The 3rd Urban Economy Forum is one of the world’s most premier urban gatherings on sustainable urban economies and urban management. The collaborative approach for collective action taken by the organ...
by | On 07 Jan 2022 India’s hockey performance, men’s and women’s, at Tokyo is remarkable in significant ways and may well be a portent of things to come. It's a fitting celebration of the life of Keshav Dutt, hockey vet...
by | On 20 Sep 2021 The creative economy has the potential to not only strengthen the expansion of global value chains, increase digital adoption among creative small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), fuel the export...
by Pitchaya Sirivunnabood | On 10 Sep 2021 Urban Economy Forum 2020 echoes the global call for affordable housing for all. With over 1.8 billion people living in slums and informal settlements globally, the question remains, when will we be ab...
by Alex Venuto | On 07 Nov 2020 A major output of Urban Economy Forum is the Regent Park World Urban Pavilion by UN-Habitat (The Pavilion), a collaboration between the Urban Economy Forum, UN-Habitat and the Government of Canada. Th...
by | On 20 Oct 2020 Amidst the economic slowdown triggered by the outbreak of the Covid-19
pandemic in India there have been many demands for the government to
announce a large fiscal stimulus to support the economy. E...
by Ila Patnaik | On 08 Oct 2020 Opening up India's market to neighbouring countries can be as strategic as access denial to others. The game should be played both ways, even if it upsets domestic business lobbies.
by T.N. Ninan | On 16 Aug 2020 Shadow States is a truly important work—well written and based on solid research—thatoffers a novel and necessary perspective from which to view the Sino-Indian border dispute in their shared Himalaya...
by Mahesh Shankar | On 01 Aug 2020 India seems to have turned Platonic anxiety on its head, making the utterance of truth a difficult endeavour in this country.
by | On 01 Aug 2020 You could run a sensible subsidy and price support system at a fraction of today's cost, and still have enough money left over to offer a more generous income support to all farmers.
by T.N. Ninan | On 02 Jun 2020 Gender budgeting is a public policy innovation to transform the gender commitments into budgetary commitments. The political economy process of gender budgeting in India has encompassed four distinct...
by Lekha Chakraborty | On 02 Apr 2019 This paper identifies five factors that can capture 95% of the variance across 39 US dollar exchange rates based on the principal component method. A time-varying parameter factor-augmented vector aut...
by Hongyi Chen | On 01 Apr 2019 This paper empirically examines the “defensive innovation” hypothesis that firms with higher exposure to low-wage economy import competition intensively undertake more innovative activity by using a h...
by Nobuaki Yamashita | On 01 Apr 2019 Indian courts are clogged with large backlogs. Part of the reason for the problem is that cases take a very long time to move through the courts. It slows progress of court cases is harmful for the In...
by Pratik Dutta | On 30 Mar 2019 The essays collected here grapple with different aspects of what, if natural scientists are to be believed, is the most profound set of issues humanity has ever faced. The United Nations Framework Con...
by World Economics Association | On 29 Mar 2019 Along with the continuous development of the global economy, environmental deterioration has been widely recognized as a pressing issue nowadays, bringing environmental governance to the forefront of...
by Chun-Ping Chang | On 28 Mar 2019 Darryl D’Monte, veteran journalist passed away on March 16, 2019 in Mumbai. He was 75.
by | On 24 Mar 2019 The goal of the note is to lay out and discuss a package of reforms that could be consistent with the objectives of the government. The fiscal instruments that we consider here include the division of...
by Roy Bahl | On 07 Mar 2019 This paper explores how these mechanisms - innovation, inclusion and efficiency – have been integral to microfinance operations in the past, and how innovations in digital technology may be yet anothe...
by Saon Ray | On 04 Feb 2019 This paper utilizes a large cross-section of data sets such as the ILOSTAT, NSSO Quinquennial Employment and Unemployment Survey, Labour Bureau Annual Employment and Unemployment Survey, National Fami...
by Surbhi Ghai | On 03 Feb 2019 There were intensive efforts at monetary cooperation in the interwar years to overcome the imbalances accumulated during the war years to reduce the rate of inflation, reduce the rate of unemployment...
by Manmohan Agarwal | On 01 Feb 2019 The study attempts a comparative assessment of the changing employment situation in major Indian states, measured in terms of worker-population ratios and the distribution of workers into status group...
by A.V. Jose | On 01 Feb 2019 This paper tries to understand the trends and the pattern of Outward Foreign Direct Investment (OFDI) by Indian firms and the factors that determine OFDI from India through Cross-Border Mergers and Ac...
by P.L. Beena | On 31 Jan 2019 This paper describes the Indian credit market and presents an argument for the need for personal insolvency law. It provides a brief overview of the provisions on personal insolvency in the IBC. It ma...
by Renuka Sane | On 30 Jan 2019 This study investigates the macroeconomic effects of public debt in India using a Structural Vector Auto regression (SVAR) framework for the period from 1980 to 2017. The objective of this study is to...
by Ranjan Kumar Mohanty | On 23 Jan 2019 This paper provides 10 conclusions on the policies needed to achieve three goals of agricultural development in India. These are : (1) There is a need for change in the narrative in the new context; (...
by S. Mahendra Dev | On 26 Dec 2018 This paper analyses the factors affecting on-farm diversification decision. Notwithstanding the influence of farm and household conditions, studies have also highlighted the role of external pull fact...
by Varun Kumar Das | On 20 Nov 2018 The paper examines behavioral constraints in policy-making and in achieving coordination across policies. First it applies psychological concepts to understand policy inadequacies, and next examines h...
by Ashima Goyal | On 29 Oct 2018 This paper overcomes the constraint and provides some preliminary outcomes from a novel dataset that the authors compile at the sectoral level (10 sectors) for 53 countries, including 20 developing co...
by Yoko Oishi | On 01 Oct 2018 This paper takes a New Keynesian model with non-separable money in utility to Indian data using maximum likelihood. The identification problem in isolating the effect of money on output and inflation...
by Ashima Goyal | On 21 Sep 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 Education and training for productive employment play a crucial role in the social and economic plans of a developing country like the Philippines. Technical and vocational education and training (TVE...
by Madeline Dumaua-Cabautan | On 30 Aug 2018 Education and training for productive employment play a crucial role in the social and economic plans of a developing country like the Philippines. Technical and vocational education and training (TVE...
by Madeline Dumaua-Cabautan | On 30 Aug 2018 Innovation is the synergistic use of resources, technology, capital, and information to achieve growth at different levels of the economy. Many studies abroad have already supported the hypothesis tha...
by Connie Bayudan-Dacuycuy | On 27 Aug 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 develops a framework identifying channels through which economic gains can be derived from PPP arrangement. The framework helps derive an empirically tractable specification that examines h...
by Minsoo Lee | On 11 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 S. Chandrasekhar | On 25 Jul 2018 This paper first shows that the Domar condition is obtained only from the government budget constraint (namely the supply of government bonds) and does not take into account the demand for government...
by Naoyuki Yoshino | On 19 Jul 2018 A recent WHO database (2018) has identified several of India’s top cities with some of the highest levels of air pollution. Kanpur, Faridabad, Gaya, Varanasi and Patna are the top five most polluted c...
by Niti Aayog GOI | On 16 Jul 2018 This paper aims to analyze the determinants of household energy portfolio in urban and rural areas and to determine how choices are affected by price shocks and weather variabilities in the Philippine...
by Connie Bayudan-Dacuycuy | On 29 Jun 2018 This paper makes an attempt to estimate Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth by using both growth accounting approach and production function approach. Kendrick, Solow and Tornqvist-Theil indices ar...
by G. Alivelu | On 26 Jun 2018 This paper attempts to understand what drives the public expenditure efficiency among the States. For this, it looks at the role of economic growth as well as quality of governance. The results of inp...
by Ranjan Kumar Mohanty | On 20 Jun 2018 The paper begins with a brief overview of the characteristics of the bands. After that, it presents a review of the approaches different countries have taken while releasing this spectrum, and a secti...
by Suyash Rai | On 20 Jun 2018 In recent years there has been an increased role for health insurance in Indian health care, through government funded health insurance programs and privately purchased health insurance. Our analysis...
by Shefali Malhotra | 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 This paper tests economic convergence across States in India by incorporating federal fiscal asymmetries and differentials in gross fixed capital formation at the state level. Using dynamic panel mode...
by Lekha Chakraborty | On 15 Jun 2018 This paper provides knowledge the first analysis of the morbidity cost of PM2.5 for the entire population of a developing country. To address potential endogeneity in pollution exposure, it constructs...
by Panle Jia Barwick | On 12 Jun 2018 This paper assesses the effects of the most recent monetary policy behavior of the Bank of Japan (BOJ) (in particular, zero interest rate policy and negative interest rate policy) and Japanese tax pol...
by Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary | On 09 Jun 2018 The paper identifies key features of International Monetary Fund (IMF)–supported programs following the 2008 global financial crisis. The statistical analysis of a large sample of countries that borro...
by Carlos De Resende | On 09 Jun 2018 Review of
'The Indian Ocean in World History' by Edward A. Alpers, Oxford World History Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. 172 pp. Illustrations, maps. $19.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-5337...
by | On 06 Jun 2018 This paper studies the effects of firms’ investments in information and communication technologies (ICT) on their demand for female and skilled workers. Using the gradual liberalization of the broadba...
by Natalie Chun | On 31 May 2018 Recent
progress
in
artificial intelligence (AI)
– a general purpose technology affecting many industries -
has been focused on
advances in
machine learning, which we
recast...
by | On 30 May 2018 Skill development is an important driver to address pov
-
erty reduction by improving employability, productivity
and helping sustainable enterprise development and in
-
clusive growth. It facil...
by A Srija | On 28 May 2018 This study explores the relationship over an extended period of time
between an increase in per capita public health expenditure and
per capita
state’s domestic product (per capita inc...
by Deepak Kumar Behera | On 16 May 2018 The impact assessment of macroeconomic policies on public health
expenditure is very relevant in Indian economy because of tax reform, fiscal consoli-
dation, and expenditure policy reform. These h...
by | On 11 May 2018 The global economic upswing that began around mid-2016 has become broader and stronger. This new World Economic Outlook report projects that advanced economies as a group will continue to expand above...
by International Monetary Fund [IMF] | On 08 May 2018 With
technological advancement, the world has shrunk
in the form of a
‘global
village’. Acknowledging this fact, the main question of this study is going to be:
whether...
by | On 08 May 2018 India is at a crossroads. It has the largest young workforce anywhere in the world, and is the fastest growing economy today. At the same time, the economy is not creating enough jobs, and therefore n...
by Samir SARAN | On 27 Apr 2018 Book Review of Sociology of Well-Being: Lession from India.
by Steve Derne Sage India,
2017, Rs.850 INR, (Harcover) Pp.xv+327, ISBN: 9789385985720
by Kishor Podh | On 24 Apr 2018 India accounts for 1.7 million child deaths, a quarter of global child mortality. The current literature
has succeeded in establishing an association between domestic violence and child mortality, bu...
by Seetha Menon | On 16 Apr 2018 It is now almost axiomatic that cities are the engines of growth. Historically, federal support programmes have focused on rural areas, but over the past fifteen years, the need to devise such progra...
by | On 13 Apr 2018 The economic growth outlook for developing Asia remains vibrant.
Asian Development Outlook 2018
foresees continued momentum after growth
accelerated to 6.1% in 2017. The region is expected to ex...
by Asian Bank | On 12 Apr 2018 This report recalls and builds on the recommendations made in EJF’s 2015 report Pirates and Slaves.
by Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) | On 10 Apr 2018 Exploring nonlinearities and time variations in exchange rate pass-through (ERPT) to consumer prices in India for the period from April 2005 to March 2016, this paper finds ERPT is asymmetric with pas...
by | On 09 Apr 2018 We analyse the evolution of the Indian economy over the past six
decades, particularly identifying structural breaks. We find that usually
there has been a gradual change in the indicators of the ec...
by Manmohan Agarwal | On 09 Apr 2018 Taiwan has one of the world’s largest DWFs, with over 1,800 vessels flying the Taiwanese flag
operating across the world and hundreds of Taiwanese-owned vessels flying other flags.
by Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) | On 09 Apr 2018 MGNREGS, the premier centrally-sponsored national rural
livelihood scheme, is one of the most elaborately designed and
implemented public workfare programmes in India. While a large number
of studi...
by Vinoj Abraham | On 05 Apr 2018 This paper empirically examines the impact of differences in contract attributes on project outcomes. The hypothesis is to test whether better incentive structure and stricter administrative controls...
by Chandan Kumar | On 05 Apr 2018 This paper analyses the Indian PPP framework, including its bidding process and the standard concession agreement. The paper argues that the existing bidding method (i.e. premium/grant based method) c...
by Chandan Kumar | On 05 Apr 2018 This paper attempts to find the answer to this question. It examines the contract design of the Indian PPP road contracts and analyzes its strengths and weaknesses to avoid the opportunism or hold-up...
by Chandan Kumar | On 05 Apr 2018 The role of information and communication technologies (ICT) in driving economic growth has been well established
in the literature. By reducing communication and transaction costs, and improving the...
by K L Krishna | On 04 Apr 2018 The paper builds a novel stochastic dynamic regional integrated assessment model (IAM) of the climate and economic system including a number of important climate science elements that are missing in m...
by Yongyang Cai | On 04 Apr 2018 The informal sector is widely considered as a crucial segment of the economy, whose mere presence convince the policy-maker to reorient the development strategy to promote jobs and equity.
by A. R. Kemal | On 02 Apr 2018 This study based on the firm level data for eleven industries for the period ranging from
1998 through 2010 makes an attempt to capture the effect of R&D on employment in the
backdrop of the debate...
by | On 29 Mar 2018 In this paper, we analyse the evolution of the task content of jobs in India between 1983 and
2011. Following standard literature, we calculated five task intensities by combining NSS data
with O-Ne...
by | On 28 Mar 2018 Recently, not only economists but also sociologists, political leaders, policy-makers, non-governmental organizations, and the press are taking a lively interest in the size of the under ground econom...
by Zafar Iqbal | On 28 Mar 2018 The report says that there has been a long debate in economics regarding the role of money in
an economy particularly in the determination of income and prices.
by Fazal Hussain | On 27 Mar 2018 In addition good and effective governance is also reflected in the quality of physical infrastructure like roads, electricity availability, ports and transport.
by Forum for Knowledge Sharing | On 27 Mar 2018 The paper says that the tax evasion refers to all the illegal actions taken to avoid the lawful
assessment of taxes.
by M. Ali Kemal | On 21 Mar 2018 This paper examines the factors influencing the gender wage gap by using an unbalanced crosscountry
aggregated panel data set for a sample covering 53 economies for the period 1995–2010.
Using robus...
by | On 20 Mar 2018 This report assesses the state of economic research into those areas, with a
particular focus on empirical methodologies and their adequacy for an assessment of general-equilibrium outcomes. While di...
by Marc-Andreas Muendler | On 20 Mar 2018 The paper examines the impact of conditional fiscal transfers on public employment across gender in India taking the case of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS). Th...
by Lekha Chakraborty | On 19 Mar 2018 Sustainable access to energy has the power to catalyze
social and economic development and promote better
educated, healthier, more productive and resilient
communities. Yet many families across th...
by | On 16 Mar 2018 As India looks towards further liberalisation, it must fi rst prepare its economic institutions
by re-orienting them from managing the economy to regulating the economy.
Without an enhancement of re...
by | On 16 Mar 2018 Revision in the estimates of domestic product (GDP) is a continuous process. Availability of more update data and changes in methodology which enlarges the access of data are the two factors which res...
by M. C. Singhi | On 16 Mar 2018 People-to-People Partnership (PPP) is an important and inevitable mode of interactions in the sphere of international relations. In any kind of developmental, diplomatic and cultural interactions and...
by | On 15 Mar 2018 There is a large concentration of chemical firms around Mumbai, and the Maharashtra
Pollution Control Board has been actively monitoring them. However, there is a large
variation in the degree of co...
by | On 13 Mar 2018 The paper says that the recent (2007–09) global financial meltdown and the related economic recession
are seen as the worst since the Great Depression of 1930s.
by S.K. Sasikumar | On 12 Mar 2018 Budget speech of the Finance Minister of Maharashtra.
by Sudhir Mungamtiwar | On 12 Mar 2018 In October 2010, the state government of Andhra Pradesh, India issued an emergency ordinance, bringing microfinance activities in the state to a complete halt and causing a nation-wide shock to the li...
by Emily Breza | On 10 Mar 2018 Following the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004,
Tamil Nadu lost about 8,000 people and the
lives and livelihoods of over 897,000 families
were affected. In 2015, Chennai, the capital city
of Tamil Nad...
by | On 09 Mar 2018 Between 2002-03 and 2012-13, energy consumption intensity and carbon dioxide (CO2)
emissions intensity of Indian manufacturing declined by about 30 percent. During the last 10 to 15 years,
Indian ma...
by | On 05 Mar 2018 This paper presents the business cycle chronology for the Indian economy. Two distinct phases are analysed. The pre-1991 period when the cycles were mainly driven by monsoon shocks. The post 1991 phas...
by Radhika Pandey | On 03 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 The study notes that continued appreciation of the rupee can weaken the competitive advantage of NRMs in the labour markets abroad. It can reinforce the already existing trend of decline in emigration...
by K.K. George | On 27 Feb 2018 The advent of Globalization has led to profound transformation in the global economy in terms
of policy paradigms, growth trajectories and developmental strategies of governance, in the
advanced eco...
by | On 26 Feb 2018 The research says that urbanisation is considered to be a sign of economic development of a particular country.
by Rahul Jambhulkar | On 23 Feb 2018 India's claim that all human rights violations are redressed stands sharply refuted by the report of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) which in its report to UPR2 stated that AFSPA remains i...
by Working Group on Human Rights (WGHR) | On 21 Feb 2018 There is no sport without television. Television has become
vital to the existence and sustenance of all sport, including cricket.
This paper focuses on the broadcast technologies of television and...
by | On 15 Feb 2018 Well friends, let me begin by narrating a short story. In the Indian epic
Mahabharata, dated around one thousand B.C., there is a celebrated fable about Ekalavya, an Adivasi boy; some of you will cer...
by | On 06 Feb 2018 Speech of Arun Jaitley, Minister of Finance on February 1, 2018
by Arun Jaitley | On 01 Feb 2018 The report says that investment in human capital is a prerequisite for a healthy and productive population for nation building.
by Arun Jaitley | On 31 Jan 2018 The paper ends with a discussion of the implications of possible shift in China's overseas development finance strategy since 2011.
by Oh Ah | On 31 Jan 2018 most of the major policy measures promised by this government to the Indian
farmers have not seen the light of the day. No social security measures have been taken for
farmers above the age of 60 or...
by ASHA Kisan Swaraj Alliance | On 31 Jan 2018 Data on the international exports of states (the first in India’s history) suggests a strong
correlation between export performance and states’ standard of living. India’s exports are unusual
in tha...
by Arun Jaitley | On 30 Jan 2018 The GST Council offers a model “technology” of cooperative federalism
to apply to many other policy reforms. Over the medium term, three areas of policy focus
stand out: Employment: finding good job...
by Arun Jaitley | On 29 Jan 2018 The paper talks about the main estimation results show that they have affected negatively the business investment over the period 1980-2014.
by Kim Sujin | On 29 Jan 2018 The paper says that the productivity growth of the service sector would foster economy-wide productivity and it can be achieved by the mitigation of misallocation of resources in service sectors.
by Choi Hyelin | On 26 Jan 2018 The paper aims to characterize and test performance differences between ecommerce and non-ecommerce firms or establishments.
by Lee Yub | On 26 Jan 2018 We show that even when the exchange rate cannot be devalued, a small set of
conventional fiscal instruments can robustly replicate the real allocations attained under
a nominal exchange rate devalua...
by | On 25 Jan 2018 The digital economy has been growing by leaps and bounds in recent years, mostly as a result of new
digital technologies that are promoting a global transformation to industry 4.0. The resulting expa...
by Padmashree Gehl Sampath | On 23 Jan 2018 This study analyses the concerns/challenges in executing the operational targets set under the UDAY
scheme for two DISCOMs in Karnataka, namely, Mangalore Electricity Supply Company Limited
(MESCOM)...
by Rishu Garg | On 11 Jan 2018 The papers says that police and municipal inspectors would persistently harass the vendors by threatening them and confiscating their merchandise.
by Randhir Kumar | On 05 Jan 2018 The papers says that the informal sector in developing countries seems not only to be growing but also contributing to economic growth and linked with the formal sector of the economy.
by Khawar Mumtaz | On 04 Jan 2018 This paper explores trends in urban employment in India, with a focus on urban informal employment (defined as informal wage employment and self-employment in informal enterprises, as well as informal...
by Martha Alter Chen | On 02 Jan 2018 Self-reliance is, by definition, about individualised responsibility for social wellbeing and economic security. This idea drives urban refugee livelihood programmes, in India and beyond, as aid organ...
by | On 22 Dec 2017 Using data from more than 6,000 manufacturing firms in India for 1996–2008, we investigate the impact of financial constraints on the exporting behavior of Indian manufacturing firms while also focusi...
by Hiro Ito | On 21 Dec 2017 In recent years, South Asia has received growing attention as a region that is integrating successfully into the global economy. To maximize the benefits in terms of faster growth and poverty reductio...
by Prabir De | On 19 Dec 2017 This paper investigates the causes and effects of the spatial distribution of immigrants across US cities. We document that: a) immigrants concentrate in large, high-wage, and expensive cities, b) the...
by | On 18 Dec 2017 The report says that Manitoba is a province rich in agricultural lands, where the agriculture sector is a cornerstone for the economy.
by International Centre and Sustainable Development | On 18 Dec 2017 This study provides growth projections for the Philippine agriculture based on growth in productivity differentiated by basic sector, using a computable general equilibrium model.
by Roehlano M. Briones | On 14 Dec 2017 The paper narrates that the inclusive growth requires boosting incomes of workers currently in agriculture, either by shifting them to better-paying jobs outside agriculture or raising wages within ag...
by Roehlano M. Briones | On 13 Dec 2017 The report says that despite the government’s various poverty reduction and social protection programs, poverty remains a social problem the country needs to hurdle.
by Connie Bayudan-Dacuycuy | On 13 Dec 2017 Using data from 1961 to 2001, the paper shows the impact on crime of two age-specific sex ratios corresponding to pre-marital (ages 10 to 16) and marriageable (ages 20 to 26) age groups in India. To d...
by Rashmi Barua | On 12 Dec 2017 The paper discusses the changes in the new 2011-12 base year series of the Index of Industrial Production (IIP) to ask, whether the new series has improved our under-standing of the growth in the manu...
by Radhika Pandey | On 12 Dec 2017 This paper focuses on the consequences of a countrywide guaranteed workfare programme (MGNREGA) and subsidised food distribution scheme (PDS) in India for the prevalence of anaemia, examining whether...
by Sudha Narayanan | On 11 Dec 2017 This inaugural issue of the World Bank Group’s Global Investment Competitiveness Report presents novel analytical insights and empirical evidence on foreign direct investment’s (FDI) drivers and contr...
by World Bank [WB] | On 08 Dec 2017 This paper aims to inform academia and policymakers about ways and means to first increase trade with Afghanistan, and second, to discuss trade-related procedures and processes that could be streamlin...
by Vaqar Ahmed | On 04 Dec 2017 This study analyzes the socio-economic factors that force children into child labour. In order to find out the key factors of child labour, the techniques of univariate analysis and bivariate analysis...
by Syed Kazm | On 01 Dec 2017 Asia and the Pacific continues to be exposed to climate change impacts. Home to the majority of the world’s poor, the population of the region is particularly vulnerable to those impacts. Unabated war...
by Asian Bank | On 23 Nov 2017 Most empirical studies on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) use cross-sectional data or case studies, making causality hard to establish. The paper overcomes this limitation by using panel data on...
by Shuangqi Wu | On 23 Nov 2017 Digitalization is the buzzword under which profound changes of the labor market can be summarized. Next to automation, i.e., the increasing use of robots, “intelligent” machines and more comprehensive...
by Werner Eichhorst | On 23 Nov 2017 The paper uses a six-year panel of 6,500 students at three international schools in a major city in north China to estimate how fluctuation in ambient PM2.5 over the preceding fortnight impacts daily...
by Haoming Liu | On 20 Nov 2017 In this context, a government that is in doubt regarding re-election will give a popular or election-oriented budget and go on a spending spree.
by Dr. Abid Suleri | On 20 Nov 2017 India has undertaken extensive reforms in its manufacturing sector in the
last two decades. However, an acceleration of growth in manufacturing, and a concomitant increase in employment, has eluded I...
by Poonam Gupta | On 17 Nov 2017 On the day when the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) finally reported that almost 99% of the proscribed currency notes of ?500 and ?1,000 denomination had returned to the banking system by 30 June 2017, th...
by | On 17 Nov 2017 A look into the effect of an e-Governance initiative in Bangladesh is on efficiency in the
public sector. The electronic Filing (e-Filing) system was introduced to all the Deputy Commissioners'
(DC)...
by Wahid Abdallah | On 15 Nov 2017 With the revival of global economy, the issues of “exit policies” and rebalancing global growth have taken center stage in policy discussions. Since many emerging Asian economies presently have large...
by | On 14 Nov 2017 This paper highlights the role of initial wealth inequality in determining the technology adoption decision of firms, which in turn impacts upon the overall productivity in an economy. Wealth inequali...
by Surbhi Badhwar | On 08 Nov 2017 This paper is an attempt to document the evolution of India’s aggregate productivity, decomposed into the contributions of detailed industrial sectors and structural change during 1980-2011. Using the...
by K L Krishna | On 08 Nov 2017 This paper argues that by some monetary and fiscal reforms, the investable part of remittances could be diverted to labour intensive and development projects, creating hundreds of thousands employment...
by Atiq Rehman | On 30 Oct 2017 This paper creates a de novo data-set using publicly available data on cases at the Indian Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT). The paper applies the statistical techniques of hazard models to addres...
by Pratik Datta | On 17 Oct 2017 Iran’s game-changing nuclear deal with the West and imminent ending of the US-led sanctions open a window of opportunity for deeper Indo-Iranian relations. On the sidelines of the BRICS summit in
Ufa...
by Research and Information System for Developing Countries | On 17 Oct 2017 This paper investigates the nature of skill formation in Indian Manufacturing. Discussing household, personal,
and labour market characteristics of manufacturing employment in India, the study discus...
by G.D Bino Paul | On 10 Oct 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 This paper concentrates on the impact of a few macroeconomic variables—nominal exchange rate, economic activity in host countries and workers' outflow—in determining the remittance inflows to Nepal.
by Bhubanesh Pant | On 09 Oct 2017 This paper illustrates the use of information on withdrawals by Drawing and Disbursing Officers (DDOs) for improving estimates of public spending for National Health Accounts (NHAs) in India. Using in...
by Mita Choudhury | On 07 Oct 2017 A chapter dedicated to migration in the Economic Survey 2016-17 signals the willingness on the part of Indian policymakers to address the linkages between migration, labour markets and economic develo...
by S. Chandrasekhar | On 03 Oct 2017 This paper, however, demonstrates
that the effective history of thinking about political representation in the
form of reservations for women is as old as the women’s movement itself.
Feminist enga...
by Mary E. John | On 28 Sep 2017 The paper investigate the predictive power of Divisia monetary aggregates in explaining exchange rate variations for India, Israel, Poland, UK and the US, in the years leading up to and following the...
by Taniya Ghosh | On 18 Sep 2017 This paper introduces a new dataset of orders passed by the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) in the insolvency cases under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code or IBC. It builds this dataset to atte...
by Sreyan Chatterjee | On 18 Sep 2017 Growing non-performing assets is a recurrent problem in the Indian banking sector. Over the past two decades, there have been two such episodes when the banking sector was severely impaired by balance...
by Rajeswari Sengupta | On 18 Sep 2017 In recent days, the process of federalization within the Indian Union has become more debatable due to the unequal federal development at various levels. In this context, the issues of state formation...
by Susant Kumar Naik | On 14 Sep 2017 Labour productivity in an economy or industry may increase due to intrinsic increase in productivity (due to capital deepening or TFP growth) or due to the reallocation of workers to more productive s...
by Rosa Abraham | On 11 Sep 2017 Situating the 1857 Indian uprising within an imperial context, Jill C. Bender traces its ramifications across the four different colonial sites of Ireland, New Zealand, Jamaica, and southern Africa. B...
by Elizabeth Baker | On 11 Sep 2017 Natural disasters, together with other shocks, have contributed to the vulnerability of both poor and nonpoor Filipino households to poverty.
by Christian D. Mina | On 07 Sep 2017 The paper narrates that the weather is an integral part of our life and weather shocks can have severe implications on income and on household consumption.
by Connie Bayudan-Dacuycuy | On 06 Sep 2017 This has facilitated the growth of a (more) positive relationship between civil society and the local state reduced the governance gap and enhanced the legitimacy of the local state.
by Joakim Öjendal | On 01 Sep 2017 Viewers of South Indian devotional films, female viewers in particular, have been known to offer prayers to the gods on screen and even moved to a state of possession while watching a film. Filmmaking...
by Uma Bhrugubanda | On 31 Aug 2017 This paper aims to show that the level of inequality increases via the human capital channel with credit market imperfections generating negative effects on economic growth. We expand the model presen...
by Bogang Jun | On 28 Aug 2017 The Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA) between India and Singapore came into effect on 1st August 2005. It was the first such comprehensive FTA signed by India with any country coveri...
by V. S. Seshadri | On 24 Aug 2017 The report says that the base year of GDP is also revised regularly to have it aligned with the structural shifts that the economy witnesses continuously.
by M. Singhi | On 24 Aug 2017 The study is about estimating the extent to which domestic prices of major Indian agriculture commodities deviate from their corresponding free trade reference prices. The free trade reference prices...
by Shweta Saini | On 23 Aug 2017 The paper presents a case for a phased rolling out of direct benefits transfer (DBT) for Food in India. By studying all states and Union Territories on three broad parameters: demographics, performanc...
by Shweta Saini | On 21 Aug 2017 This paper quantifies the magnitude of gender-based disparities that women face in the organized sector of the Indian Labour Market.
by Biju Varkkey | On 21 Aug 2017 With one of the Middle East’s largest economies, a growing population,
and rising incomes, Iran contributes significantly to the region’s agricultural commodity consumption. Iran’s rising food demand...
by Mesbah Motamed | On 18 Aug 2017 Will women benefit from the rapid automation and digitisation that is set to change the world of work as we know it? How can we ensure that women’s economic interests are brought into focus, and that...
by Becky Faith | On 16 Aug 2017 This report focused on agriculture, buildings, industries, transport, and power supply – sectors
that account for all the state’s energy requirement and over 70% of its Greenhouse Gas (GHG)
emission...
by Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy CSTEP | On 14 Aug 2017 This paper details the approaches of other countries when their banking sectors were burdened with unsustainable levels of impaired assets. The paper examines the bad debt situation in India, the circ...
by Jaimini Bhagwati | On 11 Aug 2017 The present paper attempts to explore the macroeconomic implications of the “demonetisation” exercise announced on November 8, 2016, for the Indian economy on three board parameters of growth, distrib...
by Pradymna Rawat | On 09 Aug 2017 The present study is an attempt to examine the impact of international trade on manufacturing productivity in India. The literature on international trade suggests that the productivity of domestic ma...
by R Rijesh | On 09 Aug 2017 The key policy issues in this field pertain to detachment benefits, totalization procedure and ensuring greater coverage under these agreements.
by Atul Tiwari | On 09 Aug 2017 This paper studies the political economy of the Southeast Asian haze and discusses the obstacles that, unless overcome, could prevent a permanent and effective solution to this transboundary pollution...
by Parkash Chander | On 08 Aug 2017 The study attempts to investigate the factors affecting a firm’s decision to hire contract workers. The information from a specially commissioned survey of manufacturing firms undertaken in 2014 by IC...
by Jaivir Singh | On 08 Aug 2017 The Comptroller and Auditor General of India submitted a report on the electrification projects in Indian Railways (between 2013-14 and 2015-16) on July 21, 2017. Trains on Indian Railways are hauled...
by PRS Legislative Research | On 07 Aug 2017 Business groups have played an important role in the development of the Indian economy by filling the institutional voids arising from weak markets and institutions. As these economic institutions dev...
by | On 04 Aug 2017 In the Indian context, the present literature on estimation of potential output - the level of output that an economy can produce sustainably over the medium term is based on an understanding that sus...
by Deba Prasad Rath | On 04 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 The study focuses on various drivers of overnight inter-bank rate spread under
the new liquidity management framework during July 2013 to December 2016.
Applying OLS with Newey-West estimator and va...
by Sunil Kumar | On 03 Aug 2017 The delegalisation1
of the two highest
value currency notes announced by Indian
government on November 8th has created an
impact on the economy at a scale which no
other piece of policy has riva...
by | On 03 Aug 2017 The main objective of the present paper is to assess the prospects of achieving universal adult literacy with a policy intervention factor through adult literacy programmes that target different age g...
by Motkuri Venkatanarayana | On 02 Aug 2017 The purpose of this research is to elucidate and analyse the underlying thinking behind the CFE strategies in order to determine potential gaps that could arise as the strategies are implemented in po...
by Tan Tai Loong Alex | On 01 Aug 2017 This approach was chosen to understand the consequences of climate risks as well as the adaptation measures needed to cope with adverse impacts in order to ensure the resilience of all actors involved...
by Samavia Batool | On 01 Aug 2017 For the 2017 G20, the German government has prioritized commitments to reducing the male and female employment gap by 25 percent by 2025, and increasing the quality of women’s employment. Investing in...
by John Ruthrauff | On 31 Jul 2017 This study attempts to evaluate the effects of on-farm soil conservation practices on farm profit and its components, revenue, and variable cost. Since farmers self-select themselves as adopters of a...
by Chandan Singha | On 27 Jul 2017 Previous studies have examined how demographic characteristics, education, culture, and labor policy suppress Indian women’s labor supply. However, not enough attention has been paid to the role of po...
by Lei Lei | On 27 Jul 2017 Despite rapid progress of the financial sector in Bangladesh, there are concerns that banks have not been able to include a
vast segment of the population, especially the underprivileged sections and...
by Bilkis Sultana | On 26 Jul 2017 Rural poverty continues to be a scourge in India, affecting tens of millions of households despite years of strong economic growth for the country overall. In 2005, the government of India created the...
by Government of India & Employment | On 26 Jul 2017 Delivering accessible, inclusive and high-quality health services in India is both technically challenging and politically complex. India’s public health services have been highly decentralized for mo...
by Brendan Halloran | On 26 Jul 2017 In this paper, we compare the performance of different models, on two data frequencies, in terms of
matching the business cycle moments of Pakistani economy. Out of the four models, two are simple
r...
by M. Ali Choudhary | On 26 Jul 2017 The paper estimates the relationship between the current account and fiscal deficit, and the real exchange rate, in a structural vector auto regression, with Indian data for the managed float period 1...
by Ashima Goyal | On 22 Jul 2017 Inflation expectations are an important marker for the conduct of monetary policy. Using a Bayesian structural VAR-X model that includes the inflation expectations of general public based on the Infla...
by Taniya Ghosh | On 21 Jul 2017 This report provides support to the Maldivian government in formulating its high-priority policies by identifying the critical constraints to achieving inclusive growth. The report also provides polic...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 12 Jul 2017 The report says that the bond investors typically have a long position in local currency bond markets. To manage their foreign exchange risk, they may want to hedge that exposure for a period of time.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 12 Jul 2017 This publication is complemented by critical analyses to determine key issues, challenges, and opportunities for innovative strategies toward global competitiveness, increased productivity, and inclus...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 10 Jul 2017 The publication reviews recent developments in East Asian local currency bond markets along with the outlook, risks, and policy options. This issue includes a special section on Sukuk (Islamic bonds)...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 06 Jul 2017 This study measures the size of fossil fuel subsidies such as underpricing of petroleum products and electricity, tax exemptions, and subsidized credit; examines the potential economic, energy, and en...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 04 Jul 2017 This study measures the size of fossil fuel subsidies such as tax breaks for diesel and natural gas, market price support for natural gas for vehicles, and free electricity for low-income consumers as...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 04 Jul 2017 This report will help improve the quality of the workforce; enhance employability, productivity, and remuneration, leading to higher economic growth.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 30 Jun 2017 This publication is part of a series of six country reports on technical and vocational education and training (TVET) and higher education in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. Each report presents cur...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 29 Jun 2017 This report summarizes findings and policy recommendations for the government's 13th Five-Year Plan.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 29 Jun 2017 The report says Fiji’s economy has seen 5 years of positive growth since 2010 - one of its few episodes of sustained growth since 1970. Growth averaged 3.3% a year during 2010-2014, which is nearly fo...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 27 Jun 2017 Services have significantly contributed to the structural transformation of Indian economy. Sustained growth of services in India has to an extent broken the myth which has considered acceleration in...
by MC Singhi | On 22 Jun 2017 This study informs decision makers regarding major climate change risks to development and provides feasible policy recommendations for consideration to increase resilience and reduce vulnerability in...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 22 Jun 2017 The report herein provide in-depth analysis of the state of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) and higher education in Nepal.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 19 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 The report narrates that the yields of local currency bonds in most emerging East Asian markets remained on a downward trajectory in the first month and a half of 2016, pressured by worries over globa...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 Jun 2017 This report measures the size of associated subsidies on these fossil fuels including direct transfers, tax exemptions, subsidized credit, and losses of state enterprises in India, Indonesia, and Thai...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 14 Jun 2017 The report says that the global economic environment also affects the region’s bond yields, emphasizing the importance of domestic macroeconomic stability and bond market resilience in the face of glo...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 06 Jun 2017 This report includes proposed measures for Myanmar’s road sector, rail sector, river transport, and policy measures, summarizing the costs and benefits of each, ranked by their benefit-to-cost-ratio.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 02 Jun 2017 Myanmar has an extensive river network that is well positioned to serve the country’s main transport corridors, including the link between Yangon and Mandalay. However, main rivers are difficult to na...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 31 May 2017 Building on the early work of Mitchell and Burns (1938,1946), the automatic leading indicator (ALI) approach has been developed over the last few decades by Geweke (1977), Sargent and Sims (1977), Sto...
by Parma Chakravartti | On 26 May 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 It has been observed that even though the Indian economy has achieved remarkable economic growth along with a decline in poverty over the last two decades, improvements in nutritional status have not...
by Niti Aayog GOI | On 18 May 2017 The paper narrates that the specific needs of the Pacific in the process of urbanization must be recognized and adequately addressed in the post-2015 development agenda. Key priorities include upgradi...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 May 2017 The objective of this report is to help governments and multilateral institutions assess and integrate ID systems into their development activities. The intended audience includes government policy ma...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 May 2017 ADB recognizes four types of fragile and conflict-affected situations (FCAS)—conflict-affected, fragile,transitional, and subnational—and each situation has its own unique set of characteristics, and...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 12 May 2017 The paper outlines that the sanitation has long been “beneath the radar” on the development agendas of governments worldwide. Aside from the massive investment requirements for putting in place sanita...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 12 May 2017 The paper states that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is currently undergoing a number of important changes, which have wide-ranging implications for activity in the PRC, the rest of developing A...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 09 May 2017 The research focuses on financial exclusion in three segments: base of pyramid (BoP); women; and micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs). From our research, we estimate that addressing this oppor...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 09 May 2017 This report summarises the main results of the initiative Earth Observation for a Transforming Asia and Pacific
(EOTAP) that brought together our two institutions – the European Space Agency (ESA) an...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 05 May 2017 This issue of the Asia Bond Monitor includes three special discussion boxes. Box 1 discusses the risk of Federal Reserve rate hikes to emerging Asia’s financial stability. Box 2 analyzes the risks to...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 05 May 2017 BRICS nations are today cooperating on numerous matters of mutual concern. The cooperation is the result of years of deliberation, hard work and commitment. Since the formation of the grouping in the...
by | On 14 Apr 2017 India Skills Report 2017 is an report that aims to support this initiative; by providing a stock of the talent landscape of India and supporting in charting the future direction of matchmaking. Curren...
by United Nations Development Programme [UNDP] | On 15 Mar 2017 a major challenge
before Indian agriculture is the standardization of methods of providing the
power and economy of scale to small producers. A serious problem confronting our agriculture is the di...
by M. S. Swaminathan | On 14 Mar 2017 Economic growth of around 7½% makes India the fastest-growing G20 economy. The acceleration of structural reforms, the move towards a rule-based policy framework and low commodity prices have provided...
by OECD Development Centre | On 06 Mar 2017 Agriculture sector as a whole has developed and emerged immensely with the infusion of science and
technology. But this latest emergence is not capable of plummeting the ignorance of women labour as...
by Mun Mun Ghosh | On 01 Mar 2017 Every year, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) undertakes a survey of Indian companies operating in the United States to discern their growing presence. Previous studies over the last three ye...
by | On 21 Feb 2017 The situation today is that domestic violence is treated as a `social crime’ when compared with violence by strangers, even though it is much more severe in nature. Why is wife beating considered as a...
by Shalu Nigam | On 21 Feb 2017 This collection of under review certainly belongs in the latter category. The editor, Kasnik Roy, has a distinguished record of publications on the Indian Army of the Raj, and has assembled an impress...
by | On 20 Feb 2017 This paper analyzes gender differences in reading and mathematics among Indian children ages 8-11 using data from the 2005 India Human Development Survey. Employing descriptive statistics and ordered...
by | On 15 Feb 2017 India is increasingly vulnerable to cyber attacks that range from intrusions that affect the integrity of data to large-scale attacks aimed at bringing down critical infrastructure. This vulnerability...
by | On 03 Feb 2017 Budget 2017-18 is placed at an important juncture when there has been a thrust by the government
for a digitised and a consequent cashless economy with the demonetisation of high value currency
note...
by Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability CBGA | On 03 Feb 2017 Encrypting communications enhances privacy and the security of information services. This, in turn, incentivises innovation in the ICT sector and contributes significantly to the growth of the interne...
by | On 02 Feb 2017 The problems of water, energy, climate change, and urbanisation, are all intertwined; they are, also, all 'wicked'. There is little consensus on how to effectively navigate these problems, let alone,...
by | On 02 Feb 2017 As Asia finds itself in the limelight, whether in terms of major power relations, rising insecurity and potential for conflict, or economic governance, it is worth asking, even before broaching the re...
by | On 02 Feb 2017 The Union Budget for 2017-18 will be presented on February 1, 2017. In this context, we present data regarding the state of
the Indian economy in 2016-17, across indicators such as gross domestic pro...
by Tanvi Deshpande | On 01 Feb 2017 The aim of this article is to present that the Positive effect of demonetisation on upcoming budget for national growth. And demonetisation is one of the tools to be used for minimize the counterfeit...
by P Shekar | On 25 Jan 2017 This article examines pollution and environmental mortality in an economy where fertility is endogenous and output is produced from labor and capital by two sectors, dirty and clean. An emission tax c...
by | On 24 Jan 2017 This study investigates the effect of gender budgeting in India on gender inequality and fiscal
spending. Gender budgeting is an approach to budgeting in which governments use fiscal
policies and ad...
by Janet G Stotsky | On 23 Jan 2017 The focus of this note is primarily to present the
background of this project, status of various activities undertaken so far and detail out the
way forward in terms of timelines and implementation...
by Bibek Debroy | On 23 Jan 2017 India registered rapid economic growth over the past couple of years, with the GDP growing 7.6 percent in 2015-2016. While economic activity remains buoyant, however, the country still has a long way...
by | On 11 Jan 2017 The paper examines the medium-term fiscal policy (MTFP) and a more conventional medium-term expenditure framework (MTEF) adopted in India under the provisions of the fiscal rules. The MTFP and the MTE...
by Pratap Ranjan Jena | On 10 Jan 2017 Cross-national empirical studies of corruption commonly find that nations in which women play a greater role in economic and public life suffer less corruption. This finding has been controversial in...
by | On 10 Jan 2017 “Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs) form the backbone of the Indian economy making large contributions to important economic indicators as well as household incomes. Digital technologies have transfor...
by | On 05 Jan 2017 International Economic Integration plays a vital role in Economic Development of any country. Foreign Direct Investment is one and only major instrument of attracting International Economic Integratio...
by | On 04 Jan 2017 Indian economy is now trillion dollar economy. After introducing significant reforms in financial sector, we have improved efficiency and stability in our economy. As per most economists we will achie...
by | On 04 Jan 2017 The impact of climate change is studied in many aspects in different locations in the country and it is concluded that there is high impact on agriculture compared to any other sector in the country....
by | On 28 Dec 2016 India’s juvenile Justice Law started its journey in 1919-20 with Indian Jail Committee’s
recommendation that children be removed from Jails. This mandate remains unfulfilled till date.
