This study intends to understand the magnitude and nature of indebtedness among rural
poor households in Kerala. The study d analyses
the role played by various sources in meeting the credit requir...
by Aswathi Rebecca Asok | On 08 Mar 2021 The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has become a major global crisis that requires country, regional, and global intervention, as well as collaboration to mitigate damage to economies and peop...
by Asian Development Bank | On 25 Jan 2021 During health crises, like COVID-19, individuals are inundated with messages promoting health- preserving behavior. Does additional light-touch messaging by a credible individual change behavior? Do t...
by Abhijit Banerjee | On 14 Jul 2020 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 Policymakers across the developing world are facing the need to make rapid decisions on their COVID-19
response with little available data or guidance. Policies that help deal with the economic cri...
by Jonathan Leape | On 18 May 2020 The macroeconomic uncertainty created by COVID-19 is hard to measure. The
situation demands simultaneous policy intervention in terms of public health
infrastructure and livelihood. Along with the g...
by Lekha S. Chakraborty | On 29 Apr 2020 Previous studies find mixed results about how a fee on high order-to-trade (OTR) ratios impacts market quality. Using a natural experiment where such a fee was introduced twice for different reasons,...
by Nidhi Aggarwal | On 25 Apr 2019 The paper extends the literature by conducting the survey in a relatively low-income Asian economy— the Lao PDR—and analyzing the determinants of financial literacy and the effects of financial litera...
by Peter J. Morgan | On 12 Mar 2019 This paper utilizes a large cross-section of data sets such as the ILOSTAT, NSSO Quinquennial Employment and Unemployment Survey, Labour Bureau Annual Employment and Unemployment Survey, National Fami...
by Surbhi Ghai | On 03 Feb 2019 The report sheds light on the various issues concerning migration and mobility. It gathers the fruit of two decades of research done at the CDS and examines migration dynamics from demographic, econom...
by S. Irudaya Rajan | On 31 Jan 2019 This paper describes the Indian credit market and presents an argument for the need for personal insolvency law. It provides a brief overview of the provisions on personal insolvency in the IBC. It ma...
by Renuka Sane | On 30 Jan 2019 The Government of India launched the Ujwal DISCOM Assurance Yojana (UDAY), in November 2015, with an objective of “Power for All”. Under the UDAY scheme, selected States agreed to convert 75 per cent...
by Amandeep Kaur | On 11 Jan 2019 The paper investigates dynamic relationship between physical infrastructure, financial development and economic growth in the case of India, using an Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) and Toda-Yam...
by Ranjan Kumar Mohanty | On 11 Jan 2019 Selfless activists like Mr. Pai teach us the importance of continuously interrogating the functioning of our democracy. The NPA issue has persisted for almost a decade. It has eroded the profitability...
by Ashima Goyal | On 29 Oct 2018 The paper examines behavioral constraints in policy-making and in achieving coordination across policies. First it applies psychological concepts to understand policy inadequacies, and next examines h...
by Ashima Goyal | On 29 Oct 2018 The aim of the paper is to contribute to the discussion on the role of multilateral financing in directly addressing gender-based violence; specifically, the ways in which infrastructure investments c...
by Tsolmon Begzsuren | On 29 Oct 2018 This paper employs a multidimensional approach to gauge the degree of regional integration and analyze impact on growth, inequality, and poverty. It constructs a multidimensional regional integration...
by Cyn-Young Park | On 26 Oct 2018 A debt trap occurs when someone takes on a high-interest rate loan and is barely able to pay back the interest, and thus perpetually finds themselves in debt (often by re-financing). Studying such pra...
by Dean Karlan | On 04 Oct 2018 This paper discusses public and private sector financing of infrastructure, and examines the factors driving infrastructure investment in this subregion. Using a panel of three large South Asian count...
by Shikha Jha | On 26 Sep 2018 This paper examines how women’s participation in family decision-making is affected by land rights in rural areas in India. The 2005 Hindu Succession Act was legislated to protect women’s rights to an...
by Harold Glenn A. Valera | On 26 Sep 2018 Private–public partnership (PPP) methods are considered to be an effective way to narrow the gap between demand and supply of social infrastructure. If successfully pursued, PPP can deliver benefits t...
by Jungwook Kim | On 19 Sep 2018 This study provides an in-depth analysis of main causes of Vietnam’s low competitiveness from the country’s perspective. These are structural problems due to its factor-based growth model, expansionar...
by LE Quoc Phuong | On 11 Sep 2018 This paper outlines a number of points, which would help to develop a more superior external intelligence infrastructure. In absence of a national security strategy (NSS), the task of intelligence age...
by Shantanu K. Bansal | On 04 Sep 2018 The paper constructs a new measure of the changing generosity of deposit insurance for many countries, empirically model the international influences on the adoption and generosity of deposit insuranc...
by Charles W. Calomiris | On 03 Sep 2018 This paper analyzes a critical aspect of expanding private finance to infrastructure by examining the role of bank lending to public–private partnership (PPP) projects through the project finance moda...
by Vivek Rao | On 24 Aug 2018 Infrastructure development in Southeast Asia has been financed mainly by public funds, which leave wide gaps in majority of countries. Governments have tried to attract the private sector by offering...
by Fauziah Zen | On 16 Aug 2018 This paper develops a framework identifying channels through which economic gains can be derived from PPP arrangement. The framework helps derive an empirically tractable specification that examines h...
by Minsoo Lee | On 11 Aug 2018 This study attempts to understand the role of greater access to finance, i.e., stocks, bonds, and bank loans, in public–private partnership (PPP) investment in developing countries. Most developing co...
by Suk Hyun | On 10 Aug 2018 . This paper applies survival time hazard analysis to estimate how project-related, macroeconomic, and institutional factors affect the hazard rate of the projects. Empirical results show that governm...
by Minsoo Lee | On 25 Jul 2018 This working paper assesses the potential of incentive FAR approaches in two Indian cities, Mumbai and Ahmedabad, for leveraging the economic value of urban land. A thorough analysis of Mumbai’s clust...
by Apoorva Shenvi | On 25 Jul 2018 The paper analyses a nationally representative data set from India for the year 2013 in order to provide evidence on how short term migration is affected by household's ownership of land, and particip...
by S. Chandrasekhar | On 25 Jul 2018 The study aims to assess the sustainable livelihood program (SLP) implementation processes based on recent policy enhancements and indicators of program success. The analysis is based on focus group d...
by Marife M. Ballesteros | 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 This paper describes and assesses the design of the UCT program. It evaluates the UCT based on data collected from three survey rounds from a sample of UCT household beneficiaries, as well as other pr...
by Celia M. Reyes | On 29 Jun 2018 This paper evaluates the parental response to non-cognitive variation across siblings in rural Gansu province, China, employing a household fixed effects specification; the non-cognitive measures of i...
by Jessica Leight | On 26 Jun 2018 This paper studies the impact of fraud revelation on trading behaviour of investors. It ask, if investors with direct exposure to stock market fraud (treated investors) are more likely to cash out of...
by Renuka Sane | On 20 Jun 2018 This strategy document is premised on the proposition that India, given its strengths and characteristics,
has the potential to position itself among leaders on the global AI map – with a unique bran...
by Niti Aayog GOI | On 19 Jun 2018 This paper reviews the existing framework for infrastructure development and the associated standards in India, and identifies areas for concern. Rather than deeply analysing any one standard, this pa...
by Sanhita Sapatnekar | On 15 Jun 2018 The PILER 2016 report on the Status of Labour Rights, sixth in the series, based on the secondary research, aims to present an overview of the status of labour and the issues in the year impacting lab...
by Pakistan Institute of Labour Education & Research (PILER) | On 14 Jun 2018 This paper discusses the status of financial inclusion, education, and literacy in Azerbaijan as well as measures to foster the development of SMEs, which currently have inadequate access to financial...
by Gubad Ibadoghlu | On 07 Jun 2018 Financial inclusion has significantly advanced in Armenia during the last decade. Rural and urban areas, however, have benefited unevenly. The high cost of providing financial services, the lack of ph...
by Armen Nurbekyan | On 07 Jun 2018 This paper studies the effects of firms’ investments in information and communication technologies (ICT) on their demand for female and skilled workers. Using the gradual liberalization of the broadba...
by Natalie Chun | On 31 May 2018 The National Digital Communications Policy, 2018 seeks to unlock the transformative power
of
digital
communications networks
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to achieve the goal of digital empowerment and well
b...
by | On 02 May 2018 Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) cover a wide range of industries and play a major role in
both developed and developing economies. They are considered as significant sources of
ent...
by Navyashree G. R. | On 19 Apr 2018 Despite the resultant disutility, some people, in particular, the poor, are engaged in
behaviors that carry social stigma. Empirical studies on stigmatized behavior are rare,
largely due to the form...
by Xi Chen | On 12 Apr 2018 The study has developed three hypotheses based on two (rationalist and constructivist/sociological) strands of institutional theory. Based on a new dataset comprising the corporate membership in busin...
by Daniel Kinderman | On 12 Apr 2018 This paper analyses the way households in rural China use rural-urban migration and
off-farm work as a response to negative productivity shocks in agriculture. I employ
various waves of a longitudin...
by Luigi Minale | On 04 Apr 2018 Trade facilitation measures improve the trading environment by reducing transaction costs
and thereby increasing the gains from trade. Although the use of trade facilitation measures
for tackling tr...
by Sanjana Joshi | On 28 Mar 2018 The PILER 2015 Report on the Status of Labour Rights, fifth in the series, based on secondary research, aims to present an overview of the status of labour and the issues in the year impacting labour...
by Pakistan Institute of Labour Education & Research (PILER) | On 21 Mar 2018 The paper says that the gender has been largely ignored at the theoretical, empirical and policy design levels, thereby perpetuating gender biases in the actual working of economies, promoting gender...
by Rizwana Siddiqui | On 20 Mar 2018 The paper is based on a study that uses primary data collected from students of two private and
two public universities located in the NCR. The survey was conducted during July-August, 2015.
The Inf...
by Shampa Paul | On 19 Mar 2018 As India looks towards further liberalisation, it must fi rst prepare its economic institutions
by re-orienting them from managing the economy to regulating the economy.
Without an enhancement of re...
by | On 16 Mar 2018 Budget speech of the Finance Minister of Maharashtra.
by Sudhir Mungamtiwar | On 12 Mar 2018 In October 2010, the state government of Andhra Pradesh, India issued an emergency ordinance, bringing microfinance activities in the state to a complete halt and causing a nation-wide shock to the li...
by Emily Breza | On 10 Mar 2018 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 The paper says that the Government of India (GoI) recently announced plans for transition to all electric transportation by 2030.
by Tanmay Sarkar | On 26 Feb 2018 The paper says that the development experience of Kerala tucked away in the south-western corner of the Indian sub-continent has been rather unique.
by K.K. George | On 14 Feb 2018 A study was conducted to forecast the electricity consumption and demand for Karnataka (as seen by the utilities) for 2017-2022.
by Arijit Chanda | On 13 Feb 2018 Budget speech by Finance Minister of Malaysia.
by Minister of Finance Malaysia | On 09 Feb 2018 Budget Speech by Municipal Commissioner
by Ajoy Mehta | On 05 Feb 2018 The paper says that this idiosyncrasy of Korea’s current account surplus seems to be related to increasing saving propensity of households especially among aged people.
by Han Chirok | On 01 Feb 2018 The report says that investment in human capital is a prerequisite for a healthy and productive population for nation building.
by Arun Jaitley | On 31 Jan 2018 Several key measures and achievements in the industry and infrastructure sector have been
discussed in this Chapter. There has been considerable progress in Roads, Railways, Metro Rail,
Shipping, Ci...
by Arun Jaitley | On 31 Jan 2018 The tenth chapter of Economic Survey 2018 has sown that investments in social infrastructure and human development has paid off well. The policies and schemes have also been mentioned in detail. The g...
by Lakshmi Priya | On 31 Jan 2018 This paper links the foreign economic engagement of India’s states with the literature on
federalism, thereby contributing to an understanding of the political economy of FDI in-
flows in a parliame...
by Chanchal Kumar Sharma | On 22 Jan 2018 The paper narrates that in today’s age of globalization and trans-border connectivity, the Northeast is fast emerging as the potential gateway for India to Southeast and East Asia through
Myanmar.
by Namrata Goswami | On 17 Jan 2018 The paper talks about the growing demand in the clean energy industry is expected to increase LCE
production to about 410,000 tonne by 2025.
by Tanmay Sarkar | On 12 Jan 2018 This study analyses the concerns/challenges in executing the operational targets set under the UDAY
scheme for two DISCOMs in Karnataka, namely, Mangalore Electricity Supply Company Limited
(MESCOM)...
by Rishu Garg | On 11 Jan 2018 Property is widely recognized as an important resource for empowering women. Many development
policies worldwide therefore call for strengthening women’s rights to property, especially to physical
a...
by Rajendra Pradhan | On 11 Jan 2018 The paper explored participatory aspects of local democracy in Aceh and some major challenges
in South Aceh for people’s participation in local decision-making processes.
