As an extraordinarily powerful individual, Naomi Osaka presents challenges to institutional power most of us can only imagine. If she worked in coordination with other top athletes across different sp...
by Jeffrey Montez de Oca | On 29 Jun 2021 Contents:
Editorial: Safdar Rahman, Tavishi Ahluwalia, Teresa Vanmalsawmi, Urwa Tul Wusqa
The Political Economy of Governmental Responses to the Covid-19 Crisis: A Migrant Workers’ Perspective: Kani...
by | On 02 Feb 2021 Despite high educational attaintments, educated unemployment is a worrying feature of Kerala. Some of the suggestions made by the Kerala Finance Minister are discussed below. The note suggests that tu...
by Rakkee Thimothy | On 02 Feb 2021 This paper looks into diverse databases to gauge if economic growth in India creates adequate volume of jobs since the year 2000. In our exercise, we use a popular index called employment elasticity....
by G.D Bino Paul | On 26 Jun 2020 Quality of data released by Government having high COVID 19 numbers was analyzed.
Parameters considered are timeliness of the publication of daily reports, accessibility of reports,
sufficiency of t...
by Viraj Mahesh Vibhute | On 13 May 2020 This paper investigates the effects of the Basel II capital requirement implementation in Viet Nam on the bank lending rate and national output. The paper provides a theoretical framework as well as e...
by Nguyet Thi Minh Phi | On 28 Jan 2019 Intergovernmental fiscal transfers (IGFT) are, in theory, neither good nor bad for tackling gender inequalities. Fiscal federalism with asymmetry in revenue and expenditure assignments inevitably lead...
by Janet G. Stotsky | On 14 Jan 2019 This paper analyzes the evolution of the labor share of income in Asia, a region where countries have experienced steep declines and increases as well as stable labor income shares in the quarter-cent...
by Mitali Das | On 13 Dec 2018 The current global warming trends are extremely likely to be the result of human social and economic activity since the middle of the 20th century (NASA 2018). Evidence of rapid climate change varies...
by Kunmin Kim | On 21 Nov 2018 This brief report documents facts of financial innovation in Asia and the Pacific that include: • Fintech redefines a specific sector at the intersection of financial services and technology sectors....
by Asian Bank | On 09 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 outlines a number of points, which would help to develop a more superior external intelligence infrastructure. In absence of a national security strategy (NSS), the task of intelligence age...
by Shantanu K. Bansal | On 04 Sep 2018 The role of teachers and students in the formation of test scores at the higher
secondary level (grade 12) in public schools in Delhi, India is analysed. Using the value added approach, we
find subs...
by Deepti Goel | On 01 Aug 2018 This paper evaluates the parental response to non-cognitive variation across siblings in rural Gansu province, China, employing a household fixed effects specification; the non-cognitive measures of i...
by Jessica Leight | On 26 Jun 2018 This paper uses measures of international transport time, in median and standard deviation, based on shipment-level data from the Universal Postal Union, to analyze the effect of time on trade costs....
by Utsav Kumar | On 14 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 The absence of reliable data on employment was well known in India.
For ensuring that the sample sizes for its estimates from its annual
employment and unemployment sur...
by T.N. Srinivasan | On 31 May 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 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 report says that the opportunities they have and the choices they make determine the course of human development—nowhere more so than in Asia-Pacific, home to half the world’s population.
by Thangavel Palanivel | On 03 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 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 The paper says that the gender has been largely ignored at the theoretical, empirical and policy design levels, thereby perpetuating gender biases in the actual working of economies, promoting gender...
by Rizwana Siddiqui | 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 The paper is based on a study that uses primary data collected from students of two private and
two public universities located in the NCR. The survey was conducted during July-August, 2015.
The Inf...
by Shampa Paul | On 19 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 The study is conducted in the context of the decline in the number of young people in the college going age group as a result of the decrease in birth rate in the state as also in the context of the p...
by George Zachariah | On 06 Mar 2018 Budget speech by Finance Minister of Malaysia.
by Minister of Finance Malaysia | On 09 Feb 2018 This is a dreamy and populist Budget talking high numbers while missing out on empirical realities. The irony is that, looked at closely, it has neither pleased the free market theorists nor has it do...
by K.R. Shyam Sundar | On 09 Feb 2018 Finance Minister, Dr. Amit Mitra presented the West Bengal budget on 31st January, 2018.
by Amit Mitra FM, WB | On 05 Feb 2018 The tenth chapter of Economic Survey 2018 has sown that investments in social infrastructure and human development has paid off well. The policies and schemes have also been mentioned in detail. The g...
by Lakshmi Priya | On 31 Jan 2018 MGNREGA rural developmental works undertaken since February 2006 in Sikkim have achieved a sustainable characteristic by adopting an environment friendly approach. A range of works on water, soil and...
by Marchang Reimeingam | On 05 Dec 2017 This paper narrates about the challenge of meeting energy demand is likely to get more complex, as it is growing to keep pace with the population growth and expanding economy.
by Muhammad Iftikhar | On 01 Dec 2017 The absence of reliable data on employment was well known in India.
For ensuring that the sample sizes for its estimates from its annual
employment and unemployment survey (EUS) were adequate, the
...
by | On 24 Nov 2017 Unconditional basic income, or a job guarantee by government as employer-of-last-resort, are usually discussed as alternative policies, though the first does not provide the benefits of an earned inco...
by Felix FitzRoy | On 08 Nov 2017 This paper examines whether and to what extent, additional stigmatization adversely affects the use of reservations for higher education or jobs. The quantitative analysis is based on a primary survey...
by Ashwini Deshpande | On 03 Nov 2017 The report narrates that Karnataka has about 30,000 MW of officially estimated Renewable Energy (RE) potential, making it one of the country’s top five RE-rich states.
by Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy CSTEP | On 13 Oct 2017 Analysing the Indian labour market poses inherent challenges given the country’s size and diversity. Rather than a case of “jobless growth”, India has experienced concentrated employment growth, mainl...
by Sher Verick | On 04 Oct 2017 The study finds that a U-shaped relationship exists between farm size and farm / farmer's income. The results also show that both on-farm and
off-farm diversification have an inverted U-shape relatio...
by Varun Kumar Das | On 18 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 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 This paper presents new evidence on pre-mature deindustrialization
being witnessed by India in terms of rising share of imports in final consumption.
Given the compulsions of creation of jobs for 12...
by | On 03 Aug 2017 Over the last decade, gender gaps in the workforce, particularly those in leadership positions, have remained largely unchanged and progress has stalled, despite growth in the numbers of women acquiri...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 01 Aug 2017 The way we work, the skills we need to thrive in our jobs and the trajectories of our careers are rapidly evolving. These changes—driven by technological innovation, demographics, shifting business mo...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 01 Aug 2017 The subject of this study is the relationship between the delivery of services, social protection and livelihoods assistance, and state legitimacy (measured here using perceptions of government perfor...
by Babar Shahbaz | On 01 Aug 2017 The study explores ground-level realities linked with initiatives on tax administration, construction permits, transparency, compliance with environmental and labour laws and regulations, and inspecti...
by Research National Council of Applied Economic | On 31 Jul 2017 The article reviews the recent evaluation evidence on financial services and training
interventions designed to increase the productivity and income of the poor; it includes the
subset of evaluation...
by Mayra Buvinic | On 28 Jul 2017 This paper also highlights the need for a coordinated approach to
SDG implementation by demonstrating the case of gender
equality and urban planning.
by Shrimoyee Bhattacharya | On 26 Jul 2017 This publication reviews various country aspects of SME finance covering the banking sector, nonbank sector, and capital markets. It is expected to support evidence-based policy making and regulations...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 11 Jul 2017 This study highlights the role played by growing female workforce in the positive economic turnaround in Bangladesh. It is now essential to shift workers to more highly productive sectors through stru...
by Asian Bank | On 24 May 2017 Work and employment around the globe change continuously, but there are potentially more rapid and fundamental transformations ahead as new technologies can have major impact on what jobs will exist i...
by | On 27 Apr 2017 Throughout their working lives, women continue to face significant obstacles in gaining access to decent work. Only marginal improvements have been achieved since the Fourth World Conference on Women...
by International Labour Organization [ILO] | On 14 Apr 2017 We measure the contribution of match quality to the wage growth experienced by job movers. We reject the exogenous mobility assumption needed to estimate a standard fixed-effects wage regression in th...
by | On 30 Mar 2017 Compulsory education has a vital role to play in eradicating child labour. Getting children out of work and into school could provide an impetus for poverty reduction and the development of skills nee...
by | On 14 Feb 2017 Indian cities are facing the problem of severe air pollution and vehicles are a major source. The economically vibrant cities like Delhi, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai provide numerous job opp...
