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 You could run a sensible subsidy and price support system at a fraction of today's cost, and still have enough money left over to offer a more generous income support to all farmers.
by T.N. Ninan | On 02 Jun 2020 The paper discusses past virtuous growth cycles in India and argues that the post Covid-19
macro-financial package is an opportunity to trigger another such cycle, by raising marginal
propensities t...
by Ashima Goyal | On 14 May 2020 On March 24, 2020, the Government of India announced a 21-day national lockdown that has since
been extended to May 3, 2020. The lockdown has left urban food markets in disarray with severe supply
b...
by Sudha Narayanan | On 06 May 2020 New Keynesian Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) models with various specifications of technology, markup and interest rate shocks are estimated with Indian data using Kalman filter based p...
by Ashima Goyal | On 25 Apr 2019 This paper identifies five factors that can capture 95% of the variance across 39 US dollar exchange rates based on the principal component method. A time-varying parameter factor-augmented vector aut...
by Hongyi Chen | On 01 Apr 2019 Over 2017-18 there was a sharp rise in Indian government securities (G-Secs) interest rates unrelated to fundamentals. Examining each of the standard explanatory variables shows them to be inadequate...
by Ashima Goyal | On 29 Mar 2019 Indian post reform growth rates have been higher but more volatile compared to transition periods for other comparable countries. The reasons are aggravation of shocks due to unaddressed critical bott...
by Ashima Goyal | On 29 Mar 2019 The study finds that there has been a limited impact of trade liberalization on the volume of trade between the two countries. The shift from positive list to negative list has not resulted in any maj...
by Nisha Taneja | On 05 Feb 2019 This paper presents India’s trade in apparel products by sub-sectors and key markets, and analyses its trade competitiveness across different sub-sectors. It examines the impact of trade agreements an...
by Arpita Mukherjee | On 04 Feb 2019 The study attempts a comparative assessment of the changing employment situation in major Indian states, measured in terms of worker-population ratios and the distribution of workers into status group...
by A.V. Jose | On 01 Feb 2019 This study documents the frequency and characteristics of multi-product firms in Vietnamese manufacturing. The major findings are as follows. First, multi-product firms are larger, more capital-intens...
by Ha Thi Thanh Doan | On 29 Jan 2019 In recent years, many emerging economies including India have adopted inflation targeting framework. Post the global financial crisis, there is a growing debate on whether monetary policy should targe...
by Ila Patnaik | On 23 Jan 2019 In this paper the positive correlation between firm productivity and export status is well established. This correlation can arise from multiple alternative casual models. It has investigated these re...
by Apoorva Gupta | On 12 Jan 2019 This paper uses a structural gravity model to show the effects of services policies on manufacturing exports. Whereas the previous literature has focused on indirect effects of policies—flowing throug...
by Ben Shepherd | On 28 Dec 2018 This paper analyses competition in a two sided market with congestion. The existing literature’s pricing mechanisms of two-sided markets has concluded that pricing mechanism depends on the following t...
by Swapnil Sharma | On 27 Dec 2018 This paper provides 10 conclusions on the policies needed to achieve three goals of agricultural development in India. These are : (1) There is a need for change in the narrative in the new context; (...
by S. Mahendra Dev | On 26 Dec 2018 This paper analyzes the effects of the current trade conflict on developing Asia using the Asian Development Bank’s Multiregional Input–Output Table (MRIOT), allowing us to calculate the impact on ind...
by Abdul Abiad | On 21 Dec 2018 Basmati rice is Pakistan’s celebrated export. After years of growth, Pakistan’s production and export of basmati has slipped and is on a downward trend. The absence of a strong research and developmen...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 13 Dec 2018 This paper develops an environmental dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (E-DSGE) model with heterogeneous production sectors. In particular, the model comprises some low-carbon emission firms that...
by Maria Teresa Punzi | On 19 Oct 2018 This paper takes a New Keynesian model with non-separable money in utility to Indian data using maximum likelihood. The identification problem in isolating the effect of money on output and inflation...
by Ashima Goyal | On 21 Sep 2018 The study examines the survivability of Philippines MSMEs' exports to select countries. The analysis is based on the survival analysis model of Besedeš and Prusa (2006a; 2006b) and Besedeš and Prusa (...
by Mark Edison Bautista | On 20 Sep 2018 Firms in developing countries often avoid paying taxes by making informal payments to tax officials. These bribes may raise the cost of operating a business, and the price charged to consumers. To dec...
by Francesco Amodio | On 17 Sep 2018 The paper examines how the effects of school construction on girls’ education vary with a widely-practiced marriage custom called bride price, which is a payment made by the husband and/or his family...
by Nava Ashraf | On 17 Sep 2018 The paper investigates the claim that national labor markets have become more globally interconnected in recent decades. It is done so by deriving estimates over time of three different notions of int...
by Liming Chen | On 10 Sep 2018 The paper presents a new model of charitable giving where individuals regard out-of-pocket donations and the matches they induce as different. The paper shows that match-price elasticities combine con...
by Daniel M. Hungerman | On 01 Sep 2018 This paper attempts to determine the challenges and enablers of connecting small and medium businesses to global value chains. It uses data from a survey of SMEs in Metro Manila and a set of key infor...
by Jamil Paolo Francisco | On 30 Aug 2018 The People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) remarkable growth performance over the last 3 decades has been associated to very robust export growth, so much so that many refer to it as a clear example of ex...
by Jesus Felipe | On 29 Aug 2018 This paper examines the advantages and disadvantages of different financial schemes for introducing PV facilities in terms of the suitability of funding vehicles and investment mechanisms. Given the p...
by Ranaporn Tantiwechwuttikul | On 13 Aug 2018 The main objective of this paper is to review the status and performance of the Philippine livestock sector. This review provides discourse on the livestock subsector’s performance over the years, and...
by Sonny N. Domingo | On 05 Jul 2018 This study focuses on the implications of RA7581 during disaster events, and answer issues on the effects of price control on consumer protection and local economic recovery as well as provides discou...
by Sonny N. Domingo | On 05 Jul 2018 This paper aims to analyze the determinants of household energy portfolio in urban and rural areas and to determine how choices are affected by price shocks and weather variabilities in the Philippine...
by Connie Bayudan-Dacuycuy | On 29 Jun 2018 In many developing countries, the average firm is small, does not grow and has low productivity. Lack of market integration and limited information on non-local products often leave consumers unaware...
by Robert T. Jensen | On 12 Jun 2018 Recent progress in artificial intelligence (AI) – a general purpose technology affecting many industries - has been focused on advances in machine learning, which recast as a quality adjusted drop in...
by Ajay K. Agrawal | On 12 Jun 2018 The solar energy market has seen huge growth in recent years with a vast increase in solar cumulative capacity worldwide. One of the key drivers behind this growth is the decline in solar module price...
by Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary | On 11 Jun 2018 This study investigates the fuel demand elasticities separately for petrol, diesel, and CNG using data from
July 2004 to June 2015 for Pakistan. The results show that fuel demands are generally (own...
by Muhammad Omer | On 06 Jun 2018 This paper estimates production efficiency and shadow prices of
CO2
emissions for thermal
power plants in India. It employs a unique sample of 56 power plants for 2000-2013 acquired
primarily...
by | On 29 May 2018 Dr. Arpita Mukherjee is a Professor at Indian Council for Research on International
Economic Relations (ICRIER). She has several years of experience in policy-oriented
research, working closely with...
by Arpita Mukherjee | On 25 May 2018 With
technological advancement, the world has shrunk
in the form of a
‘global
village’. Acknowledging this fact, the main question of this study is going to be:
whether...
by | On 08 May 2018 A decade ago, the Centre for Development Studies started
migration research based on large-scale field surveys covering the whole
of Kerala State as a one-time study. However, it soon develo...
by Zachariah KC | On 12 Apr 2018 We study the role of the bank-lending channel in propagating fluctuations in commodity
prices to credit aggregates and economic activity in developing countries. We use data
on more than 1,600 banks...
by | On 30 Mar 2018 The issue of global labour standards has been at the forefront of both regional and
multilateral trade negotiations over the past two decades, and will likely remain high on the
agenda of future tra...
by | On 28 Mar 2018 The report says that there has been a long debate in economics regarding the role of money in
an economy particularly in the determination of income and prices.
by Fazal Hussain | On 27 Mar 2018 This study says that for a long time, textile and clothing have played an important role in the
economic development of the country.
by Afia Malik | On 26 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 This report attempts to examine the role of Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) and technological
efforts in determining the export competitiveness of firms belonging to Indian Pharmaceutical
Industry. M...
by Vidhisha Vyas | On 13 Mar 2018 This paper seeks to draw lessons for developing countries based on a survey of the recent literature on financial globalization. First, while capital account openness holds promises (by potentially lo...
by Shang-Jin Wei | On 10 Mar 2018 The current paper tries to fill this gap by investigating the impact of floods on pregnancy and birth outcomes across conflict-affected and unaffected districts in Pakistan.
by Baishali Goswami | On 08 Mar 2018 This paper presents the business cycle chronology for the Indian economy. Two distinct phases are analysed. The pre-1991 period when the cycles were mainly driven by monsoon shocks. The post 1991 phas...
by Radhika Pandey | On 03 Mar 2018 The study notes that continued appreciation of the rupee can weaken the competitive advantage of NRMs in the labour markets abroad. It can reinforce the already existing trend of decline in emigration...
by K.K. George | On 27 Feb 2018 The paper presents a variety of indicators to show that demand constrained output during the period of growth slowdown 2011-17. It also draws on research to show the macroeconomic structure of the eco...
by Ashima Goyal | On 22 Feb 2018 The end of the Cold War in 1989 did not, as had been expected, bring about a reduction in armed conflicts. More than two thirds of the poorest countries in the world are in conflict regions. The natur...
by Austrian Development Agency (ADA) | On 21 Feb 2018 This article focuses on rape as a weapon of war, the sociological impacts of which can be widespread and long-lasting. This is especially due to the ensuing terror and disruption to livelihoods, relat...
by AMSA Global Health | On 21 Feb 2018 The report described the level and cases of gender based sexual violence during the armed conflict and proved that both the warring parties were involved in such heinous acts. It also showed the letha...
by Institute of Human Rights Communication, Nepal (IHRICON | On 21 Feb 2018 With technological advancement, the world has shrunk in the form of a ‘global
village’. Acknowledging this fact, the main question of this study is going to be: whether
participation of a firm in th...
by | On 14 Feb 2018 Speech of Arun Jaitley, Minister of Finance on February 1, 2018
by Arun Jaitley | On 01 Feb 2018 Inflation in the country continued to moderate during 2017-18. CPI based headline inflation
averaged 3.3 per cent during April-December 2017-18, the lowest in the last six financial
years. The signi...
by Arun Jaitley | On 31 Jan 2018 The report says that as per the UN National Accounts Statistics data, India’s ranking improved from 14th position in 2006 to 7th position in 2016, among the world’s 15 largest economies in terms of ov...
by Arun Jaitley | On 31 Jan 2018 India’s external sector continued to be resilient and strong in 2017-18 so far, with the Balance of
Payments situation continuing to be comfortable with the Current Account Deficit at 1.8 percent of
...
by Arun Jaitley | On 31 Jan 2018 The paper ends with a discussion of the implications of possible shift in China's overseas development finance strategy since 2011.
by Oh Ah | On 31 Jan 2018 This chapter draws on cross-country experience
to study the pattern of investment and saving slowdowns as well as recoveries in order to obtain
policy lessons for India. One finding is that investme...
by Arun Jaitley | On 31 Jan 2018 Data on the international exports of states (the first in India’s history) suggests a strong
correlation between export performance and states’ standard of living. India’s exports are unusual
in tha...
by Arun Jaitley | On 30 Jan 2018 The GST Council offers a model “technology” of cooperative federalism
to apply to many other policy reforms. Over the medium term, three areas of policy focus
stand out: Employment: finding good job...
by Arun Jaitley | On 29 Jan 2018 This paper discusses (a) changes in measurement in industry and services (b) changes made in
agriculture sector and (c) major issues on the measurement of GDP in new series. There are long term
or l...
by S.Mahendra Dev | On 29 Jan 2018 We show that even when the exchange rate cannot be devalued, a small set of
conventional fiscal instruments can robustly replicate the real allocations attained under
a nominal exchange rate devalua...
by | On 25 Jan 2018 This paper analyzes 2015-TPA voting patterns in the Congress in the context of the trade negotiating objectives.
by Yoon Joon | On 24 Jan 2018 Conflict amplifies existing power dynamics and inequalities in families and societies because of the insecurity and fear caused by the upheaval of support structures. Conflicts generally result in the...
by | On 22 Jan 2018 This paper introduces a new, publicly available database for tracking merchandise trade in the global value chains for apparel/textile/footwear, motor vehicles and parts, and electronics, developed or...
by Michael Ferrantino | On 16 Jan 2018 This paper looks at the case where India contested the tariff concessions granted by the members of the European Communities (EC) to twelve developing countries under its Generalised System of Prefere...
by M. Taslim | On 29 Dec 2017 This study seeks to examine how locking-in of our unilateral liberalisation at the WTO and further
liberalisation of services trade would affect Pakistan’s competitiveness.
by Abid Burki | On 28 Dec 2017 his paper develops the contours of an ambitious approach to fossil fuel subsidy reform using the multilateral trade system.
by Joel Trachtman | On 26 Dec 2017 Using data from more than 6,000 manufacturing firms in India for 1996–2008, we investigate the impact of financial constraints on the exporting behavior of Indian manufacturing firms while also focusi...
by Hiro Ito | On 21 Dec 2017 This paper evaluates the impact of oil price shocks on the Philippines—a developing country and a net oil-importing economy.
by Arlan Brucal | On 15 Dec 2017 This paper seeks to lay bare the contours and consequences of the relationship between paid work and unpaid care work for women in low-income households, in order to better understand the relationship...
by | On 12 Dec 2017 The study says that the said passage has led to the decline of medicine prices since 2009, primarily through the efforts of the Department of Health (DOH) to implement the law using measures on maximu...
by Ramon Clarete | On 12 Dec 2017 This paper uses detailed production data from a half million Chinese manufacturing plants over 1998-2007 to estimate the effects of temperature on firm-level total factor productivity (TFP), factor in...
by Peng Zhang | On 28 Nov 2017 This paper examines the effects of the 2008–09 global economic crisis on people’s pro-environmental behaviour and willingness to pay for climate change mitigation. The paper hypothesise that the crisi...
by Artjoms Ivlevs | On 28 Nov 2017 Established in 2000; the Millennium Development Goals had played a
major role in bringing back the developmental issues to focus. Nearing the end of the stipulated time when they had to be achieved a...
by | On 24 Nov 2017 With the onset of wide-ranging economic reforms in India in 1991, agents have been exposed to increased price risk in commodity markets. Futures markets are one important instrument for reducing price...
by Raushan Kumar | On 07 Nov 2017 This research responds to this gap in the literature by exploring how donors and the Pakistan government interact in game and network settings to manage foreign aid in the complex aid policy network.
by Faheem Jehangir Khan | On 27 Oct 2017 This paper examines in detail Pakistan’s export performance in the light of emerging global challenges and identifies key structural and policy issues that stifle Pakistan’s exports.
by Afia Malik | On 25 Oct 2017 The existing studies on trade misinvoicing have focussed on the discrepancy in reported trade statistics between developing and developed countries. The estimates based on such methods rely on the ass...
by Suranjali Tandon | On 10 Oct 2017 This paper discusses the properties of time series data, compares common data analysis methods and presents a methodological framework for time series data analysis
by Dr. Min Shrestha | On 09 Oct 2017 We decompose India’s export performance in manufactured products during 2000-2015 into changes at the intensive and extensive margins. India’s performance, along different margins, is compared and con...
by Veeramani C | On 06 Oct 2017 The report says that the global growth is firming, contributing to an improvement in confidence.
by World Bank [WB] | On 04 Oct 2017 The empirical context of our study is Indonesia, a country with a long tradition of regulating consumer energy prices and a recent change in subsidy policies, facilitated by dramatically falling oil p...
by Sebastian Renner | On 29 Sep 2017 This paper, however, demonstrates
that the effective history of thinking about political representation in the
form of reservations for women is as old as the women’s movement itself.
Feminist enga...
by Mary E. John | On 28 Sep 2017 The Laspeyres-type consumer price index (CPI) is traditionally used to measure the changes in cost-of-living over time. Studies indicate this CPI suffers from a plutocratic bias, attaching greater wei...
by Dilip M. Nachane | On 18 Sep 2017 This paper discusses (a) changes in measurement in industry and services (b) changes made in agriculture sector and (c) major issues on the measurement of GDP in new series. There are long term or leg...
by S. Mahendra Dev | On 18 Sep 2017 The contribution of fisheries sector to Indian merchandise trade and to world fishery trade is substantial. The items traded have gained reputation over the years which will help to keep the momentum...
by Veena Renjini K K | On 13 Sep 2017 This paper examines the nature, changes and factors responsible for issues and problems faced by the sugarcane growers and sugar mills in India. This paper is based on the latest available secondary d...
by Abnave Vikas B. | On 12 Sep 2017 The report says that the prices sometimes fall below cost of production making it uneconomical for the farmers.
by Dr Sohan Premi | On 31 Aug 2017 This paper aims to show that the level of inequality increases via the human capital channel with credit market imperfections generating negative effects on economic growth. We expand the model presen...
by Bogang Jun | On 28 Aug 2017 As this paper has observed that the macro fundamentals were indeed pointing to this slowdown, notwithstanding the smart recovery in two years of 2009-2011, immediately after the global economic meltdo...
by S Jagadeesan | On 25 Aug 2017 The study is about estimating the extent to which domestic prices of major Indian agriculture commodities deviate from their corresponding free trade reference prices. The free trade reference prices...
by Shweta Saini | On 23 Aug 2017 With one of the Middle East’s largest economies, a growing population,
and rising incomes, Iran contributes significantly to the region’s agricultural commodity consumption. Iran’s rising food demand...
by Mesbah Motamed | On 18 Aug 2017 The report provides a detailed analysis of the latest developments in world trade.
by World Trade Organisation WTO | On 17 Aug 2017 Will women benefit from the rapid automation and digitisation that is set to change the world of work as we know it? How can we ensure that women’s economic interests are brought into focus, and that...
by Becky Faith | On 16 Aug 2017 This paper provides a comparative assessment of CPI and WPI in terms of its key characteristics, particularly on the method of compilation, distributional properties and measures of underlying inflat...
by Praggya Das | On 04 Aug 2017 This paper revisits the issue of determinants of inflation in India in a Phillips curve framework and makes two key contributions in relation to existing studies. First, in the context of the Reserve...
by Harendra Behera | On 03 Aug 2017 This paper based on both desk research and interactions with stakeholders makes a
comparative analysis of trade of world, India and its trading partners; examines the
various dimensions of India’s t...
by H.A.C. Prasad | On 03 Aug 2017 RCEP member countries cover half the world population, 30 per
cent of world GDP and a quarter of world trade. The regional grouping has
several countries including China whose economies are among th...
by V Seshadri | On 31 Jul 2017 The report narrates that the local currency bond market in emerging East Asia continued to expand in 1Q15 to reach US$8.3 trillion at end-March.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 24 Jul 2017 The paper estimates the relationship between the current account and fiscal deficit, and the real exchange rate, in a structural vector auto regression, with Indian data for the managed float period 1...
by Ashima Goyal | On 22 Jul 2017 The growth forecast for developing countries in Asia in 2015 is cut to 6.1% from 6.3%, amidst slower-than-expected economic activity in the United States and the People’s Republic of China.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 21 Jul 2017 Inflation expectations are an important marker for the conduct of monetary policy. Using a Bayesian structural VAR-X model that includes the inflation expectations of general public based on the Infla...
by Taniya Ghosh | On 21 Jul 2017 Using Input-Output (IO) analysis, this study provides the time series estimates of domestic value added (DVA) content of India's merchandise and services exports for the period 1999-2000 to 2012-13 an...
by Veeramani C | On 21 Jul 2017 With export demand stronger than expected in the first quarter of 2017, the region’s GDP is forecast to expand somewhat faster than forecast in April in Asian Development Outlook 2017.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 20 Jul 2017 This report takes stock of how AfT has contributed to these trends and considers some constructive ways to move forward, to continue to address trade costs in Asia and the Pacific.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 17 Jul 2017 This study measures the size of fossil fuel subsidies such as underpricing of petroleum products and electricity, tax exemptions, and subsidized credit; examines the potential economic, energy, and en...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 04 Jul 2017 This study measures the size of fossil fuel subsidies such as tax breaks for diesel and natural gas, market price support for natural gas for vehicles, and free electricity for low-income consumers as...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 04 Jul 2017 GST is one of the most crucial tax reforms in India which has been long pending. It was
supposed to be implemented from April 2010, but due to political issues and conflicting
interests of various s...
by Monika Sehrawat | On 03 Jul 2017 The report says Asia’s developing economies remain on track to post growth of 5.8% in 2015 and 6.0% in 2016, as the region’s economies remain resilient to continued economic weakness in industrialized...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 26 Jun 2017 This desk review explores the links between infrastructure development and women’s time poverty in Asia and the Pacific by drawing on time-use data and reviewing existing research and evidence from im...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 22 Jun 2017 This report measures the size of associated subsidies on these fossil fuels including direct transfers, tax exemptions, subsidized credit, and losses of state enterprises in India, Indonesia, and Thai...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 14 Jun 2017 The paper narrates that the risks are tilted to the downside as tightening US monetary policy may heighten financial volatility, further moderation in the People’s Republic of China could spill over i...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 14 Jun 2017 This report includes proposed measures for Myanmar’s road sector, rail sector, river transport, and policy measures, summarizing the costs and benefits of each, ranked by their benefit-to-cost-ratio.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 02 Jun 2017 Tajikistan has sustained high economic growth since its civil war ended in 1997. Real gross domestic product (GDP) during 1997–2015 grew at an average 7.2% a year, driven mainly by agriculture and ser...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 24 May 2017 The ecological complexity of the Central and West Asian region gives way to diverse ecosystems
with rich natural resources and hydrocarbon reserves; countries in this region are not only
exposed to...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 04 May 2017 This paper aims to analyze the differential impact of exchange rate undervaluation on growth and exports in different countries. The paper considers two sets of countries in our dataset-18 countries a...
by Sanika Sulochani Ramanayake | On 03 May 2017 The paper analyse data from two recent NSSO surveys to provide estimates of expenditure on higher education and loans availed for higher education. The average share of expenditure on higher educatio...
by S. Chandrasekhar | On 02 May 2017 This study investigates the effects of the gender gap on economic growth by using a composite gender gap index from the World Economic Forum. The index captures the multidimensional aspect of the gend...
by Sanika Sulochani Ramanayake | On 02 May 2017 Budget 2017-18 was presented at the time when the global situation is inhospitable, marked with
protectionism and domestic environment is constrained by the twin balance sheet crisis. The investment
...
by M Govinda Rao | On 10 Mar 2017 Economic growth of around 7½% makes India the fastest-growing G20 economy. The acceleration of structural reforms, the move towards a rule-based policy framework and low commodity prices have provided...
by OECD Development Centre | On 06 Mar 2017 India is increasingly vulnerable to cyber attacks that range from intrusions that affect the integrity of data to large-scale attacks aimed at bringing down critical infrastructure. This vulnerability...
by | On 03 Feb 2017 This paper estimates the cost of effluent discharge regulations for firms
located in the lower Kelani River catchment in Sri Lanka. The river provides
water for many economic purposes including drin...
by Asha Gunawardena | On 23 Dec 2016 Pulses in India have recently become a topic of concern among policymakers. Members of the Opposition, for instance, have pointed to the 'exceptionally high' cost of certain pulses as an indication of...
by | On 15 Dec 2016 After the demonetization, it has become difficult to make payments through cash. How make digital payments is explained here. [MoEF].