One will stil...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 23 Dec 2016 The authorities have responded to this challenge, and there has been clear progress in some areas of pollution control. As a result of these actions, and concurrent changes in economic policies and th...
by | On 23 Dec 2016 India is passing through the demographic transition and we hardly have 50 to 60 years more to utilise the demographic dividend. By mid of this century, India will have a huge population of 60 and old...
by Priya Sharma | On 23 Dec 2016 This paper analyses how non-performing loans (NPLs) of Indian banks behave
through the cycle. We find that a one-percentage point increase in loan growth is
associated with an increase in NPLs over...
by Pallavi Chavan | On 15 Dec 2016 The urbanization is a process which urban social and urban civilization forming gradually. On the way of urbanization, we develop the economy first and improve the quality of people’s life later. Alth...
by | On 14 Dec 2016 Drawing attention to a high dropout rate in upper primary schools, Singapore Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam today said schools are facing the “biggest crisis” in India.
Delivering the f...
by Tharman Shanmugaratnam | On 08 Dec 2016 This paper provides quantitative evidence on the impact of the Training and Visit (T & V) extension system in the irrigated Punjab of Pakistan. Three models are analyzed using limited dependent variab...
by Paul Heisey | On 08 Dec 2016 The study attempted to investigate the determinants of inflation in case of
Pakistan and to check the validity of monetarist stance that inflation is always
and everywhere a monetary phenomenon by i...
by Mehak Moazam | On 07 Dec 2016 Temporary labour migration is often touted as a triple-win: a win for destination countries that can support a level of economic activity that would be impossible without foreign labour; a win for cou...
by | On 24 Nov 2016 Low-waged Tamil migrant workers have long been contributing to Singapore. Despite labouring for three decades and being connected to the existing Tamil diasporic community there, they have been left o...
by | On 24 Nov 2016 The argument posited in favour of demonetisation is that the cash that would be extinguished
would be “black money” and hence, should be rightfully extinguished to set right the perverse
incentive s...
by | On 17 Nov 2016 Conventional wisdom suggests that, to negate fiscal externalities imposed by provinces which
spend too much and raise lower local resources, central authority should always be a first mover
in the t...
by Bodhisattva Sengupta | On 14 Nov 2016 Economists and social scientists have shown considerable interest in recent years to measure the gap between the observable economic activity and the actual economic activity. This has led to the conc...
by | On 09 Nov 2016 Beyond the issue of unaccounted monies lying overseas, however, is the issue of unaccounted monies lying in India and what is perceived to be the parallel economy. There is, of course, this issue of w...
by FICCI Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Indu | On 09 Nov 2016 Review on , Partha S. Ghosh’s book, ‘Migrants, Refugees and the Stateless in South-Asia’ ; Sage Publications India, 384 pages
by Aashish Khakha | On 03 Nov 2016 Presently, there is a constant intense debate on labour law reforms in India. It is argued that the restrictive labour laws create rigidity in the labour market or else the Indian economy would have w...
by | On 03 Nov 2016 The speech talks about the nationalist struggle against the British rule led by Gandhi, as well as a range of other contemporary protest campaigns. In particular, this movement is examined in the ligh...
by David Hardiman | On 28 Oct 2016 Urbanization has both benefits and costs. In a market economy, the trade-off between
benefits and costs determines the level, speed, and place of urbanization. This paper
summarizes research finding...
by Kala Seetharam Sridhar | On 28 Oct 2016 This paper deals with the evolution of laws, institutions and polices relating to
environmental protection in India. It considers the following questions : (a) whether the
laws are evolved indigenou...
by U. Sankar | On 28 Oct 2016 Against the backdrop of the global financial and economic crisis, policy makers around the world took steps in the past year to make it easier for local firms to start up and operate. This is importan...
by World Bank [WB} | On 27 Oct 2016 This paper examines the macroeconomic impact of World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business (EDB) rank, of increasing importance to policy makers, using simple but robust cross-country regressions. Its main f...
by | On 27 Oct 2016 Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa form the bloc of emerging
economies, but is it still relevant? For several years now, the most talked-about trend in the global economy has been the rise...
by Al Jazeera . | On 25 Oct 2016 As an economy transforms from an agricultural economy to an industrial economy, a decline in participation of female labour force is observed. This is attributed to the shift from family-based product...
by | On 19 Oct 2016 Climatic changes and increasing climatic variability are likely to aggravate the problem of future food security by exerting pressure on agriculture. However, there are lot of uncertainties about the...
by | On 17 Oct 2016 MGNREGS, the premier centrally-sponsored national rural
livelihood scheme, is one of the most elaborately designed and
implemented public workfare programmes in India. While a large number
of studi...
by Vinoj Abraham | On 10 Oct 2016 The objectives of monetary policy have always been a topic of intensive debate. This debate has
resurfaced during the past few years. In India too monetary policy-making appears to have
undergone si...
by Lokendra Kumawat | On 10 Oct 2016 This paper studies the effects of remittances on informal employment in the migrants’ countries of origin, looking both at the remittance-receiving and non-migrant households. Using data from the Soci...
by | On 05 Oct 2016 In this study the hypotheses that the choice between OFDI and export decision of the
firms depends on the firm level productivity is tested. Here, the productivity levels of OFDI
firms vis a vis exp...
by Ronny Thomas | On 03 Oct 2016 Objectives of this paper are to empirically examine the roles of three channels of FDI liked
spillovers in enabling domestic firms (DFs) to take decision to export (DTE). The findings suggest that
c...
by Pradeep Kumar Keshari | On 03 Oct 2016 The concern of this paper is limited to the approaches to rural women's development and an
understanding of their work roles in the planning strategies. [CWDS Working paper].
by Kumud Sharma | On 30 Sep 2016 The productivity spillovers of industry-level FDI on both, the sector of manufacturing and
the sector of services, in seventeen South and East Asian economies. Using a dynamic panel
GMM methodology,...
by Nadia Doytch | On 29 Sep 2016 RBI is on a journey towards the goal of universal financial inclusion in India. There are challenges encountered and the way forward. [Address delivered at at the BRICS Workshop on Financial Inclusio...
by S.S. Mundra | On 26 Sep 2016 India can substantially increase her production and yield in
pulses with a strategic emphasis on research in public and private sector, expanding irrigation
infrastructure, provision of MSP to pulse...
by Satish Y Deodhar | On 23 Sep 2016 The Indian banks in general, and the Public Sector Banks (PSBs) in particular, are grappling with the huge stock of stressed assets that has piled up in the system over the years. Any amount of discus...
by N.S. Viswanathan | On 19 Sep 2016 The Indian steel industry has made a rapid progress on strong fundamentals over the recent few years. The industry is getting all essential ingredients required for dynamic growth. The government is b...
by | On 19 Sep 2016 The report begins with an overview of the Iron and Steel Industry in the context of its importance to Indian economy and introduces the objective of this study. The status of the industry by productio...
by | On 19 Sep 2016 Expanded international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills allows this paper to analyze potential sources of the cross-country variation of comparably estimated labor-market returns to skills i...
by | On 19 Sep 2016 According to the Basketball Federation of India, Basketball is now the fastest-growing sport among boys and girls, with five million participants-which they claim is second only to soccer 2 The Indian...
by | On 09 Sep 2016 The National Reports received to date were considered during the development of the Regional Report and examples from National Reports have been incorporated into the Regional Report as appropriate T...
by United Nations (UN) | On 07 Sep 2016 The question here is, whether it’s the responsibility of the Government or the Central Bank to ensure price stability in an economy? For instance, what was the role of the RBI when the prices of pulse...
by Deepthi Mary Mathew | On 07 Sep 2016 Enhancing the ability of smallholders to connect with the knowledge, networks, and institutions necessary to improve their productivity, food security, and employment opportunities is a fundamental de...
by World Bank [WB] | On 01 Sep 2016 Comprehensive program evaluation requires capturing indirect effects of an intervention,
such as changes in leaders’ efforts and constituents’ attitudes towards leaders. We
study political economy r...
by | On 30 Aug 2016 We study the effect of the world’s largest school feeding program on children’s learning outcomes. Staggered implementation across different states of a 2001 Indian Supreme Court Directive mandating t...
by | On 30 Aug 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 During the recent episode of persistently high food inflation in India, the role of rent seeking activities of food suppliers emerged as the centre of debate in the country. The rent seeking activitie...
by Rudrani Bhattacharya | On 29 Aug 2016 Drawing on interviews with Indian and Brazilian farmers’ rights activists, lawyers, agronomists and plant breeders, this article aims at better understanding how farmers’ rights are protected on paper...
by | On 25 Aug 2016 China and India have successfully integrated into the world economy. Once specialised in textiles, they have developed new export-oriented sectors linked to the information and communication technolog...
by | On 24 Aug 2016 This paper addresses some aspects related to these two important research questions, and thus builds on the base of knowledge. The paper is organized as follows. First, we discuss the economic growth...
by | On 24 Aug 2016 The paper contributes to the measurement of poverty and vulnerability in three ways. First, we propose a new approach to separating poverty into chronic and transient components. Second, we provide co...
by | On 23 Aug 2016 This paper argues that differences in the cost structure across sectors play an important role in the decision of firms to adjust their prices. It develops a menu-cost model of pricing in which retail...
by Craig Benedict | On 18 Aug 2016 With the explosive growth of knowledge in the past century and with
the development of handy tools of information and communication technologies as well
as of other scientific innovations, competiti...
by University Grants Commission UGC | On 17 Aug 2016 How do employers attract the right workers? How important are posted wages vs. other job characteristics? Using data from the leading job board CareerBuilder.com, this paper shows that most vacancies...
by Ioana Marinescu | On 17 Aug 2016 The pressure fiscal expansion exerts on the economy via credit markets in Pakistan is analysed.
Melina and Villa (2014) is extended by allowing government to compete with the private borrowers (firms...
by Sajawal Khan | On 16 Aug 2016 Women as bearers and nurturers of children provide the foundation for generating future citizens for the country and labourers for the economy. In addition to reproductive or care work, women also con...
by | On 12 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 A new “Make in India” campaign to “transform India into a global manufacturing hub” aims to use manufacturing as a vehicle for job growth. Is this strategy realistic? This paper helps answer the quest...
by | On 10 Aug 2016 This paper revisits the role of manufacturing and services in economic development in the light of the following new facts: (a) a faster growth of services than that of manufacturing in many developin...
by | On 08 Aug 2016 This paper captures the payment gap by integrating labor market performance with that of family decision making practices. We conjecture that women from patriarchal families are earning less than men...
by Sukanya Sarkhel | On 04 Aug 2016 Today, there is renewed interest in the informal economy worldwide. This is because a large share of the global workforce and economy is informal and because the informal economy is growing in many co...
by | On 29 Jul 2016 Labor migration presents both challenges and opportunities in today’s global world. As the scale, scope, and complexity of the phenomenon have grown, states and other stakeholders have become aware of...
by Sridhar K. Khatri | On 27 Jul 2016 Female migrants face different challenges and opportunities than men as they integrate into their host communities and become development agents for both their countries of destination and origin. And...
by | On 25 Jul 2016 Although both infrastructure and innovation play an important role in fostering a country’s economic growth, discussion in the literature about how the two are connected is limited. This paper examine...
by Xu Wang | On 25 Jul 2016 This paper proposes a new source of cross-sectional variation that may identify causal impacts of Government spending on the economy. It uses the fact that a large number of federal spending programs...
by Juan Serrato | On 20 Jul 2016 The social sector is usually defined as dealing with social and economic activities carried out for the purposes of benefiting society, and in the main nonprofit, not-for-profit, philanthropic and mis...
by Padmaja Mishra | On 19 Jul 2016 This paper examines whether “Make in India” policies are constrained by over-regulation or under-regulation in the Indian labour market. Specific labour law provisions and the scope of circumventing t...
by Ajeet Mathur | On 18 Jul 2016 This paper discusses India’s demographic dynamics and argues that policymakers have the widest window of opportunity with that segment of population which is poised to enter the workforce between 2030...
by Ali Mehdi | On 14 Jul 2016 By exploring the role of SEZs in China’s integration with the world economy, we also investigate the underlining challenges faced by the economy. The analysis brings forth the indisputable fact that S...
by | On 14 Jul 2016 The paper investigates the dynamic relationship between movements in oil prices and exchange rates with macroeconomic variables like price, output, interest rate and money by using structural vector a...
by Taniya Ghosh | On 12 Jul 2016 In this paper, the evolution of the corporate insolvency resolution framework, with the objective of linking it back to the policy directive of the time is described. It is concluded that when policy...
by Rajeswari Sengupta | On 09 Jul 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 By 2030, India will be amongst the youngest nations in the world with nearly 150 million people in the college-going age group. By 2030, the already existing challenges for Indian higher education – a...
by | On 07 Jul 2016 The paper attempts to answer the question namely the management-principal or the principal-principal is given more significance by the debt holders in the Indian context. It also examines the relation...
by Sakina Kachwala | On 29 Jun 2016 The slowdown in credit growth has been largely because of stress in the public sector banking and not because of high interest rates. As such, what is required is a clean-up of the balance sheets of p...
by Raghuram G. Rajan | On 29 Jun 2016 The paper finds a systematic and economically sizeable relationship between income levels and life expectancy in a panel dataset of 197 countries over 213 years. By itself, GDP/capita explains more th...
by Michael Jetter | On 28 Jun 2016 This paper examines issues with regards to route fixation, choice of technology partner and need for standards, location of stations, choice of grade level, choice of gauge and inter-operability of tr...
by G Raghuram | On 28 Jun 2016 This study has explored the implementation of talent management process in pharmaceutical industry in India through a case study approach. Data was collected from top management and senior managers in...
by Kirti Sharda | On 24 Jun 2016 The study attempts to measure the total benefits from rice varietal improvement research in China and India using variety adoption and performance data over the last two decades. It then uses informat...
by | On 23 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 Small land holders dominate Indian agriculture, and need off-farm income for survival. Analysis shows that for sufficient off-farm income
opportunities, growth in agriculture, manufacturing, or touri...
by Brajesh Jha | On 22 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 There are efforts to control inflation. A new governor and the committee should try to bring low inflation future for India which has got many benefits.
by Raghuram G. Rajan | On 21 Jun 2016 The City of Bengaluru in the Indian state of Karnataka is making progress on rooftop solar PV installations, mainly through its utility implemented net-metering program. Yet, much more needs to be don...
by Sarah Martin | On 17 Jun 2016 Budget speech of Pakistan 2016-17.
by Mohammad Ishaq Dar | On 17 Jun 2016 The paper analyses income mobility across different social groups in India using data from the
Indian Human Development Survey (IHDS) collected in 2004–05 and 2011–12. Indices
signifying different n...
by Thiagu Ranganathan | On 16 Jun 2016 This paper estimates returns to education using a dynamic model of educational choice that synthesizes approaches in the structural dynamic discrete choice literature with approaches used in the reduc...
by | On 09 Jun 2016 The chapter tries to identify three dimensions of land rights – the type of ownership, tenants’ rights, and the right to transfer – to categorise the diversity of land tenures in colonial India. Also,...
by Anand Swamy | On 08 Jun 2016 Global commodity prices surge of 2007-08 sent an inflationary shock across the countries. 2014 global prices descend
resulted in significant disinflation in many countries and...
by Muhammad Nadim Hanif | On 06 Jun 2016 This paper focuses on the scenario of antenatal care (ANC) check-ups and institutional
deliveries of beneficiaries across five districts of Delhi. The study analyses the socioeconomic
parameters and...
by Suresh Sharma | On 03 Jun 2016 Credit Suisse recently revealed that the richest 1% have now accumulated more wealth than the rest of the world put together. Meanwhile, the wealth owned by the bottom half of humanity has fallen by a...
by | On 02 Jun 2016 The Indian economy has entered a phase of high growth in the recent years, after a long period of low growth. Since economic growth itself is not sufficient to achieve economic development, the concer...
by | On 01 Jun 2016 The environmental impacts generated by agricultural activity could be global or regional or national or local. However, they are site-specific and tend to vary with farming systems, technologies used...
by | On 01 Jun 2016 The extent of plagiarism in India is yet to be reckoned. Does rote learning encourage plagiarism? Does the lack of training in proper ways of acknowledging sources lead to inadvertant plagiarism? Thes...
by Shambhu Ghatak | On 30 May 2016 People’s Science Institute carried out the first trials of the
System of Wheat Intensification (SWI) during rabi 2006-
07. Starting with systematic research trials on farmers’
fields, SWI practice...
by Ravi Chopra | On 27 May 2016 The study directs the attention to the role of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in overcoming these structural rigidities and ushering-in structural transformation in an economy. To explore the iss...
by Mausumi Das | On 26 May 2016 Emerging powers are re-shaping the norms and practices of international development. As the Indian economy continues to grow and the country bids for a seat at the great power table, the ambitions of...
by Tanoubi Ngangom | On 26 May 2016 This paper examines the process of upgrading of the Indian garment industry through a survey of 100 firms in three clusters in Delhi National Capital Region (NCR), Tirupur, and Mumbai in 2012. Upgradi...
by | On 25 May 2016 This report explores the role of forests in a green economy transformation in Africa. Its aim is to present policymakers with a strong rationale for linking forests and REDD+ planning with green econo...
by | On 25 May 2016 A
primary survey of older adults was conducted in seven
rapidly ageing states including Odisha, West Bengal,
Maharashtra, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Tamil
Nadu, and Kerala (Alam et al. 2012). This...
by Moneer Alam | On 25 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 This paper focuses on the automobile industry and examines the nature of global value chains in it with reference to the case of India. The aim is to explore the relation between lead firms, particula...
by Saon Ray | On 23 May 2016 Since its independence the government
of Bangladesh had taken various measures to reduce the intensity of poverty on rural
people in Bangladesh. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to examine wh...
by Mahfuza Akther | On 20 May 2016 Creativity and innovation have been a constant in growth and development of any knowledge
economy. There is an abundance of creative and innovative energies flowing in India. India has a
TRIPS compl...
by Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion DIPP | On 19 May 2016 This edition of the World Employment and Social Outlook (WESO) examines the relationship between decent work and poverty reduction. It starts by documenting trends in poverty around the world while pa...
by International Labour Organisation ILO | On 19 May 2016 The interministerial group will rework its strategy on labour laws and tweak it in such a manner that it maximises benefits for both workers and employers. In this paper, we outline the manner in whi...
by Shamika Ravi | On 18 May 2016 Some politicians argue for the splitting and combining of states to increase government productivity, but there is a dearth of empirical evidence on the optimal size of a state. Using data from Indian...
by Cornelis Haasnoot | On 18 May 2016 The Act covers conservation, use of biological resources and associated knowledge occurring in
India for commercial or research purposes or for the purposes of bio-survey and bio-utilisation. It prov...
by National Biodiversity Authority NBA | On 17 May 2016 There is a growing recognition of the importance of academic
research in India and is being monitored by public institutions. However
the focus in these assessments has remained largely confined to...
by Amit S. Ray | On 16 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 Mumbai has the potential to become one of the world’s ideal cities in terms of sustainable water management. With abundant natural and perennial water sources around it, the megacity is currently one...
by Dhaval D Desai | On 10 May 2016 Indian trademark law statutorily protects trademarks as per the Trademark Act, 1999 and also under the common law remedy of passing off. Statutory protection of trademark is administered by the Contro...
by Ministry of Commerce and Industry GOI | On 09 May 2016 This paper presents a plan
that provides an achievable path toward a global policy on Green House
Gas (GHG) emissions. At the heart of it is a small carbon tax (actually a
GHG tax). The proceeds of...
by Mohana Mondal | On 09 May 2016 The Indian Railway (IR) system is one of the four railway systems in the world that transports more than one billion tonnes of traffic annually.
As against a growth of 4 per cent to 4.5 per cent in t...
by Saurabh Bandyopadhyay | On 09 May 2016 The lecture examines the recent developments in the external sector and address some critical issues such as the appropriate level of current account deficit, exchange rate policy, adequacy of reserve...
by C. Rangarajan | On 06 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 This paper assesses the fiscal space and cyclicality of total Indian Central Government expenditure and its
major components
by Ashima Goyal | On 02 May 2016 Using the spatial econometrics approach, this study analyses such spill- over effect in public
expenditure. Econometric estimates suggest significant spatial spill- ove...
by | On 02 May 2016 This paper examines what the empirical evidence has to say about the strength of monetary transmission in India, using the structural vector autoregression (SVAR) methods that have been applied broadl...
by | On 02 May 2016 The transition to a low carbon economy heralds an economic and social transformation that is exciting as well as challenging. The challenges that face India include: enhancing economic opportunities a...
by | On 02 May 2016 This paper rediscovers the efficacy of K&R contemporaneous restriction (customized for the Indian economy
which is a developing G20 nation unlike advanced G6 nations that K&R worked wi...
by | On 02 May 2016 Whether it was the Bofors gun in 1986 or Italian helicopters in 2012, a leak or disclosure at the source overseas is like dynamite, and usually impossible to refute.
by T.N. Ninan | On 30 Apr 2016 The latest edition of the Economic Review is brought out with the objective of
providing valuable and comprehensive information about Kerala’s economic
performance in the last year of the 12th Five...
by Government of Kerala Govt | On 29 Apr 2016 Social media is the primary resource for the information retrieval. Using the text mining field; huge amount of unstructured textual data collected by social media can be converted and displayled as u...
by Nilesh Alone | On 28 Apr 2016 For effective communication there has to be mutual respect among the speakers. To reach our goals don't accept jobs which you don't like. To have a joyful life it is important to enjoy the work which...
by Raghuram G. Rajan | On 28 Apr 2016 Since the 1980s, public debt, both in the Third World countries and in the
industrialised nations, has been systematically used to impose austerity policies in the name of structural adjustment. Acc...
by Eric Toussaint | On 22 Apr 2016 Copyright is a bundle of rights given by the law to the creators of literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works and the producers of cinematograph films and sound recordings. The rights provided un...
by Ministry of Law and Justice GOI | On 12 Apr 2016 In addition to negatively affecting health, the qualitative findings reveal that water service
delivery failures have a constellation of other adverse life impacts—on household economy,
employment,...
by Ramnath Subbaraman | On 12 Apr 2016 Empirical findings across a swathe of countries, advanced and emerging, confirm that the composition of government expenditure can have perceptible growth implications.
by Reserve Bank of India RBI | On 12 Apr 2016 A gradual moderation in growth is currently underway in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). This is the result of a combination of factors, including a shrinking working-age population, the natural...
by | On 06 Apr 2016 Budget speech by Finance Minister of Malaysia.
by Minister of Finance Malaysia | On 06 Apr 2016 Using the NSSO Employment and Unemployment Survey Rounds as the basis, this paper
examines questions of unemployment, employment and human capital formation among Indian
youth belonging to various s...
by Rajendra P. Mamgain | On 05 Apr 2016 This paper analyzes the changes in employment and earnings of paid workers in rural India from
2004/05 to 2011/12. While the employment rate of adults remained stable at 51 percent during this
perio...
by Shantanu Khanna | On 04 Apr 2016 Speech by Donkupar Roy, Finance Minister of Meghalaya.
by Donkupar Roy | On 31 Mar 2016 A brief summary by Niti Aayog about the pre and post 2016-17 Indian Budget Analysis.
by Arvind Panagariya | On 28 Mar 2016 As an important global and regional economic power, the PRC’s growth slowdown may cause large spillover effects to its neighboring economies. Using a multi-sectoral global computable general equilibri...
by Fan Zhai | On 22 Mar 2016 As developing countries increasingly open their economies to foreign direct investment (FDI) one of their principal objective has been to achieve technology transfer from foreign firms to host country...
by | On 22 Mar 2016 This paper follows the lead in substituting variable names for national social systems from the project on “Democratization and Value Change in East Asia.” Specifically, it investigates the associatio...
by Robert Albritton | On 21 Mar 2016 The economic structure and rates of growth across the states in India are markedly different, with significant disparities in income per capita growth as well as sector-specific performance. The high-...
by Alokesh Barua | On 21 Mar 2016 Part II of the Budget speech of the finance minister.
by Pradip Kumar Amat | On 21 Mar 2016 This paper formulates a conceptual category called the caste-gender system and tends to follow how the institution of caste operates in systematic complicity with discriminatory gender norms. It talks...
by Ritu Sen Chaudhuri | On 21 Mar 2016 Optimality of pro-cyclical monetary policy in the presence of informal sector and firm level
constraint is analysed. The findings suggest that in case of export demand shock pro-cyclical monetary pol...
by Waqas Ahmed | On 21 Mar 2016 The paper focuses on the constructive role that China can play in enhancing security in South Asia. The potential contribution that China can make to enhancing non-traditional security in the region i...
by Ramandeep Kaur | On 21 Mar 2016 This short paper considers the poverty impacts of livelihood diversification and the potential challenges of creating a pro-poor rural non-farm economy (RNFE). Rural diversification can be defined as...
by Daniel Start | On 20 Mar 2016 Efficient traffic management on the National Highways (NHs) is very essential in the country. The present NH system that evolved over the years has a number of deficiencies. The basic objective of the...
by Haribandhu Panda | On 20 Mar 2016 This paper characterises and distinguishes co-operatives from other forms of organisations and highlights the important place they occupy in India‘s rural economy. It examines their contribution to ru...
by Katar Singh | On 20 Mar 2016 The Royal Government of Cambodia is grateful for the timely conduct of the study. The ideas and findings in this report will certainly be useful in providing inputs to support and operationalize the R...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 18 Mar 2016 Using the method of optimal control, when an incumbent politician derives utility from voting support and dis-utility from budgetary deficit, the equilibrium time paths of both voting support and budg...
by Ganesh Manjhi | On 17 Mar 2016 Aid for Trade (AfT) flows have increased each year since 2006 in the region. And while regional aggregate trade costs continue to fall, many subregions continue to struggle with trade costs that are s...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 17 Mar 2016 In this paper we have made an attempt to explain the observed rising inequality between unskilled and skilled wages, or, fall in relative wages of unskilled labour within a general equilibrium framewo...
by Alokesh Barua | On 16 Mar 2016 This paper examines the pattern of inward FDI at the disaggregated industry level (NIC 3- digit), and test for the industry-specific characteristics that have been significant in attracting foreign in...
by Rashmi Rastogi | On 16 Mar 2016 Foreign banks in developing countries are often found to indulge in cream skimming, a lending strategy that targets only wealthy segments of the credit market and exclude small and marginal borrowers...
by Mandira Sarma | On 16 Mar 2016 In this paper we attempt to explore the process of structural transformation in the North Eastern States of India, positing it in the paradigm of agriculture led development. The paper tries to examin...
by Alwin D’souza | On 16 Mar 2016 The paper is an attempt to unveil the enigma of the ‘Indian model’ of development. After discussing the evolution of India’s development policies over the last six decades, the paper attempts to unfol...
by Amit S. Ray | On 16 Mar 2016 Budget Speech of Yanamala Ramakrishnudu Minister of Finance.
by Yanamala Ramakrishnudu | On 16 Mar 2016 This paper theoretically examines the impact of R & D outsourcing from an economy which is in the innovation-only regime to an economy which is in the imitation-innovation regime. It shows that depend...
by Sujata Basu | On 15 Mar 2016 This paper empirically examines human capital’s contribution to economy-wide technological progress and also on technical efficiency gain depending on its distance to frontier in a panel of 75 countri...
by Sujata Basu | On 15 Mar 2016 This paper tries to examine and assess the contribution of services towards India’s manufacturing exports at the firm level. The findings confirm that services have contributed to enhanced export comp...
by Sonia Mukherjee | On 15 Mar 2016 This paper presents an economic analysis of science research and knowledge creation in Indian universities. We posit that faculty’s research effort is an outcome of her optimum time allocation decisio...
by Sabyasachi Saha | On 15 Mar 2016 The aim of this paper is to show the interaction effect of product market competition and corporate governance variables on firm performance. While the linkage between internal governance mechanism an...
by Manoj Pant | On 15 Mar 2016 The so-called “gig-economy” has been growing exponentially in numbers and importance in recent years but its impact on labour rights has been largely overlooked. Forms of work in the “gig-economy” inc...
by | On 15 Mar 2016 In the context of EU and OECD countries, formal employment contracts between the employer and employee for full time work can still be taken to be the norm, despite the growth of non-standard forms of...
by | On 15 Mar 2016 This year it is predicted that Vietnam’s economy will slump to a level not seen since 1999. As a result of this and factional in-fighting over this issue, on the 22nd of October Vietnam’s Prime Minist...
by | On 14 Mar 2016 This paper makes an attempt to evaluate the implications of MGNREGS in labour short economy of Kerala. The analysis of NSSO unit level data revealed inter-state differences in implementation of the sc...
by V. Dhanya | On 14 Mar 2016 Do global spillovers clog transmission channels of monetary policy through domestic financial markets? Drawing on stylised facts and using a dynamic factor model to develop an indicator of global spil...
by Michael Debabrata Patra | On 14 Mar 2016 This paper presents the findings from the impact evaluation of the School Year (SY) 2013–2014 implementation of the program. This is a follow-up on the process evaluation conducted by the PIDS. The st...
by Ana Maria L. Tabunda | On 14 Mar 2016 Housing policies in Japan after World War II were focused on the quantitative supply of houses with a wide range of targeted groups and public rental houses. The Japan Housing Corporation (now the Urb...
by Masahiro Kobayashi | On 14 Mar 2016 The global economy is finding it hard to restore pre-Great Recession growth rates – every report of the IMF seemingly downgrades its previous growth forecasts. Why has the recovery been so slow? When
...
by Raghuram G. Rajan | On 14 Mar 2016 There are few areas of robust growth around the world, with the IMF repeatedly reducing its
growth forecasts in recent quarters. This period of slow growth is particularly dangerous
because both ind...
by Raghuram G. Rajan | On 14 Mar 2016 The existing empirical literature on Taylor-type interest rate rules has failed to achieve a robust consensus. Indeed, the relatively common finding that the Taylor principle does not hold has fueled...
by Matthew Greenwood Nimmo | On 13 Mar 2016 Forward-looking RE models such as the popular New Keynesian (NK) model do not provide a unique prediction about how the model economy behaves. We need some mechanism that ensures determinacy. McCallum...
by Patrick Minford | On 13 Mar 2016 China’s new leadership must rebalance the country’s economy if it is to avoid falling into the middle income trap. Yet slowing growth rates make drastic reforms politically sensitive at a time when th...
by | On 12 Mar 2016 As South Korea this month takes up the rotating presidency of the United Nations Security Council, concerns over North Korea’s nuclear program grow. Pyongyang’s recent rocket tests, its anticipated th...
by Sangsoo Lee | On 12 Mar 2016 This policy brief examines China’s inter-connected economic challenges of structural and fiscal reform, arguing that promotion of domestic consumption away from fixed-asset investment could further ex...
by | On 12 Mar 2016 This study examines the Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth of the preexisting units on a balanced sample for ten years (1998-1999 to 2007- 2008) following the Levinsohn and Petrin (2003) technique...
by Santosh Kumar Sahu | On 11 Mar 2016 In this paper, considering the district level variations in literacy and other pertinent socio-economic variables we explore whether efficiency in education in district level enrolments is merely a re...
by Brijesh C. Purohit | On 11 Mar 2016 Mergers and acquisitions (M and A) are common strategies of firms to increase its performance. Although, the motives of M and A are different however, the determinants are discreet. This study tries t...
by Nikita Agarwal | 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 Financial inclusion is considered as cause as well as outcome of inclusive growth. This study tries to construct a comprehensive measure of financial inclusion and evaluate the extent of financial inc...
by Shrabani Mukherjee | On 10 Mar 2016 Our study investigates the determinants and use of cash holdings by Indian companies. Using a large sample of manufacturing firms that are publicly traded on Bombay Stock exchange for the period of 19...
by Ekta Selarka | 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 This paper develops a three-sector theoretical growth model to capture the role of consumers’ acceptance towards the second generation of genetically modified (GM) crops in the long run growth process...
by Arpita Ghose | On 10 Mar 2016 This model focuses on sectoral allocation of capital and labour and distribution of sectoral output. Second, Harberger-Scarf-Shoven-Whalley models, which have their roots in welfare economics. Third,...
by Zafar Iqbal | On 10 Mar 2016 The present study provides the link between poverty and labour market. The other strength of the paper is the use of newly conducted Pakistan Socio-economic Survey 1998-99, which provides the latest i...
by Zafar Mueen Nasir | On 10 Mar 2016 The present study while decomposing poverty across different socio-economic groups has included this variable in the analysis. The determinants of poverty based on logistic regressions have also been...
by Sarfraz K. Qureshi | On 10 Mar 2016 Pakistan has implemented various structural change and stabilisation programmes over the last twelve years with a view to improving the levels of efficiency and consequently higher levels of output an...
by A.R. Kemal | On 10 Mar 2016 This study intends to analyze the impact of fiscal policy relating to subsidies (production and consumption subsidies), government current expenditure and expenditure on health and education on income...
by Zafar Iqbal | On 10 Mar 2016 The study deals with pension system reforms for the Pakistan economy and highlights the current situation and future prospects. The study presents an overview of the problems prevailing in current pay...
by Umaima Arif | On 10 Mar 2016 The paper explores possible frontiers of historical-institutionalist analysis. It argues three points: that progress will require a return from a static to a dynamic perspective in which change is no...
by Wolfgang Streeck | On 09 Mar 2016 This paper examines the determinants of the timing of public pension policy retrenchments in 14 affluent democracies. Available research does not satisfactorily capture the multidimensionality of thes...
by | On 09 Mar 2016 This paper outlines an institutionalist political economy approach to capitalism as a specific type of social order. Social science institutionalism considers social systems to be structured by sancti...
by Wolfgang Streeck | On 09 Mar 2016 This paper analyzes the attitudes of industrial employers during the German Empire and the Weimar Republic towards the adoption of public unemployment insurance. While employers initially opposed unem...
by | On 09 Mar 2016 The role of macroeconomic policy in the different varieties of capitalism has been largely ignored. Recent contributions to the literature have argued that nonliberal economies should be expected to h...
by | On 09 Mar 2016 The paper develops a new econometric framework that simultaneously allows recovering heterogeneity in demand, TFP and markups across firms while leaving the correlation among the three unrestricted. W...
by Emanuele Forlani | On 09 Mar 2016 This paper analyses whether in developing countries mass education is more growth enhancing than to have a minority well educated elite. Using the Indian census data as a benchmark and enrollment rate...
by Amparo Castelló-Climent | On 09 Mar 2016 This paper speaks to the sense of unease by trying to follow the implications of what it might mean to take the sense of threat to liberal values seriously. That is, to attempt identification of the l...
by Mathew John | On 09 Mar 2016 This paper is a preliminary attempt to assess the impact of Christian social activists on issues facing adivasis in the state of Jharkhand in contemporary India. This has been prompted by a few factor...
by Sushil J. Aaron | On 09 Mar 2016 Political economy and economic sociology have developed in relative isolation from each other. While political economy focuses largely on macrophenomena, economic sociology focuses on the level of soc...
by | On 08 Mar 2016 It is often said that history matters, but these words are often little more than a hollow statement. In the aftermath of the Great Recession, the view that the economy is a mechanical toy that can be...
