding traditional knowledge. It studies the creative and innovative coping strategies of knowledge rich-economically po...
by Anil K Gupta | On 24 Jun 2016 This study examines the number of times a salesperson engages in vacation and the time taken by the number of vacations by controlling the number of customers. The one dimensional marginal...
by Dheeraj Sharma | On 23 Jun 2016 The Financial Sector Reforms Commission (FSLRC) which was set up in 2011 by the
Ministry of Finance was mandated to study existing legislation and financial sector regulatory
practices in India and...
by Jaimini Bhagwati | On 22 Jun 2016 This Occasional Paper shows the evolution of confiscation law in Taiwan. It reviews the
current state of confiscation laws and policies in Taiwan and also proposes suggestions
for reform of the conf...
by Helen Liu | On 08 Jun 2016 Honor and stigma play a role in environmental protection. Environmental honors are bestowed on
people and firms who go out of their way to do right by the environment. Similarly, environmental
stigm...
by Prasenjit Banerjee | On 03 Jun 2016 This paper discusses the underlying common concept of the rule of law as it bolsters courts, giving them their institutional status and enabling them to move toward a redesigned judiciary from diverse...
by Aung Htoo | On 31 May 2016 This paper describes the status, challenges and scope for strengthening surveillance of chronic disease risk factors, morbidities and mortality in India. Surveillance experience of four selected Stat...
by Udaya S. Mishra | On 30 May 2016 This report has tried identifying the various social risks associated
with and caused by businesses and other players, that may have negative social impacts on the stakeholders associated with the fu...
by Oxfam India | On 27 May 2016 The riskiness of random processes is compared by (a) employing a
decision-theoretic equivalence between processes and lotteries on path spaces to identify the riskiness of the former with that of the...
by Sudhir A. Shah | On 26 May 2016 Universal Hepatitis B Vaccination of newborns in India is being launched at the recommendation of Indian Academy of Pediatrics, without estimating in any detail the morbidity and mortality due to sequ...
by Anant Phadke | On 26 May 2016 The objective of this study was to explore the relationship between promoter ownership and capital structure of firms using a sample of Indian publicly listed firms for the period from 2006 to 2013, d...
by Indrani Chakraborty | On 23 May 2016 A vector-valued generalized Arrow-Pratt (GAP) coefficients is defined
for a utility defined on a Hilbert outcome space. Given risk averse,
increasing and twice differentiable utilities on such outc...
by Sudhir A. Shah | On 23 May 2016 The decline of jobs with secure and lasting contracts and work-related social benefits as well as the corresponding rise in precarious and unprotected work are phenomena affecting both industrialized...
by Anna Marriot | On 18 May 2016 Now in its 11th edition, The Global Risks Report 2016 draws attention to ways that global risks could evolve and interact in the next decade. The year 2016 marks a forceful departure from past finding...
by [WEF] World Economic Forum | On 11 May 2016 The impacts of climate change will be channeled primarily through the water cycle, with consequences that could be large and uneven across the globe. Water-related climate risks cascade through food,...
by World Bank [WB] | On 11 May 2016 Derivatives are an integral risk management tool for business entities and financial institutions. However, derivatives markets can also lead to excessive and opaque risk taking which may result in sy...
by Reserve Bank of India RBI | On 03 May 2016 The aim of the study is to do a comparative analysis of the states that have notified minimum wages for domestic workers with a view to draw lessons from their experiences. The experiences of various...
by Neetha N | On 23 Mar 2016 This series is a continuation of WRI’s ‘Environmental Accountability in Africa’ working paper series (Working Papers number 1 through 22). The series was renamed to reflect the Equity Poverty and Envi...
by Institue World Resources | On 20 Mar 2016 The opportunities for SMEs in global value chains are enormous. Participation in value chains exposes them to a large customer/buyer base, as well as opportunities to learn from large firms and from e...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 17 Mar 2016 The study considers key trends, in terms of disaster incidence, sources of vulnerability, and social and economic impacts. This is followed by discussions of some of the major issues: compound disaste...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 Mar 2016 In this paper we employ a stated preference environmental valuation technique, namely the choice experiment method, to estimate local public?s willingness to pay (WTP) for improvements in the capacity...
by Ekin Birol | On 13 Mar 2016 Random effects panel data analysis is applied to identify financial parameters that influence banks in India in complying with Basel I. The private sector and foreign banks are affected by credit risk...
by Sreejata Banerjee | On 13 Mar 2016 The objectives of the study are three-fold: to investigate who are vulnerable to welfare loss from health shocks, what are the household responses to cope with the economic burden of health shocks and...
by Sowmya Dhanaraj | On 11 Mar 2016 Related Party Transactions disclosures in Annual Reports have recently gained more attention of the Indian policymakers. This paper aims at finding out the effect of related party transactions disclos...
by Subhra Choudhury | On 10 Mar 2016 Infant and child mortality rates in India have fallen by almost half from the time of adoption of millennium development goals to 2012 but there has not been a concurrent decrease in morbidity and und...
by Sowmya Dhanaraj | On 10 Mar 2016 The paper reviews the origins of the comparative study of capitalism and of the diverse approaches applied to it in contemporary political economy. It distinguishes four models accounting for differen...
by Wolfgang Streeck | On 09 Mar 2016 A recent report by the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) noted that Indonesia faces the highest risk from tsunamis worldwide. The evaluation was based on the number...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 02 Mar 2016 Financial protection of patients is considered a key component of health systems, and has been a consistent policy goal of the DOH. Of paramount importance in this regard are catastrophic health expen...
by | On 29 Feb 2016 The role of media in corporate governance, role of board of directors, stakeholders' response to news media coverage of corporate governance and the challenges of managing information risk in the digi...
by U.K. Sinha | On 28 Feb 2016 Southeast Asia is a region highly vulnerable to near and long-term climatic changes. In order to jointly address emerging climate risks and to complement multilateral negotiations through enhanced reg...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 27 Feb 2016 The main purpose of this paper is to derive the process of estimating dynamic RRA with the maximum likelihood and a Bayesian method having a weakly informative prior density while assuming that the lo...
by Rohit Gupta | On 27 Feb 2016 The vulnerability of banks to macroeconomic and financial shocks is an area of growing interest to policymakers, especially in emerging markets. Strong adverse aggregate shocks contribute heavily to l...
by Rohit Gupta | On 27 Feb 2016 From the Subregional Workshop on Energy Security and Non-Traditional Security Singapore 27 – 29 August 2008, Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel. The workshop on Energy and Non-Traditional Security (NTS)...