by Sudakshina Gupta | On 24 Jan 2017 After the implementation of the Right of Children to
Free and Compulsory Education Act (RTE) in 2010, states
have brought about some improvement in school education
in terms of infrastructure, enro...
by Child Rights and You CRY | On 18 Jan 2017 The Election Commission recently announced the poll schedule for the assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh. In this context, data on the composition of the 16th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly (2012-...
by Jhalak Kakkar | On 10 Jan 2017 Climate change mitigation is a global challenge, however its impact will be varied across regions and temperature zones. Small island states will be hit the hardest with sea level rise. In bigger coun...
by | On 28 Dec 2016 Global warming not only causes a change in average temperature and precipitation but also increases the frequency of floods, droughts, heat waves, and the intensity of typhoons and hurricanes followin...
by | On 28 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 the trends and pattern of women’s employment in rural India using unit data from two types of large scale surveys. It shows that while rural women’s employment has grown over the d...
by | On 20 Dec 2016 How persistent are traditional socioeconomic hierarchies in the face of marketization, significant structural shifts in the economy, and increased political representation of lower-ranked groups, and...
by Ashwini Deshpande | On 15 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 This study estimates the impact of incumbency on re-election prospects of parties and candidates in India, between 1977 and 2014, for Lok Sabha elections. Regression discontinuity design is used to es...
by Aditi Singhal | On 05 Dec 2016 The scope of this project was defined by the mandate of the ILO. It therefore focused on the employment relationship as it relates specifically to migrant and ethnic minority workers. The normative ba...
by | On 28 Nov 2016 At a macro level the demand for pulses has declined across income groups and region types and the diet has diversified towards sourcing protein from processed foods and livestock. And yet, there is su...
by Aritra Chakrabarty | On 21 Nov 2016 The study focuses on four industries, which were identified by the Government as the growth poles of Mauritius’ economy: sugar agriculture, textiles, tourism (hotels) and financial services.3 The empl...
by International Labour Organization [ILO] | On 08 Nov 2016 Case studies across the social sciences have established a positive relationship
between social status and happiness. In observational data, however, identification
challenges remain severe. This st...
by Bert Van Landeghem | On 25 Oct 2016 Can countries with binding budget constraints increase the benefits of school transfers
through better program design? A cost-neutral change is used in the design of India’s
school meal program to s...
by Farzana Afridi | On 20 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 India has experienced rapid economic growth, a decline in fertility rate, introduction of employment generation programs and policy shifts towards women empowerment in recent years. Yet, a striking fe...
by | On 19 Oct 2016 Comparing before and after the reform within firms, we find that quotas are associated with a higher share of female board directors, higher levels of education of board members, and a lower share of...
by | On 12 Oct 2016 Gender differences in occupations account for a sizable portion of the persistent gender pay gap. This paper examines the relationship between the demand for long hours of work (as proxied for by the...
by | On 10 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 It is generally recognised that poverty is experienced differently according to their gender, age, caste, class and ethnicity and within households. Income levels, food security and indeed life choice...
by | On 05 Oct 2016 A skilled and educated workforce can support the competitiveness of enterprises of all sizes.
However, smaller firms may face greater challenges in developing human capital. We
explore differences b...
by Paul Vandenberg | On 04 Oct 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 Engaging is a major concern. Utilising the leisure time of the youth and harnessing their exuberance and raw energy for creative activities is essential. Simultaneously, but more substantially there i...
by United Nations (UN) | On 21 Sep 2016 Though labor market conditions steadily improved following the Great Recession, underemployment among recent college graduates continued to climb, reaching highs not seen since the early 1990s. This p...
by Jaison Abel | On 21 Sep 2016 Current efforts to address global warming largely focus on mitigating climate change. However, in light of predictions of increased temperatures, rising sea levels, and changing disease patterns in In...
by | On 14 Sep 2016 FDI productivity and technology spill over theories were developed during a period when manufacturing sector dominated FDI flows, and European and the US MNEs enjoyed higher productivity levels compar...
by N S Siddharthan | On 11 Sep 2016 This paper studies the entire class of liability rules,
and considers the bilateral care accidents. It is shown that the ‘causationconsistent’ liability provides a basis for an efficiency characteriz...
by Ram Singh | On 19 Aug 2016 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 Women’s ties with pregnancy and child rearing and the failure of employers and policymakers to deal consistently with this issue exacerbate the difficulties women face in the economy. Women continue t...
by | On 12 Aug 2016 This paper explores the possibility that women and men have different tastes for the content of the work they do. It runs regressions of job satisfaction on the share of males in an occupation. Overal...
by Grace Lordan | On 11 Aug 2016 the study has been able to highlight the increasing
role that agriculture credit is playing in supporting agriculture production in recent
times- credit accounted for 16% of the total value of paid...
by Sudha Narayanan | On 10 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 Make in India is an international marketing strategy, conceptualized by the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi on 25 September 2014 to attract investments from businesses around the world and make...
by | On 10 Aug 2016 India started the implementation of a rural public works program in 2006, covering all districts of the country within three years. The program guarantees 100 days of employment per year at minimum wa...
by Satadru Das | On 09 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 This paper studies whether potential entrepreneurs remain in wage employment because of the danger that they will face worse job opportunities should their entrepreneurial ventures fail? Using a Canad...
by Ting Xu | On 28 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 Financial literacy is the mix of one’s knowledge, skill and attitude towards financial matters. It helps to make informed decisions and well-being of an individual. Research has been conducted globall...
by | On 18 Jul 2016 The central government periodically constitutes a Pay Commission, to evaluate and recommend revisions of salaries and
pensions, for its employees. Recently, the Seventh Central Pay Commission has mad...
by Vatsal Khullar | On 07 Jul 2016 India’s water crisis is often perceived to have been perpetuated by the widening gap between the utilizable water resources and the aggregate demand for water in agriculture and other sectors in certa...
by | On 04 Jul 2016 This paper aims to present an overview and analysis of the current investment landscape in Cambodia, as well as its impacts on people and the environment. It is hoped that the information ...
by Mark Grimsditch | On 01 Jul 2016 This paper attempts to study the cyclical behaviour of social sector spending including that on education and health for the 17 non-special category states covering the period 2000-01 to 2012-13. It f...
by | On 30 Jun 2016 This Handbook contains special provisions and
package of assistance which women farmers can claim
under various on-going Missions/ Submissions/ Schemes
of DAC & FW, Ministry of Agriculture & Farmer...
by Ministry of Agriculture GOI | 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 India’s education system turns out millions of graduates each year, many skilled in IT and engineering. This manpower advantage underpins India’s recent economic advances, but masks deepseated problem...
by | On 22 Jun 2016 West Bengal witnessed the highest growth in non-agricultural
employment between 2004-05 and 2009-10 amongst all the states
in India. The state also witnessed the highest growth in
manufacturing emp...
by Subhanil Chowdhury | On 16 Jun 2016 This pper reviews major approaches and findings on the evaluation of the impact of different labour market institutions but pays particular attention to active labour market policies that play an impo...
by Werner Eichhorst | On 15 Jun 2016 There is wide concern that migration flows may undermine the financial viability of generous welfare arrangements. The discussion focuses on welfare arrangements as attractors of migrants, suggesting...
by | On 14 Jun 2016 This paper analyzes aspects of supply and demand for labour in India using National Sample Survey data for the years 1983, 1993-94, 1999-2000 and 2004-05. With the possibility of a ‘demographic divide...
by Jayan Jose Thomas | On 03 Jun 2016 This report reads from UNICEF’s policy, programme and communication experience globally and in India, both at national and state levels, and builds on the work by the National Coalition for Sustainabl...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 03 Jun 2016 We study how attendance rates of primary school children respond to cost neutral changes in the design of India’s school meal program. Municipal schools in the capital region of Delhi switched from pa...