by Niti Aayog GOI | On 14 Dec 2016 The study attempted to investigate the determinants of inflation in case of
Pakistan and to check the validity of monetarist stance that inflation is always
and everywhere a monetary phenomenon by i...
by Mehak Moazam | On 07 Dec 2016 This study examines whether skewness of cross sectional distribution of
relative price shocks has asymmetric impact on aggregate inflation. The
empirical evidence from various countries suggests tha...
by Sartaj Rather | On 16 Nov 2016 Finances of states have been changing due to (i) increased devolution of central taxes, (ii) rationalisation of the Centrally Sponsored Schemes, (iii) the introduction of the UDAY scheme, and (iv) the...
by Arvind Gayam | On 09 Nov 2016 In Pakistan, women work primarily in the home or on the farm. Their participation in work outside these areas, particularly in formal employment, is extremely low. It is possible that some forms of wo...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 04 Nov 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 We analyze the impact of trade-induced income shocks on the size of local government, and the provision of public services. Areas in the US with declining labor demand and incomes due to increasing im...
by | On 10 Oct 2016 The available literature in Pakistan is generally lacking in a critical
examination of the issues related to intrahousehold resource allocation. This black box is due largely to the lack of individua...
by Hina Nazli | On 10 Oct 2016 In this study the hypotheses that the choice between OFDI and export decision of the
firms depends on the firm level productivity is tested. Here, the productivity levels of OFDI
firms vis a vis exp...
by Ronny Thomas | On 03 Oct 2016 Objectives of this paper are to empirically examine the roles of three channels of FDI liked
spillovers in enabling domestic firms (DFs) to take decision to export (DTE). The findings suggest that
c...
by Pradeep Kumar Keshari | On 03 Oct 2016 This Project Briefing explores the experiences of these people as they migrate, drawing on findings from a baseline study on their vulnerabilities, particularly to HIV and AIDS, as they move between t...
by | On 29 Sep 2016 India can substantially increase her production and yield in
pulses with a strategic emphasis on research in public and private sector, expanding irrigation
infrastructure, provision of MSP to pulse...
by Satish Y Deodhar | On 23 Sep 2016 Supply-demand imbalance at a given time is the main problem in India. Not much can be done with demand, as increase and shifting patterns in demand are normal with economic growth and urbanisation. St...
by C S C Sekhar | On 20 Sep 2016 The continuing inflow of hundreds of thousands of refugees into many European countries has ignited much political controversy and raised questions that require a fuller understanding of the determina...
by George Borjas | On 20 Sep 2016 Rising prices and declining consumption of pulses cause concern in terms of both nutrition and food
inflation in India. This paper outlines policy strategies to increase the availability of pulses at...
by P.K. Joshi | On 16 Sep 2016 The question here is, whether it’s the responsibility of the Government or the Central Bank to ensure price stability in an economy? For instance, what was the role of the RBI when the prices of pulse...
by Deepthi Mary Mathew | On 07 Sep 2016 This article is about India's role in reducing food price volatility in the world. India has come a long way from a ‘ship to mouth existence’ to a country that is ready to confer legal right to food t...
by M. S. Swaminathan | On 02 Sep 2016 This policy brief presents to parliamentarians and other policy makers, to examine the hunger, undernutrition and food security situation prevailing in India. It advances the need to undertake effecti...
by N.C. Saxena | On 31 Aug 2016 Comprehensive program evaluation requires capturing indirect effects of an intervention,
such as changes in leaders’ efforts and constituents’ attitudes towards leaders. We
study political economy r...
by | On 30 Aug 2016 Using a large-scale novel panel dataset (2005–14) on schools from the Indian state of Assam, we test for the impact of violent conflict on female students’ enrollment rates. We find that a doubling of...
by | On 30 Aug 2016 During the recent episode of persistently high food inflation in India, the role of rent seeking activities of food suppliers emerged as the centre of debate in the country. The rent seeking activitie...
by Rudrani Bhattacharya | On 29 Aug 2016 One of the wealthiest countries in the Middle East, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is also one of the largest exporters of oil, and as such, one of the most influential in the region. Despite this, more...
by | On 25 Aug 2016 China and India have successfully integrated into the world economy. Once specialised in textiles, they have developed new export-oriented sectors linked to the information and communication technolog...
by | On 24 Aug 2016 This paper addresses some aspects related to these two important research questions, and thus builds on the base of knowledge. The paper is organized as follows. First, we discuss the economic growth...
by | On 24 Aug 2016 Efforts to promote food security must distinguish between short-term and medium-term measures, but also between countries with agricultural potential and without such potential, argues this paper. Fur...
by | On 24 Aug 2016 This paper brings together recent evidence on what has come to be referred to as the triple
burden of malnutrition—consisting of overnutrition, undernutriton, and micronutrient
deficiencies—using va...
by Meenakshi J V | On 19 Aug 2016 To monitor changes in absolute poverty across time, it is crucial to ensure that the established poverty line is a fixed standard of living that represents the minimum standard required by an individu...
by Jose Ramon Alber | On 17 Aug 2016 Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healt...
by Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO] | On 16 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 India is moving towards introducing a Goods and Services Tax (GST). The GST
would be a multistage comprehensive value added tax (VAT) encompassing both
goods and services. Given the federal structur...
by Sacchidananda Mukherjee | On 09 Aug 2016 The extent of market integration and transmission of food price shocks is a major determinant of price
stability and overall food security, particularly in developing countries. Few studies have exam...
by Jarilkasin Ilyasov | On 08 Aug 2016 This study models the optimum use of production inputs and analyse the
behaviour of input demand functions of agricultural production through
restricted transcendental logarithm profit function for...
by Shrabani Mukherjee | On 04 Aug 2016 This paper examines the generalizability of internally valid estimates of causal effects in a fixed population over time when that population is subject to aggregate shocks. This temporal external val...
by Mark Rosenzweig | On 27 Jul 2016 The United Nations estimates that the number of people worldwide who suffer from chronic
food shortages might now exceed one billion. That skyrocketing prices of food in general,
and...
by Randall Arnst | On 22 Jul 2016 This paper examines social sector expenditures in fifteen Indian states between 1980/81 and 1999/2000 to find out whether the far-reaching economic reforms that began in 1991 had any significant impac...
by | On 19 Jul 2016 This Evidence Report details key insights from the Institute of Development Studies Addressing and Mitigating Violence programme, which involved detailed political analysis of dynamics of violence as...
by | On 15 Jul 2016 The paper investigates the dynamic relationship between movements in oil prices and exchange rates with macroeconomic variables like price, output, interest rate and money by using structural vector a...
by Taniya Ghosh | On 12 Jul 2016 The study was conducted in the Bangalore Urban district comprising of nine educational blocks. Forty-five schools were selected across nine educational blocks to conduct the primary research for the s...
by Jyotsna Jha | On 12 Jul 2016 The recent commodity boom has seriously affected South Asia, particularly due to higher food prices and their impact on the welfare of poor and vulnerable populations. This paper describes the food cr...
by S.Mahendra Dev | On 12 Jul 2016 Crude oil and other petroleum products play an important role in India’s energy security and in sustaining its high growth rate. Against that background, this document empirically analyses petroleum d...
by Pradeep Agrawal | On 07 Jul 2016 All living beings on earth need water for their daily life. As it is becoming scarce and the demand is increasing proper management of water is needed.
by Aakriti Singh | On 30 Jun 2016 Global commodity prices surge of 2007-08 sent an inflationary shock across the countries. 2014 global
prices descend resulted in significant disinflation in many countries and even deflation in some
...
by Muhammad Nadim Hanif | On 30 Jun 2016 This paper models an opposition group’s choice between peace, terrorism, and open conflict. Terrorism emerges if executive constraints are intermediate and rents are sizeable. Open conflict is predict...
by Michael Jetter | On 27 Jun 2016 The problems of food security and agriculture should be viewed within the context of the broader structural transformation as Asia becomes increasingly urban and nonagricultural. This paper aims to re...
by Asian Bank | On 23 Jun 2016 This paper investigates the economic fortunes of coerced vs. free workers in a global supply chain. To identify the differential treatment of otherwise similar workers we resort to a unique exogenous...
by Alexander M. Danzer | On 22 Jun 2016 This paper analyses some of the major financial and governance challenges for attaining universal elementary education following RTE norms. The focus is on Karnataka. The analysis of financ...
by | On 22 Jun 2016 There are efforts to control inflation. A new governor and the committee should try to bring low inflation future for India which has got many benefits.
by Raghuram G. Rajan | On 21 Jun 2016 This case study aims at presenting Tajikistan’s
perspective of, experiences with, and challenges
to foreign aid. The objective of the study is to raise
awareness about different dimensions of aid f...
by Rustam Aminjanov | On 20 Jun 2016 Budget speech of Pakistan 2016-17.
by Mohammad Ishaq Dar | On 17 Jun 2016 Using unique data from Pakistan we estimate a model of demand for differentiated products in 112 rural education markets with significant choice among public and private schools. Our model accounts fo...
by | On 09 Jun 2016 Technology and the Internet have triggered important changes to how creative works are created, accessed and how creators and copyright-based industries generate their revenues. In this chapter, the e...
by Sacha Wunsch-Vincent | On 08 Jun 2016 Global commodity prices surge of 2007-08 sent an inflationary shock across the countries. 2014 global prices descend
resulted in significant disinflation in many countries and...
by Muhammad Nadim Hanif | On 06 Jun 2016 Optimising wealth creation and management is the new game that the
corporate leaders across the continents have to play with pragmatism,
sagacity and dexterity. Slow movers, lower performers, standa...
by | On 06 Jun 2016 Public expenditure data has been sourced from the State budget documents, detailed demand for grants of MoHFW and
other Central Ministries/Departments. This document gives in totality classification...
by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare MoH&FW | On 02 Jun 2016 This report examines the international community’s assistance to Afghanistan, with particular focus on U.S. efforts. It
assesses the impact of the U.S.-devised counter-insurgency strategy on Afghans’...
by International Crisis Group | On 26 May 2016 This report assesses the status of women in present-day Afghanistan, including the gains achieved with international support after the U.S.-led intervention in 2001. It examines gaps and challenges to...
by International Crisis Group | On 26 May 2016 The paper presents the first rigorous evidence of the effectiveness of a
computer-based adult literacy program. A randomized control trial study of TARA Akshar Plus, an Indian adult literacy program,...
by Ashwini Deshpande | On 26 May 2016 China needs Africa’s forests, and Africa knows it. Chinese investments in African forests and woodlands are growing fast. China is the largest importer of tropical timber in the world — possibly accou...
by | On 25 May 2016 The impacts of climate change will be channeled primarily through the water cycle, with consequences that could be large and uneven across the globe. Water-related climate risks cascade through food,...
by World Bank [WB] | On 11 May 2016 The Ministry of Food, Public Distribution and Consumer Affairs
has entrusted a study to the NCAER to assess whether, and to what extent, the weaknesses noted by past evaluation studies on the TPDS ha...
by Sohini Paul | On 09 May 2016 The Indian Railway (IR) system is one of the four railway systems in the world that transports more than one billion tonnes of traffic annually.
As against a growth of 4 per cent to 4.5 per cent in t...
by Saurabh Bandyopadhyay | On 09 May 2016 Accordingly, the agricultural outlook and situation analysis undertaken in this study refers to the main crop based food items: cereals (specifically rice, wheat, jowar, bajra, maize and overall coars...
by Rajesh Chadha | On 09 May 2016 Using 2000-2009 data, the report finds that, while spending on environmental infrastructure has visible positive environmental impact, city spending is strongly tilted towards transportation infrastru...
by | On 04 May 2016 Derivatives are an integral risk management tool for business entities and financial institutions. However, derivatives markets can also lead to excessive and opaque risk taking which may result in sy...
by Reserve Bank of India RBI | On 03 May 2016 This paper assesses the fiscal space and cyclicality of total Indian Central Government expenditure and its
major components
by Ashima Goyal | On 02 May 2016 This paper revisits the welfare ranking of tariff revenue maximizing export tariff and welfare maximizing export tariff in an imperfectly substitutable network goods oligopoly. The results are often s...
by Anomita Ghosh | On 02 May 2016 In this study we examine the link between of income distribution and wholesale price of wheat using panel data. We have weekly time series data on prices for wheat for 3 districts in Uttar-Pradesh in...
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 Energy is used to heat and to cool buildings and homes, transport goods, and power the economy. But with ageing infrastructure, poorly integrated markets, and uncoordinated policies, our consumers,
h...
by European union | On 26 Apr 2016 India's trade infrastructure is in a bad shape. India's imports are very high than its exports. The government has promised some investments and policies in this sector.
by T.N. Ninan | On 16 Apr 2016 The report considers the question of taxes as price versus tribute for contemporary India and makes three points. First, if the accounting cost of services provided exceeds the economic cost (the min...
by | On 15 Apr 2016 Food security in the 76 low- and middle-income countries included in this report is expected to improve between 2014 and 2015. These countries are low- and middle-income countries as classified by the...
by Anthony Murray | On 12 Apr 2016 Agriculture in Andhra Pradesh is in an advanced stage of crisis. While this is a generalised rural crisis, the burden has fallen disproportionately on small and marginal farmers, tenant farmers and ru...
by Government Andhra Pradesh | On 12 Apr 2016 Diabetes is a serious, chronic disease that occurs either when the pancreas does not produce enough insulin
(a hormone that regulates blood sugar, or glucose), or when the body cannot effectively use...
by World Health Organisation (WHO) | On 07 Apr 2016 A gradual moderation in growth is currently underway in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). This is the result of a combination of factors, including a shrinking working-age population, the natural...
by | On 06 Apr 2016 Budget speech by Finance Minister of Malaysia.
by Minister of Finance Malaysia | On 06 Apr 2016 The report gives a detailed account of the education system in India.
by Ministry of Statistics and Prog Implementation (MOSPI) | On 05 Apr 2016 IFPRI’s Flagship Report puts into perspective the major food policy issues, developments, and decisions of 2015 and highlights challenges and opportunities for 2016. This year’s report takes an in-dep...
by International Food Policy Research Institute | On 04 Apr 2016 This paper reports on the impact of a potential strategy to address iron
deficiency anemia in rural areas: double fortified salt (DFS) — salt fortified with iron and iodine. They conducted a large-sc...
by Abhijit Banerjee | On 23 Mar 2016 In 2010, Cambodia outlined a plan aimed at developing its rice sector into a major rice exporting country. The rice sector was chosen due to comparative advantages in land, perceptions of significant...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 18 Mar 2016 Aid for Trade (AfT) flows have increased each year since 2006 in the region. And while regional aggregate trade costs continue to fall, many subregions continue to struggle with trade costs that are s...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 17 Mar 2016 This paper attempts to examine the impact of such price controls on the revenue and profitability of the seed providers in India. Using a panel data for 9 cotton growing states in India over 2002- 200...
by Anchal Arora | On 16 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 Recent studies have analyzed the adoption of Bt cotton in the light of government seed price interventions. According to one view, reduction in seed prices enabled the farmers to buy seeds at lower pr...
by | On 15 Mar 2016 In the context of EU and OECD countries, formal employment contracts between the employer and employee for full time work can still be taken to be the norm, despite the growth of non-standard forms of...
by | On 15 Mar 2016 Developing countries continue to face substantial underemployment, working poverty and informality of employment across various regions. In particular, women are more likely to be affected by higher l...
by | On 15 Mar 2016 This year it is predicted that Vietnam’s economy will slump to a level not seen since 1999. As a result of this and factional in-fighting over this issue, on the 22nd of October Vietnam’s Prime Minist...
by | On 14 Mar 2016 Controlling healthcare costs while promoting maximum health impact in the recipient countries is one the biggest challenges for global health donors. This paper views global health donors as the regul...
by Han Ye | On 14 Mar 2016 As South Korea this month takes up the rotating presidency of the United Nations Security Council, concerns over North Korea’s nuclear program grow. Pyongyang’s recent rocket tests, its anticipated th...
by Sangsoo Lee | On 12 Mar 2016 South Korea has so far failed to fulfil its potential as an important player in Overseas Development Aid, with its aid having been too little and spread too thin. Meanwhile, China and other emerging d...
by | On 12 Mar 2016 The objectives of the study are three-fold: to investigate who are vulnerable to welfare loss from health shocks, what are the household responses to cope with the economic burden of health shocks and...
by Sowmya Dhanaraj | On 11 Mar 2016 Mergers and acquisitions (M and A) are common strategies of firms to increase its performance. Although, the motives of M and A are different however, the determinants are discreet. This study tries t...
by Nikita Agarwal | On 11 Mar 2016 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 The present research work aims to analyse the effect that the disaggregated developmental aid has had on the health status and the standard of living in the urban sector after the MDGs were establishe...
by Zareena Begum Irfan | On 10 Mar 2016 Related Party Transactions disclosures in Annual Reports have recently gained more attention of the Indian policymakers. This paper aims at finding out the effect of related party transactions disclos...
by Subhra Choudhury | On 10 Mar 2016 The article provides an overview of the state of the art of sociological research on price formation. The dominant trait of the sociological approach to prices is to understand price formation not as...
by Jens Beckert | On 09 Mar 2016 In this paper, the ongoing G20 process of improving the regulation of international finance is put into a historically informed perspective. To understand the driving forces behind and obstacles to in...
by | On 09 Mar 2016 In order to examine specific cases of high trade margins, the high-level committee lists out recommendations to address the issue. In this regard, the recommendations aim to significantly bring down p...
by Pharmaceuticals Department of | On 09 Mar 2016 The growth story of Gujarat’s agriculture has received significant recognition (with around 10 percent growth rate in recent years) and is often being hailed as a role model for other states to follow...
by Itishree Patnaik | On 09 Mar 2016 Since the end of January 2011, the state of food security in North Korea has been in question. External factors, particularly the recent spike in global food prices and the suspension of food aid supp...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 04 Mar 2016 The Finance Minister of Bihar, Mr. Abdul Bari Siddiqui, presented the Budget for Bihar for the financial year 2016-17.
by Arvind Gayam | On 03 Mar 2016 After three decades of double-digit growth, China is slowing as it is rebalancing its economy from export-driven to less-volatile domestic consumption driven economy. The paper looks at the impact of...
by Geetima Das Krishna | On 02 Mar 2016 The Madhya Pradesh Finance Minister, Mr. Jayant Mallayya, presented the Budget for Madhya Pradesh for the financial year 2016-17 on February 26, 2016.
by Arvind Gayam | On 01 Mar 2016 How large are the benefits of transportation infrastructure projects, and what explains these benefits? To shed new light on these questions, I collect archival data from colonial India and use it to...
by Dave Donaldson | On 29 Feb 2016 The increasingly worsening state of small farmers in an 'agriculture-predominant' India is most tragic and a matter of grave injustice. This state of affairs is tragic also from the larger perspective...
by Vijay Negi | On 29 Feb 2016 This paper undertakes econometric analysis of innovation, learning, and exporting in automobiles and electronics firms in the PRC using a large-scale dataset to identify the most appropriate innovatio...
by Ganeshan Wignaraja | On 29 Feb 2016 This paper focuses on the pricing behavior of Japanese and United States firms selling their identical products in New York City, Chicago, Osaka, and Tokyo. The authors utilize some simple models of i...
by K.C. Fung | On 29 Feb 2016 This paper studies price discovery and volatility in the context of introduction of Nifty futures at the National Stock Exchange (NSE) in June 2000. Cointegration and Generalised Auto Regressive Cond...
by M. T. Raju | On 28 Feb 2016 Continuous rise in food prices has been posing a serious policy challenge in India. Milk is a major contributor to the food price rise due to its high growth in demand in the domestic and internationa...
by S. Rajeshwaran | On 27 Feb 2016 Land reforms require urgent attention in emerging market economies, and there is a vast body of literature that deals with the economic impact land reforms, especially land titling (Acemoglu et al., 2...
by Madalasa Venkataraman | On 27 Feb 2016 The dynamics of the monetary system is undergoing significant changes in India. The entire concept and flow of money; narrow, broad or base, is being influenced by measures related to financial inclus...
by Charan Singh | On 27 Feb 2016 The main purpose of this paper is to derive the process of estimating dynamic RRA with the maximum likelihood and a Bayesian method having a weakly informative prior density while assuming that the lo...
by Rohit Gupta | On 27 Feb 2016 The vulnerability of banks to macroeconomic and financial shocks is an area of growing interest to policymakers, especially in emerging markets. Strong adverse aggregate shocks contribute heavily to l...
by Rohit Gupta | On 27 Feb 2016 This monograph extends the notion of securitization in exploring and framing the concerns over the spread of HIV/AIDS. It claims that concerns over the spread of HIV/AIDS along territorial border regi...
by | On 26 Feb 2016 In India, agriculture is inherently a risky venture due to uncertainty in production and volatility in price, and more so in the context of increased climatic aberrations and globalisation. Therefore,...
by Dr Mamata Swain | On 26 Feb 2016 Under the World Trade Organization, the Philippines has maintained special treatment for rice, which expires on July 2017. Tariffication will involve greater competition from imports and the decline o...
by Roehlano M. Briones | On 25 Feb 2016 On December 24, 1998 the Government of Pakistan (GOP) received a Call Notice from the US Government for consultation regarding the establishment of quantitative restraints on Pakistani exports of Comb...
by S. M. Hussain | On 25 Feb 2016 This paper focuses on Indonesia’s trade policies after the economic crisis. It examines the trend towards protection and addresses the issues of competitiveness. The concluding part briefly discusses...
by M. Basri | On 25 Feb 2016 Who would have thought thirty years ago China could become one of the world’s most influential trading nations? At that time the Chinese government was reluctant to open up its door for foreigners and...
by Alice Wang | On 24 Feb 2016 India’s performance in the early carbon market are analysed, and proposes a series of actions to be undertaken by both the Government of India, and the private sector, if India is to take full advanta...
by World Bank | On 24 Feb 2016 Removing sediment from the active channel bed in river sand mining interrupt the continuity of sediment transport through the river system, disrupting the sediment mass balance in the river downstream...
by Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Chang GOI | On 24 Feb 2016 Adequate supplies of natural resources have always been preconditions for economic growth. The requirements for energy and metallic mineral resources have been larger and more obvious with the modern...
by Dominic Meagher | On 23 Feb 2016 The paper studies the post-Asian crisis investment performance of crisis affected countries in ASEAN. The empirical evidence clearly indicates that the ASEAN and East Asian countries are emerging from...
by Aekapol Chongvilaivan | On 23 Feb 2016 There is a burgeoning literature on the (re)emergence of the BRICS countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – as significant actors in international development. To date, however, mos...
by Adele Poskitt | On 23 Feb 2016 In this paper we attempt to explain the China Puzzle: coexistence of accelerating economic growth and worsening growth outlook. The root cause lies in China’s unique liberalization approach, i.e., the...
by Huang Yiping | On 22 Feb 2016 The trade performance of countries in South Asia over the past two decades has been poor relative to other regions. Exports from South Asia have doubled over the past 20 years to approximately USD 100...
by John Wilson | On 21 Feb 2016 The present report summarises major results that seeks to trace the supply chains of a group of essential commodities and, in view of their future supply (domestic production and import) prospect, att...
by Centre for Policy Dialogue CPD | On 21 Feb 2016 Green growth entails several different kinds of processes: conversion to low-carbon energy, climate resilience, and response to climate shocks. Equity implies a fair sharing of the costs, within count...
by Jeffrey D. Sachs | On 21 Feb 2016 This article analyses the motivation and impact of the 2009 intervention of the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) in benchmark price negotiations. The impact of the transition from benchmark pri...
by Luke Hurst | On 21 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 After decades of near self-sufficiency, China is becoming the world’s largest importer of rice. What does this mean for greater Asia?
by | On 17 Feb 2016 This study extends the analysis of causality by Husain and Rashid (2006) by taking care of the shift in the variables due to the price hikes in the early 1970s. Casual relation between real income and...
by Fazal Husain | On 17 Feb 2016 Policy in Pakistan has been fairly path-dependant, placing a higher weight on export promotion and domestic industrialisation development than on domestic commerce. Yet domestic commerce is growing ra...