by Leena Avonius | On 08 Jan 2018 This paper explores trends in urban employment in India, with a focus on urban informal employment (defined as informal wage employment and self-employment in informal enterprises, as well as informal...
by Martha Alter Chen | On 02 Jan 2018 Financial literacy is gaining increasing importance as a policy objective in many countries. However, internationally comparable information on financial literacy is still scarce. Recently, the Bank o...
by Naoyuki Yoshino | On 21 Dec 2017 This study constructs a new dependency ratio measure by taking into account the consumption needs of the young and elderly people, and the productivity of middle-aged people. Different from the way th...
by Xuehui Han | On 21 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 Urban road infrastructure is crucial in determining air pollution. Yet, little is known about the roles played by road width vs. road length. This paper attempts to fill this gap by estimating the eff...
by Zhi Luo | On 18 Dec 2017 This paper explores the co-evolution of entrepreneurship and cities. First, it provides a stylized model of development wherein the rise of cities (urbanisation) is the outcome of the activities of en...
by Wim Naudé | On 15 Dec 2017 This study provides growth projections for the Philippine agriculture based on growth in productivity differentiated by basic sector, using a computable general equilibrium model.
by Roehlano M. Briones | On 14 Dec 2017 The paper narrates that the inclusive growth requires boosting incomes of workers currently in agriculture, either by shifting them to better-paying jobs outside agriculture or raising wages within ag...
by Roehlano M. Briones | On 13 Dec 2017 The report says that despite the government’s various poverty reduction and social protection programs, poverty remains a social problem the country needs to hurdle.
by Connie Bayudan-Dacuycuy | On 13 Dec 2017 Historically, extractive sector MNEs have been seen as an obstacle to sustainable development, because they operated in enclaves with limited local engagement. Import substitution policies aimed to in...
by | On 11 Dec 2017 This paper addresses the importance of developing a common framework for defining informal employment in developed countries, and highlights issues that arise when applying the definition of informal...
by Françoise Carré | On 06 Dec 2017 Financing of infrastructure is vital for the creation and maintenance of adequate infrastructure. The present paper has attempted to analyse various infra financing methods practised in India, namely,...
by | On 04 Dec 2017 This study examines the emerging peri-urbanization in the Punjab (Pakistan) in the context of Lahore.
by Qasim Shah | On 30 Nov 2017 Employment data in India is far from adequate if policy responses have to be more effective and timely. Most employment surveys suffer from drawbacks such as limited data coverage, infrequent data col...
by Radhicka Kapoor | On 30 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 The paper uses 1995, 2002 and 2013 CHIP data to investigate the urban household consumption expenditure inequality. The overall inequality of urban household consumption expenditure measured by Gini c...
by Qingjie Xia | On 20 Nov 2017 This paper examines the potential for sector-specific productivity growth, human capital, credit markets, and infrastructure to contribute to the development of stable, well-paid employment in rural a...
by | On 20 Nov 2017 About two-thirds of microfinance clients in India are reported to be in Self-Help Groups (SHGs). These mostly women’s groups have been promoted by nationalized banks since the early nineties to improv...
by Jean-Marie Baland | On 06 Nov 2017 The report states that the current urbanisation pattern in many Indian states is skewed with growth concentrating in and around the primate city.
by Sujaya Rathi | On 03 Nov 2017 How do public–private collaborations enable secure and inclusive rural economies? Alongside private sector investment, government provision of infrastructure, research and extension services and suppo...
by Institute of Development Studies IDS | On 31 Oct 2017 The report shows that the rationality arguments used to establish the existence of
subjective probabilities depend essentially on the identification of acting-as-ifyou-believe and actually believing.
by Asad Zaman | On 26 Oct 2017 This report aims to serve as the foundation upon which the nations can create data eco-systems to serve developmental aims.
by Aritra Chakrabarty | On 26 Oct 2017 This approach helps to publish timely, reasonably accurate and globally comparable estimates.
by Wage Indicator | On 23 Oct 2017 These consumers expect stable returns and minimal hassles.
by Saptak Ghosh | On 10 Oct 2017 The paper examines the issue of resource adequacy for Right to Education (RTE) by estimating the resource requirement for universalization of elementary education across twelve Indian States. Using RT...
by Sukanya Bose | On 05 Oct 2017 The benefits of improved tax enforcement in Pakistan through simulations
of a model of the Pakistani economy is studied. We begin by documenting that the effective
tax rate facing firms is increasin...
by Ethan Ilzetzki | On 04 Oct 2017 This paper analyses the performance of India’s Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) using measures of labour and overall efficiency and productivity indicators as opposed to financial returns. Using meth...
by Ajay Chhibber | On 03 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 Urban expansion in India over the last few decades has placed cities in a challenging situation with limited infrastructure facilities affecting the quality of life of people who live in low income se...
by Manasi S | On 13 Sep 2017 Natural disasters, together with other shocks, have contributed to the vulnerability of both poor and nonpoor Filipino households to poverty.
by Christian D. Mina | On 07 Sep 2017 This paper aims to show that the level of inequality increases via the human capital channel with credit market imperfections generating negative effects on economic growth. We expand the model presen...
by Bogang Jun | On 28 Aug 2017 The study finds that among the many steps taken by the state, three interventions played the most important role in the state’s impressive performance in agriculture. They are irrigation facilities, a...
by Ashok Gulati | On 23 Aug 2017 This paper takes stock. It assesses the current market state and structure, surveys a cross-section of market participants to identify the relevant issues, and employs two case studies of EME peers, C...
by Renu Kohli | On 23 Aug 2017 This paper study the composition, sources and drivers of agricultural growth in Madhya Pradesh to identify the factors that have contributed to robust agricultural growth in the state and discuss the...
by Ashok Gulati | On 11 Aug 2017 Has the global financial crisis changed the pivotal determinants of corporate
leverage in EMEs? This paper attempts to address this issue using a panel-GMM
framework and quantile-analysis for 10 maj...
by Snehal S. Herwadkar | On 04 Aug 2017 The world is becoming increasingly urbanized. Globally 54 percent population lives in urban areas today (UN 2014). Although Asia is still relatively more rural than the Americas and the Europe, it is...
by Tanuka Endow | On 02 Aug 2017 It is widely recognized that politics affects policy-making, but there is little knowledge
about how politics can be made more conducive to effective governance. This
study reverses the relationship...
by Jonathan Phillips | On 02 Aug 2017 This paper purports to understand whether voting along narrow parochial lines in socially and ethnically fragmented societies has measurable gains. Using data from rural India, we establish that ident...
by Raghbendra Jha | On 31 Jul 2017 The NCAER State Investment Potential Index 2017 (N-SIPI 2017) is the second edition in the annual series of rankings of states on their growth and investment potential. It is a systematic and evidence...
by Research National Council of Applied Economic | On 31 Jul 2017 Many poverty alleviation programs aiming to enhance nutrition include behavior change
communication (BCC). This study uses a field experiment in Bangladesh to assess the
impacts of BCC, focusing on...
by Berber Kramer | On 31 Jul 2017 This report may lead other nations to follow suit, but countries which do not have
large quantities of SNF may find it difficult to justify geological repositories from economic considerations.
by | On 31 Jul 2017 The report concludes with the strategies that Karnataka should focus on in order to achieve the objectives of 24x7 Power for All.
by Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy CSTEP | On 31 Jul 2017 The compendium details the characteristics, advantages and disadvantages of the different technology options, and also describes the different types of systems formed as a combination of the technolog...
by Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy CSTEP | On 28 Jul 2017 The report narrates that CDW can be recycled to replace natural building material; this is not only beneficial for the environment, but also results in substantial cost and resource savings.
by Venkatesh Vunnam | On 28 Jul 2017 Shifting cultivation is one of the main causes of deforestation and forest degradation in Sri Lanka. This study uses household data and satellite images to investigate the determinants of shifting cul...
by Prabath Nishantha Edirisinghe | On 28 Jul 2017 The article reviews the recent evaluation evidence on financial services and training
interventions designed to increase the productivity and income of the poor; it includes the
subset of evaluation...
by Mayra Buvinic | On 28 Jul 2017 The incidence of parent-child co-residence in India is among the highest in the world. This paper examines the role of intra-household exchanges and potential bequests in creating incentives for adult...
by Sonalde Desai | On 27 Jul 2017 Rural poverty continues to be a scourge in India, affecting tens of millions of households despite years of strong economic growth for the country overall. In 2005, the government of India created the...
by Government of India & Employment | On 26 Jul 2017 The Urban Water Supply and Environmental Improvement Project sought to provide basic services of water supply, sanitation, and garbage collection and disposal in four cities in Madhya Pradesh, India.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 26 Jul 2017 This report summarizes the investments in clean energy made by the operations departments of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in 2014.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 26 Jul 2017 This annual publication showcases the results of knowledge management initiatives of the East Asia Department of the Asian Development Bank in 2014.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 24 Jul 2017 This report explores some of the ways forward. It highlights not just the need to inject more money into investments that contribute to sustainable development, but also to attract funds toward them—t...
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 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 study was undertaken under ABMI. It addresses two key questions: (i) Why is local currency bond financing not more widely used for infrastructure projects in ASEAN+3? and (ii) What can be done to...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 18 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 also describes trade facilitation projects that promote development through deepening regional cooperation and integration.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 14 Jul 2017 This report provides support to the Maldivian government in formulating its high-priority policies by identifying the critical constraints to achieving inclusive growth. The report also provides polic...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 12 Jul 2017 This report is an outcome of Phase 3 discussions under the ASEAN+3 Bond Market Forum Sub-Forum 2, which have focused on making bond market infrastructures in the region more inter-operable through the...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 11 Jul 2017 This report summarizes the initial activities of the Regional Hub, and contextualizes the challenges in Asia and the Pacific with the global efforts to reach the 2030 targets.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 06 Jul 2017 This case study looks at the gender dimensions of two projects that focus on the community development component that advocated community participation, social inclusion, and gender equality in commun...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 05 Jul 2017 This study measures the size of fossil fuel subsidies such as underpricing of petroleum products and electricity, tax exemptions, and subsidized credit; examines the potential economic, energy, and en...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 04 Jul 2017 This study measures the size of fossil fuel subsidies such as tax breaks for diesel and natural gas, market price support for natural gas for vehicles, and free electricity for low-income consumers as...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 04 Jul 2017 This study is part of the Asian Development Bank’s initiative to support greener and more sustainable transport systems that are convenient and lessen carbon dioxide emissions. Read how congestion cha...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 03 Jul 2017 This study, using an inclusive growth framework, has identified the critical constraints that Fiji needs to address to strengthen investor sentiment even further and achieve inclusive growth.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 27 Jun 2017 The report narrates that the related technical assistance has focused on infrastructure management, financial and private sector development, preparations for regional economic integration, and region...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 23 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 study informs decision makers regarding major climate change risks to development and provides feasible policy recommendations for consideration to increase resilience and reduce vulnerability in...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 22 Jun 2017 The paper says that Sri Lanka has emerged in recent years as one of the most dynamic countries in South Asia. With a rich cultural heritage, an increasingly sophisticated work force, and a strategic l...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 19 Jun 2017 This report examines how existing implementation structures established under ADB and National Government investment programs could be used to channel subnational government resources toward priority...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 Jun 2017 This report examines the current use of DFS in the Pacific, analyzes the issues that need to be addressed, and provides recommendations for increasing financial inclusion in the region.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 14 Jun 2017 The report sets out the experience, analysis and conclusions of VisionFund International and their Philippine microfinance operation Community Economic Ventures Incorporated (CEVI). This analysis foll...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 09 Jun 2017 The project briefs are culled from case studies of good practices, new approaches, and working models on sanitation and wastewater management from different countries, and demonstrate solution options...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 05 Jun 2017 Growth in Central Asia is weaker than predicted, while expansion in the Pacific is now expected to be a touch higher. Forecasts are unchanged for East, South, and Southeast Asia. While the Brexit vote...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 02 Jun 2017 This report presents a preliminary economic analysis of road user costs and fees, partly drawing from the World Bank’s Road User Charge (RUC) model and analysis framework, and a review of the tolling...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 01 Jun 2017 This report reviews how the road sector in Myanmar can make the greatest contribution to the country’s
national ambitions as possible. It seeks to identify bottlenecks and attempts to formulate possi...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 01 Jun 2017 Rural roads and rural transport services are fundamental to reducing rural poverty and enabling social and economic development. Evidence from Myanmar, and from around the world, makes it clear that a...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 01 Jun 2017 Myanmar is at a critical point in terms of road safety. In 2014, road-related deaths reached 4,300, which is twice as many as in 2009. Substantial and decisive action is needed, including early fundin...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 31 May 2017 Myanmar has an extensive river network that is well positioned to serve the country’s main transport corridors, including the link between Yangon and Mandalay. However, main rivers are difficult to na...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 31 May 2017 This publication examines the constraints in developing inland waterway transport (IWT) based on a study in the PRC’s Hunan province. Six major challenges threatening the viability of IWT and its inte...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 30 May 2017 Growing demand for public expenditures, limitations in expanding fiscal space and limited scope to deviate from common harmonized tax system under the proposed Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime may...