by | On 26 Feb 2016 The last decade has witnessed significant influx of direct foreign investment in developing countries. The increased flow of foreign investment has contributed to the ability of developing countries t...
by Syed Ali | On 25 Feb 2016 Inadequate application of nitrogen (N) fertilizer has been identified by the Food Staples Sufficiency Program (FSSP) as a major constraint in achieving rice self-sufficiency. The available literature...
by Roehlano M. Briones | On 24 Feb 2016 Since the elasticity of substitution between capital and labor is not always one, and since technical progress is not always Harrod-neutral, it is desirable to have an endogenous growth model that adm...
by Hing-Man Leung | On 23 Feb 2016 The literature has focused on motives to explain remittance behavior. But as non-anonymous transfers, remittances are apt to be influenced by giving norms as well. We formula...
by Michael Alba | On 19 Feb 2016 The present study reviews the framework
on adaptation in India and provides an estimation of the public resources devoted to
this sector.
by Kaushik Ganguly | On 18 Feb 2016 The increasing use of disaster risk governance today suggests that there is a deeper problem with how disasters are being managed. It does not mean governments have been ineffective. But they do have...
by | On 17 Feb 2016 In Pakistan innovation and risk taking is severely inhibited by the intrusive role of government in the marketplace. From the early days of planning when protection and subsidy policies determined win...
by Nadeem Ul Haque | On 16 Feb 2016 Basel II consists of three pillars such as Pillar I, II and III. Implementation of this New Accord is a challenge for many developing countries including Bangladesh. This study has made an attempt to...
by Md. Kabir Ahmed | On 15 Feb 2016 Using micro-level household data for rural and urban Pakistan, this study estimates Engel equations for 22 commodity groups with quadratic spline specification, in which the number and locations of kn...
by Eatzaz Ahmad | On 14 Feb 2016 The Toolkit o#ers a step-by-step guide for integrating Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation into the coastal and marine ecosystem management that will be quite useful for the "eld pra...
by Sriyanie Miththapala | On 14 Feb 2016 This study examines the Capital Asset Pricing Model of Sharpe (1964) Lintner (1965) and Black (1972) as the benchmark model in the asset pricing theory. The empirical findings indicate that the Sharpe...
by Attiya Y. Javid | On 14 Feb 2016 This study estimates a small simultaneous equation model using panel data from sixty-four countries for the years 1996 and 2004. The model is estimated by various techniques—OLS, TSLS, dummy variable...
by Rizwana Siddiqui | On 14 Feb 2016 Public procurement impacts people’s lives and accounts for a big share government budgets. The large monetary transactions involved make the risk of abuse high and the need for anti-corruption safegua...
by Transparency International TI | On 12 Feb 2016 The Global Risks 2014 report highlights how global risks are not only interconnected but also have systemic impacts. Based on a survey of the World Economic Forum’s multistakeholder communities, the r...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 11 Feb 2016 How relevant are the risk score calculators based on the Framingham study for India? There are certain limitations for the use of this model in India. The relationship of risk factors to cardiac event...
by Anand Zachariah | On 09 Feb 2016 Reducing risk and increasing resilience to natural disasters and climate change requires access to knowledge, information and the active participation of vulnerable population. Planning Communication...
by Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO] | On 08 Feb 2016 The probability of being depressed increases dramatically during adolescence and is linked to a range of adverse outcomes. Many studies show a correlation between religiosity and mental health, yet th...
by Jane Cooley Fruehwirth | On 07 Feb 2016 Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) conducted compared cervical screening to no screening whatsoever. All three RCTs included scientifically pointless unscreened control groups. All three RCTs incorpo...
by Eric Suba | On 04 Feb 2016 Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) conducted compared cervical screening to no screening whatsoever. All three RCTs included scientifically pointless unscreened control groups. All three RCTs incorpo...
by Eric Suba | On 04 Feb 2016 The present study examines the determinants of payment mode choice and deal amounts in financial and nonfinancial sectors mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in Pakistan, undertaken during period 2005–2012...
by Yasmeen Akhtar | On 03 Feb 2016 This paper considers an economy where individuals differ in productivity and in risk. Rochet (1991) has shown that when private insurance markets offer full coverage at fair rates, social insurance is...
by | On 02 Feb 2016 The National Alliance of Disaster Risk Reduction (NADRR) was launched at a two-day workshop held in New Delhi on November 3rd and 4th, 2007. The workshop brought together over 150 participants represe...
by National Alliance for Disaster Risk Reduction NADRR | On 01 Feb 2016 Girls and boys in developing countries are enrolling in secondary school in greater numbers than ever before, giving them knowledge and skills for healthy, productive lives. While this is good news, m...
by | On 01 Feb 2016 The financial crash of 2008 threatens economic insecurity in industrialized countries to an extent not experienced since the Great Depression. But as discussed in the World Economic and Social Survey...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 This report is the result of the joint workshop on Building resilience for adaptation to climate change in the agriculture sector was organized by FAO and OECD. One of the conclusions of that 2010 Wor...
by Alexandre Meybeck | On 31 Jan 2016 The paper highlights the trend in bilateral trade between the two countries. It notes that barring setbacks in certain years, the bilateral trade between the two countries has been growing briskly. It...
by Indra Nath Mukherji | On 30 Jan 2016 This study investigates extent of market efficiency and presence of day of week effect in stock market indices and volume and volatility in four major SAARC countries, namely Pakistan, Bangladesh, Ind...
by Sumra Abbas | On 30 Jan 2016 Inadequate application of nitrogen (N) fertilizer has been identified by the Food Staples Sufficiency Program as a major constraint in achieving rice self-sufficiency. The available literature on fert...
by | On 29 Jan 2016 The Sachar Commission Report of 2006 on Social, Economic and Educational Status of the Muslim Community of India generated widespread awareness of the socioeconomic disparity and exclusion of religiou...
by Riaz Hassan | On 29 Jan 2016 People in the Himalayan region are confronted with changes due to global warming. Glaciers are melting, leading to changing river flows and an increased risk of floods (Richardson and Reynolds, 2000;...
by Norbu Wangdi | On 28 Jan 2016 This paper draws from a field research experiment to examine the
gendered aspects of willingness to pay for index-based insurance in Bangladesh. Participants were
presented with risky lotteries and...
by Daniel J. Clarke | On 28 Jan 2016 Under the 2014 US Farm Bill, US cotton producers will receive significant subsidies which will have trade-distorting effects irrespective of future cotton prices. At a futures market cotton price of U...
by | On 27 Jan 2016 The objective of this working paper is to critically test the assertion that pro-poor "green" tourism is one of the best development options for the majority of least developed countries (LDCs) -- a c...
