This study assesses the impact of nation-wide lockdown in slowing down the spread
of the COVID-19 at the national and state level. An attempt has also been made to examine the
important state-level...
by Rishabh Tyagi | On 27 May 2020 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 The People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) remarkable growth performance over the last 3 decades has been associated to very robust export growth, so much so that many refer to it as a clear example of ex...
by Jesus Felipe | On 29 Aug 2018 Despite the resultant disutility, some people, in particular, the poor, are engaged in
behaviors that carry social stigma. Empirical studies on stigmatized behavior are rare,
largely due to the form...
by Xi Chen | On 12 Apr 2018 The present study was undertaken to review the pilot implementation of the programme and its uptake by beneficiaries, in order to provide data to the DWCD, before scaling up the programme to all distr...
by Centre for Budget and Policy Studies CBPS | On 23 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 The paper examines how endogenous social preferences could affect economic incentive design to encourage biodiversity protection on private land. A 'green' farmer may enjoy esteem from leading by exam...
by Rupayan Pal | On 22 Feb 2018 This paper examines how skills are shaped by social interactions in families. The paper shows that older siblings causally affect younger sibling’s education choices and early career earnings. The pap...
by Juanna Schrøter Joensen | On 01 Dec 2017 The Author considers outsourcing decision of a firm in a Cournot duopoly with incomplete information. There is incomplete information about the production technology of one firm. It is shown that outs...
by Tarun Kabiraj | On 14 Nov 2017 This study attempts to explore the emerging issue among women in Indian cities who voluntarily chose to be childless, with an emphasis on the reasons accorded for opting out of motherhood. Findings of...
by Chandni Bhambhani | On 07 Sep 2017 The report, Addressing Intimate Partner Violence in South Asia- Evidence for Interventions in the Health Sector, Women’s Collectives and Local Governance Mechanisms, is based on a systemic review of l...
by Rohini Prabha Pande | On 18 Aug 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 In recent years DSGE (dynamic stochastic general equilibrium) models have come to
play an increasing role in central banks, as an aid in the formulation of monetary
policy (and increasingly after th...
by DILIP NACHANE | On 04 May 2017 Women workers are found in certain activities traditionally falling within the male domain. This is particularly the case for landless women who largely belong to the hardcore poor group. It indicates...
by | On 22 Nov 2016 The observed uneven distribution of economic activity across space is influenced by variation in exogenous geographical characteristics and endogenous interactions between agents in goods and factor m...
by Stephen Redding | On 20 Sep 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 Controlling healthcare costs while promoting maximum health impact in the recipient countries is one the biggest challenges for global health donors. This paper views global health donors as the regul...
by Han Ye | On 14 Mar 2016 The growth story of Gujarat’s agriculture has received significant recognition (with around 10 percent growth rate in recent years) and is often being hailed as a role model for other states to follow...
by Itishree Patnaik | 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 In the second issue of the NTS Alert for February, we turn our attention towards the complex interactions between poverty and diseases. We briefly summarise the state of the world's health, identify l...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 06 Mar 2016 In this paper we examine incentives to cheat in the Mexican tax system and argue that these are affected by interactions between taxes. We use variation in tax status between Mexican firms and variati...
by Ehtisham Ahmad | On 29 Feb 2016 The main purpose of this paper is to derive the process of estimating dynamic RRA with the maximum likelihood and a Bayesian method having a weakly informative prior density while assuming that the lo...
by Rohit Gupta | On 27 Feb 2016 Human communication in organizations often involves a large amount of gossiping about others. Here we study in an experiment whether gossip affects the efficiency of human interactions. We let subject...
by | On 26 Feb 2016 The increased interaction between business and government – as result of privatisations, lobbying and public contracting - has meant increased opportunities for corruption. Conflicts of interest, and...
by Transparency International TI | On 12 Feb 2016 This report from the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Measuring Sustainability calls for more robust and operational approaches to addressing the challenges of climate change. Called D...
by | On 11 Feb 2016 The migrant selection literature concentrates primarily on spatial patterns. This paper illustrates the implications of migration duration for patterns of selection by integrating two workhorses of th...
by Joyce Chen | On 07 Feb 2016 This paper proposes a mathematical model based on a Boolean algebra involving a 4×4 social capital matrix [Shah (2008)], that emerges through interaction within and across individuals, communities, in...
by Tariq Shah | On 06 Feb 2016 This paper offers a novel perspective on the concept of freedom of conscience in Islam and the rules of apostasy in which the author, YehyaJad revises the notion of the death penalty for the apostate....
by | On 02 Feb 2016 Over the past two decades, regional trade agreements (RTAs) have proliferated alongside the WTO system, involving a wide variety of agreements. In the absence of significant progress on the multilater...
by | On 28 Jan 2016 Important synergies or complementarities exist between trade liberalization initiatives and the application of measures to suppress anti-competitive practices or arrangements. In fact, both anti-compe...
by | On 27 Jan 2016 The conclusion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations has major implications for India, which is aspiring for a larger role in the regional architecture of the Asia-Pacific. India will ha...
by Amitendu Palit | On 10 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 This paper aims to measure the changes in the type and depth of knowledge and understanding on sexual and reproductive health and gender issues, and how they obtained that knowledge. Secondly, changes...
by Md. Abdul Alim | On 11 Dec 2015 The global number of forced migrants is currently the highest since the Second World War.