by Sacchidananda Mukherjee | On 25 May 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 This study of state-owned enterprises performance in the Pacific emphasizes political commitment to reform as a key driver for commercial results.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 23 May 2017 This report presents the findings of a climate risk financing study conducted by the GMS Core Environment Program in 28 rural communities in Cambodia, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, and Viet Na...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 22 May 2017 An important reason for this dichotomy between agriculture and non agricultural sectors is that the former is a state subject under the Indian Constitution placing the burden of implementation of refo...
by Ramesh Chand | On 18 May 2017 Indira Gandhi Matritva Sahyog Yojana (IGMSY) is a Conditional Maternity Benefit (CMB) Scheme of the Government of India launched in 2010. The scheme is being implemented by the Ministry of Women and C...
by Niti Aayog GOI | On 17 May 2017 The report says India can save 64% of anticipated passenger road-based mobility-related energy demand and 37% of carbon emissions in 2030 by pursuing a shared, electric, and connected mobility future....
by Shikha Juyal | On 17 May 2017 This Update retains the projections previously published in Asian Development Outlook 2016 (ADO 2016) in March. Gross domestic product (GDP) in the region is expected to grow at 5.7% in 2016 and 2017,...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 16 May 2017 According to data published on AsianBondsOnline, total LCY bonds outstanding in Malaysia barely moved in the third quarter of 2015 compared with the previous quarter, standing at MYR1,076 billion at t...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 16 May 2017 The paper outlines that the sanitation has long been “beneath the radar” on the development agendas of governments worldwide. Aside from the massive investment requirements for putting in place sanita...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 12 May 2017 The paper narrates that as local government units (LGUs) have strived to carry out the responsibilities and activities devolved to them by the 1991 Local Government Code, they have explored and availe...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 11 May 2017 The outlook for developing Asia remains broadly as forecast in Asian Development Outlook 2016 Update. Despite an extraordinary and temporary growth dip affecting one of the region’s largest economies,...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 10 May 2017 The project has dramatically changed the life of Rabeya Sultana, chair of the women-led slum
improvement committee formed under the project in Cox's Bazar. "Managing people and money
gave me more co...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 08 May 2017 In the report there has been progress primarily in two areas: (1) the creation of implementing offices and bodies at the regional and national levels as outlined in the MRAs; and (2) the incorporation...
by Dovelyn Rannveig Mendoza | On 05 May 2017 This report updates by presenting infrastructure investment needs for all
45 DMCs from 2016 to 2030, the final year of the United Nations Sustainable Development
Goals. Two sets of estimates are pre...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 05 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 High growth rates during the precrisis period have helped South Asia reduce poverty rates and raise living standards.
But despite gains in alleviating poverty, the number of poor people in the region...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 04 May 2017 This paper is a contribution to understanding income generation and inequality in India's agricultural sector. The paper analyses the National Sample Surveys of agriculture in 2003 and 2013 using desc...
by Sanjoy Chakravorty | On 02 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 Haryana Budget presented by Hon'ble Minister Capt. Abhimanyu.
by Haryana Government | On 07 Mar 2017 Kerala budget presented by Hon.Finance Minister Thomas Issac.
by T.M. Thomas Issac | On 06 Mar 2017 In national accounts, government expenditures are used to measure the value of public
spending. These expenditures grossly overestimate the value of services received by
Indian households because th...
by Anders Kjelsrud | On 01 Mar 2017 The category of Scheduled Castes, created for the purpose of affirmative action in
India, is large, heterogeneous and unequal. In 2007, the state of Bihar classified the
most disadvantaged among thi...
by Hemanshu Kumar | On 16 Feb 2017 India is increasingly vulnerable to cyber attacks that range from intrusions that affect the integrity of data to large-scale attacks aimed at bringing down critical infrastructure. This vulnerability...
by | On 03 Feb 2017 Budget speech by Finance Minister of India, Mr.Arun Jaitley.
by Arun Jaitley | On 01 Feb 2017 Reveiw of ‘Population, Health and Environment’ Edited by Sayeed Unisa, T.V. Sekher, Chander Shekhar, Abhishek Singh, L.K.Dwivedi and M.R. Pradhan by Rawat Pubslishers.
by Manisha Karne | On 30 Jan 2017 Using government data, this brief reports on trends for SBM-G along the following
parameters:
• Allocations and expenditures
• Physical progress of toilets
built
• Expenditures incurred under
...
by Avani Kapur | On 27 Jan 2017 The presentation shows the methods through which non-cash payments can be made, the constraints to it, efforts needed for proposed actions from key stakeholders, policies needed to promote digital pa...
by Nara Chandrababu Naidu | On 25 Jan 2017 This paper examines the impacts of social pension provision among people of different ages. Utilizing the county-by-county rollout of the New Rural Pension Scheme in rural China, we find that, among t...
by | On 10 Jan 2017 “Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs) form the backbone of the Indian economy making large contributions to important economic indicators as well as household incomes. Digital technologies have transfor...
by | On 05 Jan 2017 Data from two recent NSSO surveys are analysed to provide estimates of expenditure on higher education
and loans availed for higher education. The average share of expenditure on higher education out...
by S. Chandrasekhar | On 03 Jan 2017 This work is a contribution, first, toward measuring and characterizing
some features of rural clientelistic institutions and then toward
exploring its impact on household access to an employment sc...
by Anindya Bhattacharya | On 30 Dec 2016 Despite increases in women’s employment, significant gender disparity exists in the time men and women spend on household and care work. Understanding how social expectations govern gender roles and c...
by Greg Seymour | On 15 Dec 2016 How persistent are traditional socioeconomic hierarchies in the face of marketization, significant structural shifts in the economy, and increased political representation of lower-ranked groups, and...
by Ashwini Deshpande | On 15 Dec 2016 A silent revolution is sweeping the country. That is because, the
payment systems has been evolving and changes have been
continuous over the last 35 years, it has rarely got noticed as a
revolutio...
by R. Gandhi | On 17 Nov 2016 This policy brief proposes reorganisation of current industry
structure and proposes a new organizational structure for the
railways to meet the needs of the 21st century . [CPPR Policy Brief Series...
by Centre for Public Policy Research CPPR | On 21 Oct 2016 The puzzling decline in female labour force participation in India in the context of high economic growth has recently generated considerable academic interest. Increasing educational enrolment by wom...
by | On 19 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 Kerala has ushered a new paradigm in higher education sector by granting autonomy to a few colleges in the recent times. Though it has been in the practice only for the last two years, CPPR finds it i...
by Nikhitha Mary Mathew | On 07 Oct 2016 Economic and political processes differ widely across states in India. Some states have seen rapid economic growth and development while others are facing economic stagnation. The differences in outco...
by | On 07 Oct 2016 This paper studies the effects of remittances on informal employment in the migrants’ countries of origin, looking both at the remittance-receiving and non-migrant households. Using data from the Soci...
by | On 05 Oct 2016 This research evaluates the performance of free trade agreements by
analyzing the determinants of trade flows of Asian economies for a panel
of thirty-one countries during 2007-2014 using a Gravity...
by Sunder Ramaswamy | 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 This study provides an overview of Urdu-medium primary schools in the Bengaluru
urban district of Karnataka in India. Akshara’s research examined access to
government-run Urdu-medium schools and iss...
by Divya Vishawanath | On 23 Sep 2016 Engaging is a major concern. Utilising the leisure time of the youth and harnessing their exuberance and raw energy for creative activities is essential. Simultaneously, but more substantially there i...
by United Nations (UN) | On 21 Sep 2016 This paper tests the hypothesis that the expansion of improved drinking water supplies in rural India reduced household expenditure on water quality, offsetting some of the quality benefits from sourc...
by | On 16 Sep 2016 The objective
of the present study is to examine the effect of ICT investments on the sales growth of SMEs
from the food processing industry in India. Secondary data is collected from the Prowess
d...
by Navyashree G. R. | On 08 Sep 2016 Many developing countries have made progress in political openness and economic management but still struggle to attract private sector investments, at least outside of narrow, resource-based enclaves...
by Alan Gelb | On 01 Sep 2016 China’s government is promoting the shift towards a consumption-based economy since a few years. The explicit goal to significantly raise the percentage of wages in the national household income is in...
by | On 31 Aug 2016 This study provided a brief discussion of the international migration, an age old common phenomenon is an emerging economic development issue and remittances growth. Approach: Each year Bangladesh exp...
by | 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 According to MSME Ministry’s Annual Report for 2015-16, MSME sector in India today is
a network of 51 million enterprises providing employment to 117.1 million persons and
contributing 37.5 per cent...
by S.S. Mundra | On 29 Aug 2016 Almost half of all households have at least one migrant abroad or a returnee. Estimates of the number of Nepali migrants abroad vary widely, but the most frequently cited estimate, including seasonal...
by World Bank [WB] | On 25 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 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 This paper estimates a household saving rate equation for India and the Republic of Korea using longterm
time series data for the 1975–2010 period, focusing in particular on the impact of the premari...
by Charles Yuji Horioka | On 16 Aug 2016 India being home to the largest number of poor and malnourished
population in the world, the tabling of National Food Security Bill has
renewed the public pressure for universalization of PDS in Ind...
by Sowmya Dhanraj | On 03 Aug 2016 Labour markets in South Asia have been characterized as dualistic, with a relatively small, well-protected formal sector and a large unprotected informal sector. Indeed, the formal workforce is very s...
by | On 29 Jul 2016 CSTEP organised a stakeholder consultation workshop on the wind energy sector at the request of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) recently. The main objectives of this workshop were to d...
by | On 27 Jul 2016 Although both infrastructure and innovation play an important role in fostering a country’s economic growth, discussion in the literature about how the two are connected is limited. This paper examine...
by Xu Wang | On 25 Jul 2016 Natural resource taxation and investment often exhibit cyclical behaviour, associated with shifts in political power. Why do finders get to keep more of their discoveries in some periods than others?...
by Niko Jaakkola | On 22 Jul 2016 By adopting a historical comparative perspective,this paper assesses the role of state (both national and subnational) in industrialisation through the growth and policy experience of an ‘achieving’ s...
by Keshab Das | On 20 Jul 2016 The agenda is a road map for people that will
build on the success of the Millennium Development Goals and ensure sustainable social and economic progress worldwide. It seeks not only to eradicate ex...
by United Nations (UN) | On 20 Jul 2016 This paper explores the differentials in youth development patterns determined by the economic condition of the household in India. The wealth index is used to glean youth development differentials in...
by Bijaya Kumar Malik | On 15 Jul 2016 This paper reviews the current state of the literature on Indian urbanization to analyze existing urban development trajectories at the state level in order to understand the challenges Indian cities...
by Meenu Tewari | On 15 Jul 2016 The rural structural distinctiveness in terms of resource endowments and factors of production often has bearings on livelihood and well-being of their people, constraining improvement in the economic...
by Rajiv Mehta | On 11 Jul 2016 Indian government launched the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY), a national health insurance scheme, in 2008 that provides cashless health services to poor households in India. The scheme is eval...
by Mehtabul Azam | On 11 Jul 2016 The Climate Knowledge and Development Network supported a Vulnerability and Risk Assessment process in Uttarakhand to provide the Government of Uttarakhand with the evidence base to refine and priorit...
by Climate and Development Knowledge Network CDKN | On 30 Jun 2016 The slowdown in credit growth has been largely because of stress in the public sector banking and not because of high interest rates. As such, what is required is a clean-up of the balance sheets of p...
by Raghuram G. Rajan | On 29 Jun 2016 In this paper investigates the success of banking reforms in India where significant banking reforms have been introduced since 1990s. Using the argument that well functioning credit markets would ref...
by Sumon Kumar Bhaumik | On 27 Jun 2016 This paper attempts to study and evaluate the strengths and limitations of an alternative approach to learning -the Kalikayatna approach -that has been implemented in selected clusters in five distric...
by Jyotsna Jha | On 27 Jun 2016 The farm household model has played a central role in improving the understanding of small-scale agricultural households and non-farm enterprises. Under the assumptions that all current and future mar...
by Daniel LaFave | On 17 Jun 2016 The paper analyses income mobility across different social groups in India using data from the
Indian Human Development Survey (IHDS) collected in 2004–05 and 2011–12. Indices
signifying different n...
by Thiagu Ranganathan | On 16 Jun 2016 With the traditional system of the lady of the house looking after the older family members at home is slowly getting changed as the women at home are also participating in activities outside home and...
by | On 15 Jun 2016 The Finance Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Mr. Haseeb A. Drabu, presented the Budget for Jammu and Kashmir
for financial year 2016-17 on May 30, 2016.
by Hasseeb A. Drabu | On 13 Jun 2016 In India, a majority of rural households meet their energy requirements from traditional fuel sources, such as fuel wood, agricultural residues and kerosene. Statistics shows that 21 percent of villag...
by | On 09 Jun 2016 The working paper outlines the significance of debt market in general and its role in accelerating the development of economic growth in particular. It reviews various regulatory and non-regulatory de...
by Anubhuti Sahay | On 06 Jun 2016 While land reforms are typically pursued in order to raise productivity and reduce inequality across households, an unintended consequence may be increased within-household gender inequality. We analy...
by | On 03 Jun 2016 This study, based on analysis of secondary data, assesses the current state of electricity access in PHCs and rural primary schools. Given the increasing policy support for solar energy in India, it a...
by | On 02 Jun 2016 This paper describes the status, challenges and scope for strengthening surveillance of chronic disease risk factors, morbidities and mortality in India. Surveillance experience of four selected Stat...
by Udaya S. Mishra | On 30 May 2016 The present handbook is designed to provide United Nations country teams and national and international stakeholders with guidance on the definitions, rationale, concepts and sources of the data for t...
by United Nations (UN) | On 27 May 2016 The aim of the IT policy is:
1.To position Uttar Pradesh as the preferred IT/ITES investment destination in India
2. To leverage IT as an engine of growth for UP
3.To transform physical communit...
by Uttar Pradesh Government UP | On 27 May 2016 This report presents the results of the new approach to measuring poverty and standards of living, which the Royal Government of Cambodia initiated and carried out through 2011-2012.
by | On 25 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 paper examines the fiscal scene of Kerala, during the last one
and a half decades, by looking at the trends in receipts and expenditure.