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 This writ petition was filed in the year 2006, praying for a direction to the respondents to constitute a high level committee with the participation also of the NGOs to investigate the occurance of t...
by Supreme Court of India | On 30 May 2016 On account of May 1st being the Labour Day, India Youth Fund interviewed Professor Arup Mitra from the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi on a number of labour rights and reforms related issues in In...
by Arup Mitra | On 26 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 decline of jobs with secure and lasting contracts and work-related social benefits as well as the corresponding rise in precarious and unprotected work are phenomena affecting both industrialized...
by Anna Marriot | On 18 May 2016 There is longstanding debate in population policy about the relationship between modern contraception and abortion. Although theory predicts that they should be substitutes, the existing body of empi...
by Grant Miller | On 18 May 2016 Measurement of achievement or progress towards the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) should be suggestive of the issues involved
in intertemporal comparison. Commonly, we observe that the
measure...
by Udaya S. Mishra | On 03 May 2016 This paper analyses the role of various trade and technology related factors in determining female employment intensity (FEI), in a panel of India's manufacturing industries for the perio...
by | On 02 May 2016 This report is aimed at better informing that debate by demystifying the
global and South Asian apparel markets, estimating the potential gains in exports and jobs (including for women), and identify...
by Gladys Lopez Acevedo | On 29 Apr 2016 Since the mid-1990s, migration of workforces from rural to urban areas has accelerated in south India accompanied by remarkable urban-based economic development. To investigate the nature of such rura...
by Keiko Sato | On 29 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 Elementary education administrators at the block level primarily perceive themselves, or report themselves to be, disempowered cogs in a hierarchical administrative culture that renders them powerless...
by Yamini Aiyar | On 15 Apr 2016 The PAISA for Panchayats research project extends AI’s PAISA methodology to track fund flows and implementations processes at the Panchayat level. By focusing on understanding the state of fiscal devo...
by | On 13 Apr 2016 The 2016 Budget reaffirms the belief that no one should be left behind as
the country progresses.
by Strategic Communication Unit Philippines | On 11 Apr 2016 This piece looks at the trends in the youth work force participation rates over the past 30 years of Census data and questions whether the emphasis on youth skills for sustainable development can actu...
by | On 28 Mar 2016 There is no single method in impact evaluation that can always address the different aspects better than others. Importance of mixed design approach in impact evaluation studies arises with the need f...
by Navneet Kaur | On 21 Mar 2016 The paper contains a theoretical discussion and a literature survey on the economic impact of child labour. Three main categories of economic impact of child labour are analysed: 1) the effects of chi...
by Rossana Galli | On 21 Mar 2016 The paper is based on a review of the available official data and the existing literature on the Missions. It is divided into three broad sections. The first analyzes data available from the official...
by Lalitha Kamath | 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 This working paper outlines a set of indicators at the outcome and impact level for the agriculture and rural development sector. It does not focus on implementation (e.g. output level indicators such...
by European union | On 20 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 Cambodia has made great strides toward sustained rapid and inclusive economic growth since its political environment stabilized in 1999. Its 7.8% average annual growth since then has dramatically brou...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 Mar 2016 The education systems in Asia, including technical and vocational education and training (TVET), were well suited at the time to allow Asia to become the world’s assembly line. In simple terms, formal...
by Sungsup Ra | On 15 Mar 2016 With rumors of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations on the verge of restarting, a closer examination of the Israeli political situation and the intentions and calculations of teh current government shows...
by | On 14 Mar 2016 Myanmar’s transition process has proceeded apace with significant results already achieved. However, bumps are to be expected on the road ahead which may temporarily throw Myanmar off track. Thus ther...
by | On 12 Mar 2016 In spite of competing claims over the Spratly and Paracel Archipelagoes and maritime areas in the South China Sea, China and Vietnam have sought, with some degree of success, to manage their tensions...
by Ramses Amer | On 12 Mar 2016 Family reunions between North and South Korea may be an encouraging sign of a thaw in tensions on the Korean Peninsula, which could lead to further trust-building activities and economic cooperation....
by | On 12 Mar 2016 The newly established Central National Security Commission (CNSC) of China held its first meeting on April 15. The inaugural meeting of this body marks a significant milestone in the reorganization of...
by | On 12 Mar 2016 In this paper we present a choice function of a rural household about her/his ward?s schooling. It makes an empirical evaluation on the basis of simple theoretical framework using primary data set, su...
by Debdulal Thakur | 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 Unlike earlier literature that documented positive association between inflation and the dispersion of relative prices over time, the empirical evidence from this study suggests that the relative pric...
by Sartaj Rather | On 10 Mar 2016 Infant and child mortality rates in India have fallen by almost half from the time of adoption of millennium development goals to 2012 but there has not been a concurrent decrease in morbidity and und...
by Sowmya Dhanaraj | On 10 Mar 2016 The 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 This paper empirically tests the role of search frictions in driving qualification mismatches in the labor market. Using new data from several low-income economies in urban Asia we find that overeduca...
by Kenn Chua | On 10 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 When the state is unable to provide adequately for the bottom half of the population, should it be giving tax benefits to the well-off?
by T.N. Ninan | On 05 Mar 2016 Amidst heightened expectations regarding ASEAN’s contribution to international order, particularly in the context of a trend towards multilevel security governance, ASEAN is attempting to transform it...
by Holly Haywood | On 02 Mar 2016 The past decade has seen economic links between the Gulf Arab region and Southeast Asia increase considerably – from just USD20 billion in 2002 to about USD100 billion in 2010. Notable factors driving...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 01 Mar 2016 This paper examines the fiscal instruments available to different levels of government and their interactions to enhance the effectiveness of public policies for the poorest and hungry groups. Address...
by Ehtisham Ahmad | On 01 Mar 2016 What do we know about the results of decentralized service delivery? Verifying outcomes and results of decentralized policies is a very challenging exercise, given the large number of stakeholders inv...
by Ehtisham Ahmad | On 01 Mar 2016 Using data from the National Family and Health Survey 3, India, this paper measures and validates the extent of multidimensional poverty and examines the linkages of poverty level with child health in...
by Sanjay K. Mohanty | On 01 Mar 2016 This paper examines developments in literacy and education in Palanpur. We consider schooling facilities and other related services available in this village and its neighbourhood. Schooling levels ar...
by Ruth Kattumuri | On 01 Mar 2016 This paper explores the “black box” of innovation in the electronics production network in East Asia through a mapping exercise of technological capabilities and an econometric analysis of exporting i...
by Ganeshan Wignaraja | On 29 Feb 2016 Budget speech by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.
by Arun Jaitley | On 29 Feb 2016 Labour migration is a growing trend in the ASEAN region as workers seek better-paid jobs and employers endeavor to meet employment gaps. Migrant labour forms an increasing source of construction, serv...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 27 Feb 2016 Literature in economic development shows how countries diverge and converge in economic growth owing to technological change and capital accumulation. This paper examines micro level issues of competi...
by Murali Patibandla | On 27 Feb 2016 A framework is proposed for understanding the potential value-added of massive open online courses (MOOCs) along the lines of curation, credentialling, and cost. MOOCs are likely to appeal differently...
by Emmanuel S. de Dios | On 25 Feb 2016 The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), established in 1993, is a civil society initiative to promote an ongoing dialogue between the principal partners in the decision-making and implementing process....
by Uttam Kumar Deb | On 24 Feb 2016 The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), established in 1993, is a civil society initiative to promote an ongoing dialogue between the principal partners in the decision-making and implementing process....
by Debapriya Bhattacharya | On 22 Feb 2016 It is true that India is having improvements in the economic fronts. But what are the real numbers? Why does the government say exaggerated numbers?
by T.N. Ninan | On 20 Feb 2016 This article provides a quantitative analysis of the effects of Pakistan government domestic wheat procurement, sales, and trade policies on wheat supply, demand, prices, and overall inflation. Analys...
by Paul Dorosh | On 18 Feb 2016 It is investigated whether differences in quality of firm-level corporate governance can explain the firm-level performance in a cross-section of companies listed at Karachi Stock Exchange. Therefore,...
by Attiya Y. Javid | On 17 Feb 2016 This book is a review of 49 white papers which were selected through e-Swabhimani 2014, Best e-Content and Application award of Sri Lanka. White papers are normally used in two main spheres, governm...
by org eldis. | 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 Climate change demands new approaches to agriculture: farmers’ practices will need to change in order to adapt to and mitigate changing conditions. Gender is central to this change. Agriculture is a f...
by Sophia Huyer | On 17 Feb 2016 This paper examines the magnitude of public/private wage differentials in Pakistan using data drawn from the 2001-02 Labour Force Survey. Pakistan Labour Force Survey is a nationwide survey containing...
by Asma Hyder | On 16 Feb 2016 This paper exploits responses on the stated preferences for public sector jobs among a sample of unemployed in Pakistan to inform on the existence of public sector job queues.
by Asma Hyder | On 16 Feb 2016 This paper examines the efficiency of the large scale manufacturing sector of Pakistan using the stochastic production frontier approach. A stochastic production frontier is estimated for two periods—...
by Tariq Mahmood | On 16 Feb 2016 The study has been carried out to measure the incidence of government spending on health in Pakistan at provincial, both rural and urban level; using the primary data of the Pakistan Social Standard L...
by Muhammad Akram | On 16 Feb 2016 This paper makes the case for the need to “upgrade” current analytical tools used for trade policy analysis and complement them with more detailed firm-level data. Such an upgrade should be based on t...