by Nadeem Ul Haque | On 17 Feb 2016 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 Successful implementation of the AEC2015 should have a positive impact on ASEAN’s agri-food sector, leading to improved food availability for the region and increased exports. Sadly, early signs are n...
by | On 16 Feb 2016 Throughout Pakistan’s history, policy has sought to promote exports through government support and incentives. The government machinery is geared to export promotion especially through direct and indi...
by Nadeem Ul Haque | On 16 Feb 2016 This paper attempts to assess the position of Pakistan in the International Competitiveness. As a survey paper, the concept, definition and the measurement of competitiveness have been analysed furthe...
by Uzma Zia | On 16 Feb 2016 The World Bank and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) face three sets of challenges: those that are common to others in the official development finance community; those that are common to the World Ban...
by Vikram Nehru | On 16 Feb 2016 This study examines the effect of the earthquake of October 8, 2005 on the price behaviour and activities of Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE). Sixty firms are selected from those listed on Karachi Stock E...
by Attiya Y. Javid | On 15 Feb 2016 Identifying core inflation has become a very important issue for the Central Banks of the world for last few years. It has also become a practice to monitor the core inflation along side the headline...
by Md. Shahiduzzaman | On 15 Feb 2016 This policy note is an exploratory attempt to verify the popular argument that cost side factors are no less contributory than demand side factors in stimulating inflation in the Bangladesh economy. T...
by Md. Alauddin Majumder | On 15 Feb 2016 Bangladesh Bank (BB) adjusted its monetary policy stance during 2005 in order to contain inflationary pressures and facilitate stability in the foreign exchange market. At the end of 2005, interest ra...
by Shubhasish Barua | On 15 Feb 2016 In this paper two measures of the monetary policy stance are constructed. The stance of monetary policy, regarded as a quantitative measure of whether the policy is too tight, neutral, or too loose re...
by Farooq Pasha | On 14 Feb 2016 The hostility between India and Pakistan lies at the heart of the current war in Afghanistan. Most observers in the West view the Afghanistan conflict as a battle between the U.S. and the NATO-led Int...
by William Dalrymple | On 14 Feb 2016 This paper finds that PTAs are clearly drivers of significant IP reform in developing countries and that the implementation challenge for these countries is real and complex. The challenge does not on...
by | On 10 Feb 2016 A stated objective of Myanmar is to become a modern developed nation that will stand shoulder to shoulder – proud, dignified and tall – with the countries of the world. How far has Myanmar come in ach...
by | On 09 Feb 2016 This paper aims to provide a framework for those making and influencing policies to better understand and analyse how key trade policy issues and tools in fisheries relate to and impact on their susta...
by International Centre and Sustainable Development | On 08 Feb 2016 This issue paper – published in the context of the ICTSD project on Fisheries, International Trade and Sustainable Development – aims to contribute to debates to develop fisheries and trade policies a...
by | On 08 Feb 2016 Liberalization of environmental goods that are climate-friendly could aid climate mitigation efforts by lowering costs of these goods by reducing or eliminating higher tariffs and non-tariff barriers...
by International Centre and Sustainable Development | On 08 Feb 2016 Reducing risk and increasing resilience to natural disasters and climate change requires access to knowledge, information and the active participation of vulnerable population. Planning Communication...
by Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO] | On 08 Feb 2016 The World Survey on the Role of Women in Development is the flagship publication of the United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women. It is presented to the Second Committee of the General Ass...
by UN Women | On 08 Feb 2016 Volunteer supply is widespread, yet without a price inefficiencies occur due to suppliers’ inability to coordinate with each other and with demand. For these contexts, we propose a market clearinghous...
by Robert Slonim | On 07 Feb 2016 Using 18 waves of the British Household Panel Study, this paper examines state dependence and stepping stone effects of low pay. A distinguishing feature is that five types of transition- not in the l...
by Lixin Cai | On 07 Feb 2016 This paper estimates the effect of local labor market conditions on crime in a developing country with high crime rates. Contrary to the previous literature, which has focused exclusively on developed...
by Rafael Dix-Carneiro | On 07 Feb 2016 One way to do a reality check on the official numbers will be to develop a desi version of what came to be called the Li index in China.
by T.N. Ninan | On 06 Feb 2016 Given the importance of Consumer Price Index (CPI), there has been long debate on its measurement issues. It is the best and most well-known indicator of inflation, which is further used for evaluatin...
by Mahmood Khalid | On 06 Feb 2016 In this study, an investigation of the effects of capital inflows on domestic price level, monetary expansion and exchange rate volatility. To proceed with this, linear and nonlinear cointegration and...
by Abdul Rashid | On 06 Feb 2016 Since the introduction of rational expectations in the literature, most of the research focus in the area of macroeconomics has been investigating micro foundations of macroeconomic theory and transmi...
by Wasim Shahid Malik | On 06 Feb 2016 In this study, an attempt has been made of develop a dynamic macroeconometric model of Pakistan’s economy to examine the behaviour of major macroeconomic variables such as output, consumption, investm...
by Muhammad Arshad Khan | On 06 Feb 2016 Monetary policy has changed in a number of ways during the last two decades. Along with the other characteristics, modern monetary policy is forward-looking, and the central banks respond contemporane...
by Muhammad Nasir | On 06 Feb 2016 Despite receiving large quantities of foreign aid, Pakistan, like many other developing countries, has remained stagnant and become more aid dependent. This grim reality has provoked a vigorous debate...
by Muhammad Javid | On 06 Feb 2016 Controlling prices is one of the major tasks for the macroeconomic policy-makers. The recent oil price hike that shifted the policy towards biofuels and some natural calamities increased food prices a...
by Henna Ahsan | On 06 Feb 2016 This report aims to provide the emerging lessons from a representative sample of 20 country case studies that could help policy makers to address implementation challenges, including overcoming politi...
by | On 05 Feb 2016 This piece explores how trade and trade policies have evolved over the last decade and considers the possible implications for the multilateral trading system. Since the Doha Round was launched, the i...
by | On 05 Feb 2016 This study attempts to explore the impact of foreign aid on the quality of governance and how conflicts, whether internal or external affect the overall situation. Conflicts affect governance directly...
by Unbreen Qayyum | On 03 Feb 2016 This study examines the effect of foreign aid on the fiscal behaviour of the Government of Pakistan. It applies the Autoregressive Distributed Lag model to analyse the relationship that prevailed betw...
by Rabia Butt | On 03 Feb 2016 This study empirically investigates the impact of foreign capital and governance on the economic growth by employing country level data from 1984 to 2010 for Asian developing countries. Governance; fo...
by Unbreen Qayyum | On 03 Feb 2016 This study investigates the existence of accrual anomaly by using a
sample of 340 non-financial firms listed at Karachi Stock Exchange. The
objective of the study is to examine the persistence of th...
by Jawad Mohammad | On 03 Feb 2016 The paper discusses the North-South context for biopiracy, explains the process by which RiceTec acquired its patent, ascertains why it amounted to biopiracy and examines its implications for southern...
by Uzma Jamil | On 02 Feb 2016 India’s engagement with Africa through trade, investment, aid and technological collaboration can support growth and structural transformation in African economies. This paper, which is part of a majo...
by Environmental Management & Policy Research Institute | On 02 Feb 2016 Non-government organisations (NGOs) have become increasingly involved in the international response to armed conflict, some aiming to mitigate the effects of war and others to help end the violence. B...
by Jonathan Goodhand | On 01 Feb 2016 Deepening militarisation and the lack of accountable governance in Sri Lanka’s Northern Province are preventing a return to normal life and threaten future violence. Scene of the most bitter fighting...
by International Crisis Group | On 31 Jan 2016 The recent food price spikes have exposed deep structural flaws in the world food system. Although increased financial speculation in commodity futures and options markets seems to have amplified shor...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 Over the past decade, international donors increased financing for health in developing countries substantively. Much of the additional support has come from the rapid expansion of so-called vertical...
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 It has become an article of faith in international trade negotiations that farmers in developing countries have much to gain from agricultural trade liberalization. This paper assesses the evidence fo...
by Timothy A. Wise | On 31 Jan 2016 In the last decade, the commodity issues have re-emerged as central to development initiatives and poverty alleviation strategies. The objective of this Issue Paper by Charles Mather is to contribute...
by | On 30 Jan 2016 Early studies on the potential impacts of climate change indicated that agriculture was not likely to be severely affected, as carbon fertilization and trade flows were thought to be able to compensat...
by | On 30 Jan 2016 Farm Policies in developed countries have been widely blamed for creating problems for food security in developing countries. These problems have included high barriers to developing country exports,...
by | On 30 Jan 2016 Eugenio Diaz Bonilla and Juan Francisco Ron work up from the household level to connect international trade rules to the national strategies needed to achieve food security. Their paper surveys the po...
by | On 30 Jan 2016 In this paper, Prof. Tim Josling analyses whether an international scheme for targeted consumer food subsidies could represent a practical contribution to overcoming food insecurity in developing coun...
by | On 30 Jan 2016 Agricultural prices, along with the prices of primary commodities in general, have been both high and volatile over 2006-11. These developments impact the poor and other vulnerable non-farm households...
by | On 30 Jan 2016 In recent years, high and volatile prices have contributed to acute shortages of basic foodstuffs in poor, net food-importing countries. This paper examines the new challenges these countries face, an...
by | On 30 Jan 2016 The United States is the largest exporter of many key commodities leading to a significant impact on international markets. In this paper Bruce Babcock and Nick Paulson examine what proposed changes i...
by | On 30 Jan 2016 The evolving food security agenda offers governments a chance to address some urgent concerns and strengthen the multilateral trade system. The Doha Agenda has been overtaken by time and events. Many...
by | On 30 Jan 2016 Previous agricultural trade negotiations were conducted when global prices were lower. They focused on policies that artificially expanded supply in some countries, or reduced demand in other countrie...
by | On 30 Jan 2016 This paper explores how these perceptions and narratives around women’s empowerment have evolved in Bangladesh from 2000 to date. It studies the concepts of women’s empowerment in public discourse and...
by Sohela Nazneen | On 30 Jan 2016 The paper looks into the recent experience in exports and imports of drugs and pharmaceutical products. It is found that there is a tremendous growth in the exports. The paper suggests the removal of...
by Reji K Joseph | On 30 Jan 2016 The paper highlights the trend in bilateral trade between the two countries. It notes that barring setbacks in certain years, the bilateral trade between the two countries has been growing briskly. It...
by Indra Nath Mukherji | On 30 Jan 2016 New technology in the seed sector has brought in new actors and new requirements for regulation. It is important to discuss how far India is working on new opportunities and policy options for effecti...
by Sachin Chaturvedi | On 30 Jan 2016 The paper tries to understand precisely how the food safety regulations applied by the industrialized countries have an effect on India’s export of processed food to these markets. It also examines th...
by Rajesh Mehta | On 30 Jan 2016 This study analyses the linkages between India’s services trade flow and its probable barriers. The results of the analysis show that the linkages between services export and services trade barriers a...
by Prabir De | On 30 Jan 2016 Many authors have described and modelled Keynesian effects in a Babysitting Cooperative (BSC), which has the underlying structure of a single good barter economy. A simple model of the BSC economy is...
by Asad Zaman | On 30 Jan 2016 The price of crude oil has lost 54% of its value since September 2014 and there are no indications that the fall in prices will stop here unless a major production cut by OPEC is declared. The reasons...
by | On 29 Jan 2016 One of the main aims of trade is to enable consumers to choose from a wider variety of goods at lower prices and firms to grow and create more jobs by becoming more productive and accessing larger mar...
by | On 29 Jan 2016 The study finds that a high order of technology and yield gap exists and
indicates that there is enormous scope to accelerate the pace of growth in the production of both oilseeds as well as pulses....
by B.L. Kumar | On 28 Jan 2016 This paper addresses the different firm level strategies adopted to face up to the pressures of competition by two industrial clusters in the highly industrialised state of Gujarat. The overwhelming p...
by Keshab Das | On 28 Jan 2016 This paper draws from a field research experiment to examine the
gendered aspects of willingness to pay for index-based insurance in Bangladesh. Participants were
presented with risky lotteries and...
by Daniel J. Clarke | On 28 Jan 2016 The EMPHASIS project (Enhancing Mobile Populations’ Access to HIV and
AIDS Services, Information and Support) has provided a diverse range of services to crossborder migrants in India, Nepal and Bang...
by Prabodh Devkota | On 27 Jan 2016 Most international commerce is carried out by multinational firms, which use their foreign affiliates for the majority of their foreign sales. In this paper, I examine the determinants of multinationa...
by Penn Stat | On 27 Jan 2016 We estimate the effects of trade facilitation on the extensive margins of trade. Using OECD Trade Facilitation Indicators – which closely reflect the Trade Facilitation Agreement negotiated at the Bal...
by Robert Teh | On 27 Jan 2016 The objective of this working paper is to critically test the assertion that pro-poor "green" tourism is one of the best development options for the majority of least developed countries (LDCs) -- a c...
by Shoaib Akhtar | On 27 Jan 2016 A growing literature suggests that high-income countries export high-quality goods. Two hypotheses may explain such specialization, with different implications for welfare, inequality, and trade polic...
by Roberta Piermartini | On 26 Jan 2016 The paper, nonetheless, acknowledges that delivering these benefits would involve significant practical and political challenges. It concludes that if the challenges can be overcome and the mutual ben...
by Kodjo Osei-Lah | On 26 Jan 2016 We examine in this paper the impact of the tightening of IPRs, notably patents rights, and the adoption of utility model laws on export diversification. To perform our analysis, we used panel data cov...
by Kimm Gnangnon | On 26 Jan 2016 The system of global agricultural and food trade is undergoing rapid processes of change, with important implications for economic development. In this paper we document and discuss these changes; inc...
by Johan Swinnen | On 26 Jan 2016 This paper analyses the role of services in international trade through the lens of global value chains (GVCs). Services account for more than 70% of world GDP but only for around 20% of world trade i...
by Rainer Lanz | On 26 Jan 2016 This paper develops new estimates of export quality, far more extensive than previous efforts, covering 178 countries and hundreds of products during the period 1962—2010. It finds that quality upgrad...
by Christian Henn | On 26 Jan 2016 The survey illustrates that a robust framework supportive of the export of generic medicines to meet public health needs has been put in place by a significant number of WTO Members, there is an obvio...
by Roger Kampf | On 26 Jan 2016 This paper examines empirically whether Aid for Trade (AfT) programmes and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows affect export upgrading and, if so, whether their effects are complementary or substi...
by Sèna Gnangnon | On 26 Jan 2016 This paper looks at the approach adopted by the government of Tamil Nadu where drug procurement and supply is done through an autonomous agency. The paper emphasises the need for such goverment interv...
by N. Lalitha | On 26 Jan 2016 Globalization has led to large scale outsourcing of production activities to developing countries manifesting in global commodity chains.The study shows that given a choice, enterprises and workers pr...
by Jeemol Unni | On 26 Jan 2016 After the global financial crisis, India was exposed to many external shocks from commodity prices and foreign capital flows. Although capital flow fluctuations were largely due to global risk-on risk...
by Ashima Goyal | On 24 Jan 2016 This policy note reviews the trend in debt composition and sources of debt financing and analyzes debt sustainability of Bangladesh. Along with historical data on level of debt and sources of financin...
by Md. Ezazul Islam | On 23 Jan 2016 This study reports high positive correlation between FDI inflows and Bangladesh’s aggregate exports and imports. The net impact on the current account balance and the balance of payments is positive....
by Muhammad Amir Hossain | On 23 Jan 2016 This note examines the volatility in stock prices in the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) during 2003- 2007. Excessive volatility and fluctuations in stock price fail to provide the correct signal on compan...
by Md. Habibour Rahman | On 23 Jan 2016 This note provides estimates of the contribution of food prices to inflation in Bangladesh. The results suggest that the current inflation takes a bigger toll on the poor because they spend more of th...
by M. Golam Mortaza | On 23 Jan 2016 This note provides estimates of inflation rate of import-concentrated commodities and their contribution to overall inflation in Bangladesh. The results suggest that the Bangladesh economy has been ex...
by M. G. Mortaza | On 23 Jan 2016 The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) will have multiple impacts on India and South Asia, ranging from a short-term effect, such as the loss of preferential access for exports, to the longer-term impact...
by | On 23 Jan 2016 A number of studies have indicated that trade liberalisation did not have any significant impact on poverty reduction although the impact on employment generation had been positive (e.g. Raihan 2007)....
by Mehruna Chowdhury | 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 This note examines the current methodology of setting the requirements and availability of food grains used by FPMU and identifies areas where efforts are needed to rationalize demand and supply estim...
by Bangladesh Bank | On 23 Jan 2016 The BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) are increasingly prominent in development cooperation activities in low-income countries in Africa and worldwide, presenting a pote...
by Institute of Development Studies IDS | 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 profile has been prepared on the recommendation of the Inter-Ministerial Task Force with a view to enable the farming community to scientifically manage the post-harvest operations and to widenin...
by Department of Agriculture & Cooperation GOI | On 22 Jan 2016 India’s pharmaceutical industry of more than 10,000 manufacturing sites is estimated to generate US$ 22 billion in revenue , half of which is exported to more than 150 countries across the globe. Expo...
by Empower School of Health ESH | On 22 Jan 2016 The paper analyzes strategic trade policy for differentiated network goods oligopolies under alternative scenarios, when there is export-rivalry between two countries. We show that, under price compet...
by Anomita Ghosh | On 22 Jan 2016 In the fiscal year 2011–12, under-recoveries1 incurred by Indian oil-marketing companies for diesel rose to an all-time high of INR81,192 crore (US$15 billion) (Government of India, 2012a). Diesel con...
by Gayatri Khedkar | On 21 Jan 2016 This is the second collective effort from the Center for Euro-Atlantic Studies to address global issues that are largely unfamiliar to the Greek international affairs community. Last year we dealt wit...
by Stamatis Zachariadis | On 21 Jan 2016 Food consumption data are collected in most countries through a variety of household surveys. The primary objective of these surveys is usually to measure poverty, to derive consumption patterns neede...
by Lisa C. Smith | On 21 Jan 2016 This paper analyses shifts in economic power over the last almost five decades. Developing countries and regions have increased their share of incremental world income and incremental world exports ov...
by Manmohan Agarwal | On 21 Jan 2016 The report provides a comprehensive set of mortality estimates for the world’s countries. The objectives of the report are twofold. First, the results of the 2006 Revision of World Population Prospect...
by UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs UNDESA | On 20 Jan 2016 This study attempts to break down ‘climate change’ into ‘climate related shocks and stresses in the course of time’ and conceptualizes the food security and nutrition outcomes as combination of the ad...
by Chris Béné | On 19 Jan 2016 Social transfers, a non-contributory form of social protection, present a great potential to tackle poverty and inequality, and support inclusive socioeconomic development. Yet, they also represent a...
by | On 19 Jan 2016 Two important policy shifts occurred with the period of
economic reforms: one, the sharp reduction in the controlled drug list leading to significant increase in
drug prices, and second, the introdu...
by Gita Sen | 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 The most basic economic theory suggests that rising incomes in developing countries will deter emigration from those countries, an idea that captivates policymakers in international aid and trade dipl...
by | On 15 Jan 2016 The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were introduced to monitor implementation of the United Nations Millennium Declaration which set out a vision for inclusive and sustainable globalization based...
by Sakiko Fukuda-Parr | On 13 Jan 2016 This paper assesses the effects of combining fiscal austerity with flexibilization policies aimed at reducing labour costs and increasing competitiveness. Core to our analysis is a global perspective...
by | On 11 Jan 2016 The international community has advanced in reforming the international aid system. Such reform comes at a time when there is a renewed skepticism about aid effectiveness and when the crisis sheds new...
by José Alonso | On 11 Jan 2016 From around 2000 onward, donors and recipient governments embarked upon a new aid paradigm. The most important elements include increased selectivity in the aid allocation, more ownership of recipient...
by | On 11 Jan 2016 The new role that middle-income countries (MICs) play in the global landscape obliges international community to review the configuration of the development cooperation system. On the one hand, MICs s...
by | On 11 Jan 2016 The Least Developed Countries Report 2004 assesses the relationship between international trade and poverty within the LDCs, and identifies national and international policies that can make trade a mo...
by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNCTAD | On 09 Jan 2016 The Trade and Development Report 2007, subtitled "Regional cooperation for development", recommends that developing countries should strengthen regional cooperation with other developing countries, bu...
by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNCTAD | On 09 Jan 2016 Five years after the onset of the global financial crisis the world economy remains in a state of disarray, with global output growing at around 2 per cent and global trade growth virtually grounding...
by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNCTAD | On 09 Jan 2016 The TER 2006 focuses on environmental and related health requirements and their impact on developing countries´ market access. It examines both the opportunities and challenges presented by these requ...
by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNCTAD | On 09 Jan 2016 Effective monitoring of access to, quantity of and quality of water is a key consideration for India. Given the large investments and big programmes and schemes including the current thrust of Sector...
by People's Science Institute PSI | On 07 Jan 2016 International trade is redefined today in terms of trade in value added and global value chains. Most countries trade both in finished goods as well as intermediates. India, a less talked about countr...
by | On 07 Jan 2016 As cross-border movements of goods, capital, and labor are intensifying, it is likely that goods markets in East Asia will become increasingly integrated. This study investigates the current state of...
by Woosik Moon | On 07 Jan 2016 There have been few empirical studies in the developing world and the agricultural sector, on the impact of negative health shocks on household well-being. Does the pervasive effect of a negative hous...
by | On 07 Jan 2016 The single most cost-effective way to save lives in developing countries is in the hands of developing countries themselves: raising tobacco taxes.
by | On 06 Jan 2016 This set of four CPR Occasional Papers addresses different facets of what continues to be a contentious subject. The first paper, by S N Menon and SoumyaKantiMitra, provides an overview of the rationa...
by Centre Research | On 05 Jan 2016 Road Transportation, Regulations and Charges in Indonesia. To assess the size and nature of domestic road transportation costs, The Asia Foundation, in partnership with the University of Indonesia's I...
by The Asia Foundation | On 02 Jan 2016 Indonesia is a net importer of grains, horticulture and livestock produce. The instability of food prices since 2008 has led to a renewed emphasis on food security. Despite increasing food crop produc...
by Victor Pontines | On 01 Jan 2016 While official poverty in Indonesia is relatively low at 12%, an additional 27% of the population live just above the poverty line and small shocks can drive them back into poverty. Poor and vulnerabl...
by Kefei You | On 01 Jan 2016 This study examines the overall trade pattern of Nepal by using pooled ordinary least square (OLS) along with theone-year lag gross domestic product (GDP). It has also attempted to find the structural...
by | On 01 Jan 2016 While official poverty in Indonesia is relatively low at 12%, an additional 27% of the population live just above the poverty line and small shocks can drive them back into poverty. Poor and vulnerabl...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 01 Jan 2016 This paper examines the economic and trade effects of infrastructure in Asia. Infrastructure plays a key role in facilitating trade, especially since recent trade liberalization in Asia has resulted i...
by Jamilah Mahyideen | On 01 Jan 2016 The failures of water management have been extensively studied and reviewed and the shortcomings are listed.
by Ravi Chopra | On 29 Dec 2015 Self-employment constitutes a vital part of the economy since entrepreneurs can provide not only employment for themselves but also for others. The link between self-employment and immigration is, how...
by Ken Clark | On 29 Dec 2015 We estimate the response of Asian stock market prices to exogenous monetary policy shocks using a vector error correction model. In our paper, monetary policy transmits to stock market price through t...
by Farzana Sehrin | On 29 Dec 2015 This paper examines issues of women’s employment and decent work in the context of the on-going global financial and economic crisis. Recognizing that financial and economic crises affect men and wome...
by UN Women | On 28 Dec 2015 The implementation of the Agreement on Textile and Clothing (ATC) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) renders both threats and opportunities to India’s Textile and Clothing (T&C) industry in the wak...
by Vinoj Abraham | On 26 Dec 2015 This joint ODI-UNDP paper looks at whether development aid will remain important in the post-2015 era, and asks how the old aid model should change in response to a dramatically new world and new sust...
by GAIL HURLEY | On 24 Dec 2015 The goal of this paper is to examine the impact of crude oil price movements on two macro variables, the gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate and the consumer price index (CPI) inflation rate, in...
by Naoyuki Yoshino | On 23 Dec 2015 Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will require high levels of productive private and public sector investment, which in turn requires a suitable investment climate. This paper provide...
by | On 22 Dec 2015 The imperatives for Thailand’s investment in the Northeast have come from two important considerations, reflecting longterm strategic objectives of the Look West Policy of Thailand. First, India’s nor...
by | On 22 Dec 2015 The intention of this paper is to examine whether Real Exchange Rate (RER)depreciation has any impact on export, import and trade balance of Bangladesh.