by | On 08 Mar 2016 Hydroclimate variations since 1300 in central and monsoonal Asia and their interplay on interannual and interdecadal timescales are investigated using the tree-ring based Palmer Drought Severity Index...
by Keyan Fang | On 03 Mar 2016 The Finance Minister of Bihar, Mr. Abdul Bari Siddiqui, presented the Budget for Bihar for the financial year 2016-17.
by Arvind Gayam | On 03 Mar 2016 Bribery by companies when doing business abroad is a significant form of corruption, and is particularly serious when vital sectors of a nation’s economy and public services are involved. In a recent...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 02 Mar 2016 The diversification of Bhutan’s relations began with its entry into the United Nations in 1971, and while external relations continued to be largely confined to India, the establishment of its relatio...
by | On 02 Mar 2016 In this paper, we take as given the need for public action on climate change (see Stern, 2007), and that carbon taxation is one of the key instruments for influencing both behaviour of consumers and p...
by Ehtisham Ahmad | On 01 Mar 2016 Should tax reforms be guided by rules of thumb suggested by the IMF, or directions or reform based on analytical approaches, such as optimal tax theory? In many cases, the applications of the directio...
by Ehtisham Ahmad | On 01 Mar 2016 In the closing decades of the twentieth century there has been an almost complete intellectual triumph of the twin principles of marketization (understood here as referring to the liberalization of do...
by D M NACHANE | On 01 Mar 2016 The 1994 Fiscal Reforms in China were spectacularly successful in meeting the immediate challenges that the economy faced at that time—a sharply dropping tax/GDP ratio, and limited ability of the cent...
by Ehtisham Ahmad | On 01 Mar 2016 This paper studies the evolution of the rural non-farm sector in India and its contribution to the decline of poverty. It scrutinizes evidence from a series of nationally representative sample surveys...
by Himanshu Prof | On 29 Feb 2016 The analysis of the paper begins in the next section by setting out broad economic changes in India as key context for change in Palanpur, with a particular focus on the three drivers set out above; s...
by Himanshu Prof | On 29 Feb 2016 The increasingly worsening state of small farmers in an 'agriculture-predominant' India is most tragic and a matter of grave injustice. This state of affairs is tragic also from the larger perspective...
by Vijay Negi | On 29 Feb 2016 The ‘permanent’ socio-economic impacts of the Great Hanshin-Awaji (Kobe) earthquake in 1995 is quantified by employing a large-scale panel dataset of 1,719 cities, towns, and wards from Japan over thr...
by | On 29 Feb 2016 In this paper a new set of measures of labour force, employment and unemployment has been suggested which we believe would be better suited for many purposes than those currently in use. New measures...
by National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorgan NCEUS | On 29 Feb 2016 Budget speech by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.
by Arun Jaitley | On 29 Feb 2016 This paper presents an overview of the corporate debt market in India. A study of the structure and the status of the corporate debt market along with the current policies initiated by Securities and...
by M. T. Raju | On 28 Feb 2016 This paper aims to first build a deeper understanding of the emergence of Basel banking norms (Basel I), and the transition to each of the subsequent regulations (Basel II and Basel III). The primary...
by Akshay Uday Shenoy | On 27 Feb 2016 Audit committees have received considerable attention globally in recent years. We examine the effects of the Satyam failure on changes in the composition and functioning of Indian audit committees. A...
by R. Narayanaswamy | On 27 Feb 2016 Land reforms require urgent attention in emerging market economies, and there is a vast body of literature that deals with the economic impact land reforms, especially land titling (Acemoglu et al., 2...
by Madalasa Venkataraman | On 27 Feb 2016 The Fertile Crescent in the Near East is one of the independent origins of the Neolithic, the source from which farming and pottery-making spread across Europe from 9,000 to 6,000 years ago at an aver...
by Kavita Gangal | 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 A series of recent humanitarian crises in Southeast Asia have signalled a new impetus to re- think the nature of security cooperation in the region. The outbreak of pandemics, the devastating impact o...
by Melly Caballero-Anthony | On 26 Feb 2016 This article analyzes the location determinants of foreign direct investment in services, both theoretically and empirically. It hypothesizes four sets of factors as the location determinants of FDI i...
by Feng Yin | On 26 Feb 2016 While property taxation has existed since ancient times, and the taxation of land has been a mainstay of public finances through the Middle Ages, in both Europe and Asia, it has all but ceased to be a...
by Ehtisham Ahmad | On 26 Feb 2016 This year’s Economic Survey comes at a time of unusual volatility in the
international economic environment. Markets have begun to swing on fears
that the global recovery may be faltering, while ris...
by Arun Jaitley | On 26 Feb 2016 It is well-known that maximum likelihood (ML) estimation of the autoregressive parameter of a dynamic panel data model with Öxed e§ects is inconsistent under Öxed time series sample size (T) and large...
by Christian Gourieroux | On 25 Feb 2016 Oil prices have declined in recent months in tandem with the slowdown in the global economy. Its significant tumble by more than 50 percent in a short span of three months has nonetheless triggered an...
by | On 25 Feb 2016 A recent conference in Singapore organised by the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies examined the worldwide response to the outbreak of H1N1 influenza last year. The lessons learnt from ear...
by | On 24 Feb 2016 Southeast Asia as a region has a unique history, and the evolving relationships between its communities, states, regional organisations and the international community reflect this. Given this context...
by Alistair Cook | On 24 Feb 2016 This is a preliminary report for the World Bank regarding emissions of greenhouse gases from hydropower reservoirs in India. The objective of the work, according to the terms-of reference, is, inter a...
by World Bank | On 24 Feb 2016 This booklet is aimed at women's groups, activists, students, lawyers, police and all those who are concerned with the debate on violence against women. It provides empirical evidence gathered from po...
by Tata Institue of Social Sciences TISS | On 24 Feb 2016 The rapid economic growth achieved after globalization by most of the developing countries, has imposed considerable social costs and has become a major threat to sustainable development. However it i...
by Prakash Nelliyat | On 23 Feb 2016 Following President SusiloBambangYudhoyono’s re-election in November 2009, the Indonesian National Defence Forces (TNI) have been undergoing several significant structural changes. What are the implic...
by | On 23 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 next President of the Philippines faces many challenges to his incoming administration. A crucial one is ensuring the country’s energy security. Addressing this will strengthen the Philippine econ...
by | On 23 Feb 2016 In this paper, we develop an endogenous growth model that combines structural change with repeated product improvements. There are two sectors in the present paper, one is traditional sector, and the...
by Justin Yifu Lin | On 23 Feb 2016 The prospective entry of generic dominated Indian pharmaceutical sector in the ambit of new technologies is likely to give filip to emergence of strong biopharmaceutical sector.It is pertinent in this...
by Sachin Chaturvedi | On 23 Feb 2016 Rapid trade-led economic growth in emerging Asia has been shifting the global economic and industrial centres of gravity away from the north Atlantic, raising the importance of Asia in world trade but...
by Kym Anderson | On 22 Feb 2016 Is there asymmetry in the distribution of government bond returns in developed countries? Can asymmetries be predicted using financial and macroeconomic variables? To answer the first question, we pro...
by Ippei Fuijwara | On 21 Feb 2016 Japan's ageing population also has a sort of depth. By “depth,” I mean that within the older population itself the proportion of very old people aged 75 years old and over is increasing particularly r...
by Atsushi Seike | On 21 Feb 2016 Over the last decade, the Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) framework has become a workhorse for macroeconomic analysis in both academic and policy circles. Following this emerging trend,...
by Parantap Basu | On 21 Feb 2016 This paper examines the impact of sectorial reforms on current account imbalances, with a special focus on the People’s Republic of China (PRC). In particular, we investigate to what extent reforms pe...
by Hiro Ito | On 21 Feb 2016 This paper is an excerpt from a FY 2008 survey for the promotion of oil and natural development and utilization as commissioned by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. Since 2008, the global L...
by Yoshikazu Kobayashi | On 21 Feb 2016 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s ground-breaking visit to Myanmar signals a shift in US attitude towards that country. Quicker rapprochement could benefit both countries as well as Southeast Asia.
by | On 20 Feb 2016 The world’s biggest summit on environment and development in 20 years will take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June this year. What are the opportunities and challenges for this global multilater...
by | On 20 Feb 2016 Rio de Janeiro will host the third Earth Summit, or “Rio+20”, in June this year – 20 years after the first Earth Summit in 1992. At Rio+20 all governments will be asked to re-dedicate themselves to th...
by | On 20 Feb 2016 The world’s biggest summit on environment and development in 20 years wrapped up last Friday in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Has the outcome of Rio+20 managed to meet its promise?
by | On 20 Feb 2016 Euthanasia has always been in limelight as a subject matter of debate in the field of medicine and law. The euthanasia debate, being a value debate, seems to have no concrete solution, at least in the...
by Sandeepa Bhat B | On 20 Feb 2016 This paper examines the conceptual issues surrounding the estimation of savings and investment in Bangladesh and explains why there exist perceptible differences between the estimates of savings and i...
by Mustafa K. Mujeri | On 20 Feb 2016 One important aspect of recent developments is that a significant portion of the additional electricity generation has come from liquid fuel based power plants which has raised the total contribution...
by Mustafa K. Mujeri | On 20 Feb 2016 This study attempts to assess the impact of two shocks-trade liberalization and a deline in remittances from abroad-on poverty in Pakistan using a CGE framework.
by Rizwana Siddiqui | On 19 Feb 2016 If China’s economy is an example of ‘state-capitalism’, then its large, state-owned enterprises (SOEs) could be expected to monopolise key sectors. But previous estimates of industrial concentration u...
by Paul Hubbard | On 19 Feb 2016 China’s first attempt to establish a multilateral financial institution was met with some suspicion and caution in the west. According to one interpretation, China is frustrated with the United States...
by Mike Callaghan | On 19 Feb 2016 Foreign capital inflows (FKI) help an economy by financing the imbalance between income and expenditure. However, their impact on poverty in the recipient economy is a controversial issue. In this stu...
by Rizwana Siddiqui | On 18 Feb 2016 This paper takes a political economy perspective in analysing the nature and causes on the decline in bureaucratic conduct.
by Ali Cheema | On 18 Feb 2016 The paper looks at the trends in nominal and real salaries of the Federal Government employees over the period 1990-2006. It examines the structural defects in the existing salary structure and the an...
by Faiz Bilquees | On 18 Feb 2016 The Government has to not only focus on the Indian Economic scenario but also at the World Economic scenario. The Budget will have to focus on both the long term and short term development plans and h...
by Kiron Nanda | On 18 Feb 2016 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 ra...
by Nadeem Ul Haque | On 17 Feb 2016 Rise in the underground economy creates problems for the policy-makers to formulate economic policies, especially the monetary and fiscal policies. It is found that if there was no tax evasion, budget...
by M. Ali Kemal | On 17 Feb 2016 Educational outcomes of children are highly dependent on household and school-level inputs. In poor countries remittances from migrants can provide additional funds for the education of the left behin...
by Lisa Höckel | On 17 Feb 2016 The increasing variability of seasonal climate and increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events that are expected to accompany climate change will impact agricultural production and fo...
by Ruby Policarpio | On 17 Feb 2016 The study employs Girton and Roper (1977) measure of exchange market pressure—sum of exchange rate depreciation and foreign reserves outflow, to examine the interaction between exchange market pressur...
by M. Idrees Khawaja | On 16 Feb 2016 Financial globalization has gathered attention since the early 1990s because of its macrofinancial and crisis implications and its perceived large expansion. But financial globalization has taken diff...
by Francisco Ceballos | On 16 Feb 2016 The purpose of this paper is to emphasize the importance of Europe’s structural problems and governance as the cause of the current euro area crisis. The euro may have led to bubbles, but member econo...
by Sahoko Kaji | On 16 Feb 2016 Japan has reached the limits of conventional macroeconomic policy. In order to overcome deflation and achieve sustainable economic growth, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) recently set an inflation target of 2...
by Naoyuki Yoshino | On 16 Feb 2016 In Asia, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) account for a major share of employment and dominate the economy. Asian economies are often characterized as having bank-dominated financial systems...
by Naoyuki Yoshino | On 16 Feb 2016 This paper studies dynamic effects of agriculture trade in the context of domestic and global liberalisation. Being the largest sector of the economy, the agriculture sector contributes substantially...
by Rizwana Siddiqui | On 15 Feb 2016 The major challenge facing the Indian economy at this juncture is to provide a big push to the growth momentum while striking a balance between the much-needed capital expenditure and fiscal consolida...
by S.D Naik | On 15 Feb 2016 This paper examines whether monetary policy transmits through bank assets or liabilities or both. This is an important policy issue since in order to know the effectiveness of monetary policy it is ne...
by Sayera Younus | On 15 Feb 2016 Emergence of the global market has heightened the role of trade in world economy and made industrialization as an integral system of global trade and production. Bangladesh economy at present is more...
by Md. Nehal Ahmed | On 15 Feb 2016 This policy note is an exploratory attempt to verify the popular argument that cost side factors are no less contributory than demand side factors in stimulating inflation in the Bangladesh economy. T...
by Md. Alauddin Majumder | On 15 Feb 2016 This paper tries to investigate the pattern of volatility in the overnight money market rate (call money rate) in Bangladesh using subjective judgment as well as econometric techniques during the peri...
by Md. Shahiduzzaman | On 15 Feb 2016 In this paper two measures of the monetary policy stance are constructed. The stance of monetary policy, regarded as a quantitative measure of whether the policy is too tight, neutral, or too loose re...
by Farooq Pasha | On 14 Feb 2016 The cultivation of opium poppy in Afghanistan is nothing new. Although the drug economy diversified and became more vertically integrated after the fall of the Taliban, it had already emerged and deep...
by Vanda Felbab-Brown | On 14 Feb 2016 This article examines three elements of the popular narrative of China’s involvement in the development of Afghanistan’s vast natural resource wealth. It argues that Chinese companies invested in Afgh...
by Erica Downs | 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 Indian income inequality reflects the high values typical of most low and middle income economies, well above those observed for the high income LIS countries. There is also substantial variation in i...
by Reeve Vanneman | On 14 Feb 2016 Two connected observations often loom large in discussions about marriage in India. The first is that marriage for women on the sub-continent often occurs at a relatively early age, and this is cause...
by Lester Andrist | On 13 Feb 2016 Using original data from a newly collected nationwide survey for 40,000 households in India, we examine variation in social capital in India across caste, tribe, and religion. Our primary measure uses...
by Reeve Vanneman | On 13 Feb 2016 There is great regional variation on utilization of maternal health care services across India. While regional differences have long been established, why women in some states are more likely to utili...
by Sonalde Desai | On 12 Feb 2016 This Report focuses on the productive abilities of the regions, households and
individuals. The report also reinforces the fact that there are inequalities between and within regions, as well as soci...
by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) | On 12 Feb 2016 Rice seed production, marketing, distribution situation in Bangladesh and India is not considered to be efficient. This has led to low availability and accessibility of modern varieties (MV) rice seed...
by Mahfuz Kabir | On 11 Feb 2016 In Davos 2012, business leaders reviewed the output of The Future of Manufacturing project, which asked How are global value chains evolving? The Manufacturing for Growth initiative asks What should b...
by | On 11 Feb 2016 The Global Competitiveness Report 2013-2014 features a record number of 148 economies, and thus continues to be the most comprehensive assessment of its kind. It contains a detailed profile for each o...
by | On 11 Feb 2016 In this report, the World Economic Forum and the Foundation, with analytics provided by McKinsey & Company, acting as project adviser, joined forces to reconcile the concept of scaling a circular econ...
by | On 11 Feb 2016 In 2013, The Media, Entertainment and Information Industries community of the World Economic Forum took a deep look into intellectual property issues in the digital age. "Norms and Values in Digital M...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 11 Feb 2016 With growing urbanization what is required is the ease of transportation. It is now high time that Government Budgets need to have a substantial allocation for this. After all transportation is lifeli...
by Sudakshina Gupta | On 11 Feb 2016 The impending digital transformation of the Fourth Industrial Revolution holds the potential to redefine the very basis of our materials-reliant industrial economy. Enabled by the internet of things,...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 11 Feb 2016 The aim of this paper is to analyze the February 13 Agreement’s implementation along with the prospects for the denuclearization of North Korea. The paper starts with an overview of North Korea’s comp...
by | On 09 Feb 2016 North Korea appointed Kim Jong Un, the youngest son of Kim Jong Il, to the position of vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) at the third Party Conventi...
by | On 09 Feb 2016 In a country where there are constraints in formal practices, informal activities normally arise. Informal practices are not necessarily illegal and bad, however some of them tend to occupy a grey are...
by | On 09 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 This paper estimates the effect of local labor market conditions on crime in a developing country with high crime rates. Contrary to the previous literature, which has focused exclusively on developed...
by Rafael Dix-Carneiro | On 07 Feb 2016 In this study, an investigation of the effects of capital inflows on domestic price level, monetary expansion and exchange rate volatility. To proceed with this, linear and nonlinear cointegration and...
by Abdul Rashid | On 06 Feb 2016 In this study, an attempt has been made of develop a dynamic macroeconometric model of Pakistan’s economy to examine the behaviour of major macroeconomic variables such as output, consumption, investm...
by Muhammad Arshad Khan | On 06 Feb 2016 Monetary policy has changed in a number of ways during the last two decades. Along with the other characteristics, modern monetary policy is forward-looking, and the central banks respond contemporane...
by Muhammad Nasir | On 06 Feb 2016 This study is an attempt to examine empirically the association between socio-economic measures of deprivation—such as food insecurity, landlessness, unemployment, and human under-development—and the...
by Sadia Mariam Malik | On 06 Feb 2016 This study is part of a broader study being undertaken by PIDE on remittances and their impact on the Pakistan economy including explaining its over ten-fold increase between 2001–2012 from around US$...
by Rashid Amjad | On 03 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 focuses on the Indian pre-crisis strategy of liberalization and integration into the world economy and its impact on labour market trends. It then examines the specific ways in which the cr...
by International Centre for Sustainable Trade and Development | On 03 Feb 2016 The paper examines the dynamic relationship and volatility spillovers between the stock market and the foreign exchange market in Pakistan using weekly data from 02 July, 1997 to 04 July 2012. Johanse...
by Abdul Qayyum | On 03 Feb 2016 Present study is conducted to measure the impact of financial integration on economic growth in Asian developing economies using panel data of twelve Asian countries from 1984-2012. In first part of a...
by Madiha Bashir | On 03 Feb 2016 Attempts to explain why ending hunger has been so hard, so here the focus is on four main themes: the complex role of markets, the importance of government policies, the historical process of structur...
by C. Peter Timmer | On 03 Feb 2016 This paper addresses the effects of changes in the level and composition of global demand, and especially of global rebalancing, on trade flows and employment from a demand perspective. It emphasizes...
by International Centre for Sustainable Trade and Development | On 03 Feb 2016 Investment incentives rank among the most important policy instruments governments employ to influence the locational decisions of multinational firms. In the wake of the recent increase in locational...
by International Centre for Sustainable Trade and Development | On 02 Feb 2016 In this report, we use political economy analysis to demonstrate that nutrition in Pakistan has remained off the policy agenda because of large disconnects between key sectors, a lack of integrated cr...
by Shehla Zaidi | On 02 Feb 2016 In emerging economies like India, banking sector is very important. But banking sector is at 'crossroads'. There are many issues which this sector is facing and research which would generate fresh i...
by S.S. Mundra | On 01 Feb 2016 In Haiti, one of the poorest countries in the world, the earthquake of 7.0 on the Richter scale in early January 2010 had devastating effects. The Government estimates that more than 200,000 people (o...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 The danger to global economic recovery posed by the European debt turmoil throws a spotlight on a key missing international institution critical to global finance a sovereign debt resolution mechanism...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 The United Nations World Economic Situation and Prospects 2011 cautions that the lack of policy coordination could further weaken the already modest recovery, or even precipitate a new global recessio...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 The recent food price spikes have exposed deep structural flaws in the world food system. Although increased financial speculation in commodity futures and options markets seems to have amplified shor...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 The world economy is teetering on the brink of another major downturn. As in 2008, economic woes in the major developed economies are weakening economic prospects around the world. Th ere are multiple...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 China has emerged as one of the important factors in India-Sri Lanka relations. It is important to contextualise this intervening variable, before going into various aspects of China’s footprints in S...
by N Manoharan | On 31 Jan 2016 The parliamentary general elections in 1977 was a watershed in the political landscape of Sri Lanka. The government that came into power mid-year sought a more liberalized and open economy, and hence...
by Nanda Abeywickrama | On 30 Jan 2016 In recent years, high and volatile prices have contributed to acute shortages of basic foodstuffs in poor, net food-importing countries. This paper examines the new challenges these countries face, an...
by | On 30 Jan 2016 China's fast-growing farm subsidies have generated new interest in whether these programmes can help achieve public policy goals, without distorting trade and production. This study, by NI Hongxing, f...
by | On 30 Jan 2016 This paper dwells upon some of the conceptual issues pertaining to regional economic cooperation in general and specific to the South Asian region. It also documents the progress made in SAARC, the SA...
by Ram Upendra Das | On 30 Jan 2016 Pakistan’s economy has witnessed occasional spurts in economic growth, unfortunately, the economic growth has not been sustainable. One of the culprits often cited for haphazard growth experience of P...
by Ahmed Waqar Qasim | On 30 Jan 2016 The human capital and growth relationship has been subject to a lot of debate in economic literature. The empirical growth models are beset with problems ranging from theoretical frameworks and statis...
by Verda Salman | On 30 Jan 2016 Many authors have described and modelled Keynesian effects in a Babysitting Cooperative (BSC), which has the underlying structure of a single good barter economy. A simple model of the BSC economy is...
by Asad Zaman | On 30 Jan 2016 The intersection of trade secrets, innovation, and the World Trade Organization (WTO) forms a topic that is increasingly debated as part of the public discourse on intangible capital and intellectual...
by | On 28 Jan 2016 In order to understand the importance of reducing air pollution and its likely trans-boundary effects, it is important to first review the socioeconomic situation of the South Asian member states. Sou...
by Mahmood Khwaja | On 28 Jan 2016 The last decade has witnessed remarkable developments in the digital economy, creating new opportunities for cross-border trade and investment and the ongoing emergence of novel and disruptive busines...
by | On 28 Jan 2016 This paper enquires into the implications of the technological paradigm
shift for small enterprises. Those who would not consider conforming to the regulatory framework (specifically enlisted under...
by Keshab Das | On 28 Jan 2016 The study finds that a high order of technology and yield gap exists and
indicates that there is enormous scope to accelerate the pace of growth in the production of both oilseeds as well as pulses....
by B.L. Kumar | On 28 Jan 2016 An overview is provided of the state of knowledge on internal migration in developing economies, with particular emphasis on recent contributions to the literature. The overview is divided into five s...
by | On 28 Jan 2016 Rapid urbanisation in India, driven by a globalised economy and its accelerated growth, will increasingly demand attention of policy makers. The objective of this policy note is to throw light on heal...
by Rajeev Ahuja | On 28 Jan 2016 This paper is an attempt to study plausible causal relationship of women’s physiology and behaviour components with fertility in more or less non-industrial rural populations in Orissa, an Eastern Ind...
by Satyajeet Nanda | On 28 Jan 2016 This paper provides an overview of the changing patterns of O-FDI from India over 1975-2001. It shows that the increasing number of Indian TNCs during 1990s has been accompanied by a number of changes...
by Jaya Prakash Pradhan | On 28 Jan 2016 This paper enquires into the potential of wells (as TWHS) in the Thar Desert area of Rajasthan. Following a detailed analysis of hydrological and structural aspects of the source and quality of water,...
by Keshab Das | On 28 Jan 2016 The central focus of this paper is to underscore emerging patterns and issues in the availability of and access to physical infrastructure in major Indian states during the two decades since the 1980s...
by Keshab Das | On 28 Jan 2016 This paper uses political reservations for women in India to study the impact of
women’s leadership on policy decisions. Since the mid-1990’s, one third of Village Council head positions in India hav...
by | On 28 Jan 2016 The purpose of this paper is to discuss the future of the multinational enterprise (MNE) and implications for the international investment regime. The paper begins by summarising current thinking on m...
by | On 27 Jan 2016 Most international commerce is carried out by multinational firms, which use their foreign affiliates for the majority of their foreign sales. In this paper, I examine the determinants of multinationa...
by Penn Stat | 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 We examine in this paper the impact of the tightening of IPRs, notably patents rights, and the adoption of utility model laws on export diversification. To perform our analysis, we used panel data cov...
by Kimm Gnangnon | On 26 Jan 2016 This paper focuses on a particular aspect of such rural-urban difference, namely nutritional status of children. Over the years it is found that under nutrition among children in India; have declining...
by Rudra Narayan Mishra | On 26 Jan 2016 Early childhood stunting or linear growth retardation predicts poor human capital. While stunting rates in India are unacceptably high, the decline in stunting over the past decades demonstrates that...
by Harshpal Singh Sachdev | On 26 Jan 2016 Extrapolating from past trends, and taking to account emerging conditions, many countries of developing Asia will be expected to move on to the next phase of agricultural development; however even in...
by Roehlano M. Briones | On 25 Jan 2016 The understanding of livelihoods in an economy dominated by informality can benefit considerably from correlations between macro data on employment and detailed studies of ‘work’ and ‘non work’ in sel...
by Devesh Vijay | On 24 Jan 2016 This paper uses the Malmquist Productivity Index (MPI) to estimate change in total factor productivity (TFP) and its constituent components for software companies in India during 1999–2008. On average...
by Nira Ramachandran | On 24 Jan 2016 This paper makes an attempt to estimate the index of informal sector employment which can be attributed to the supply-push phenomenon. Factors which explain the inter-state variations include the indu...
by Arup Mitra | On 24 Jan 2016 This paper uses three alternative forecasting techniques, namely, Box-Jenkins’s Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) model, unrestricted Vector Autoregression (UVAR) model and Hsiao’s Fina...
by Md. Habibur Rahman | On 23 Jan 2016 This note examines the volatility in stock prices in the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) during 2003- 2007. Excessive volatility and fluctuations in stock price fail to provide the correct signal on compan...
by Md. Habibour Rahman | On 23 Jan 2016 The thin bond market in Bangladesh faces manifold challenges emanating from several sources including excessive reliance on bank credit, government debt instruments dominated by primary auction based...
by Md. Akhtaruzzaman | On 23 Jan 2016 This note provides estimates of inflation rate of import-concentrated commodities and their contribution to overall inflation in Bangladesh. The results suggest that the Bangladesh economy has been ex...
by M. G. Mortaza | On 23 Jan 2016 As the diverse countries of South Asia seek to manage changes at home, this paper suggests that China, with its new links to the region, can play a significant role, as both sides are developing stake...
by | 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 A flurry of quick new glances at India from different sections of the international community reflects a surge of interest in a country freshly under Narendra Modi’s leadership of anticipatory asserti...
by | On 23 Jan 2016 A close analysis of India’s higher growth rate in the last financial year reveals some disturbing signs of emerging vulnerabilities on both the supply and demand sides of the macro-economy. Stagnant a...
by | On 23 Jan 2016 It may be time to look at the market forecasts that pundits had made earlier.
by T.N. Ninan | On 23 Jan 2016 In the recent past, the focus of economic policy in India has shifted to issues of equitable growth. This implies that the economy should not only maintain the tempo of growth but also spread the bene...
by Sabyasachi Kar | On 23 Jan 2016 The growing demand for public transport in mega cities has serious effects on urban ecosystems, especially due to the increased atmospheric pollution and changes in land use patterns. An ecologically...
by Rashmi Singh | On 23 Jan 2016 This study of individuals identified as influential within nutrition in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Kenya and India examines why particular individuals champion nutrition policy, and how they operate in the...
by Nicholas Nisbett | On 23 Jan 2016 India now needs to strengthen and harmonise its institutional mechanisms for development cooperation through clear policy statements. In addition to national foreign policy and economic interests, acc...
by Institute of Development Studies IDS | On 23 Jan 2016 The report identifies four future scenarios of this complex waste/resource management landscape using tools from Foresight methods and political economy analysis. We also identify the dynamics within...
by Ashish Chaturvedi | On 23 Jan 2016 Social conflicts have been solved through fiscal policy and the provision of public goods and services over the centuries. Data from India, too, show government expenditure on social services has had...
by Institute of Development Studies IDS | On 23 Jan 2016 To maximise the potential of working with men to ensure inclusion, and sustainability in the response to SGBV, the global programme on Effective Organised Activism against Gender-based Violence highli...
by Institute of Development Studies IDS | On 23 Jan 2016 While the Pakistani military and civilian leaders, so often the opposing forces, now seem inclined for cohabitation at the highest echelons of power, the country’s latest move towards a ‘comprehensive...
by | On 23 Jan 2016 An econometric analysis of the impact of import liberalization on price-cost margins in Indian industries in the post-reform period is carried out using firm-level data for eight manufacturing industr...
by Bishwanath Goldar | On 22 Jan 2016 The present study tries to examine the behaviour of various Indian interest rates such as call money rate, and yields on secondary market securities with maturity periods of 15 to 91 days, 1-year, 5-y...
by B B Bhattacharya | On 22 Jan 2016 Predictions of the current state of the Indonesian economy are done by estimating a Dynamic Factor Model on a dataset of 11 indicators (also followed closely by market operators) over the time period...
by | On 22 Jan 2016 New analysis 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 | On 22 Jan 2016 World trade has experienced a significant slowdown since the 2008 financial crisis. Over this period, the global ratio of trade expansion to income growth has halved. An effective global trade and inv...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 22 Jan 2016 The transition to a clean and green energy system is an economic and social transformation that is exciting as well as challenging. The world today faces a formidable challenge in transforming its eco...
by A. Ganesh-Kumar | On 22 Jan 2016 In the fiscal year 2011–12, under-recoveries1 incurred by Indian oil-marketing companies for diesel rose to an all-time high of INR81,192 crore (US$15 billion) (Government of India, 2012a). Diesel con...
by Gayatri Khedkar | On 21 Jan 2016 In our research on science policy and inclusion and ethics in S&T policy we identified that in the Indian context Access, Equity and Inclusion (AEI) can be the norms to assess the policy outcomes and...
by Krishna Ravi Srinivas | On 21 Jan 2016 This paper contributes to the empirical understanding of the concept of commitment and the role it plays in shaping India’s social policy implementation. Taking the case of the landmark policy, the Ma...
by Deepta Chopra | On 21 Jan 2016 This paper is a study of climate change discourse in urban India. It suggests that the policies being articulated to deal with climate issues are premised on incremental changes rather than radical re...
by Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay | On 21 Jan 2016 This discussion paper provides an analysis of the impact of these reforms on pharmaceutical R&D in India. It looks into the context in which the reforms were introduced, the nature and trends of R&D e...
by Reji K Joseph | On 21 Jan 2016 This discussion paper is a brief assessment of the employment challenge that become manifest in the Indian economy during the past decade. It analyses various available economic indicators and present...
by Shipra Nigam | On 21 Jan 2016 This discussion paper examines the use of three different technological options in the Indian agriculture. It shows that support to organic farming is increasing but at this stage innovation related i...
by Sachin Chaturvedi | On 21 Jan 2016 Following from the Global Economic Crisis of 2008, the paper comprises four substantive sections. The first offers the briefest of descriptions of the economic crisis. It is followed by a discussion o...
by | On 20 Jan 2016 The World Public Sector Report 2008, People Matter, Civic Engagement in Public Governance presents a picture of the evolution of current governance challenges, especially from the point of view of the...
by UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs UNDESA | On 20 Jan 2016 The report provides a comprehensive set of mortality estimates for the world’s countries. The objectives of the report are twofold. First, the results of the 2006 Revision of World Population Prospect...
by UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs UNDESA | On 20 Jan 2016 Growth of the world economy has weakened considerably during 2012 and is expected to remain subdued in the coming two years. The global economy is expected to grow at 2.4 per cent in 2013 and 3.2 per...
by United Nations (UN) | On 20 Jan 2016 Indian children are very short, on average, compared with children living in other countries. Because height reflects early life health and net nutrition, and because good early life health also helps...
by Alessandro Tarozzi | On 20 Jan 2016 The evidence on the link between agriculture and nutrition has so far been tenuous. On the one hand, undernutrition rates are severe and more widespread among those involved in agriculture. This evide...
by R V Bhavani | On 19 Jan 2016 The last three decades have seen remarkable changes in economic structures and policies both within and across countries, loosely captured by the term globalization. This paper reviews evidence on how...
by Shahra Razavi | On 19 Jan 2016 Social transfers, a non-contributory form of social protection, present a great potential to tackle poverty and inequality, and support inclusive socioeconomic development. Yet, they also represent a...
by | On 19 Jan 2016 Nepal is no stranger to Constitution drafting, having gone through six such rounds since 1948, with the seventh culminating in September 2015. This recent exercise, however, was unique as it was condu...
by Rakesh Sood | On 19 Jan 2016 The Indian Diaspora has a powerful influence on the global community where Indians constitute a diverse and a heterogeneous group that shares Indian origin and intrinsic values. Earlier migration was...
by | On 19 Jan 2016 The present paper examines the capital structure adjustment dynamics of listed non-financial corporations in seven East Asian countries during 1994-2002. Compared to firms in the least affected countr...
by Sarmistha Pal | On 19 Jan 2016 This report investigates student awareness, interests and aspirations around general and vocational education. Using a survey administered to class 12 students in one district each in Rajasthan, Chatt...
by Megha Aggarwal | On 19 Jan 2016 The literature on decentralized public programs suggests that errors in the targeting of anti-poverty programs are rooted in the capture of these programs by local elites or local politicians. Consist...
by Mark Schneider | On 18 Jan 2016 The paper reviews the changing nature of politics in the state of Maharashtra – an important subnational state in India. Politics in the state underwent a shift in 1978 and later again in 1990s. The p...
by | On 18 Jan 2016 This paper identifies the ingredients for what it calls “light-handed” industrial policy to address these obstacles. To a certain extent, emerging market hosts can carry out the policy interventions r...
by Theodore H Moran | On 15 Jan 2016 The paper argues that access to public infrastructure plays a crucial role on the presence of private schools in a community, as it could not only minimise the cost of production, but also ensure a hi...
by Sarmistha Pal | On 15 Jan 2016 Rebalancing growth patterns of Asian economies is an important component of the overall rebalancing effort that will be required in the world economy. In this paper, I provide an empirical characteriz...
by Eswar S. Prasad | On 15 Jan 2016 Discrimination against women and girls carries a high development cost. This third edition of the SIGI captures and measures gender-based discrimination in social institutions- social norms, practices...
by OECD Development Centre | On 13 Jan 2016 This paper presents the empirical results of the volatility transmission of money market overnight
repo rate along the yield curve in Pakistan. The results indicate that the transmission of volatilit...
by Asif Mahmood | On 11 Jan 2016 The Trade and Development Report 2007, subtitled "Regional cooperation for development", recommends that developing countries should strengthen regional cooperation with other developing countries, bu...
by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNCTAD | On 09 Jan 2016 The Trade and Development Report (TDR) 2012 reviews recent trends in the global economy and explores the links between income distribution, growth and development. Global output growth is slowing down...