by Shoaib Akhtar | On 27 Jan 2016 The WTO’s plurilateral Information Technology Agreement (ITA) reduced tariffs to zero on many IT products. This paper presents a comprehensive study of its trade impacts by incorporating recent insigh...
by Christian Henn | On 26 Jan 2016 After the global financial crisis, India was exposed to many external shocks from commodity prices and foreign capital flows. Although capital flow fluctuations were largely due to global risk-on risk...
by Ashima Goyal | On 24 Jan 2016 This policy note reviews the trend in debt composition and sources of debt financing and analyzes debt sustainability of Bangladesh. Along with historical data on level of debt and sources of financin...
by Md. Ezazul Islam | On 23 Jan 2016 Instead of viewing the growing links between China and Russia through the prism of Sino-American sensitivities, this paper believes that South Asian countries like India and Pakistan can benefit from...
by | On 23 Jan 2016 The paper examines the output elasticity of infrastructure for four South Asian countries viz., India,Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka using Pedroni’s panel cointegration technique for the period 19...
by Ranjan Kumar Dash | On 23 Jan 2016 The study concludes that existing legal and policy frameworks provide a limited scope to assess and address both the current and potential future risk of loss and damage associated with the adverse im...
by Abdullah Faruque | On 23 Jan 2016 The profile covers all aspects of Post-harvest management i.e. collection. curing, pretreatment, grading, packaging, pre-cooling, low temperature storage. pallet loading, transportation, market practi...
by Department of Agriculture & Cooperation GOI | On 22 Jan 2016 The Department for the Welfare of SC/ST/OBC/Minorities introduced the SC/ST tuition-fee reimbursement scheme in 2003-2004 for SC and ST students of Delhi enrolled in recognized unaided private schools...
by | On 22 Jan 2016 The Global Agenda Council on Social Media white paper to be launched at the Forum's Annual Meeting 2016, The Impact of Digital Content: Opportunities and Risks of Creating and Sharing Information Onli...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 22 Jan 2016 In this discussion paper, the status of synthetic biology in India and debates in India on synthetic biology are discussed and the discourses on synthetic biology in India are also analysed. The paper...
by Krishna Ravi Srinivas | On 21 Jan 2016 This working group on Disadvantaged Farmers, including women is one of the key working groups for defining agricultural policy in the Twelfth Five Year Plan. Eighty-three percent of India’s farmers cu...
by Bina Agarwal | On 19 Jan 2016 This paper addresses the impact of violent conflict on social capital, as measured by citizen participation in community groups defined for four activity types: governance, social service, infrastruct...
by | On 18 Jan 2016 The Global Risks Report 2016 features perspectives from nearly 750 experts on the perceived impact and likelihood of 29 prevalent global risks over a 10-year timeframe. The risks are divided into five...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 18 Jan 2016 The focus of this report is on vulnerabilities in natural resources and rural livelihoods, which stand at the front line of climate change impact. The overarching objective of this report is to promot...
by World Bank [WB} | On 12 Jan 2016 China has departed from the East Asian model of development by letting inequality to rise to a high level, which is contributing to China’s current problems of macroeconomic imbalance, declining effic...
by | On 11 Jan 2016 UNCTAD, in past LDC Reports, has taken the view that the key to sustained economic growth and poverty reduction in LDCs is the development of productive capacities and related creation of productive e...
by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNCTAD | On 09 Jan 2016 The success of the new “comprehensive bilateral dialogue”, between India and Pakistan on terrorist strike at an Indian military installation if launched by mid-January 2016 as anticipated, is not ass...
by P S Suryanarayana | On 09 Jan 2016 This paper, with reference to the literature on research on violent conflicts, discusses socio-economic uncertainty and characteristics of coping with it in the context of violent mass conflicts. Rese...
by Gyöngyvér Demény | On 07 Jan 2016 This paper presents the results of two experimental evaluations of transitional jobs programs for recently released former prisoners: the Evaluation of the Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) an...
by Cindy Redcross | On 01 Jan 2016 The paper updates debt sustainability analysis (DSA) for developing Asia, conducted in 2011. With the benefit of hindsight, the accuracy of the earlier debt ratio forecasts and underlying macroeconomi...
by Benno Ferrarini | On 29 Dec 2015 The implementation of the Agreement on Textile and Clothing (ATC) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) renders both threats and opportunities to India’s Textile and Clothing (T&C) industry in the wak...
by Vinoj Abraham | On 26 Dec 2015 India is the global epicentre of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Asia. Previousresearch indicates that the majority of HIV-positive women in India were infected by their husbands, their only sexual partner,...
by Priya Lall | On 23 Dec 2015 Disaster risk now presents one of the most serious threats to inclusive and sustainable socioeconomic development. Coupled with anticipated increases in the frequency and intensity of weather-related...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 21 Dec 2015 It is vital for countries to identify climate risks, reduce these risks through mitigation, and adapt to these risks—thereby increasing resilience and reducing vulnerability. This study informs decisi...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 21 Dec 2015 This report presents global, regional and country-level estimates of trends in maternal mortality between 1990 and 2015. It describes in detail the methodology employed to generate the estimates and t...
by United Nations | On 17 Dec 2015 Compared with other demographic processes, remarkably little attention has been given to the way internal migration varies between countries around the world. We set out the rationale for such compari...
by Elin Charles-Edwards | On 17 Dec 2015 The report sheds light on the prevalence of different forms of violence against children, with global figures and data from 190 countries. Where relevant, data are disaggregated by age and sex, to pro...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 17 Dec 2015 Today’s children, and their children, are the ones who will live with the consequences of climate change. This report looks at how children, and particularly the most vulnerable, are affected and what...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 17 Dec 2015 Is there an ominous link between the global increase of the hydrometeorological and climatological events on the one side and anthropogenic climate change on the other? This paper considers three main...
by Vinod Thomas | On 15 Dec 2015 Worldwide, food safety incidents can have a significant impact on public health, economies, agrifood trade, food security, and public confidence in the food supply. The prevention, mitigation, and man...
by | On 15 Dec 2015 This paper examines poor households in the city of Mumbai and their exposure, vulnerability, and ability to respond to recurrent floods. The paper discusses policy implications for future adaptive cap...
by | On 14 Dec 2015 We use a natural experiment in Indonesia to provide causal evidence on the role of location-specific human capital and skill transferability in shaping the spatial distribution of productivity. From 1...
by Samuel Bazzi | On 08 Dec 2015 Seasonal and circular migration is an important livelihood strategy for workers in developing countries and the construction industry is one of the largest recipients of such labour. The impact of lab...