by Lucian Cernat | On 16 Feb 2016 Using original data from a newly collected nationally representative survey for 40,000 households in India, we examine associations of various dimensions of social capital with each other and with con...
by Reeve Vanneman | On 13 Feb 2016 It has been six years since the start of the global financial crisis and job creation remains weak in many G20 countries, preventing a significant decline in the often record-high levels of unemployme...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 11 Feb 2016 This Report produced by the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Employment analyses the need for the global economy to grow in order to create jobs, and the need for jobs in order to susta...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 11 Feb 2016 Occupation is key in socioeconomic research. As in other survey modes, most web surveys use an open-ended question for occupation, though the absence of interviewers elicits unidentifiable or aggregat...
by | On 10 Feb 2016 Turnover in the health workforce is a concern as it is costly and detrimental to organizational performance and quality of care. Most studies have focused on the influence of individual and organizati...
by | On 10 Feb 2016 This article unravels the migrants’ incidence of skill mismatch taking into consideration different migration flows. Mismatch is the situation in which workers have jobs for which lower skill levels a...
by | On 10 Feb 2016 In this quantitative study, 367 patients who had been hospitalised in the six months prior to the study were identified through Mitanins (Community Health Workers - CHWs) and interviewed using a struc...
by | On 09 Feb 2016 We test the basic assumption underlying the job competition and crowding out a hypothesis: that employers always prefer higher educated to lower educated individuals. To this end, we conduct a randomi...
by Dieter Verhaest | On 07 Feb 2016 We examine the causal impact of China's higher education expansion on labor market outcomes for young college graduates using China's 2005 1% Population Sample Survey. Exploiting variation in the expa...
by Dongshu Ou | On 07 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 attempts to document changes in the wage levels of different categories of workers employed in various segments of the labour market during the period 1990-91–2006-07, according to the info...
by Mohammad Irfan | On 06 Feb 2016 Pakistan is a federal country. Distribution of resources has a profound impact on income, development, backwardness, and poverty. The paper briefly discusses the federation, its needs and importance i...
by Usman Mustafa | On 06 Feb 2016 This article investigates the effect of jobs reservation on improving the economic opportunities of persons belonging to India's Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST). Using employment data...
by Sriya Iyer | On 05 Feb 2016 This paper discusses methodological issues arising from the use of online job vacancy data and voluntary web-based surveys to analyse the labour market. It highlights the advantages and possible disad...
by | On 05 Feb 2016 Although labour force participation in Pakistan has improved from 50.33 percent in 2006-07 to 57.24 percent in 2010-111 as well as employment has increased from 47.65 million to 53.84 million, however...
by Syed Akther Shah | On 02 Feb 2016 Existing measures of urban poverty carried out for national level comparisons portray very low levels of poverty with an average urban household spending an equivalent to the top 20% of national expe...
by Neranjana Gunetilleke | On 01 Feb 2016 Data about employment exchanges, how they function and suggestions for improvement are given here.
by Aarti Salve | On 01 Feb 2016 About 2.7 billion people do not have access to modern energy. Without it, they have little chance of achieving a decent living standard. Much more economic progress is needed to lift the living standa...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 Arguably, ensuring food and nutrition security for all people in the coming decades is the major challenge for the global community. Food demand is increasing in aggregate and per capita values, in pa...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 Authors Jim Levinson and Yarlini Balarajan of UNICEF New York and Alessandra Marini of the World Bank present three major case studies from Peru, Brazil and Bangladesh, but also a historical review of...
by Jim Levinson | On 30 Jan 2016 The primary objective of this paper is to find whether or not the governance and institutions matter for enhancing Asia’s trade. In this study, we have performed a comprehensive empirical analysis of...
by Prabir De | On 30 Jan 2016 This paper draws recommendations for transboundary and participatory biodiversity conservation from ICIMOD’s pioneering Kangchenjunga Conservation Landscape Initiative. The Kangchenjunga landscape, sh...
by Karma Phuntsho | On 28 Jan 2016 With increasing urbanization and economic growth, air pollution is becoming an urgent concern in South Asian countries. The study upon which this paper is based has been conducted at SDPI, to look int...
by Mahmood Khwaja | On 28 Jan 2016 This paper looks at recent trends in youth unemployment and joblessness and seeks to clarify some issues related to the nature of the youth labour market ‘problem’. During the recession, the prevalenc...
by Niall O’Higgins | On 28 Jan 2016 In rural India social and cultural norms are deep rooted in society. Access to productive assets, employment opportunities and consequently incomes are to a large extent influenced by these social fac...
by Jeemol Unni | On 28 Jan 2016 In order to provide adequate and quality primary health care, a multi-layered network of public health infrastructure has been created right from the district to the village level. But Health for All...
by B.L. Kumar | On 28 Jan 2016 The WTO’s plurilateral Information Technology Agreement (ITA) reduced tariffs to zero on many IT products. This paper presents a comprehensive study of its trade impacts by incorporating recent insigh...
by Christian Henn | On 26 Jan 2016 This paper examines how the decentralisation process has evolved over time in India from the ancient times through to the British regime to modern era. It focuses specifically on Panchayati Raj Instit...
by Madhusudan Bandi | On 25 Jan 2016 A large number of rural households in the state of Odisha, India are dependent on agriculture for their basic livelihoods, which is affected by the frequent occurrence of climate externalities like cy...
by Chandra Sekhar Bahinipati | On 25 Jan 2016 India and its partners – Brazil, China, Russia and South Africa – in the BRICS forum have launched the New Development Bank. With the leaders of these countries, who recently met at Ufa in Russia, dis...
by | On 23 Jan 2016 Over the years, the Bangladesh Bank (BB) has been using changes in consumer price index (CPI) inflation as the operational guide to measuring price stability in Bangladesh. In recent years, it has how...
by Bangladesh Bank | 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 This book collects the findings of a group of scientists and economists who have taken stock of climate change impacts on food and agriculture at global and regional levels over the past two decades....
by Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO] | On 20 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 This paper: (i) examines long-term care (LTC) protection in 46 developing and developed countries covering 80 per cent of the world’s population; (ii) provides (data on LTC coverage for the population...
by Xenia Scheil-Adlung | On 19 Jan 2016 This paper asks whether the increased openness and technological innovation in East Asia have contributed to an increased demand for skills in the region. We explore a unique firm level data set acros...
by Rita Almeida | On 19 Jan 2016 There are India studies programs around the country in many institutions, but no university has made the commitment to dedicate a graduate level and senior research level focus on contemporary India i...
by Steve Coll | 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 Fourth Industrial Revolution, which includes developments in previously disjointed fields such as artificial intelligence and machine-learning, robotics, nanotechnology, 3-D printing, and genetics...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 18 Jan 2016 The paper identifies five important aspects of agriculture that
need immediate attention to bring economic advantages to millions of farm families. First, output
per hectare, which is a common measu...
by Niti Aayog GOI | On 18 Jan 2016 We empirically analyze the language proficiency of migrants in the Netherlands. Traditionally, the emphasis in studying language proficiency and economic outcomes has been on the relation between earn...
by Hans Bloemen | On 15 Jan 2016 This paper summarizes the micro-level survey evidence from Central Asia generated and analyzed between 1991 and 2012. We provide an exhaustive overview over all accessible individual and household-lev...
by Tilman Brück | On 15 Jan 2016 Women who want to work often face many more hurdles than men. This is true in Tajikistan where there is a large gender gap in labour force participation. We highlight the role of two factors – interna...
by Myeong Su Yun | On 14 Jan 2016 Millions of job seekers in South Asia, including many tribals, are forced by lack of local employment opportunities to migrate towards urban areas. This fieldwork-based study aims to understand specif...
by Rajib Dhar | On 13 Jan 2016 The medical profession in India has experienced major changes in terms of woman participation in medicine. In the last few decades, the number of women joining medicine has revealed a noticeable growt...
by Rituparna Dutta | On 13 Jan 2016 The following is a report based on PUDR’s repeated visits to
Atali and its interactions with Muslim and Jat families over the last four
months.
by PUDR Peoples Union for Democratic Rights | On 13 Jan 2016 This paper aims to test the validity of the hypothesis that climate change in the coming years is likely to induce massive migration to and from South Asia, both within and across the borders. This pa...
by | On 11 Jan 2016 How can young people and their future education and employment be put at the forefront of the solution to the current crisis as they represent the future of the world? These are some of the issues tha...
by Emmanuel Akoto | On 11 Jan 2016 Understanding the demographic changes that are likely to unfold over the coming years, as well as the challenges and opportunities that they present for achieving sustainable development, is important...