It finds that a revenue led fiscal consolidation is the w...
by T.M. Thomas Issac | On 20 May 2016 Using an audit experiment carried out on of India’s largest real estate websites, this study documents striking variations between landlords’ treatment of upper-caste Hindus, Other Backward Castes, Sc...
by Saugato Datta | On 18 May 2016 Management of regulated water systems has become increasingly
complex due to rapid socio-economic growth and environmental changes in river basins over recent decades. This paper focusses on the publ...
by Zareena Begum Irfan | On 17 May 2016 Now in its 11th edition, The Global Risks Report 2016 draws attention to ways that global risks could evolve and interact in the next decade. The year 2016 marks a forceful departure from past finding...
by [WEF] World Economic Forum | On 11 May 2016 The paper examines the impact of the initiative taken by an NGO -SelfEmployed
Women’s Association (SEWA)-in Ahmedabad, a city in western
India to impart knowledge about sexual and reproductive healt...
by Leela Visaria | On 05 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 The latest edition of the Economic Review is brought out with the objective of
providing valuable and comprehensive information about Kerala’s economic
performance in the last year of the 12th Five...
by Government of Kerala Govt | On 29 Apr 2016 A comparative study of representative slums across three largest metro cities in India through primary surveys. It is found that certain characteristics, such as large average household size, poor hou...
by Sugata Bag | On 28 Apr 2016 The report ‘God’s Own Country, Moving Towards Universal Health Coverage in Kerala, Piloting in the Districts of Malappuram and Palakkad’, 2016 provides details and in-depth understanding of the Univer...
by Sunil Nandraj | On 21 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 In addition to negatively affecting health, the qualitative findings reveal that water service
delivery failures have a constellation of other adverse life impacts—on household economy,
employment,...
by Ramnath Subbaraman | On 12 Apr 2016 The 2016 Budget reaffirms the belief that no one should be left behind as
the country progresses.
by Strategic Communication Unit Philippines | On 11 Apr 2016 A technology switch in television affects different income groups differently. In India the digitization of TV signals is putting an end to the free-to-air telecast regime. This study, the first of it...
by Aloke Thakore | On 07 Apr 2016 This study reviews two methods of measuring poverty dynamics. The components approach uses the
longitudinally averaged income to determine whether a household is chronically poor or not. On the
othe...
by Arturo Martinez Jr. | 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 This study shows how important the construction sector has been over the last decade as an employment provider in countries at different levels of development. The analysis also revealed decreasing tr...
by Christoph Ernst | On 23 Mar 2016 The Global Energy Architecture Performance Index Report 2016 ranks 126 countries on their ability to deliver secure, affordable and sustainable energy. The results of the global Energy Architecture Pe...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 22 Mar 2016 The paper is based on a review of the available official data and the existing literature on the Missions. It is divided into three broad sections. The first analyzes data available from the official...
by Lalitha Kamath | On 21 Mar 2016 In some poor parts of the world, rural areas are known as pastoral folk; for their heavily dependence on agricultural activities; and for having poor infrastructure, limited employment opportunities a...
by Subrata Dutta | On 20 Mar 2016 This report identifies four critical constraints to inclusive growth in the Maldives: (1) inadequate and poor quality maritime infrastructure that constrains connectivity, limits provision of basic go...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 17 Mar 2016 Existence of Environmental Kuznet’s Curve (EKC) is an empirical issue to analyze as evidence from the literature has been mixed. This study focuses on indoor air pollution generated from the use of fu...
by K.S. Kavi Kumar | On 16 Mar 2016 This policy brief examines China’s inter-connected economic challenges of structural and fiscal reform, arguing that promotion of domestic consumption away from fixed-asset investment could further ex...
by | On 12 Mar 2016 In this paper we present a choice function of a rural household about her/his ward?s schooling. It makes an empirical evaluation on the basis of simple theoretical framework using primary data set, su...
by Debdulal Thakur | On 11 Mar 2016 The study examines households’ willingness to pay for the
conservation of Pallinkaranai marsh located in the south of
Chennai, Tamil Nadu. A stated preference method, namely,
Contingent Valuation m...
by Suganya Balakumar | On 10 Mar 2016 Economic aid has failed to induce North Korea to denuclearize. Instead, reducing tensions and addressing mutual security concerns is the only way to break the stalemate in denuclearization negotiation...
by | On 10 Mar 2016 The relationship between gender and poverty is a complex and debatable topic more than ever and thus a potential area for policy makers to focus. The aim of this paper is to review existing literature...
by Sukanya Das | On 10 Mar 2016 Nearly three months on from the launch of Operation Zarb e Azb by Pakistan’s armed forces, this policy brief explores the problem of militancy in North Waziristan in northwest Pakistan. The author arg...
by | On 10 Mar 2016 This paper applies a program evaluation technique to assess the causal effect of adoption of agricultural related technologies on consumption expenditure and poverty measured by different indices. The...
by Santosh K. Sahu | On 10 Mar 2016 This paper intends to explore functional and households personal income distribution across four different income groups in both the urban and rural areas. Using Social Accounting framework, Siddiqui...
by A. R. Kemal | On 10 Mar 2016 The present analysis is based on the Pakistan Socio-Economic Survey (PSES) data. The survey was conducted nationwide between April and July, 1999 and collected data on household information, incidence...
by Syed Mubashir Ali | On 10 Mar 2016 This brief paper is quite focused. It describes the methodology and scope of the household survey carried out by the PIDE between March and July 1999, with an aim to generate nationally representative...
by G. M. Arif | On 10 Mar 2016 This study intends to analyze the impact of fiscal policy relating to subsidies (production and consumption subsidies), government current expenditure and expenditure on health and education on income...
by Zafar Iqbal | On 10 Mar 2016 In the present SAM, the input-output industry classifications have been condensed into five main production accounts namely agriculture, industry, health, education and other sectors. The SAM 1989-90...
by Rizwana Siddiqui | On 10 Mar 2016 This study has three objectives: first, to construct a health poverty index (HPI) for Pakistan using household data from Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement (PSLM) survey 2012-13; second,...
by Nasir Iqbal | On 10 Mar 2016 The present study ascertains the prevalence and possible causes of overweight and obesity among adult population using Pakistan Panel Household Survey for 2010. The results of the present research sho...
by Maryam Naeem Satti | On 10 Mar 2016 The aim of this research is to assess the willingness to purchase health insurance in Pakistan and assist the policy makers in formulating a national health insurance programme that meets the needs of...
by Ajmal Jahangeer | On 10 Mar 2016 The present study ascertains the possible consequences of overweight and obesity among adult population using Pakistan Panel Household Survey for 2010.
by Maryam Naeem Satti | On 10 Mar 2016 Given the importance of health in overall living standard of people, the present study has attempted to probe into the role of migration in affecting health status and outcomes of population. The heal...
by Shujaat Farooq | On 10 Mar 2016 The paper tries to analyse the effect of religious composition on the provision of public services captured mainly by infrastructure index, of four types, (i) basic amenities such as water, housing an...
by Santanu Gupta | On 09 Mar 2016 The findings of this study show that urban local governments in India continue to remain plagued by numerous problems, which affect their performance in the efficient discharge of their duties. These...
by Rumi Aijaz | On 09 Mar 2016 A striking phenomenon of recent global economic change is the emergence of new development actors, with alternative development experiences and development financing capacity. These actors are now cre...
by Stephany Griffith-Jones | On 08 Mar 2016 The discourse on Cyber Security, a relatively new field in non-traditional security studies, has been dominated by the need to protect information infrastructure from both state and non-state actors....
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 05 Mar 2016 This paper calculates a Women’s
Disempowerment Index to examine women’s control over production, resources, income, household
decisions, and time burden. The index is based on a slightly modified me...
by Nuzhat Ahmad | On 04 Mar 2016 This NTS Alert is the second of two that seek to examine the relationship between development and health. In this issue, the links between international development – in particular, the provision of a...
by Bill Durodie | On 03 Mar 2016 Thailand’s worst floods in decades have caused over 350 deaths, and are inflicting extensive damage to much of the country’s land, crops, livestock, infrastructure, housing and industrial areas. An es...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 02 Mar 2016 Diversification of rural women from traditional crop based agriculture to high valued agricultural, allied and processing activities with emerging prospect merit considerable attention in context of w...
by Nilabja Ghosh | On 02 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 Using data from the National Family and Health Survey 3, India, this paper measures and validates the extent of multidimensional poverty and examines the linkages of poverty level with child health in...
by Sanjay K. Mohanty | On 01 Mar 2016 In the main, this study uses the large sample National Sample Surveys (NSS) for the years 1983, 1993/94, 1999/2000, and 2004/5. There are two surveys that the NSS conducts in each of the large sample...
by Surjit S. Bhalla | On 01 Mar 2016 We present a framework for the analysis of tax and benefit policy in countries with significant informality. Our framework allows us to jointly analyse the e!ects of various taxes and benefits on ince...
by Ehtisham Ahmad | On 01 Mar 2016 This paper examines developments in literacy and education in Palanpur. We consider schooling facilities and other related services available in this village and its neighbourhood. Schooling levels ar...
by Ruth Kattumuri | On 01 Mar 2016 This paper provides a comprehensive description of the financial environment for households and small businesses in a defined geographical region. It develops a new, functional approach to financial a...
by Greg Fischer | On 29 Feb 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 Government of India constituted the National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector (NCEUS) in September 2004 as an advisory body and a watchdog for the informal sector to bring about im...
by National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorgan NCEUS | On 29 Feb 2016 Highlights of the budget of Japan for the year 2016.
by Ministry of Finance, Japan MOF, Japan | On 29 Feb 2016 The rising level of urbanisation in India draws attention to inadequate infrastructure levels in urban areas. While many factors play a role in infrastructure development, this paper examines the fina...
by Charan Singh | 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 In the Union Budget 2015-16, there was a reduction in the allocation for school education on account of more untied funds being given to States following the 14th Finance Commission recommendation. Ho...
by Provita Kundu | On 26 Feb 2016 This year’s Economic Survey comes at a time of unusual volatility in the
international economic environment. Markets have begun to swing on fears
that the global recovery may be faltering, while ris...
by Arun Jaitley | On 26 Feb 2016 The paper conceptualizes chronic poverty by using the spaces of income and nutrition and estimates its incidence among states and social groups. It also aims to improve our understanding of the determ...
by C.H. Hanumantha Rao | On 25 Feb 2016 There is a growing emphasis on the role of trade in health services (telehealth, health tourism and retirement, investments and deployment of medical professionals) in easing fiscal constraints, gener...
by Maria Cherry Rodolfo | On 25 Feb 2016 This paper describes the methodology used for the electricity consumption section of the household module of the India Low Carbon Growth Study and presents preliminary results. The module is used to p...
by World Bank | On 24 Feb 2016 National Hazardous Waste management Strategy has now been formulated to complement and strengthen the regulatory regime. This is based on the understanding and experience of diverse issues connected w...
by Ministry of Environment and Forest | On 24 Feb 2016 A number of new initiatives announced by India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi now, with the phased goal of transforming the overall quality of life in the country’s urban centres, have been conceptual...
by S Narayan | On 24 Feb 2016 The Asian financial crisis of 1997 involved significant economic and social costs for the affected economies, but also highlighted fundamental weaknesses in the structure and operations of their finan...
by Kevin Davis | On 24 Feb 2016 The trend of rising food prices has made this basic human need inaccessible to an increasing number of people. The impact on vulnerable groups, especially the poor, is immense. Food price rise has imp...