This is a major concern to public health: lack of access to safe water, food, sanitation, and inadequate shel...
by Peter Heudtlass | On 30 Nov 2015 This study explores issues surrounding the preservation and promotion of culture in the context of the secondary school English curriculum in Bhutan. The languages of Bhutan carry a rich and diverse t...
by | On 21 Sep 2015 In this paper the results are documented which derived from the Perception and Attitudes towards Ageing and seniors (PATAS) survey completed in early 2014. These results delve into respondents beliefs...
by Mathew Mathews | On 11 Aug 2015 Unlike migration, scant attention has been paid to the phenomenon of commuting by workers in
developing countries. This paper fills this gap by using a nationally representative data set from India t...
by Ajay Sharma | On 20 May 2014 After a long and gruelling campaign by ANS for the past eight years to enact a Law against
Superstition which harm the citizens, the Maharashtra State Government under the leadership
of the new Chie...
by Maharashtra Andhshraddha Nirmoolan Samiti MANS | On 22 Aug 2013 All known examples of life belong to the same biology, but there is increasing enthusiasm among astronomers, astrobiologists, and synthetic biologists that other forms of life may soon be discovered o...
by Gerald F Joyce | On 10 Jul 2012 Evidence is presented to show that shared codes, religious beliefs, ethnicity - cultural proximity - between lenders and borrowers improves the efficiency of credit allocation. In-group preferential t...
by Raymond Fisman | On 05 Jul 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 This paper argues that the collective action in Asia by its regional organizations has historically
suffered from a “capability–legitimacy gap”: a disjuncture between the capability (in terms of
mat...
by Amitav Acharya | On 17 Feb 2012 This paper is an account of recent developments at Paka's mini-museum, which
culminated in the production of English text panels for its collection in March
2005. As it turned out, working on these...
by Liana Chua | On 19 Jan 2012 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 study analyses the behaviour of monetary and fiscal policies
interaction in India using quarterly data for 2000Q2 to 2010Q1. It finds that,
even after the elimination of automatic monetisation...
by Janak Raj | On 11 Oct 2011 The importance of academia- industry linkages for development of an economy is well
recognized. With a view to make the higher technical education relevant, by forging and
catalyzing functional link...
by Jancy Ayyaswamy | On 26 Jul 2011 Unequal access to and distribution of public knowledge is governed by Northern standards and is increasingly inappropriate in the age of the networked “Invisible College”. Academic journals remain the...
by Leslie Chan | On 14 May 2011 Rajesh Komath gives a description the conflicts between his socio-material position as a Teyyam performer, and persona/personality as a student of economics.
by Smriti Vohra | On 26 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 43 villages in Bangladesh were randomized to receive information on well-water arsenic that emphasized water safety relative to the national standard (bright-line message) or provided additional infor...
by Lori Bennear | On 02 Feb 2011 If priors are deterministic (zero or unity) and conditional evidence is uncertain (lies between zero and
one) then Bayesian updating will lead to posteriors that are the same as priors. This in a sen...
by Srijit Mishra | On 31 Jan 2011 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 An important and vigorous policy debate ongoing in Asia concerns the impact of
the economic rise of the PRC on the rest of the region. This paper examines the relative
performances of the PRC, selec...
by Sadhana Srivastava | On 20 Jul 2010 India is a secular state in which all faiths enjoy freedom of worship. The concept of secularism is
implicit in the Preamble to our Constitution, which declares the resolve of the people to secure to...
by Garima Gupta | On 15 Jul 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 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 The media has a demonstrated ability in fostering mutual understanding by communicating across divides, thus bringing competing narratives together into a shared story. This ambivalence presents an op...
by UNESCO UNESCO | On 28 Apr 2009 The paper starts with a brief review of some criticisms of the Peer Review system – labelled ex-ante top-down PR system – for the evaluation of academic works. The critiques are grouped into efficienc...
by Grazia Ietto-Gillies | On 24 Mar 2008 The proposition that social capital expands household welfare is tested by estimating the effects of social interactions on per capita expenditure among a sample of 810 households in northern Banglade...
by Farhad Ameen | On 30 May 2007 To analyse the role of partisan beliefs and interests, this paper focuses on two
industries—telecoms and electricity—which have been subject to strong pressures for policy diffusion and thereby are u...
by Maria Victoria Murillo | On 21 Dec 2006 This paper maps the organizational diversity of the NGO sector in Karnataka, a “middle order state” (Vyasulu, 1995), and demonstrates that conceptualizing NGO actions vis-à-vis the state dichotomously...
by Neema Kudva | On 13 Jan 2006 |