Real exchange rate is calculated using Tk./do...
by Maidul Chowdhury | On 19 Dec 2015 The present paper examines the trends and patterns of import intensity in the whole economy and manufacturing sector in India during 1990s and beyond. The paper also reviews past studies on import int...
by Mahua Paul | On 18 Dec 2015 The paper focuses on eight selected major manufactured export sectors for undertaking detailed study, six of which are also India's largest manufactured import sectors. After analysing India's current...
by Smitha Francis | On 18 Dec 2015 Back in 2004, when I ran the Chinadesk at the International Monetary Fund, my team some written questions to Beijing ahead of our meetings with Chinese officials. China’s central bank had claimed that...
by Eswar Prasad | On 16 Dec 2015 This study explores the outcomes of food subsidies to the poor in the case of
India and the Philippines. Both countries operate in-kind food subsidy programs with similar mandates, commonalities in...
by Shikha Jha | On 15 Dec 2015 These Notes are mainly about three interconnected themes; the international and Indian ‘take’ on control over land (and water); the distinction between an agricultural crisis and an agrarian crisis;...
by Sheila Bhalla | On 09 Dec 2015 A framework for comparing mitigation effort is drawn, drawing from a set
of principles for designing and implementing informative metrics. A template for organizing metrics on mitigation effort is pr...
by William Pizer | On 09 Dec 2015 The government should encourage the use of solar energy.
by T.N. Ninan | On 04 Dec 2015 The future of tropical deforestation is projected from 2016-2050 with and without carbon pricing policies, based on 18 million observations of historical forest loss spanning 101 tropical countries.
by Jonah Busch | On 04 Dec 2015 Changes in food habits mean people are finding new ways to enjoy food and new foods to enjoy, often with greater convenience and ease. Most people feel they understand little about how new foods affec...
by | On 03 Dec 2015 Almost a sixth of the world’s population and a large fraction of its poorest people live in India. Until recently, national poverty estimates were widely criticized because they relied on aggregate pr...
by | On 02 Dec 2015 This paper reviews the rice procurement operations of the Government of India from the standpoints of cost of procurement as well as effectiveness in supporting farmers’ incomes. The two channels used...
by Neha Gupta | On 02 Dec 2015 South Asia’s changing climate has had many different impacts including changes in ecosystems, more severe storms, rainfall that is more concentrated in a few days per year leading to more floods and m...
by E. Somanathan | On 01 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 HIV and AIDS are a serious challenge for the developing as well as the developed world. India, with an estimated 5.206 million people living with HIV in 2005, accounts for nearly 69 percent of the HIV...
by | On 01 Dec 2015 An important element of the socio-economic impact of HIV is
how it disproportionately affects women and girls, in terms of
their vulnerability to infection, constrained access to services
and the a...
by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) | On 01 Dec 2015 This paper surveys the voluminous literature on migration affecting trade and the somewhat less developed literature linking aid flows to migration. It aims to guide the reader through the two literat...
by | On 27 Nov 2015 LPG and Superior Kerosene Oil (SKO), are not only important sources of fuel, but also commodities whose price is subsidized to benefit the people of Bhutan. Therefore, it is important to ensure smooth...
by National Council Economic Affairs Committee | On 27 Nov 2015 This report attempts to compare the latest medium-term projections for wheat, rice, coarse grains, oilseeds, vegetable oils and sugar made by four international institutions (OECD/FAO, USDA, FAPRI, an...
by National Council of Applied Economic Research | 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 IFPRI and India’s partnership played a particularly important role following the Green Revolution when that partnership analyzed the necessary policies to both promote domestic food production and to...
by International Food Policy Research Institute | On 03 Nov 2015 This interview with Vijoo Krishnan, Joint Secretary All India Kisan Sabha, on the agrarian crises leading to farmer suicides and rising prices of food grains traces backs the agrarian crises to the ne...
by Vijoo Krishnan | On 02 Nov 2015 Indian governments follow highly interventionist policies on food grains, especially rice and wheat. These policies include import and export controls which insulate the domestic market from world mar...
by Garry Pursell | On 14 Oct 2015 Present study has been
undertaken to understand that to what extent reforms measures in terms of repeal of
the act has affected investment in agricultural marketing infrastructure. The present
s...
by Vijay Intodia | On 14 Oct 2015 This paper reviews recent evidence on food intake and nutrition in India. It attempts to make sense of various puzzles, particularly the decline of average calorie intake during the last 25 years. Th...
by Angus Deaton | On 13 Oct 2015 Green revolution has made the country self-sufficient in food grain production, mainly rice and wheat. We now need to usher in a rainbow revolution which encompasses not only agriculture but the allie...
by R K P Singh | On 13 Oct 2015 A bill to provide for adequate protection of the interests of consumers and for prevention of unfair trade practices and for the said purposes to make provisions for establishment of the Consumer Prot...
by Lok Sabha Secretariat | On 13 Oct 2015 This paper tries to assess the impact of coping strategies on household welfare. The paper tries to identify the components of vulnerability to better focus policy. India, particularly rural India, h...
by Raghbendra Jha | On 12 Oct 2015 The new dread-word is deflation. What does this mean for India? This can cause a threat for domestic producers. This is because of the global situation. We can be prepared and by improving efficiency...
by T.N. Ninan | On 09 Oct 2015 Data and market information show that the sudden spikes in onion prices are a calculated affair, well thought out and beautifully executed. There is no reason to believe that we could have a shortage...
by Aritra Chakrabarty | On 09 Oct 2015 This paper examines the relationship between gender inequality and food security, with a particular focus on women as food producers, consumers, and family food managers. The discussion is set against...
by Bina Agarwal | On 29 Sep 2015 This paper, highlights the need for provisioning adequate social protection coverage to the vulnerable sections of population in urban India, assesses the role of the TPDS in reaching out to the depri...
by R. Radhakrishna | On 28 Sep 2015 This paper tries to identify food insecure population of the country, analyse the availability, storage, procurement of food grain , assess the effectiveness of PDS, identify the discrepancies in the...
by Ishita Aditya Ray | On 28 Sep 2015 Can election change the condition of Bihar? At least improving the transport facilities....
by T.N. Ninan | On 26 Sep 2015 This study explores the inter-generational effects of health shocks using longitudinal data of Young Lives project conducted in the southern state of India, Andhra Pradesh for two cohorts of children...
by Sowmya Dhanaraj | On 25 Sep 2015 Manufacturing has historically offered the fastest path out of poverty, but there is mounting evidence that this path may be all but closed to developing countries today. Some have suggested that ser...
by Amrit Amirapu | On 23 Sep 2015 The agenda for the Third International Conference on Financing for Development suggests there will be less focus on aid, and more on how developing countries can generate their own financial resources...
by | On 22 Sep 2015 Although India’s plans for market reforms and opening up agriculture with earnest optimism and anticipation, every step on the way was laced with caution and deliberation and every action was weighed...
by Nilabja Ghosh | On 21 Sep 2015 This planning commission report on Food Security deals with the changing consumption pattern for food in India and reviews some studies on demand and supply projections for cereals in India. It also e...
by Planning Commission | On 21 Sep 2015 This paper explores the spatiality and temporality of women’s decisions to navigate particular forms of paid work, through means of a comparative analysis of three different sites and forms of work—at...
by Sonal Sharma | On 21 Sep 2015 In this paper results are analysed from a field experiment exploring the response of poor households in China to food price subsidies. Many developing countries use food price subsidies or price cont...
by | On 18 Sep 2015 Conventional growth models incorporate capital but not labour as the determining variable. An alternative way to look at growth is to treat it a function of growth of employment and productivity: grow...
by | On 18 Sep 2015 This study examines whether skewness of the cross sectional distribution of relative price changes is positively associated with aggregate inflation as predicted by the Menu cost model of Ball and Man...
by Sartaj Rather | On 14 Sep 2015 Health shocks can affect the household economy through a substantial rise in out-of-pocket medical expenditure and/or loss of income. In such a situation, households use a range of coping mechanisms t...
by Sowmya Dhanaraj | On 14 Sep 2015 The study tries to evaluate the impact of recent crisis episodes viz. the global recession of 2008-09 and the Eurozone debt crisis of 2010-122
on the Emerging Market Economies (EMEs) of China and Ind...
by Pami Dua | On 03 Sep 2015 This report presents the industrial cluster development policy of the Republic of Korea and draws lessons from that experience for South Asia. It briefly reviews Korean industrial policy since the 196...
by Jong-il Kim | On 31 Aug 2015 This planning commission paper tries to examine some of the factors that have led to accumulation of excess food grain stocks and make policy prescription on how to deal with the problem of surplus fo...
by Arvind Virmani | On 25 Aug 2015 Against the backdrop of the new monetary policy framework, this paper analyses the determinants of inflation in the deregulated financial regime. The paper upfront has been kept free from adherence to...
by Lekha Chakraborty | On 25 Aug 2015 The reconciliation of work and family life is one of the main challenges faced by working individuals, particularly women. Early exit of women from the labour market is particularly evident in urban a...
by | On 25 Aug 2015 This note provides background data and analysis on what has been happening to aid flows and the resulting change in aid architecture. It is based on data taken from the OECD/DAC and on a review of the...
by Homi Kharas | On 25 Aug 2015 Until recently, most aid from rich to poor countries was transmitted through official bilateral and multilateral channels. But the rapid growth in private development aid from foundations, charities,...
by Homi Kharas | On 25 Aug 2015 Development assistance contributes significantly to the development process of Cambodia. After the first General Election in 1993, there have been at least 35 official donors and hundreds of civil soc...
by Ek Chanboreth | On 25 Aug 2015 How is the RBI helping the government to create the conditions for a sustainable growth? Structural reforms will help
strengthen this growth – two weeks ago, the Government announced Indradhanush, la...
by Raghuram G. Rajan | On 25 Aug 2015 the paper provides an overview of the growth and status of Indian tea plantation sector delineating the trends
in economic performance in the global context in a historic perspective. It then examine...
by Viswanathan P K | On 25 Aug 2015 Global market is in a turmoil. How can India have a stable economy? There are no easy solutions but to play safe.
by T.N. Ninan | On 21 Aug 2015 This study aims to help identify how a future multilateral agreement on agricultural trade can provide a secure framework within which developing countries can pursue effective policies to ensure thei...
by Stephen Devereux | On 21 Aug 2015 This paper seeks to bridge the gap by summarizing the research, making policy recommendations based on this research, and suggesting an implementation roadmap for the 12th Plan. The main findings repo...
by Karthik Muralidharan | On 20 Aug 2015 Although the principle of democratic ownership was agreed by donors and recipients under the Paris Declaration, there is increasing concern - not only among civil society organizations (CSOs) but also...
by Ahmed Swapan Mahmud | On 20 Aug 2015 It is essential to better understand the nature, shortcomings and potential of South-South development cooperation in order to inform and strengthen CSO advocacy for greater development effectiveness...
by The Reality of Aid Network | On 20 Aug 2015 In 2014 our previous study ‘Future Diets’ (Keats and Wiggins 2014) described how across the world an increasing share of the population is overweight and obese, with the rate of increase particularly...
by Rafael Moreira Claro | On 12 Aug 2015 The central objective of the paper is to empirically examine the relationship between financial development and income inequality. Theoretically, there are grounds for both a positive and negative
re...
by Donghyun Park | On 12 Aug 2015 There may not be a single standard approach to developing the ICT-BPO sector, the successful experiences of developing countries can provide useful insights and practical lessons for countries contemp...
by Fatima Lourdes E. Del Prado | On 12 Aug 2015 The health conditions and mobility patterns of female migrant workers are subjects that sit at the crossroads of multiple pressing issues, best understood in the context of social, economic and politi...
by Global Alliance Against Trafficking in Women (GAATW) | On 11 Aug 2015 This
paper is an attempt to know the equilibrium exchange rate of Taka to measure exchange rate misalignment. To estimate
the equilibrium real exchange rate we use macroeconomic balance approach, wh...
by Md. Akhtaruzzaman | On 11 Aug 2015 Of all the markets in which politicians interfere with prices, the land market is probably the last that will be reformed.
by T.N. Ninan | On 08 Aug 2015 The report looks beyond the proclamations and communiqués to assess what has really changed since the crisis erupted. While not exhaustive, the report looks at: Overseas Development Assistance, both i...
by | On 30 Jul 2015 This paper aims to provide APEC members with evidence-based guidance on the implementation of the APEC mandate. Theoretically, this approach addresses the free-rider problem. Free riders are countries...
by | On 28 Jul 2015 Average food inflation in India during the period 2006-2013 was one of the
highest among emerging market economies, and nearly double the inflation
witnessed in India during the previous decade. In...
by Rudrani Bhattacharya | On 20 Jul 2015 This paper explores the politics and problems of the governmentality of aid and relief in context of the disastrous effect of cyclone Aila on the Sundarbans and nearby areas. The author through narrat...
by Amites Mukhopadhyay | On 17 Jul 2015 Greece is in huge financial trouble. Greece is paying the price for past follies like fictitious national accounts, unsustainable pension programmes, non-existent tax revenues and (the biggest mistake...
by T.N. Ninan | On 04 Jul 2015 After several years of impressive growth, the world economy encountered an equally impressive downturn starting in the third quarter of 2008, triggered by financial fragility and imbalances generated...
by Yilmaz Akyuz | On 29 Jun 2015 The need for revision of the 1979 land legislation was being felt for a long time and hence the then Ministry of Agriculture started the work on it with the formation of a multi-sector committee in 20...
by Dasho Kinzang Dorji | On 26 Jun 2015 Despite rapid economic growth in South Asia, strong inequalities persist and children pay a heavy price. This publication examines latest trends and data on children in the eight countries of the regi...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 24 Jun 2015 A child’s chance to survive and thrive is much greater in 2015 than it was when the global community committed to the MDGs in 2000. Data show significant progress in areas such as child survival, nutr...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 24 Jun 2015 India has 12.6 million child labourers in the age group of 5 to 14 years as per the National Census 2001. Our country is yet to commit itself towards elimination of child labour. espite the ratificati...
by Child Rights and You CRY | On 22 Jun 2015 This paper aims at understanding the different dimensions of life cycle of a
seaport enabling the port-planners to decide on their strategies. There are
different stages in the life cycle of an orga...
by Deepankar Sinha | On 19 Jun 2015 The adoption of inflation targeting in India has been a much debated topic which also becomes a challenge for the emerging economy. Though inflation targeting has already been adopted in many emerging...
by Charan Singh | On 18 Jun 2015 Will those who promote ayurvedic products that have iron as a standard ingredient, get the same treatment as Maggi noodles, or benefit from benign neglect?
by T.N. Ninan | On 15 Jun 2015 These reports provide a critical analysis of how governments address the issues of poverty and whether aid and development cooperation policies are put into practice. This 2014 Reality of Aid Report b...
by The Reality of Aid Network | On 09 Jun 2015 On the basis of an assessment of the current and evolving macroeconomic situation the statement suggest that the global recovery is still slow and getting increasingly differentiated across regions.
by Raghuram G. Rajan | On 03 Jun 2015 An extended Nominal Rate of Assistance (NRA) methodology is used to disentangle the welfare impacts of policies for various interest groups along the value chain (to disaggregate effects within the “p...
by Elena Briones Alonso | On 02 Jun 2015 Recalling resolutions on malaria control, and accelerating efforts to control and eliminate malaria in developing countries, particularly in Africa, by 2015. Acknowledging the progress made towards th...
by World Health Organisation (WHO) | On 27 May 2015 Sex education/family life education (FLE) has been one of the highly controversial issues in Indian society. Due to increasing incidences of HIV/AIDS, RTIs/STIs and teenage pregnancies, there is a ris...
by | On 25 May 2015 The paper aims to review the status of on-going National AIDS Control Programme with reference to objectives, strategies, plan initiatives, targets and outlays during 11th Five Year Plan and achieveme...
by National AIDS Control Programme NACP | On 25 May 2015 This report presents the information on nutritional intake by the Indian population. Among the different nutrients only three nutrients – viz, calorie, protein and fat – are discussed in this report....
by National Sample Survey Office NSSO | On 05 May 2015 This paper empirically analyses sources of extreme economic distress in rural India. We use district-level data on farmers’ suicides in two major states during the years 1998 to 2004 to estimate the e...
by | On 29 Apr 2015 This reports reflects development in the fields of population, Human development index, labour and houses, employment, prices, agriculture, industry.
by Environmental Management & Policy Research Institute | On 24 Apr 2015 Maharashra Government, State Economy, Population, State income, Prices & Public Distribution System, Public Finance, Institutional Finance
& Capital Market, Agriculture & Allied Activities, infrastru...
by Government of Maharashtra | On 09 Apr 2015 The new five year foreign trade policy, 2015-2020 provides a framework for increasing exports of goods and services as well as generation of employment and increasing value addition in the country. Th...
by Ministry of Commerce and Industry GOI | On 02 Apr 2015 An ongoing debate on the shape of the Indian aggregate supply curve (AS) raises interesting econometric and policy issues. Systematic steps were taken to improve the estimation. On adding better vari...
by Ashima Goyal | On 02 Apr 2015 The paper empirically maps the annual distribution commitment (61.43 MMTs) of the government with the procurement pattern of rice and wheat, for each quarter, to estimate the quarterly operational sto...
by Shweta Saini | On 01 Apr 2015 The paper examines the policies of the central as well as state governments with respect to the agricultural market, specifically in rice and wheat markets, analyses their shortcomings and argues for...
by Dr Anandi Subramanian | On 23 Mar 2015 The study attempted to analyse the long-term effects of the FTA on India. It is argued that after full trade liberalization, India’s allocative efficiency will increase, but the terms of trade effect...
by | On 23 Mar 2015 This working paper reflects Indis's domestic production on exports and imports. The paper also highlights upon India’s two policy instruments, namely price controls and reserving market segment for sm...
by | On 18 Mar 2015 This paper evaluates the fiscal and welfare implications of fuel subsidy reform in India. Fuel subsidies are found to be badly targeted, with the richest ten percent of households receiving seven time...
by | On 11 Mar 2015 A flagship annual document of the Ministry of Finance, Government of India, Economic Survey 2014–15 reviews the developments in the Indian economy over the previous 12 months, summarizes the performan...
by Ministry of Finance | On 28 Feb 2015 The Fourteenth Finance Commission (FC-XIV) was constituted by the President under
Article 280 of the Constitution on 2 January 2013 to make recommendations for the period 2015-
20. Dr. Y. V. Reddy w...
by Finance Commission | On 24 Feb 2015 This paper attempts to study the conditions under which China's manufacturing sector thrived in the last few decades. Some distinctive policies (such as in decentralisation, foreign direct investmen...
by Pravakar Sahoo | On 19 Feb 2015 The study tries to examine whether there exists asymmetry in the price adjustment of firms while using the commodity wise whole sale price indices belonging to three different sectors - primary, manuf...
by Sartaj Rather | On 12 Feb 2015 A preliminary analysis of the spatial determinants of firms’ export activities by Indian states has been undertaken in this study. Thus, the present study attempts to fill the gap by focusing on issue...
by Jaya Prakash Pradhan | On 06 Feb 2015 This report examines the evidence on aid, and finds that while aid alone cannot solve the deprivation experienced by people living in poverty or redress the extreme imbalance of wealth that characteri...
by Oxfam International | On 03 Feb 2015 This report examines the evidence on aid, and finds that while aid alone cannot solve the deprivation experienced by people living in poverty or redress the extreme imbalance of wealth that characteri...
by Oxfam International | On 03 Feb 2015 This paper provides a review of the national experiences of six emerging and developing economies, two from Latin America (Brazil and Mexico), three from Asia (China, India, and Malaysia), and one fro...
by Pooja Sharma | On 23 Jan 2015 This paper discusses the impact of WTO commitments on changes in MFN applied tariffs, isolating pure trade policy changes from any other change in the level of protection due to market conditions by f...
by Valeria Groppo | On 22 Jan 2015 The objective of paper is to demonstrate feasibility of nutrition-sensitive agriculture. The proposed model is being tested in two select locations to demonstrate improvement in nutrition status throu...
by M S Swaminathan | On 21 Jan 2015 This paper aim to provide an account of growth in India based on its internal dynamics. This helps to place the relative roles of policy, shocks, and internal dynamics. The paper leads us to conclude...
by Pulapre Balakrishnan | On 21 Jan 2015 This issue brief outlines a roadmap for human progress over the next 15 years. Known as the Sustainable Development Goals, these new global targets will drive investment and action in virtually every...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 20 Jan 2015 The report argues the recent setback in global economy and ways to strengthen the growth in developing countries. with a view to undertake growth and recovery in high-income countries, there is need t...
by World Bank | On 14 Jan 2015 The paper explores the impact of the existence of such a mechanism on the effectiveness of various policy instruments in influencing outcomes on the official foreign exchange markets and GDP. The pape...
by R.Kavita Rao | On 13 Jan 2015 The food, fuel, and financial crises that started in 2008 reverberated throughout the global economy, causing job losses; poverty; and economic, financial, and political upheaval in countries all...
by | On 13 Jan 2015 The purpose of this paper is to assess the availability of food to poor and nutritional situation of
national households. The growth of production of food grains is 2.12 per cent in 2000-01 to 2010-1...
by | On 26 Dec 2014 Ensuring food and nutrition security is a challenge for India, given its huge population and high
levels of poverty and malnutrition. India is a net agricultural exporter, particularly of milk, fruit...
by T. Nanda Kumar | On 18 Dec 2014 India continues to suffer from
under-nutrition among large
sections of its population. The
country is unlikely to realise the
first millennium development
goal by 2015. How can
agriculture be us...
by Suneetha Kadiyala | On 18 Dec 2014 This paper examines the price movements in rice and wheat, following structuralist principles emphasizing the necessity of long term solutions in combination with short and medium term management. How...
by K U Gopakumar | On 17 Dec 2014 Violence against women and girls is an unacceptable violation of basic human rights. It also is so widespread that ending it must be a global public health priority. An estimated one in three women is...
by UNAIDS . | On 01 Dec 2014 In India, efforts of the National AIDS Control Programme have been successful in reducing overall HIV incidence in the country by 50 percent with focused interventions with female sex workers (FSWs),...
by Population Council | On 01 Dec 2014 It investigate whether food price subsidies affect household nutrition using
a dramatic expansion of the availability of subsidized rice in the Indian
state of Chhattisgarh in the early 2000’s. Hous...
by Prasad Krishnamurthy | On 28 Nov 2014 The usual explanations for the
divergence between calorie intake
and consumption expenditure
in India ignore the enormous
squeeze on food budgets arising
from dispossession (leading to
loss of a...
by Deepankar Basu | On 28 Nov 2014 This article seeks firstly to look at the three aspects of food security in India, viz., food availability, accessibility, and absorption. Secondly, an attempt has been made to study food security in...
by Reshmi Banerjee | On 27 Nov 2014 This background paper aims first is to outline the rationale and merits for
enhancing the nutrition-sensitivity of agricultural interventions in general, highlighting
recognised pathways which lin...
by Toni Darbas | On 20 Nov 2014 This Global Nutrition Report is the first in an annual series. It tracks worldwide progress in improving nutrition status, identifies bottlenecks to change, highlights opportunities for action, and co...
by Independent Expert Group (IEG) | On 17 Nov 2014 In this study how number and members of income clusters have changed in Indian agriculture
over the last four and a half decades are traced. Two features which stand out in our results are that not a...
by Tirtha Chaterjee | On 14 Nov 2014 India has shown an impressive economic growth of about 8 percent per year in the last decade. But
the coexistence of impressive growth with widespread poverty and hunger is a real worry and a
seri...
by Asia-Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutions | On 12 Nov 2014 Fertilizer, which is an important production input, holds a significant
share in total cost of production for some crops. Based on the available
fertilizer price data, it can be observed that pr...
by Ivory Myka R. Galang | On 30 Oct 2014 This paper estimates the impact of China’s exchange rate changes on exports of competitor
countries in third markets, which is called as the “spillover effect. Recent theory is used to
develop an id...
by Aaditya Mattoo | On 29 Oct 2014 Two aspects of global imbalances - undervalued exchange rates and sovereign wealth funds - require a multilateral response. This paper proposes new rules in the World Trade Organization to discipline...
by Prachi Mishra | On 22 Oct 2014 The authors examine the effects of aid on the growth of manufacturing using a methodology that exploits the variation within countries and across manufacturing sectors and that corrects for possible r...
by Raghuram G. Rajan | On 20 Oct 2014 In 2008, two earnest young men set out to boost soya bean yields in the semi-arid region of Bundi in Rajasthan. Rainfall there is meagre and the soil lacks nutrients. But there are ready buyers for so...
by Civil Society | On 20 Oct 2014 The tension between trade and climate change has arisen in part because of the assumption that climate change action (e.g., carbon price increases) can be taken as a given. The question that many pape...
by Aaditya Mattoo | On 20 Oct 2014 India has the dubious distinction of having the highest burden of malnutrition in
the world – higher than Sub-Saharan Africa. Nearly 50 per cent of our children
are underweight and stunted and 70...
by National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, India | On 16 Oct 2014 Food inflation in India has remained stubborn in recent years. A number of proximate
factors such as increasing demand particularly arising from higher rural wages, rising
agricultural cost of produ...
by Thangzason Sonna | On 14 Oct 2014 An evaluation of the country’s buffer stock policy reveals gaps and inefficiencies.