by | On 23 Feb 2016 Southeast Asia is certainly no stranger to natural hazards, having experienced some of the world’s worst. This paper argues that the occurrence of a natural hazard does not inevitably lead to a natura...
by | On 22 Feb 2016 This paper presents a basic assessment of the financial performance of infrastructure service operators in developing countries. It relies on a new database of 120 companies put together to track the...
by Maria Pinglo | On 21 Feb 2016 The South Asia region is home to the largest pool of individuals living under the poverty line, coupled with a fast-growing population. The importance of access to basic infrastructure services on wel...
by Dan Biller | On 21 Feb 2016 There have been many initiatives to improve education outcomes in South Asia. Still, outcomes remain stubbornly resistant to improvements, at least when considered across the region. To collect and sy...
by Salman Asim | On 21 Feb 2016 The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is expected to benefit from the significant growth in the Asia-Pacific payments market. Growth in economic activity would increase the size, scale, a...
by Tanai Khiaonarong | On 21 Feb 2016 The devastating floods in Thailand add another dimension to the range of security threats to the country. What are the political and security implications of the floods on Thailand?
by | On 20 Feb 2016 We estimate intergenerational poverty persistence in Indonesia using a panel dataset. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first such study looking at the issue in the Indonesian context. Differe...
by Yus Pakpahan | On 19 Feb 2016 The literature has focused on motives to explain remittance behavior. But as non-anonymous transfers, remittances are apt to be influenced by giving norms as well. We formula...
by Michael Alba | On 19 Feb 2016 This lecture focuses on the role of citizens in developing cities, and shows that without the right behaviour and an engaged population even with the best infrastructure, cities will not be resilient....
by | On 19 Feb 2016 U.S. policy expressly welcomes Chinese investment, and since 2000 Chinese companies have invested nearly $50 billion in the United States. Notwithstanding those facts, the U.S. regulatory environment...
by Mark Feldman | On 19 Feb 2016 In the upland areas of Southeast Asia, most smallholder farmers keep animals. Buffalo provide a traditional source of draught power for land preparation or transport, and animal manure is often used t...
by Research Consultative Group on International Agricultural | On 18 Feb 2016 This paper describes the structure and construction of a social accounting matrix (SAM) for Pakistan for 001-02. A SAM is an internally consistent extended set of national accounts that disaggregates...
by Paul Dorosh | On 17 Feb 2016 Educational outcomes of children are highly dependent on household and school-level inputs. In poor countries remittances from migrants can provide additional funds for the education of the left behin...
by Lisa Höckel | On 17 Feb 2016 This report, which forms part of the PIRCCA project outputs, focuses on the results of the survey conducted in the first half of 2015 on climate change perception and adaptation strategies of male and...
by Michael Sheinkman | 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 The Southwest Area Integrated Water Resources Planning and Management Project in Bangladesh became the first initiative to successfully incorporate beneficiary participation into all aspects of managi...
by Asian Bank | On 15 Feb 2016 Using micro-level household data for rural and urban Pakistan, this study estimates Engel equations for 22 commodity groups with quadratic spline specification, in which the number and locations of kn...
by Eatzaz Ahmad | On 14 Feb 2016 This article examines three elements of the popular narrative of China’s involvement in the development of Afghanistan’s vast natural resource wealth. It argues that Chinese companies invested in Afgh...
by Erica Downs | On 14 Feb 2016 The theories of institutional evolution put forth by Douglas North, Darron Acemoglu and Dani Rodrik and the historical experiences of different countries in the context of development (or non-developm...
by M. Idrees Khawaja | On 14 Feb 2016 India has the second largest population of elderly people after China. The living arrangement of the elderly is seen as a parameter of great importance in understanding their plight in developing coun...
by Mitali Sen | On 14 Feb 2016 This paper examines the impact of husbands’ migration on the lives of women left behind. Using data from the India Human Development Survey 2005, we focus on two dimensions of women’s lives: women’s a...
by Sonalde Desai | On 14 Feb 2016 The findings of the study reveal that, across Nepal, there has been an increase in rural women’s workload rendering multiple effects on women’s health, income, safety, nutrition, violence against wome...
by Dibya Devi Gurung | On 13 Feb 2016 Using original data from a newly collected nationwide survey for 40,000 households in India, we examine variation in social capital in India across caste, tribe, and religion. Our primary measure uses...
by Reeve Vanneman | On 13 Feb 2016 The now-frequent use of decision-making questions in household surveys has greatly enhanced our understanding of intra-household power relations. While much of the research interest in these questions...
by Mitali Sen | On 13 Feb 2016 There is great regional variation on utilization of maternal health care services across India. While regional differences have long been established, why women in some states are more likely to utili...
by Sonalde Desai | On 12 Feb 2016 The Union Budget falls on February 29- this being a leap year. An online opinion poll on a leading media website reads: “Should Arun Jaitley prefer growth or fiscal deficit?” As India emerges as the...
by Tulsi Jayakumar | On 11 Feb 2016 The impending digital transformation of the Fourth Industrial Revolution holds the potential to redefine the very basis of our materials-reliant industrial economy. Enabled by the internet of things,...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 11 Feb 2016 Mapping Prevailing Ideas on Intellectual Property by Professor Jean-Frédéric Morin, Universitélibre de Bruxelles, examines an overlooked yet critical dimension of global IP governance: where do IP ide...
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 highlights the perception of each and everyone involved in the course of cross-border migration from Myanmar in each step they, internationally or unintentionally, maintain the status of il...
by | On 09 Feb 2016 Reducing risk and increasing resilience to natural disasters and climate change requires access to knowledge, information and the active participation of vulnerable population. Planning Communication...
by Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO] | On 08 Feb 2016 Empirically observed intertemporal choices about money have long been thought to exhibit present bias, i.e. higher short-term compared to long-term discount rates. Recently, this view has been called...
by Uttara Balakrishnan | 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 investigates how private transfers from internal migration in China affect the expenditure behaviour of families left behind in rural areas. Using data from the Rural-Urban Migration in Chi...
by Sylvie Démurger | On 07 Feb 2016 We use data from two rounds of the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) to study the determinants of subjective well-being in China over the period 2005-2010 during which self-reported happiness score...
by M. Niaz Asadullah | On 07 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 This study has used two rounds of the two panel data sets to examine the poverty dynamics in rural Pakistan (Sindh and Punjab). The Pakistan SocioEconomic Survey (PSES ) covers two periods, 1998 and 2...
by G. M. Arif | On 06 Feb 2016 This exercise is envisaged to provide a brief account of the research studies on inter-relationship between remittance inflows from abroad and the poverty levels obtained in the country. This is discu...
by Mohammad Irfan | On 06 Feb 2016 Statement of Municipal Commissioner.
by Ajoy Mehta | On 05 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 The present study empirically examines the short term under and overreaction effect in the Karachi Stock Exchange, Pakistan, in the context of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis considering the period f...
by Asiya Sohail | On 03 Feb 2016 This study evaluates infrastructure investment and finance in Asia from a global perspective. It provides an overview on infrastructure needs and the various sources of private finance, globally and w...
by Georg Inderst | On 02 Feb 2016 The reform program that Pakistan gradually implemented during the 1980s and the early 1990s dismantled many of the components of the ISI strategy.1 The extent of dependence on quantitative import cont...
by Zafar Mahmood | On 02 Feb 2016 The 2014 Arab Opinion Index is the third annual survey of Arab public opinion carried out by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies. In 2011, the survey was carried out in 12 Arab countries,...
by Arab Center for Policy Studies | On 02 Feb 2016 We investigate whether, why and when prosocial engagement has a causal effect on individual employment opportunities. To this end, a field experiment is conducted in which volunteering activities are...
by Suncica Vujic | On 02 Feb 2016 The compromise effect refers to individuals’ tendency to choose intermediate options. Its existence has been demonstrated in a large number of hypothetical choice experiments. This paper uses field da...
by | On 02 Feb 2016 This paper starts from the premise that economic inequality will be central to Arab policy makers concerns as they devise economic development strategies for the future. In this, the lessons from glob...
by | On 01 Feb 2016 Existing measures of urban poverty carried out for national level comparisons portray very low levels of poverty with an average urban household spending an equivalent to the top 20% of national expe...
by Neranjana Gunetilleke | On 01 Feb 2016 In Haiti, one of the poorest countries in the world, the earthquake of 7.0 on the Richter scale in early January 2010 had devastating effects. The Government estimates that more than 200,000 people (o...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 This paper looks into the key issues concerning trade facilitation and SMEs, particularly how information technology related measures have influenced SMEs. India undertook focused and dedicated trade...
by Sachin Chaturvedi | On 30 Jan 2016 This paper discusses the emerging scenario in regional infrastructure development in South Asia, identifies the infrastructure challenges for the future, and provides some policy options in order to b...
by Prabir De | On 30 Jan 2016 Credit ratings have become a widely accepted measure of firms’ creditworthiness in financial markets. The present study aims to examine the impact of external credit ratings on the financial structure...
by Shoaib Ali | On 30 Jan 2016 This report provides evidence from three quite different cities in ADB’s Central and West Asia region of the prevalence of women being harassed on public transport. It goes on to show the impacts of t...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 29 Jan 2016 The paper tries to analyse the effect of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), a wage-for-employment policy of the Indian Government, on infant malnutrition and delinea...
by | On 29 Jan 2016 Available literature on regional trade integration in South Asia points to a variety of economic and non-economic factors that have slowed the integration process. The major non-economic factors inclu...
by South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics & Environment SAWTEE | On 28 Jan 2016 This paper provides a comprehensive review of the working of various incentive schemes and assesses their utility coverage and quality of benefits received by the tribal children, besides an analysis...
by B.L. Kumar | On 28 Jan 2016 This note examines selected issues in urban health from social perspective. In particular, it brings out the key challenges in targeting and planning for the urban poor; their mobilisation and partici...
by Meera Chatterjee | On 28 Jan 2016 In order to provide adequate and quality primary health care, a multi-layered network of public health infrastructure has been created right from the district to the village level. But Health for All...
by B.L. Kumar | On 28 Jan 2016 In order to provide adequate and quality primary health care, a multi-layered network of public health infrastructure has been created right from the district to the village level. But Health for All...
by B.L. Kumar | On 28 Jan 2016 This paper is an attempt to study plausible causal relationship of women’s physiology and behaviour components with fertility in more or less non-industrial rural populations in Orissa, an Eastern Ind...
by Satyajeet Nanda | On 28 Jan 2016 The central focus of this paper is to underscore emerging patterns and issues in the availability of and access to physical infrastructure in major Indian states during the two decades since the 1980s...
by Keshab Das | On 28 Jan 2016 South Asia's girls and women do not have the same life advantage as their Western counterparts. A human rights based approach may help to overcome gender related barriers and improve the wellbeing of...
by Omrana Pasha | On 28 Jan 2016 This study finds that the inter-firm network in India on account of director interlocks is a small world and the network has become more integrated since the introduction of corporate governance regul...
by | On 27 Jan 2016 We live in a Digital Age that gives us instant access to information at greater and greater volumes. The rapid growth of digital content and tools is already changing how we create, consume and distri...
by John Brownlee | 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 Some innovations within the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) have demonstrated significant improvements in the nutritional status of children. This note discusses four such innovations, as...
by Ashi Kohli Kathuria | On 26 Jan 2016 Despite the high contribution of urban areas to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), urban poverty and nutrition security in India remains a challenge. Poor infrastructure, high unemployment, poor state...
by M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation | On 26 Jan 2016 This paper presents a brief account, based primarily on available secondary sources, of the current status of drinking water supply and sanitation in rural Madhya Pradesh. With a discussion on the lop...
by Keshab Das | On 26 Jan 2016 This paper examines the agroforestry initiative adopted by the Government of Gujarat with the aim to enhance the incomes of tribal households facing numerous production constraints. The specific objec...
by Jharna Pathak | On 26 Jan 2016 This report presents the key findings of the NFHS-3 survey in Arunachal Pradesh. The survey provides trend data on key indicators and includes information on several new topics, such as HIV/AIDS-relat...
by | On 25 Jan 2016 This report presents the key findings of the NFHS-3 survey in Andhra Pradesh. The survey provides trend data on key indicators and includes information on several new topics, such as HIV/AIDS-related...
by Arokiasamy Perianayagam | On 25 Jan 2016 A large number of rural households in the state of Odisha, India are dependent on agriculture for their basic livelihoods, which is affected by the frequent occurrence of climate externalities like cy...
by Chandra Sekhar Bahinipati | On 25 Jan 2016 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 The thin bond market in Bangladesh faces manifold challenges emanating from several sources including excessive reliance on bank credit, government debt instruments dominated by primary auction based...
by Md. Akhtaruzzaman | On 23 Jan 2016 The paper examines the output elasticity of infrastructure for four South Asian countries viz., India,Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka using Pedroni’s panel cointegration technique for the period 19...
by Ranjan Kumar Dash | On 23 Jan 2016 A recent project under the CMI-CPD institutional collaboration agreement has looked at the effect of corruption on investment in the energy sector. A distinction is made between the extraction of ener...