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 Five years after the onset of the global financial crisis the world economy remains in a state of disarray, with global output growing at around 2 per cent and global trade growth virtually grounding...
by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNCTAD | On 09 Jan 2016 The Trade and Development Report (TDR) 2015: Making the international financial architecture work for development reviews recent trends in the global economy and focuses on ways to reform the internat...
by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNCTAD | On 09 Jan 2016 India’s current trade negotiations have three agreements as top priorities. Two of these the India ASEAN services agreement and the bilateral trade and investment agreement with the European Union (EU...
by Laldinkima Sailo | On 09 Jan 2016 The paper looks at the flow of ideas from the South Asian Diaspora groups to their original homelands. This is occurring in the areas of economic management and political change. As a result of the in...
by Shahid Javed Burki | On 09 Jan 2016 The paper throws light on the view that the Indian state has been one that has been perpetrated by injustice irrespective of a series of ground-breaking legislative acts that enshrine a number of soci...
by John Harriss | On 09 Jan 2016 The paper focuses on India’s approach to collaboration on Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief with major powers and within various regional initiatives. This paper begins with a brief review o...
by C. Raja Mohan | On 09 Jan 2016 This paper tries to explain the main characteristics of the Indian government and corporate bond markets and what has contributed to the poor development of the latter. It goes on to show that an oppo...
by Chandrani Sarma | On 09 Jan 2016 This paper will explore India’s influence on Southeast Asia during the 20th century, with a focus on its cultural dimensions. The Indian independence movement in particular played a significant role i...
by Rahul Advani | On 09 Jan 2016 The paper reviews the evolution of India’s diaspora policy and examines the possibilities and pitfalls that could arise from Delhi’s new political enthusiasm for overseas Indian communities. Engagemen...
by C. Raja Mohan | On 09 Jan 2016 This work examines the influence of reforms in the 1990s regarding the agricultural development in India. Many studies have analysed the impact of these reforms but most of them focused on foreign tra...
by Marion Künzler | On 08 Jan 2016 Sustaining anything in the region of 7% growth should be good enough in a troubled and risk-laden world.
by T.N. Ninan | On 08 Jan 2016 Pakistan is among those countries, which have very high deforestation rate. The remaining forests are very diverse in nature and of significant importance for the country’s economy and livelihoods of...
by Tanvir Ali | On 08 Jan 2016 Trade integration and free trade agreement (FTA)-led cooperation between Asia and Latin America has increased since the early 2000s. Using new criteria, this paper examines whether Asia-Latin America...
by Ganeshan Wignaraja | On 07 Jan 2016 Most projections envision continued rapid growth in the members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the People’s Republic of China (PRC), and India (collectively, ACI) over the next...
by Fan Zhai | On 07 Jan 2016 This report identifies the main constraints to Thailand’s transition to a more modern industrial and service economy. Further major transformation is in order: this includes accelerating market reform...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 07 Jan 2016 The global financial crisis and the recent growth slowdown in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) have led to questions about the sustainability of the PRC’s growth. The commonly used argument is tha...
by Yuqing Xing | On 07 Jan 2016 Japan has suffered from sluggish economic growth and recession since the 1990s, a phenomenon dubbed “Japan’s Lost Decade.” The People’s Republic of China, many countries in the eurozone, and the Unite...
by Naoyuki Yoshino | On 06 Jan 2016 The processes of informal or soft regionalism driving China’s engagement with the regional and global economy are resulting in nuanced understandings of state, security and the conduct of internationa...
by Nimmi Kurian | On 05 Jan 2016 This paper examines the political economy of Indian higher (tertiary) education. We first provide an empirical mapping of Indian higher education and demonstrate that higher education in India is bein...
by | On 05 Jan 2016 Although some governments acknowledge the existence of slums and informal settlements, many do not. This lack of recognition and subsequent response directly undermines city-wide sustainable developme...
by | On 05 Jan 2016 The present study was taken up in this context with the objective of examining the land
laws and administration in AP and see how the existing laws are implemented, forced
acquisition of lands is ta...
by Ramachandraiah C | On 05 Jan 2016 This report reflects efforts to capture the trends in labour migration from Nepal, identify the structural gaps and suggests ways to move forward for the Government and stakeholders. Although various...
by The Asia Foundation | On 02 Jan 2016 Review of The Turn of the Tortoise: The Challenge and Promise of India’s Future
by T.N.Ninan;
Allen Lane by Penguin India, 2015;
Pp 368, Rs 699.
by Suryanarayana M H | On 02 Jan 2016 It is widely proclaimed that capital account liberalisation would immensely benefit developing economies because once capital controls are lifted capital would flow from the capital abundant rich coun...
by Pragya Atri | On 01 Jan 2016 This report presents findings from a study undertaken to understand the barriers that inhibit access to HIV services for women. Two different scenarios were studied - female sex workers and wives of m...
by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) | On 01 Jan 2016 Myanmar is expected to grow at least 6.8% per year in the coming years. Accompanying this growth will be an increase in demand for infrastructure services, including ICT-related services, both for co...
by Kee-Yung Nam | On 01 Jan 2016 Structural change has a far-reaching impact on inequality. Extensive structural change is both a cause and consequence of the exceptionally rapid economic growth, which enabled developing Asia to rais...
by Donghyun Park | On 30 Dec 2015 The failures of water management have been extensively studied and reviewed and the shortcomings are listed.
by Ravi Chopra | On 29 Dec 2015 We build a general equilibrium model in which both illegal immigration and the size of the informal sector are endogenously determined. In this framework, we show that indirect policy measures such as...
by Carmen Camacho | On 29 Dec 2015 Is ability drain (AD) economically significant? That immigrants or their children founded over 40% of theFortune 500 US companies suggests it is. Moreover, brain drain (BD) induces a brain gain (BG)....
by Maurice Schiff | On 29 Dec 2015 Empirical studies on pharmaceuticals pricing across countries have found evidence that prices vary according to per capita income. These studies are typically based on survey data from a subset of cou...
by Toshiaki Aizawa | On 29 Dec 2015 This paper reviews the empirical evidence for the macroeconomic effects of financial globalization and discusses why several of the expected benefits have failed to materialize, in terms of both long-...
by | On 29 Dec 2015 Self-employment constitutes a vital part of the economy since entrepreneurs can provide not only employment for themselves but also for others. The link between self-employment and immigration is, how...
by Ken Clark | On 29 Dec 2015 Improving physical connectivity between South and Southeast Asia has long been recognized as a key element in promoting greater trade and investment linkages within the region. As an island economy, S...
by Dushni Weerakoon | On 29 Dec 2015 “Abenomics” refers to the economic policies advocated by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe who became prime minister of Japan for a second time when his party, the Liberal Democratic Party, won an overwhelmin...
by Farhad Hesary | On 29 Dec 2015 With closer regional integration there is increasing interest within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and on the part of ASEAN's dialogue partners in the potential gains of closer co...
by Termsak Chalermpalanupap | On 29 Dec 2015 In this publication UN Women highlights the commitments made on gender equality, and explores women's contributions to sustainable development and policy around the world. Focusing on priority areas—s...
by UN Women | On 28 Dec 2015 This paper, Mapping Barriers to Trade in South Asia, examines the structural and procedural barriers to South Asian trade. In doing so, it finds many of these barriers are not as rooted in regional ge...
by Sagar Prasai | On 26 Dec 2015 During the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action reflected the importance of the interface between gender equality and sustainable development. It reco...
by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) | On 24 Dec 2015 The goal of this paper is to examine the impact of crude oil price movements on two macro variables, the gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate and the consumer price index (CPI) inflation rate, in...
by Naoyuki Yoshino | On 23 Dec 2015 New powers, such as China, India and Brazil, are challenging the traditional dominance of the US in the governance of the global economy. It is generally taken for granted that the rise of new powers...
by Kristen Hopewell | On 23 Dec 2015 The objective of this study is to explore the inflation-economic growth linkage, if any, in Bangladesh. With this view, various tables and charts, correlation matrices, pair-wise Granger Causality tes...
by Sayera Younus | On 22 Dec 2015 Employing data for 1992-2012, the article examines the factors affecting the capital structure of publicly listed Indian banks from a corporate finance perspective and compares the findings by exploit...
by Goutam Chatterjee | On 22 Dec 2015 This paper aims at understanding the reasons behind the institutionalization of Indo-French defence cooperation after 1998, and at assessing the future prospects for this collaboration. By retracing i...
by | On 22 Dec 2015 This paper seeks to identify the strategic and economic variables involved in India’s decision about whether or not to pursue a proposed natural gas pipeline from Iran. There is a lot of misinformatio...
by | On 22 Dec 2015 This paper will reexamine the role of the Sikh Diaspora in the Sikh separatist movement, commencing in the 1980s, that loomed over
the political, security, social, and humanitarian makeup of the Indi...
by | On 22 Dec 2015 The imperatives for Thailand’s investment in the Northeast have come from two important considerations, reflecting longterm strategic objectives of the Look West Policy of Thailand. First, India’s nor...
by | On 22 Dec 2015 This paper discusses domestic politics around climate change in India as an entry point to understanding India’s role in global climate negotiations. I suggest there is broad agreement within India on...
by NAVROZ DUBASH | On 21 Dec 2015 Indian society has remained deeply entrenched by the patriarchal norms and values. Needs of women emerge and progress through the life cycle; from childhood to adolescent to womanhood. Women's health...
by | On 21 Dec 2015 The challenge of aligning higher education services (programs) with evolving labor market changes, and responding to knowledge-based economy of respective developing countries, has been difficult for...
by Jouko Sarvi | On 21 Dec 2015 Preparing and implementing a K–12 transition absorbs considerable financial and human resources. It follows that the reasons for restructuring must be compelling. It follows that the reasons for restr...
by | On 21 Dec 2015 The Indian education ecosystem today consists of the government, private sector, and nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) that have helped provide education to millions of children. The enactment of t...
by Meril Antony | On 21 Dec 2015 Tabled by V. Narayanasamy, Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, in Lok Sabha in December 2011, The Right of Citizens for Time Bound Delivery of Goods and Services and Redre...
by Amit Chandra | On 21 Dec 2015 The intention of this paper is to examine whether Real Exchange Rate (RER)depreciation has any impact on export, import and trade balance of Bangladesh.
Real exchange rate is calculated using Tk./do...
by Maidul Chowdhury | On 19 Dec 2015 Public investment financed by the government's own or borrowed resources do not provide an adequate answer to the problem of relatively low investment.
by T.N. Ninan | On 18 Dec 2015 Using administrative data from linked private schools from one of districts in India that matches 8,319 pupils to their subject specific teachers at the senior secondary level, we estimate the importa...
by Mehtabul Azam | On 18 Dec 2015 The success or failure of a company is often ascribed to the behavior of its CEO. Yet little is known about what top managers actually do, whether this matters for firm performance, and why it differ...
by Oriana Bandiera | On 18 Dec 2015 This study examines the effect of parental education in the regional variation of infant mortality in India. The results are very robust to different potential confounding factors including socio-econ...
by Pradeep Choudhury | On 18 Dec 2015 The world’s poorest people lack capital and skills and toil for others in occupations that others shun. Using a large-scale and long-term randomized control trial in Bangladesh this paper demonstrates...
by Munshi Sulaiman | On 18 Dec 2015 The present paper examines the trends and patterns of import intensity in the whole economy and manufacturing sector in India during 1990s and beyond. The paper also reviews past studies on import int...
by Mahua Paul | On 18 Dec 2015 This article reviews the diagnostic needs and challenges of resource poor settings and the impact of present institutional and policy regime on the development of ecosystem for innovation making in ca...
by Dinesh Abrol | On 18 Dec 2015 This paper highlights the emerging significance of newer and non-major ports and the consequent changes in the port system, both hierarchical and regional. The relevance of port focused development co...
by Gloria Kuzur | On 18 Dec 2015 What motivates rural households to switch from older cooking methods to newer, more improved, ones? Improved cooking stoves (ICS) technology has demonstrated capacity to reduce health hazards from smo...
by Dipika Gawande | On 18 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 The report attempts to provide a comprehensive overview of the
constitutional developments in the Kingdom of Bhutan. Starting from the premonarchy era and looking closely at the different phases of m...
by | On 17 Dec 2015 Developing countries are increasingly aware of the need to design and implement improvements in public systems for providing pensions to the elderly. Such systems may aim to smooth consumption and thu...
by David Bloom | On 17 Dec 2015 The article presents the inconsistencies in the revised Draft ART Bill of 2010, particularly with regard to provisions about surrogacy and citizenship of the babies born from a surrogate mother.
by Aastha Sharma | On 16 Dec 2015 The paper makes use of newly developped information on unemployment dynamics. On the basis of a matching model of the labour market the paper analyses the economic, institutional and policy determinan...
by Ekkehard Ernst | On 16 Dec 2015 There are an estimated 190 million international migrants in 2005, persons outside their countries of birth or citizenship, and 95 million are in the labor forces of their host countries. The World Co...
by Philip Martin | On 16 Dec 2015 The railways in India would not have been possible without the efforts of a few ambitious and adventurous men, who had dreams, took tremendous risks and had the ability and dexterity to persuade a ran...
by Anuradha Kumar | On 16 Dec 2015 Back in 2004, when I ran the Chinadesk at the International Monetary Fund, my team some written questions to Beijing ahead of our meetings with Chinese officials. China’s central bank had claimed that...
by Eswar Prasad | On 16 Dec 2015 In this policy paper, Vanda Felbab-Brown explores the relationship between conflict,
peace dynamics, and drugs and other illicit economies in Thailand and
Myanmar/Burma since the 1960s through...
by Vanda Felbab-Brown | On 16 Dec 2015 The objective of this study is to examine the characteristics of the stock market bubble burst in Bangladesh and policy response for the sample period from 2004:7-2013:2. This paper also discusses the...
by Dr. Sayera Younus | On 15 Dec 2015 The study finds that micro hydro (MH) has significant impact on reduction in fuel wood consumption. Communities are more inclined to harvest fuel wood from government forest. These led to the promotio...
by Bishwa Koirala | On 15 Dec 2015 This paper discusses India’s demographic dynamics and
argues that policymakers have the widest window of opportunity with that segment of population which is poised to enter the workforce between 203...
by Ali Mehdi | On 09 Dec 2015 The World Economic Forum along with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) convened the National Strategy Day on India on 3rd and 4th of November to provide a platform to boost economic growth and...
by | On 09 Dec 2015 This paper analyses the trends and patterns of economic inequality across Indian states since the early 1990s. The inter-state inequality in per capita income and consumption expenditure show a clear...
by | On 04 Dec 2015 This paper reviews the rice procurement operations of the Government of India from the standpoints of cost of procurement as well as effectiveness in supporting farmers’ incomes. The two channels used...
by Neha Gupta | On 02 Dec 2015 Falling tractor sales in the first half of the year may well be pointing to further distress in the agrarian economy.
by Aritra Chakrabarty | On 19 Nov 2015 It is often emphasised that seigniorage financing of public sector deficits is technically a “free
lunch” if the economy has not attained the full employment levels. However, conservative
macroecono...
by Lekha S. Chakraborty | On 16 Nov 2015 The objective of this paper is to examine the nature and magnitude of the effects of infrastructure provision on regional economic performance. The empirical evidence of the analysis is based on diffe...
by Naoyuki Yoshino | On 13 Nov 2015 The strategy of economic development followed by India from 1951 onwards
started undergoing changes from the middle of the eighties. The Soviet model
of central planning of the economy started yield...
by Reji Raman | On 10 Nov 2015 What the government should is to concentrate on economic issues with diversionary issues being put back in the cupboard.
by T.N. Ninan | On 07 Nov 2015 This study attempts to examine the role of farmer incentive mechanisms to conserve minor millets in Kolli Hills. The millet varieties were
classified either as most preferred varieties (MPVs) or leas...
by | On 06 Nov 2015 This paper primarily aims to capture the changing patterns of consumption expenditure of three broad classes, namely, the ‘upper’ ‘middle’ and ‘bottom’ classes in the rural and urban India. In contras...
by | On 05 Nov 2015 Conservation agriculture (CA) technologies are being developed for the cereal production systems of South Asia to address the multifaceted problems of decelerating agricultural productivity, resource...
by Vijesh Krishna | On 02 Nov 2015 The paper argues that both the income/expenditure and nutritional measures of poverty suffer with their own limitations. However, for both conceptual and practical considerations, the income/expenditu...
by | On 30 Oct 2015 The Global Employment Trends for Youth 2015 provides an update on key youth labour market indicators and trends, focusing both on the continuing labour market instability and on structural issues in y...
by | On 28 Oct 2015 Narendra Modi is the first PM after Indira Gandhi with the power and possibly the intention to change the Indian system.
by T.N. Ninan | On 16 Oct 2015 the influence of the industry financial composition on the export flow between
Pakistan and its trading partners is determined. The importing countries are split according to their OECD membership st...
by Aadil Nakhoda | On 16 Oct 2015 Using a theoretical framework that
combines the essence of Ramsay’s growth model and the New-Keynesian macrodynamics,
and applying the Kalman filter estimation technique, this paper finds that
Indi...
by Harendra Behera | On 16 Oct 2015 As the Indian Ocean region increasingly becomes a more important geopolitical space, global powers and smaller states are laying down their stakes. This paper examines the military build-up of major I...
by | On 15 Oct 2015 This paper critically examines the ‘Varieties of Capitalism’ (VoC) School’s approach to constructing typologies of capitalisms with reference to the specific case of Indian capitalism. It emphasizes t...
by Surajit Mazumdar | On 14 Oct 2015 The extent to which growth reduces global poverty has been disputed for 30 years. A major problem is that consumption measured from household surveys, which is used to measure poverty, grows less rapi...
by Angus Deaton | On 13 Oct 2015 This paper tries to assess the impact of coping strategies on household welfare. The paper tries to identify the components of vulnerability to better focus policy. India, particularly rural India, h...
by Raghbendra Jha | On 12 Oct 2015 Based mainly on secondary data and partly on primary information obtained through field surveys in selected rural areas in Bihar in 2011, this paper firstly argues the critical importance of agricultu...
by | On 11 Oct 2015 This paper on Urban Poverty in Asia looks at the different dimensions of poverty in Asia, both income and nonincome, its two main regions, including a brief account of who and what class of people are...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 09 Oct 2015 This study explores the interaction between formal social protection and agriculture by proposing a theory of change and conducting an empirical review that identifies how social protection impacts ag...
by Nyasha Tirivayi | On 07 Oct 2015 This paper argues that the state is an important institution for initiating economic reforms in India. Ideas held within the state are especially important. When the state reposed faith in a closed ec...
by | On 28 Sep 2015 This paper investigates the determinants of energy and emission intensities of manufacturing firms in India, from 2000 to 2014. Given that Indian manufacturing sector is one of the world’s most pollut...
by Santosh K. Sahu | On 25 Sep 2015 How did India respond to globalization in the realm of inward foreign direct investment (FDI)? This paper presents the economic institutional change favouring FDI inflows at the union level of India b...
by | On 25 Sep 2015 A green economy is necessary if sustainable development is to be realized. However, as this report emphasizes, a green economy can also, if accompanied by the right policy mix, create more and better...
by | On 25 Sep 2015 This study examines the implications of variations in climate variables on ground water sources of irrigation and agricultural income in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Our findings, based on a panel...
by Balasubramanian R | On 24 Sep 2015 This report from the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Geo-economics maps out the challenges that current geo-economic trends pose for globalisation. Findings show that the rise in strat...
by | On 22 Sep 2015 Although India’s plans for market reforms and opening up agriculture with earnest optimism and anticipation, every step on the way was laced with caution and deliberation and every action was weighed...
by Nilabja Ghosh | On 21 Sep 2015 Review of Death Wasn't Painful: Death Wasn’t Painful: Stories of Indian Fighter Pilots from the 1971 War by Dhirendra S Jafa, New Delhi, Sage Publications; 2014. pp. 268, Rs. 445/-. ISBN-13: 978-81321...
by SK Sriharsha | On 19 Sep 2015 Categories that capture the Indian sub-continent-origin population – ‘Indian’, ‘Pakistani’, ‘Bangladeshi’ – have been included on all the British census forms (1991, 2001, 2011) that have asked about...
by | On 17 Sep 2015 Traditional assessments of progress against poverty put no explicit weight on increasing the standard of living of the poorest—raising the consumption floor. Yet this is often emphasized by policy mak...
by Martin Ravallion | On 14 Sep 2015 Review of Christmas in Calcutta: Anglo Indian Stories and Essays by Robyn Andrews;
Sage Publications, 2014; pp 208, Rs. 695.
by Nandini Bhattacharya | On 10 Sep 2015 Cross-border population movement, an indispensible feature of the current phase of globalisation, has led to significant changes in the migration landscape. Factors like temporisation of labour flows,...
by | On 09 Sep 2015 This paper provides a descriptive summary of India’s experience with school feeding programmes (SFPs), focussing mainly on the period since 1995, the year that saw the launch of a national initiative...
by M S Swaminathan Research Foundation India | On 08 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 The subject of this essay is formed from three classic pieces of writing: The End of Laissez-Faire by John Maynard Keynes, The End of History? by Francis Fukuyama, and The Structure of Scientific Revo...
by Ravi Kanbur | On 07 Sep 2015 This paper takes a look at the efforts made by the Government of India since the enactment of the Act to improve the relevance of minimum wages, its impact in bringing the workers out of the poverty l...
by | On 07 Sep 2015 The paper highlights the importance of “broad-based growth” as a framework to support economic growth and inclusiveness at the same time. Different countries show different dynamics between economic g...
by Jong Woo Kang | On 07 Sep 2015 In India, research on human development has received considerable importance from both the academic and policy point of view. However, all the previous studies on human development mainly focused on t...
by Swati Dutta | On 04 Sep 2015 The Kerala Perspective Plan 2030 (KPP) is a Government of Kerala initiative that will serve as the basis for implementation of a series of initiatives aimed at fostering sustainable and inclusive grow...
by Government of Kerala Govt | On 04 Sep 2015 To elicit the public’s views on health system issues, the study conducted an opinion poll survey in Bangladesh, Mongolia, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. The study focused on health inequalities. The results sh...
by Bhatia Mrigesh | On 01 Sep 2015 This paper argues that India’s foreign economic policies were shaped to a substantial extent by developmental ideas within the Indian state and by the international context of the Cold War. Individual...
by | On 25 Aug 2015 There is high inter-state variation in public expenditure on health across states of India. This paper examines the degree to which this discrepancy in health expenditure is explained by income and ot...
by | On 25 Aug 2015 How is the RBI helping the government to create the conditions for a sustainable growth? Structural reforms will help
strengthen this growth – two weeks ago, the Government announced Indradhanush, la...
by Raghuram G. Rajan | On 25 Aug 2015 the paper provides an overview of the growth and status of Indian tea plantation sector delineating the trends
in economic performance in the global context in a historic perspective. It then examine...
by Viswanathan P K | On 25 Aug 2015 One of the most important forces that have shaped India’s economy in the last two and a half decades is the process of globalization. This has been a world-wide phenomenon, and India could not have re...
by B.N. Goldar | On 24 Aug 2015 Global market is in a turmoil. How can India have a stable economy? There are no easy solutions but to play safe.
by T.N. Ninan | On 21 Aug 2015 This paper compares the experience of poverty reduction in China and India. It finds that more than economic growth per se, what has mattered crucially is the nature of the growth: whether it is assoc...
by Jayati Ghosh | On 21 Aug 2015 This paper reviews existing structural transformation models and prominent literatures and then empirically examines Nepalese economic structure. The research findings reveal that industrial sector is...
by | On 17 Aug 2015 Against the post-New Industrial Policy (1991) growth witnessed in large-scale industries, a corresponding boom in the small and mid-sized domestic industry has been conspicuously absent. The paper see...
by Amit Chandra | On 13 Aug 2015 Young people are major human resource for development and driving force for economic development. Global youth unemployment rate is projected at 12.6 per cent. India, ranks 7th in unemployment percent...
by Sarita Sanwal | On 13 Aug 2015 The National Policy on Biofuels sets an indicative target of 20per cent blending of biofuels by 2017 to tackle the twin problem of energy security and climate change. Although biofuels seem to be the...
by Gopinath Reddy | On 13 Aug 2015 This publication highlights the relevance in India and the multiplicity of entry points of the right to the city as a vehicle for social inclusion and sustainable social development for Indian cities....
by Centre de Sciences Humaines CSH | On 12 Aug 2015 There may not be a single standard approach to developing the ICT-BPO sector, the successful experiences of developing countries can provide useful insights and practical lessons for countries contemp...
by Fatima Lourdes E. Del Prado | On 12 Aug 2015 This paper considers the implications of an imperfect monetary transmission mechanism for optimal monetary policy choices in an open economy. The asset market channel is restricted in this paper as so...
by | On 11 Aug 2015 The emergence of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as a global component of business-society relationships has triggered many controversial debates in which CSR is either advocated as a source of...
by Damien Krichewsky | On 07 Aug 2015 This paper takes on an older debate that the agriculture transformation in
the regional economy of Kerala has been mainly driven by ‘peasant
rationality’. It argues that the agrarian transformation...
by Viswanathan P K | On 31 Jul 2015 The Give It Up campaign opens as an appeal to altruism and then proposes a moral economy using a reasoning that aligns altruism with nationalism and a sense of national belonging
by Pramod K. Nayar | On 26 Jul 2015 This paper studies the policy determinants of economic transition and estimates the demand for labor in the infant private sector in urban China. It shows that a reform that untied access to housing i...
by Lakshmi Iyer | On 20 Jul 2015 This study explores the three-way linkage between weather variability, agricultural performance and internal migration in India. It estimates a two-equation model, which examines variations in weather...
by | On 17 Jul 2015 The adoption of inflation targeting in India has been a much debated topic which also becomes a challenge for the emerging economy. Though inflation targeting has already been adopted in many emerging...
by Charan Singh | On 17 Jul 2015 This paper considers the implications of an imperfect monetary transmission mechanism for optimal monetary policy choices in an open economy. The asset market channel is restricted in this paper as so...
by | On 09 Jul 2015 This paper attempts a welfare comparison of population where only ordinal information is available at the micro level in terms of multi-dimensional discrete well-being indicators. This does not involv...
by Udaya S. Mishra | On 08 Jul 2015 Over 168 million children across the world are trapped in the vicious cycle of child labour. Deprived of their basic right to survival, protection, development and participation, these children, betwe...
by Save the Children | On 07 Jul 2015 This is the final report of the National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector, which was set up by the Government of India on 20th September 2004, to "review the status of unorganized/...
by National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorgan NCEUS | On 07 Jul 2015 Recent statistics show the majority of workers in developing countries earn their livelihoods in the informal sector. For this paper, a sample of 150 was randomly drawn from the membership database of...
by Poornima Chikarmane | On 06 Jul 2015 This paper offers a regional overview of the mechanisms and consequences of the growing gender imbalances, as observed today in Asia. The extent and timings of the trend towards more masculine populat...
by Christophe Z. Guilmoto | On 02 Jul 2015 This paper explores some aspects of the imperialism/empire/new imperialism debate and looks at whether imperialism remains to be a valid theoretical category in analyzing contemporary economics and po...
by Subhanil Chowdhury | On 02 Jul 2015 Review of The Oxford Companion to Pakistani History ed. Ayesha Jalal. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 558 pp. Rs. 4,488.75. ISBN-13: 978-0195475784.
by Rohit Wanchoo | On 02 Jul 2015 The paper aims to explore few aspects of academic entrepreneurship. Besides dwelling upon the conceptual definition, there is an attempt to understand the processes and stages of academic entrepreneur...
by Deepthi Shanker | On 30 Jun 2015 After several years of impressive growth, the world economy encountered an equally impressive downturn starting in the third quarter of 2008, triggered by financial fragility and imbalances generated...
by Yilmaz Akyuz | On 29 Jun 2015 The right to acquire/rent property anywhere in the nation is a fantasy fostered by the Constitution and the rhetoric of modernisation and urbanisation.
by Pramod K. Nayar | On 28 Jun 2015 Increasing women`s economic participation is not yet universally accepted despite three decades of global advocacy; and women empowerment and gender equality are still a work in progress. A mechanism...
by Lucita Lazo | On 26 Jun 2015 In the context of increasing contribution of developing countries in world trade, an important question is whether trade can be used as an instrument to stimulate higher participation of women in the...
by Purna Banerjee | On 25 Jun 2015 The role of the informal economy in promoting genuine economic development remains a contested one: optimists believe potential entrepreneurs are capable of supporting themselves and their families, p...
by John Walsh | On 25 Jun 2015 Street vending and urban space for micro enterprises constitute an important policy theme that needs to be advanced further in development literature and policy. In many countries, urban space tends t...
by Kyoko Kusakabe | On 24 Jun 2015 This paper attempts to capture how India embraced the world
economy against the backdrop of the evolving domestic and international economic policy environment. It began with a brief overview of the...
by | On 24 Jun 2015 Politicians have continued taking people for granted and managed to stay above the law.
by T.N. Ninan | On 22 Jun 2015 This paper aims at understanding the different dimensions of life cycle of a
seaport enabling the port-planners to decide on their strategies. There are
different stages in the life cycle of an orga...
by Deepankar Sinha | On 19 Jun 2015 This economic outlook by NCAER, analyses expected growth, inflation, balance of payments, fiscal balances, savings and investment trends, and covers the state of important sectors of the economy, inc...
by National Council of Applied Economic Research | On 15 Jun 2015 Faster economic growth of some of the backward states like Bihar, Uttarakhand and Chhattisgarh in the post 2004-05 compels us to think if it is any indicative of convergence among states of India. How...
by Anjali Masarguppi | On 10 Jun 2015 After decades of isolation, Myanmar is now actively re-engaging with the global economy. For successful re-engagement, Myanmar needs to implement comprehensive economic reforms based on a shared visio...
by So Umezaki | On 10 Jun 2015 The United Nations' first Creative Economy Report was published in early 2008, at a time when the world economy had been under- going a period of expansion. The report concluded that the creative indu...
by | On 07 Jun 2015 The draft Land Acquisition and Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, which was introduced in the Lok Sabha on September 7, 2011 is one of the most important legislations waiting for Parliamentary appr...
by Niranjan Sahoo | On 05 Jun 2015 This paper focuses on the considerable hurdles and limitations encountered in carrying forward India's 'Look East' through Northeast—problems caused by the nature of physical terrain, the history of v...
by Subir Bhaumik | On 04 Jun 2015 India and China, two of the world's oldest civilisations, have had little historically relevant interactions with one other. Separated by the world's highest mountain range, the Himalayas, neither of...
by Himanil Raina | On 04 Jun 2015 The recent developments in the area of payment systems in India is highlighted. There are some issues and challenges that are likely to assume importance in the foreseeable future and the way forwar...
by S.S. Mundra | On 04 Jun 2015 This paper examines a number of questions that have a bearing on women’s employment in South Asia. The characteristic features of the region such as the predominantly rural, agrarian economy; patriarc...
by | On 04 Jun 2015 The present study discusses the trends and patterns in agricultural growth at the national and sub-national levels in India. Data on important variables like area, production, input use and value of o...
by Elumalai Kannan | On 04 Jun 2015 Like hazardous waste, the problem of e-waste has become an immediate and long term concern as its unregulated accumulation and recycling can lead to major environmental problems endangering human heal...
by Rajya Sabha | On 04 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 Urban population growth and economic growth require cities to expand into the agricultural land on their periphery. How much land is required for this extension? How much planning and direct intervent...
by Alain Bertaud | On 01 Jun 2015 This paper analyses the issue of gender parity in wages by focusing on the evolution of male-female wage gaps for an emerging economy, India, and decomposes the gaps to understand patterns of gender-b...
by Ashwini Deshpande | On 29 May 2015 Direct mail is in danger of being vanished from this country. Mismanagement and lack of interest from the government bodies has made mail’s future precarious, finds out PrintWeek India.
by PrintWeek India PWI | On 28 May 2015 This report mainly focuses on agricultural research and education so as to make the system demand-driven, enhance technology flow to farmers and bring transformational changes in Indian agriculture. T...
by Planning Commission | On 28 May 2015 The India Development Update for April 2015 has two main aims. First, it reports on the key developments over the past six months in India's economy, and places these in a longer term and global conte...
by World Trade Organisation | On 18 May 2015 This study has taken up two seemingly different but connected aspects of Indian agriculture, the first part dealing with the analysis of agricultural instability at the national and state levels and t...
by Ramesh Chand | On 13 May 2015 This policy brief documents the participation of youth in Bihar in civil society, the extent to which they uphold secular attitudes and
their perceptions about and participation in political processe...
by Environmental Management & Policy Research Institute | On 12 May 2015 The paper argues for increasing women`s economic opportunities in the APEC region and states that women`s participation in the economy is skewed toward micro and small enterprises and they are mostly...
by | On 23 Apr 2015 This report entitled "Millennium Development Goals India Country Report 2015", which is the latest in a series of such reports since 2005, captures India's achievements and challenges in respect of th...
by Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementatio GOI | On 21 Apr 2015 Maharashra Government, State Economy, Population, State income, Prices & Public Distribution System, Public Finance, Institutional Finance
& Capital Market, Agriculture & Allied Activities, infrastru...
by Government of Maharashtra | On 09 Apr 2015 The paper provides an in-depth empirical analysis of Thai political history in an attempt to understand why democracy has failed to consolidate since the 1932 revolution that ended the absolute monarc...
by | On 08 Apr 2015 An ongoing debate on the shape of the Indian aggregate supply curve (AS) raises interesting econometric and policy issues. Systematic steps were taken to improve the estimation. On adding better vari...
by Ashima Goyal | On 02 Apr 2015 The paper discusses several patent cases to argue that MNCs are aggressively asserting their patent rights not for getting genuine patents which they are entitled to but for preventing generic competi...
by Sudip Chaudhuri | On 30 Mar 2015 This document studies the Trade Policies and Institutions of BRICS, India and BRICS: issues of trade and technology; and examines the scope for deepening cooperation in services among BRICS members. T...
by | On 24 Mar 2015 The paper examines the policies of the central as well as state governments with respect to the agricultural market, specifically in rice and wheat markets, analyses their shortcomings and argues for...
by Dr Anandi Subramanian | On 23 Mar 2015 This working paper reflects Indis's domestic production on exports and imports. The paper also highlights upon India’s two policy instruments, namely price controls and reserving market segment for sm...
by | On 18 Mar 2015 Budget speech of Kerala Finance Minister K M Mani.
by K.M. Mani | On 13 Mar 2015 Review of Shifting Ground: People, Animals and Mobility in India's Environmental History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. 308 pp. Rs. 818 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-19-809895-9.
by | On 13 Mar 2015 Conditions for stability in an open economy dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model adapted to a
dualistic labor market (SOEME) are the same as for a mature economy. But the introduction of
mon...
by Ashima Goyal | On 11 Mar 2015 Expanding women’s access to the labour market and enhancing their employability, apart from all its other impact, contributes to the GDP substantially. It is important to generate creative partnership...
by G.D Bino Paul | On 10 Mar 2015 Uma Chakravarti reminisces about the historian and feminist scholar Dr Meera Kosambi who carved her own distinctive space within a legendary family.
by Uma Chakravarti | On 09 Mar 2015 A substantial part of the 2015 Budget Statement is interspersed with the promise that ‘every rupee of public expenditure…will contribute to the betterment of people’s lives through job creation, pover...
by Gautam Mody | On 03 Mar 2015 State of the Economy - an overview
Public Finance
monetary management and financial intermediation
External Sector
Price, Agriculture and Food Management
Industrial, Corporate and Infrastructur...
by Ministry of Finance | On 28 Feb 2015 Speech of Shri Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu introducing the
Railway Budget for 2015-16
by Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu | On 26 Feb 2015 There is a need for public policy revival in mining sector as its contribution to GDP is declining. India has coal reserves but it is one of the highest importers of coal in the world. There is a need...
by Lekha Chakraborty | On 24 Feb 2015 Open defecation and improper garbage disposal are a reality of public spaces in India, not just due to poverty or a lack of initiative on the government, but social acceptance of attitudes which disr...
by Poorva Awasthi | On 24 Feb 2015 People want to live in a safe prosperous country where they enjoy freedom of thought and action, and where they can exercise their democratic rights to choose their government. But how do countries en...
by Raghuram G. Rajan | On 24 Feb 2015 This document provides an overview the current state of the Indian economy; lists the issues related to investment and finance for various Indian industries; finally makes a list of suggestions for th...
by Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry | On 19 Feb 2015 With no financial capacity to save and invest, a dismal record of use of bank accounts and the severe lack of trust in the current model of using business correspondents, it is extremely difficult to...
by | On 16 Feb 2015 Review of Citizenship and Its Discontents: An Indian History. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013. viii + 366 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-06684-7.
by Environmental Management & Policy Research Institute | On 09 Feb 2015 A preliminary analysis of the spatial determinants of firms’ export activities by Indian states has been undertaken in this study. Thus, the present study attempts to fill the gap by focusing on issue...
by Jaya Prakash Pradhan | On 06 Feb 2015 Do we really have the time to waste on controversies like what ancient India did or did not achieve by way of scientific discoveries? This is when there is the huge unfinished agenda to use the best o...
by Sunita Narain | On 03 Feb 2015 What are the new challenges before the Indian nation, its new government and the people's movement? (In Hindi)
by Abhay Kumar Dubey | On 29 Jan 2015 This paper locates the rationale for franchising in agribusiness from global literature and from the Indian smallholder agricultural context where other ways of reaching small farmers or linking them...
by Sukhpal Singh | On 23 Jan 2015 The objective of paper is to demonstrate feasibility of nutrition-sensitive agriculture. The proposed model is being tested in two select locations to demonstrate improvement in nutrition status throu...
by M S Swaminathan | On 21 Jan 2015 The paper presents some of the ideas underlying the current research program of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG). It begins with a discussion of how the institute’s pro- gra...
by Jens Beckert | On 18 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 Savarkar’s chief claim from the outset is that the Revolution was the manifestation of deep underlying principles. Indeed this sense of the underlying principles can alone justify such massive loss of...
by Nikhil Govind | On 27 Dec 2014 Savarkar was not only a revolutionary, but also one who could reflect on the revolutionary life. The earlier generation of 1857 perhaps lacked the ability or at the very least, the opportunity to refl...
by Nikhil Govind | On 26 Dec 2014 This paper examines the price movements in rice and wheat, following structuralist principles emphasizing the necessity of long term solutions in combination with short and medium term management. How...
by K U Gopakumar | On 17 Dec 2014 This paper focuses on one such
setting in India's urban informal economy: the 'day labour' market for casual labour. We survey seven
such markets in Navi Mumbai (a city on the outskirts of Mumbai),...
by Karthikeya Naraparaju | On 12 Dec 2014 This paper shows that high temperatures may reduce manufactur-
ing output by lowering worker productivity via heat stress. Using an
annual panel of manufacturing plants in India, and daily primary m...
by E. Somanathan | On 01 Dec 2014 The report seeks to track and map the extent to which central and state governments in India have succeeded in ensuring access to a range of basic public goods for all people. This report argues that...
by Centre Equity Studies | On 27 Nov 2014 A
bill
to declare certain institutions of information technology to be institutions of national
importance, with a view to develop new knowledge in information technology and
to provide manpower o...
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 26 Nov 2014 The authors review the conceptualisation, and implementation of policies related to the welfare of minority communities in India, with a special focus on Muslims
as a minority group. Using the case s...
by Ritu Dewan | On 21 Nov 2014 In this study how number and members of income clusters have changed in Indian agriculture
over the last four and a half decades are traced. Two features which stand out in our results are that not a...
by Tirtha Chaterjee | On 14 Nov 2014 The report provides a detailed quantitative account of the four notified minority communities – Sikhs, Christians, Buddhists and Parsis using all available information. The study takes into account th...
by Institute Human Development | On 11 Nov 2014 Migration and urbanization are direct manifestations of the process of economic development in space, particularly in the contemporary phase of globalization. Understanding the causes and consequences...
by Amitabh Kundu | On 11 Nov 2014 Urbanisation in India is neither unique nor exclusive but is similar to a world-wide phenomenon. Indian urbanisation has proceeded as it has elsewhere in the world as a part and product of economic ch...
by K.C. Sivaramakrishnan | On 11 Nov 2014 Maharashtra’s multicultural milieu is marked by crucial contribution made by Muslims. The Sachar Committee Report, 2006 stated that the condition of Muslim in Maharashtra demands
special attention o...
by Vibhuti Patel | On 11 Nov 2014 Out-of-pocket payments make up a large proportion of total health expenditure leading to inequity amongst the poorer sections. Recently government of India has instigated various demand side financing...
by Harshad Thakur | On 11 Nov 2014 While the union government announced its plan to extend the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana to the unorganised working class poor. The Government of Maharashtra has decided to scrap RSBY and replace it...
by Sujata Gothoskar | On 11 Nov 2014 This is the 4th Chapter of the report 'Women and Men in India' by CSO. Although women constitute a little less than the half of the economically active population, but their
contribution to economic...
by Central Statistical Organization CSO | On 03 Nov 2014 Through the Global Gender Gap Report 2014, the World Economic Forum quantifies the magnitude of gender-based disparities and tracks their progress over time. While no single measure can capture the co...
by World Economic Forum WEF | On 29 Oct 2014 The tepid-to-torrid transformation in India’s economic growth since the early 1980s is one of
the big stories of recent times. Whereas “Midnight’s children” saw their standard of living
double ove...
by Arvind Subramanian | On 22 Oct 2014 The World Trade Report 2014 looks at how four recent major economic trends have changed how developing countries can use trade to facilitate their development. These trends are the economic rise of de...
by World Trade Organisation WTO | On 21 Oct 2014 The authors estimate the respective contributions of institutions, geography, and trade in determining income levels around the world, using recently developed instrumental variables for institutions...
by Arvind Subramanian | On 21 Oct 2014 This paper marks the first attempt at examining the growth performance across Indian states for the 2000s, a period also
marked by the global financial crisis. Four key finding emerge from the paper...
by Arvind Subramanian | On 21 Oct 2014 International negotiations on climate change have been dogged by mutual accusations between industrialized and developing countries, shrinking global carbon budget and change in power relations as a r...
by Aaditya Mattoo | On 20 Oct 2014 Why it is so hard
to find a robust effect of aid on the long-term growth of poor countries, even those with good
policies. A possible offset to the beneficial effects of aid is examined using a meth...
by Raghuram G. Rajan | On 20 Oct 2014 The tension between trade and climate change has arisen in part because of the assumption that climate change action (e.g., carbon price increases) can be taken as a given. The question that many pape...
by Aaditya Mattoo | On 20 Oct 2014 The current perspective on the flow of people is almost exclusively focused on permanent migration from poorer to richer countries and on immigration policies in industrial countries. This perspective...
by Aaditya Mattoo | On 20 Oct 2014 The impact on the Indian labour market of the slowing down of global economy is a complex issue. It is evident that women have become 'shock absorbers' in the overall functioning of labour market dyna...
by Michael Levien | On 14 Oct 2014 These Notes are mainly about three interconnected themes; i) the international and Indian
‘take’ on control over land (and water); ii) the distinction between an agricultural crisis and
an agrarian...
by Sheila Bhalla | On 01 Oct 2014 An evaluation of the country’s buffer stock policy reveals gaps and inefficiencies.