Large quantities of food grains have accumulated in the godowns of the Food Corporation of
India (FCI) and its nom...
by Shweta Saini | On 26 Sep 2014 The intention of this paper is to examine the impact of Indian Rupee depreciation on Bangladesh Economy. The empirical results obtained from OLS for the sample period from
2007:10 to 2013:10 show tha...
by Sayera Younus | On 25 Sep 2014 Agriculture is an intrinsically risky economic activity. Farmers face a multitude of risks, such as production risks, on account of weather variations, and price risks, associated with falling output...
by Thaigu Ranganathan | On 24 Sep 2014 The concept of food security has undergone considerable changes in recent years. Food availability and stability were considered good measures of food security till the seventies and the achievement o...
by K. Venkata Reddy | On 18 Sep 2014 A picture about the macroeconomy that is, the world economy and the domestic economy is given. The two recent regulatory measures are given here. [FICCI/IBA Annual Banking Conference].
by Raghuram G. Rajan | On 18 Sep 2014 In spite of the rapid growth of the Indian economy, the fraction of the rural population living in poverty has declined only modestly. Increasing indebtedness, rises in input prices, and rapid commerc...
by Raj M. Desai | On 17 Sep 2014 This brief is one of series on scaling up in agriculture, rural development, and nutrition. PepsiCo is a global business operating in more than 200 countries and territories and rooted in creating and...
by Beth Sauerhaft | On 17 Sep 2014 Rapid rise in the price of food grains and their continued upsurge is a matter of concern for not only the government and policy makers but also for all concerned with social welfare. This is particul...
by Gopakumar K.U. | On 15 Sep 2014 The global economic crises that started in 2008 have exposed commodity markets to increasing price
volatility and raised concerns for higher inflation, food security and poverty reduction. This seri...
by S.Mahendra Dev | On 12 Sep 2014 The mechanism adopted to keep the rise in property prices under check until 2000 was the active participation of the public sector in keeping supply ahead of demand. This seems to have worked well in...
by Jatinder S. Bedi | On 08 Sep 2014 Inter-state diversity has been a perennial feature of Indian agriculture. The study probes if per capita income in Indian agriculture has converged across states in the last four and a half decades. I...
by Tirtha Chaterjee | On 06 Sep 2014 About 4.5 lakh fair price shops in India sell 10-20 lakh tons of rice and wheat at the subsidized rate per month. Majority of the ration shops are in urban areas, they are hardly ever open and only a...
by Parth Shah | On 27 Aug 2014 South and Southeast Asian economic integration via increased trade flows has been increasing significantly over the past 2 decades, but the level of trade continues to be relatively low. This under pe...
by Ganeshan Wignaraja | On 22 Aug 2014 One of the greatest dangers to the growth of developing countries is the middle income trap, where crony capitalism creates oligarchies that slow down growth. If the debate during the elections is any...
by Raghuram G. Rajan | On 13 Aug 2014 The Union Budget remains significant for the agricultural sector in the country for at least the following two reasons. First, the budget comes in the background of an agrarian crisis in the country,...
by Arindam Banerjee | On 04 Aug 2014 A Tribute to the scientist Obaid Siddiqi who passed away a year ago.
by Jaikishan Advani | On 30 Jul 2014 Although Obaid Siddiqi’s major research focus in neurogenetics was on chemosensation and olfaction in Drosophila, he made seminal contributions to the study of temperature-sensitive paralytic mutants...
by Barry Ganetzky | On 29 Jul 2014 Professor Fox recounts how he met a brilliant man who would eventually become an esteemed colleague and close friend- Professor Siddiqi.
by Maurice Fox | On 29 Jul 2014 Obaid Siddiqi had a special impact on hundreds of researchers in India and all over the world. This editorial piece talks about the relationship the editors of the Journal of Biosciences had with Prof...
by Shahid Jameel | On 29 Jul 2014 An 'Energy Index', which is aggregated from energy indicators is a rich source of information and is
helpful in providing an assessment of a country's performance. This has, however, resulted in
mus...
by Kapil Narula | On 24 Jul 2014 If the Union Budget 2014 is anything to go by , the fiscal policy of the new government shows no change. In fact, there is an amazing continuity with the previous few Budgets. Significantly however,...
by Ravi Duggal | On 23 Jul 2014 The paper reviews the calculation of Indian wholesale and consumer price indices and suggests improvements in the light of past experience and international best practices. It confirms that food infla...
by Kirti Gupta | On 22 Jul 2014 This study examines the impact of India's Public Distribution System (PDS) on poor households in terms of income gains, reductions in the incidence and severity of poverty, as well as nutritional impr...
by R. Radhakrishna | On 07 Jul 2014 Fertilizer policy in the country has evolved from pervasive interventionism in the
1970s to today's market-oriented regime. Government has abandoned price policies and
subsidies, focusing rather on...
by Roehlano M. Briones | On 20 Jun 2014 The 2014 General Elections has marked its place in election history- one is the margin of victory witnessed which was the largest in the history of Indian democracy. The second factor unique this time...
by IRIS Knowledge Foundation IKF | On 06 Jun 2014 This paper examines how prices, markups and marginal costs respond to trade liberalization. Multi-product firms are used in the study. [BREAD WP No. 418].
by Jan De Loecker | On 02 Jun 2014 In southern Nepal, rice straw burning in open fields is common practice. This is problematic because biomass burning contributes to smoke, black carbon and greenhouse gases. While some studies have ex...
by Krishna Prasad Pant | On 02 Jun 2014 This policy brief explores ways in which the education sector contributes to the creation of food security, as well as how a more food secure population can have better educational outcomes, promoting...
by Michele McNabb | On 29 Apr 2014 This paper reviews the key aspects of general strikes and analyses the economic cost of
such strikes in Nepal. Data analysis shows that average direct cost of general strikes
stood at NRs. 1.8 billi...
by Min Bahadur Shrestha | On 11 Apr 2014 Should India's export promotion policies be targeted at accelerating export growth at the extensive(new
trading relationships) or at the intensive margin (increase in trade of existing relationships)...
by C. Veeramani | On 08 Apr 2014 The number and proportion of hungry people in the
world are declining as the global economy recovers
and food prices remain below their peak levels, but
hunger remains higher than before the foo...
by World Food Programme WFP | On 04 Apr 2014 This paper makes an attempt to assess the impact of food price rise on the nutritional
status of children of five year old. Young lives panel data provides the nutritional status
of the children whe...
by S. Galab | On 27 Mar 2014 Price transmission is theoretically examined and how exogenous consumer price shocks (triggered for instance by income changes, global shocks, or by changes in consumer preferences) are transmitted to...
by Johan F.M. Swinnen | On 20 Mar 2014 This paper focusses on the interaction between fossil fuels and farming in India, to capture total intensity of fossils in farming and offer some evidence on inflationary impact of fossil fuel price i...
by Mukesh Kumar Anand | On 13 Mar 2014 The report considers the general market opportunities presented in the selected countries. It is based on desk research that drew on the most readily available and accessible information sourced from...
by UK DEVELOPMENT | On 12 Mar 2014 Drawing on the convergence theory, one would expect that as a latecomer to integrate with the globalized economy India’s export performance would be at least on par with that of China because China’s...
by Kaliappa Kalirajan | On 12 Mar 2014 This paper compares alternative ways of measuring participation of a country in Global Value Chains (GVCs) and estimates distribution of gains between countries in terms of Countries' shares in total...
by Rashmi Banga | On 10 Mar 2014 This paper identifies the mediating factors that underpin a spiral or descent into
chronic poverty and identifies points at which intervention will most likely make a
difference.
by Ursula Grant | On 27 Feb 2014 Despite ensuring ample availability of food, existence of food insecurity at the micro-level in the country has remained a formidable challenge for India. The recently introduced National Food Securit...
by Ashok Gulati | On 23 Jan 2014 The aim of this research is to explore the determinants of household income and
expenditure growth, and assess whether the poor are benefitting from economic
development. Using regression analysis,...
by Danileen Kristel C Parel | On 17 Jan 2014 During September 2013, Parliament passed the National Food Security Act (NFSA), 2013. The NFSA seeks to make the right to food a legal entitlement by providing subsidised food grains to nearly two-th...
by Sakshi Balani | On 07 Jan 2014 This paper attempts to project the likely impact of robust monsoon rains of 2013 on the Agricultural Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth in India. The model hypothesizes that the performance of agricu...
by Ashok Gulati | On 17 Dec 2013 This study is an attempt to generate empirical evidence on attitude towards risk of forest dependent
communities (FDCs). The FDCs covered in the study include two different geographical regions
from...
by B. Sundar | On 05 Dec 2013 Time use statistics is highly neglected in the studies on gender budgeting. The integration of this into this process remains partial or even nil across countries. This paper takes up these issues and...
by Lekha Chakraborty | On 06 Nov 2013 A study middleman margins, trading mechanisms and the role of asymmetric information about prices between potato farmers and local trade intermediaries, in West Bengal,
India is conducted. Farmers in...
by Sandip Mitra | On 23 Oct 2013 High food inflation, which has averaged 10% during FY 2008-09 to December 2012, has been a major concern for policy makers in India. This is all the more important as an average household in India sti...
by Ashok Gulati | On 21 Oct 2013 The gendered division of household labour, stigma attached to paid labour and status production
has precipitated withdrawal from paid work as a strategy to reduce the double burden of women. Upward s...
by Vinoj Abraham | On 09 Oct 2013 On August 24, 2013, a 20 year old Dalit girl was brutally raped and murdered in Jind, Haryana, while she was on her way to write an examination. Her body was found near a canal the next day by the pol...
by Nivedita Menon | On 14 Sep 2013 This paper discusses and comments on the legal and policy dimension and the obstacles it poses to a sustainable and effective response to HIV/AIDS as many do not come forward to obtain medical servic...
by Bhavani Fonseka | On 14 Sep 2013 The Hedonic property value method is used to estimate how a dismenity, bad odor from an open sewer system, affects housing prices in the city of Rawalpindi in Pakistan. An estimate of the benefits of...
by Mohammad Irfan | On 05 Sep 2013 Main issues of concern looking to the future include ongoing maintenance of capacity and infrastructure given government funding cuts, and the training and mentoring of junior staff needed to replace...
by Kathleen Flaherty | On 04 Sep 2013 Obaid Siddiqi, one of the most outstanding scientists of modern India, died in a freak accident in Bangalore on July 26. While he was out on a walk on July 21, a moped being driven by a young person o...
by Prabhat Patnaik | On 30 Aug 2013 For agricultural subsidies to be efficient in improving farmers’ incomes and eradicating hunger, holistic policy intervention is required. Complementary policies such as increased access to credit and...
by Maria C.S. Morales | On 30 Aug 2013 This paper considers the welfare and distributional
consequences of higher relative food prices in rural India
through the lens of a specific-factors, general equilibrium, trade model applied at the...
by Hanan G Jacoby | On 22 Aug 2013 The National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy (NDSAP) is designed so as to apply to all sharable non-sensitive data available either in digital or analog forms but generated using public funds by...
by Ministry of Science and Technology GOI | On 30 Jul 2013 Fuel price hikes have always been unpopular in Indonesia, largely because of their wide-ranging impact on the population. Yet, it is undeniable that the current high subsidies are unsustainable. To mo...
by Margareth Sembiring | On 26 Jul 2013 The international trade in Afghan drugs is one of the most significant transnational threats emanating from Central Asia.
Exacerbated by weak border management, corruption, and lack of income-generat...
by Lars-Erik Lundin | On 26 Jul 2013 Supplementary Budget for the fiscal year 2012-13 and the Budget Estimates for the fiscal year 2013-14. [http://www.mof.gov.bd/en/budget/13_14/budget_speech/speech_en.pdf].
by Abul Maal Abdul Muhith | On 07 Jun 2013 Using a panel of eight Pakistani manufacturing industries, We have examined the changes in price-cost margin (gross profitability) during 1998-2009. In this study the traditional industrial organizati...
by Akbar Ullah | On 23 May 2013 The overall goal of this paper is to analyse the political economy of food price policies in
China during the global food crisis. The results show that given China’s unique economic and
political co...
by Jikun Huang | On 18 Apr 2013 Inflation in general and food price inflation in particular has been a persistent problem in
India over the past few years. Price stability is crucial for sustainable growth as persistent
inflation...
by Pradeep Agrawal | On 16 Apr 2013 Asset quality of banks has come under increasing pressure with rising NPAs and Restructured loans. The Gross NPA ratio for the banking system, which was 2.4% in March 2011, increased to 3.6 per cent b...
by Chakrabarty K C | On 07 Mar 2013 Is the Finance Minister going to do a salvage operation? [BS week end ruminations].
by T.N. Ninan | On 27 Feb 2013 In spite of several programmes in the country to reduce undernutrition, India continues to have a large number malnourished women and children. In the coming Budget the government has to make some eff...
by Rudra Narayan Mishra | On 26 Feb 2013 New Delhi launched its SEZ revolution in April 2000 to secure the country a
two digit growth rate, copying from China what during the previous two decades proved
to be an excellent strategy, this pa...
by Claudia Astarita | On 21 Feb 2013 Budget expectations for automobile sector. [IRIS India].
by IRIS India IRIS | On 19 Feb 2013 The proposed legislation marks a paradigm shift in addressing the problem of food security – from the current welfare approach to a right based approach. About two thirds of the population will be ent...
by MINISTRY OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FOOD AND PUBLIC DIST GOI | On 15 Feb 2013 Why has the economy landed in a trough of growth and high inflation and does not look like getting out of it in the year ahead?
by Sumita Kale | On 14 Feb 2013 There are discussions about food management and food policy issues in India in the backdrop of largely unchanging dynamics of
slow growth of the farm sector in India. First we deal with the manner in...
by Munish Alagh | On 30 Jan 2013 The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of economic policies on Philippine agricultural incentives from 1960 up to 1992. Apart from economic policies affecting price incentives, cover publi...
by Cristina C. David | On 24 Jan 2013 Review of the book Food Security in Asia, by Amitava Mukherjee Sage Publications India 2011
pp. xix+392, Rs 895/-.
by Rudra Narayan Mishra | On 04 Jan 2013 The determinants of exports of services, distinguishing between modern and
traditional services are considered. The growth of export volumes and so-called export surges –
periods of rapid sustained...
by Barry Eichengreen | On 02 Jan 2013 This report reviews the input and output policies for cereals implemented in Pakistan during the period 1996–2010. Pakistan has a long and varied history of intervening in farm input and output market...
by Abdul Salam | On 16 Nov 2012 We examine the empirical phenomenon of co-movement of skill premium and share prices by appealing to the techniques of cointegration. The US data (1984--2010) reveals that stock prices and skill premi...
by Kausik Gangopadhyay | On 05 Nov 2012 We analyze the impact of climate shocks on price formation in spot and futures market for food in India where until the recent introduction of commodity futures markets in 2005, the transmission of th...
by N R Bhanumurthy | On 05 Nov 2012 A rigorous econometric
analysis of a civil conflict is conducted that the Indian Prime Minister has called the single biggest internal
security challenge ever faced by his country, the so-called Mao...
by Davesh Kapur | On 13 Oct 2012 This paper analyses the trends in volume of food subsidy in the post-reforms period (1991-92 to 2012-13) and then examines various components of food subsidy, which are under the control of FCI and th...
by Vijay Paul Sharma | On 20 Sep 2012 This paper focuses on the assessment of energy savings potential in seven highly energy consuming industries. The paper estimates the energy savings potential for each of these industries using unit l...
by Manish Gupta | On 17 Sep 2012 This paper examines the potential gender impacts of the trade
reforms in plantation agriculture in the emerging context of the two
prominent FTAs, viz. the Indo-ASEAN and the proposed EU-India FTA....
by Viswanathan P K | On 14 Sep 2012 Estimates suggest that Indian aggregate supply is elastic but subject to upward shocks. If supply shocks
make a high persistent contribution to inflation, it implies second round pass through is occu...
by Ashima Goyal | On 16 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 Government owned Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) raised the price of petrol on 23rd May 2012. After the
inclusion of local taxes, this amounted to a hike of Rs 7.54 per litre in Delhi. A snapshot of t...
by Karan Malik | On 24 Jul 2012 Obituary: Mrinal Gore (1928-2012)
by Vibhuti Patel | On 23 Jul 2012 Recent history tells us that the growth rate of the economy does not automatically go up and down with good and bad monsoons. [BS Weekend Ruminations]. URL:[http://www.business-standard.com/india/news...
by T.N. Ninan | On 18 Jul 2012 Creating and developing fair and evidence-based national and global systems to more rationally set priorities for public spending on health. An interim secretariat should be there to incubate a global...
by Amanda Glassman | On 10 Jul 2012 This study estimates degree of intrinsic inflation persistence in Pakistan using aggregate price index, group level price indices, and individual commodity prices. Monthly data from 1959 to 2011 is us...
by Muhammad Nadim Hanif | On 09 Jul 2012 Status of Children in India’s Capital. [HAQCRC]. URL:[http://www.haqcrc.org/sites/default/files/BfC%202012-13%20final.pdf].
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 02 Jul 2012 An outline of what would be ideally needed for a comprehensive set of national accounts is given.
National governments and international agencies ought ideally to go even beyond green national accoun...
by Partha Dasgupta | On 22 Jun 2012 This Policy Brief
discusses the policy
options for improving
effectiveness of price
support, domestic
procurement
programme and public
stock management in
Bangladesh. It has been
funded by th...
by Quazi Shahabuddin | On 01 Jun 2012 The paper reviews the economic growth and productivity dynamics of Philippine economy in the past fifty years. The paper also provides an estimation of determinants of total factor productivity and la...
by Gilberto M Llanto | On 29 May 2012 This paper analyses the behaviour of the Japanese banks at the outset of the asset price bubble in the late 1980s. The paper argues that with the advent of financial deregulations, the declining trend...
by Hossain Monzur | On 29 May 2012 The objective of the study was to review media coverage (print ) related to HIV/AIDS in three states (Gujarat, Haryana and Madhya Pradesh) in order to determine the gaps in reporting. [CCMG Working Pa...
by Biswajit Das | On 10 May 2012 A broad overview of the current state of pension systems in the People’s Republic of China, Indonesia, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Viet Nam is provided. An anal...
by Donghyun Park | On 30 Apr 2012 The PRC’s leading position in high-tech exports is a myth created by outdated trade statistics which are inconsistent with trade based on global supply chains. It is argued that a value-added-based ap...
by Yuqing Xing | On 27 Apr 2012 This study analyses India’s inflation using the Phillips curve theory. To estimate an open-economy Phillips curve, we need three variables: (1) inflation (2) the output gap and (3) the real effective...
by Karan Singh | On 26 Apr 2012 Enrolments in engineering in Kerala increased from about 2800 in 1991 to about 28,000 in 2008. The study analyses whether this increase in potential supply of engineers has resulted in actual supply o...
by Sunil Mani | On 25 Apr 2012 This study examines the contribution of Bt cotton adoption to long- term average cotton yields in India using a panel data analysis of production variables in nine Indian cotton-producing states from...
by Guillaume P Gruere | On 25 Apr 2012 India’s experience with exporting services is examined. The country’s experience is distinctive in that services, especially modern tradable
services, comprise a significantly larger share of GDP tha...
by Barry Eichengreen | On 23 Apr 2012 Th is study, which is supported by the ministries of fi nance and
the central banks of the BRICS, focuses on synergies and complementarities
between the economies, highlighting their role as growth
...
by Ministry of Finance | On 18 Apr 2012 The protests against the Pak Mun Dam are amongst the longest running in the world. The dam is also one of the
most studied, in part because it had all the features of a failed development policy: no...
by Katie Jenkins | On 18 Apr 2012 Time series data are compiled and analysed in accordance with Gregorian calendar, given its world-wise use. This paper presents a simple method of constructing time series in accordance with Hijri Cal...
by Riaz Riazuddin | On 13 Apr 2012 Using data of non-financial listed firms over a period of 1999-2010, this paper investigates the effectiveness of balance sheet channel in monetary transmission mechanism in Pakistan. By classifying f...
by Safia Shabbir | On 09 Apr 2012 Interviewed at the Guardian's Open Weekend festival, Indian economist Jayati Ghosh says aid from Britain benefits the UK more than it does India, and makes a negligible difference to relieving poverty...
by Jayati Ghosh | On 07 Apr 2012 The salient features of the budget estimates of 2012-13 of Madhya Pradesh. [Ministry of Finance Madhya Pradesh]. URL:[http://www.mp.gov.in/finance/index.htm].
by Madhya Pradesh Government | On 04 Apr 2012 India started exporting a small amount of honey in 1991-1992 and has now established itself as an important honey exporter to the world market. The quantity exported has increased substantially, and t...
by Harish K Sharma | On 02 Apr 2012 The paper estimates the elasticity of Imports with respect to relative prices and income for Pakistan from 1971 to 2009. What distinguishes this paper from the earlier studies is the use of robust est...
by Khurram Ashfaq Baluch | On 30 Mar 2012 1) Allocating budget to the measure for the real revitalization of Japan to recover Japan’s economy and society
2) Reviewing the existing budget based on the result of evaluation by the Policy Propos...
by Ministry of Finance, Japan MOF, Japan | On 28 Mar 2012 Budget speech by Ministry of Finance, Goa. [Budget Speech]. URL:[http://www.goa.gov.in/pdf/Speech12-13.pdf].
by Goa Government | On 28 Mar 2012 Statistics is used in our day to day life. Examples are there to show that statistics is misused in many. This can happen when people are information illiterate. [Address at DST-CIMS, BHU on Mar 20, 2...
by Chakrabarty K C | On 27 Mar 2012 Budget Speech by Shri Prafulla Chandra Ghadai. [Government of Odisha]. URL:[http://www.orissa.gov.in/finance/Budgets/2012-13/BUDGET%20SPEECH%20ENGLISH.pdf].
by Government of Orissa | On 27 Mar 2012 Budget for the year 2012-13. [Government of Maharashtra]. URL:[http://maharashtra.gov.in/pdf/english_speech_part_I.pdf].
by Maharashtra Government | On 27 Mar 2012 The effect of export subsidies on the under-invoicing of exports in Bangladesh is analyzed. In a framework that allows for unobserved heterogeneity among importing countries and product specificities,...
by Pranav Kumar Gupta | On 16 Mar 2012 Speech of Pranab Mukherjee Minister of Finance, India. [Budget Speech]. URL:[http://indiabudget.nic.in/ub2012-13/bs/bs.pdf].
by Pranab Mukherjee | On 16 Mar 2012 This paper analyses the impact of transmission of international oil prices and domestic oil price pass-through policy on major macroeconomic variables in India with the help of a macroeconomic policy...
by N R Bhanumurthy | On 16 Mar 2012 Welfare Economics is fortunate that there are two Fundamental Theorems of Welfare Economics. Positive Economics on the other hand is seemingly endowed with none. One of the fundamental results of Posi...
by Anjan Mukherji | On 15 Mar 2012 REPORT ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF CENTRAL AND LOCAL BUDGETS
FOR 2011 AND ON DRAFT
CENTRAL AND LOCAL BUDGETS FOR 2012. [Ministry of Finance Report]. URL:[http://www.npc.gov.cn/englishnpc/news/...
by Ministry of Finance China | On 15 Mar 2012 To greatly develop trade in services and realize the transition from a big trade country to a strong trade country, the 12th Five Year Plan is formulated based on Outline of the 12th Five Year Plan f...
by Ministry of Commerce China | On 15 Mar 2012 The main objectives of this seminar has been to contribute to the
understanding of the development processes and problems related to water security and climate
change; to focus on studies relating t...
by Gursharan Singh Kainth | On 12 Mar 2012 In the context of various policy initiatives made during the last two decades to reform the Indian
economy in general and corporate sector in particular, the present paper attempts to assess how
the...
by Rakesh Basant | On 07 Mar 2012 Poor governance and lack of state capabilities
in around 45 countries pose a
threat to global security and development.