by RPC Migrating out of Poverty | On 08 Dec 2015 This report highlights the HIV crisis for vulnerable adolescents in Asia and the Pacific and what we can do to give them the support
they desperately need. If we fail to do this, the world will not g...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 01 Dec 2015 Intense climate-related disasters—floods, storms, droughts, and heat waves—have been on the rise worldwide. At the same time and coupled with an increasing concentration of greenhouse gases in the atm...
by Vinod Thomas | On 30 Nov 2015 Employment of children amounts to denial of rights of future generation and depriving children of their opportunities to growth. Moreover, working at tender age in hazardous conditions exposes childre...
by Helen Sekhar | On 26 Oct 2015 Globalized production networks, or global value chains, provide an opportunity for small and medium enterprises to upscale their business models and to grow across borders, though with global opportun...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 16 Oct 2015 Manufacturing has historically offered the fastest path out of poverty, but there is mounting evidence that this path may be all but closed to developing countries today. Some have suggested that ser...
by Amrit Amirapu | On 23 Sep 2015 The issue of wages is perhaps the most vital issue for various categories of workers, especially those engaged in the informal and unorganized sector. This study points out that in spite of various d...
by | On 15 Sep 2015 In India, Basel III capital regulation has been implemented from April 1, 2013 in phases and it will be fully implemented as on March 31, 2019. Do we need Basel III for a country like India? What are...
by N.S. Viswanathan | On 08 Sep 2015 This study aims to shed light on the industry that profits from the recruitment of women from South Asian countries into domestic work employment in the Middle East, with a particular focus on Banglad...
by Katharine Jones | On 27 Aug 2015 This paper presents the findings of a study undertaken by IIED in partnership with Plan International on urban children’s risk and agency in four large Asian cities: Dhaka (Bangladesh), Kathmandu (Nep...
by | On 24 Aug 2015 This paper deals with the interface between science and economics in environmental policy making in India. It explains Nehru‘s concept of scientific temper and its influence in the formulation of scie...
by U. Sankar | On 19 Aug 2015 This paper advocates for the use of one such alternative: the measurement of ‘subjective’ resilience at the household level. The concept of subjective resilience stems from the premise that people hav...
by Thomas Tanner | On 12 Aug 2015 This paper considers whether GDP-linked official external public debt can help address some of the challenges that developing countries face when managing international financial flows. GDP-linked off...
by United Nations Development Programme UNDP | On 20 Jul 2015 This technical paper provides evidence-based estimates of the likelihood of disaster-induced displacement in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. It att...
by Justin Ginnetti | On 24 Jun 2015 Though health has been considered a fundamental human right since the Alma Ata Declaration in 1978, still a significant proportion of world population don’t get access to basic healthcare simply due t...
by S Madheswaran | On 22 Jun 2015 On the basis of an assessment of the current and evolving macroeconomic situation the statement suggest that the global recovery is still slow and getting increasingly differentiated across regions.
by Raghuram G. Rajan | On 03 Jun 2015 At its 134th session, in the provisional agenda the Executive Board have requested the Director-General to develop a framework of engagement with non-State actors and separate policies on the engageme...
by World Health Organisation (WHO) | On 25 May 2015 The working group is of the opinion that the credit strategy should be aligned to agriculture growth strategy which in turn has to address
broader macro economy concerns of supply management and issu...
by Planning Commission | On 21 May 2015 Students of capital punishment need to study Asia, the site of at least 85 percent and as many as 95 percent of the world’s executions. This article explores the varieties of Asian capital punishment...
by | On 01 Apr 2015 This discussion paper attempts to capture the nanotechnology development in India by highlighting the various initiatives undertaken by the government to promote basic R&D in it, the major actors invo...
by | On 19 Mar 2015 This study looks into various sources of financing infrastructure and the demands for infrastructure investments and highlights the mismatch between demand and supply of funds for infrastructure finan...
by Ramprasad Sengupta | On 11 Feb 2015 This report outlines the wide-ranging risks investors and companies face from water scarcity and how global climate change will heighten those risks in many parts of the world. The report makes clear...
by | On 04 Feb 2015 This briefing discusses Sri Lanka’s presidential election promises. It promises more competition than was initially anticipated but with that comes a great risk of violence. Long-term stability and po...
by Crisis Group | On 02 Feb 2015 Formerly entitled Global Employment Trends, the World Employment and Social Outlook – Trends 2015 includes a forecast of global unemployment levels and explains the factors behind this trend, includin...
by International Labour Organisation ILO | On 22 Jan 2015 The report argues the recent setback in global economy and ways to strengthen the growth in developing countries. with a view to undertake growth and recovery in high-income countries, there is need t...
by World Bank | On 14 Jan 2015 The purpose of this paper is Understanding Cyber crime and its phenomena, challenges and legal response to assist everyone in understanding the legal aspects of cyber security and to help harmonize le...
by Shilpa Yadav | On 13 Jan 2015 This study investigates farmers' decision making under risk by eliciting their willingness to
pay (WTP) for hypothetical risky income distributions. To inquire whether farmers behave
differently whe...
by Thiagu Ranganathan | On 27 Oct 2014 Agriculture is an intrinsically risky economic activity. Farmers face a multitude of risks, such as production risks, on account of weather variations, and price risks, associated with falling output...
by Thaigu Ranganathan | On 24 Sep 2014 Using the case study of Indonesian women migrating as domestic workers to Singapore, this paper draws on a quantitative survey and qualitative in-depth interviews to examine the migration trajectories...
by Maria Platt | On 24 Sep 2014 A picture about the macroeconomy that is, the world economy and the domestic economy is given. The two recent regulatory measures are given here. [FICCI/IBA Annual Banking Conference].
by Raghuram G. Rajan | On 18 Sep 2014 The Maharashtra Comprehensive Nutrition Survey 2012 is the first ever state-specific nutrition survey with a focus on infants and children undertwo and their mothers. A representative sample of child...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 23 Aug 2014 This study analyses the demand and supply side determinants of textile
and garments’ exports of Pakistan using time series data for the period 1972–
2010. Eight trading partners (US, UK, Canada, It...
by Rabia Latif | On 01 Jul 2014 This note provides an estimate of incidence of poor and poverty risk in India across NSS regions for
2004-05 and 2009-10 in rural and urban areas. It raises concern on increasing poverty risk and als...
by Srijit Mishra | On 23 Jun 2014 The relationship between market value and innovation in the context of manufacturing firms in India was analysed, using data for 2001-2010. In a milieu where most firms do not patent, the concern was...