Large quantities of food grains have accumulated in the godowns of the Food Corporation of
India (FCI) and its nom...
by Shweta Saini | On 26 Sep 2014 This report presents the case studies of the People’s Republic of China, India, Indonesia and Kazakhstan in their knowledge-based economy approaches. It identifies a range of policies and initiatives...
by Jonathan Chen | On 25 Sep 2014 The intention of this paper is to examine the impact of Indian Rupee depreciation on Bangladesh Economy. The empirical results obtained from OLS for the sample period from
2007:10 to 2013:10 show tha...
by Sayera Younus | On 25 Sep 2014 The inaugural budget of the NDA led government has been a cause of some surprise and disappointment amongst those who were eagerly expecting a new radical dose of neo-liberal reforms. It appeared that...
by Surajit Mazumdar | On 22 Sep 2014 This book offers a careful summary of the rights and practices of work in the Indian labour market. In specific, it deals with rights deficiency of workers in different sectors especially on agricultu...
by V.V. Giri Labour Institute | On 19 Sep 2014 Civil society in Independent India has perhaps never been as active as it is today, except in the years before and during the emergency. The author explores the role it has played in strengthening and...
by Trilochan Sastry | On 18 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 Keeping in mind the significant number of labour engaged in informal sector of the economy, the report has probed into the characteristic of the informal labour force and the enterprises in which they...
by National Sample Survey Office NSSO | On 09 Sep 2014 Inter-state diversity has been a perennial feature of Indian agriculture. The study probes if per capita income in Indian agriculture has converged across states in the last four and a half decades. I...
by Tirtha Chaterjee | On 06 Sep 2014 South and Southeast Asian economic integration via increased trade flows has been increasing significantly over the past 2 decades, but the level of trade continues to be relatively low. This under pe...
by Ganeshan Wignaraja | On 22 Aug 2014 From 2003, the Indian economy enjoyed a boom in growth coupled with moderate inflation for five years. The economy grew at a rate close to 9 percent per year, until it was punctured by the global fina...
by Pankaj Kumar | On 19 Aug 2014 The Union Budget remains significant for the agricultural sector in the country for at least the following two reasons. First, the budget comes in the background of an agrarian crisis in the country,...
by Arindam Banerjee | On 04 Aug 2014 Are ostensibly demand-driven public programs less susceptible to political clientelism even when private goods are allocated? This is examined using expenditure data at
the local level from India’s N...
by Megan Sheahan | On 01 Aug 2014 The paper reviews the calculation of Indian wholesale and consumer price indices and suggests improvements in the light of past experience and international best practices. It confirms that food infla...
by Kirti Gupta | On 22 Jul 2014 The focus of the paper is to suggest an alternate methodology for
horizontal devolution from divisible pool of Central taxes and
disbursement of grants. Tax devolution criteria suggested are populat...
by R. Mohan | On 16 Jul 2014 The Indian economy is witnessing a dichotomous trend- an increasing share of employment in industry with decline in Value Added to output. When compared to other Asian economies, we’re adding workers...
by Aritra Chakrabarty | On 10 Jul 2014 In 2014-15, the Indian economy is poised to overcome the sub-5 per cent growth of gross domestic product (GDP) witnessed over the last two years. The growth slowdown in the last two years was broad ba...
by Planning Commission | On 10 Jul 2014 Book Review - Understanding India: Cultural Influences on Indian Television Commercials discusses Indian Television Commercials in the context of marketing interests and visual culture. The author exa...
by Hemali Sanghavi | On 09 Jul 2014 Railway budget 2014-15.
by D.V. Sadananda Gowda | On 09 Jul 2014 The importance of strengthening the human development (HD) achievements in a country to augment its growth potential is well known in development literature. Several initiatives to enhance the HD leve...
by Sacchidananda Mukherjee | On 24 Jun 2014 The Indian labour market is characterised by abysmally low participation of women in the labour market, enormity of low wage informal employment, and scarcity of decent regular
wage employment. The c...
by IRIS Knowledge Foundation IKF | On 17 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 The PRS Annual Policy Review aims to capture the key legislative and policy developments in
India during the fiscal year 2013-14. The objective of this document is to summarise all the
major devel...
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 05 Jun 2014 This issue of Global Employment Trends for Youth provides an update on youth labour markets around the world, focusing both on the continuing labour market crisis and on structural issues in youth lab...
by International Labour Organisation ILO | On 30 May 2014 This paper examines the role of organised labour in India in a structural and historical context. It attempts to trace the economic, political and social effects of the trade union movement and its st...
by Debashish Bhattacharjee | On 23 May 2014 This paper describes the growth and structural changes in employment in the long and short periods, with a special focus on the period since economic liberalisation. It assesses the employment challen...
by T. S. Papola | On 23 May 2014 Many transition and developing economies have reduced direct public involvement in the production and trade of seed and other agricultural inputs. This trend creates opportunities for farmers to reali...
by David Gisselquist | On 23 May 2014 The rapid emergence of the information and communication technology (ICT) sector has placed India on the global stage during the last one and a half decades. e sector has acted as a catalyst for growt...
by Organization of and Development | On 23 May 2014 The concept paper is conceptualization of a well-structured LMIS to assist planning and delivery of training for NSDC. The report is structured into key sections which unfold the blueprint for buildin...
by National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) | On 23 May 2014 In the hopes of earning money for a better life, and with few other alternatives, millions migrate to big cities or across borders to work as live-in nannies, caretakers for the elderly, and house-cle...
by Nisha Varia | On 08 May 2014 This research report, which examines the effects of research and development on productivity in India, finds that India is still benefiting from these investments. The report shows that the public ben...
by Robert E Evenson | On 29 Apr 2014 In India, public policies for human development are politically contested for many reasons like
diverse political interests, commitment to specific social bases by political regimes etc. They have
r...
by Shyam Singh | On 10 Apr 2014 The paper analyzes causes of movements in Indian wages for rural unskilled male laborers, and
assesses their impact on inflation. Theoretical priors derived from an analytical framework based on the
...
by Ashima Goyal | On 10 Apr 2014 A quick look at the manifestos of the five national political parties, Indian National Congress (INC), Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP), Aam Admi Party (AAP), Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPIM) and S...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 10 Apr 2014 Should India's export promotion policies be targeted at accelerating export growth at the extensive(new
trading relationships) or at the intensive margin (increase in trade of existing relationships)...
by C. Veeramani | On 08 Apr 2014 Review of the book 'Indian Youth and Electoral Politics - An Emerging Engagement' edited by Sanjay Kumar; Fellow at Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS); April 2014; pp 180; Rs 450.
by Nandini Bhattacharya | On 07 Apr 2014 The study seeks to understand women’s land rights by documenting how women acquire land, their feelings about tenure security to that land, exploring their knowledge of their land rights, and the exte...
by UN Women | On 14 Mar 2014 This report provides an independent review of the evidence about the impact of inequality. The report examines whether or not there is a link between income inequality and health and social problems;...
by Karen Rowlingson | On 14 Mar 2014 This paper focusses on the interaction between fossil fuels and farming in India, to capture total intensity of fossils in farming and offer some evidence on inflationary impact of fossil fuel price i...
by Mukesh Kumar Anand | On 13 Mar 2014 The Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise sector is crucial to India’s economy. There are 30 million enterprises in various industries, employing 69 million people. Together, these account for 45% of the...
by Srinivas. K T. | On 11 Mar 2014 This paper discusses the importance of the informal sector in supporting livelihoods and contributing to production and consumption activities of developing countries is widely evident. However, lack...
by Niru Yadav | On 10 Mar 2014 Explains how the social difference between the caste system and different tribes was contained even through the caste system was officially abolished. Presents a general model of social mobility based...
by Panizza Philipp | On 28 Feb 2014 This report is based on decade long studies through three phases of the study project, aims to draw the attention of policy makers and concerned citizens to the gap, or chasm, between our goals, aspir...
by Aasha Kapur Mehta | On 27 Feb 2014 This note discusses the Report of the Expert Group to Review the Methodology for Estimation
of Poverty. The Report recommends the use of the existing official urban poverty line as the
poverty lin...
by Madhura Swaminathan | On 27 Feb 2014 Review of
Hugh J. M. Johnston's Jewels of the Qila, University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver, 2012. 336 pp. $35.95
(paper), ISBN 978-0-7748-2217-6.
by Shezan Muhammedi | On 12 Feb 2014 This paper attempts to shift the focus from ‘women’ to the significance of the
gender equation by assessing the intensity of gender disparity across geographic space,
and enquiring into the reasons...
by Nira Ramachandran | On 04 Feb 2014 In this paper we analyze women as political candidates in a representative democracy. Using 50 years of assembly elections data at the constituency level from the Indian states, we show that women are...
by Mudit Kapoor | On 30 Jan 2014 In this paper, the
phenomena of online promotions is examined, its impact so far and its promise as we go forward. The paper
traces the origins of the concept and its evolution and progress in India...
by Nidhi Mathen | On 29 Jan 2014 This paper focuses on the Indian T&A sector and on non-patent IP rights, such as trademarks, industrial designs, copyrights, and geographical indication as well as informal protections to examine whet...
by Suparna Karmakar | On 28 Jan 2014 Bound together by fraternal ties, the RSS and the various members of the Parivar share all pervasive ideas of ‘female virtue’ and the ideal of ‘Hindu family’ that serves to push aside a more comprehe...
by Namrata Ganneri | On 25 Jan 2014 With the decentralization process of the 1990s, linked to economic liberalization, there emerged new decisional scope for regional governments to shape their own policies. But the decentralization pro...
by Kim Robin | On 24 Jan 2014 Thailand’s economy is heavily reliant on labour-intensive industries. However, growing economic prosperity since the late 1980s has seen a decline in the available Thai workforce needed to meet the la...
by Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) | On 24 Jan 2014 The performance of Agriculture in India is important as the sector not only contributes to overall
growth of the economy but also provides employment and food security to majority of the
population...
by S. Mahendra Dev | On 23 Jan 2014 Structural changes in the Indian economy have precipitated changes in the patterns of demand for industrial labour. Recent trends in the composition of employment indicate that the Indian workforce is...
by Sandhya Srinivasan | On 22 Jan 2014 The fate and future of Pakistan has been an issue of considerable concern and anxiety not only inside Pakistan but in the world at large and South Asia in particular. The Fund for Peace project on the...
by S.D. Muni | On 22 Jan 2014 This report first briefly delves into the historical context within which India's development cooperation must be seen and the role, objectives and the functioning of the DPA is explained. The report...
by Vivan Sharan | On 21 Jan 2014 Indian Penal Code (IPC, ) is the main criminal code of India. It is a comprehensive code, intended to cover all substantive aspects of criminal law. The Code has since been amended several times and...
by Lawyers Collective | On 20 Jan 2014 This paper discusses the two leading views of history and political institutions. For some scholars, institutions are mainly products of historical logic, while for others, accidents, leaders, and dec...
by Abhijit V. Banerjee | On 20 Jan 2014 Using the case of Delhi and drawing on
examples from other metropolitan cities, this paper attempts to understand the
factors that have led to the rise of middle class neighborhood associations an...
by Poulomi Chakrabarti | On 16 Jan 2014 Increasing job opportunities and decent work for women are essential for inclusive growth, and they are vital for advancing economic and social development in a country. This approach to attaining eco...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 16 Jan 2014 The effects of rainfall forecasts and realized rainfall on equilibrium agricultural wages are analysed over the course of the agricultural production cycle. It is shown theoretically that a forecast o...
by Mark Rosenzweig | On 13 Jan 2014 In this paper, the effects of submergence due to heavy
rainfall and river over-flow on rice production in the coastal Barisal
region of Bangladesh is investigated. The study plots level data to comp...
by Afsana Haque | On 31 Dec 2013 The existing literature on Indian growth finds no evidence of convergence across
states. This represents a puzzle given the relatively free flows of capital, labor and
commodities across state borde...
by Samarjit Das | On 27 Nov 2013 This research was undertaken to understand how information about a new agricultural technology is transmitted through social networks, and what effect information gained through social networks has on...
by Nicholas Magnan | On 26 Nov 2013 The Government of India has recently announced that Kerala, Punjab, and West Bengal are
fiscally unsound at the level of general category states. The study reviews this projection
and assesses their...
by Nimai Das | On 26 Nov 2013 This
paper is an attempt to compute Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emission from
fossil fuel consumption for firms in Indian manufacturing sector from
2000 to 2011 by adopting the IPCC Reference Approach. Th...
by Santosh Kumar Sahu | On 26 Nov 2013 This work examines
the status of Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work (FPRW) in the
informal economy in India and locates the gaps and challenges in ratifying
the ILO Conventions 87, 98, 138 a...
by Dhanya M.B | On 19 Nov 2013 The contemporary approach to political economy is built around vested interests -- elites,
lobbies, and rent-seeking groups which get their way at the expense of the general public. The
role of id...
by Dani Rodrik | On 06 Nov 2013 This paper focusses on two Indian laws that seek to guarantee socioeconomic rights: the
National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), an important example of India’s
recent history of legislation...
by Reetika Khera | On 25 Oct 2013 The gruesome murder of Dabolkar, who had been spearheading a movement against superstitions in Maharashtra, has plunged all people of rationalist disposition in shock. Voices are rising that laws sho...
by Oscar F Picazo | On 22 Oct 2013 Rural development reflects in the improvements in the economic well being of people living in villages. In someway, it reflects in the increase in the purchasing power of the rural inhabitants.
This...
by Ch.Sambasiva Rao | On 18 Oct 2013 India’s leaders have long said they are committed to employment, but have shown little stomach for the economic upheaval rapid job creation entails.
The economy will soon have a fifth of the world’s...
by Anonymous | On 17 Oct 2013 The gendered division of household labour, stigma attached to paid labour and status production
has precipitated withdrawal from paid work as a strategy to reduce the double burden of women. Upward s...
by Vinoj Abraham | On 09 Oct 2013 In this paper the application of ICTs to the improvement of state-citizen relations in a developing country context. To maximise the responsiveness of the government, ICTs need to target the structura...
by Silvia Masiero | On 07 Oct 2013 National Food Security Bill (NFSB) aims to make food easily accessible at affordable prices to people. But there are operational and financial difficulties in implementing this.
by Sweety Thomas | On 07 Oct 2013 In this paper it is examined whether a favourable fiscal rule had impact on fiscal balance but what lies behind a particular outcome in a rule based fiscal regime. Often time it is argued that fiscal...
by Pinaki Chakraborty | On 30 Sep 2013 The film, MAdras Cafe, offers us an opportunity to revisit memory and ask important questions as to what happened in the early years of the civil war in Sri Lanka. An introspection that is necessary i...
by Aaranya Rajasingam | On 13 Sep 2013 Recruiting female teachers is frequently suggested as a policy option for improving girls' education outcomes in developing countries, but there is surprisingly little evidence on the effectiveness of...
by Karthik Muralidharan | On 06 Sep 2013 Migration data is matched from the Indian census with climate data to
test the hypothesis of climate variability as a push factor for internal
migration. The main contribution of the analysis is to...
by Ingrid Dallmann | On 06 Sep 2013 Statement by Dr. Raghuram Rajan on taking office on September 4, 2013. [RBI Press release].
by Sabeeta Badkar | On 05 Sep 2013 Newly-available Indian panel data is used to estimate how the returns to planting-stage investments vary by rainfall realizations. [BREAD Working Paper No. 392]. URL:[http://ipl.econ.duke.edu/bread/pa...
by Mark Rosenzweig | On 16 Aug 2013 In China’s foreign affairs and security studies, the concept of the ‘neighborhood’
(zhoubian) has a special meaning that has changed gradually over time. As China has developed, its leadership has be...
by Zhang Chi | On 12 Aug 2013 This paper uses the lens of culture to develop propositions on how customer attitude towards celebrity endorsements is a function of cultural parameters in emerging countries like India. [W.P. No. 201...
by . Abhishek | On 08 Aug 2013 The present paper makes an attempt to analyse the progress of India in three important ‘basic human needs’ essential for a human life. These are access to latrine facility, safe drinking water and ele...
by Udaya S. Mishra | On 01 Aug 2013 Obituary: Sharmila Rege (1964 to 2013)
by Vibhuti Patel | On 30 Jul 2013 Labour regulations like employment protection legislation in India are size-dependent rules and
therefore constitute a basis for threshold effects. Firms could use non-permanent workers to stay below...
by K.V. Ramaswamy | On 23 Jul 2013 This paper examines the hypothesis that the persistence of low spatial and marital mobility in rural India, despite increased growth rates and rising inequality in recent years, is due to the existenc...
by Kaivan Munshi | On 22 Jul 2013 16 July, 2013, New Delhi: The Supreme Court of India today rejected the Maharashtra Government’s decision to forbid dancing in beer bars, calling the ban unconstitutional. The ban dates back to August...
by Lawyers Collective | On 17 Jul 2013 This paper has two objectives: firstly, to conceptually explore the theoretical underpinnings of GNH and how it relates to societal EI and, secondly, to evaluate within this theoretical context the ha...
by Shaun Vorster | On 16 Jul 2013 The innovation, efficiency and productivity responses to the stronger protection of intellectual property rights post-TRIPs, with reference to manufacturing industry in India is studied. The fact that...
by Sunil Kanwar | On 12 Jul 2013 Supplementary Budget for the fiscal year 2012-13 and the Budget Estimates for the fiscal year 2013-14. [http://www.mof.gov.bd/en/budget/13_14/budget_speech/speech_en.pdf].
by Abul Maal Abdul Muhith | On 07 Jun 2013 This paper analyses the complementarities between land productivity
and conservation investments in the context of river embankment
maintenance in the Indian Sundarbans.[SANDEE]. URL:[http://www.san...
by Prasenjit Sarkhel | On 06 Jun 2013 This study explores the three way linkage between weather variability,
agricultural performance and internal migration in India at state and
district level using Indian Census data.[MSE].
by Brinda Viswanathan | On 06 Jun 2013 The present study attempts
to, (a) analyse the broad patterns of temporary and permanent migration
in India; and (b) explore the determinants of temporary and permanent
migration with special focus...
by K S Kavi Kumar | On 06 Jun 2013 Recently, it has been argued that political competition may have similar effects on economic performance as market competition. This study empirically examines this proposition by linking political co...
by Bharatee Bhushan Dash | On 05 Jun 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 The study takes a comparative approach by examining household livelihood mobility within two very different villages, in the same district administration of Madhya Pradesh (MP), India. [ODI Working Pa...
by Caroline Wilson | On 26 Apr 2013 To explore how much coverage is given by Leading
Indian newspaper to 2G Scam and
Common Wealth Games during the period of study.
To explore what kind of image of India is famed by all four newspape...
by Daniel Drache | On 25 Apr 2013 The question that is increasingly being posed is whether Kerala's education can continue to play a major role in the future without keeping up with the vast changes taking place in all disciplines. It...
by K.K. George | On 25 Apr 2013 This paper assesses the impact of climate change on Indian agriculture covering a cross section
of crops, seasons and regions based on existing literature. The study notes that the impact of
climate...
by K N Ninan | On 24 Apr 2013 Land acquisition, which refers to the process of a government forcibly acquiring private property for public purpose, has been the cause of over a third of the legal conflicts in India in the past dec...
by iGovernment. in | On 19 Apr 2013 The overall goal of this paper is to analyse the political economy of food price policies in
China during the global food crisis. The results show that given China’s unique economic and
political co...
by Jikun Huang | On 18 Apr 2013 This study measures the efficiency of Indian states in
raising health outcomes, using the stochastic frontier methodology for
panel data for the period 2000-2009. [MSE WORKING PAPER 70/2012]. URL: [...
by Prachitha J | On 16 Apr 2013 Review of the book Those who did not die: Impact of Agarian Crisis on Women in Punjab by Gursharan Singh Kainth.
by Gursharan Singh Kainth | On 15 Apr 2013 Twelfth Five Year Plan (2012-2017). [Planning Commission, GOI]. URL:[http://planningcommission.nic.in/plans/planrel/12thplan/pdf/vol_1.pdf].
by Planning Commission | On 10 Apr 2013 The Minister of Finance, K.M Mani , presented the General Budget 2013 to the State Assembly on March 15,
2013. In his address, he commented on the fiscal performance of the State in 2012-13 and laid...
by Vishnu Padmanabhan | On 09 Apr 2013 A bill further to amend the Indian Penal Code, the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, the Indian
Evidence Act, 1872 and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 [PRS]. URL:[http://www...
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 08 Apr 2013 Budget speech by Minister of Finance. [Ministry of Finance]. URL:[http://www.finance.gov.pk/budget/budget_Speech_12_13.pdf].
by Minister of Finance Pakistan | On 22 Mar 2013 In this paper, the building blocks of a sustainable
innovation eco system have been identified. The concept of National Innovation System
[NIS], which ignored the knowledge of informal sector, has b...
by Anil K Gupta | On 20 Mar 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 The case of Bhubaneswar vending zone perfectly qualifies the theme of making market
work for the poor. This is a pioneering lead taken to develop an exclusive market for the vendors
which presents a...
by Randhir Kumar | On 01 Mar 2013 The budget offers no programme for job creation or any substantive policy measures to contain inflation that continues to erode the real wage while it commits itself to cash transfers and cuts in subs...
by Gautam Mody | On 01 Mar 2013 Budget Speech by Chidambaram.
by P Chidambaram | On 28 Feb 2013 Modernization, encouragement to PPP, integration of MGNREGA, has been given importance in the railway budget.
by IRIS India IRIS | On 27 Feb 2013 Budget speech presented by Prasanna Acharya. General Budget is presented.
by Government of Orissa | On 25 Feb 2013 Nagaland’s population decreased during 2001–11 after growing at abnormally high
rates during the past few decades. This is the first time since independence that a state
in India has witnessed an ab...
by Ankush Agrawal | On 21 Feb 2013 Why has the economy landed in a trough of growth and high inflation and does not look like getting out of it in the year ahead?
by Sumita Kale | On 14 Feb 2013 Indian Railways have to be investor friendly. The railway budget will have to deal with core issues such as mobilizing resources, controlling costs and offering competitive freight structure with an e...
by Sachin Bhanushali | On 14 Feb 2013 Using a 30-year dataset on district level yields with more than 200 districts and pairing it with a newly available gridded weather data set this paper estimates the impact of climate change on major...
by Chandra Kiran B Krishnamurthy | On 12 Feb 2013 According to the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, most of the recommendations made by the Committee in their earlier Report (21st Report) on the Companies Bill, 2009 have been accepted by the Government...
by Lok Sabha Secretariat | On 12 Feb 2013 The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of economic policies on Philippine agricultural incentives from 1960 up to 1992. Apart from economic policies affecting price incentives, cover publi...
by Cristina C. David | On 24 Jan 2013 Review of the book Food Security in Asia, by Amitava Mukherjee Sage Publications India 2011
pp. xix+392, Rs 895/-.
by Rudra Narayan Mishra | On 04 Jan 2013 Review of the book 'Peace is Everybody's Business: Strategy for Conflict Prevention' by Arjun Ray. Number of pages: 264, Price Rs. 495/-.
by Irfan Engineer | On 03 Dec 2012 This study analyzes the impact of government policy regime on the
learning and capability acquisition of firms over time. Through a case
study analysis of the Indian automotive industry, the study d...
by Madhuri Saripalle | On 19 Nov 2012 This report reviews the input and output policies for cereals implemented in Pakistan during the period 1996–2010. Pakistan has a long and varied history of intervening in farm input and output market...
by Abdul Salam | On 16 Nov 2012 What are the response of voters to candidates who have reported that they have criminal charges against them? A analysis within the framework of a simple analytical model which assumes that criminal c...
by Bhaskar Dutta | On 02 Nov 2012 In Ghate & Wright Journal of Development Economics, vol. 99 (2012) pp 58–67, it was
noted that there was considerable variation in the extent to which different Indian
states participated in the Gr...
by Chetan Ghate | On 02 Nov 2012 The Mid-Term Appraisal (MTA) reviews the experience in the first three years of the Plan and seeks to identify areas where corrective steps may be needed. The chapter presents a broad overview of the...
by Planning Commission | On 05 Oct 2012 The Lok Sabha (the Lower House of the Parliament) has, on 3 September 2012, passed the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Bill, 2012 (Bill). The Bill now r...
by Trilegal Bulletin | On 01 Oct 2012 This study aims at analyzing
the differentials across rich and poor states and across rich and poorer
strata and rural urban segments of 19 major Indian states. The study
indicates that besides ind...
by Brijesh C Purohit | On 28 Sep 2012 A historical narrative of Bihar is provided context to much of its current state, Focus is given on its contemporary economy in the past three decades to better understand the moribund state of its ec...
by Arnab Mukherji | On 28 Sep 2012 This paper identifies key knowledge gaps on the issue of migration and commuting workers in India. [WP-2012-023]. URL:[http://www.igidr.ac.in/pdf/publication/WP-2012-023.pdf].
by S. Chandrasekhar | On 27 Sep 2012 This study examines the moral economy of firm-farmer contracts in contract farming schemes in India,
bringing together data from field surveys, conducted between 2007 and 2010, of 42 agribusinesses a...
by Sudha Narayanan | On 20 Sep 2012 This paper analyses the trends in volume of food subsidy in the post-reforms period (1991-92 to 2012-13) and then examines various components of food subsidy, which are under the control of FCI and th...
by Vijay Paul Sharma | On 20 Sep 2012 This paper focuses on the assessment of energy savings potential in seven highly energy consuming industries. The paper estimates the energy savings potential for each of these industries using unit l...
by Manish Gupta | On 17 Sep 2012 India is perhaps the first country to set up, at the national level, a commission to study the problems and challenges being faced by what in India is called the unorganized economy - or the informal...
by NCEUS NCEUS | On 05 Sep 2012 This Report is focused on the informal or the unorganized economy which accounts for an overwhelming proportion of the poor and vulnerable population in an otherwise shining
India. It concentrates on...
by NCEUS NCEUS | On 05 Sep 2012 A brief outline of the economic and financial structure of the State and the various financial inclusion initiatives taken by the Reserve Bank is highlighted. But there are some policy challenges in s...
by Deepak Mohanty | On 03 Sep 2012 What is the cause of deteriorating services from MTNL? Suggestions are given to improve its services.
by Alex George | On 03 Sep 2012 Even though the economic and social benefits of thriving entrepreneurship and innovation are evident, it is critical to recognize that these benefits will only accrue if the key gaps in the ecosystem...
by Planning Commission | On 31 Aug 2012 The devolution of environment and natural resource functions to local government units was a bold move in the history of environmental Management in the Philippines. However, the implementation of the...
by Senate Economic Planning Office SEPO | On 28 Aug 2012 The economic and financial structure of Odisha is highlighted. Various financial inclusion initiatives are taken by the Reserve Bank with a particular reference to Odisha. The macroeconomic policy cha...
by Deepak Mohanty | On 22 Aug 2012 What are the main impediments to investment and industrial productivity in Punjab which have contributed to this unprecedented decline in growth? This is done by analyzing the 2007 Investment Climate...
by Syed Turab Hussain | On 08 Aug 2012 Political economy and economic sociology have developed in relative isolation from each other. While political economy focuses largely on macrophenomena, economic sociology focuses on the level of soc...
by Jens Beckert | On 07 Aug 2012 What is ‘good’ governance?
Can the quality of governance be measured? And how do state
governments in India measure up by such a measure?
[Working Paper no. 104]. URL:[http://www.nipfp.org.in/neww...
by Sudipto Mundle | On 02 Aug 2012 This paper explores the evolution of two dedicated freight corridors in
India (covering a distance of around 3300 kilometers), and critique them from the perspective of
delivering the intended rail...
by Sobhesh Kumar Agarwalla | On 31 Jul 2012 India is having large population, a fast growing economy with
national focus on inclusive growth and an urgent need to develop a vibrant and
stable financial system, it is all the more necessary to...
by Pranab Mukherjee | On 20 Jul 2012 Recent history tells us that the growth rate of the economy does not automatically go up and down with good and bad monsoons. [BS Weekend Ruminations]. URL:[http://www.business-standard.com/india/news...
by T.N. Ninan | On 18 Jul 2012 What are the implications
of a green economy for the poor and hungry? How can the poor benefit
from and thrive under a green economy? What role can agriculture
play? What are the possible trade-off...
by Shenggen Fan | On 17 Jul 2012 Developing Asia is the driver of today's emissions intensive global economy. As the principle source of future emissions, the region is critical to the task of global climate change mitigation. Reflec...
by Stephen Howes | On 16 Jul 2012 The cross-country empirical literature on the finance-growth relationship has debated three
propositions: (i) financial deepening has a strong impact on the growth process; (ii) measures
of financia...
by Sabyasachi Kar | On 13 Jul 2012 Over the last few decades India has emerged as an economic giant. In 2000 the Special Economic
Zone (SEZs) policy became part of a strategy to maintain high growth and promote India’s manufacturing
...
by Ebba Mårtensson | On 11 Jul 2012 Budget of Bhutan 2012-13. URL:[http://www.mof.gov.bt/downloads/BudgetReport2012.pdf].
by Minister of Finance Bhutan | On 04 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 The objective in this
paper is to estimate the role played by such factors in determining the
utilisation of formal health care to cure diarrhoea and certain respiratory
illnesses plaguing young ch...
by Anindita Chakrabarti | On 02 Jul 2012 An outline of what would be ideally needed for a comprehensive set of national accounts is given.
National governments and international agencies ought ideally to go even beyond green national accoun...
by Partha Dasgupta | On 22 Jun 2012 A comprehense documentation - using
both annual and quarterly data - an exhaustive set of stylized facts for the
Indian business cycle in the pre and post reform period, the data is used to
report...
by Chetan Ghate | On 19 Jun 2012 Lead recycling is often supported through a well-functioning Deposit Refund System (DRS) in the market for
batteries (branded and generic). In this system, people can get a discount on the purchase o...
by Yamini Gupt | On 18 Jun 2012 The paper reviews the economic growth and productivity dynamics of Philippine economy in the past fifty years. The paper also provides an estimation of determinants of total factor productivity and la...
by Gilberto M Llanto | On 29 May 2012 The 9.0 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami that severally damaged the Fukushima nuclear plant have been described
as ending the ‘nuclear renaissance’ in Japan. The government is in a hard pl...
by Elliot Brennan | On 25 May 2012 The present paper is part of a larger study on agricultural
growth and rural incomes in the Philippines. This study examines
the farm-nonfarm linkages of agricultural growth and the mechanisms
by w...
by Arsenio M. Balisacan | On 24 May 2012 Obituary: Leela Dube (1923-2012)
by Vibhuti Patel | On 22 May 2012 The wealth accumulation of Indian parliamentarians using public disclosures
required of all candidates since 2003 are studied. Annual asset growth of winners is on average 3 to 6 percentage points hi...
by Raymond Fisman | On 18 May 2012 The estimation of capacity utilisation (CU) derives its significance from the fact that, if properly assessed, it may provide a reliable indication of incipient inflationary pressure in an economy. Me...
by Atri Mukherjee | On 09 May 2012 The aim of this paper
is to examine the driving forces behind China’s military modernization efforts
followed by an assessment of the goals and foci of China’s military modernization
at present and...
by Jiao Liang | On 08 May 2012 This study analyses India’s inflation using the Phillips curve theory. To estimate an open-economy Phillips curve, we need three variables: (1) inflation (2) the output gap and (3) the real effective...
by Karan Singh | On 26 Apr 2012 This study examines the contribution of Bt cotton adoption to long- term average cotton yields in India using a panel data analysis of production variables in nine Indian cotton-producing states from...
by Guillaume P Gruere | On 25 Apr 2012 India’s experience with exporting services is examined. The country’s experience is distinctive in that services, especially modern tradable
services, comprise a significantly larger share of GDP tha...
by Barry Eichengreen | On 23 Apr 2012 Review of the book 'Re-visioning Indian Cities: The Urban Renewal Mission' by Christopher Manickam. Author of the book: K. C. Sivaramakrishnan, published by Sage, New Delhi.
by Christopher Manickam | On 23 Apr 2012 The Philippine domestic
economy shrunk to
3.7 percent in 2011, after a growth of 7.6 per cent in 2010. Outlook for 2012 is
relatively sanguine with
the government hinging
its optimism on robust
...
by Senate Economic Planning Office SEPO | On 20 Apr 2012 The National Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) Policy reaffirms the commitment of the Government of India to provide integrated services for holistic development of all children, along the con...
by Government of India Ministry of Women and Child Development | On 20 Apr 2012 The audiovisual sector is a significant component of the economy in terms of wealth creation and employment and audiovisual industries also play an important cultural role. This study reviews the main...
by Gillian Doyle | On 20 Apr 2012 Th is study, which is supported by the ministries of fi nance and
the central banks of the BRICS, focuses on synergies and complementarities
between the economies, highlighting their role as growth
...
by Ministry of Finance | On 18 Apr 2012 Speech by Amit Mitra, Minister of Finance. [Government of West Bengal]. URL:[http://www.wbfin.nic.in/writereaddata/Budget_Speech/2012_English.pdf].
by West Bengal Government | On 13 Apr 2012 The Financial Crisis of 2007-2008 and the Great Recession of 2007-2009 are now in the past. Again there was the debt crisis of 2010-11. During the worst of the recent financial crisis/Great Recession...
by Michael D Bordo | On 13 Apr 2012 Using a case study of two districts in South India, farmers’ information needs and information search behavior, factors affecting their search behavior, and their willingness to pay for information a...
by Suresh Chandra Babu | On 10 Apr 2012 What India has to do to overcome the dents that India has suffered in its international image? India will have to play a delicate game of exercising autonomy in its pursuit of national objectives with...
by T.N. Ninan | On 10 Apr 2012 Using data of non-financial listed firms over a period of 1999-2010, this paper investigates the effectiveness of balance sheet channel in monetary transmission mechanism in Pakistan. By classifying f...
by Safia Shabbir | On 09 Apr 2012 Interviewed at the Guardian's Open Weekend festival, Indian economist Jayati Ghosh says aid from Britain benefits the UK more than it does India, and makes a negligible difference to relieving poverty...
by Jayati Ghosh | On 07 Apr 2012 Budget Speech
of
PU H.LIANSAILOVA
HON’BLE FINANCE MINISTER. [Government of Mizoram]. URL:[http://mizoram.nic.in/budget/Interim%20Budget%20Speech%2012-13.pdf].
by Finance Minister Mizoram | On 29 Mar 2012 Budget speech by Ministry of Finance, Goa. [Budget Speech]. URL:[http://www.goa.gov.in/pdf/Speech12-13.pdf].
by Goa Government | On 28 Mar 2012 This study examines whether the allocation of public expenditures of
the Indian states are significantly influenced by government specific political
characteristics. Three types of government specif...
by Bharatee Bhusana Dash | On 27 Mar 2012 Budget Speech by Shri Prafulla Chandra Ghadai. [Government of Odisha]. URL:[http://www.orissa.gov.in/finance/Budgets/2012-13/BUDGET%20SPEECH%20ENGLISH.pdf].
by Government of Orissa | On 27 Mar 2012 Budget presented to Municipal Commissioner. . [BMC Annual Reports]. URL:[http://www.mcgm.gov.in/irj/go/km/docs/documents/MCGM%20Department%20List/Chief%20Accountant%20(Finance)/Budget/Complete%20Engli...
by Municipal Commissioner BMC | On 22 Mar 2012 Over the last two decades, community-based forest management has
graduated from being an experimental strategy to becoming a much more
mainstream approach. In developing countries, an estimated 22 p...
by Priya Shyamsundar | On 19 Mar 2012 Major shifts in the policy initiated in the electricity sector are well documented, only then the effect of the policy change can be analyzed, especially from the point of view of laying down future p...
by Planning Commission | On 19 Mar 2012 Speech of Pranab Mukherjee Minister of Finance, India. [Budget Speech]. URL:[http://indiabudget.nic.in/ub2012-13/bs/bs.pdf].
by Pranab Mukherjee | On 16 Mar 2012 The Minister of Railways, Dinesh Trivedi, presented the
Railways Budget 2012 to Parliament on 14th March. In
his address, he commented on the performance of
Railways in 2011-12 and laid out his bud...
by Rohit Kumar | On 16 Mar 2012 Economic Survey-Chapter1. [Economic Survey]. URL:[http://indiabudget.nic.in/survey.asp]
by Pranab Mukherjee | On 15 Mar 2012 There is in urgent need for modernization and generational
Change need to be done in the Indian railways to assure safety, improve productivity, take advantage of advanced technology, respond to ever...
by Ministry of Railways | On 14 Mar 2012 The report reviews the status and performance of agriculture, especially
during the last two decades, and also presents what could be the way forward, given
our objectives of accelerated growth, inc...
by Ministry of Agriculture GOI | On 14 Mar 2012 This is a study of employment growth, structure, and job quality outcomes in manufacturing and
service-sector in urban India spanning the period 1999-2000 to 2009-10. The context is that of
dynamic...
by K.V. Ramaswamy | On 12 Mar 2012 BUDGET SPEECH 2011-2012 by
DR. ABDUL HAFEEZ SHAIKH, Minister for Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and
Planning & Development.
by Minister of Finance Pakistan | On 12 Mar 2012 The purpose of this report is twofold. First, a compendium of relevant data is presented on the state of the services sector in the ACI (ASEAN, PRC and India) countries, focusing on its contribution t...
by Ben Shepherd | On 12 Mar 2012 The main objectives of this seminar has been to contribute to the
understanding of the development processes and problems related to water security and climate
change; to focus on studies relating t...
by Gursharan Singh Kainth | On 12 Mar 2012 In the context of various policy initiatives made during the last two decades to reform the Indian
economy in general and corporate sector in particular, the present paper attempts to assess how
the...
by Rakesh Basant | On 07 Mar 2012 A Working Group on Child Rights was constituted by the Planning Commission to recommend priorities and strategies for children in the 12th Five year Plan 2012-17. Five Sub Groups of the Working group...
by Government of India Ministry of Women and Child Development | On 06 Mar 2012 How much does it cost to make a pancake in India? The Economist had this fun infographic/chart where it charts the cost of ingredients that are used in making a pancake. A comment
by Sriram Vadlamani | On 01 Mar 2012 In the last ten years, economic issues related to currency policy have become the major ongoing
dispute between China and the U.S. Especially the U.S. Congress is stridently demanding
a tougher poli...
by Nicola Nymalm | On 01 Mar 2012 This research focuses on religious changes among hunter-gatherers in Borneo.
A two month archival research was carried out that will be used in the understanding
of the relationship between traditi...
by Gotzone Gray | On 28 Feb 2012 Outward-oriented economies seem to grow faster than inward-looking ones. Does the literature on convergence have anything to say on this? In the dynamic Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson model, with factor-pr...
by Partha Sen | On 28 Feb 2012 Institutions in developing countries, particularly those inherited from the colonial period, are often thought to be subject to strong inertia. This study presents the results of a unique randomized t...
by Abhijit Banerjee | On 27 Feb 2012 The general objective of the paper is to review the different macroeconomic models and
microeconomic valuation methods applied in the analysis of the natural resource and enviromnent
sector which ar...
by Danilo C Israel | On 27 Feb 2012 Review of
Bombay Islam: The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840-1915. by Nile Green.
Cambridge University Press, New York
2011. xvi + 327 pp. $90.00 (cloth),
ISBN 978-0-521-76924-2.
by Fahad A. Bishara | On 26 Feb 2012 Budget speech 2012.
by Mahinda Rajapaksa | On 24 Feb 2012 A
bill
to regulate public procurement with the objectives of ensuring transparency, fair and equitable treatment of bidders, promoting competition, enhancing efficiency and economy and safeguarding...
by Ministry of Finance | On 24 Feb 2012 This paper explores the key reasons behind the movements in the terms of trade and the real net
gain and loss from trade in the long run. Like some selected Asian countries (Vietnam, China and
South...
by Mohammad Masuduzzaman | On 23 Feb 2012 The effect of electoral rules and forms of government on public policy outcomes using a new dataset on agriculture and food policies from 74 countries over the 1960-2005 period is investigated. Using...
by Alessandro Olper | On 22 Feb 2012 This paper reviews and discusses available empirical research on the impact of violent conflict
on the level and access to education of civilian and combatant populations affected by violence. Three
...
by Patricia Justino | On 15 Feb 2012 This paper considers the effects of contemporary restructuring of women and men’s employment in
rural south India alongside ongoing efforts to recast India’s poor rural women as entrepreneurs. This s...
by Samantha Watson | On 15 Feb 2012 A stated objective of Myanmar is to become a modern developed nation that
will stand shoulder to shoulder – proud, dignified and tall – with the countries
of the world. How far has Myanmar come in a...
by U Myint | On 15 Feb 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 describes business and growth rate cycles with special reference to the Indian economy. It uses the classical NBER approach to determine the timing of recessions and expansions in the India...
by Pami Dua | On 10 Feb 2012 The aim of this paper is to compare the technical efficiency of Indian Banks operating
abroad and foreign banks operating in India and to investigate the effect of openness of the
country, ownership...
by Vivek Kumar | On 08 Feb 2012 The study measures the contribution of MNCs to the generation of innovations from India.