The involvement of the international
community is required to help
these st...
by Wim Naudé | On 02 Mar 2012 National Food Authority's (NFA) twin
mandate of price
stabilization and food
security has cost the
government billions of
pesos in losses over the
past few decades. As
such, there is a need to
...
by Senate Economic Planning Office SEPO | On 28 Feb 2012 The general objective of the paper is to review the different macroeconomic models and
microeconomic valuation methods applied in the analysis of the natural resource and enviromnent
sector which ar...
by Danilo C Israel | On 27 Feb 2012 This paper explores the key reasons behind the movements in the terms of trade and the real net
gain and loss from trade in the long run. Like some selected Asian countries (Vietnam, China and
South...
by Mohammad Masuduzzaman | On 23 Feb 2012 What Mumbai needs as a starting point is a city administration that is accountable to the city's residents, and a directly elected mayor, as in all great cities of the world. [BS Weekend Ruminations]....
by T.N. Ninan | On 22 Feb 2012 The paper has two objectives, namely: (a) determine and assess how existing empirical
household models are able to capture the effects of changes in the macroeconomic variables on the
welfare of the...
by Aniceto C. Orbeta Jr. | On 17 Feb 2012 The paper is based on "Commodity Specific Study on Mango"
undertaken by NABARD in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra
and West Bengal. For the study, A total sample of 186 respondents was sele...
by G.D. Banerjee | On 17 Feb 2012 Review of the book 'Riots and After in Mumbai: Chronicles of Truth and Reconciliation' Meena Menon, Sage Publications India, 2011, Pp 267 + xcii, Rs. 595/-
by Irfan Engineer | On 17 Feb 2012 Standard errors (S.Es.) of month on month and year on year inflation in Pakistan are estimated
based on data for the period of July 2001 to June 2010 using stochastic approach as well as
extended s...
by Javed Iqbal | On 15 Feb 2012 A stated objective of Myanmar is to become a modern developed nation that
will stand shoulder to shoulder – proud, dignified and tall – with the countries
of the world. How far has Myanmar come in a...
by U Myint | On 15 Feb 2012 This paper describes business and growth rate cycles with special reference to the Indian economy. It uses the classical NBER approach to determine the timing of recessions and expansions in the India...
by Pami Dua | On 10 Feb 2012 This paper examines the effect of U.S. food aid on conflict in recipient countries (these include Asian countries like Afghanistan, Sri Lanka). To establish a causal relationship, time variation in fo...
by Nathan Nunn | On 08 Feb 2012 This paper looks at some key entry points for agriculture to influence nutrition and suggests policies for
nutrition-sensitive agricultural development, within the current policy framework. In additi...
by S.Mahendra Dev | On 07 Feb 2012 The sovereign debt problems in the peripheral economies of the euro zone has started to pose a serious threat to the main economies of the Europe and perhaps to the future of the 'euro‘ itself. Such a...
by M R Anand | On 06 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 RBI Governor D. Subbarao answering to researchers after publishing the monetary policy. [RBI]. URL:[http://rbidocs.rbi.org.in/rdocs/Content/PDFs/RBIRA27012012.pdf]
by Reserve Bank of India RBI | On 30 Jan 2012 This paper explains the gaps between official objectives and the actual accomplishments of the Aquino government, with an emphasis on the implementation record of agricultural-based strategies. Summar...
by V. Bruce J Tolentino | On 30 Jan 2012 The aim of this case study is to understand the challenges the frozen food industry in a
developing country like Pakistan has faced in the past, and is facing currently. The study
reveals that inste...
by Shehla Riza Arifeen | On 27 Jan 2012 This policy review is set in the
context of a highly uncertain global
environment and a delicately poised
domestic balance between growth
and inflation. It should be read and
understood together...
by Duvvuri Subbarao | On 25 Jan 2012 The Growth outlook has weakened as
a result of adverse global and domestic factors
that have been mentioned above. Business
and consumer confidence has been impacted.
Professional forecasters now...
by Reserve Bank of India RBI | On 25 Jan 2012 This paper explores the relationship between inflation and relative price variability (RPV) by using disaggregated CPI data for Pakistan. Three methods have been used to assess the functional form and...
by Muhammad Akmal | On 25 Jan 2012 The short term and long term stock price volatility changes around bonus
and rights issue announcements have been examined using historical
volatility estimation and time varying volatility approach...
by Madhuri Malhotra | On 24 Jan 2012 This report identifies some of the factors complicating the debate on role of the company in society. It focuses particularly on the changing models of ownership and differing time horizons and on how...
by Gillian Lee | On 23 Jan 2012 While studying the economic growth of the two rising giants of Asia (India and China) it is seen that India is far behind China in many aspects. URL:[http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/t-n-ni...
by T.N. Ninan | On 23 Jan 2012 The paper studies the subsidy policy in Bangladesh. It analyses implications of subsidy policies; both pros and cons and also suggests some possible solutions.
by M Asaduzzaman | On 20 Jan 2012 This paper assesses the sources of risk for Indian banks in the context of their history, structure, level of development, and policy environment and draws out implications for global and domestic pol...
by Ashima Goyal | On 18 Jan 2012 The analysis seeks to look at inflation as a political economic phenomenon, based on a framework devised by Jonathan Nitzan and christened differential accumulation. The theory of differential accumul...
by Syed Ozair Ali | On 05 Jan 2012 Even though it would be considered politically premature by both the Congress and the BJP – it may be best to think in terms of fresh elections. URL:[http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/t-n-ni...
by T.N. Ninan | On 03 Jan 2012 A simple method is applied to study the relative quality of Chinese versus European products
exported in the clothing sector after the end of the Multi-Fiber Arrangement. Based on the
model of Foste...
by Hylke Vandenbussche | On 03 Jan 2012 The year in Parliament was characterised by frequent disruptions and protests over a host of issues.
The issue of the establishment of a Lokpal prompted both disruption as well as intense debate.
A...
by Rohit Kumar | On 02 Jan 2012 A
bill
to provide for food and nutritional security in human life cycle approach, by ensuring
access to adequate quantity of quality food at affordable prices to people to live a
life with dignity...
by Lok Sabha | On 30 Dec 2011 The focus is on the central role played by state-regulated commission agents, known as brokers: agents who are widely present in Indian markets to assist sellers in finding buyers through organizing a...
by Bart Minten | On 29 Dec 2011 Delivering the third Business Standard lecture on Thursday night, Raghuram Rajan provided an interesting insight into the reason for high inflation in India. The professor of finance at Chicago, who i...
by T.N. Ninan | On 23 Dec 2011 This paper proposes to redefine food security in terms of protecting vulnerable populations from the structural violence of involuntary hunger. [NTS-Asia Research Paper No.6]. URL:[http://www.rsis.edu...
by Ben Shepherd | On 23 Dec 2011 With a vast and diverse SME sector India’s industrialization owes much to the
technological dynamism of enterprises. Various institutional interventions have
been made to promote innovativeness in t...
by Keshab Das | On 13 Dec 2011 Inflation data for the past few years (August 2007 to October 2011 of Nepal and August 2007 to
July 2011 of India for the analysis of monthly annual variation) have been taken into consideration for...
by Nepal Rastra Bank Research Department NRB | On 12 Dec 2011 Review of the book 'Social Income and Insecurity: A Study in Gujarat' by
Guy Standing, Jeemol Unni, Renana Jhabvala, and Uma Rani
Routledge India, 2010 216 pages.
by N. Vijayamohanan Pillai | On 12 Dec 2011 The trends in food
inflation over the past 60 years are given. Having thus set the context, the factors
driving structural food inflation, which should give us a perspective of the
underlying dynam...
by Duvvuri Subbarao | On 24 Nov 2011 The rapid export growth of China's township-village enterprises (TVEs)
has not been well understood and explained. Using a simple analytical model
and exploring a unique dataset on China's TVEs the...
by Changqi Wu | On 08 Nov 2011 The Task Force was constituted to explore options other than price control for achieving the objective of making available
life-saving drugs at reasonable prices. The Task Force recommends that pr...
by Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals | On 02 Nov 2011 Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) have been engaged in discussions on the future of the climate change regime. While the principle of “common but differenti...
by Anuradha R. V. | On 01 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 The production and marketing scenario of coconut in the country has witnessed a
phenomenal development, particularly in the field of production such as development of
improved high yielding dwarf va...
by Ministry of Agriculture GOI | On 21 Oct 2011 There has been a growing concern on the official estimates of poverty released by the Planning
commission. The official poverty estimates have been severely criticised on various counts. In view
of...
by Planning Commission | On 21 Oct 2011 With a review of the historic role of India as a supplier of Antiretrovirals (ARV) medicines the paper outlines some of the key rulings in Indian courts as the interpretation of the new patent laws ar...
by Cassandra Sweet | On 19 Oct 2011 When India purchased 200 tonnes of gold under the International Monetary
Fund's limited gold sales programme, it was interpreted inter alia that it may further
inflate the gold price when the price...
by Karunagaran A | On 17 Oct 2011 The Indian economy has shown considerable resilience to the global economic crisis by maintaining one of the highest growth rates in the world. The services sector accounted for around 88 per cent of...
by Abhijit Das | On 13 Oct 2011 This study analyses the behaviour of monetary and fiscal policies
interaction in India using quarterly data for 2000Q2 to 2010Q1. It finds that,
even after the elimination of automatic monetisation...
by Janak Raj | On 11 Oct 2011 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 It is argued that methodological challenges in monitoring the safety of prescription medications should not mean that drug safety be considered less important a topic of study than efficacy. It is als...
by PLoS Medicine Editors | On 04 Oct 2011 The growth of East Asia’s intra-regional trade is driven largely by increased component
trade within global electronics production networks. Data on both electronics trade and
production elucidate a...
by Byron Gangnes | On 29 Sep 2011 Inflation management is one of the hardest tasks an economic policymaker has to undertake. It appears, at first sight, that one can rely entirely on commonsense to carry out this task. But that will b...
by Kaushik Basu | On 28 Sep 2011 Over the last decade, the profile of central banks has gone up. First, we had the Great Moderation - a period of extraordinary benign macroeconomic environment globally, characterized by steady growth...
by Duvvuri Subbarao | 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 The New Pension System in India and the
progress that has been made since its introduction in 2004 is described. It then identifies the
challenges ahead. It also documents the state of military pens...
by Renuka Sane | On 26 Sep 2011 An SIIO paradigm, based on structure and ideas that become engraved in institutions and affect
outcomes, is developed to examine and assesses monetary policy in India after independence. Narrative
h...
by Ashima Goyal | On 16 Sep 2011 A
Bill
to provide for food and nutritional security, in human life cycle approach, by
ensuring access to adequate quantity of quality food at affordable prices, for people to
live a life with dign...
by Department of Food and Public Distribution Fcamin | On 14 Sep 2011 This background paper seeks to brief readers on the extent of the development, production and
consumption of agrofuels, particularly liquid fuels for transport, in the Mekong region. The area of focu...
by Rebeca Leonard | On 12 Sep 2011 The new Bill on land acquisition recently tabled in Parliament is well intentioned but seriously flawed. Its principal defect is that it attaches an arbitrary mark-up to the historical market price to...
by Maitreesh Ghatak | On 12 Sep 2011 China’s expected growth slowdown - from 10.3 per cent yoy in 2010 to 8.9 per cent this year and 8.3 per cent in 2012 - will impact the global economy. An in-depth look at how important China really is...
by Steffen Dyck | On 09 Sep 2011 Substantial international aid is spent reducing the cost of contraception in
developing countries, as part of a larger effort to reduce global fertility and
increase investment per child worldwide....
by Christopher McKelvey | On 09 Sep 2011 This paper focuses on macroeconomic linkages with agriculture. From an extensive
literature review the question that emerges is: is there a structural constraint in Indian
agriculture or does Indian...
by Munish Alagh | On 02 Sep 2011 This paper assesses the global economic implications of the proposed strict documentation requirements on traded shipments of potentially genetically modified (GM) commodities under the Cartagena Prot...
by Antoine Bouët | On 31 Aug 2011 Trade policy reforms which lead to changes in world prices of agricultural commodities or
domestic policies aimed at affecting agricultural prices are often seen as causing a policy
dilemma: a fall...
by Sandra Polaski | On 26 Aug 2011 Stock futures offer leveraged positions and are expected to attract informed traders. Many
researchers have found that the information share of the stock futures is surprisingly small; the equity
sp...
by Jeffrey Vincent | On 24 Aug 2011 This study provides a profile of deprivation with respect to consumer expenditure,
cereal consumption and energy intake across demographic and agro-climatic regions
as defined by the National Sample...
by Suryanarayana M H | On 23 Aug 2011 Poor returns to cultivation and absence of non-farm opportunities are indicative of the larger
socio-economic malaise in rural India. This is accentuated by the multiple risks that the
farmer faces...
by Srijit Mishra | On 23 Aug 2011 The need for a National Nutrition Policy is implicit in both the paramountcy of nutrition in
development as well as in tbe complexity of the problem. This general problem of under-nutrition
should b...
by Government of India Ministry of Women and Child Development | On 19 Aug 2011 This paper provides estimates of the costs of organic agriculture (OA) programs, and sets them in the context of the costs of attaining the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It anal...
by Anil Markandya | On 19 Aug 2011 Given the declining share of traditional agricultural commodities in production, consumption and
trade, horticulture and other non-traditional high-value agriculture represent an important area of
p...
by Vijay Paul Sharma | On 09 Aug 2011 As per UNSNA recommendations, valuables as a separate item had been introduced in the
expenditure side of GDP. Since India is one of largest importer and user of gold for various purposes,
this trea...
by Rakesh Kumar | On 04 Aug 2011 Food quality has become an important determinant of success in global food trade and growers for international markets have to continuously adjust to buyers’ requirements. It is however not clear to w...
by Anneleen Vandeplas | On 03 Aug 2011 The UN General Assembly’s decision to convene a “high-level meeting on the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) worldwide” in September 2011 creates a major, timely opportunity to...
by Devi Sridhar | On 02 Aug 2011 The paper begins with an overview of fertiliser consumption trends and then identifies important determinants of fertiliser demand and develops projects demand scenarios for fertilisers in India in 20...
by Vijay Paul Sharma | On 29 Jul 2011 This paper analyses the impact of domestic and external shocks on the Indian economy.
A macro-modelling framework is developed that evaluates the impact of two
domestic shocks (rainfall shortfall an...
by B B Bhattacharya | On 15 Jul 2011 This paper estimates the short-run aggregate supply curve for the Indian economy over the period 1950-51 to 2008-09. Methodological improvements in this paper include the technique of estimating adapt...
by Ravindra H Dholakia | On 14 Jul 2011 Why do many households remain exposed to large exogenous sources of non-systematic
income risk? Why don’t financial markets develop to pool these risks? This paper uses a
series of randomized field...
by Shawn Cole | On 06 Jul 2011 This paper gives information on global wheat market developments, price transmission and impacts on Indian domestic markets, as well as an assessment of public policies to manage domestic prices. This...
by Dipak Dasgupta | On 06 Jul 2011 This paper is an attempt to revisit the pioneering work of Riazuddin and Khan (2002). A complete
business cycle has been elapsed (2002-2010) since their study, so there is need to review the results
...
by Syed Kalim Hyder Bukhari | On 05 Jul 2011 The Fisher's equation has become a foundation stone of
modern macroeconomic, monetary and financial theories. Here it is shown that despite the estabilished status of Fisher's equation, it stands on...
by Rajas Parchure | On 04 Jul 2011 Growth, poverty reduction, and social peace are all undermined when public expenditure management and taxation are weak and when the fiscal deficit and public debt are not managed successfully. And la...
by Tony Addison | On 04 Jul 2011 In this CGD essay, Mead Over argues that international donor community cannot afford to continue its business-as-usual AIDS policy. It must focus more on preventing HIV to decrease the number of peopl...
by Mead Over | On 27 Jun 2011 Mathematical formulations of Frank D. Graham’s theory of multicountry
multicommodity trade have not provided numerical methods for finding the
world trade equilibrium. Graham was in possession of su...
by Rajas Parchure | On 27 Jun 2011 Some recent literature in the meta-analysis category where results from a range of studies are
brought together throws doubt on the ability of foreign aid to foster economic growth and
development....
by Tseday Jemaneh Mekasha | On 24 Jun 2011 This landmark essay proposes a new paradigm for combating AIDS and a new objective around which international donors and recipient governments can coordinate their efforts. CGD senior fellow Mead Over...
by Mead Over | On 20 Jun 2011 The objective of this study is to analyze some of the recent reforms proposed in the operation of
government buffer stocks and provision of price support to wheat and rice farmers in India. Based o...
by Shikha Jha | On 17 Jun 2011 One of the little understood, but most powerful and disruptive tensions in established aid agencies
lies in the clash between the compliance side of aid programs—the counter-bureaucracy—and the
tech...
by Andrew Natsios | On 17 Jun 2011 The purpose of this paper is to pursue the implications of closing, in the sense of
rendering determinate, the Sraffa equations of production, prices and distribution
[Sraffa (1960)] by adding to th...
by Rajas Parchure | On 01 Jun 2011 Under the new industrial policy announced in 2002 and the export-import policy announced
thereafter, SEZs have been sought to be created in several parts of the country for promoting
industrial pr...
by Chetan Vaidya | On 26 May 2011 As a country progressively engages in international trade, its factors of production
will increasingly enter into the export sector, where their return is higher, compared
to the import competing...
by Dibyendu Maiti | On 23 May 2011 The broad objectives of this study refer to analysing the impact of introducing comprehensive
goods and services tax (GST) on economic growth and international trade; changes in rewards to
the fac...
by National Council of Applied Economic Research | On 19 May 2011 What is the best inflation measure in India? What inflation measure is most relevant for monetary policy making in India? Questions
of timeliness, weights in the price index, accuracy of food price m...
by Ila Patnaik | On 06 May 2011 This Statement sets out the Reserve Bank’s assessment of the current macroeconomic situation and projections. URL:[http://rbidocs.rbi.org.in/rdocs/notification/PDFs/APS030511F.pdf].
by Duvvuri Subbarao | On 03 May 2011 Today there is no credible alternative facility available to a grower to meet the risks of price movements and the art of price risk management is unknown to the small growers. (In this entire report,...
by Ministry of Commerce and Industry GOI | On 02 May 2011 In this study, two types of aid transfers - boats and houses are examined- that were made to
rehabilitate tsunami-affected fishery households in Sri Lanka. The goal is to investigate the
distributio...
by Asha Gunawardena | On 20 Apr 2011 There have been significant developments in the global economy since we met in the fall of 2010. The IMF too has moved on several fronts under its mandate which has strengthened its position in a chan...
by Duvvuri Subbarao | On 20 Apr 2011 This paper 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 Some option series in the market are far less liquid than others. Market illiquidity can reduce the
informativeness of option prices. In this paper, an alternative schemes are proposed to estimate im...
by Rohini Grover | On 09 Apr 2011 The scheme would facilitate improving both qualitative and
quantitative aspects of skill development in Mission Mode by harmonizing
efforts of Central / State Governments as well as private sector t...
by Planning Commission, India | On 28 Mar 2011 As countries in South Asia ready
themselves for climate change and the possibility
of increased frequency in natural disasters, it is
useful to understand how well post disaster
operations work to...
by South Asian Network for Development SANDEE | On 28 Mar 2011 State income, public finances, agriculture and animal husbandry, education, health, population etc are given importance in the economic survey. URL: [http://mahades.maharashtra.gov.in/files/publicatio...
by Maharashtra Government | On 23 Mar 2011 In simple language and with numerous concrete examples, this policy brief analyses the impact - among others - of key ex-ante factors such as acute 'horizontal inequality' between social groups in the...
by Jeni Klugman | On 22 Mar 2011 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
paper aims to review the main considerations around food price
movements. It includes a discussion on the impact of speculation. URL:[https://www.dbresearch.com/PROD/DBR_INTERNET_EN-PROD/PROD00...
by Claire Schaffnit Chatterjee | On 16 Mar 2011 The paper delineates
the situation of the Scheduled Tribes in the background of various policies of the state
during the successive plan periods and its impact on their socio-economic mobility.