by Sunil Kanwar | On 10 Jun 2014 To study the various definitions of a child as highlighted under the Constitution as well as under various other legislations and compare the various objectives which led to the differential criteria...
by Mubashshir Sarshar | On 09 Jun 2014 GBD 2010 provides an opportunity to re-assess the evidence for exposure and effect sizes of risks for a broad set of risk factors by use of a common framework and methods. The basic approach for the G...
by Stephen S Lim | On 24 Feb 2014 This study is an attempt to generate empirical evidence on attitude towards risk of forest dependent
communities (FDCs). The FDCs covered in the study include two different geographical regions
from...
by B. Sundar | On 05 Dec 2013 Global risks would meet with global responses in an ideal world, but the reality is that countries and their communities are on the frontline when it comes to systemic shocks and catastrophic events....
by World Economic Forum WEF | On 22 Nov 2013 Patterns of rural-urban migration and employment shifts in a region that is
facing ongoing depletion of groundwater resources in Northern Gujarat, India is discussed. Given that migration typically d...
by Ram Fishman | On 30 Jul 2013 Since 2002, the Indian state of Odisha has been undertaking a grassroots awareness campaign on “dos and don’ts” during heat wave conditions through the Disaster Risk Management (DRM) program. The sele...
by Saudamini Das | On 24 May 2013 Motivated by the concern that the recent surge in inflation could retard growth, the paper revisits the nexus between inflation and growth from the perspective of an emerging economy, India. Examining...
by Saumitra N Bhaduri | On 23 May 2013 This paper deals with the interface between science and economics in environmental policy making in India. It explains Nehru‘s concept of scientific temper and its influence in the formulation of scie...
by U. Sankar | On 23 May 2013 Farm workers incur various occupational related risks. The question is whether they are adequately compensated for facing these risks? This paper attempts to measure the wage premiums that farm worker...
by Indira Devi P | On 22 May 2013 Asset quality of banks has come under increasing pressure with rising NPAs and Restructured loans. The Gross NPA ratio for the banking system, which was 2.4% in March 2011, increased to 3.6 per cent b...
by Chakrabarty K C | On 07 Mar 2013 This paper analyses the property tax system in India, examines the reasons for its low revenue productivity, reviews the recent reform initiatives and identifies further reform areas. [NIPFP Working P...
by M. Govinda Rao | On 06 Feb 2013 In this study attempt has been made to link the gender differences in parental resource allocation in demand for education at primary, secondary and tertiary level of education to gender differences i...
by Madeeha Gohar Qureshi | On 24 Jan 2013 The report reflects the collective assessment
of the Sub Committee of the Financial Stability and Development Council (FSDC) on potential risks to financial stability. [RBI]. URL:[http://rbidocs.rbi....
by Reserve Bank of India RBI | On 04 Sep 2012 What degree the financial crisis and the resulting developments have impacted and will impact long-term, capital market bank funding. [DB research] URL:[http://www.dbresearch.com/PROD/DBR_INTERNET_EN-...
by Meta Zähres | On 23 Aug 2012 The long-run discount factor for a group of developed and developing countries is estimated through standard methodology incorporating adaptive expectations of inflation. In the second part, while con...
by Waqas Ahmed | On 07 Aug 2012 The frequency of intense floods and storms is increasing globally, particularly in Asia-Pacific,
amid the specter of climate change. Associated with these natural disasters are more variable
and ext...
by Vinod Thomas | On 26 Jul 2012 Traditional analysis of gender wage gaps has largely focused on average gaps between men and women, and mean wage decompositions such as the Blinder-Oaxaca (1973) decomposition method. To answer the q...
by Shantanu Khanna | On 26 Jul 2012 F rom its headwaters in the Tibetan Plateau to its estuary in Burma, the Salween River
supports over ten million people. For many decades, it was the longest free-flowing
river in Southeast Asia. It...
by International Rivers Network IRN | On 17 Jul 2012 Pension assets have seen rapid growth world-wide over the past decades, although they suffered large losses during the global financial crisis of 2007–2008. Such growth is notably due to both structur...
by Yuwei Hu | On 02 Jul 2012 Policy in Pakistan has been fairly path-dependant, placing a higher weight
on export promotion and domestic industrialisation development than on
domestic commerce. Yet domestic commerce is growing...
by Nadeem Ul Haque | On 28 May 2012 Governments across the world use estimates of people’s willingness
to pay for a reduction in the probability of death and injury to develop
a wide range of environmental, industrial and developmenta...
by South Asian Network for Development SANDEE | On 21 May 2012 This brief reviews recent evidence, examines main research challenges in identifying migration–climate links and discusses the policy options for formalizing migration as an adaptation mechanism to cl...
by Jean-François Maystadt | On 09 May 2012 This paper discusses what is longevity risk, why it is important, approaches used by the West to manage longevity risk and what lessons can be learnt by Asian countries from the experiences of the Wes...
by Amlan Roy | On 18 Apr 2012 Distance-to-default (DtD) from the Merton model has been used
in the credit risk literature, most successfully as an input into reduced
form models for forecasting default. [WP-2012-010]. URL:[http:...
by Nidhi Aggarwal | On 10 Apr 2012 The single row facility layout is the NP-Hard problem of arranging facilities with given lengths on a line, so as to minimize the weighted sum of the distances between all pairs of facilities. Owing t...
by Uma Kothari | On 09 Apr 2012 Major credit rating agencies give out the sovereign credit rating of each nation as an absolute grade. How other nations fare over the period under consideration does not matter in a particular nation...
by Kaushik Basu | On 02 Apr 2012 Since the elections of 2010, Myanmar’s political landscape has changed significantly;
the old military junta has officially been dissolved and a new
civilian government, led by President Thein Sein,...
by Christopher O’Hara | On 27 Mar 2012 The challenges of providing insurance to Indian agricultural sector in a
manner that is both meaningful and sustaining. Critical
assessment of the existing initiative and present possible options fo...
by M J Bhende | On 09 Mar 2012 Utilizing data from the power corporation of Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state,
the politics of electricity theft over a ten year period (2000–09) is studied. It is seen that electricity the...
by Miriam Golden | On 06 Mar 2012 Poor governance and lack of state capabilities
in around 45 countries pose a
threat to global security and development.