by Arne Wiig | On 23 Jan 2016 In the recent past, the focus of economic policy in India has shifted to issues of equitable growth. This implies that the economy should not only maintain the tempo of growth but also spread the bene...
by Sabyasachi Kar | On 23 Jan 2016 While Indonesia's rank in overall ease of doing business improved in 2015 according to World Bank's worldwide competitiveness ranking, overall ease of doing business still ranks unfavorably compared t...
by | On 22 Jan 2016 The setting up of the New Development Bank was first suggested by India in early 2012 in order to fund its domestic energy and infrastructure needs, namely power transmission, 11 roads and ports. Fina...
by Stephen Spratt | On 22 Jan 2016 The Global Agenda Council on Social Media white paper to be launched at the Forum's Annual Meeting 2016, The Impact of Digital Content: Opportunities and Risks of Creating and Sharing Information Onli...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 22 Jan 2016 Household surveys are an important source of information about education systems. International survey programs such as the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and the Multiple Indicator Clusters Sur...
by Education Policy and Data Center EPDC | 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 Migration has acquired increasing importance globally in recent years. However, there has remained a paucity of adequate data on the numbers and characteristics of migrants. Indeed, it has been widely...
by | On 20 Jan 2016 Malnutrition remains a major challenge for public health and for human and economic development in India. A lack of adequately trained public health professionals and nutritionists means that this cha...
by Shweta Khandelwal | On 20 Jan 2016 The objective of this study is to examine the factors that influence the occurrence of childhood anaemia in North-East India by exploring dataset of the Reproductive and Child Health-II Survey (RCH-II...
by S Dey | On 20 Jan 2016 The evidence on the link between agriculture and nutrition has so far been tenuous. On the one hand, undernutrition rates are severe and more widespread among those involved in agriculture. This evide...
by R V Bhavani | On 19 Jan 2016 E-government—digital interactions between governments and people—varies greatly among and within regions, but most countries are making progress on providing greater access, according to the 2014 UN E...
by United Nations (UN) | On 19 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 Increasing coverage and maintaining infrastructure are two of the biggest challenges confronting the water supply sector in both industrialized and developing countries. The last two decades have witn...
by | On 19 Jan 2016 This paper was prepared as part of the preparatory phase for the UNRISD research project on Political and Social Economy of Care. The overall aim of the project is to examine the way in which care is...
by | On 19 Jan 2016 This literature review identifies and summarises existing evidence on the determinants of undernutrition in children under the age of two years in Bangladesh. The review gathers evidence on the immedi...
by Stuart Gillespie | On 19 Jan 2016 In this paper, we analyze the sources of output growth in the past three decades
and discuss the outlook going forward. Projections are made for the growth of factors of
production and the growth of...
by Ila Patnaik | On 18 Jan 2016 The paper argues that access to public infrastructure plays a crucial role on the presence of private schools in a community, as it could not only minimise the cost of production, but also ensure a hi...
by Sarmistha Pal | On 15 Jan 2016 This paper focuses on the question whether public infrastructure capital matters for labor productivity in China, both over time and across regions. It finds that public infrastructure is a significan...
by | On 15 Jan 2016 This paper summarizes the micro-level survey evidence from Central Asia generated and analyzed between 1991 and 2012. We provide an exhaustive overview over all accessible individual and household-lev...
by Tilman Brück | On 15 Jan 2016 Individual level census and household survey data are used to present a rich profile of the young developing migrants around the world. Youth are found to comprise a large share of all migrants, parti...
by David McKenzie | On 14 Jan 2016 This study, relying primarily on qualitative data from Côte d’Ivoire, examines how income allocation and intra-household dynamics affect household resilience during the lean season. Its findings indic...
by Elizabeth Kiewisch | On 14 Jan 2016 Our goal is to develop, over a period of time, a collaborative, multi-level
and interdisciplinary project to generate and anchor a range of new research activities to help fill this gap. The idea is...
by | On 14 Jan 2016 This paper synthesizes the evidence of a negative correlation between income inequality and environmental quality. It shows that inequality exerts adverse impact on environmental outcomes through seve...
by | On 11 Jan 2016 The paper reports the advantages of data-based planning for solid waste management in a major Indian city, which have been demonstrated through three steps undertaken as part of a pilot project in a C...
by | On 09 Jan 2016 The paper emphasises the fact that the fastest growth in India’s urban population is occurring in its smaller cities and towns. They have glaringly inadequate sewerage and public sanitation infrastruc...
by Shubhagato Dasgupta | On 09 Jan 2016 In this paper, the aim is to survey the findings of village studies that have been accomplished over the last two decades the era of economic liberalisation in India together with those of larger-scal...
by J. Jeyaranjan | On 09 Jan 2016 Contrary to widespread belief, the collapse of ‘government’ does not automatically entail the collapse of ‘governance’. In a setting of ‘unstable’ livelihoods, households’ coping strategies, coupled w...
by | On 07 Jan 2016 The rural household livelihood and children’s educational investment decisions are analyzed in a post-conflict setting located in the Chittagong Hill Tracts region of Bangladesh. The study represents...
by | On 07 Jan 2016 This paper analyzes the impact of remittances on the labor supply of men and women in post-conflict Tajikistan. It is found that on average men and women from remittance-receiving households are less...
by Olga Shemyakina | On 07 Jan 2016 This report identifies the main constraints to Thailand’s transition to a more modern industrial and service economy. Further major transformation is in order: this includes accelerating market reform...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 07 Jan 2016 Infrastructure connectivity in Northeast Asia — comprising the northeastern People’s Republic of China, Japan, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the Republic of Korea, Mongolia, and the Russi...
by Masahiro Kawai | On 07 Jan 2016 This paper covers threes issues: first, defining and measuring inclusive growth; second, the relationship between international trade and inequality; and third, the links between infrastructure and in...
by Juzhong Zhuang | On 07 Jan 2016 Sri Lanka is a multi-¬ethnic, multi-¬religious society with four major religions: Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, and Roman Catholicism. As the country emerges from decades of war, new ethno-¬religious...
by The Asia Foundation | On 02 Jan 2016 The Survey on Good Local Governance is a 38-item survey that aims to obtain a broader data to help set the agenda for local government reforms in the Philippines. It covers the following: citizen perc...
by The Asia Foundation | On 02 Jan 2016 This paper surveys recent literature on the competitive saving motive and its broader economic implications. It introduces the concept of competitive saving, i.e., saving to improve one’s status relat...
by | On 01 Jan 2016 Myanmar is expected to grow at least 6.8% per year in the coming years. Accompanying this growth will be an increase in demand for infrastructure services, including ICT-related services, both for co...
by Kee-Yung Nam | On 01 Jan 2016 A study of how PPPs have been employed by ADB developing member countries in Asia and the Pacific identified seven initiatives that adopted the underlying principles of PPP in developing and deliverin...
by Jouko Sarvi | 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 This paper discusses how endogenous mechanisms linking processes of violent conflict and the economic well-being of individuals and households in combat areas provide valuable micro foundations to the...
by Patricia Justino | On 30 Dec 2015 This paper assesses the usefulness of a new emerging body of work on the micro-level analysis of conflict and violence in advancing our current understanding of the relationship between violent confli...
by Patricia Justino | On 30 Dec 2015 Infrastructure plays a key role in facilitating trade, especially since recent trade liberalization in Asia has resulted in significant tariff reductions. This study quantifies the impacts of both har...
by Jamilah Mahyideen | On 29 Dec 2015 In Bangladesh, pourashavas are an alternative destination to large cities. With the influx of urban residents within the next decades, governments and development partners must lead pourashavas toward...
by Norio Saito | On 29 Dec 2015 This paper reviews the development of the social security system and trends in the urban labor market in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Despite its remarkable economic achievement, the PRC face...
by Wang Dewen | On 29 Dec 2015 Most of the trade between South Asia and Southeast Asia is by sea. However, with improved infrastructure and easier border crossing procedures, land traffic could grow to boost trade in goods, service...
by Jean-Francois Gautrin Gautrin | On 29 Dec 2015 Improving physical connectivity between South and Southeast Asia has long been recognized as a key element in promoting greater trade and investment linkages within the region. As an island economy, S...
by Dushni Weerakoon | On 29 Dec 2015 This paper discusses trade facilitation in the context of enhancing trading links between South and Southeast Asia, in a manner understandable to the non-specialist. Presently, these two Asian regions...
by Anthony Bayley | On 29 Dec 2015 Nepal's lackluster economic performance during the post-conflict period (that is, after November 2006) has been driven by remittances from the export of labor services and the improved performance of...
by Pradumna Rana | On 29 Dec 2015 This paper examines the gains for South Asian economies from integratingwith East Asia and India’s role in this process. Evidence of increased pan-Asian integration exists but the process is uneven. B...
by Ganeshan Wignaraja | On 24 Dec 2015 Economic integration is being inhibited by the poor state of transport connectivity between Bangladesh, and South Asia and Southeast Asia. This study reviews connectivity initiatives of Bangladesh and...
by Mustafizur Rahman | On 23 Dec 2015 The objective of this paper is to examine the nature and magnitude of the effects of infrastructure provision on regional economic performance. The empirical evidence of our analysis is based on diffe...
by Umid Abidhadjaev | On 23 Dec 2015 This brief explores the potential future policy options for the Indian government and does not touch upon the initiatives already undertaken by New Delhi in Afghanistan. New Delhi must try to optimise...
by Rajeshwari Krishnamurthy | 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 This brief describes key findings from a rigorous seven-year evaluation of the first of these livelihood programmes, BRAC’s ‘Targeting the Ultra-Poor’ programme in rural Bangladesh. Targeted household...
by Clare Balboni | On 18 Dec 2015 This paper highlights the emerging significance of newer and non-major ports and the consequent changes in the port system, both hierarchical and regional. The relevance of port focused development co...
by Gloria Kuzur | On 18 Dec 2015 Pelvic organ prolapse (POP) is a global women’s health concern; uterine prolapse (UP), one of the five types of POP, has significant prevalence in Nepal. Studies indicate that over 600,000 women in Ne...
by Sherrie Palm | On 18 Dec 2015 What motivates rural households to switch from older cooking methods to newer, more improved, ones? Improved cooking stoves (ICS) technology has demonstrated capacity to reduce health hazards from smo...
by Dipika Gawande | On 18 Dec 2015 Although Nepal formulated an agricultural mechanization promotion policy in 2014, there is still much to learn about tailoring mechanization policies to different types of farm households. The Terai b...
by | On 18 Dec 2015 Savings provides the means for investments. Typically, investments are primarily funded through domestic savings and the rest through foreign capital inflows. Domestic savings are from three sources -...
by Vardhana Pawaskar | On 17 Dec 2015 This research paper is divided into two parts to provide a more complete view of how both countries think in term of their ambitions and the methods they deem important to achieve them. This paper arg...
by | On 17 Dec 2015 Although there is increased awareness of the need for effective migration governance in order to safeguard the basic rights and safety of migrant workers in destination countries, little research has...
by | On 16 Dec 2015 This paper attempts to identify the factors that determine access to credit for financing capital expenditures across selected developed, less developed and middle performing states in India. Using a...
by Meenakshi Rajeev | 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 Worldwide, food safety incidents can have a significant impact on public health, economies, agrifood trade, food security, and public confidence in the food supply. The prevention, mitigation, and man...
by | On 15 Dec 2015 This paper examines poor households in the city of Mumbai and their exposure, vulnerability, and ability to respond to recurrent floods. The paper discusses policy implications for future adaptive cap...
by | On 14 Dec 2015 The current size of the income-secure middle class and its likely future growth, suggest that optimism is indeed warranted for many of today’s middle-income countries. But it is not warranted for all...
by Nancy Birdsall | On 14 Dec 2015 There are a wide range of agriculture-based practices and technologies that have the potential to increase food production and the adaptive capacity of the food production system, as well as reduce em...
by | On 09 Dec 2015 This paper analyses the trends and patterns of economic inequality across Indian states since the early 1990s. The inter-state inequality in per capita income and consumption expenditure show a clear...
by | On 04 Dec 2015 To inform the formulation of policies and interventions to strengthen women’s land rights, this paper analyzes nationally representative data from Bangladesh,
Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, and Vietnam to...
by Kathryn Sproule | On 02 Dec 2015 In thinking about the implications of HIV/AIDS, considerable attention was initially drawn to its clinical aspects. More recently, other dimensions of HIV, including economic, have been explored. The...
by | On 01 Dec 2015 This report highlights the HIV crisis for vulnerable adolescents in Asia and the Pacific and what we can do to give them the support
they desperately need. If we fail to do this, the world will not g...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 01 Dec 2015 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 reports and models the discrepancy between the full bidding and endow and upgrade findings from a willingness-to-pay (WTP) elicitation Becker-Degroot-Marschak (BDM) experiment for an improv...
by Banerji A | On 30 Nov 2015 Tracking the the Indian Railways is as much an exercise in history as it is an excursion into the political and social debates of the period that determined the fate of a nation.