by United Nations (UN) | On 08 Jan 2016 This paper discusses mechanisms to prevent and resolve foreign exchange crises in East Asia. Policies and mechanisms at the country level as well as regional and global levels are discussed. Policies...
by Andrew Cooper | On 07 Jan 2016 Contrary to widespread belief, the collapse of ‘government’ does not automatically entail the collapse of ‘governance’. In a setting of ‘unstable’ livelihoods, households’ coping strategies, coupled w...
by | On 07 Jan 2016 Cross-border production networks have been playing an increasingly important role in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries’ trade in recent years, but micro-level studies are ra...
by Ganeshan Wignaraja | On 07 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 section analyses the records maintained at the Special Cell,
between 1990-1997, in the city of greater Mumbai. As per the
procedural requirements at the Special Cell, women are supposed
to sub...
by Anjali Dave | On 05 Jan 2016 Indonesia has made significant progress in promoting gender equality. Gender gaps in the youth literacy rate have been eliminated. Near parity in enrollment rates in elementary up to tertiary levels h...
by Uzma Hoque | On 01 Jan 2016 This paper surveys recent literature on the competitive saving motive and its broader economic implications. It introduces the concept of competitive saving, i.e., saving to improve one’s status relat...
by | On 01 Jan 2016 This paper presents the results of two experimental evaluations of transitional jobs programs for recently released former prisoners: the Evaluation of the Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) an...
by Cindy Redcross | On 01 Jan 2016 We study urban, private sector Chinese employers’ preferences between workers with and without a local permanent residence permit (hukou) using callback information from an Internet job board. We find...
by | On 30 Dec 2015 Destination countries can adopt selective immigration policies to improve migrants' quality. Screening potential migrants on the basis of observable characteristics also influences their self-selectio...
by Simone Bertoli | On 29 Dec 2015 This paper empirically investigates whether financial health shores up firm productivity. It presents productivity as another driving factor in translating financial development into real economic pro...
by Shandre Thangavelu | On 29 Dec 2015 A new feature of international migration for work is the increase
in the numbers of overseas women migrant workers, which in
countries like the Philippines, Indonesia and Sri Lanka exceed
the numbe...
by | On 28 Dec 2015 The Asia Foundation's Survey of the Afghan People is Afghanistan’s broadest and longest-running public opinion poll. After the first full year of Afghanistan’s National Unity Government, 9,586 Afghans...
by Zachary Warren | On 26 Dec 2015 This study examines the relationship between firm characteristics and borrowing from commercial banks by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the People's Republic of China (PRC) and five Sout...
by Ganeshan Wignaraja | On 24 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 It has become clear that as governments pursue trade facilitation, those that take a “horizontal” approach achieve the most success. This approach involves identifying industries with the highest pote...
by | On 22 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 Global Information Technology Report provides a comprehensive assessment of networked readiness, or how prepared an economy is to apply the benefits of information and communications technologies...
by | On 21 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 This brief describes key findings from a rigorous seven-year evaluation of the first of these livelihood programmes, BRAC’s ‘Targeting the Ultra-Poor’ programme in rural Bangladesh. Targeted household...
by Clare Balboni | On 18 Dec 2015 The key challenge is to develop a policy that facilitates the adaptive capacity of migration rather than inhibiting it. Such an endeavour and subsequent shift in policy where it is sub-optimal is impe...
by Richard Black | On 15 Dec 2015 The central government periodically constitutes a Pay Commission, to evaluate and recommend revisions of salaries and
pensions, for its employees. Recently, the Seventh Central Pay Commission has mad...
by Vatsal Khullar | On 10 Dec 2015 There are a wide range of agriculture-based practices and technologies that have the potential to increase food production and the adaptive capacity of the food production system, as well as reduce em...
by | On 09 Dec 2015 The government should encourage the use of solar energy.
by T.N. Ninan | On 04 Dec 2015 This paper considers the challenge of establishing a robust follow-up and review mechanism to support such implementation. The paper underscores the importance of the follow-up and review process taki...
by | On 04 Dec 2015 An attempt is made in this paper to understand the different dimensions of the call centre as an emerging workspace. The paper provides a critical narrative of the profile of respondents (N=22), natur...
by B.Devi Prasad | On 02 Dec 2015 In thinking about the implications of HIV/AIDS, considerable attention was initially drawn to its clinical aspects. More recently, other dimensions of HIV, including economic, have been explored. The...
by | On 01 Dec 2015 This study aims to examine how ‘open’ Indian states are with respect to international trade and uses the index of regional openness thus constructed to reflect on several aspects that affect the level...
by | On 19 Nov 2015 The paper argues for a regular public reporting of key performance indicators by the WatSan utilities in India. It elaborates on how the policy behind these reforms could be operationalized.
by Premila Nazareth Satyanand | On 18 Nov 2015 While much progress has been made over the last 25 years in measuring global poverty, there are
a number of challenges ahead. The paper discusses three sets of problems: (i) how to allow for
social...
by Martin Ravallion | On 16 Nov 2015 This report is the result of a cooperation project between the Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs, and Inclusion of the European Commission and the International Institute for Labour S...
by | On 16 Nov 2015 This paper introduces a model for generating national estimates and projections of the distribution of the employed across five economic classes for 142 developing countries over the period 1991 to 20...
by | On 10 Nov 2015 Angus Deaton’s contributions to economics have been seminal providing development economists with new tools of analysis that have yielded policy-altering insights.
by Suryanarayana M H | On 07 Nov 2015 This paper reviews the literature on migration in South Asia, Southeast Asia, Southern Africa, East Africa and West Africa in order to highlight the complexity of migration patterns and impacts. It is...
by Tasneem Siddiqui | On 19 Oct 2015 The female workforce participation means the rate of percentage of female engaged in the total working population of a state or country. Women constitute an important part of the workforce of all over...
by Dr. Ananta Pegu | On 16 Oct 2015 The present study aims to assess determinants of adaptation diversity (i.e., a number of
adaptation mechanisms undertaken by the farm households). For empirical
assessment, a farm household-level s...
by Chandra Sekhar Bahinipati | 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 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 paper focuses on the nature and characteristics of unemployment using the five-yearly surveys of the NSSO. The dominant narrative in the literature has been that the rate of unemployment, whichev...
by | On 18 Sep 2015 The Global Innovation Index (GII) aims to capture the multi-dimensional facets of innovation and provide the tools that can assist in tailoring policies to promote long-term output growth, improved pr...
by | On 18 Sep 2015 Review of Climate Insurgency: A Strategy for Survival by Jeremy Brecher. Boulder: Paradigm Publishers, 2015. 170 pp. Rs. 8.925/- Hardcover, IISBN-13: 978-1612058207.
by Peter St. Clair | On 15 Sep 2015 The goal of this study is to examine whether promising a Conditional Cash Transfer (conditional on matriculation) at the start of junior high increases the rate at which disadvantaged students matricu...
by Fan Li | On 09 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 article begins with a discussion of definitional issues regarding human trafficking and modern slavery and then briefly critiques some popular claims regarding each problem. Examples of macro-leve...
by Ronald Weitzer Weitzer | On 03 Sep 2015 The paper analyses the nexus between growth, employment and poverty and points out situations where high economic growth may fail to bring about a commensurate rate of poverty reduction if simultaneo...
by | On 02 Sep 2015 This article unravels the migrants’ incidence of skill mismatch taking into consideration different migration flows. Mismatch is the situation in which workers have jobs for which lower skill levels a...
by | On 26 Aug 2015 The present study on evaluation of the NREGA Scheme is intended to assess the impact of this scheme on the status of child care services at worksites of the NREGA, status of facilities available to wo...
by Madhuri Karak | On 25 Aug 2015 The paper highlights that performance assessments should account for non-linear dynamics of progress, whereby an improvement at a higher level represents greater achievement than an equal improvement...
by William Joe | On 21 Aug 2015 A juvenile or a child is any person below the age of 18 years. Over the last 10 years, crimes committed by
children, as a percentage of all crimes committed in the country, have risen from 1.0% to 1....
by Apoorva Shankar | On 21 Aug 2015 Although high rate of economic growth is necessary condition for rapid poverty reduction on a sustained basis, this is not a sufficient condition, and the relationship between economic growth and pove...
by Rizwanul Islam | On 21 Aug 2015 Continuous enterprise restructuring is needed for the transition and emerging market economies to become and remain competitive. However, the beneficial effects of restructuring in the medium run are...
by Hartmut Lehmann | On 21 Aug 2015 The International Labour Organization reports on the increasingly insecure nature of job tenures worldwide. The World Employment and Social Outlook 2015 finds that, among countries with available data...