The involvement of the international
community is required to help
these st...
by Wim Naudé | On 02 Mar 2012 Unpredictable rainfall is an important risk for agricultural activity, and farmers in developing
countries often receive incomplete insurance from informal risk-sharing networks. The demand for, and...
by A. Mushfiq Mobarak | On 10 Feb 2012 This paper has tried to address some key research
questions like will India and Andhra Pradesh achieve the Millennium Development
Goal of Sanitation ? Are the TSC targets realistic? What is coverage...
by M Snehalatha | On 25 Jan 2012 Production costs and crop incomes in drought years are analyzed to test a simplistic theory of risk based
on first principles. A mixed-methods framework is employed to draw inferences by combining da...
by Sarthak Gaurav | On 24 Jan 2012 The short term and long term stock price volatility changes around bonus
and rights issue announcements have been examined using historical
volatility estimation and time varying volatility approach...
by Madhuri Malhotra | On 24 Jan 2012 This paper assesses the sources of risk for Indian banks in the context of their history, structure, level of development, and policy environment and draws out implications for global and domestic pol...
by Ashima Goyal | On 18 Jan 2012 It has been widely documented that the poor spend a significant proportion of their income on gifts even at the expense of basic consumption. We test three competing explanations of this phenomenon—pe...
by Xi Chen | On 10 Jan 2012 This paper develops an index for measuring the economic power of governments viewed as entities in themselves. The basic idea is to encapsulate the economic representative power of a nation’s governme...
by Kaushik Basu | On 27 Dec 2011 A synthesized version of Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) and its possible
applications in Management problems is presented. The main contribution of the paper
is its simple description of a some...
by Tathagata Banerjee | On 27 Dec 2011 Pre-harvest lean seasons are widespread in the agrarian areas of Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Every year, these seasonal famines force millions of people to succumb to poverty and hunger. An incentive...
by Gharad Bryan | On 20 Dec 2011 The study estimates the Value of Statistical Life and Limb in Pakistan
based on the compensating wage differential among blue-collar industrial
workers in the city of Lahore. The data for this study...
by Mohammad Rafi | On 07 Dec 2011 P roponents of large dams, hoping to capitalize on concern for climate change, are promoting a major expansion of large dams in developing countries. Yet large dams are highly vulnerable to climate ch...
by International Rivers Network IRN | On 24 Nov 2011 Rural households in developing economies frequently use precautionary saving to cope with income risk. Such prudent behavior can be strengthened in transition economies where more risks are typically...
by Ling Jin | On 23 Nov 2011 In most universities, sharp disciplinary and departmental divisions continue to this day and have regrettably translated into the life sciences being taught with scarce attention to their historical a...
by Giovanni Frazzetto | On 31 Oct 2011 This study contributes to the literature by estimating discount rate for
environmental health benefits and value of statistical life of workers in
India. The discount rate is imputed from wage-risk...
by K. R. Shanmugam | On 19 Oct 2011 It is argued that methodological challenges in monitoring the safety of prescription medications should not mean that drug safety be considered less important a topic of study than efficacy. It is als...
by PLoS Medicine Editors | On 04 Oct 2011 This study assesses the effectiveness and drawbacks of maximum loan-to-value (LTV)
ratios as a macroprudential tool based on Hong Kong’s experience and econometric
analyses of panel data from 13 eco...
by Eric Wong | On 03 Oct 2011 A review of the various issues related to gender and poverty and examine the relationships between gender and various indices, including the human development index (HDI), the gender inequality index...
by Midori Aoyagi | On 22 Sep 2011 This paper, examines the possibility of adopting Oil- to- Cash scheme in Iraq. Here, a new opportunity is identified which aims for direct distribution of Iraqi oil rents in the planned production exp...
by Johnny West | On 19 Sep 2011 This paper examines the competitiveness of the Indian garments industry vis-à-vis the other
South Asian countries Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Under the SAFTA agreement, many of the
garment i...
by Saon Ray | On 16 Sep 2011 This paper estimates returns to education in India using a nationally representative survey. The standard Mincerian wage equation separately for rural and urban sectors is estimated. To account for th...
by Tushar Agrawal | On 06 Sep 2011 The Working Group was constituted to review the existing regulatory and supervisory framework of non-banking finance companies (NBFCs) with special focus on the risks in the sector. The approach adopt...
by Reserve Bank of India RBI | On 30 Aug 2011 Poor returns to cultivation and absence of non-farm opportunities are indicative of the larger
socio-economic malaise in rural India. This is accentuated by the multiple risks that the
farmer faces...
by Srijit Mishra | On 23 Aug 2011 The contribution of technology to the Indian banking industry, the role played by IDRBT and the significance of banking technology awards, in fostering the technological developments of banks. Issues...
by Anand Sinha | On 23 Aug 2011 In this study the analytical framework for identifying and benchmarking systemically important financial institutions is discussed. First, the main concepts underlying the SIFI definition are laid out...
by Christian Weistroffer | On 12 Aug 2011 In 2004, Afghanistan pioneered a balanced scorecard (BSC) performance system to manage the delivery of
primary health care services. This study examines the trends of 29 key performance indicators ov...
by Edward Anbrasi | On 04 Aug 2011 Why do many households remain exposed to large exogenous sources of non-systematic
income risk? Why don’t financial markets develop to pool these risks? This paper uses a
series of randomized field...
by Shawn Cole | On 06 Jul 2011 The Fisher's equation has become a foundation stone of
modern macroeconomic, monetary and financial theories. Here it is shown that despite the estabilished status of Fisher's equation, it stands on...
by Rajas Parchure | On 04 Jul 2011 The
importance of non-financial reporting in the overall assessment of a company's
performance, its risk-return trade off is steadily gaining ground, both globally and in
India. [Address by Dr K. C...
by Chakrabarty K C | On 10 Jun 2011 It lays out a migratory process framework that highlights the multistaged and cumulative nature of the health risks and intervention opportunities that can occur throughout the migration process, and
...
by Cathy Zimmerman | On 10 Jun 2011 The purpose of this paper is to pursue the implications of closing, in the sense of
rendering determinate, the Sraffa equations of production, prices and distribution
[Sraffa (1960)] by adding to th...
by Rajas Parchure | On 01 Jun 2011 The issue of farmers’ indebtedness becomes a matter of intense debate whenever the
agricultural sector faces distress. But, the root cause of the current crisis is not indebtedness
alone - indebtedn...
by Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research | On 30 May 2011 Catastrophes caused by natural hazards that hit “without warning” serve as grim reminders of
the challenge that governments and civil society face in identifying and protecting the areas that
are...
by Clovis Freire | On 23 May 2011 The objective of this study is to show how the demand for a rentable
house can be quantitatively expressed. The data set is obtained by a primary (sample) survey of 209
households randomly selecte...