This is the first i...
by Anuradha Kumar | On 21 Nov 2015 The paper argues for a regular public reporting of key performance indicators by the WatSan utilities in India. It elaborates on how the policy behind these reforms could be operationalized.
by Premila Nazareth Satyanand | On 18 Nov 2015 Communicable diseases constitute a significant portion of the overall disease
burden in India. Improving access to sanitation in India will, similarly, reduce the communicable disease burden and chil...
by Sekhar Bonu | On 18 Nov 2015 This paper reviews the migration and development debate and the current state of knowledge about flows of migrant resources to India, pointing to gaps and shortcomings in the literature. It argues tha...
by | On 13 Nov 2015 The objective of this paper is to examine the nature and magnitude of the effects of infrastructure provision on regional economic performance. The empirical evidence of the analysis is based on diffe...
by Naoyuki Yoshino | On 13 Nov 2015 Angus Deaton’s contributions to economics have been seminal providing development economists with new tools of analysis that have yielded policy-altering insights.
by Suryanarayana M H | On 07 Nov 2015 Intermittent delivery of piped water can lead to waterborne illness through contamination in
the pipelines or during household storage, use of unsafe water sources during intermittencies,
and limite...
by Ayse Ercumen | On 05 Nov 2015 Targeted Public Distribution System was introduced in the country following the failure of the
Universal PDS to serve below the poverty line and poorest of the poor households.It is being
implemente...
by T Jayan | On 04 Nov 2015 Drawing on data from population censuses and recent household surveys for India and Ghana, this paper demonstrates the importance of internal migration in comparison to international migration, showin...
by | On 02 Nov 2015 Despite lack of infrastructure and facilities, studies over the past decade
has shown that learning outcomes in these schools are equal to or better than those of far more resourcefu...
by Centre for Civil Society CCS | On 29 Oct 2015 This study compares the levels of development of the social and physical infrastructure in India with those in other major emerging countries as well as developed countries. The study finds that India...
by Pradeep Agrawal | On 26 Oct 2015 This report provides an overview on the main issues debated during the development and passage of the India’s National Food Security Act (2013), which legally binds national and state governments to e...
by Harsh Mander | On 20 Oct 2015 This paper reviews the literature on migration in South Asia, Southeast Asia, Southern Africa, East Africa and West Africa in order to highlight the complexity of migration patterns and impacts. It is...
by Tasneem Siddiqui | On 19 Oct 2015 This article uses Pakistan’s 2010 floods to identify the
effects of a natural disaster on citizens’ aspirations. Aspirations were significantly reduced—especially
among the poorest and most vulnerab...
by Katrina Kosec | On 19 Oct 2015 This paper attempts to discuss India’s options to collaborate with
China at the event of the formation of new financial institutions and how should India engage with
China’s new Silk Road strategy.
by Ajay Chhibber | On 16 Oct 2015 This case study documents key gender equality issues as well as key achievements and lessons from a project carried out in post conflict Sri Lanka as part of urgently needed reconstruction. The Improv...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 16 Oct 2015 This paper critically examines the ‘Varieties of Capitalism’ (VoC) School’s approach to constructing typologies of capitalisms with reference to the specific case of Indian capitalism. It emphasizes t...
by Surajit Mazumdar | On 14 Oct 2015 Bihar has lowest per capita income amongst the major states of India and high rate of persistent poverty with social structure fragmented based on caste lines. Therefore present study has been underta...
by | 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 Bihar clocked an economic growth rate of 9.92 per cent during financial year 2013-14, while its per capita Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) shot up to Rs 17,294 during this period from Rs 15,931 in...
by Government of Bihar | 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 This document presents a summary of the initial findings from a research
programme on inclusive growth in Bihar, carried out by the Institute
for Human Development, New Delhi. The study aims to unde...
by | On 12 Oct 2015 The present study aims to assess determinants of adaptation diversity (i.e., a number of
adaptation mechanisms undertaken by the farm households). For empirical
assessment, a farm household-level s...
by Chandra Sekhar Bahinipati | On 09 Oct 2015 This paper explores the role of social networks in the migration process in Bangladesh. Migration can be costly and can also involve considerable risks around finding adequate housing and employment....
by | On 08 Oct 2015 This study explores the interaction between formal social protection and agriculture by proposing a theory of change and conducting an empirical review that identifies how social protection impacts ag...
by Nyasha Tirivayi | On 07 Oct 2015 While most states in India are grappling with the problem of high MMR, states such as Tamil Nadu have managed to reduce MMR levels to 79 deaths per 100,000 live births (SRS 2011–13). This review also...
by William Joe | On 06 Oct 2015 The practice of sharing sanitation facilities does not meet the current World Health Organization/UNICEF definition for what is considered improved sanitation. Recommendations have been made to catego...
by | On 30 Sep 2015 The Global Competitiveness Report 2015-2016 presents the rankings of the Global Competitiveness Index (GCI). The GCI is based on 12 pillars that provide a comprehensive picture of the competitiveness...
by | On 30 Sep 2015 Women in the communities make efforts to seek allocation under appropriate budget heads to identify streams of revenue, available revenue and the required expenditure. Town planners, policy makers and...
by Vibhuti Patel | 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 This paper discusses the findings from one of the first rigorous quasi-experimental studies using a ‘before-after-control intervention’ design that encompass all major aspects of REDD+: forest carbon...
by Bishnu Prasad Sharma | On 25 Sep 2015 Urbanization provides South Asian countries with the potential to transform their economies to join the ranks of richer nations in both prosperity and livability, but a new World Bank report finds the...
by World Bank | On 25 Sep 2015 This report is an effort to understand
the health status of Muslims in Maharashtra. The report is based on analysis of National Family Health Surveys (NFHS), District Level
Household Surveys (DLHS)...
by Sana Contractor | On 25 Sep 2015 In this study, it is estimate the demand for sewage connections and piped drinking water in Bhutan. To estimate household willingness to pay for these services, the data is used from a sample of 18,76...
by | On 24 Sep 2015 Household risk factors affecting child health, particularly malnutrition, are mainly basic amenities like drinking water, toilet facility, housing and fuel used for cooking. This paper considered the...
by Laishram Ladusingh | On 24 Sep 2015 Using the 2004-05 India Human Development Survey data, The paper aims to estimate and decompose the earnings of household businesses owned by historically marginalized social groups known as Scheduled...
by Ashwini Deshpande | On 24 Sep 2015 The sheer magnitude of the social, political and technological challenges in implementing India’s new national priority of waste management, set by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has attracted global a...
by | On 23 Sep 2015 This paper seeks to provide an overview of the complex and dynamic relationship between nutrition and growth, examine how different growth patterns lead to different nutritional outcomes, and identif...
by | On 22 Sep 2015 Given the ubiquity of mobile phones, their use to support healthcare in the Indian context is inevitable. It is however necessary to assess end-user perceptions regarding mobile health interventions e...
by | On 22 Sep 2015 Rural Health is one of vital elements of rural life. India being a nation of villages requires an intensive approach towards rural health. Nearly 75 per cent of health infrastructure and other health...
by | On 22 Sep 2015 The Global Innovation Index (GII) aims to capture the multi-dimensional facets of innovation and provide the tools that can assist in tailoring policies to promote long-term output growth, improved pr...
by | On 18 Sep 2015 This paper analyses the legal framework and policy innovations undertaken towards achieving the stated objectives of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act. This paper seeks to cri...
by | On 15 Sep 2015 This report – “Assessment of State Implementation of Business Reforms” is a scorecard to take stock of what reforms have happened, and to identify the way forward for States. The report highlights the...
by World Bank | On 15 Sep 2015 Increasing literacy in the Indian states is possible by increasing enrolments in elementary education. This study explores the later by primary and upper primary enrollments for nineteen major Indian...
by Brijesh C. Purohit | On 14 Sep 2015 Steel is a basic input for the entire engineering industry (cars, household goods, machinery of all kinds), and for the infrastructure sector (roads, railways, power, real estate, etc). Raise the cost...
by T.N. Ninan | On 12 Sep 2015 This paper aims to uncover the features that make India’s youth politics so distinct from other forms of politics within the country, the kinds of politics young people participate in, and the kinds o...
by Rahul Advani | On 10 Sep 2015 There have been numerous investigations in recent years to determine the incidence and prevalence of modern slavery worldwide, and debt bondage in India has been found to be the most extensive form of...
by Sarah Knight | On 10 Sep 2015 Domestic violence is identified as a public health problem. It is associated with adverse maternal health. This study examined the prevalence and determinants of domestic violence among women in urban...
by C.P. Prakasam | On 09 Sep 2015 This paper studies the mutual effects of globalization, liberalization and income inequality using a case study of China. Comparing the trends of economic growth and income distribution, it found that...
by Jinjun Xue | On 03 Sep 2015 The present study attempts to examine the role of specialist services in rural public health system of India in the areas of maternal and child healthcare. The study uses primary data collected throug...
by Shreekant Iyengar | On 31 Aug 2015 A broad assessment of the evolution of financial markets and the issues we are grappling with are given here. We can learn right lessons from other countries. There could be different view points and...
by Harun R Khan | On 31 Aug 2015 The Global Wage Report 2014/15 presents both the latest trends in average wages and an analysis of the role of wages in income inequality. The first part of the report shows that global wage growth in...
by International Labour Organisation ILO | On 26 Aug 2015 Aquaculture has grown in leaps and bounds in the last couple of decades in Bangladesh. This is welcomed by most as increasing fish production is expected to contribute to enhancing food security in a...
by Kazi Ali Toufique | On 21 Aug 2015 One of the well-known barriers to development is persistence of disadvantage among communities. The lack of occupational and therefore upward social mobility continues to restrain households from achi...
by | On 20 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 Notwithstanding its impressive economic growth, food insecurity in South Asia continues to be a stark reality for a large number of households. Despite several successful policy interventions by Gover...
by K. S. Kavi Kumar | On 19 Aug 2015 This paper advocates for the use of one such alternative: the measurement of ‘subjective’ resilience at the household level. The concept of subjective resilience stems from the premise that people hav...
by Thomas Tanner | On 12 Aug 2015 This paper reflects upon a simple micro-economic model of a small peasant household economy has been formulated to derive the conditions for optimum labour time allocation among different gainful acti...
by Arup Maharatna | On 10 Aug 2015 Banking in India and globally is undergoing and there are many challenges that are lying ahead. The basic underlying theme that runs through this changing landscape is the ever increasing reliance on...
by Harun R Khan | On 04 Aug 2015 This report is by the National Sample Survey Office, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India is part of the series on household consumer expenditure on utilisation of...
by National Sample Survey Office NSSO | On 31 Jul 2015 This paper examines, in particular, the effects on educational mobility of a well-known maternal and child health and family planning program in Matlab Bangladesh. Results suggest that the program res...
by Andrew Foster | On 29 Jul 2015 The article tells us about what are the positive aspects of Juvenile Justice bill what it is lacking.
by Bharti Ali | On 23 Jul 2015 Analysis of the long term effects of social and public health programs using household survey data requires an understanding of patterns of household recombination–that is the processes by which house...
by Andrew Foster | On 16 Jul 2015 This paper attempts a welfare comparison of population where only ordinal information is available at the micro level in terms of multi-dimensional discrete well-being indicators. This does not involv...
by Udaya S. Mishra | On 08 Jul 2015 Over 168 million children across the world are trapped in the vicious cycle of child labour. Deprived of their basic right to survival, protection, development and participation, these children, betwe...
by Save the Children | On 07 Jul 2015 This working paper examines the migration drivers into the two low-paid and insecure occupations of domestic work and construction work from rural areas in Indonesia. While the ideas of migration exis...
by Khoo Choon Yen | On 06 Jul 2015 There are an estimated 750 million internal migrants in the world, yet the effects of access to internal migration for rural households are not well understood. Internal migrants may provide wealth tr...
by Cynthia Kinnan | On 25 Jun 2015 This review of the published academic literature on internal and regional migration for domestic work shows a dearth of studies on internal migration for domestic work in South Asia. The existing lite...
by Priya Deshingkar | On 23 Jun 2015 The paper explores the trends, composition, and incidence of out-of-pocket health expenditure (OOPHE) in India, which has been the predominant means of financing its health care needs. Unit-level data...
by Indrani Gupta | On 19 Jun 2015 This paper analyzes two social milieus in southern Germany and argues that variations in their fertility rates can only be understood through their cultural differences. Family extension patterns as w...
by | On 17 Jun 2015 Compulsory education has a vital role to play in eradicating child labour. Getting children out of work and into school could provide an impetus for poverty reduction and the development of skills nee...
by Gordon Brown | On 12 Jun 2015 The Department of Housing and Urban Development works with dedication to implement the schemes prescribed in "Vision 2023", provide
developed infrastructure, create self-sufficient urban life, encour...
by Tamil Nadu Government | On 10 Jun 2015 This Policy note gives an account of organization structure, functions, functionaries financial and physical performance of the department. The document aims to provide safe, reliable, affordable and...