The focus is on innovations that are carried out in foreign R&D Centres. After having
mapped out the size of...
by Rakesh Basant | On 06 Feb 2012 Earlier studies have documented an “identifiable victim effect”: people donate more to help individual people than to groups. Evidence suggests that this is in part due to an emotional reaction to the...
by Ashwini Deshpande | On 03 Feb 2012 Stability results for an open economy DSGE adapted to an emerging market (SOEME) with a dualistic
structure have the same structure as in the original model, but those derived for the simulated versi...
by Ashima Goyal | On 02 Feb 2012 A large number of studies in Nepal have been conducted to identify the factors responsible for
inflation based on the different theories of inflation. Although these studies provide insight
into the...
by Nepal Rastra Bank Research Department NRB | On 02 Feb 2012 This essay examines the trajectory of India?s fiscal policy with a focus on historical trends, fiscal discipline frameworks, fiscal responses to the global financial crisis and subsequent return to a...
by Supriyo De | On 31 Jan 2012 This paper explains the gaps between official objectives and the actual accomplishments of the Aquino government, with an emphasis on the implementation record of agricultural-based strategies. Summar...
by V. Bruce J Tolentino | On 30 Jan 2012 Home to over 25 per cent of the world’s hungry poor, India faces major food security challenges and the situation has barely improved in two decades. Will the National Food Security Bill that the Indi...
by Sally Trethewie | On 27 Jan 2012 The Growth outlook has weakened as
a result of adverse global and domestic factors
that have been mentioned above. Business
and consumer confidence has been impacted.
Professional forecasters now...
by Reserve Bank of India RBI | On 25 Jan 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 This paper explores the relationship between inflation and relative price variability (RPV) by using disaggregated CPI data for Pakistan. Three methods have been used to assess the functional form and...
by Muhammad Akmal | 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 While studying the economic growth of the two rising giants of Asia (India and China) it is seen that India is far behind China in many aspects. URL:[http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/t-n-ni...
by T.N. Ninan | On 23 Jan 2012 The present paper explores the nexus between gender-energy-poverty, highlights areas of gender
concern, and suggests actions. It is analyzed how women from rural areas and low income
households are...
by B. Sudhakara Reddy | On 19 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 The current global financial crisis has reopened an old debate on the international monetary system by baring weaknesses and flaws that have long been known. The debate is centred on both stability an...
by Alok Sheel | On 10 Jan 2012 This paper studies the leadlag
pattern in the interaction between credit and growth cycles of India at three
levels i.e. at the aggregate level for annual GDP growth, at the sectoral level
across a...
by Krittika Banerjee | On 06 Jan 2012 The services sector has provided steady support to Pakistan’s economic
growth. It share in GDP now stands a more than 50 percent. The paper analyses
its continuation in the growth of the economy in...
by Ayaz Ahmed | On 29 Dec 2011 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 This paper focuses on homebased women workers and discusses the specific issues of
their vulnerability as women and as workers, in the framework of their basic citizenship
right to economic and soci...
by Indrani Mazumdar | On 26 Dec 2011 Review of the book 'Economic Reforms and Social Exclusion: Impact of Liberalization on Marginalized Groups in India', by K S Chalam, Sage Publications, New Delhi, India.
by Rajesh Komath | On 26 Dec 2011 One of the methods of measuring the effectiveness of monetary policies is via inspection of
monetary neutrality in the economy. It is a concept from classical economics and it suggests that
changes...
by Mukesh Khanal | On 16 Dec 2011 With a vast and diverse SME sector India’s industrialization owes much to the
technological dynamism of enterprises. Various institutional interventions have
been made to promote innovativeness in t...
by Keshab Das | On 13 Dec 2011 Review of the book 'Social Income and Insecurity: A Study in Gujarat' by
Guy Standing, Jeemol Unni, Renana Jhabvala, and Uma Rani
Routledge India, 2010 216 pages.
by N. Vijayamohanan Pillai | On 12 Dec 2011 Possible scenarios for China and the world economy until
2015 is looked at. In all of them, China will continue to accumulate FX reserves, so that
reserve assets will remain the largest component of...
by Catherine Shu Ling Tan | On 08 Dec 2011 How does informality in emerging economies affect the conduct of monetary and
fiscal policy? To answer this question two-sector, formal-informal new
Keynesian closed-economy is constructed. The inf...
by Nicoletta Batini | On 02 Dec 2011 This paper analyses the impact of the retail FDI policy on Indian consumers and make policy recommendations for the Indian government. Based on a primary survey of Indian consumers, the paper examines...
by Arpita Mukherjee | On 28 Nov 2011 A closed model DSGE model of the Indian economy is developed and it is estimated
by Bayesian Maximum Likelihood methods using Dynare. A model is build up in stages to
with a number of features impo...
by Vasco Gabriel | On 28 Nov 2011 This paper reviews the literature on the informal economy, focusing first on empirical
findings and then on existing approaches to modelling informality within both
partial and general equilibrium e...
by Nicoletta Batini | On 24 Nov 2011 The outward FDI from emerging economies to developed countries is of great interest to
international business researchers and policy makers, also with regard to their location and sectoral
patterns....
by Haiyan Zhang | On 21 Nov 2011 With deep crisis weakening potential output growth, the need for an
explicit growth policy is emerging most starkly in Japan, the EU and
the US. If properly shaped, this will help to consolidate bud...
by Klaus Deutsch | On 21 Nov 2011 This paper evaluates the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) as a framework for measuring development and, subject to qualifications arising from that evaluation, assesses how India is doing in terms o...
by Sudipto Mundle | On 11 Nov 2011 In analyzing this phenomenon for Indian manufacturing industries, this study tries to find out the determinants of profitability of firms based on three energy clusters (natural gas, petroleum, coal)...
by Santosh Kumar Sahu | On 10 Nov 2011 Spending on consumption items is examined which have signaling value in social
interactions across groups with distinctive social identities in India, where social identities are
defined by caste an...
by Melanie Khamis | On 10 Nov 2011 This paper examines the socio-economic condition of women in India. The paper begins by delving into different forms of violence faced by women in India,
giving special attention to the work sphere a...
by Susana Barria | On 09 Nov 2011 An Act to regulate public procurement with the objective of maximising economy and
efficiency, promoting competition among suppliers and contractors while ensuring a fair,
transparent and equitable...
by Planning Commission | On 08 Nov 2011 Review of Economy, Democracy and the State: The Indian Experience by Ramashray Roy, Sage Publications, New Delhi;2009, pp. viii + 247, Rs 650.
by Bhanoji Rao | On 07 Nov 2011 Review of the book 'Locating Cultural Change Theory, Method, Process'
Partha Pratim Basu and Ipshita Chanda (eds.)
Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2011, 279 pp, Rs.795/.
by Hemali Sanghavi | On 04 Nov 2011 As markets deepen and interest elasticities increase it is optimal for emerging markets to shift towards
an interest rate instrument since continuing monetization of the economy implies money demand...
by Ashima Goyal | On 04 Nov 2011 Sarvarkar’s case for Unity is at best a cumulative network of agile concepts that are open-ended, and can be used by future sympathetic thinkers. To not grasp this agility is to fundamentally misunder...
by Nikhil Govind | On 03 Nov 2011 In support of the financial-accelerator theory, evidence is found on countercyclical price-cost
banking margins possibly explaining the amplifications of business cycles in Pakistan. [WP 41]. URL:[ht...
by Shah Hussein | On 03 Nov 2011 The brief is based on the experience and the success of a hospital
based Crisis Centres for women facing domestic violence in Mumbai - Dilaasa.
It is a joint initiative of the MCGM and CEHAT, establ...
by ... CEHAT | On 02 Nov 2011 Born on 23rd April, 1935, Kakkanadan, a Malayalam language short story writer and novelist from Kerala state, South India passed away on 19th October 2011. He is often credited with laying the foundat...
by Alex George | On 24 Oct 2011 Physical spaces may significantly shape social interaction. This study has explored how
the residential provisions (Dormitories) for students at IIM-Ahmedabad impact their
social life. This paper ad...
by Arvind Shatdal | On 21 Oct 2011 Book review 'The Green pen: Environmental Journalism in India and South Asia' by
Keya Acharya and Frederick Noronha (eds)
Sage, 2010, page 312, Rs 395.
by Vrijendra | On 19 Oct 2011 With a review of the historic role of India as a supplier of Antiretrovirals (ARV) medicines the paper outlines some of the key rulings in Indian courts as the interpretation of the new patent laws ar...
by Cassandra Sweet | On 19 Oct 2011 The Indian national program of agriclinics and agribusiness centers, started in 2002, aims to provide farmers with a reliable alternative to the private input dealer by subsidizing technically trained...
by Claire J Glendenning | On 14 Oct 2011 In this study, a comparative analysis of the role of knowledge flows in capability formation among firms in the Indian Information Technology sector (IT sector) across cluster and non-cluster location...
by Rakesh Basant | On 13 Oct 2011 The Indian economy has shown considerable resilience to the global economic crisis by maintaining one of the highest growth rates in the world. The services sector accounted for around 88 per cent of...
by Abhijit Das | On 13 Oct 2011 NTP-2011 has the vision Broadband on Demand and envisages leveraging telecom infrastructure to enable all citizens and businesses, both in rural and urban landscape, to participate in the Internet and...
by Ministry of Communication & Information Technology GOI | On 13 Oct 2011 Review of Nandanar’s Children: The Paraiyans’ Tryst with Destiny Tamil Nadu 1850—1956, Raj Sekhar Basu,
Sage India, New Delhi,
2011, 492 pp, Rs 895
by Rajesh Komath | On 11 Oct 2011 Through the use of secondary data, field visits and focus group discussions, this study explores the dynamics of the evolution of the economic life in Greater Faridpur over the last 100d years (1910-2...
by Selim Raihan | On 04 Oct 2011 This study examines how business entities and individuals in Jammu and Kashmir view trade
transactions with the other side and perceptions about the economic viability of Cross-LoC trade. More
speci...
by Altaf Hussain Kira | On 28 Sep 2011 Inflation management is one of the hardest tasks an economic policymaker has to undertake. It appears, at first sight, that one can rely entirely on commonsense to carry out this task. But that will b...
by Kaushik Basu | On 28 Sep 2011 The study explores different aspects of employment and labour market prevalent in large in UAs, in particular global cities. To
capture the role of labour market in urban agglomeration, particularly...
by G.D Bino Paul | On 27 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 An SIIO paradigm, based on structure and ideas that become engraved in institutions and affect
outcomes, is developed to examine and assesses monetary policy in India after independence. Narrative
h...
by Ashima Goyal | On 16 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 Certain trends in agricultural productivity, agricultural finance are outlined. Recommendations for improving agricultural productivity are given here. [Address at The National Seminar on Productivity...
by Chakrabarty K C | On 12 Sep 2011 China’s expected growth slowdown - from 10.3 per cent yoy in 2010 to 8.9 per cent this year and 8.3 per cent in 2012 - will impact the global economy. An in-depth look at how important China really is...
by Steffen Dyck | On 09 Sep 2011 A
bill
to ensure a humane, participatory, informed consultative and transparent process for land
acquisition for industrialisation, development of essential infrastructural facilities
and urbanisa...
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 08 Sep 2011 This paper investigates the effects of plants' dynamics on productivity growth in the Indian pharmaceutical industry across five regions: north, north-west, west, south and the rest of India, during t...
by Atsuko Kamiike | On 06 Sep 2011 Over 160,000 people died in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. The correlates of
survival are examined using data from the Study of the Tsunami Aftermath and Recovery
(STAR), a population-representative...
by Elizabeth Frankenberg | On 06 Sep 2011 This paper focuses on macroeconomic linkages with agriculture. From an extensive
literature review the question that emerges is: is there a structural constraint in Indian
agriculture or does Indian...
by Munish Alagh | On 02 Sep 2011 The paper paper reviews the 'model' central and state government bills, pertaining to groundwater, through a conceptual framework and discusses the Andhra Pradesh experience in the developing governme...
by G.Ananda Vadivelu | On 30 Aug 2011 In this paper agriculture’s role in the Indian enigma is reassessed by exploring two key pathways, an income–consumption pathway and an employment–time use pathway, linking agricultural conditions to...
by Derek Headey | On 29 Aug 2011 This paper deals with migration into India from adjoining neighbours and its impact on security and other issues of national interest. Unlike other studies on migration, it focuses on the ethnic ident...
by Subhakanta Behera | On 26 Aug 2011 This paper examines the strategy for obtaining adequate resources for the
Indian State, where the goals of the State comprise the provision of public
goods (which, by de nition, bene t everyone) and...
by P.V. Srinivasan | On 24 Aug 2011 This study provides a profile of deprivation with respect to consumer expenditure,
cereal consumption and energy intake across demographic and agro-climatic regions
as defined by the National Sample...
by Suryanarayana M H | 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 paper, the potential impacts of trade and investment-related policy reforms on India’s agro-processing sector is explored. The direct effects of policy reforms within the processing sector, an...
by A. Ganesh-Kumar | On 22 Aug 2011 The paper examines the urbanization pattern with context of India. The paper deals with various demographic aspects of urbanization. Also the paper focuses on characteristics and classes of cities, an...
by Arup Mitra | On 19 Aug 2011 This article looks into the role of land reform in comparison to concentric ef fort
to augment agricultural GDP. Redistribut ive land reform policy aims to improve
land endowments of poor, though va...
by Debdatta Pal | On 18 Aug 2011 A key queestion is:
which groups should receive priority in a situation of constrained
resources? Ideally the twin dangers of leaving out malnourished
groups from the purview of the policy, and cov...
by Gopalakrishna Kumar | On 17 Aug 2011 The crowding-in phenomenon together with inter-sectoral linkages is used in this paper to examine the effect of higher public investment for agriculture on the stable growth of this sector as well as...
by Harish Mani | On 17 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 The paper attempts to explore the technology spillover effects of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Indian manufacturing industries across different selected clusters in India. To measure the spillov...
by Pami Dua | On 12 Aug 2011 This paper is a review of the different coping mechanisms adopted by the households in
different dryland area of India. The primary focus of the present paper is to understand
the coping mechanisms...
by Nikhil Govind | On 05 Aug 2011 As per UNSNA recommendations, valuables as a separate item had been introduced in the
expenditure side of GDP. Since India is one of largest importer and user of gold for various purposes,
this trea...
by Rakesh Kumar | On 04 Aug 2011 Food quality has become an important determinant of success in global food trade and growers for international markets have to continuously adjust to buyers’ requirements. It is however not clear to w...
by Anneleen Vandeplas | On 03 Aug 2011 This paper attempts to examine technical efficiency and productivity performance of Indian scheduled commercial banks, for the period 1979-2008. A model is constructed using multiple output/multiple i...
by S S Rajan | On 03 Aug 2011 The study makes specific recommendations for decisionmakers
in industry, society and politics on how to handle new
network technologies. URL:[http://www.dbresearch.com/PROD/DBR_INTERNET_EN-PROD/PROD...
by Thomas F Dapp | On 02 Aug 2011 This paper compares different
approaches to the short term forecasting (nowcasting) of real GDP growth in India and
evaluates methods to optimally gauge the current state of the economy. Univariate
...
by Rudrani Bhattacharya | On 02 Aug 2011 National Competition Policy is necessitated, as an overarching Policy framework, in continuation
of the 1991-reforms, to infuse greater competition across sectors, and unleash fuller growth potential...
by Ministry of Corporte Affairs GOI | On 01 Aug 2011 Review of
Other Tongues: Rethinking the Language Debates in India. Edited byNalini Iyer, Bonnie Zare,Rodopi, Amsterdam. 2009. 248 pp. $71.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-90-420-2519-6.
by KumKum Chatterjee | On 23 Jul 2011 This study investigates the impact of global crisis shocks on India’s trade and industry. Both panel data modeling and vector autoregression techniques are used to understand the dynamic effects of gl...
by Prabir De | On 22 Jul 2011 The Union Law Minister recently launched the ‘Mission Mode Programme for Reduction of
Pendency of Arrears in Courts’. According to media reports, the programme aims to dispose of
40 per cent of the...
by Rohit Kumar | On 15 Jul 2011 This paper analyses the impact of domestic and external shocks on the Indian economy.
A macro-modelling framework is developed that evaluates the impact of two
domestic shocks (rainfall shortfall an...
by B B Bhattacharya | On 15 Jul 2011 This paper analyzes the inter-state imbalances in three major sectors of
the economy, namely, education, health and family welfare, and water
supply and sanitation for fifteen major states. It uses...
by C Bhujanga Rao | On 14 Jul 2011 The study highlights interlinkages amongst district level poverty, socioeconomic developmental indices, RCH-care utilization and fertility. Thereby the study formulates a recursive model to highlight...
by S C Gulati | On 11 Jul 2011 In this paper, the phenomenon of 'two types of industrialisation' in Orissa is documented
where a fast growing resource based manufacturing sector has co-existed with a stagnant
non-resource based...
by Alivelu G | On 11 Jul 2011 New studies are increasingly appearing based on historical data across the world that better socio-economic status is associated with taller men and women. This study based on a recent Indian data ana...
by Brinda Viswanathan | On 08 Jul 2011 Board interlocks and corporate elites are an engaging field of ongoing academic and policy research around the world, especially because of the concentration of economic power in few individuals or en...
by Bala N Balasubramanian | On 08 Jul 2011 Review of
Political Economy of Communications in India: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
by Pradip Ninan Thomas;
Sage, India; 2010, Rs 650.
by Vrijendra | On 07 Jul 2011 This study was not alone in demonstrating that a deal on the Doha Round
could be of huge benefit to the global economy. Assuming plausible
enhancements in the course of further negotiations, the big...
by Klaus Deutsch | On 06 Jul 2011 This paper gives information on global wheat market developments, price transmission and impacts on Indian domestic markets, as well as an assessment of public policies to manage domestic prices. This...
by Dipak Dasgupta | 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 fast growing demand for fresh water-coupled with the need to protect the environment has made
many areas of India and the rest of the World vulnerable to water shortages for various uses of the
...
by Perini Praveena Sri | On 29 Jun 2011 After Independence, the managers of the Indian economy took very
cautious steps. They found the world sharply divided into two blocs: the one led by the
capitalist economies (the US in particular) a...
by S.K. Mishra | On 24 Jun 2011 The Indian economy reached the trillion US dollar GDP milestone in 2007 and joined other countries of the trillion dollar club, namely, the US, UK, Japan, Germany, China, France, Italy, Spain, Canada,...
by Chakrabarty K C | On 21 Jun 2011 Indian public foodgrains management, perhaps still motivated by the experiences of the 1960s to attain and maintain self-sufficiency in foodgrains to achieve food security, has outlived its’ usefulnes...
by A. Ganesh Kumar | On 16 Jun 2011 In a television interview not so long ago when the interviewer painfully and persistently asked Husain yet again, why he had chosen Qatar over Hindustan, he said laughing, playfully invoking and twis...
by Shuddhabrata Sengupta | On 15 Jun 2011 Given that the 74th amendment to the Indian Constitution stipulates
that the water supply service is to be transferred to the city/urban
governments this note analyses the institutional economics of...
by Centre for Global Development | On 15 Jun 2011 Adopting a micro-level framework of impact of FDI in an industry, this study empirically
examines the following three issues in the context of Indian machinery industry (IMI) -
division 28 of Nation...
by Pradeep Kumar Keshari | On 14 Jun 2011 The June issue of World Rivers Review is overflowing with ideas on on how to maintain healthy flows in rivers, for their health and our own. If a river's flow is its heartbeat, then we humans have bec...
by International Rivers Network IRN | On 13 Jun 2011 The objective of this research and policy brief is to analyse different mechanisms of access to land for the rural poor in an era when redistribution through expropriative land reform is largely incon...
by Alain de Janvry | On 10 Jun 2011 India’s economic growth has accelerated in recent years, and its share
of world trade has expanded. These are welcome developments for
the country and, given India’s large share of the world’s popul...
by Sandra Polaski | On 10 Jun 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 The objective of this study is to estimate potential output vis-à-vis output gap for Pakistan’s economy. This paper reviews six commonly used techniques to estimate potential output and from that the...
by S. Adnan H. A. S. Bukhari | On 09 Jun 2011 Natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods, and hurricanes can devastate people’s lives and a country’s economy, particularly in the developing world.This policy brief explores the various legal ch...
by Michael Clemens | On 07 Jun 2011 A closer look at the developments in 35 cities across
China, looking for potential regional real estate bubbles. An assessment is done about the success of the various policies and
their potential n...
by Ulrich Clemens | On 02 Jun 2011 Is the poor human capital investment by rural Indian families primarily a supply
side or a demand side issue? School attendance and total human capital
investment time (time in school plus travel ti...
by Sripad Motiram | On 01 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 objective of this paper is to examine right to food in the Indian context. The
right to food is analysed in terms of availability, accessibility, adequacy and sustainability. These are
examined...
by S. Mahendra Dev | On 27 May 2011 This paper presents the statistical statement of the Ministry of Railways, India. URL: [http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/uploads/directorate/stat_econ/Stat_0910/Annual_Statistical_Stateme...
by Ministry of Railways | On 26 May 2011 During the initial phases of the opening-up of the Chinese economy, the overriding objective was
to raise output and incomes. Economic restructuring undermined the health care system, which
became...
by Dhruv Mankad | On 26 May 2011 The Indian economy was in the mode of globalization and liberalization. But global
financial melt down and consequent economic recession in developed economies have clearly
been a major factor in...
by Ministry of Labour and Employment | On 24 May 2011 The objective of this paper is to study the dynamics of the distribution of regional per
capita income of Indian states in the post reform period, in order to identify trends
towards convergence-c...
by Sabyasachi Kar | On 20 May 2011 The world economy, which grew by 3.0 percent in 2008, is estimated to turn
negative by 0.6 in 2009. The economic growth rates in all the groups of
advanced economies, emerging and developing econ...
by Ministry of Finance, Government of Nepal | On 16 May 2011 The investment climate of a region reflects the location specific factors that provide opportunities and incentives for firms to invest, create jobs, and expand. A good investment cl...
by Errol D'souza | On 11 May 2011 Depending upon the criterion of ownership (whether private or public/social), infrastructure may be classified into: (i) social infrastructure or social overhead capital and (ii) private infrastru...
by S.K. Mishra | On 11 May 2011 In India, today too, majority of educated women are unaware of their true self and still stuck in the process of self realisation. Moreover, there are some women who are aware of their self, their rig...
by Sachin S. Bhumbe | On 09 May 2011 The policy of free hiring and firing, leading to a high labour turnover is in nobody’s interest: employers lose industrially accumulated useful skills while workers lose jobs and incomes. Yet job secu...
by Snehal Barai | On 09 May 2011 The rise of China in the world economy and in international trade has raised the
possibility of a rise of the Yuan as an international currency, particularly after the
Chinese authorities have under...
by Vimal Balasubramaniam | On 05 May 2011 This Statement sets out the Reserve Bank’s assessment of the current macroeconomic situation and projections. URL:[http://rbidocs.rbi.org.in/rdocs/notification/PDFs/APS030511F.pdf].
by Duvvuri Subbarao | On 03 May 2011 This study is an attempt to investigate the relationship between environmental quality and per capita NSDP i.e., (Environmental Kuznets Curve, EKC) of four major Indian States in the light of their ve...
by Sacchidananda Mukherjee | On 02 May 2011 In most cases, energy use in the production of a given desirable output results in the generation
of undesirable output also as a by-product. Thus, the aim of this paper is to estimate energy use...
by Sabuj Kumar Mandal | On 02 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 presents a comprehensive set of stylised facts for business cycles in
India from 1950 - 2009. India's business cycle in the pre 1991 economy is compared with the post 1991
Indian economy,...
by Ila Patnaik | On 27 Apr 2011 There have been significant developments in the global economy since we met in the fall of 2010. The IMF too has moved on several fronts under its mandate which has strengthened its position in a chan...
by Duvvuri Subbarao | On 20 Apr 2011 This paper tries to
focus on the method to assess the magnitude of short/seasonal migration
based on its broad characteristics. It attempts to analyse the contrasting
characteristics of short durat...
by Vijay Korra | On 18 Apr 2011 The result of 2011 census of India is almost all heartening. Literacy is up; life expectancy is up;
family size is stabilizing. But there is one grim exception- India’s already skewed infant sex rati...
by Gursharan Singh Kainth | On 15 Apr 2011 Economic growth is widely perceived as a major policy instrument in reducing childhood undernutrition in
India. The association between changes in state per capita income and the risk of undernutriti...
by Malavika A Subramanyam | On 13 Apr 2011 Recent events in India have brought a fresh focus upon the problem
of regulation in the field of micro-finance. This paper delineates the
three distinct aspects where government needs to play a role...
by Renuka Sane | On 13 Apr 2011 Some option series in the market are far less liquid than others. Market illiquidity can reduce the
informativeness of option prices. In this paper, an alternative schemes are proposed to estimate im...
by Rohini Grover | On 09 Apr 2011 An
attempt has been made in this paper to analyse the financing pattern of
Indian corporate sector during 1990-2009. This paper further seeks to
identify the pattern of resource mobilisation of Ind...
by P L Beena | On 08 Apr 2011 The emphasis laid on 4% growth in Agriculture during the 11th Five Year Plan Period underscores the importance of Agriculture to the economy of the country. Agriculture is the mainstay of Orissa's eco...
by Orissa Government | On 06 Apr 2011 Budget 2011-12 presented by the Finance Minister.
by Government of Meghalaya Govt | On 28 Mar 2011 In simple language and with numerous concrete examples, this policy brief analyses the impact - among others - of key ex-ante factors such as acute 'horizontal inequality' between social groups in the...
by Jeni Klugman | On 22 Mar 2011 Interest in the uncertainties prevailing at the macroeconomic level has
always been well known in economic literature. This paper analyses the
effect of firm level and macroeconomic uncertainty on t...
by Mrinal Kanti | On 22 Mar 2011 Lines of the Nation: Indian Railway Workers, Bureaucracy, and the Intimate Historical Self by Laura Bear. The Culture of History Series, Columbia University Press, New York 2007. 360 pp. $49.00 (cloth...
by David A. Campion | On 22 Mar 2011 The objective of the paper is to test the empirical regularity that exporters are more productive than non-exporters in India. TFP is calculated from the Cobb-Douglas Production
function using a fixe...
by Vinish Kathuria | On 21 Mar 2011 A very basic and core issue for the Indian banking system and that is the challenge of achieving Financial Inclusion. Without being inclusive, financial and economic stability cannot be sustainable. F...
by Chakrabarty K C | On 17 Mar 2011 Budget speech by Finance Minister.
by Ministry of Finance and Planning Sri Lanka | On 17 Mar 2011 Budget speech by Finance minister. URL:[http://punjabgovt.nic.in/departments/Budget/budget/budget.htm].
by Government of Punjab | On 16 Mar 2011 The paper delineates
the situation of the Scheduled Tribes in the background of various policies of the state
during the successive plan periods and its impact on their socio-economic mobility.
Pol...
by M. Gopinath Reddy | On 16 Mar 2011 March 15, 2011: The 16-member Dr Rajinder Kumar committee, constituted by the Department of Health Research to evolve guidelines for accreditation of health research organisations has submitted its re...
by | On 15 Mar 2011 There are large
variations among the G20 countries in their deceleration experiences, transmission
mechanisms and their current macroeconomic outlook. Hence, this paper argues that
each country nee...
by Sudipto Mundle | On 14 Mar 2011 This Policy Brief focuses on links between the developing countries of Brazil, India, China and South Africa and the global economy, with a special emphasis on the implications of China’s spectacular...
by Amelia U. Santos Paulino | On 11 Mar 2011 The paper presents a switching regression model of investment decision,
where the probability of a firm facing financial constraint is endogenously
determined. The approach, therefore, obviates the...
by Saumitra N Bhaduri | On 11 Mar 2011 The world economy has recently changed. A new world economy has emerged over the
last decade as two long-run broad trends, globalization and advances in information and
communication technology (I...
by Matthew Clarke | On 10 Mar 2011 This paper makes an attempt to provide a broad overview of the salient aspects of the
growth story of Indian Railways (IR) since independence. More specifically, the study
aims to analyse the trends...
by G. Alivelu | On 10 Mar 2011 Poor corporate governance is viewed as one of the structural
weaknesses responsible for the outbreak of the Asian crisis in late 1997.
Controlling family owners could pursue private interests with r...
by Sang-Woo Nam | On 09 Mar 2011 The Corporation has decided to implement various schemes for females within the framework of its obligatory and discretionary
functions as laid down in the M.M.C. Act. A step towards it, is a separat...
by Municipal Commissioner BMC | On 07 Mar 2011 The development of private enterprises in the PRC has its own specific
background. During the 1950s, the old Chinese capitalist economy
essentially died out with the establishment of the PRC and the...
by Toshiki Kanamori | On 04 Mar 2011 Despite some commendable efforts and achievements of the Indian state, it is an explicit fact that the majority of children in India are suffering, deprived of basic resources and needs for an average...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 01 Mar 2011 Budget speech 2011-2012 by Pranab Mukherjee.
by Pranab Mukherjee | On 01 Mar 2011 State of the Economy and prospects. URL:[http://www.indiabudget.nic.in/es2010-11/echap-01.pdf].
by Ministry of Finance | On 28 Feb 2011 Railway Budget 2011-12.
by Mamata Banerjee | On 25 Feb 2011 Maintaining low and stable inflation with sustainable growth is the prime objective of
any monetary authority. To achieve the prime goal, reliable forecast of macroeconomic
variables play an importa...
by Dipankar Biswas | On 24 Feb 2011 All proposals and policy measures in the forthcoming Budget may best be summed up as efforts to improve the sustainability of growth. Specific objectives are likely to be lowering inflation and defici...
by IRIS India IRIS | On 22 Feb 2011 Supply response to price changes is likely to increase with the increasing liberalization of
the agricultural sector in India. Past studies revealed a weak supply response for Indian
agriculture. No...
by G. Mythili | On 21 Feb 2011 Nine preliminary lessons from the Great Recession for monetary and financial policies are presented. [3rd P. R. Brahmananda Memorial Lecture].
by Stanley Fischer | On 18 Feb 2011 This paper examines the strategy for obtaining adequate resources for the
Indian State, where the goals of the State comprise the provision of public
goods (which, by defi nition, benefi t everyone)...
by Vijay Kelkar | On 17 Feb 2011 The world over, the financial sector is faced with adjustment problems of facing up to rapid changes in the environment. The Indian financial system cannot be immune to this universal phenomenon. What...
by S.S. Tarapore | On 16 Feb 2011 While there are many path-breaking elements in the Programme document, the stress is on a top down programme that leaves little room for accommodating regional needs. Nor is there much emphasis on enc...
by Syam Prasad | On 15 Feb 2011 The Godavarman Case since 1995, the Centre for Environment Law –WWF-India case also instituted in 1995 and
the Navin Raheja case since 1998, ongoing before the Apex Court with over few thousand appli...
by Sanjay Upadhyay | On 15 Feb 2011 Agriculture is a climate sensitive sector and provides livelihood for more
than 60 percent of Indian population. There have been a large number of
studies over the past decade that tried to assess t...
by Ishwarya Balasubramanian | On 09 Feb 2011 Broad ranging economic reforms were introduced in the Indian economy in the
early 1990s. Yet there was no evidence of a statistical break in the rate of growth of the
Indian economy during the ninet...
by Arvind Virmani | On 08 Feb 2011 The Presidential address to parliament at its first session of the year pays tribute to the heroes and martyrs of the nation, elaborates on Bangaldesh's achievement in industry, agriculture, education...
by Zillur Rahman | On 08 Feb 2011 Privatization is analysed in a general equilibrium model of a small, tariff-distorted,
open economy. There is a differentiated good produced by both private and public
sector enterprises. A reductio...
by Arghya Ghosh | On 04 Feb 2011 The key features of Indian finance is summarised. With
a growing savings rate and a growing share of private corporate capital forma-
tion, and with a high growth rate of GDP, Indian finance is rapi...
by Ajay Shah | On 03 Feb 2011 The Indian Council of Medical Research, an autonomous agency within the
Ministry of Health, was the apex organization responsible for guiding, supporting
and conducting medical research in the c...
by Indian Council of Medical Research ICMR | On 30 Jan 2011 Since the early nineties the Indian economy has been subjected to a process of stabilization-cum-structural adjustment. Stabilization involves short-term demand management through monetary and fiscal...
by K.J. Joseph | On 28 Jan 2011 In this paper is a study of trend of voluntary contribution for community services in the Indian Himalayan region. The study is done by using an experimental game method of face-to-face communication...
by Sujoy Chakravarty | On 25 Jan 2011 The paper analyzes the changing INR trends over the reform period, in the context of fundamental
determinants of exchange rates. [WP-2010-024].
by Ashima Goyal | On 13 Jan 2011 This study seeks to derive lessons from the French nuclear energy experience that can be
used to guide the Indian programme as it steps on the pedal to fast track nuclear expansion. [Occasional Paper...
by Manpreet Sethi | On 13 Jan 2011 The
impact of the global crisis on the (Gulf Corporation Council) GCC economies is first analyzed in
terms of the sectors of the economy affected, the changes in GDP growth
and employment of expatr...
by S. Irudaya Rajan | On 08 Jan 2011 This paper proposes a structural VAR model which extends the frameworks of
Hoffmaister and Roldós (2001) and Prasad (1999). The model is then used to analyse
the sources of China’s trade balance flu...
by Yin Zhang | On 07 Jan 2011 The pentavalent vaccine and many other combination vaccines waiting to enter Universal
immunization Programme (UIP) have brought into sharp focus the gaping gap between
lofty slogans of ‘evidence ba...
by Y Madhavi | On 05 Jan 2011 Financial and development assistance designed specially for small and medium enterprises in Bangladesh is a new and upcoming trend. After the surge of micro-finance in the last two decades, small and...
by Mehnaz Rabbani | On 05 Jan 2011 The major objectives of the paper is to:-
* to locate the Thiruvananthapuram district in the economic map of the State;
*to document the structural and sectoral transformation of the district;
*to...
by Oommen M A | On 22 Dec 2010 An analysis of the
innovation in the Indian pharmaceutical industry is done. This section traces the
origins, the strengths and weaknesses of the innovation system in the pharmaceutical sector in In...
by Padmashree Gehl Sampath | On 17 Dec 2010 Using the non parametric approach of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) this paper examines
the input and output efficiencies of the Indian pharmaceutical firms for the period 1991 to 2005.
by Subhash C Ray | On 17 Dec 2010 The paper examines the asymmetric features in Indian
federalism and evaluates its contribution. There are discussions on the special
arrangements in the Indian constitution to accommodate special ca...
by M Govinda Rao | On 14 Dec 2010 The Mid Term Appraisal (MTA) reviews
the experience in the first three years of the Eleventh
Plan and seeks to identify areas where
corrective steps may be needed.
The Planning Commission has deci...
by Planning Commission, India | On 14 Dec 2010 The paper defines financial liberalization, distinguishing between liberalization of domestic financial
markets and capital account convertibility. It then examines the stages and the strategy of Ind...
by Ashima Goyal | On 14 Dec 2010 This paper begins with a short review and discussion of the literature on policy complementarities and their implications in terms of (sustainable) growth strategies and the possible emergence of a ne...
by Bruno Rocha | On 09 Dec 2010 Agribusiness is the single largest sector of the economy in many developing countries and is growing fast. The present paper examines the situation of agribusiness in different countries of South Asia...
by Sukhpal Singh | On 09 Dec 2010 The paper argues that if the Chinese economy had failed, mainstream economics would have described this as completely predictable, given the extent and nature of involvement of the Chinese state in th...
by Kaushik Basu | On 06 Dec 2010 This paper is all about speculations on growth, disparity and Capital reorganisation in Indian Economy. [Working Paper No. 124]
by Sudipto Mundle | On 06 Dec 2010 The present system of making Census has many advantages such as, taking stock of Indian situation with detailed data regarding the wide diversity of our people and the finding of conditions of life ha...
by Rajesh Komath | On 01 Dec 2010 The report provides an assessment of impact of climate change in 2030s on four key sectors in four climate sensitive regions of India.
by Ministry of Environment and Forests GOI | On 01 Dec 2010 This consultation paper aims to seek the views of stakeholders to assist TRAI in arriving at a
framework by which interconnecting service providers may be fairly compensated for
Intelligent Network...
by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India TRAI | On 30 Nov 2010 The aim of this paper is to derive some important lessons in economic philosophy
from two recent Indian films. The two films, Mani Ratnam’s Guru (2007) and
Madhur Bhandarkar’s Corporate (2006), are...
by Tejas A Desai | On 29 Nov 2010 This paper discusses the trends in India's outward FDI over the last decade and then
attempts to identify the driving factors for the same. The aim is to provide policy makers
with insights regardin...
by Ravi Subramanian | On 24 Nov 2010 This paper examines the question if the Heavily Indebted Poor Country (HIPC)
Initiative provides a good basis for the HIPCs to exit from repeated debt rescheduling.
Building on other reviews of the...
by Bernhard G. Gunter | On 23 Nov 2010 Structural adjustment, as measured by the number of adjustment loans from the IMF
and World Bank, reduces the growth elasticity of poverty reduction. Growth does
reduce poverty, but the author find...
by William Easterly | On 19 Nov 2010 A considerable proportion of the Indian population is generally believed to suffer from under-nutrition and malnutrition. The proportion of India's population falling below the minimum level of nutrit...
by P.G.K. Panikar | On 19 Nov 2010 A persistent widening of skill based wage inequality in the Indian
Organised Manufacturing sector has been reported by many researchers.