by S.K. Mishra | On 18 May 2011 In this distinguished lecture on Law and Economics, the author shares the lessons in economics that he has learnt from random experiences of the same. [IGDIR PP-067] URL: [http://www.igidr.ac.in/pdf/p...
by Y. Venugopal Reddy | On 18 May 2011 Although advances in medical treatment have reduced mortality in people living with HIV, thousands of children will continue to cope with the stress of living with a parent who has a chronic, potentia...
by Asha Menon | On 09 May 2011 Today there is no credible alternative facility available to a grower to meet the risks of price movements and the art of price risk management is unknown to the small growers. (In this entire report,...
by Ministry of Commerce and Industry GOI | On 02 May 2011 This paper, tries to put the
current Unique Identity Project (UID) project of India into a perspective to evaluate the set of issues and
concerns, as pointed by various stakeholders and try to under...
by Rajanish Dass | On 19 Apr 2011 Many severe health risks in developing countries could be substantially reduced with access to appropriate
preventive measures. However, the associated costs are often high enough to restrict access...
by Alessandro Tarozzi | On 12 Apr 2011 In this study, they attempt to quantify the effect of improved
population health on technical efficiency in agricultural production.
Using data for over 260 districts in 15 Indian states, they emplo...
by Atheendar S. Venkataramani | On 17 Mar 2011 A structure for the green venture fund (GVF) and explain the design rationale, operating principles and key parameters for two funds of funds for technology innovation and deployment is proposed. Some...
by Darius Nassiry | On 16 Mar 2011 The vast majority of randomized experiments in economics rely on a single baseline and single follow-up survey. If multiple follow-ups are conducted, the reason is typically to examine the trajectory...
by David McKenzie | On 14 Mar 2011 The overall objective of the Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) risk factors survey was to improve the information available to the Government health services and care providers on a set of high-priority...
by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare H & FW | On 24 Feb 2011 43 villages in Bangladesh were randomized to receive information on well-water arsenic that emphasized water safety relative to the national standard (bright-line message) or provided additional infor...
by Lori Bennear | On 02 Feb 2011 Improving our ability to cope with floods under current and future climates requires adopting a more sophisticated set of techniques -- the "soft path" of flood risk management, which aims to understa...
by International Rivers Network IRN | On 31 Jan 2011 ‘Globalization’ implies change, and uncertainty over future change may affect
household welfare. They use data on Lorenz curves over the last fifty years for a sample
of 53 (mostly developing) cou...
by Ethan Ligon | On 24 Dec 2010 In this paper they introduce two other notions of the comparative riskiness of lotteries with vector outcomes. [Working Paper No. 191]
by Sudhir A. Shah | On 17 Dec 2010 For studying the analytical characteristics of a distribution, ideally one should have a random sample of observations from the corresponding population. Such a sample makes it possible for us to di...
by N. Krishnaji | On 07 Dec 2010 This paper makes an attempt to identify major factors, like currency forfeiting, loan default, capital shortfall, capital flight, etc which undermine consumer confidence in the financial services sect...
by Md. Kabir Ahmed Chowdhury | On 02 Dec 2010 The information included in this publication covers the public
debt management strategies adopted in 2009, the movements
in debt stock during the year and the related costs and risks and
the primar...
by Central Bank of SriLanka CBSL | On 30 Sep 2010 It is being acknowledged that a macro prudential perspective is critical in designing and pursuing micro prudential regulation of institutions and markets. Two distinct but highly inter-related constr...
by Shyamala Gopinath | On 28 Sep 2010 Pratt (1964) and Yaari (1969) contain the classical results pertaining to the
equivalence of various notions of comparative risk aversion of von Neumann-
Morgenstern utilities in the setting with re...
by Sudhir A. Shah | On 27 Sep 2010 This paper contributes to two strands of literature on empirical models of trade flows and
trade policy. The first and the older strand is that of gravity models of bilateral trade
flows going back...
by T.N. Srinivasan | On 20 Sep 2010 This paper speaks to companies seeking practical ways to alleviate global poverty. The
private sector has several inherent competitive advantages to bring to bear in this effort
through which they c...
by Staci Warden | On 15 Sep 2010 The literature has shown that network architecture depends crucially on whether links are
formed unilaterally or bilaterally, that is, on whether the consent of both nodes is required
for a link to...
by Margherita Comola | On 31 Aug 2010 In this paper we demonstrate that the positive effects of comparative advertising are
significantly diluted when a compared-to brand retaliates. Retaliation introduces
sequencing in advertisements....
by Patrali Chakrabarty | On 24 Aug 2010 In this paper an attempt is made to evaluate the most efficient approach to regional economic integration in Asia. Given that ASEAN is an existing regional bloc in Asia, alternative approaches to the...
by Amita Batra | On 04 Aug 2010 A growing body of literature suggests that courts and juries are inclined toward division of liability between two strictly non-negligent or “vigilant” parties. However, standard models of liability r...
by Allan M. Feldman | On 20 Jul 2010 Comparative causation is the only tort regime that allows parties to share an accident
loss in equilibrium. The sharing of an accident loss between a nonnegligent injurer and
his nonnegligent victim...
by Francesco Parisi | On 20 Jul 2010 This study estimates the morbidity costs of reduction in air pollution in Dhaka, the capital of
Bangladesh, using the Cost-of-Illness (COI) approach. COI is defined as the sum of lost earnings
due t...
by Tanzir Chowdhury | On 19 Jul 2010 This study estimates ex ante poverty and vulnerability of households in Bangladesh using Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) data in 2005. Our results show that poverty is not same as vulne...
by Md. Shafiul Azam | On 19 Jul 2010 In this paper family networks affecting informal insurance and investment is being studied. Panel data from the randomized evaluation of PROGRESA in rural Mexico and the information on surnames of hou...
by Manuela Angelucci | On 09 Jul 2010 How has the microcredit movement managed to push financial frontiers? In a context in which borrowers vary in unobservable risk, Ghatak (1999, 2000) shows that group-based, joint liability contracts p...
by Christian Ahlin | On 21 Jun 2010 A simple evolutionary model is used to understand the critical rate of environmental change beyond which a population must decline and go extinct. The model is used to highlight the major determinants...
by Luis-Miguel Chevin | On 21 May 2010 This paper argues that the relation between temptations and the level
of consumption plays a key role in explaining the observed behaviors of
the poor. Temptation goods are defined to be the set of...
by Abhijit Banerjee | On 13 May 2010 This paper attempts to
understand the various risks faced by households living in disaster prone regions of
rural India and specifically examine the effectiveness of coping mechanisms adopted
by ho...