Pol...
by M. Gopinath Reddy | On 16 Mar 2011 India has been running large-scale interventions in the energy
sector over the last decades. Still, there is a dearth of reliable and
readily available price and income elasticities of demand to bas...
by Haripriya Gundimeda | On 14 Mar 2011 Policy coherence implies that donors in pursuing domestic policy objectives should avoid adversely affecting the development prospects of poor countries. To achieve policy coherence donors and multila...
by Amelia U. Santos Paulino | On 14 Mar 2011 Many rich countries provide special market access for exports from least developed countries (LDCs), but the trade preferences are often inhibited by tough restrictions and do not extend to the produc...
by Kimberly Ann Elliott | On 10 Mar 2011 The problems of failed states, including the repeated return to power of former warlords are examined. It is argued that this causes institutions to become weaker and people to get poorer. It is argue...
by Raghuram G. Rajan | On 04 Mar 2011 State of the Economy and prospects. URL:[http://www.indiabudget.nic.in/es2010-11/echap-01.pdf].
by Ministry of Finance | On 28 Feb 2011 Supply response to price changes is likely to increase with the increasing liberalization of
the agricultural sector in India. Past studies revealed a weak supply response for Indian
agriculture. No...
by G. Mythili | On 21 Feb 2011 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 Sharp increase in house prices combined with the extraordinary lending growth in
Mainland China during 2009 has led to concerns of an emerging real estate bubble. We find that, for China as a whole...
by Ashvin Ahuja | On 19 Feb 2011 Nine preliminary lessons from the Great Recession for monetary and financial policies are presented. [3rd P. R. Brahmananda Memorial Lecture].
by Stanley Fischer | On 18 Feb 2011 The Minister for Finance, Dr. T. M. Thomas Issac presented the Budget for the financial year 2011-2012.
by Government of Kerala Govt | On 14 Feb 2011 Based on the recent experience of several Asian developing countries and interviews in Vietnam, Indonesia and Laos with aid practitioners from donor institutions and Non Government Organizations (NGOs...
by Caroline Brassard | On 10 Feb 2011 This paper is an attempt to gauge the relationship between the long run paths of consumer
price index and wholesale price index of Pakistan. For the empirical analysis the Johansen cointegration
tec...
by Nasir Hamid Rao | On 07 Feb 2011 The paper examines two issues associated with aid and fiscal policy. First, how best the
conditionality behind foreign aid, sometimes non-economic, is complied within a
principal-agent framework. In...
by S Mansoob Murshed | On 01 Feb 2011 The objective of the study is to examine the impact of rising food prices and financial crisis on the
impact of women and children in India. It identifies the pathways for dealing with the effects of...
by S. Mahendra Dev | On 31 Jan 2011 The current consensus objective of development aid in the international community is to
reduce poverty in general and to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in
particular. In addition,...
by Sakiko Fukuda- Parr | On 21 Jan 2011 This paper grew out of our bewilderment with the insouciance with which some in the donor
community seem ready to abandon accounting for the use of aid. If one listens to the rhetoric
surrounding...
by Nathalie Holvoet | On 20 Jan 2011 This Policy Brief discusses whether
Bangladesh should continue to pursue
a national food security strategy based
on self-reliance or return to its earlier
policy of food self-sufficiency through
...
by Uttam Kumar Deb | On 17 Jan 2011 This paper proposes a structural VAR model which extends the frameworks of
Hoffmaister and Roldós (2001) and Prasad (1999). The model is then used to analyse
the sources of China’s trade balance flu...
by Yin Zhang | On 07 Jan 2011 Peace can generate an economic dividend, which can be further increased by appropriate
economic reform. This dividend can in turn be used to raise popular support for conflict
resolution measures...
by Saman Kelegama | On 31 Dec 2010 At the very time that professional skepticism concerning the effectiveness of foreign
aid has reached new heights, donors seem to be ready to substantially increase the
volume of aid they are will...
by Gustav Ranis | On 30 Dec 2010 Globally, AIDS is well documented as both a disease and a development problem. This study seeks to identify the determinants of AIDS awareness within a rural, agrarian population from data collected i...
by Elisabeth L. Fulton | On 27 Dec 2010 ‘Globalization’ implies change, and uncertainty over future change may affect
household welfare. They use data on Lorenz curves over the last fifty years for a sample
of 53 (mostly developing) cou...
by Ethan Ligon | On 24 Dec 2010 This paper proposes that aid flowing to smaller (less populous) countries has a negative
impact on the quality of institutions in terms of performance and policy as opposed to
that flowing to larg...
by Chakriya Bowman | On 20 Dec 2010 This technical paper sets out the benefits and downsides of issuing IIBs along with explaining its structure comprising of indexation (principal or interest), inflation index lag, issuance method, met...
by Reserve Bank of India | On 17 Dec 2010 This paper surveys 50 years of empirical research on the macroeconomic impact of aid,
looking mainly at studies examining the link between aid and growth. It argues that
studies dating until the l...
by Mark McGillivray | On 16 Dec 2010 Border ADP (Adolescent Development Programme) was implemented in the
border areas of Bangladesh. Main objective of this programme was to make the
adolescents, their parents and the communities aware...
by Jinnat Ara | On 14 Dec 2010 The report is a study of possibilities for the institutionally disabled entrepreneurs to raise capital from private players like venture capitalists and micro-finance institutions.
by Mallika Chawla | On 13 Dec 2010 Foreign aid often works, but it is often criticized for being ineffective or even
for undermining progress in developing countries. This brief describes a new
approach, Cash on Delivery Aid, which...
by Nancy Birdsall | On 13 Dec 2010 The very rapid economic growth of the People’s Republic of China (henceforth PRC), its dramatic
success in world export markets and its heavy receipts of foreign direct investment (FDI) have
generat...
by John Weiss | On 10 Dec 2010 A
bill
further to amend the Essential Commodities Act, 1955 and to make provisions for validation
of certain orders issued by the Central Government determining the price of levy
sugar and actions...
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 08 Dec 2010 The paper analyses credibility and reputation in the context of peace negotiations.
Where war provides economic gains to one side, peace is not incentive compatible, and
peace agreements will necess...
by Tony Addison | On 08 Dec 2010 The Commitment to Development Index (CDI) ranks 22 of the world’s richest countries on their dedication to policies that benefit the five billion people living in poorer nations. Moving beyond standar...
by David Roodman | On 29 Nov 2010 This paper investigates the role of aid in mitigating the adverse effects of commodity
export price shocks on growth in commodity-dependent countries. Using a large cross-
country dataset, they fin...
by Paul Collier | On 25 Nov 2010 Building on recent work in the fiscal response literature, the present paper develops a new fiscal
response model, which, for the first time in the relevant literature, combines the ideas of both
en...
by George Mavrotas | On 24 Nov 2010 The study seeks to identify donor-specific factors that cause donors to delay aid
disbursement, and to apply a double standard in dealing with the non-compliance of a
recipient with regard to aid c...
by Matthew Odedokun | On 24 Nov 2010 The paper empirically explores the factors that could have accounted for the generally
declining aid effort (defined as the generosity ratio, or the share of GDP given as aid) of
bilateral donors ov...
by Jeffery I. Round | On 24 Nov 2010 It is clear from the implications of growth theory that the impact of aid depends on how
it affects savings, investment and government behaviour. In respect of low-income
countries, which are the pr...
by Mark McGillivray | On 19 Nov 2010 This paper is a look at the food balance sheet of Kerela, the extent of undernutrition and malnutrition in Kerela. For ths purpose, 57 items of food normally available in the State were taken into acc...
by P.G.K. Panikar | On 19 Nov 2010 This article analyses the organizational structure as well as the characteristics of
development finance provided by Arab donor countries. This is done with a
comparative view in relation to wester...
by Eric Neumayer | On 17 Nov 2010 This paper looks at public sector debt in developing countries, being concerned
specifically with the relationship between aid inflows and the public sector borrowing
requirement net of aid loans. A...
by Simon Feeny | On 17 Nov 2010 Issues related to the volatility of aid flows are now becoming crucial in view of their
relevance to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. The paper
examines aid volatility using da...
by David Fielding | On 15 Nov 2010 The present paper critically examines how aid dependent low-income countries have
approached the process of public expenditure management reform during the 1990s. It
begins with an overview of broad...
by Adrian Fozzard | On 09 Nov 2010 Given the manifold ways, in which the information technology could
contribute to human welfare, the developing countries have invested in
Information Technology (IT) as a short cut to prosperity. I...
by K.J. Joseph | On 01 Nov 2010 This paper sets up a canonical new Keynesian small open economy model with nominal price rigidities to explore the impact of habit persistence and exchange rate pass-through on the welfare ranking of...
by Yongseung Jung | On 01 Nov 2010 A developing economy like India is often characterised by a labour market with demand and supply of labour and a wage that even if competitively determined may not be adequate for the poor household t...
by Diganta Mukherjee | On 29 Oct 2010 Infrastructure services, from both hard and soft infrastructure, play a vital role in facilitating
Asia’s export-led growth by keeping the prices of delivered goods in export markets
competitive. Ef...
by Douglas H. Brooks | On 28 Oct 2010 In the context of production linkages in which downstream producers require freight services
provided by transport operators, the author show that the strategic choice of using an alternative
transp...
by Ying Yi Tsai | On 27 Oct 2010 This paper summarises research on aid allocation and effectiveness, highlighting the
current findings of recent research on aid allocation to fragile states. Fragile states are
defined by the dono...
by Mark McGillivray | On 21 Oct 2010 The
perspective of global commodity chain or GCC framework and social
embeddedness are used to understand the organizational and social linkages in the
embellishment production network in garment i...
by Jeemol Unni | On 21 Oct 2010 This brief shows how three of the biggest donors to global HIV/AIDS programs can go beyond their stated commitments to address gender inequality and more effectively combat HIV and AIDS.
by Christina Droggitis | On 20 Oct 2010 They analyse the aid portfolio of various bilateral and multilateral donors, testing whether
they have prioritized aid in line with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Employing Tobit models...
by Rainer Thiele | On 13 Oct 2010 The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has emerged as a major player in the global economy and considers free trade agreements (FTAs) an important part of its global trading strategy. The PRC’s export i...
by Yunling Zhang | On 12 Oct 2010 In this paper they examine whether absorptive capacity can constitute sufficient
justification for rejecting the proposal of a large aid increase to support the ‘big push’.
They argue that the pro...
by Patrick Guillaumont | On 08 Oct 2010 The present paper looks at the various dimensions of contributions by
forests in the context of the Indian economy. Based on a detailed review of
literature on importance and valuation of forests, s...
by Archana S Mathur | On 08 Oct 2010 Kerala has been a model to other states for her achievements in
social development. But in terms of economic growth her performance
has for long been very poor and a matter of deep concern. In this...
by P. Mohanan Pillai | On 08 Oct 2010 After house price bubbles burst in many OECD countries, investors are keeping a very watchful eye for price developments on asset markets that signal a bubble.
by Steffen Dyck | On 08 Oct 2010 The record of aid to fragile and poorly-performing states is the real test of aid
effectiveness. Rich countries can justify aid to fragile states both through altruism and
self-interest. But, wit...
by Stephen Browne | On 06 Oct 2010 East Asian countries were seriously affected by the 2008 global crisis through a steep fall in exports. This experience exposed the vulnerability of the East Asian growth model and emphasized the impo...
by Mahani Zainal Abidin | On 05 Oct 2010 Commodity taxes have three distinct roles: (1) revenue collection, (2) interpersonal
redistribution, and (3) resource allocation. The paper presents an integrated treatment of these three
concerns...
by David Coady | On 01 Oct 2010 The need for fiscal consolidation and sustainability is one of the key macroeconomic issues confronting Indian economy. This paper attempts to understand India’s current fiscal situation, its likely f...
by Rajiv Kumar | On 28 Sep 2010 To address this increasing need to scale up the HIV/AIDS services, the decision makers should understand the outreach and coverage of the existing services, the scope for scale up in terms of geograph...
by Yesudian C A K | On 23 Sep 2010 This paper contributes to two strands of literature on empirical models of trade flows and
trade policy. The first and the older strand is that of gravity models of bilateral trade
flows going back...
by T.N. Srinivasan | On 20 Sep 2010 Marx himself certainly thought that political economy was a subject of most urgent importance for a "theoretician of the revolutionary proletariat". Marx took over the orthodox theory of his day accor...
by Joan Robinson | On 16 Sep 2010 This paper reviews the evolution of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and provides estimates of
past trends and future projections of AIDS mortality indicators, including numbers of AIDS
deaths, the proportion...
by John Bongaarts | On 13 Sep 2010 Whether the outcome of bargaining over wage and employment between an incumbent firm
and a union remains efficient under entry threat is examined. The workers\' reservation wage is not known to the
...
by Rupayan Pal | On 10 Sep 2010 The literature on Rural Non-Agricultural Employment (RNAE) in India is replete with
references as to its nature - whether or not it is residual. Vaidyanathan (1986)
advanced the view that for the se...
by C. S. Murty | On 08 Sep 2010 In India, there is a large divergence between CPI and WPI inflation trends in
the past, wide dispersion in inflation across commodity groups within WPI,
and significant volatility in headline WPI in...
by Nadhanael G V | On 08 Sep 2010 The export of textiles from India accounts for about one-third of India’s total exports. What is more
significant is that textiles as a group, is also the largest net foreign exchange earner in as...
by Avih Rastogi | On 01 Sep 2010 Agricultural subsidies that encourage production and productivity have been widely criticized
because of the cost of subsidies and they are perceived to be far from uniformly distributed. There is
a...
by Vijay Paul Sharma | On 27 Aug 2010 Knowledge of demand structure and consumer behaviour is essential for a wide range of development policy questions like improvement in nutritional status, food subsidy, sectoral and macroeconomic poli...
by Surabhi Mittal | On 25 Aug 2010 This paper considers the prospects of manufactured exports of Turkey and Malaysia given the rising standards of global competition. While Malaysia has the advantage of having an export-oriented MNC-le...
by Bilge Erten | On 20 Aug 2010 This study attempts to address the issue of declining labour intensity in India’s
organized manufacturing in order to understand the constraints on employment
generation in the labour intensive sect...
by Deb Kusum Das | On 13 Aug 2010 This article explores the question of why India cannot score greater success in manufacturing, especially the export of manufactured products. In conclusion it suggests enclave solution as the answer.
by T.N. Ninan | On 09 Aug 2010 Many small wholesale grain markets in India are characterized by large
numbers of sellers and a relatively small number of buyers, thereby lending the price
formation process open to manipulation th...
by J.V. Meenakshi | On 26 Jul 2010 Rice is exported in two varities, basmati and non-basmati. The basmati rice exports are in three categories: white, brown and parboiled. India earned Rs 18.4 billion in 2001-02 from exports of basmati...
by G. Raghuram | On 15 Jul 2010 Macro vulnerability of the small island developing states (SIDS) as well as of least
developed countries (LDCs) has been an increasing concern for the international
community. This concern has led...
by Patrick Guillaumont | On 30 Jun 2010 A study was undertaken in Madaripur brothel to understand condom use reality
within the social context of the commercial sex workers' (CSW) lives in brothel
and to critically analyze BRAC's HIV/AIDS...
by Raihana Karim | On 29 Jun 2010 Call auctions represent an alternative
strategy, where the order
ow over a certain time period is pooled,
and the market-clearing price obtained through an aggregated supply
and demand curve. Cal...
by Susan Thomas | On 22 Jun 2010 The paper excavates how the advent of commercial audiography, through 'Recording Expeditions' between 1902 and 1907, shaped configurations of the nascent business in, and culture around, 'music on rec...
by Vibodh Parthasarathi | On 16 Jun 2010 Stylized facts for South Asia show the dominance of supply shocks, amplified by macroeconomic policies
and procyclical current accounts. Interest and exchange rate volatility rose initially on libera...
by Ashima Goyal | On 09 Jun 2010 The main objective f this paper id to assess the adherence of and barriers to HIV counseling, testing and referral services on the part of the providers.
by Arupkumar Chakrabartty | On 04 Jun 2010 This paper first assesses the aid-growth literature with a focus on recent contributions.
The aid-growth literature is then framed, for the first time, in terms of the Rubin Causal
Model, applied...
by Channing Arndt | On 02 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 provides empirical evidence of the long- and short-term effects of political violence
exposure on human capital accumulation. Using a novel data set that registers all the violent acts
an...
by Gianmarco Leon | On 27 May 2010 Analysis of developing country cities indicates that neither policy frameworks nor infrastructural investments have kept up with urban growth, that the wrong choices with long-term consequences are be...
by Homi Kharas | On 20 May 2010 The paper examines the factors that influence energy intensity in Indian industries. It has
two parts. In the first part, trends in energy intensity are analysis and cross-industry panel
data (taken...
by Bishwanath Goldar | On 13 May 2010 The present study attempts a quantitative assessment of the impact of recently signed ASEAN-India FTA
(AIFTA) for selected plantation commodities (coffee, tea and pepper) in India. Partial
equilibri...
by C. Veeramani | On 20 Apr 2010 It is examined whether differential progress towards health MDGs was associated with economic development, public health funding (both overall and as percentage of available domestic funds), or health...
by David Stuckler | On 08 Apr 2010 Budget speech 2010-2011 by Pranab Mukherjee
by Pranab Mukherjee | On 26 Feb 2010 The purpose of this paper is to examine the poverty situation
in West Bengal in a multidimensional framework and to explore
possible strategies towards reduction of poverty in the state,
keeping in...
by Achin Chakraborty | On 22 Feb 2010 With the support of the labour geography framework, this study
tries to analyse how the economic geography of capitalism is shaped by
the spatial practices of labour. The model that is taken up is n...
by Neethi P | On 22 Feb 2010 This report is a comprehensive and analytical compilation of health care development of Assam bringing together all available information and data on health and health care.
by Indranee Dutta | On 09 Feb 2010 The Reserve Bank has pursued an accommodative monetary policy beginning mid-September 2008 in order to mitigate the adverse impact of the global financial crisis on the Indian economy. The measures ta...
by D Subbarao | On 29 Jan 2010 A review of the various primary measures of inflation with a particular reference to the divergence between WPI and CPI. Focus is also given on different secondary (derived) measures of inflation, par...
by Deepak Mohanty | On 21 Jan 2010 In this paper, we seek to make a twofold contribution. On outcomes, we focus on manufacturing exports as well as on manufacturing output both in the aggregate and in selected sectors. On policy, the i...
by Aaditya Mattoo | On 19 Jan 2010 India is a stable democratic political system with rising economic fortunes and global ambitions make it a potential power that could play a very important role in world affairs. But India has to tack...
by Teresita C Schaffer | On 15 Jan 2010 The Indian media has wrongly compared Bihar's (that is, 11.03per cent) average annual growth during the period 2004-05 to 2008-09 with that of Gujarat (that is, 11.05per cent). While the media has quo...
by Shambhu Ghatak | On 14 Jan 2010 This paper reports findings from the survey of India’s textiles and clothing exporters. The survey method has been used to identify and assess the impact of Non-Tariff Measures (NTMs) and the Cost of...
by Gordhan K Saini | On 11 Dec 2009 This paper focuses on poverty dynamics and their determinants, using panel survey data for
rural Sindh, Pakistan. Households interviewed by the International Food Policy Research
Institute (IFPRI) d...
by Hari Ram Lohano | On 10 Dec 2009 China and India have both attempted distorting the exchange rate in order to foster exports-led growth. This is described as the Bretton Woods II framework, where developing countries buy bonds in the...
by Ila Patnaik | On 30 Nov 2009 The paper points out that some provisions of the framework will allow developed countries to maintain and, in some cases, even increase domestic farm support and still remain WTO-compliant. In most ca...
by Parthapratim Pal | On 25 Nov 2009 This paper mainly addresses the economic dimensions, concentrating on the importance of international trade to state-building and the need for global public goods in a global market economy. The focu...
by Tony Addison | On 23 Nov 2009 This document highlights the results and associated processes from Chayan’s
implementation experience under the RACHNA program. The programmatic
framework, designed for low-prevalence contexts in In...
by CARE India | On 20 Nov 2009 This brief summarizes a study evaluating the potential economic effects of introducing genetically modified (GM) food crops in India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and the Philippines in the presence of trad...
by Guillaume Gruère | On 11 Nov 2009 Questions about Chinese aid—how large it is and how fast it is growing; how decisions are made on how much aid is provided each year; which countries receive it and how much they get; how the aid is m...
by Carol Lancaster | On 10 Nov 2009 How product differentiation as well as strategic managerial delegation
affects optimal emission tax rate, environmental damage and social welfare, under
alternative modes of product market competiti...
by Rupayan Pal | On 04 Nov 2009 An attempt has been made in this paper to critically analyse the parameters/
criteria on which basis awards are finalized. With special reference to poorer states, the
following aspects have been di...
by Keshab Das | On 03 Nov 2009 From the perspective of Emerging Market Economies (EMEs) and particularly for that of India, five concerns are expressed. These are: first, timing of exit from the accommodative monetary policy in the...
by D Subbarao | On 15 Oct 2009 Rising food prices cause considerable policy dilemmas for developing country
governments. Letting domestic prices adjust to reflect the full change in international prices generates inflationary pres...
by Nora Lustig | On 09 Oct 2009 Assesses India's export potential of fruits and vegetables in fresh form. Schemes from horticulture boards in different states have been reported. [NABARD OC Paper No. 6].
by M Dattatreyulu | On 08 Oct 2009 The Doha Declaration provides for access to medicines particularly by simplifying the compulsory licensing (CL) clause. This paper tries to provide a comprehensive review of the working of CL in the d...
by Lalitha N | On 21 Sep 2009 There were many challenges involved in the conduct of the elections. For example,
the people had to cast votes among 16 presidential candidates (2 candidates withdrew two days before the elections) i...
by Manabu Fujimura | On 17 Sep 2009 This handbook on child protection will help Panchayat Raj members to understand the actions they can take to protect children resulting in better convergence of programmes and increased allocation of...
by Government of India Ministry of Women and Child Development | On 16 Sep 2009 Options for monetary policy arising from interactions
between it and Indian foreign exchange (FX) markets. A brief survey covers
recent rapid changes providing a snapshot of current microstructure,
...
by Ashima Goyal | On 14 Sep 2009 The best economic news of the past two years can be that the worst recession in 80 years may be over.
by T.N. Ninan | On 31 Aug 2009 This study investigates the water demand of Indian manufacturing plants. It adopts an input distance function approach and approximates it by a translog form. Duality between cost function and input d...
by Surender Kumar | On 17 Aug 2009 This paper examines the efficacy of the current system of public foodgrains management and
policies in promoting food security in the country. It argues that the system has outlived its
usefulness,...
by A. Ganesh Kumar | On 13 Aug 2009 Lack of full regional connectivity is one of the major constraints hindering regional growth and integration in Asia, as well as with the rest of the world. One of the conclusions of this paper is tha...
by Biswa N Bhattacharyay | On 11 Aug 2009 The paper attempts to appraise the extent of the constraint of credit relations on agricultural production and its differential impact across peasant classes. Additionally, the analysis of the structu...
by Arindam Banerjee | On 04 Aug 2009 This paper articulates a model of industrial production in which
technologies are of continuous-input continuous output-type. It is
shown that the model nevertheless has all the essential properties...
by Rajas Parchure | On 31 Jul 2009 The paper attempts to analyse the emerging contours of regulation of financial institutions with an emphasis on the emerging challenges and dynamics. [Paper prepared for Financial Stability Review of...
by Rakesh Mohan | On 29 Jun 2009 This note analyses the major characteristics of the current inflationary episode in the economy along with its probable impact on different population groups in Bangladesh. The note also draws some po...
by Mustafa. K. Mujeri | On 27 Jun 2009 The paper analyzes the effects of changes in consumption factor on the calculation of inflation calculation in Bangladesh. This is important as there might exist some volatile and non-trend components...
by Md. Habibour Rahman | On 27 Jun 2009 The paper estimates the P* model for Bangladesh economy and test its forecasting ability through generating recursive forecasts. The empirical result shows that the model performs relatively well and...
by Mustafa. K. Mujeri | On 27 Jun 2009 In recent years, Bangladesh has experienced persistent price increases, especially of food items, in the domestic market in the backdrop of global increase in food prices. Such price developments in t...
by M. Golam Mortaza | On 22 Jun 2009 Access to essential drugs is vital for the promotion of better health for the entire population. High prices of drugs are being used as an argument for greater government role in the drugs sector thro...
by Allan Grand A. Sobrepeña | On 16 Jun 2009 The paper is an attempt to review critically the association between women’s paid work and empowerment in India. As a prelude, the author seek to assess the extent of women’s participation in paid wor...
by Sunny Jose | On 15 Jun 2009 This 'Technical Note on Employment for the Eleventh Five Year Plan' presents the quantitative basis for determining the targets and projections on employment, and the related variables given in the El...
by Planning Commission Labour, Employment & Manpower Division | On 06 Jun 2009 Bangladesh faces multiple challenges in the sanitation, hygiene and water sector. This study aims to review the damage to sanitation facilities during floods. It also explored the possibilities of ove...
by Shamim Ahmed | On 03 Jun 2009 This monograph looks at how Indian exporters of goods and services have used e-commerce to promote exports. The second section comes up with explanations for the failure of the Indian garment export...
by Dipankar Sengupta | On 29 May 2009 The paper examines the impact of recent inflation and financial shocks on the vulnerable, and explores policy design to reduce both future shocks and vulnerability to shocks. Inflation affects the typ...
by Ashima Goyal | On 22 May 2009 This paper revolves around the Public health related aspects of industrial and intellectual property rights policies in a developing country with respect to Aids in India. It also focusses on its prev...
by Samira Guennif | On 22 May 2009 This paper investigates the determination of inflation in the framework of an open economy forward-looking as well as conventional backward-looking Phillips curve for eight Asian countries- Japan, Ho...
by Pami Dua | On 22 May 2009 Dr. Bimal Jalan, Governor gave a welcome remark to Prof. Charles Goodhart on his 11th C. D. Deshmukh Memorial Lecture on 'Whither Central Banking ?' This paper revolves around Dr. Jalan's summary and...
by Dr Bimal Jalan | On 21 May 2009 Macroeconomic modelling is generally motivated by two objectives: forecasting and more significantly, policy analysis. In pursuit of both these objectives,
every model must ideally satisfy four crite...
by V. Pandit | On 16 May 2009 In 2008, three global crises converged to threaten development in the Asia-Pacific
region, bringing to the fore particularly testing challenges for policymakers – a Great
Recession in developed coun...
by Economic and Social Commission for Asia Pacific ESCAP | On 16 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 This paper compares equilibrium technology adoption in a differentiated duopoly under two alternative modes of product market competition, Cournot and Bertrand. It shows that the cost of technology ha...
by Rupayan Pal | On 14 May 2009 The growth of ethical consumerism in developed countries has led to increased imports of environmentally and socially certified products produced by the poor in developing countries, which could poten...
by Sununtar Setboonsarng | On 13 May 2009 A lively debate is taking place over the impact of free trade agreements (FTAs) on East Asia's business between those who view the agreements as a harmful Asian "noodle bowl"—i.e., overlapping regiona...
by Masahiro Kawai | On 13 May 2009 To understand how gender, women’s rights and citizenship intersect with innovation in SouthAsia, one must begin by considering some of the main features of life for South Asian women, about a half of...
by Sujata Byravan | On 06 May 2009 Presentation shows the global financial crisis, the difference between US, Europe and India, RBI’s policy response and impact, lessons from the crisis, medium-term issues and challenges. [Speech deliv...
by Rakesh Mohan | On 29 Apr 2009 India has a booming drug industry and has contributed to making generics at low prices worldwide. But medicines within India are overpriced and unaffordable. Price regulation of medicines is a key pub...
by All India Drug Action Forum AIDAN | On 25 Apr 2009 Youth at risk can be defined as individuals between the ages of 12 and 24 who face “environmental, social, and family conditions that hinder their personal development and their successful integration...
by World Bank | On 25 Apr 2009 The
paper’s focus is on successful Chinese policies that can be emulated by other countries to an extent (within certain bounds) which mentined in the article. The author is not trying to draw lesson...
by Arvind Virmani | On 22 Apr 2009 This paper details the procedures adopted by the Tamil Nadu Medical Services Corporation in procuring and supplying essential drugs to the government health care which is a positive measure in ensurin...
by Lalitha N | On 22 Apr 2009 Press Release at press conference on April 10, 2009 at New Delhi.