by | On 17 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 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 “In order to ensure that government policies do not produce government failure that impedes the vitality of the market and keeps disadvantaged individuals from becoming self-sufficient, the public ass...
by | On 06 Aug 2015 Education is a basic human right and considered by many as a key tool for national development. However, this tenet has been challenged by several economists, especially Pritchett (1996). His empirica...
by Gazi Mahabubul Alam | On 03 Aug 2015 This report provides an overview of the labour market and employment outcomes that the Indian economy has delivered as it globalized. It concludes that structural changes are slow and difficult, and t...
by | On 29 Jul 2015 After following inward oriented economic policies for nearly four decades, India opened up to international trade in the early 1990s. Since then, the trade integration of the Indian economy in general...
by Pankaj Vashisht | On 16 Jul 2015 When women personnel are incorporated in the profession of policing, there is a general assumption behind it that the presence of women makes the force sensitive to gender-crimes, and thus more effici...
by Santana Khanikar | On 09 Jul 2015 This report is a report by the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition of the Committee on World Food Security. Water is key to food security and nutrition. However there are many c...
by Food and Nutrition Division FAO | On 10 Jun 2015 Present day the numbers of child working population are increasing day by day in the developing
and under developed countries. Actually the child working populations are called as child labour whose...
by | On 21 May 2015 The Working Group has taken cognisance to the issues of inclusive growth. It lays emphasis on the view that employment generation should be focused on different segments of labour force – organized, u...
by Planning Commission | On 21 May 2015 The Committee is mandated to prepare a position paper on the present socioeconomic, health and educational status of Schedule Tribes, and is expected to suggest policy initiatives as well as effective...
by Ministry of Tribal Affairs GOI | On 20 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 joint study of the Asian Development Bank and the International Labour Organization examines the impact of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) on labor. It highlights the challenges and opportunit...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 22 Apr 2015 The State budget had focused the receipt and expenditure under the Consolidated Fund of the Government with dissemination of allocation under different development sectors. The fund flow towards child...
by | On 24 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 Government of India (GoI) set up a High Level Committee (HLC) to suggest restructuring or unbundling of FCI with a view to improve its operational efficiency and financial management. GoI also asked H...
by Food Corporation of India | On 04 Feb 2015 In keeping with the special status accorded to Scheduled Tribes (STs) in the constitution of India, the Union Government has affirmed its commitment to improving their socio-economic status and has ta...
by | On 29 Dec 2014 Despite witnessing a decade of rapid economic growth, an acceleration of growth in the organised manufacturing sector has eluded India. Using data from the Annual Survey of Industries, the factors hol...
by Radhicka Kapoor | On 27 Oct 2014 Dryland regions of the country, poorly endowed as they are with natural
resources including water are likely to be disadvantaged in terms of access to
credit. Within the dryland areas too inter-pers...
by Satyasai K J S | On 08 Oct 2014 A review and extended discussion is presented of The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard
Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice and Lives by Deirdre McCloskey and Stephen Ziliak, a work that rai...
by Sripad Motiram | On 29 Sep 2014 Implications of industrial deregulations, trade liberalisation and labour regulations on workers' bargaining power and firms' markup in Indian manufacturing industries is examined, using state-wise th...
by Rupayan Pal | On 29 Sep 2014 Despite widespread and substantial private expenditure on private tutoring outside the
formal school system in many developing countries, not much is known about their effects
on learning outcomes....
by Ambrish Dongre | On 05 Jul 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 This working paper: i describes recent labour market trends; ii analyses how young people are experiencing a double employment crisis as a result of the demographic phenomenon known as the ‘youth bulg...
by Isabel Ortiz | On 10 Jun 2014 The survey literature on search-theoretic models of the labor market. They show how this approach addresses many issues, including the following: Why do workers sometimes choose to remain unemployed?...
by Richard Rogerson | On 23 May 2014 Job seekers can influence the arrival rate of job offers by the choice of search effort and the search methods they use. In this paper we empirically investigate the contribution of the use of differe...
by Andrea Weber | On 23 May 2014 This report presents data and analysis to better understand the factors driving the expansion in undergraduate and graduate education across Asia. By looking at the system as a whole, the authors eval...
by David W. Chapman | On 16 May 2014 The Report highlights the unique aspects of youth development in various regions but emphasizes that young people the world over are ultimately constrained in their efforts to contribute to their own...
by United Nations UN | On 16 May 2014 The report closely examines four areas of increasing concern that of particular importance when addressing the issue of employment: jobless growth, global informalisation of the labour market, economi...
by United Nations UN | On 16 May 2014 Gender equality is one of the six goals of the global Education for All campaign that UNESCO leads. This was launched in 2000, when the countries of the world agreed to “eliminate gender disparities i...
by Edward B. Fiske | On 12 May 2014 This Report surveys critical aspects of human development, from political freedoms and empowerment to sustainability and human security, and outlines a broader agenda for research and policies to resp...
by Jeni Klugman | On 06 May 2014 In 2007-08, short-term migrants constituted 4.35 per cent of the rural workforce. A total of 9.25 million
households in rural India had short-term migrants.Using a nationally representative data for...
by S. Chandrasekhar | On 27 Mar 2014 This paper seeks to understand what kind of economic activities are concentrated in which regions of
India. Spatial concentration of jobs is measured by calculating the location quotient using inform...
by S. Chandrasekhar | On 22 Jan 2014 The effects of the Indonesian decentralization and democratization process on
budget allocation at the sub-national level is analyzed. Based on panel data for 271 Indonesian districts
for the years...
by Krisztina Kis Katos | On 17 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 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 Qatar’s population is growing at a truly staggering rate. Between August 2012 and August 2013 it grew by 10.5 per cent.
This growth is driven primarily by the recruitment of low-paid migrant workers...
by Amnesty International AI, | On 19 Nov 2013 In this paper, it is demonstrated that university students who cheat on a simple task in a laboratory setting are more likely to state a preference for entering public service. Importantly, it is also...
by Rema Hanna | On 11 Nov 2013 The major objective of the paper is to examine the economic conditions of the in-migrant
workers in Kerala. This has been done by analysing their savings, income and consumption
pattern and nature o...
by Dilip Saikia | On 11 Nov 2013 The Human Capital Index explores the contributors
and inhibitors to the development and deployment of a
healthy, educated and productive labour force, and has
generated the information contained in...
by World Economic Forum WEF | On 04 Oct 2013 Presented are estimates of the impact of India’s Public Distribution System on rural poverty, using National Sample Survey data for 2009-10 and official poverty lines. At the all
India level, the PD...
by Jean Dreze | On 27 Sep 2013 The paper reviews the existing evidence on migration-poverty interface in the light of the macro and micro level studies in India. It also discusses the extent, patterns, and correlates of short term...
by Amita Shah | On 03 Sep 2013 A large-scale randomized experiment was conducted in the Philippines testing the impact of unilaterally facilitating international labor migration. [BREAD Working Paper No. 396].
by Emily Beam | On 03 Sep 2013 Resolution and conclusions of the 101st Session of the International Labour Conference, Geneva, 2012. [ILO].
by International Labour Organisation ILO | On 16 Aug 2013 This paper asks whether the availability of breastfeeding facilities at the workplace helps to reconcile breastfeeding and work commitments. Using data from the 2005 UK Infant Feeding Survey, we model...
by Emilia Bono | On 07 Aug 2013 This paper is an attempt to understand the emerging migration patterns in India and issues underlying it. With globalisation, urbanisation and accompanying changes in socio-economic conditions, migran...
by Sandhya Rani Mahapatro | On 07 Aug 2013 Patterns of rural-urban migration and employment shifts in a region that is
facing ongoing depletion of groundwater resources in Northern Gujarat, India is discussed. Given that migration typically d...
by Ram Fishman | On 30 Jul 2013 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 The performance of Indian States are analyzed across three critical sectors –
health, education and infrastructure are analyzed. An index is constructed for each using the Principal Component
Analys...
by Pranjul Bhandari | On 10 Jun 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 The present study is concerned with the migrant who has changed his/her place of
residence from a state other than Punjab and is working in brick-kiln industry as worker. [Repec]. URL:[http://mpra.ub...
by Gursharan Singh Kainth | On 15 Apr 2013 This study examines the impact of inflows of foreign workers on Korean natives’ economic
performance – namely, employment – through the Employment Permit System, the basis of
Korea’s system by which...
by Jungho Kim | On 03 Apr 2013 Following the international financial crisis that started in 2007, market growth and MFI performance started to deteriorate. Over the last decade the market has matured and become more efficient. Is...
by Cédric Lützenkirchen | On 14 Jan 2013 This study examines how the economic effects of elections in rural China depend on voter
heterogeneity, for which religious fractionalization is taken as a proxy. [BREAD Working No. 366]. URL:[http:/...
by Gerard Padro-i- Miquel | On 09 Jan 2013 This paper provides a
detailed analysis of trade flows between the two emerging economies and investigates on
which type of products and in which sectors the Indian government applies antidumping
m...
by Hylke Vandenbussche | On 23 Nov 2012 Son preference is widespread in a number of developing countries. Anecdotal evidence
suggests that women may contribute to the persistence of this phenomenon because they
derive substantial long-run...
by Laura Zimmermann | On 19 Nov 2012 Is there a gender gap in mathematics across many low- and middle-income countries?