by Unmesh Patnaik | On 12 Apr 2010 The study examines the manner in which India is engaged in constructing a credible and stable
deterrence relationship with two of its nuclear armed adversaries, Pakistan and China with an arsenal
mu...
by Manpreet Sethi | On 16 Feb 2010 The present paper analyses trade and investment relations and explores future areas of potential co-operation between India and Korea. The study also suggests the areas where there is huge scope for i...
by Pravakar Sahoo | On 14 Jan 2010 Ills of the banking system that caused the crisis. An extensive analysis of the causes is given. A brief synopsis to provide a backdrop for the ‘boring banking’ discussion is given. [Speech at the Int...
by Duvvuri Subbarao | On 25 Nov 2009 Sheds light on the realities of girls' health and wellbeing in developing countries, on the links between the health of girls and the prospects for their families, and on the specific actions that wil...
by Miriam Temin | On 17 Nov 2009 The focus of this paper is to examine the ways in which regulatory framework affect the pharmaeutical innovations in developing countries using member countries of the Association of South-east Asian...
by Sauwakon Ratanawijitrasin | On 16 Oct 2009 This paper formulates a model of exchange rate determination that
describes the market processes by which the foreign exchange markets
are cleared and international receipts of countries are brought...
by Rajas Parchure | On 06 Aug 2009 The paper seeks to analyse and discuss the impact of financial reform and related
institutional change on the process of financial intermediation. In effect reforms stood the earlier
quantity driven...
by Chakrabarti B.B. | On 09 Jul 2009 The debate around retrenchment of pension systems became really popular in the 1990’s after the pioneering experience of Chile in 1981.The disastrous outcomes of the Chilean reform were widely known b...
by Camila Gripp | On 04 Jul 2009 This paper investigates the relative importance of monetary and fiscal policies in altering real output of Bangladesh. An unrestricted vector auto regression (VAR) framework based on the St. Louis equ...
by Md. Habibur Rahman | On 27 Jun 2009 The Author considera a decision-making environment with an outcome space that is a convex and compact subset of a vector space belonging to a general class of such spaces. Given this outcome space,he...
by Sudhir A. Shah | On 22 Jun 2009 The study uses co-integration and vector auto-regression (VAR) techniques to identify the determinants of income velocity of money (VM) in Bangladesh, covering both narrow and broad money. The study o...
by Md. Akhtaruzzaman | On 15 Jun 2009 This paper is an attempt to focus on the role of Science and Technology (S&T) on regional development of India by considering 21 Indian states. The Index approach using the Principal Component techniq...
by Rajesh Shukla | On 12 Jun 2009 The paper analyzes the effect of health status on labour force participation for aged Indians. The potential endogeneity in health and labour force participation has been taken care of by using full i...
by Manoj K Pandey | On 27 May 2009 During the global financial turmoil of 2007 and 2008, no major derivative clearing house in the world encountered distress while many banks were pushed to the brink and beyond. An important reason for...
by Jayanth R Varma | On 26 May 2009 This paper revolves around the Public health related aspects of industrial and intellectual property rights policies in a developing country with respect to Aids in India. It also focusses on its prev...
by Samira Guennif | On 22 May 2009 This paper analyzes Singapore’s multi-pronged approach to managing prolonged low fertility which has led to population aging, labor force shortages, increasing elderly dependency ratios, and feminizat...
by Mukul. G Asher | On 15 May 2009 The Indian states have been the standard unit of analysis for research on India that uses official data sources. For many empirical questions, states are a natural starting point because state governm...
by Hemanshu Kumar | On 15 May 2009 Youth at risk can be defined as individuals between the ages of 12 and 24 who face “environmental, social, and family conditions that hinder their personal development and their successful integration...
by World Bank | On 25 Apr 2009 A broad overview, from the Indian perspective, of the factors underlying the credit market crisis in the west, the implications of the crisis for the financial sector,
lessons learnt from it, the var...
by Leeladhar V | On 25 Nov 2008 The first objective of this paper is to contribute to the debate regarding the desirability of the sharing of liability for the accident loss. The second objective is to
extend the efficiency analysi...
by Ram Singh | On 08 Oct 2008 Today banks have centralised operations, more and more banks and branches are moving to CBS , network based computing, new delivery channels such as networked ATMs, internet banking, smart card based...
by Usha Thorat | On 16 Sep 2008 The factors and process underlying agrarian distress in Kerala by undertaking the case studies of three villages situated in Wayanad and Idukki districts namely, Cherumad, Kappikkunnu and Upputhara. T...
by K.N. Nair | On 31 Jul 2008 This paper investigates a range of aspects including socio economic status,morality, morbidity requiring inpatient as well as outpatient care, health care-seeking behavior etc.
by Akash Acharya | On 10 Mar 2008 The various dimensions of livelihood risk as informed by a in-depth case study of an agrarian village namely, Cherumad in Kerala is examined. [WP no. 394].
by K.N. Nair | On 06 Feb 2008 Only when (and if) the “haves” develop genuine empathy for the “have-nots,” and come to acknowledge their own long-term interdependence with all other humans, will the global economy be improved to an...
by PLoS Medicine | On 06 Nov 2007 In spite of being one of the largest producers of fruits and vegetables in the world, the export competitiveness among the Indian producers remains low. But with new marketing initiatives, the post-ha...
by Surabhi Mittal | On 24 Aug 2007 An ex post analysis shows that avoidance, as against associating, by smoker and non-smoker when the former smokes is a Nash outcome. Ex ante, passive smoking occurs because socio-legal structures allo...
by Srijit Mishra | On 26 Jul 2007 Risk and chances of urban sustainability are presented. The new concepts of urban governance and its implications are also explained [Power point Presentation].
by Frauke Krass | On 28 Jun 2007 Leading indicators based on correlations with reference cycles are regularly used to
monitor the economy. It would be useful if we could have a quantitative measure of the
risk associated with leadi...
by Minakshy Iyer | On 20 Dec 2006 Developments in the financial sector have led to an expansion in its ability to spread risks. The increase in the risk bearing capacity of economies, as well as in actual risk taking, has led to a ran...
by Raghuram G. Rajan | On 16 Nov 2005 General economic growth (resulting in higher living standards), improved infrastructure, and greater child immunization coverage will be essential in lowering infant and under-five mortality rates in...
by Anil B. Deolikar | On 26 Aug 2005 The IMF attempts to stabilize private capital flows to emerging markets by providing public monitoring and emergency finance. In analyzing its role we contrast cases where banks and bondholders do the...
by Barry Eichengreen | On 05 Aug 2005 |