AIDAN appeals to Political Parties Contesting Elections
arguing that it is the one thing that will contribute to the lowering of...
by All India Drug Action Forum AIDAN | On 13 Apr 2009 India’s opportunities and constraints to trade in
energy services within the GATS framework are examined. The study found that India has the capability of
exporting high-skilled manpower at competit...
by Arpita Mukherjee | On 25 Feb 2009 Speech of Lalu Prasad
by Ministry of Railways | On 13 Feb 2009 An attempt has been made to discuss various aspects of unpaid household work such as its treatment in the system of National Accounts, and the methodologies of its valuation. With the help relevant da...
by R N Pandey | On 09 Jan 2009 In order to examine if the impact of oil price shocks depends on the structure of an economy, a vertical (VSC) and a horizontal (HSC) long-run supply curve identification are successively imposed on a...
by Ashima Goyal | On 05 Jan 2009 The 61st round of NSS shows that there is a turnaround
in employment growth in rural India after a phase of ‘jobless growth’.
Paradoxically, this employment growth occurred during a period of wide
...
by Vinoj Abraham | On 05 Jan 2009 This paper attempts a critical review of the performance and policy concerning the
micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in globalizing India since the early
1990s whence economic reforms were...
by Keshab Das | On 02 Jan 2009 This preliminary report has been prepared with a view to assist the state government in understanding the implications of the crisis, so that appropriate policies and programmes could be chalked to de...
by Centre for Development Studies CDS | On 02 Jan 2009 Perspective on the current global turmoil, its impact on India, the outlook for the Indian economy and the challenges that lie ahead for the Indian banking system, in particular. [Speech delivered at...
by D Subbarao | On 19 Dec 2008 This paper addresses some key policy issues relating to the micro and small enterprises in India during the reforms period. A close look into the definitional changes in terms of the criterion of inve...
by Keshab Das | On 16 Dec 2008 The pharmaceutical industry is expanding worldwide. For some years now, it has been benefiting from the particular dynamics of the Asian economies as both purchasers and producers. It is not only the...
by Uwe Perlitz | On 12 Dec 2008 Two major economic problems are currently shadowing Asian economies. On the one hand,
the slowdown in the US economy, ignited by the subprime mortgage crisis, may not be
confined to the US region...
by Kwanho Shin | On 05 Dec 2008 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 In the context of the current public policy focus on rising food prices and their implications for food security, this paper examines two major issues raised: (i) Universalization of the public distri...
by Suryanarayana M H | On 04 Nov 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 This paper uses the standard one-sector neoclassical growth model to investigate why China’s consumption has been low and investment high. This paper looks into the role played by the financial sector...
by Jahangir Aziz | On 07 Oct 2008 Policy makers confronted with the need to introduce health and safty regulations often wonder how to value the benifites of these regulations. One way that a monetory value could be placed on reductio...
by S. Madheswaran | On 06 Oct 2008 The paper analyzes the determinants of internationalisation, defined in terms of export intensity and overseas investments, of the IT firms in India. In particular, the paper examines the role of tech...
by Narayanan K | On 01 Oct 2008 The study tries to focus on the violation of human rights that occur in prostitution. It holds that it is the responsibility of the state to protect these human rights and address the fundamental stru...
by Nina Srivastava | On 30 Sep 2008 In India, year-on-year percentage changes of price indexes are widely used as the measure of inflation. In terms of monthly data, each observation of a one-year change in inflation is the sum of twelv...
by Rudrani Bhattacharya | On 25 Sep 2008 This paper is an account of the main streams discussed in an international conference, held in New York in April 2008,
organized by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and
Global Policy Forum, which cons...
by James A. Paul | On 24 Sep 2008 During 1992-97 external assistance in education contributed less than 5 per cent of the total of Rs 9,201 crore spent by the government (central and state) on elementary education. Of this a major chu...
by Vimala Ramachandran | On 23 Sep 2008 Despite more than a quarter century of intense research into the phenomenon of
intra-industry trade (the import and export of goods belonging to the same industry, hereafter abbreviated as IIT), se...
by Aditya Bhattacharjea | On 01 Sep 2008 India represents a sharp contrast to China in the small size of its goods trade. Although India’s GDP is a third that of China, its global trade is only about 12 percent as large while its trade with...
by Barry Bosworth | On 22 Aug 2008 The relationship between trading activity, volatility and transaction cost using a three-equation structural model for five top selected commodities namely Gold, Copper, Petroleum Crude, Soya Oil and...
by Pravakar Sahoo | On 07 Aug 2008 In this study an attempt is made to examine the equity aspect due to
reforms in the banking sector at sub-regional level in the state of Andhra Pradesh
covering the period 1985 to 2004. [CESS WP 68]...
by K S Reddy | On 04 Aug 2008 The factors and process underlying agrarian distress in Kerala by undertaking the case studies of three villages situated in Wayanad and Idukki districts namely, Cherumad, Kappikkunnu and Upputhara. T...
by K.N. Nair | On 31 Jul 2008 In this paper, a model of North-South trade is developed to analyze the impact of a label certifying the absence of child labour in the export production of the South. [WP no 144].
by Jean Marie Baland | On 19 Jul 2008 The development of drugs for maternal health cannot be constrained by market-driven needs. What is needed is a political will.
by PLoS Medicine | On 16 Jul 2008 Seven years after the fall of Taliban Afghanistan has little to show in way of development. Afghanistan remains wholly dependent on external assistance; nearly 90% of public spending comes from foreig...
by Asian Centre for Human Rights ACHR | On 16 Jun 2008 The paper is an analysis of food aid, rising food prices and its implications.
by Laurrie Garrett | On 31 May 2008 For many decades, macro-policy in India was conducted in an environment
with five key elements: ˆ Agricultural shocks rather than a conventional business cycle; A closed economy; deeply distorti...
by Ajay Shah | On 13 May 2008 New Mineral Policy 2008
Quota Verdict
CPI(M) Coimbatore Congress
SPECIAL FEATURE
Democracy in S Asia: Nepal Mandate
Post-Poll Pakistan
Bhutan Polls
and Other features.
by Liberation | On 24 Apr 2008 Inflation impacts on the social and political life and it is the poor who bear the consequences most. There can be no room for tardiness in taking measures to control inflation.
[See synopses of par...
by Shambhu Ghatak | On 21 Apr 2008 The question today is whether all the issues that were neglected when things were going well, will now get due attention when we can see even more clearly what needs to get done.
by T.N. Ninan | On 19 Apr 2008 A brief overview is provided about India’s long-term growth performance. Then an attempt is made to set out the conditions for successful innovations. To assess the role of innovations in the Indian...
by Rakesh Mohan | On 03 Apr 2008 Budget presented by the finance minister for the year 2008-09.
by Maharashtra Government | On 20 Mar 2008 D.R. Gadgil, wrote at length about the need for a long-term sugar policy and its efficient implementation is needed in India. What is the current relevance of his ideas?
by Aparna Mitheel Jaikar | On 13 Mar 2008 Considering the reproductive health information and service needs of adolescents and youth, the Population Council’s Frontiers in Reproductive Health (FRONTIERS) Program, in collaboration with the Min...
by Laila Rahman | On 12 Mar 2008 An analysis of the various parameters of manufacturing competitiveness of the Indian economy is provided. The paper notes that India is one of the leading producers and exporters of a number of commod...
by Lakshmanan L | On 19 Feb 2008 This paper introduces wage bargaining in the framework of Milgrom and Roberts
where the workers' reservation wage is
the relevant information parameter critical for entry. The authors show that ent...
by Rupayan Pal | On 06 Feb 2008 This paper focuses on both expanding and refining the analytical scope of the “social” (or non-economic) aspects of chronic poverty, and thereby, to enhance efforts to respond more effectively to it....
by Michael Woolcock | On 25 Jan 2008 A birds-eye-view of the issues for policy making in the services sector is given. This growth, employment and export oriented sector in India having a proven competitive advantage needs to be given it...
by H A C Prasad | On 18 Jan 2008 Three important aspects of the Canadian pharmaceutical industry-viz. compulsory licence, price control on patented drugs and the R&D scenario. Unlike other developed countries, which have adopted the...
by Lalitha N | On 18 Jan 2008 World AIDS Day, the annual December 1 commemoration, first took place in 1988 under the auspices of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS. At that time there was no idea about HIV treatment b...
by PLoS Medicine | On 11 Jan 2008 The presentation shows the consequences of child marriage, how to prevent child marriage. [Power Point Presentation].
by Geeta Rao Gupta | On 19 Dec 2007 The EFA Global Monitoring Report offers an authoritative reference for comparing
the experiences of countries, understanding the positive impact of specific policies
and recognizing that progress ha...
by UNESCO Publishing | On 05 Dec 2007 There is a large untapped trade potential between the two countries. Using the potential trade approach, the study finds that the export potential from India to Pakistan is to the tune of US$ 9.5 bill...
by Nisha Taneja | On 29 Nov 2007 The authors attempt to construct a monetary conditions index (MCI) for India in order to take both interest rate and exchange rate channels simultaneously into consideration while evaluating the stanc...
by Kannan R | On 08 Nov 2007 The nature of the financial turbulence that happened recently in US and Europe, why it happened, where it happened, and the implications for central banks. Some of the forces that led up to and charac...
by Rakesh Mohan | On 12 Oct 2007 The key elements of effective central banking that account for much of the improvement in monetary policy around the world today are outlined and explained. The past quarter of the century has been a...
by Marvin Goodfriend | On 09 Oct 2007 The paper examines the prevailing situation of Bt cotton marketing in India. It tells a story of how aggressive and unethical marketing practices are adopted for luring faemers into the Bt cotton trap...
by Centre for Sustainable Agriculture CSA | On 04 Oct 2007 The price volatility of agricultural commodities assumes critical importance in the context of the ongoing debate regarding agricultural trade liberalisation in India. The arguments against agricultur...
by C S C Sekhar | On 12 Sep 2007 23 years after the identification of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), there is still denial that the virus is the cause of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). The Internet has served as...
by Tara C Smith | On 11 Sep 2007 Agriculture as a source of growth was sorely neglected in the early development strategies of the currently developing countries. Realisation of this shortcoming prompted public policy in these countr...
by Sunil Kanwar | On 06 Sep 2007 This paper presents a systemic framework to look at the prospects for sustainability of Indian agriculture. The framework is based on trends, indicators and assessment by experts spanning three domain...
by V.M. Rao | On 27 Aug 2007 In spite of being one of the largest producers of fruits and vegetables in the world, the export competitiveness among the Indian producers remains low. But with new marketing initiatives, the post-ha...
by Surabhi Mittal | On 24 Aug 2007 There is a change in the financial scenario. Any sustained bout of fair weather on the markets creates business excesses as investors and consumers start discounting risk more and more. So it is healt...
by T.N. Ninan | On 20 Aug 2007 An investigation of the demand and supply factors underlying the long-term behaviour of India’s disaggregated manufactured exports. An imperfect substitutes demand-supply model of export determination...
by Saikat Sinha Roy | On 20 Aug 2007 This paper evaluates the real-time performance of the growth rate of the DSE-ECRI Indian leading index for exports for predicting cyclical downturns and upturns in the growth rate of Indian exports. T...
by Pami Dua | On 14 Aug 2007 Prevalance of HIV/AIDS, HIV in India: Current and Future Trends, Gender Analysis of HIV/AIDS, Recommendations for the HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control Programs [WOHTRAC Report Series No. 7].
by Renu Khanna | On 14 Aug 2007 Financial contagion is dangerous because you don’t know where it will hit, and how hard. Every country has to remmber this and make arrangements so that a criris does not repeat as happenend in 1997 (...
by T.N. Ninan | On 13 Aug 2007 Tuberculosis (TB) is a major contributor to the global burden of disease and has received considerable attention in recent years, particularly in low- and middle-income countries where it is closely a...
by Salla A Munro | On 01 Aug 2007 Modernisation necessarily leads to the emergence of dowry as a direct transfer to the groom ("groom-price"). The historical instances of dowry can be classified according to the schema implied by the...
by Siwan Anderson | On 31 Jul 2007 Rupee has to be depreciated so that the rural small scale sector enterprises and also the urban employment providers like the BPO sector are not affected.
by T.N. Ninan | On 16 Jul 2007 Work related accidents are a major cause of death and disability. Occupational health is not a minority interest but one that must involve all of society. One important industry where the consumers e...
by PLoS Medicine | On 03 Jul 2007 The paper attempts to analyse the export-enhancing role of MNEs in the Indian manufacturing sector during the 1990s. The CAPITAL LINE database is used. The database includes firms engaged in both manu...
by Aradhna Aggarwal | On 07 Jun 2007 Review of 'United Nations Development Aid: A Study in History and Politics'
by Digambar Bhouraskar, Academic Foundation, New Delhi.
by V.V. Bhatt | On 07 Apr 2007 Allocations to the budget for health appear to be impressive but a closer look shows that this is not so, especially taking into consideration the high inflation rate in the previous year. A substanti...
by Vinish Kathuria | On 21 Mar 2007 The study examines the marketing of wheat in India, focusing on the private marketing system, the marketing efficiency and quality. Wheat is now a major food staple in India, crucial to India’s food e...
by Vasant P Gandhi | On 14 Mar 2007 The world poultry-meat industry is growing the fastest among all the meat categories due to increasing concerns for health, safety, convenience and variety, and price-competitiveness. Issues related t...
by Subrata Mitra | On 08 Mar 2007 The Budget is ‘exciting’ precisely because it has at least decided to pay a little more than lip service to the so-called social sector. And Finance Ministers then tend to increase allocations for the...
by S Srinivasan | On 08 Mar 2007 While welcoming the move to withdraw the Report of the Technical Expert Group on Patent Law Issues AIDAN has issued a statement that the group must not be allowed to re-submit the report. The matter m...
by All India Drug Action Forum AIDAN | On 04 Mar 2007 This paper examines the relationship between the share of employment potentially affected by offshoring and economic and structural factors, including trade in business services and foreign direct inv...
by Desiree Welsum | On 12 Jan 2007 Devoted to the analysis of housing market in India, the paper employs a special
decomposition scheme for the structural VAR proposed by Blanchard and Quah to study the impact of permanent shocks to...
by Himanshu Joshi | On 10 Jan 2007 The paper addresses the issues of contribution of aids towards human development and the efficiency of such aids in poorer countries, assessing if there is cross-country evidence for an effective huma...
by Karuna Gomanee | On 22 Dec 2006 Taking into account the latest data of exports of textiles and clothing to the European Union from South Asia and China, a year-end assessment of the impact of the Generalised System of Preferences (...
by C. Satapathy | On 14 Dec 2006 The Committee’s present examination of ‘Availability and Price Management of Drugs and Pharmaceuticals’ is with the objective of making available quality medicines at affordable prices to the masses....
by Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers, Government | On 21 Nov 2006 Introducing data exclusivity would require intending generic manufacturers to conduct their own duplicate trials – a process guaranteed to add further costs. The immediate entry of competitors after e...
by S Srinivasan | On 11 Jul 2006 Introducing data exclusivity would require the intending generic manufacturers to conduct their own duplicate trials – a process guaranteed to add costs. The immediate entry of competitors after exclu...
by S Srinivasan | On 11 Jul 2006 The country’s export of automobiles has grown faster than software over the last four years. it does look as though automobile manufacture will be a new arrow in the country’s quiver. [Editorial . B...
by T.N. Ninan | On 03 May 2006 This paper attempts to identify the factors that determine the export competitiveness of firms in the Indian pharmaceutical industry. Our findings suggest that the competitiveness of firms depends not...
by Aradhna Aggarwal | On 21 Apr 2006 Global outsourcing, technical change, and falling barriers to trade worldwide have
transformed the structure of production and global competition in the textile and apparel industry. This sector has...
by Meenu Tiwari | On 20 Apr 2006 This paper tries to examine the sustainability aspect of the rate of growth (rog) in recent years, designated as ‘the second phase of liberalisation’. This paper is based on the Keynesian framework wh...
by Anamitra Roychowdhury | On 29 Mar 2006 A SWOT analysis of the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry (IPI) in the WTO regime
reveals that the much acclaimed IPI’s expertise in process development skills
were made possible by the amendments made...
by N. Lalitha | On 28 Mar 2006 Liberalisation and the policies thereafter have lead to a definite increase in production and export from the leather accessories industry in India. The focus of this paper is on migration and labour...
by Jesim Pais | On 28 Mar 2006 The paper attempts to critically analyse the issues that are an offshoot of the open market regime pursued in the industry. Intense competition between exporters for developed country suppliers along...
by I. Kalamani | On 28 Mar 2006 Policy makers are particularly concerned about the extent and speed of exchange rate pass-through into domestic prices. However, in recent times there seems to be a growing degree of disconnect betw...
by Amit Ghosh | On 14 Mar 2006 Much more than comparative advantage and free markets have been at play in shaping China's export success. Government policies have helped nurture domestic capabilities in consumer electronics and oth...
by Dani Rodrik | On 04 Mar 2006 Prices and Food Management
by Ministry of Finance | On 27 Feb 2006 Securities Markets
by Ministry of Finance | On 27 Feb 2006 Many aspects of the Iraq venture have turned out differently from what was purported before the war: there were no weapons of mass destruction, no clear link between Al Qaeda and Iraq, no imminent dan...
by Linda Bilmes | On 25 Feb 2006 This paper discusses the stylised problems relating to water and irrigation in India and argues tht most of the inefficeincies, misuse and environmental damage have their roots in the mispricing of wa...
by Sebastian Morris | On 24 Feb 2006 Why has India has performed poorly in attracting export oriented foreign direct investment (EFDI) as compared to its peer groups such as China. The empirical literature on the location of EFDI indic...
by Jaya Prakash Pradhan | On 20 Feb 2006 Russia’s Gazprom, the world’s largest gas company, has precipitated serious tensions among the post-Soviet countries by sharply hiking gas prices this winter. Gazprom has been supplying gas to these c...
by R.G. Gidadhubli | On 07 Feb 2006 Mortality rates have fallen dramatically over time, starting in a few countries in the 18th century, and continuing to fall today. In just the past century, life expectancy has increased by over 30 ye...
by David M. Cutler | On 01 Feb 2006 A note on the long-awaited Draft National Pharmaceutical Policy 2006. The Policy appears to have taken into consideration consumer needs, paying respect to rational therapeutics. A closer examinati...
by All-India Drug Action Network (AIDAN) | On 28 Jan 2006 Contents
I. The Real Economy -- 1
Agricultural Situation
Industrial Performance
Business Expectations Surveys
Services Sector
II. Fiscal Situation 14
Combined Government Fi...
by Reserve Bank of India | On 25 Jan 2006 In 2002 the government had formulated a new Drug Policy,
but the same could not be implemented due to litigation involving
it. As a consequence, the policy of 1994 continues to be in force.The
pr...
by Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals | On 16 Jan 2006 This study on agricultural wages shows that states like West Bengal and Gujarat have performed well in providing gender equal wages to men and women. Kerala’s performance in maintaining gender equal w...
by Shambhu Ghatak | On 11 Jan 2006 Using longitudinal survey data collected in collaboration with a treatment program, this paper is the first to estimate the economic impacts of antiretroviral treatment in Africa. The responses in two...
by Harsha Thirumurthy | On 30 Dec 2005 The Task Force recommends that price regulation should be on the basis of ‘Essentiality’ of the drug and it should be applied only to formulations and not to upstream products, such as bulk drugs. No...
by Task Force on Pharmaceutical Pricing | On 22 Dec 2005 The Supreme Court judgement of Augutst 12, 2005 on four questions regarding higher education in unaided educational institutions including quota and fee structure.
Q.1. Unaided educational instituti...
by Supreme Court of India | On 08 Dec 2005 This paper looks at the effects of WTO/TRIPS and pharmaceuticals on women. The focus is on the poor and women. The first part of the paper tries to show the linkages between the idea of intellectual p...
by S Srinivasan | On 27 Nov 2005 India was a major player in the world export market for textiles in the early 18th century, but by the middle of the 19th century it had lost all of its export market and much of its domestic market....
by David Clingingsmith | On 10 Nov 2005 There has been a significant decline in anti dumping initiations. This is a welcome trend as there is scant support in economic literature for anti-dumping action. The trend might well indicate the ef...
by C. Satapathy | On 04 Oct 2005 Medico Friend Circle, April-May 2005, featuring Background papers for annual Theme Meet on Quality and Cost of Health Care
by Anonymous | On 24 Aug 2005 The tax base of tobacco in India is found to be heavily depended on about fteen per cent of the tobacco users who represent cigarettes smokers. Non-cigarette tobacco products used by the majority of...
by Rijo John | On 22 Aug 2005 Rising drug prices and misuse of drugs: Calling Attention
by Anonymous | On 19 Aug 2005 Procedures of determining prices of formulations as per directions of Drug Price Control Order, 1995
by Anonymous | On 10 Aug 2005 Procedures for fixing of prices of bulk drugs
by Anonymous | On 10 Aug 2005 We examine the effects of aid on growth--in cross-sectional and panel data--after correcting for the bias that aid typically goes to poorer countries, or to countries after poor performance. Even afte...
by Raghuram G. Rajan | On 06 Aug 2005 |