Two main hypotheses had been tested in developed economies to...
by Vinoj Abraham | On 17 Nov 2010 A decomposition in the ownership of shares
by foreigners is offered into three parts: the change in insider shareholding,
the change in market capitalisation and the change in the fraction of
outsi...
by Ajay Shah | On 16 Nov 2010 This paper analyses the determinants of fixed investment in the
Indian Private Corporate Manufacturing sector for the period 1973-2002,
using Annual Survey of Industries Data. It is argued that econ...
by V.R. Prabhakaran Nair | On 16 Nov 2010 American jobs are being lost because of outsourcing, to places like Bangalore. So, unlike many other visiting dignitaries, President Obama is going to give that city a careful miss during his three-da...
by T.N. Ninan | On 11 Nov 2010 Using a unique panel data set on Indian firms, some basic but important and often neglected aspects of technology licensing agreements and their effect on the licenses have been analysed. [Working Pap...
by Robert E Evenson | On 11 Nov 2010 Structural Adjustment is aimed at altering the Incentive framework for private enterprise so as
to bring it to the centre stage of domestic economic activity. The prime mover for investment
and grow...
by D. Narayana | On 08 Nov 2010 Age structural transition is a process and a consequence of shifting
age structure from a young aged population to old aged population. It is
well known that economic growth in the East Asian countr...
by K. Navaneetham | On 04 Nov 2010 This paper attempts to construct a time series estimation of
remittances from abroad to the Kerala economy for the period 1972 to
2000. It is now widely acknowledged that foreign remittances in the
...
by K. P. Kannan | On 04 Nov 2010 This paper formalizes ideas from classical and radical political economy on task allocation and
technology adoption under capitalism. A few previous studies have attempted this, but the framework
an...
by Sripad Motiram | On 03 Nov 2010 Many structural changes have taken place in the economy over the past two decades — a greater share for international trade in GDP, higher savings and investment rates, even increased investment in in...
by T.N. Ninan | On 01 Nov 2010 This paper sets up a canonical new Keynesian small open economy model with nominal price rigidities to explore the impact of habit persistence and exchange rate pass-through on the welfare ranking of...
by Yongseung Jung | On 01 Nov 2010 This paper is an attempt to understand the relationship between the labour and energy
intensity for firms drawn from pulp and paper industries in Indian manufacturing. Pulp and paper industry account...
by K. Narayanan | On 29 Oct 2010 This paper is an attempt to analyse the tax leakage in the broader
context of fiscal crisis in Kerala, highlighting the relationship between
the two. Tax leakage by causing a revenue drain may adver...
by Rakhe PB | On 27 Oct 2010 For most people the story of Indian reforms starts in the nineties, following the
BOP crisis of 1990-91. There was a detectable increase in the rate of growth of the
Indian economy in the 1980s aris...
by Arvind Virmani | On 26 Oct 2010 This paper reviews the status of the external sector of the Indian economy. It is divided into 5 broad
sections. Section I gives the trends of imports and exports, as well as the composition and dire...
by Archana S Mathur | On 26 Oct 2010 Apart from the episode of the mid-sixties, macroeconomic crises
have not played a major part in India's economic development. A
certain sort of stability had accompanied the lack-lustre grow...
by Pulapre Balakrishnan | On 23 Oct 2010 The importance of an 'agricultural surplus' for the structural transformation accompanying economic growth is often stressed in development literature. 'Agricultural surplus', defined as the physical...
by Ashoka Mody | On 21 Oct 2010 The Prime Minister's economic package and offer of unconditional talks announced on the
occasion of his visit to the Northeast last October has aroused great expectations in the Region. The
conseque...
by Planning Commission | On 21 Oct 2010 The paper identifies those elements in the configuration of fiscal parameters
confronting the country that give cause for concern, and examines whether the fiscal
reform measures taken address these...
by Indira Rajaraman | On 20 Oct 2010 The domestic bond markets of the Asia and Pacific region have grown considerably since
the Asian financial crisis of 1997, although they remain undeveloped relative to the region’s
weight in the w...
by Jonathan A. Batten | On 18 Oct 2010 This is a brief sketch of the Self Employed Women’s Association’s (SEWA) three-
decade-long journey from the local to global and informal to formal sector in search of
finding work and income for n...
by Reema Nanavaty | On 15 Oct 2010 This paper empirically explores the present relationship between inflation and economic growth in the context of Bangladesh. Using annual data set on real GDP and CPI for the period of 1980 to 2005, a...
by Shamim Ahmed | On 14 Oct 2010 There is an urgent need to study the social compulsions/ factors that lead parents to marry off their daughters to NRIs who ruin their lives completely. It is also to be examined whether any safeguard...
by M.K. Jabbi | On 13 Oct 2010 This paper makes an attempt
at understanding why inequalities continue to exist in the educational profile
of the population despite high literacy, universal enrollment in schools and
relatively be...
by Suma Scaria | On 12 Oct 2010 The paper examines the recent European crisis management programs of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to see how the lessons of Asia were applied. Compared to the Asian programs of 1997, the Euro...
by Shinji Takagi | On 11 Oct 2010 The present paper looks at the various dimensions of contributions by
forests in the context of the Indian economy. Based on a detailed review of
literature on importance and valuation of forests, s...
by Archana S Mathur | On 08 Oct 2010 Kerala has been a model to other states for her achievements in
social development. But in terms of economic growth her performance
has for long been very poor and a matter of deep concern. In this...
by P. Mohanan Pillai | On 08 Oct 2010 The global economic slowdown has again highlighted the vulnerability of export-led development models and economies to downturns in export markets. Economic deepening or “rebalancing” with an emphasis...
by Mark Stoughton | On 08 Oct 2010 The paper attempts to capture the construction of 'community' in Indian communication research. This paper attempts to trace the genealogy, interrogates its usage in Indian communication studies and s...
by Biswajit Das | On 05 Oct 2010 The Indian economy has recently grown at historically unprecedented rates and is now one of the
fastest-growing economies in the world. Real GDP per head grew at 3.95 percent a year from
1980 to 2...
by Angus Deaton | On 05 Oct 2010 A major reform process in the Indian economic policy regime away from a four-
decade-long inward orientation has been under way since July 1991 in response to a serious
macro-economic crisis. The n...
by T.A. Bhavani | On 05 Oct 2010 Kerela is a region that is deeply integrated with the Indian and the world economy through various ways such as commodity flows, financial movements, labour migration and operations of national and in...
by T.M. Thomas Issac | On 01 Oct 2010 Over the last few decades, the Indian economy has experienced both classical business
cycles and the cyclical fluctuations in its growth rate known as growth rate cycles. In the
years since the li...
by Pami Dua | On 01 Oct 2010 Most Governments in the Third World Countries have actively promoted cooperatives in the traditional sectors of the economy with a view to overcome the diseconomies of small size. Characterised as the...
by Mridul Eapen | On 27 Sep 2010 An issue that has attracted surprisingly little notice is the size and growth of the trade deficit. Even more worrisome is the flat trajectory for exports — which escapes notice because comparisons ar...
by T.N. Ninan | On 24 Sep 2010 The Indian Railways (IR) have grand plans. They would like to leapfrog to a higher growth trajectory during
2010-20. Towards this, they would like to see a total investment of Rs 14,00,000 crores (cr...
by G. Raghuram | On 23 Sep 2010 The notion that the backwardness of Indian Agriculture may be explained in terms of the institutional, and more particularly, the market structure within its functions, is not wholly novel one, elemen...
by Sumit Guha | On 20 Sep 2010 The pharmaceutical industry in India has provoked much debate and sharp criticism, on account of its insensitivity towards the health needs of the Indian people. The vulnerability of the indu...
by P. Mohanan Pillai | On 20 Sep 2010 Marx himself certainly thought that political economy was a subject of most urgent importance for a "theoretician of the revolutionary proletariat". Marx took over the orthodox theory of his day accor...
by Joan Robinson | On 16 Sep 2010 In 1956 Susanne Rudolph and I arrived in India for the first of many research years there. We were among the second batch of Ford Foundation Foreign Area Training Fellows. As area scholars we were com...
by Lloyd I. Rudolf | On 15 Sep 2010 Long before Independence, the theme on which Gandhiji wrote repeatedly, was the
need to improve the status of Indian women. He drew attention to the fact that the
woman was ‘not only.... condemned t...
by Lotika Sarkar | On 14 Sep 2010 This paper examines the determinants of the Government yields in India using weekly data from
April 2001 through March 2009. The analysis covers Treasury Bills with residual maturity of
15-91 day...
by Pami Dua | On 13 Sep 2010 In this paper, the influence of stronger intellectual property protection on technology transfer into developing countries via licensing is analyzed. Using panel data for the post-TRIPs period 1995-20...
by Sunil Kanwar | On 09 Sep 2010 The objective of this paper is to analyse the determinants of the growth of firms in the
Indian automobile industry during the period 1980-81 to 1995-96. It re-examines certain issues
that have a...
by K. Narayanan | On 09 Sep 2010 The primary focus of the paper is to analyze the Indian Tiger Conservation program –
Project Tiger. The circumstances that lead to and the conditions under which the program
was launched are discuss...
by Varun Khandelwal | On 03 Sep 2010 The paper aims at bringing out and explaining the problems faced by tribals. The paper also analyzes various laws made for protecting the tribals and giving them justice.
by Ketan Mukhija | On 03 Sep 2010 This working paper discusses the rice economy of Kerala, with a disaggregate analysis of its performance. [Working Paper No. 231]
by P.S. George | On 31 Aug 2010 This paper uses political reservations for women in India to study the
impact of women’s leadership on policy decisions. In 1998, one third of all
leadership positions of Village Councils in West Be...
by Esther Duflo | On 25 Aug 2010 This paper investigates the evolution of earnings inequality in urban China from 1989 to
2006. After decomposing the variance of log of earnings into transitory and permanent two
parts, we find that...
by Zhong Zhao | On 23 Aug 2010 The Indian software industry is at the bottom of knowledge hierarchy, where the bottom is highly segmented. The political process that successfully thwarted the automation of Indian manufacturing sect...
by Pradosh Nath | On 20 Aug 2010 Review of 'Promoting Economic Cooperation in South Asia'; S. Ahmed, S. Kalegama and E. Ghani (Editors). Published by Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2010
by Sandhya S . Iyer | On 17 Aug 2010 This study attempts to address the issue of declining labour intensity in India’s
organized manufacturing in order to understand the constraints on employment
generation in the labour intensive sect...
by Deb Kusum Das | On 13 Aug 2010 The past forty years or so has seen a remarkable transformation
in macro-models used by central banks, policymakers and forecasting
bodies.This papers describes this trans formation from reduced-for...
by Paul Levine | On 11 Aug 2010 In recent years, child care subsidies have become an integral part of federal and state efforts
to move economically disadvantaged parents from welfare to work. Although previous
empirical studies c...
by Chris M. Herbst | On 05 Aug 2010 Indian pharmaceutical sector is currently witnessing faster introduction of new
drugs, with shorter life cycles, given the intense competition. Often, pharma
companies fail to strategically align th...
by Basant Kumar Purohit | On 02 Aug 2010 This paper analyses the determinants of competitiveness of auto industry in India, based on a field survey and a quantitative analysis of secondary data. It highlights that all segments of Indian auto...
by Badri Narayanan G. | On 29 Jul 2010 The depth and breadth of the East Asian financial crisis has
added a sense of acute urgency for some concrete and credible
measures by policy-makers to revitalise the Japanese economy.
While steps...
by Ramkishen Rajan | On 23 Jul 2010 The paper is based on the 8 Input – Output (I-O) tables for the Indian economy
available over a period of 36 years from 1968-69 to 2003-04. The technical
progress (TP) in the context of the I-O tabl...
by Ravindra H Dholakia | On 22 Jul 2010 This paper looks at the current challenges faced by the SME’s in the Indian IT industry and formulates hypotheses on how an intermediary can create an ecosystem to ensure the sustenance and evolution...
by Prashant John | On 21 Jul 2010 Health economists have traditionally quantified the burden of vector-borne diseases (such as chikungunya and dengue) as the sum of the cost of illness and the cost of intervention programmes. The obje...
by Dileep V. Mavalankar | On 21 Jul 2010 The world over, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, private sector units were of a laissez-faire
variety i.e., the private sector was completely free of state interference. Private enterprise...
by Anupriya Singhal | On 16 Jul 2010 Rice is exported in two varities, basmati and non-basmati. The basmati rice exports are in three categories: white, brown and parboiled. India earned Rs 18.4 billion in 2001-02 from exports of basmati...
by G. Raghuram | On 15 Jul 2010 The takeover of substantial number of shares, voting rights or control in a listed Indian
company attracts the provision of SEBI (Substantial Acquisition of Shares and Takeovers)
Regulations 1997. T...
by Sandeep Parekh | On 14 Jul 2010 Despite signs of recovery from the global financial crisis, the GDP growth rate for the
Indian economy is likely to be between 5.8 to 6.1 per cent in 2009-10, below the 6.7
per cent recorded in fisc...
by Mathew Joseph | On 14 Jul 2010 This study estimates supply response for major crops during pre and post reform periods using Nerlovian adjustment cum adaptive expectation model. Estimation is based on dynamic panel data approach wi...
by G. Mythili | On 06 Jul 2010 This working paper discusses the dependence of Indian agriculture on uncertain rains.
In addition the farmers experience other production risks as well as marketing risks
related to different crop e...
by Gurdev Singh | On 06 Jul 2010 The paper is a analysis of the street vendors of Vadodara and the Gujarat Government's attitute towards them.
by Nimisha Srivastava | On 29 Jun 2010 We show that the ‘skill-bias’ of a country’s tariff structure is
positively correlated with long-term per capita GDP growth. Testing for
causal mechanisms, we find evidence consistent with the exist...
by Nathan Nunn | On 28 Jun 2010 Call auctions represent an alternative
strategy, where the order
ow over a certain time period is pooled,
and the market-clearing price obtained through an aggregated supply
and demand curve. Cal...
by Susan Thomas | On 22 Jun 2010 The paper excavates how the advent of commercial audiography, through 'Recording Expeditions' between 1902 and 1907, shaped configurations of the nascent business in, and culture around, 'music on rec...
by Vibodh Parthasarathi | On 16 Jun 2010 Using Bayesian updating to deterministic priors persistence of fundamentalist belief like
those in the mind of a terrorist is explained. Under such belief system if conditional evidence
is diametric...
by Srijit Mishra | On 14 Jun 2010 This paper intends first to give a brief overview of the rise and growth of some of those separatist groups, with a special focus on the Nagas, the Mizos and the Assam movement.
An analysis of the de...
by Renaud Egreteau | On 10 Jun 2010 This paper seeks to explain certain
cultural differences that may have contributed to this imbalance between the
Indian and American higher education systems.[W.P. No. 2009-04-03]
by Tejas A. Desai | On 08 Jun 2010 The current knowledge economy in terms of their human rights component, the author argues, offers a space where demands and claims can be articulated. Websites, databases, documentation and archives a...
by Pramod K. Nayar | On 06 Jun 2010 The paper tracks spatial inequality in social progress in Bangladesh as evidenced from the district level
data. It uses a multivariate framework to explore the differential pace of social progress at...
by Binayak Sen | On 04 Jun 2010 The present study emphasizes on independent variable analysis in assessing gender development at the disaggregated district level to
account for problems such as the major contradiction facing this c...
by Preet Rustagi | On 03 Jun 2010 This paper discusses the case of Indian nurses who take up their
profession as part of a family strategy, where planning for education and
migration are intrinsic to the whole process. In effect, th...
by Sreelekha Nair | On 03 Jun 2010 In this paper, the effects of introducing constraints on government borrowing have been examined by using a continuous-time overlapping generations model of a small open economy. Government placing co...
by Koichi Futagami | On 27 May 2010 The objective in this paper is to shed some empirical light on a claim often made by critics of affirmative action policies: that increasing the representation of members of marginalized communities i...
by Ashwini Deshpande | On 26 May 2010 This paper estimates the size of informal economy in Pakistan by using monetary approach with some modifications, electricity consumption approach and MIMIC model. Under monetary approach, we take car...
by Muhammad Farooq Arby | On 20 May 2010 Analysis of developing country cities indicates that neither policy frameworks nor infrastructural investments have kept up with urban growth, that the wrong choices with long-term consequences are be...
by Homi Kharas | On 20 May 2010 This study analyzes the content, usability, interactivity and connectivity of Indian executive
blogs. Results indicate that among the Indian CEOs and top executives who blog, most are
associated wit...
by Smeeta Mishra | On 14 May 2010 The paper examines the factors that influence energy intensity in Indian industries. It has
two parts. In the first part, trends in energy intensity are analysis and cross-industry panel
data (taken...
by Bishwanath Goldar | On 13 May 2010 The paper seeks to
prove the point that the Indian OTC derivatives markets, unlike many other
jurisdictions, are well regulated. Only contracts where one party to the contract is an
RBI regulated e...
by Dayanand Arora | On 03 May 2010 The present study attempts a quantitative assessment of the impact of recently signed ASEAN-India FTA
(AIFTA) for selected plantation commodities (coffee, tea and pepper) in India. Partial
equilibri...
by C. Veeramani | On 20 Apr 2010 In this paper we attempt to provide a comprehensive understanding of the drivers of
academic research and patenting in India. Research inputs by a faculty member are considered to be an outcome of
h...
by Amit Shovon Ray | On 20 Apr 2010 This paper aims at touching on the main divisions of fisheries management, with an insight into the state mechanism and the extra legal systems in place. The principal focus is the history of Indian m...
by Rohan Dominic Mathews | On 16 Apr 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 How does the Reserve Bank of India implement monetary policy? The objectives and framework of monetary policy, as they have evolved, the operational aspects of monetary policy have been discussed. Th...
by Deepak Mohanty | On 08 Apr 2010 This study attempts
to provide an analysis of the gender concerns of the proposed EU India FTA in the field of agriculture and
suggest policy changes both in the FTA text as well as in domestic poli...
by Roopam Singh | On 08 Apr 2010 Stricter regulatory surveillance in emerging market economies (EMEs) largely insulated their
financial systems from the crisis. Development and convergence of regulatory apparatus has
been rapid. In...
by Ashima Goyal | On 29 Mar 2010 This paper examines the basis upon which rural and urban areas are classified as such. It looks into various criteria for the above all over the world and re-iterates the Indian definition of an ‘urba...
by V.K. Dhar | On 22 Mar 2010 This paper examines migrants choice of destination conditional on migration. To this
end, an empirical strategy is designed which remedies both migration selection and unobserved
heterogeneity probl...
by Marcel Fafchamps | On 18 Mar 2010 This study attempts
to provide an analysis of the gender concerns of the proposed EU India FTA in the field of agriculture and
suggest policy changes both in the FTA text as well as in domestic poli...
by Roopam Singh | On 04 Mar 2010 This paper investigates a series of questions that explore this topic: What kind of
information do farmers value the most to improve agricultural productivity? Do
mobile phones and mobile-enabled ag...
by Surabhi Mittal | On 03 Mar 2010 Budget speech 2010-2011 by Pranab Mukherjee
by Pranab Mukherjee | On 26 Feb 2010 The implications of sea-level rise and storm surges for 84 developing countries and 577 of their cyclone-vulnerable coastal cities with populations greater than 100,000 are explored. Combining the mos...
by Susmita Dasgupta | On 25 Feb 2010 West Bengal is not among the best performing states with regard
to NREGA. The performance of all districts in the state
is not equally discouraging. Some districts, in fact, have done well in
gener...
by Subrata Mukherjee | On 19 Feb 2010 This paper is about deconstructing the middle class
perception of the domain of the ‘folk’ in this region. With these questions,
the paper sets out an agenda for writing the history of rain and weat...
by Sadan Jha | On 16 Feb 2010 The manufacturing sector in India is crucial for two main reasons: It has significant potential to provide modern
employment to a growing labour force, especially that of less skilled type and second...
by Arvind Virmani | On 09 Feb 2010 This paper aims to examine the policy debates on women's education and highlight some of the
basic issues affecting the progress of women's education since the introduction of planned
development in...
by Balaji Pandey | On 08 Feb 2010 Climate change impact studies on agriculture can be broadly divided into those that employ
agro-economic approaches and those that employ the Ricardian approach. This study uses the
Ricardian approa...
by K S Kavi Kumar | On 05 Feb 2010 The competitiveness among the firms in Indian automobile industry has been assessed by understanding the factors that determine its competitive advantage. The efforts have been made to construct a com...
by G Burange | On 05 Feb 2010 The utilization of coaches on the parameters per cent of runtime, kilometers per day,
and average speed of rakes servicing express per mails and passenger trains in the South Central Railway (SCR), t...
by G. Raghuram | On 04 Feb 2010 Physical energy intensity indicators for Indian manufacturing sector is developed and analyzed.
Energy consumption in five industrial sub-sectors, namely, iron and steel, aluminium, textiles,
paper...
by Binay Kumar Ray | On 02 Feb 2010 To find out whether our government is spending an astronomical amount of
taxpayer’s money publicising itself rather than disseminating information, facts and figures were assimilated.
By tracking f...
by Kumar Gaurav | On 29 Jan 2010 The objective of this study is to examine empirically the impact of monetary policy on exchange market pressure (EMP) in Bangladesh. EMP is measured as the sum of percentage change of international re...
by Sayera Younus | On 29 Jan 2010 The Reserve Bank has pursued an accommodative monetary policy beginning mid-September 2008 in order to mitigate the adverse impact of the global financial crisis on the Indian economy. The measures ta...
by D Subbarao | On 29 Jan 2010 In this paper the issue of indirect tax reform,
with a special focus on customs duty reform is examined. [WP]
by Arvind Virmani | On 28 Jan 2010 The record of different post reform governments in meeting their targets and improving both delivery and finances is assessed. A variety of indices are constructed, and consistency checks devised to m...
by Ashima Goyal | On 27 Jan 2010 This study investigates the nature of relationship between price and trading volume for 50 Indian
stocks. Firstly the contemporaneous and asymmetric relation between price and volume are
examined. T...
by Brajesh Kumar | On 25 Jan 2010 This collection of 19 new essays written by civil
society activists, trade unionists and other water
practitioners, presents examples of ongoing
struggles against water privatization and
commercia...
by Focus on the Global South FGS | On 22 Jan 2010 A review of the various primary measures of inflation with a particular reference to the divergence between WPI and CPI. Focus is also given on different secondary (derived) measures of inflation, par...
by Deepak Mohanty | On 21 Jan 2010 Bihar has achieved double-digit economic growth over the past five years is a wonder
by T.N. Ninan | On 21 Jan 2010 Available evidence suggests high intergenerational correlation of economic status,
and persistent disparities in health status between the rich and the poor. This paper
proposes a novel mechanism li...
by Shankha Chakraborty | On 19 Jan 2010 India has an elaborate system of capital controls which impede cap-
ital mobility and particularly short-term debt. Yet, when the global
money market fell into turmoil after the bankruptcy of Lehman...
by Ila Patnaik | On 19 Jan 2010 This paper looks at rural infrastructure facilities in India, the lack of which is
demonstrated to be an impediment to sustained economic development. It is argued that problems of rural infrastruct...
by Suman Bery | On 15 Jan 2010 The Indian media has wrongly compared Bihar's (that is, 11.03per cent) average annual growth during the period 2004-05 to 2008-09 with that of Gujarat (that is, 11.05per cent). While the media has quo...
by Shambhu Ghatak | On 14 Jan 2010 Discusses about the different poverty measuements.
by T.N. Ninan | On 22 Dec 2009 In many parts of rural India the use of wood for fuel is the cause of significant environmental and health problems. Efforts to help people switch to cleaner fuels have not been effective and fuelwood...
by ARABINDA MISHRA | On 18 Dec 2009 What is m-banking, Basic characteristics of m-commerce/e-commerce, Evolution of electronic financial services (e-banking/e-commerce/m-banking/m-commerce), Role of non-banks in Indian Payment Scenario....
by Chakrabarty K C | On 14 Dec 2009 Declaration made at the end of two days national seminar on Food security and Sustainability in India held on November 7-8, 2009 organized by GAD Institute of Development Studies, PO Naushera, Amritsa...
by Gursharan Singh Kainth | On 14 Dec 2009 This paper examines these difficulties of regulation in the context of spread of unapproved
transgenic Bt cotton seeds in India. This paper also examines the impact of the cultivation of approved and...
by Bharat Ramaswami | On 08 Dec 2009 This paper presents some of the findings of our recent study on women’s representation and participation in panchayats. Some of the findings of the study (Buch; 1999) of women in panchayats after the...
by Nirmala Buch | On 04 Dec 2009 Using a model of O-ring production function, the paper demonstrates
how certain communities can get caught in a low-literacy trap in which each
individual finds it not worthwhile investing in higher...
by Vidya Atal | On 01 Dec 2009 This document is at the behest of KMVS and is an effort to hold up a mirror to their journey. It is a documentation of their history, context, evolution, and experiences since its emergence in 1989. A...
by Vimala Ramachandran | On 01 Dec 2009 China and India have both attempted distorting the exchange rate in order to foster exports-led growth. This is described as the Bretton Woods II framework, where developing countries buy bonds in the...
by Ila Patnaik | On 30 Nov 2009 A detailed historical review of the research to date spanning more than 50 years, and includes a perspective on the impact of climate change on the glaciers. The Ministry invites comments on the Paper...
by V K Raina | On 30 Nov 2009 The speech covers the macro setting for GenNext banking by way of discussing the demographic composition of India’s population and the nexus between low dependency ratio and saving. It also provides...
by Chakrabarty K C | On 30 Nov 2009 The study uses an assessment of visitors’ travel costs to estimate the annual
recreational value of the Sundarban. It calculates this to be at least INR
15 million (US$ 377,000) for domestic visitor...
by Indrila Guha | On 27 Nov 2009 The time may have come to stop thinking of five-year plans, and to focus instead on 10- and 20-year scenarios.
by T.N. Ninan | On 23 Nov 2009 This paper is aganist the popular assertion regarding the links between innovation and clustering and it is found that the main sources of knowledge transfer and innovation among key firms in Bangalor...
by Aya Okada | On 23 Nov 2009 This paper mainly addresses the economic dimensions, concentrating on the importance of international trade to state-building and the need for global public goods in a global market economy. The focu...
by Tony Addison | On 23 Nov 2009 No reponse form the policies that the government is announcing
by T.N. Ninan | On 20 Nov 2009 This paper presents summary of findings from research
conducted in the Indian diamond industry over a period of last four years. Insights about the remarkable rise, growth and the unique working of t...
by Indu Rao | On 10 Nov 2009 This joint paper attempts an unusual collaborative approach that offers an understanding of the problems that registered nurses of India have faced. Through this paper, the problem of ‘social status’...
by Sreelekha Nair | On 10 Nov 2009 Before 1997, women experiencing sexual
harassment at workplace had to lodge a complaint under Indian Penal Code,
1860, ss. 354 and 509. But the Supreme Court, applying Convention on the
Elimination...
by Mahalaxmi Tiwary | On 09 Nov 2009 Evolution of the financial sector regulation in India, particularly focusing on the elements of the policy framework which have contributed to the broader stability in the financial sector is depicted...
by Shyamala Gopinath | On 05 Nov 2009 The main thrust of this paper is: Why should women go to these courts to
settle matrimonial disputes while there are provisions for them in secular
courts? Do women face less harassment and get quic...
by Sabiha Hussain | On 05 Nov 2009 China’s economy is booming at the expense of its environment. The country’s resource efficiency is nowhere near the level of western nations. Per unit of gross domestic product China consumes more tha...
by Eric Heymann | On 22 Oct 2009 Recollect and recount lessons from crises. The key lessons are how to anticipate and take pre-emptive action and equally important, once you are in the middle of it, how to respond effectively namely,...
by Usha Thorat | On 22 Oct 2009 The paper analyzes and enumerates the various causes for accidents in Delhi and also suggests possible solution solution to counter the problem and bring down accident rates.
by Arjun Bhattacharya | On 21 Oct 2009 The methodology had two parts - secondary data analysis and a descriptive cross sectional study. Secondary date analysis was carried our using a sample of 1,028 men and 1,028 women in the reproductive...
by Pratibha Esther Singh | On 16 Oct 2009 The paper argues that economism and, in particular, the individual drive to maximize utility and amass profit are not enough to ensure the efficient functioning of an economy; and that even for elemen...
by Kaushik Basu | On 09 Oct 2009 The paper discusses the impacts of free-trade policy on the agricultural exports of Kerala.
by Ranjit Devraj | On 08 Oct 2009 This new report discusses the experience with environmental standards and how it can be useful for new financiers. It contains ten papers written by experts from civil society, financial institutions...
by International Rivers Network IRN | On 01 Oct 2009 Private practice in the health sector was re-introduced from 1980, when China began its economic reform from a planned economy to a market economy. But today the total number of private sector provide...
by Ying Bian | On 30 Sep 2009 The study seeks to answer two very basic
questions in the Indian context: first, are there economies of scale and
scope in Indian banking? In other words, are bigger banks better for India?
And, se...
by Pradeep Srivastava | On 23 Sep 2009 The Doha Declaration provides for access to medicines particularly by simplifying the compulsory licensing (CL) clause. This paper tries to provide a comprehensive review of the working of CL in the d...
by Lalitha N | On 21 Sep 2009 The effects of indoor air pollution on respiratory health after adjusting for endogenous health behaviours are estimated. The study includes measurements on indoor air pollution and is based on detail...
by Krishna Prasad Pant | On 17 Sep 2009 There were many challenges involved in the conduct of the elections. For example,
the people had to cast votes among 16 presidential candidates (2 candidates withdrew two days before the elections) i...
by Manabu Fujimura | On 17 Sep 2009 Options for monetary policy arising from interactions
between it and Indian foreign exchange (FX) markets. A brief survey covers
recent rapid changes providing a snapshot of current microstructure,
...
by Ashima Goyal | On 14 Sep 2009 This paper based on Indian and international documents assesses existing definition, criteria and methodologies for estimating employment and income generated in the informal economy in India. [NCEUS...
by Sheila Bhalla | On 02 Sep 2009 The study attempts to examine the impact of remittances on macroeconomic activities (private consumption and investment) and its implications on economic growth in India for the period from 1966-67 to...
by Hrushikesh Mallick | On 01 Sep 2009 It presents an overview of the theme based on the author’s experience on EIA in developing countries. In many of these countries, a holistic approach has been adopted to EIA requiring the consideratio...
by Iara Verocai | On 31 Aug 2009 This paper analyses the pattern of growth observed in the city economy of
Ahmedabad, a metropolitan city in the industrially developed state of Gujarat. The
growth of this city is placed in the cont...
by Jeemol Unni | On 17 Aug 2009 The financial crisis of 2007-09 began as a local problem in the mortgage finance market in the United States and Europe but, within months, escalated into a general global financial crisis, resulting...
by Kaushik Basu | On 17 Aug 2009 This study investigates the water demand of Indian manufacturing plants. It adopts an input distance function approach and approximates it by a translog form. Duality between cost function and input d...
by Surender Kumar | On 17 Aug 2009 This paper argues that with the recent economic reforms, an efficient and active debt market, particularly in long-term private debt instruments, is essential for the
country to realize the full bene...
by Pronab Sen | On 13 Aug 2009 The recreational demand for the Indian Sundarban, which is a World Heritage
site and a complex mangrove ecosystem that borders India and Bangladesh is estimated. Two alternative methodologies exist f...
by Indrila Guha | On 13 Aug 2009 The swine flu has come to India also. What measures have been taken by the government to fight against the pandemic?
by Rajeev Mavani | On 12 Aug 2009 An attempt is made to compute the aggregate productivity growth using the Domar aggregation technique. Building up from the Total Factor Productivity Growth (TFPG) estimates for 3-digit industries, we...
by Deb Kusum Das | On 12 Aug 2009 This paper presents findings from an extensive review of
literature on organizational cultural (OC) and highlights the relevance of OC with respect to individual, organizational, intra-organizational...
by Indu Rao | On 10 Aug 2009 This study analyzes the factors leading to the emergence of these Indian IST firms as multinationals in
the global market. Applying the theoretical framework of national innovation system (NIS), the...
by Jaya Prakash Pradhan | On 07 Aug 2009 The article describes the constitution and functions of Village Development Boards (VDBs) in NAGALAND where VDBs are considered as “Financial Intermediaries” or “Non-Banking Financial Intermediaries”....
by Karmakar K G | On 06 Aug 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 attempts to appraise the extent of the constraint of credit relations on agricultural production and its differential impact across peasant classes. Additionally, the analysis of the structu...
by Arindam Banerjee | On 04 Aug 2009 This paper studies the role played by caste, education and other social and economic
attributes in arranged marriages among middle-class Indians. A unique data set on
individuals who placed matrimon...
by Abhijit Banerjee | On 28 Jul 2009 The article describes the important role played by Marine fishereis in the Indian economy. It elaborates the issues associated with value addition of this sector with special reference to optimum capa...
by Karmakar K G | On 27 Jul 2009 Budget presented by Finance minister of Nepal.
by Surendra Pandey | On 27 Jul 2009 A report on violation of people's rights during the Salwa Judum campaign in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh.
by People's Union for Democratic Rights PUDR | On 23 Jul 2009 The paper is aimed at exploring as to how such co-operatives (i) function and deal with members while delivering micro finance; (ii) mobilise funds, and (iii) get shaped and reshape the contents of me...
by Gagan Bihari Sahu | On 09 Jul 2009 Budget 2009-2010 by Pranab Mukherjee
by Pranab Mukherjee | On 09 Jul 2009 Railway Budget 2009-10
by Mamata Banerjee | On 06 Jul 2009 The third Annual Statistics Day Conference of the Reserve Bank. It has now become a tradition for to mark the Statistics Day as a tribute to late Professor P.C. Mahalanobis and his colossal contributi...
by D Subbarao | On 02 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 If recent survey data are to be believed, Indians are among the most optimistic people on earth.
by T.N. Ninan | On 23 Jun 2009 The study examines the impact of changes in monetary policy in Bangladesh. Specifically, the study examines the impact of domestic and foreign monetary shocks on Bangladesh’s major economic aggregate...
by Sayera Younus | On 22 Jun 2009 Owning a house has become very costly now. If more land were thrown into the market, home ownership will not be a deam for the majority.
by T.N. Ninan | On 19 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 report is intended as a wake-up call to anyone who thinks the developing world debt crisis has been resolved. In fact, it assesses fears of a new debt crisis, more serious than before, spreading...
by Sarah Edwards | On 11 Jun 2009 The global economy is passing through its deepest financial and economic crisis of our time. Protecting the Indian economy from the worst impact of the crisis has been a big challenge for the governme...
by D Subbarao | On 08 Jun 2009 Despite intense concern that many instrumental variables used in growth regressions may be invalid, or both, top journals studies of economic growth based on problematic instruments. doing so risks p...
by Samuel Bazzi | On 04 Jun 2009 Thirty years ago, a vast share of the poor and the middle income countries were heavily state-controlled. The effects of the liberalizations in the 1980s and 1990s differed strongly between regions in...
by Johan F.M. Swinnen | On 02 Jun 2009 Missing data are often a problem in social science data. Imputation methods fill in the missing responses and lead, under certain conditions, to valid inference. This article reviews several imputatio...
by Gabriele Beissel Durrant | On 02 Jun 2009 The paper provides a detailed scan of the position of each of the major ALBA countries in turn, plus Brazil, Argentina and Mexico. While Argentina and Brazil are beginning to get involved in ALBA acti...
by David Harris | On 31 May 2009 Mass media plays a crucial role in information distribution and thus in the political market and public policy making. Theory predicts that information provided by mass media reflects the media’s ince...
by Alessandro Olper | On 29 May 2009 The study was undertaken with the objective to review and analyse the costs and benefits
of the Sardar Sarovar Dam at this stage, when efforts are being made to complete the last
leg of the dam, rai...
by Tata Institue of Social Sciences TISS | On 26 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 Speech is about the role of IT in the Indian financial sector [Keynote address at the Banking Technology Awards 2008 of the Institute for Development & Research in Banking Technology, Hyderabad].
by D Subbarao | On 25 May 2009 This paper investigates the determination of inflation in the framework of an open economy forward-looking as well as conventional backward-looking Phillips curve for eight Asian countries- Japan, Ho...
by Pami Dua | On 22 May 2009 Dr. Bimal Jalan, Governor gave a welcome remark to Prof. Charles Goodhart on his 11th C. D. Deshmukh Memorial Lecture on 'Whither Central Banking ?' This paper revolves around Dr. Jalan's summary and...
by Dr Bimal Jalan | On 21 May 2009 Macroeconomic modelling is generally motivated by two objectives: forecasting and more significantly, policy analysis. In pursuit of both these objectives,
every model must ideally satisfy four crite...
by V. Pandit | On 16 May 2009 This paper offers a review of the concepts and definitions used in the NSS Employment-Unemployment Surveys (EUS, for short) which have remained virtually unchanged since they were introduced in the NS...
by K. Sundaram | On 15 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 This paper investigates whether, in what direction, and to what extent one mode of technology transfer – namely, overseas R&D – is influenced by the strength of intellectual property protection that h...
by Sunil Kanwar | On 15 May 2009 Firms differ in the effects that foreign direct investment liberalizations have on their businesses, and in the responses they make to adjust to the liberalized business environment. In this study th...
by Stanley Nollen | On 15 May 2009 Review of John W. Hood. Beyond the World of Apu: The Films of Satyajit Ray.
New Delhi Orient Longman, 2008. xi + 476 pp. $36.95 (paper),
by Sakti Sengupta | On 15 May 2009 Medicines are important in curing and preventing diseases, and hence, the ultimate goal of `Health for All’ cannot be achieved if people do not have adequate access to essential drugs. Evidences show...
by Lalitha N | On 14 May 2009 This paper will hopefully provide an important methodological tool for all
researchers who may be attempting to analyze and explain the growth of the service
sector and its share in the Indian GDP o...
by Barry Eichengreen | On 08 May 2009 This paper presents a broad definition of social protection to include basic securities, such as income, food, health and shelter, and economic securities including having income generating productive...
by Jeemol Unni | On 01 May 2009 The
paper’s focus is on successful Chinese policies that can be emulated by other countries to an extent (within certain bounds) which mentined in the article. The author is not trying to draw lesson...
by Arvind Virmani | On 22 Apr 2009 The paper examines the division of tasks required between politicians and bureaucrats to run an effective rural employment guarantee scheme (EGS) in India, in the context of Indian history and habits.
by Ashima Goyal | On 21 Apr 2009 2009 Budget speech
by Ministry of Finance and Planning Sri Lanka | On 20 Apr 2009 Communal riots have become an annual feature
of Indian life, although their number varies from year to year. A situation has come to pacs where maddening communal
violence, arbitrary actions of exe...
by People's Union for Democratic Rights PUDR | On 16 Apr 2009 The impact of economic crisis on India has been analysed in the speech. [Speech delivered at the Symposium on 'The Global Economic Crisis and Challenges for the Asian Economy in a Changing World'].
by Duvvuri Subbarao | On 24 Feb 2009 Examines whether there are any funds for children related activities.
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 19 Feb 2009 The purpose of this paper is to provide evidence, and argue, that stunning as India’s success is, the potential – and need – is for still more reform and more rapid growth. 8 percent is a good rate of...
by Anne O. Krueger | On 17 Feb 2009 The paper examines the basic reasons and feasible remedies for organizational
weakness, and the possible contribution of ownership, industry and management
structure, leadership, social norms, and i...
by Ashima Goyal | On 12 Feb 2009 Nouriel Roubini, professor of Economics at the Stern School of Business, New York University, christened Dr.Doom by the US business media, is not given to wearing rose coloured glasses. He does not se...
by Charles Krusen | On 24 Jan 2009 The paper attempts to construct political influence variables and explain discrepancies in fund disbursement through proper econometric specification in the Indian context.
by Rongili Biswas | On 21 Jan 2009 An analysis of the economic implication of judicial
activism of the apex court of India in the regulation of automotive air
pollution is analysed. It estimates the health damage cost of urban air po...
by Ramprasad Sengupta | On 16 Jan 2009 The speech tries to underline some lessones that be drawn from the financial crisis relevant to regulation, financial markets and the market infrastructure and to reflect on these. [Annual Conference...
by Shyamala Gopinath | On 15 Jan 2009 This paper tries to analyze the interrelationship between possibilities of conflict
in cross border mergers and acquisitions and firm and market characteristics in a two
country three firm model. Th...
by Poonam Mehra | On 14 Jan 2009 An attempt has been made to discuss various aspects of unpaid household work such as its treatment in the system of National Accounts, and the methodologies of its valuation. With the help relevant da...
by R N Pandey | On 09 Jan 2009 Whether timing of the elections leads to riots or not within India. In other
words, does timing of elections instigate riots? Using time series crosssectional
data for 16 major Indian states for the...
by Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati | On 09 Jan 2009 Written comments on the issues raised for consultation may please be furnished to Principal Advisor (FN), TRAI by 30th January, 2009. The comments may be sent in writing and also preferably be sent in...
by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India TRAI | On 08 Jan 2009 To understand the development process of Indian Railway’s over the past twenty years, the study covers issues and strategies related to financial and physical aspects of revenue generating freight and...
by G. Raghuram | On 06 Jan 2009 In order to examine if the impact of oil price shocks depends on the structure of an economy, a vertical (VSC) and a horizontal (HSC) long-run supply curve identification are successively imposed on a...
by Ashima Goyal | On 05 Jan 2009 The 61st round of NSS shows that there is a turnaround
in employment growth in rural India after a phase of ‘jobless growth’.