A detailed, comparable test score data is used to analyze this. Micro level data on school performance linked
to h...
by Prashant Bharadwaj | On 04 Oct 2012 This paper examines whether an individual-level transfer of property rights increases
the individual's bargaining power within the household. The question is analyzed in
the context of a housing ref...
by Shing-Yi Wang | On 18 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 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 objective of this report is to share a market level overview of the early stage progress of (Mobile Financial Services) MFS in Bangladesh up through the first quarter of 2012. A series of short s...
by Bangladesh Bank BB | On 23 Aug 2012 A unique data-set from Indonesia is analysed to understand what individuals know about the income
distribution in their village to test theories such as Jackson and Rogers (2007) that link informatio...
by Vivi Alatas | On 23 Aug 2012 Malnutrition and under nutrition are critical issues in Maharashtra. In spite of being a high growth state in the country, it has occasionally remained in the news due to deaths caused by under nutrit...
by Manisha Karne | On 21 Aug 2012 Mangoes from Andhra Pradesh reach everywhere in India. This has caused the conversion of large tracts of paddy fields into mango farms in Andhra. It affects the rural employment. Use of chemicals to r...
by Alex George | On 14 Aug 2012 The main aim of this paper is to examine two core features of on-the-job search in India. First, based on National Sample Survey (NSS) 66th round unit level data, we identify the factors influencing t...
by Krishna M | On 27 Jul 2012 The Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River is the world’s largest and most
controversial hydropower project. The 600 kilometer-long reservoir has displaced
1.3 million people and is wreaking havoc wi...
by International Rivers Network IRN | On 12 Jul 2012 The Association of Southeast Asian Nations
(ASEAN) small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are under scrutiny for their engagement in production networks following recent emphasis on increasing intra-reg...
by Ganeshan Wignaraja | On 06 Jul 2012 This paper estimates the gender wage gap and its composition in China’s urban labor market
using the 2009 survey data from the Chinese Family Panel Studies. Several estimation and
decomposition meth...
by Biwei Su | On 01 Jun 2012 On May 13, 2012 Parliament completes 60 years since its first sitting. To mark the occasion, a special sitting
of both Houses has been organised on the day.
Recently, there has been much public scru...
by Rohit Kumar | On 16 May 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 The analysis of micro impacts of macroeconomic adjustment policies (MIMAP) is a relatively new discipline. It has spawned out of the concern that adjustment policies aimed to correct macroeconomic imb...
by Celia M Reyes | On 04 Apr 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 In this paper the issue of high dropout rates in India is examined which has adverse implications for
human capital formation, and hence for the country’s long term growth potential. Using the 2004-0...
by Manisha Chakrabarty | On 14 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 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 report investigates how more and
better jobs can be created in South
Asia. It does so for two reasons. First,
this region will contribute nearly 40 percent
of the growth in the world’s workin...
by Reema Nayar | On 30 Jan 2012 Many Sri Lankan companies, particularly in the food processing sector, do
not have adequate management systems in place to control and dispose
solid waste. In order to address this challenge, a new...
by South Asian Network for Development SANDEE | On 09 Jan 2012 The objective of this policy is to ensure safe, affordable, quick, comfortable, reliable
and sustainable access for the growing number of city residents to jobs, education, recreation
and such other...
by Ministry of Urban Development GOI | On 30 Nov 2011 This policy brief takes a preliminary look at portability of social
security in ASEAN, particularly old-age, retirement, and
survivor benefits. The next section discusses the growth of
intra-ASEAN...
by Gloria O. Pasadilla | On 28 Nov 2011 This paper attempts to explain why internationalization processes to China are growing
despite the significant difficulties that foreign direct investments into China encounter.
The answer to this q...
by Geny Piotti | On 04 Nov 2011 In an earlier paper (Alagh, Munish, 2011) it was shown that macro economics matters in
agriculture. The relevance of understanding the impact of macro-economic policy on
agriculture was outlined. A...
by Munish Alagh | On 24 Oct 2011 This paper examines
some of the explicit as well as not so explicit trends in relation to women’s
employment in India from 1993-94 till 2009-10 and argues that they indicate a
grave and continuing...
by Indrani Mazumdar | On 10 Oct 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 is undertaken to examine various aspects of farm level adoption of Bt cotton in Gujarat as well as explore issues relating to environment and non-tariff barriers affecting the cotton trade...
by N. Lalitha | On 27 Sep 2011 A review of the various issues related to gender and poverty and examine the relationships between gender and various indices, including the human development index (HDI), the gender inequality index...
by Midori Aoyagi | On 22 Sep 2011 The paper examines the farm level performance of System of Rice Intensification (SRI) method of paddy cultivation as against the traditional method. The role of NGOs in raising awareness among farmers...
by Jharna Pathak | On 22 Sep 2011 This study
analyses the pollution-income relationship (for both local and global
pollution), separately across rural and urban households in India based
on unit record data on fuel consumption obta...
by K S Kavi Kumar | On 14 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 The role played by Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the banking system in India in strengthening education system. Realizing the importance of education for the economic development and the overall liv...
by Chakrabarty K C | On 10 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 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 This paper considers the potential role of marriage in improving labor market outcomes through the expansion of an individuals' networks. The impact of a father-in-law on a young man's career using pa...
by Shing-Yi Wang | On 05 Jul 2011 The basic concern of the development process started after the world wars was
improvement in level of living of the people. This concern was expressed in aggregative
terms of national income growth...
by Manoj Panda | On 20 Jun 2011 This paper examines
the employment and unemployment situation of the youth in India during the last two-and-half decades
namely, 1983 to 2007-08. It analyses the trends in labour force and workforce...
by S.Mahendra Dev | On 10 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 Task Force visited 45 villages across 17 states and held state and regional level consultations to understand from women and men farmers, bankers, civil society, academicians, planners, activists,...
by National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Devt NABARD | On 27 Apr 2011 This paper attempts to verify the widespread perception that general price level tends to rise
due to the month of Ramadan in Pakistan. For this purpose, the ARIMA methodology
(simple and extended f...
by Muhammad Akmal | On 19 Apr 2011 This article is a research on the water services available in north eastern parts of Mumbai. It aims as highlighting the ability of communities to design and run functional systems to overcome the sho...
by Rémi de BERCEGOL | On 08 Apr 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 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 This study attempts to develop a dynamic factor model (DFM) to
forecast industrial production and price level in India. For this purpose, domestic as well as
external economic indicators, that appea...
by Sanjib Bordoloi | On 21 Feb 2011 The effects of climate change have been and will be worse in poor countries and small-island states, those least able to adapt to the climate-related disasters. In this paper, senior fellow David Whee...
by David Wheeler | On 01 Feb 2011 This year's Global Employment Trends report is the first to assess how the world’s labour markets have been faring during the ongoing economic recovery and provide projections of employment and unempl...
by International Labour Organisation ILO | On 31 Jan 2011 The use of monetary policy in India has been constrained by a loose fiscal policy and capital flows. Capital inflows have the potential to cause a Dutch Disease-type situation. The RBI has carried out...
by Partha Sen | On 06 Jan 2011 Public policies often involve choices of alternatives in which the size and the
composition of the population may vary. Examples are the allocation of resources to
prenatal care and the design of...
by Charles Blackorby | On 28 Dec 2010 Slippage is one of the main bottlenecks of achieving full coverage of water and sanitation
services in India. This paper makes an attempt to identify the causes of slippage
in a systematic manner. T...
by V. Ratna Reddy | On 02 Dec 2010 The most important section of the educated job seekers in the State of Kerala consists of those with educational attainment ranging from matriculation to the graduate level. As on 30th June,1973,this...
by Chandan Mukherjee | On 10 Nov 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 Against the backdrop of concerns about the slow down in the growth of total work force
in the 1990s (relative to the 1980s) and of “jobless growth”, this paper offers a more
nuanced assessment of...
by K. Sundaram | On 11 Oct 2010 This paper is an attempt to fill the knowledge of the role played by network in the labor market assimilation of immigrants and the mechanisms through which networks affect the labor market outcomes o...