Paradoxically, this employment growth occurred during a period of wide
...
by Vinoj Abraham | On 05 Jan 2009 This preliminary report has been prepared with a view to assist the state government in understanding the implications of the crisis, so that appropriate policies and programmes could be chalked to de...
by Centre for Development Studies CDS | On 02 Jan 2009 In this paper an overview of
India’s technological trajectory with a view to understanding the nuances of India’s
technological capability and the role it has played in the process of India’s econom...
by Amit Shovon Ray | On 26 Dec 2008 The report discusses for the first time the linkages between climate change and dam-building in the Himalayas, and comprehensively analyzes the impacts of the dam building spree on the region's people...
by Shripad Dharmadhikary | On 26 Dec 2008 The paper has two objectives. One, to analyse the pattern of energy usage in India and
the implications thereof for carbon emission; two, to examine whether pricing and taxation
policies have any ro...
by Samantak Das | On 24 Dec 2008 The study examines the impact of aggregate government
expenditure and its two broader components such as revenue expenditure
and capital expenditure on the growth rate of output in the Indian contex...
by Hrushikesh Mallick | On 22 Dec 2008 Perspective on the current global turmoil, its impact on India, the outlook for the Indian economy and the challenges that lie ahead for the Indian banking system, in particular. [Speech delivered at...
by D Subbarao | On 19 Dec 2008 The main objectives of this report are to identify and propose policies,
factors and conditions that could mitigate or avoid double mismatches. policies here means any course of action pursued and ad...
by Khee-Giap Tan | On 19 Dec 2008 This paper analyses interrelationships between ‘economic development’, ‘health’, and ‘environment’ in a simultaneous equations framework. The endogenous variables chosen for the model are GDPPC (per c...
by A L Nagar | On 17 Dec 2008 Two major economic problems are currently shadowing Asian economies. On the one hand,
the slowdown in the US economy, ignited by the subprime mortgage crisis, may not be
confined to the US region...
by Kwanho Shin | On 05 Dec 2008 Politicians face high-powered electoral pressures while bureaucrats face longer-term, low powered incentives. Given constitutional constraints, what incentives do politicians employ to control bureauc...
by Lakshmi Iyer | On 02 Dec 2008 The report highlights the following aspects:
1. the inability of the legal system to recognise the unique unequal ,
2. position of women;
3. the perception of women as peripheral to economic develo...
by PUDR Peoples Union for Democratic Rights | On 01 Dec 2008 This paper focuses on the role of fiscal and monetary policies in the evolution of the Indian economy over the years, with particular attention being given to the reforms undertaken in these policies...
by Rakesh Mohan | On 28 Nov 2008 Using product-level data on exports from different cities within China, this paper investigates the contributing factors to the rising export sophistication. [WP no. 226].
by Zhi Wang | On 26 Nov 2008 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 structure and extent of interlocking directorates within Indian business groups is studied and analyses the performance effects of such interlocks. It finds that large groups tend to have more int...
by Bikram De | On 21 Nov 2008 The paper provides an overview of the nature of trade in health services in the world economy. It oulines some of the general implications of trade in health services for national health systems for a...
by Rupa Chanda | On 13 Nov 2008 The paper provides a comprehensive description of GZB (Ghaziabad) goods shed, including facilities, traffic flow, customer interface, processes, etc. In this context, the paper raises questions regard...
by G. Raghuram | On 12 Nov 2008 The paper reviews India’s macroeconomic performance and policies since 2000. The
first section briefly summarizes key macroeconomic developments regarding
economic growth, inflation, external bala...
by Shankar Acharya | On 02 Nov 2008 It is attempted to understand the implications of equality in water distribution on social welfare with a simple abstract analysis using Leontief-type fixed production function.
by Sashi Sivramakrishna | On 16 Oct 2008 The ongoing global financial turmoil represents an end of an era of exuberant financial capitalism. But the transition to a more sedate and scaled down financial sector will be traumatic for the world...
by Mukul Asher | On 15 Oct 2008 Two agendas of the heterodox economics programme; the stock-flow consistent models pioneered by Wynne Godley, and the monetary circuit approach researched in France and Italy are discussed. The object...
by Romar Correa | On 10 Oct 2008 Specific policy issues linked to renewable energy development with recommendations for future strategies and measures have been discussed in the article. [CSH WP no. 3]
by Debyani Ghosh | On 07 Oct 2008 This paper examines steady states of an overlapping generations economy with a given
distribution of household locations over a one-dimensional interval. Parents decide whether
or not to educate the...
by Dilip Mookherjee | On 06 Oct 2008 The objective of the paperis to obtain the inputs of stakeholders and to generate a discussion on the appropriate policy relating to cross media and ownership restrictions in India. The comments of al...
by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India TRAI | On 03 Oct 2008 The paper analyzes the determinants of internationalisation, defined in terms of export intensity and overseas investments, of the IT firms in India. In particular, the paper examines the role of tech...
by Narayanan K | On 01 Oct 2008 The paper carries the reader across and over great spans of space and time, with an Indian feminist woman academic journeying back to seventeenth-century ancien regime France, to 1770s Scotland, to 17...
by Bagchi B | On 01 Oct 2008 India Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) 2006 and Global School Personnel
Survey (GSPS) 2006 were undertaken region-wise, namely, North, South, East, West, Central and North East, covering 99.7% of t...
by Dhirendra Narain SInha | On 29 Sep 2008 The paper investigates the role of economic factors in the enrolment decision at the
higher education level in India. The study concludes that the rate of
participation of women is in a disadvantage...
by Sugeeta Upadhyay | On 29 Sep 2008 The environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis is revisited using 1987-1995 data for Chinese provinces.
by Catherine Yap Co | On 29 Sep 2008 This paper applies theoretical pluralism to studies of poverty. However in order to be more specific it takes as a case study some competing studies of Indian rural tenancy relations. In the paper, sp...
by Wendy Olsen | On 25 Sep 2008 In India, year-on-year percentage changes of price indexes are widely used as the measure of inflation. In terms of monthly data, each observation of a one-year change in inflation is the sum of twelv...
by Rudrani Bhattacharya | On 25 Sep 2008 The study is taken up in the state of Andhra Pradesh with the following objectives:
1. To study the opportunities and challenges in processing of rice, fruits and
vegetables, oilseeds and livestock...
by S.Mahendra Dev | On 17 Sep 2008 Education is an important component of economic activity, although investment in education is only one of the many forms of investment in human capital. The idea behind this is that investment in huma...
by Haripriya Gundimeda | On 17 Sep 2008 Within the past decade, national levels of labour productivity in CEECs have converged significantly towards the levels predominant in the EU. Yet, levels are still significantly lower, large gaps are...
by Dr Johannes Stephan | On 16 Sep 2008 It is argued that for households below poverty line any expenditure on health is catastrophic as they are unable to attain the subsistence level of consumption. Thus, zero percent is taken as a thres...
by Rama Joglekar | On 15 Sep 2008 Research Studies on Rice/Paddy initiated by Hivos in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and The
Netherlands looked at several aspects related to ecological/environmental, economic, institutional, social/gen...
by G V Ramanjaneyulu | On 15 Sep 2008 The emergence of China and India as economic giants has impacted the influence of Malaysia. Despite its remarkable economic and social success, Malaysia’s three main races – Malays, Indians and Chines...
by Asian Centre for Human Rights ACHR | On 08 Sep 2008 It is interesting to note that nearly three decades of new paradigms in
macroeconomic theory and policy have hardly gone beyond the ivory towers of the
academic world. The extent to which a scientif...
by V. Pandit | On 28 Aug 2008 Most developing countries continue to face serious problems in developing adequate and responsive tax systems. This paper reviews the three principal ways in which developing countries may expand and...
by Richard M. Bird | On 25 Aug 2008 This study examines the contribution of tourism towards improving the livelihoods of local people in a remote island village of the Indian Sundarbans.
by Indrila Guha | On 18 Aug 2008 This study is an inter-sectoral analysis of state domestic product data to
understand the determinants of the services sector growth in India during the
recent years. It is a demand side analysis wh...
by Deepita Chakravarty | On 11 Aug 2008 A broad overview of the achievements and progress made by the Indian
banking sector in the last two decades and the emerging frontiers of the Indian banking system, in the post-reform era. [Address d...
by Leeladhar V | On 11 Aug 2008 This paper analyses the determinants of growth and profit behaviour of the Chinese and Indian IT Software firms.
by N.S. Siddharthan | On 30 Jul 2008 The Reserve Bank released the document “Macroeconomic and Monetary
Developments: First Quarter Review 2008-09” to serve as a backdrop to the First Quarter Review of Annual Policy Statement for 2008-0...
by Reserve Bank of India | On 28 Jul 2008 This paper investigates certain macro data on the Indian economy to draw inferences on the sustainability of the economic growth experienced over the last couple of decades. Interpreting sustainabilit...
by Purnamita Dasgupta | On 24 Jul 2008 From the early 1990s, India embarked on easing capital controls. Liberalization
emphasised openness towards equity flows, both FDI and portfolio flows. In particular, there are few barriers in the fa...
by Ajay Shah | On 24 Jul 2008 Women's Reservation Bill
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 24 Jul 2008 The Poverty Argument arises from the single fact that any family with a critically low level of income and struggling to keep “the wolf from the door” must, in order to survive, send the children to w...
by M. Nagarjuna | On 23 Jul 2008 Use of Macroeconometric models has by now assumed a measure of universality as an unavoidable aid to forecasting and policy analysis; challenges and controversies spread over more than two decades not...
by V. Pandit | On 26 Jun 2008 This paper examines the proposition that "poverty is a violation of human rights". The author disuses the possibility of this proposition to be implementable in real case senarios and in polcies,
by Arjun Sengupta | On 26 Jun 2008 This paper presents an overview of Indo-Japan cooperation since late 18th and early 19th century till date. In the light of the changing paradigm in India-Japan relations over the past several years,...
by PG Rajamohan | On 23 Jun 2008 For most developed countries, "opening up" of the economy has meant the reduction
of non-prohibitive tariffs and the easing or abolition of quantitative restrictions. For manydeveloping countries and...
by Aditya Bhattacharjea | On 20 Jun 2008 A large body of empirical literature highlights the need for stakeholder participation within the context of policy change and democratic governance. This makes intuitive sense and may appear to be a...
by Vinod Ahuja | On 19 Jun 2008 The interest rate is a key financial variable that affects decision of consumers, businesses, financial institutions, professional investors and policymakers. Timely forecast of interest rates can the...
by Pami Dua | On 13 Jun 2008 Contents
Mashelkar’s Folly - Gopa Kumar 1
Statement by Scientific and Public Interest Groups 5
The Glivec Story: Some Key Dates 7
Q&A on Patents in India and the Novartis Case 9
Gleevec Updates 1...
by Medico Friend Circle | On 31 May 2008 The important elements of inclusive growth are: agricultural growth,
employment generation and poverty reduction, social sector (health and education) and
reduction in regional and other disparities...
by S.Mahendra Dev | On 31 May 2008 This paper looks at the effects on livestock of silvi-pasture development on common lands in relation to (a) ruminant systems and (b) livestock numbers and ownership patterns in Rajasthan, India. [SDC...
by Czech Conroy | On 14 May 2008 For many decades, macro-policy in India was conducted in an environment
with five key elements: ˆ Agricultural shocks rather than a conventional business cycle; A closed economy; deeply distorti...
by Ajay Shah | On 13 May 2008 An important method of managing resources to finance consistent and
balanced human development lies in the reprioritisation of current
expenditure in accordance with the urgent needs and shortfalls...
by Tapas K. Sen | On 13 May 2008 The government of India has appointed many committees to look into the issue of agrarian distress in India. An Expert Panel was constituted by the National Bank for Agricultural and Rural Development...
by Satish Chander | On 12 May 2008 Inflation impacts on the social and political life and it is the poor who bear the consequences most. There can be no room for tardiness in taking measures to control inflation.
[See synopses of par...
by Shambhu Ghatak | On 21 Apr 2008 The question today is whether all the issues that were neglected when things were going well, will now get due attention when we can see even more clearly what needs to get done.
by T.N. Ninan | On 19 Apr 2008 The question today is whether all the issues that were neglected when things were going well, will now get due attention when we can see even more clearly what needs to get done.
by T.N. Ninan | On 19 Apr 2008 Risky products cause two types of costs for society; the accident costs and the
insurance costs. Liability rules allocate these costs between the parties involved. The expansion in the scope of produ...
by Ram Singh | On 14 Apr 2008 The financial sector has built capabilities such that, with appropriate policy changes, it can grow tremendously, both domestically and internationally. the report touches upon two reasons for financi...
by Raghuram G. Rajan | On 14 Apr 2008 The principles of the ‘bottom-up’ approach to adaptation are followed. It believes that one of the starting points for adaptation to climate change should be the present. The focus should not just be...
by Lucy Scott | On 13 Apr 2008 The Planning Commission constituted a high level committee for comprehensively examining the different aspects influencing the performance of the services sector and suggest short-term and long-term p...
by Anwarul Hoda | On 09 Apr 2008 A monthly compilation by IRIS.
by IRIS India IRIS | On 09 Apr 2008 A brief overview is provided about India’s long-term growth performance. Then an attempt is made to set out the conditions for successful innovations. To assess the role of innovations in the Indian...
by Rakesh Mohan | On 03 Apr 2008 Reliability of audience measurement reports both from the perspective of viewers and competitive relations between broadcasters have been of concern to the Regulators in most countries. Internationall...
by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India TRAI | On 01 Apr 2008 Like the alchemist's philosopher's stone of old, though, the heavy artillery of game theory is being wheeled out in more and more sophisticated models, in the hope of converting the lead of individual...
by Kevin Quinn | On 17 Mar 2008 The good times may be ending. There have been worries for years about the global imbalances caused by America’s huge overseas borrowing. America, in turn, said that the world should be thankful: by li...
by Joseph E. Stiglitz | On 17 Mar 2008 The good times may be ending. There have been worries for years about the global imbalances caused by America’s huge overseas borrowing. America, in turn, said that the world should be thankful: by li...
by | On 17 Mar 2008 The budget is an election budget. There are lots of sectors which needs more attention. Many questions are raised at the end of the document which the government may fail to answer
by Arun Kumar | On 04 Mar 2008 Budget presented by Finance Minister
by P Chidambaram | On 29 Feb 2008 Economy Survey 2007-08.
website:http://indiabudget.nic.in
by Ministry of Finance | On 29 Feb 2008 The paper examines fertility differentials among the three religion groups, Hindu, Muslim and Christian, and trends in these based on data from the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-1). [WP No. 167]...
by Manoj Alagarajan | On 26 Feb 2008 An analysis of the various parameters of manufacturing competitiveness of the Indian economy is provided. The paper notes that India is one of the leading producers and exporters of a number of commod...
by Lakshmanan L | On 19 Feb 2008 A review of the overall macroeconomic performance in India since independence, the prospects for the coming five years and finally the issues that need to be addressed for sustaining the growth of the...
by Rakesh Mohan | On 16 Feb 2008 Shows how the macro economic variables of Indian Economy are performing.
by P Chidambaram | On 11 Feb 2008 It is proposed to amend the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Rules, 1957 (SCRR) to make provisions to implement the proposals as suggested at Para 11 in the paper. The comments on these proposals are...
by Ministry of Finance | On 05 Feb 2008 Review of The Social and the Symbolic edited by Edited by Bernard Bel, Jan Brouwer, Biswajit Das, Vibodh Parthasarathi, Guy Poitevin; Sage, New Delhi; 2007, pp 481, Rs 895.
by Ratnawali Sinha | On 22 Jan 2008 The fertility differentials among caste groups in Andhra Pradesh are examined in the context of characteristics and interaction hypotheses, using the second National Family Health Survey data. Multiva...
by P Ramesh | On 21 Jan 2008 As the title of the article says, the question asked here is who can fight terrorisn in Pakistan?
by T.N. Ninan | On 21 Jan 2008 The significance of international migration in the Philippines economy and society is discussed. The Government of Philippines plays a supportive and regulatory role promoting internationational migr...
by S. Irudaya Rajan | On 19 Jan 2008 An estimation of the real equilibrium exchange rate for India for the period in the latter half of the 1990s using fundamental economic variables by decomposing a structural VAR vested with appropriat...
by Himanshu Joshi | On 18 Jan 2008 A monthly compilation by IRIS.
by IRIS India IRIS | On 11 Jan 2008 The report of the Expert Committee provides a broad overarching framework for guiding the policies governing the production and use of different forms of energy from various sources. It makes specific...
by Planning Commission, India | On 10 Jan 2008 Management of capital accounts in the global context and in the Indian context. [Inaugural address delivered by Dr. Y. V. Reddy, Governor, Reserve Bank of India at the Annual Conference of the Indian...
by Y V Reddy | On 08 Jan 2008 KIA proposes to bring a paradigm shift in Indian Agriculture in terms of human resource development, research, technology generation, technology dissemination and commercialization. In the short run,...
by Ramanjaneyulu G V | On 05 Jan 2008 With the 19th century drain, no one was certain if the benefit exceeded
the cost and since the rulers were foreign the suspicion was that any investment they made was not beneficial. But the lesson f...
by Lord Meghnad Desai | On 25 Dec 2007 Whether energy use drives economic growth or vice versa in the Indian context during the period 1970-71 to 2004-05 is examined. Utilizing the Granger causality test, the study suggests that it is the...
by Hrushikesh Mallick | On 17 Dec 2007 The growing importance of India and other emerging economies in the globalized world are given in this lecture. This group of economies is not easy to define. However, some reflections on the implicat...
by Jean-Claude Trichet | On 30 Nov 2007 A distinguishing aspect of the growth performance is that India now has five mobile phones for every one fixed telephone and the monthly additions to mobile subscribers are well over six million. Such...
by Sunil Mani | On 26 Nov 2007 The success of an immunisation programme in any country depends more upon local realities and national policies. This is particularly true for a huge and diverse developing country such as India, with...
by Yennapu Madhavi | On 12 Nov 2007 The authors attempt to construct a monetary conditions index (MCI) for India in order to take both interest rate and exchange rate channels simultaneously into consideration while evaluating the stanc...
by Kannan R | On 08 Nov 2007 Performance Budget for 2005-2006 of Department of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy (AYUSH).
by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare H & FW | On 06 Nov 2007 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 The Reserve Bank, as the regulator of the banking sector, has been actively engaged, from the very beginning, in the review, examination and evaluation of customer service in the banks. It has been re...
by Leeladhar V | On 26 Oct 2007 Examines the evidence for various explantions usually offered for the differences infertility behaviour across regions and over time in India. The data sets used in the study are National Sample Surve...
by Pramila Krishnan | On 24 Oct 2007 The attempt is to draw upon public sphere debates in Malayalee society in the immediate post-independence decades, more specifically on speech and writing accruing around the distinctiveness of Malaya...
by J Devika | On 23 Oct 2007 Recognising the growing activity in the non deliverable forward (NDF) market in the recent years, the paper attempts to present a detailed analysis of the NDF market with special focus on Indian rupee...
by Sangita Misra | On 22 Oct 2007 A monthly compilation by IRIS.
by IRIS India IRIS | On 22 Oct 2007 The nature of the financial turbulence that happened recently in US and Europe, why it happened, where it happened, and the implications for central banks. Some of the forces that led up to and charac...
by Rakesh Mohan | On 12 Oct 2007 The ways in which the public learns about the histories of transport and travel are explored. The role of displays put on by museums and by heritage transport attractions - organisations such as steam...
by Colin Divall | On 11 Oct 2007 In a globalising economy, regional or national benchmarks do not suffice any more. Be it technology or business method or practices, Indian small scale entrepreneurs will have to benchmark their curre...
by Anil K Gupta | On 10 Oct 2007 Since the early 1990s the Indian economy has seen a considerable relaxation of controls, as a consequence of which it has witnessed unprecedented growth. This is especially remarkable in the external...
by Partha Sen | On 04 Oct 2007 In popular belief, Bhagat Singh and Gandhi occupy two antipodes in India's struggle for freedom – the former representing the young generation impatient to overthrow foreign rule by any means necessar...
by Niranjan Ramakrishnan | On 03 Oct 2007 During the period 1972-73 to 2004-05 in rural India, the total number of workers expanded more in the non-farm sector than the farm sector with the rise in male workers being sharper than that of fema...
by Sharad Ranjan | On 30 Sep 2007 The States, relative to the Centre, have taken the centre-stage in the reform process since the areas of highest national priority now fall essentially within the purview of the States. The unique and...
by Y V Reddy | On 26 Sep 2007 TRIPS is a reality and India has to rework its patent law to conform to it. But that does not mean that we have a patent law that provides for TRIPS plus rules. Our interest lies in taking full advant...
by Sheela Rai | On 20 Sep 2007 The price volatility of agricultural commodities assumes critical importance in the context of the ongoing debate regarding agricultural trade liberalisation in India. The arguments against agricultur...
by C S C Sekhar | On 12 Sep 2007 A review of the recent developments in the Indian Economy. Review of the trends in monetary policy challenges globally and for emerging market economies (EMEs) in particular. The monetary policy frame...
by Y V Reddy | On 10 Sep 2007 Agriculture as a source of growth was sorely neglected in the early development strategies of the currently developing countries. Realisation of this shortcoming prompted public policy in these countr...
by Sunil Kanwar | On 06 Sep 2007 NABARD is a key participant in the micro finance sector and has been closely associated with one of the two prevailing modes i.e. SHG-bank linkage mode of delivery of micro finance services. The devel...
by Mukul Asher | On 04 Sep 2007 With the abolition of prohibition on forward trade in all the commodities at the beginning of 2003, the commodity derivativesmarket has been totally liberalized. The Ramamoorthy Committee set up by SE...
by Ministry for Consumer Affairs,Food and Public Dist MCAFP | On 26 Aug 2007 A monthly compilation by IRIS.
by IRIS India IRIS | On 22 Aug 2007 India's has been a unique path of economic development—internally decided in a
democratic framework, constantly debated between different ideologies and
interest groups, and increasingly engaging wi...
by Vinod Vyasulu | On 21 Aug 2007 There is a change in the financial scenario. Any sustained bout of fair weather on the markets creates business excesses as investors and consumers start discounting risk more and more. So it is healt...
by T.N. Ninan | On 20 Aug 2007 The past and present of India can be seen in many different perspectives. There is a case for focusing particularly on the long history of the argumentative tradition in India, and its continuing rele...
by Amartya Sen | On 17 Aug 2007 This paper evaluates the real-time performance of the growth rate of the DSE-ECRI Indian leading index for exports for predicting cyclical downturns and upturns in the growth rate of Indian exports. T...
by Pami Dua | On 14 Aug 2007 An overview of domestic and global macroeconomic developments [Valedictory address at the High Powered Macroeconomic Workshop organised by the State Bank of India].
by Rakesh Mohan | On 08 Aug 2007 Our higher education system needs restructuring and it should avoid conspicuous consumption. Institutions should try to earn money by doing some productive activities. It should be made mandatory tha...
by S.K. Mishra | On 08 Aug 2007 Virulent Virus: Chikungunya too may have turned into a lethal killer.
Banning Tobacco: No to skull and crossbones on cigarette packets.
Meet Dr. Deshpande: Taking people from despair to hope.
Waiti...
by Health eNewsletter | On 07 Aug 2007 The macro-economic numbers put out by the official statistical systems do not capture the full underlying reality because of a variety of accounting fudges and delayed decisions. Taken in its totality...
by T.N. Ninan | On 30 Jul 2007 This paper provides a robust normative evaluation of the spectacular growth episode that India has experienced in the last 15 years. Specifically, the paper compares the evolution, between 1988, 1996...
by Nicolas Gravel | On 06 Jul 2007 A monthly compilation by IRIS.
by IRIS India IRIS | On 06 Jul 2007 A brief introduction to Reserve Bank of India, followed by glimpses of the Indian economy. A detailed account of reforms in India’s financial sector, in particular, the banking sector, and financial m...
by Y V Reddy | On 05 Jul 2007 The relationship between Indian macro-economic factors and economic growth has been analyzed by a number of empirical studies. This paper re-examines the sources of variability in the Indian economy f...
by Bharat Chadha | On 26 Jun 2007 The study traces the trends in industrial growth against the backdrop of the overall economic growth in Kerala under the influence of the ongoing economic reforms and evaluates it against the performa...
by KK Subrahmanian | On 14 Jun 2007 Liberalisation initiatives have been taken by India with a view to improve the efficiency of manufacturing industries and achieving faster GDP growth. The present
paper investigates the influence of...
by C Veermani | On 01 Jun 2007 Review of : India’s Long-Term Growth Experience: Lessons and Prospects by
Sadiq Ahmed. Sage India, New Delhi, February 2007.
by S. Chandrasekhar | On 31 May 2007 Analysis is made to the extent of barriers to entry in Indian manufacturing by empirically quantifying the height of these barriers. Econometric estimation of the height of the barriers for 1991 and 1...
by M Suresh Babu | On 28 May 2007 Most of 726 million rural populations in India is dependent on agriculture. Rice is the staple food of nearly 65% of the total population in India. The production of rough rice reached 135 million ton...
by Barah B.C. | On 09 Mar 2007 Multilateral agencies and economists with much influence have been urging laissez-faire in agriculture. While success with the rich countries has been minimal despite the commitments under the WTO, ma...
by Sebastian Morris | On 07 Mar 2007 The Budget does not sufficiently recognize the need for re-balancing the role of the state and the market, and of the public and the private sectors for managing increasingly complex economic and stra...
by Mukul Asher | On 07 Mar 2007 An attempt has been made to analyse agricultural growth and the contribution of various components to the overall output growth of the Maharashtra State for the period from 1961-62 to 1997-98. It is o...
by Shrikant Kalamkar | On 02 Mar 2007 Indian Railways (IR), which was declared to be heading towards bankruptcy as per the Expert Group on Indian Railways in 2001, is today the second largest profit making Public Sector Undertaking after...
by G. Raghuram | On 27 Feb 2007 Theoretical literature identifies two variants of crowding out in an economy–real and financial. The real (direct) crowding out occurs when the increase in public investment displaces private capital...
by Lekha S. Chakraborty | On 17 Feb 2007 A Technical Expert Group on Patent Law Issues was set up by the Government of India, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion to examine whether it would be TRIPS c...
by R.A. Mashelkar | On 14 Feb 2007 Kriebish had, for a long time, cherished a dream of setting up a learning and documentation centre dedicated to the study of oral literature, village religion and customs, music and dance, traditional...
by Leena Pascal | On 12 Feb 2007 This mid-year review reports developments in the economy in the first half of 2006-
07, with a particular focus on Central Government finances, outlining the performances
in the real sector, economi...
by Ministry of Finance | On 06 Feb 2007 Devoted to the analysis of housing market in India, the paper employs a special
decomposition scheme for the structural VAR proposed by Blanchard and Quah to study the impact of permanent shocks to...
by Himanshu Joshi | On 10 Jan 2007 The paper reports a study to investigate the structural changes in the manufacturing sector of India (possibly) brought about by liberalization and globalization of the economy. It assesses the struct...
by S.K. Mishra | On 09 Jan 2007 The importance of supermarkets in the world food economy has increased radically
since the early 1990s. They are now major sellers and buyers of food items not only in developed but also in developin...
by Mehmet Arda | On 27 Dec 2006 In the context of the TRIPS agreement and the accompanying debate about the merits of the requirement to enforce product patents for pharmaceuticals, this paper provides a rigorously-derived estimate...
by Shubham Chaudhuri | On 27 Dec 2006 Social scientists often emphasize how ‘culture’ and ‘social norms’ can be important determinants of economic behavior and development. This raises questions of the relative importance of economic ince...
by Kaushik Basu | On 26 Dec 2006 Over 75% of the annual estimated 9.5 million deaths in India occur in the home, and the large majority of these do not have a certified cause. India and other developing countries urgently need reliab...
by Prabhat Jha | On 31 Oct 2006 Globalization, or integration with the world economy via WTO membership, was expected to increase foriegn investment and benefit the labour intensive manufacturing sector in China. Yet, although forei...
by Anita Chan | On 26 Oct 2006 Investors in today’s India should not need to seek escape from poor infrastructure and irrational labour laws, in special zones; rather, the underlying problems should be tackled in the country as a w...
by T.N. Ninan | On 01 Oct 2006 The world economy is slowing down, the commodity sector is headed for bleaker times, the downswing phase of the business cycle could see problems emerge that are hidden during the good times, protecti...
by T.N. Ninan | On 01 Oct 2006 If business gains at the expense of other stake-holders (consumers, the tax department, farmers), economic benefits get captured by a small minority at the top of the pyramid. Even without skewed poli...
by T.N. Ninan | On 01 Oct 2006 If one might attempt a hypothesis, it would be that India’s communist parties would like to adjust to the reality of the day by giving up their old identities and becoming social democratic parties, b...
by T.N. Ninan | On 01 Oct 2006 This paper will examine the network of consitutional and penal
provisions on the question of social exclusion and will explore the
implications of these realities for an understanding of criminology...
by S.R. Sankaran | On 29 Aug 2006 Reforms in water and sanitation sector intended to make stakeholders part of the implementation process. In the process beneficiaries share partial capital cost and meet 100 per cent of operation and...
by Veerashekarappa | On 12 Aug 2006 This paper examines the patterns of loan utilisation and repayment among micro-finance group members for Wayland district of Kerala. It argues that 100 per cent repayment by members need not always in...
by Emil Mathew | On 12 Aug 2006 In the light of the observations of the Supreme Court in its order dated 17th
April 2006, the Prime Minister constituted the Sardar Sarovar Project Relief &
Rehabilitation Oversight Group. The manda...
by V.K. Shunglu | On 28 Jul 2006 preliminary critique of the Draft Approach Paper to the Eleventh Five Year Plan released recently by the Planning Commission was submitted by the representatives of six women’s organizations on the 11...
by Sudha Sundararaman | On 19 Jul 2006 Proliferation of sub-national innovation networks, a relatively new concept, promises to be an alternative to centralized national innovation system. To be an independent entity, its growth must come...
by A.S. Rao | On 03 Jun 2006 The Indian software industry has grown very rapidly for more than a decade. In this study we report the results of a multivariate statistical analysis of the determinants of sales revenue growth and p...
by N.S. Siddharthan | On 03 Jun 2006 Editorial: Samita Sen, Shamil Jeppie, Carlos Degregori
Articles:
Hlonipha Mokoena: The Making of a Kholwa Intellec-
tual: Introducing Magema Magwaza Fuze.
Iman Kumar Mitra:The Economics of Sex in...
by SEPHIS | On 23 May 2006 The main aim of this study is to develop an accounting framework that
reflects the real contribution of agricultural land and pastureland to
society. The more specific objectives are to: 1 estimate...
by Haripriya Gundimeda | On 23 May 2006 Accounting for forest wealth is an important ingredient in creating a
framework for analysing policy trade-offs. This study describes forestry-related stocks and flows in terms of land area (under fo...
by Haripriya Gundimeda | On 15 May 2006 India is in a favourable demographic phase, which has the potential to increase its trend rate of growth and depth of its financial and capital markets.
These effects however are not likely to be au...
by Mukul Asher | On 17 Apr 2006 The paper addresses three main issues: The nature of economic reforms and how growth is segregated within the sectors; secondly, limitations of the poverty line approach to estimate the development of...
by Saji M. | On 31 Mar 2006 This paper presents some features of the contradictions in Andhra Pradesh’s economy today: the fast growth of IT and other technology-intensive industries in Hyderabad, and the alarming levels of dist...
by Jayan Jose Thomas | On 30 Mar 2006 Changes in the practices and norms of research have changed the dynamics of creation of knowledge. Issues of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) and proprietary information and knowledge have begun to...
by Sambit Mallick | On 29 Mar 2006 This paper tries to examine the sustainability aspect of the rate of growth (rog) in recent years, designated as ‘the second phase of liberalisation’. This paper is based on the Keynesian framework wh...
by Anamitra Roychowdhury | On 29 Mar 2006 A SWOT analysis of the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry (IPI) in the WTO regime
reveals that the much acclaimed IPI’s expertise in process development skills
were made possible by the amendments made...
by N. Lalitha | On 28 Mar 2006 With liberalization of foreign technology import policy in the 1990s, India has
seen declining R&D intensity at national level. This has generated a general
concern on how Indian industries are doin...
by Jaya Prakash Pradhan | On 28 Mar 2006 The river Balasan near Siliguri carries the natural resources like stone, sand, boulders. People live on the riverside and are involved in work like collection of stones and sand, crushing the stones...
by Somenath Bhattacharjee | On 27 Mar 2006 During the recent period, many countries compete with each other to attract foreign investment. When MNCs invest in a host country, it is assumed that a part of their technology spills to the host cou...
by Subash Sasidharan | On 26 Mar 2006 Results of Greatest Twentieth-Century Economists Poll
Towards a Concrete Utopian Model of Green Political Economy by John Barry
Economics Is Structured Like a Language by William Kaye-Blake
...
by Post-Autistic Economics Movement | On 26 Mar 2006 Neo-liberal economic policies have threatened land security, security of employment opportunities and food security. In the background representatives of the peasantry have to transform themselves int...
by Vijoo Krishnan | On 26 Mar 2006 This paper draws on a study on functioning of public distribution system in Orissa based on secondary data as well as primary data. The first section of this paper discusses in brief the policy change...
by Rajshree Bedamatta | On 26 Mar 2006 This paper deals with the agrarian distress experienced in parts of rural Kerala from the latter half of the 1990s, and the ways in which the distress affected the livelihoods of cultivating household...
by R. Ramakumar | On 26 Mar 2006 This study on agricultural wages shows that states like West Bengal and Gujarat have performed well in providing gender equal wages to men and women. Kerala’s performance in maintaining gender equal w...
by Shambhu Ghatak | On 26 Mar 2006 Critical Perspectives on the Neo-liberal Regime in India
4–5–6 April 2006
Conference Room, Nehru Guest House, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi
Organized by Academy of Third World Studies, Jamia...
by LeftWord Books | On 25 Mar 2006 This paper queries the rightness of the current mainstream thinking on development and technological change; expresses the apprehension that the much-feared climate change seems to have begun, and con...
by Ramaswamy R. Iyer | On 20 Mar 2006 The Budget is an important tool in the hands of state for affirmative action for improvement of gender relations through reduction of gender gap in the development process. Budgets garner resources th...
by Vibhuti Patel | On 09 Mar 2006 This paper examines the degree of de facto exchange rate flexibility for India over the last two decades. While there is a diversity of methods that measure de facto exchange rate regimes, none indivi...
by Tony Cavoli | On 08 Mar 2006 There has been a perception that since the introduction of what have derisively
been called “neo-liberal” reforms, the social sectors i.e. those dealing with
education and health, have suffered. Is...
by Ajit Karnik | On 07 Mar 2006 Growth, or more accurately, the quality of growth, is intricately linked to inequality and so the Finance Minister and the government need to do more by addressing problems of governance as well.
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by Errol D'souza | On 06 Mar 2006 Growth, or more accurately, the quality of growth, is intricately linked to inequality and so the Finance Minister and the government need to do more by addressing problems of governance as well.
by Errol D'souza | On 06 Mar 2006 Economic Review of Developments in 2005 and Prospects for 2006. Presented before the Budget for 2006.
by Ministry of Finance and Planning Sri Lanka | On 05 Mar 2006 Union Budget 2006-07 breaks new ground in many areas, and continues on the
path of modernizing the tax system. It also gives deserved recognition to
key allocation priorities. But its legacy will be...
by Mukul Asher | On 05 Mar 2006 The bulk of the resources must go to the UPA Government’s eight flagship programmes: Sarva Siksha Abhiyan, Mid-day Meal Scheme, Rajiv Gandhi Drinking Water Mission, Total Sanitation Campaign, National...
by Ministry of Finance | On 28 Feb 2006
by Ministry of Finance Government of Gujarat | On 27 Feb 2006
by Ministry of Finance Government of Gujarat | On 27 Feb 2006 Social Sectors
by Ministry of Finance | On 27 Feb 2006 Infrastructure
by Ministry of Finance | On 27 Feb 2006 Agriculture
by Ministry of Finance | On 27 Feb 2006 Industry
by Ministry of Finance | On 27 Feb 2006 External Sector
by Ministry of Finance | On 27 Feb 2006 Prices and Food Management
by Ministry of Finance | On 27 Feb 2006 Securities Markets
by Ministry of Finance | On 27 Feb 2006 Monetary and Banking Developments
by Ministry of Finance | On 27 Feb 2006 Public Finance
by Ministry of Finance | On 27 Feb 2006 General Review
by Ministry of Finance | On 27 Feb 2006 The present paper argues that a comprehensive rural industrialisation/cluster
development strategy has to be designed within a broader regional development
perspective that does not fail to include...
by Keshab Das | On 20 Feb 2006 Although the French President has ordered Clemenceau to head back, the politics of toxic waste and its disposal remains as murky as ever. The workers at the Alang shipyard are the worst exposed to to...
by D.Raghunandan | On 20 Feb 2006 Closing Gaps to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals: Roles
by Indian Council of Medical Research | On 08 Feb 2006 Russia’s Gazprom, the world’s largest gas company, has precipitated serious tensions among the post-Soviet countries by sharply hiking gas prices this winter. Gazprom has been supplying gas to these c...
by R.G. Gidadhubli | On 07 Feb 2006 There are several themes which emerge from the comparative analysis of social security systems in Southeast Asia. Each country will need to address the limitations of their respective system in relati...
by Mukul Asher | On 06 Feb 2006 This paper deals with the challenges of fiscal federalism in
planned economies. Planned economies through their various policy instruments to
control the resource allocation introduce several source...
by M.Govinda Rao | On 06 Feb 2006 The robust performance of the Indian economy continued during the second
quarter (July-September) of 2005-06. According to the Central Statistical
Organisation (CSO), the economy recorded a real GDP...
by Reserve Bank of India | On 02 Feb 2006 The increase in direct taxes has not been able to offset the decline that resulted from the reduction in customs tariff and decline in excise revenue. The task facing the policymakers now is to explor...
by Amaresh Bagchi | On 01 Feb 2006 When analyzing the appropriate response for monetary policy during a currency
crisis it is important to keep in mind two distinct channels: (a) the impact of raising
interest rates on exchange rates...
by Ramkishen S. Rajan | On 27 Jan 2006 Contents
I. The Real Economy -- 1
Agricultural Situation
Industrial Performance
Business Expectations Surveys
Services Sector
II. Fiscal Situation 14
Combined Government Fi...
by Reserve Bank of India | On 25 Jan 2006 It is puzzling how much the discourse of development has backed
away from the seemingly central question of rural poverty: land.
Elaborate rules concerning its distribution, rights, regulation, prot...
by Ronald Herring | On 12 Jan 2006 How has the political leadership in Karnataka contributed to the state's economic developmet? In order to assess the role that the political leadership has played, the author examines the role of the...
by Gujjarappa Thimmaiah | On 09 Jan 2006 This paper examines changes that have (and have not) occurred – at the
village level in Karnataka where most or the state’s residents live, and at
higher levels when they impinge upon villages – sin...
by James Manor | On 09 Jan 2006 This paper uses household data from India to examine the economic and social
status of village politicians, and how individual and village characteristics a®ect
politician behavior while in o±ce. Ed...
by Timothy Besley | On 22 Nov 2005 The concept of ‘agricultural biotechnology’ covers two main categories of activities, one of which is characterised by genetic modification using recombinant DNA techniques (GM-technology), while the...
by A. Indira | On 22 Nov 2005 In his early years, B S Minhas, who passed away recently, enriched economics with his valued theoretical contributions that are today an integral part of economic literature. These were both acknowled...
by Deena Khatkhate | On 21 Nov 2005 Successive finance ministers have been calling the public sector banks “to brace for a wave of consolidation” to become global players. However, calling for world-beaters does not produce them; vision...
by Aruni Mukherjee | On 22 Oct 2005 A sleepy village has transformed itself by accepting the challenges of diversification to vegetable cultivation in order to cope with the uncertainty of coir cultivation and manufacture.
by M.K. Das | On 22 Oct 2005 This paper aims to demonstrate that the economic behaviour of ordinary men and women in the pre-colonial Deccan was as much ‘capitalistic’ as that of similar agents in contemporary Europe. The differe...
by Neeraj Hatekar | On 21 Oct 2005 The book opens new debates relevant to post-apartheid South Africa, in particular the relationship of Indians and Africans. Contemporary discussion of this sensitive issue is always framed with refere...
by Goolam Vahed | On 22 Sep 2005 This paper develops a framework for thinking about the policy challenge of scaling up small scale interventions, governmental and non-governmental, that address poverty reduction successfully. The fra...
by S. Devarajan | On 30 Aug 2005 Introduction to the issue on Revitilising Science, a symposium on the importance of science and technology in our society.
by Anonymous | On 08 Aug 2005 This paper attempts to discuss the implications of the European slave trade in the Indian Ocean from 15th century onwards; duplicity of the European policy of slave trade; the conflict of interests am...
by Aparajita Biswas | On 08 Aug 2005 Indian society is a product of long and complex historical process. The seven major events contributed to the formation of this process are Aryan `advent', the emergence of Indian Protestant religion...
by T Oommen | On 05 Aug 2005 This paper has tried to study and compare the efficiency of Major Ports in India. It also tries to make the comparison of Indian Ports to that of the Ports like Singapore and other developed countries...
by Atul Deskmukh | On 05 Aug 2005 |