by Deepti Goel | On 30 Sep 2010 The purpose of this paper is to examine water use estimation in hydel and thermal electric power plants
in selected regions i.e. Coastal, Rayalaseema and Telangana regions of Andhra Pradesh. The stud...
by Perini Praveena Sri | On 20 Sep 2010 The importance of Total Factor Productivity (TFP) in explaining output changes is widely
accepted, yet its sources are not well understood. We use a proprietary data set on the floor-level operations...
by Sanghamitra Das | On 13 Sep 2010 This volume contains summaries of 12 case studies for three categories of business
organisations defined by ownership, i.e. foreign, state and (local) private. The case
studies explore the history a...
by Anisha Sabhlok | On 06 Sep 2010 This paper looks at
developments in and around the transition of young people from education to work in the
ECA region in recent years. The purpose of the paper is to aid understanding of the curren...
by Niall O’Higgins | On 05 Aug 2010 Walk down the corridors of any college in Delhi, Bangalore or any of the metros and you will definitely
find advertisements calling for executives to join in the “booming ITES industry” for a bright...
by Sabith Ullah Khan | On 22 Jul 2010 This paper is a report on an on-going project, which asks a number of questions
relevant to the study of state capacity. What are the main economic
and political determinants of the state’s capacity...
by Timothy Besley | On 15 Jul 2010 The paper provides information about the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Bill and also discuses some issues related to this bill.
by Shruti Rajagopalan | On 06 Jul 2010 It has been more than a decade since the debate on the feasibility of plastics started at the
international level. The environmentalists and the plastics industry have slugged it out on whether
plas...
by | On 24 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 This
paper confirms that for Mexico over the period 1986-2000, the export sector pays higher wages
than other sectors, but school drop out increases with the arrival of new export jobs. The workers...
by David Atkin | On 28 May 2010 This paper studies the impact of services trade liberalization under the currently negotiated EU-India
FTA on women’s lives in India and tries to delineate the concern areas. Relevant sectors of int...
by Ranja Sengupta | On 25 May 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 estimates
the storm protection benefits due to mangroves during the super cyclone of 1999 in Orissa.
By combining GIS data with census information, the paper examines the mangrove mediate...
by Saudamini Das | On 25 Jan 2010 This paper uses firm level panel data to investigate empirically the effects of
direct foreign investment (DFI) on the productivity performance of domestic firms in
three emerging economies of Centr...
by Jozef Konings | On 11 Dec 2009 The Chiranjeevi Yojna is considered to be a successful PPP model and has also received a prestigious Asian Innovations Award by the Wall Street Journal. It is a flagship scheme of the Gujarat state mi...
by Akash Acharya | On 13 Nov 2009 The paper begins with a review of national programmes and their performances. The next two sections highlight the record of domestic water supply programmes in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh with th...
by People's Science Institute PSI | On 10 Nov 2009 A review of several decades of scholarship on civil war, focusing on the answers to key questions: Why do wars begin? Who fights? How are armed groups organized? How can we end and prevent internal wa...
by Christopher Blattman | On 05 Oct 2009 The production of machine tools has long been associated with industrialisation
besides a formidable factor of technical change and international competitiveness.
This potent role of machine tool in...
by Vinish Kathuria | On 06 Aug 2009 Over the life of RACHNA, three sets of population based surveys were conducted: 1. Program wide baseline and endline surveys for INHP-II and Chayan to assess program performance; 2.Rapid Assessments S...
by Rachna Program | On 07 Jul 2009 This paper argues that graduated penalties observed in most legal systems may be an attempt to direct law enforcement efforts towards crimes that are socially more harmful, thereby achieving better de...
by Parikshit Ghosh | On 03 Jun 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 The focus of this paper is on food miles issues associated with the import of products from developing countries. As the concept of food miles has been an issue in organic agriculture since before the...
by Els Wynen | On 14 May 2009 2009 Budget speech
by Ministry of Finance and Planning Sri Lanka | On 20 Apr 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 paper examines the strategic nature of choice of environmental standards under
different degrees of openness of countries. It also compares and contrasts equilibrium
environmental standards and...
by Rabindra N Bhattacharya | On 23 Dec 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 This study tries to understand the main causes of tank degradation and the complex interrelationships among poverty, private coping mechanisms and community coping mechanisms that affect tank performa...
by Balasubramanian R | On 17 Oct 2008 The first section of this essay considers the personal narratives of suffering and growth of the
Tarini Bhavan workers and inmates. The second section analyses the ideological contours of the
reform...
by Bagchi B | On 16 Oct 2008 This paper reviews India’s experience to understand how services sector
liberalisation can generate (welfare) gains for developing countries, in particular vis-à-vis its employment generation potenti...
by Suparna Karmakar | On 14 Oct 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 paper analyses the impact of the reach of communist parties, the degree of political activism, personal attributes of workers, and industrial characteristics on the individual decision to unionise...
by Rupayan Pal | On 22 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 The decade of the 1990s has seen noteworthy progress in the field of elementary education. There has been progressive improvement in overall literacy levels across the country. The problem of access h...
by Vimala Ramachandran | On 20 Aug 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 Where do we locate the value of political education in our country, which has largely been imparted under the category of civics? Since textbooks are on possible site for finding answers, this study...
by Alex M. George | On 29 May 2008 Traditionally private consumption expenditure estimated by the two agencies differed. Factors attributed to the differences include coverage, reference time frames and concepts and methods of estimati...
by Joice John | On 20 Mar 2008 This study analyses the changes in prevalence of undernutrition between the 1980s and 1990s at the national and sub-national levels in India and focuses on the rural-urban comparisons. The study explo...
by Meenakshi J V | On 17 Jan 2008 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 Idea on National Knowledge Commission, what it is and what are they trying to accomplish, ask for the audience support, understanding and also talk about the need for major reforms in University educa...
by Sam Pitroda | On 05 Oct 2007 This paper examines changes in living conditions in the six villages in Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra, initially surveyed during 1975-84. This study is linked to the original Village Level Survey (VL...
by Reena Badiani | On 30 Aug 2007 At the end of the course in Forensic Medicine, the learner shall be able to:
1. Identify, examine and prepare report or certificate in medico-legal cases/situations in accordance with the law of lan...
by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare H & FW | On 08 Aug 2007 The objective of foundation course is to sensitize the learners with the essential
knowledge and skills which will lay a sound foundation for his\her pursuit of learning across the subjects throughou...
by Task Force on Medical Education | On 21 Jul 2007 The IIME Core Committee has developed the concept of 'Global Minimum Essential
Requirements' (GMER) and defined a set of global minimum learning outcomes, which students of the medical schools must d...
by Task Force on Medical Education | On 21 Jul 2007 There has been a global shift in the emphasis from discipline based curriculum to more integrated and problem based curriculum. However, considering the logistics of implementation and constrains in t...
by Task Force on Medical Education | On 21 Jul 2007 Children are born curious, and nature is one of the most compelling targets for their curiosity. Unfortunately, as the world becomes more urbanized, interactions between children and the natural world...
by Mitchell Betsy | On 26 Jun 2007 A large literature considers why children work, but little is known about why children
participate in activities that are labeled worst forms of child labor. The principal international
convention o...
by Eric Edmonds | On 19 Jun 2007 The role of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in the current stage of reform is crucial. The need for research and information collection not just at the national level but at the state-level has never...
by Vidya Pitre | On 05 Dec 2006 South Africa has undergone a remarkable transformation since its democratic transition in 1994, but economic growth and employment generation have been disappointing. Most worryingly, unemployment is...
by Dani Rodrik | On 13 Oct 2006 Decentralizing authority to democratically elected local government is advised for reasons of efficiency and good governance, but equity may suffer if elites capture decision making at the local level...
by Anirudh Krishna | On 16 Feb 2006 The objective of this paper is to unpack the dynamics of local governance in
Karnataka by studying the interaction between two sets of rural institutions,
(a) the formal, elected Gram Panchayats(GPs...
by Kripa Ananthpur | On 09 Jan 2006 Even as some households are coming out of poverty, other households are concurrently falling into poverty. Poverty creation and poverty destruction are proceeding alongside. A bottom-up methodology...
by Anirudh Krishna | On 08 Dec 2005 The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF) is a highly prestigious award for science and engineering (S&E) graduate students. This paper uses data from 1952 to 2004 on...
by Richard B. Freeman | On 22 Sep 2005 The future of biology lies in integrating the knowledge of classical biologists, modern day genomics and bioinformatics with the language and skills of physical sciences, chemical sciences, engineerin...
by M R S Rao | On 08 Aug 2005 |