by V. Senthilbalaji | On 10 Jun 2015 By investigating the educational expenditure of children over the ten years (2000 to 2010), it evaluates whether there exists any gender specific discrepancy at the household level and the trend of su...
by Abu S. Shonchoy | On 10 Jun 2015 The study attempts to analyse congestion problem with emphasis on having a policy incorporating
realistic solution for having affordable, accessible, reliable and acceptable mobility. It has been fou...
by Tarun Mittal | On 09 Jun 2015 This report peels through to many of the underlying drivers of Himachal Pradesh’s social inclusion. The paper tells us that commitment of the state and progressive policies are important, and that the...
by | On 08 Jun 2015 Understanding the importance of peace has been accorded high priority in many religions, such as Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism and Sikhism. In recent years, many economists have realized the monetary va...
by Hari Bansh Jha | On 05 Jun 2015 This paper focuses on the considerable hurdles and limitations encountered in carrying forward India's 'Look East' through Northeast—problems caused by the nature of physical terrain, the history of v...
by Subir Bhaumik | On 04 Jun 2015 India’s urbanisation is a paradox of sorts. The country’s urban population is undoubtedly vast at 377 million (2011 Census). In international terms, however, India’s urban growth can hardly be describ...
by | On 03 Jun 2015 This report of comptroller and auditor general of India containing the results of performance audit of the implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGA) hig...
by Ministry of Rural Development GOI | On 02 Jun 2015 Urban population growth and economic growth require cities to expand into the agricultural land on their periphery. How much land is required for this extension? How much planning and direct intervent...
by Alain Bertaud | On 01 Jun 2015 Objectives of the Working Group is to empower the farmers to get a higher realization for their produce and a better share of the consumers’ price; recommendations have been made to improve efficiency...
by Planning Commission | On 27 May 2015 India has developed and tested various mechanisms and processes for more effective public-private partnerships in the roads sector, with the goal of achieving an optimal balance of value-for-money and...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 22 May 2015 The Household Consumer Expenditure Surveys of the National Sample Survey (NSS) are the primary source of data on various indicators of level of living of different segments of the population at nation...
by Ministry of Statistics and Prog Implementation (MOSPI) | On 20 May 2015 This document brings out the key results of Situation Assessment Survey of Agricultural Households of NSS 70th round within a year of completion of the field work for the use in decision support, poli...
by Ministry of Statistics and Prog Implementation (MOSPI) | On 18 May 2015 This Report examines: human development index and profile for India and its states; economic attainment of the population, especially in terms of the two major sources of income-employment and assets;...
by | On 27 Apr 2015 If the South Asia region hopes to meet its development goals and not risk slowing down or even halting growth, poverty alleviation, and shared prosperity, it is essential to make closing its huge infr...
by World Bank | On 27 Apr 2015 This paper examines the effects of urbanization on development and growth. It begins with a labor market perspective and emphasizes the importance of agglomeration economies, both static and dynamic....
by | On 24 Apr 2015 An Act to provide for allocation of coal mines and vesting of the right, title and interest in and over the land and mine infrastructure together with mining leases to successful bidders and allottees...
by Ministry of Law and Justice GOI | On 20 Apr 2015 The next generation broadband infrastructure will provide access to two categories of content, applications and services – those delivered over the Internet and those provided on the managed networks...
by | On 14 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 AIIB is expected to accelerate economic development and integration of Asia through the promotion of investment in the infrastructure sector. AIIB have several priority areas include transport, energy...
by Makmun Syadullah | On 03 Apr 2015 According to the Asian Development Outlook 2015, India is forecast to overtake China in terms of economic growth as the initial phase of government efforts to remove structural bottlenecks is lifting...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 01 Apr 2015 The January 2015 issue of IMI Konnect (Volume 4, Issue 1) contains the following articles - Does Monetary Policy Limit Lending Behaviour of Banks? by Samaresh Bardhan; Entrepreneurship Education in In...
by IMI Konnect | On 24 Mar 2015 his country brief highlights how ADB operations have helped support Bhutan’s efforts in advancing socioeconomic development.
Since Bhutan became a member in 1982, ADB has provided $486.29 million i...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 17 Mar 2015 Budget speech of Kerala Finance Minister K M Mani.
by K.M. Mani | On 13 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 Speech of Shri Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu introducing the
Railway Budget for 2015-16
by Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu | On 26 Feb 2015 Ahead of the Union Budget, Civil Society Organizations ask for policy strategies to support drinking water and sanitation for vulnerable sections. Civil society budget groups, collectively as a networ...
by Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability | On 26 Feb 2015 Gujarat Budget 2015-16.
by Saurabh Patel | On 26 Feb 2015 It is a well-known fact that children are not getting much attention in the Union Budgets. There are some schemes by the government for children. Many of them are not properly implemented or lack fund...
by Bharti Ali | On 25 Feb 2015 Equity and efficiency are two issues that arise again and again the area of infrastructure finance. If the financing of infrastructure projects is to be sustainable the private sector must be entruste...
by Sudakshina Gupta | On 25 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 An outcome report of IMF-World Bank meetings held in October 2014, this report highlights the stark inequalities in human development in South Asia. Based on parameters such as monetary indicators, he...
by Martin Rama | On 17 Feb 2015 Development economists have considered physical infrastructure to be a precondition for industrialization and economic development. Yet, two issues remain to be addressed in the literature. First, whi...
by Yasuyuki Sawada | On 16 Feb 2015 This paper focuses on the trends in health seeking behaviour of people and the cost of treatment by examining the National Sample Survey data pertaining to three rounds -1986-87, 1995-96 and 2004. Wit...
by Anil Gumber | On 13 Feb 2015 This study looks into various sources of financing infrastructure and the demands for infrastructure investments and highlights the mismatch between demand and supply of funds for infrastructure finan...
by Ramprasad Sengupta | On 11 Feb 2015 The report reviews existing agricultural marketing system. It deals with improving efficiency and reducing transaction cost in Agricultural Marketing by strengthening the physical markets, encouraging...
by Planning Commission | On 11 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 A key measure of the social and economic development of a country is the health of its population. This year, in the India Infrastructure Report (IIR) series, it discusses some of the issues and chall...
by | On 05 Feb 2015 The paper presents some of the ideas underlying the current research program of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG). It begins with a discussion of how the institute’s pro- gra...
by Jens Beckert | On 18 Jan 2015 ASAR report has made a great contribution to the discussions on our primary education policy. On a few parameters, these surveys show that the overall learning levels have deteriorated over the years....
by PRATHAM | On 15 Jan 2015 Household air pollution remains a dominant health risk, particularly in South Asia. Increasing international attention has focused on improved cookstoves (ICS) as a vehicle for reducing household air...
by Somnath Hazra | On 16 Dec 2014 The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) is approaching eight years of
implementation. Since 2006, it has offered up to 100 days per year of guaranteed public works
employm...
by Anil K. Bhargava | On 28 Nov 2014 When households increase their deposits in formal bank savings accounts, what is the source of the
money? High-frequency surveys are combined with an experiment in which a Sri Lankan bank used
mobil...
by Michael Callen | On 13 Nov 2014 Inadequate infrastructure was recognized in the Eleventh Plan as a major constraint for rapid growth. The Plan had, therefore, emphasized on the need for massive expansion on investment in infrastruct...
by Geethanjali Nataraj | On 16 Oct 2014 Despite economic growth, government latrine construction, and increasing recognition among policymakers that open defecation constitutes a health and human capital crisis, it remains stubbornly widesp...
by Diane Coffey | On 07 Oct 2014 “Reducing Poverty by Closing South Asia’s Infrastructure Gap” reveals that the region’s growing demands for infrastructure has enlarged an existing infrastructure gap. According to the report, address...
by Luis Andrés | On 22 Sep 2014 The objective of the study is to analyse the impact of provision of health care facilities on the child health status taking into account the utilization of these available facilities. The study offer...
by Runu Bhatka | On 19 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 The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), which guarantees employment of every rural household for 100 days, has different progressive provisions which incentivise higher p...
by Sudha Narayanan | On 25 Aug 2014 BRICS leaders have approved creating a new development bank which would fund long-term investment in infrastructure and more sustainable development. This paper documents the scale of unmet needs in t...
by Stephany Jones | On 21 Aug 2014 The new government wants to increase investment in various sectors. The government has funds but the Finance Minister has said about lack of funds in the Budget. Public private partnerships (PPPs) can...
by T.N. Ninan | On 17 Jul 2014 Despite widespread and substantial private expenditure on private tutoring outside the
formal school system in many developing countries, not much is known about their effects
on learning outcomes....
by Ambrish Dongre | On 05 Jul 2014 The Brazilian Dream Project is a non-profit social responsibility endeavour with no consumption bias, that arose from the ever more clearly awareness that Brazil has reached an unprecedented moment in...
by Box 1824 | On 18 Jun 2014 The PRS Annual Policy Review aims to capture the key legislative and policy developments in
India during the fiscal year 2013-14. The objective of this document is to summarise all the
major devel...
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 05 Jun 2014 Most of the trade between South Asia and Southeast Asia is by sea. However, with improved infrastructure and easier border crossing procedures, land traffic could grow to boost trade in goods, service...
by Jean-Francois Gautrin Gautrin | On 02 Jun 2014 The rapid emergence of the information and communication technology (ICT) sector has placed India on the global stage during the last one and a half decades. e sector has acted as a catalyst for growt...
by Organization of and Development | On 23 May 2014 Tthe first objective of this study is to construct a cost disability index in provision of developmental infrastructure. The second objective is rooted in the poor state of developmental infrastructur...
by Ritu Pandey | On 20 May 2014 This paper uses long panel survey data spanning over
20 years to examine the dynamics of microcredit
programs in Bangladesh. With the phenomenal growth
of microfinance institutions representing...
by Shahidur R. Khandker | On 26 Apr 2014 This study uses micro data and an OLG model to show that general equi-
librium forces are critical for understanding the relationship between aggregate
fertility and household savings. [BREAD WP No....
by Abhijit Banerjee | On 03 Apr 2014 Using the recent rounds of NSS data, this paper evaluates the performance and outreach of India's
public distribution system (PDS) in the rural areas. The results suggest a significant improvement in...
by Andaleeb Rahman | On 02 Apr 2014 The concern about the stagnant and low share of the manufacturing sector in India‘s GDP necessitated a dedicated policy for the sector with a view to accelerated development, inclusive growth and prov...
by Ministry of Commerce and Industry GOI | On 01 Apr 2014 In 2007-08, short-term migrants constituted 4.35 per cent of the rural workforce. A total of 9.25 million
households in rural India had short-term migrants.Using a nationally representative data for...
by S. Chandrasekhar | On 27 Mar 2014 Using the India Human Development Survey data for 2004-05,
two methodologies are used to estimate the earnings structure
of household nonfarm businesses owned by Scheduled Castes and Tribes (SCSTs)...
by Ashwini Deshpande | On 20 Mar 2014 This paper makes an attempt to incorporate bene ts from unpaid public services into
consumption decisions to arrive at more accurate measures of poverty and inequality. The
analysis is based on prim...
by Anders Kjelsrud | On 14 Mar 2014 This study assessed the sources and levels of infrastructure financing in the Philippines for the
last five years (2008-2012). [PIDS Discussion Paper No. 2014-01].
by Adoracion M. Navarro | On 12 Mar 2014 This paper discusses the importance of the informal sector in supporting livelihoods and contributing to production and consumption activities of developing countries is widely evident. However, lack...
by Niru Yadav | On 10 Mar 2014 MGNREGA, which is the largest work guarantee programme in the world, was enacted in 2005 with the primary objective of guaranteeing 100 days of wage employment per year to rural households. It aims at...
by Ministry of Rural Development GOI | On 05 Mar 2014 Why does poverty persist? A critical, but so far ignored, part of the answer lies in the fact that poverty is regularly created. Large numbers of people are escaping poverty, but large numbers are con...
by Anirudh Krishna | On 04 Mar 2014 What children need are effective institutions, equitable services and adequate resources,
combined with political will and accountable leadership. This is what political leaders can
promise them. [H...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 20 Feb 2014 Using the India Human Development Survey data for 2004-05, two methodologies are employed to estimate the earnings structure
of household nonfarm businesses owned by Scheduled Castes and
Tribes (SCS...
by Ashwini Deshpande | On 17 Feb 2014 Secure land rights are a critical, but often overlooked, factor in achieving household food security and improved nutritional status in rural areas of developing countries. This study evaluates the im...
by Florence Santos | On 17 Feb 2014 BRAC’s Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction—Targeting the Ultra Poor (CFPR-TUP) program in Bangladesh are studied, which targets asset transfer (primarily livestock) and training to rural wo...
by Narayan Das | On 05 Feb 2014 This paper investigates the determinants of spatial concentration and entry within manufacturing
across states in India. Using an unbalanced panel of 180 industries spread across 16 major Indian
sta...
by Ana M. Fernandes | On 30 Jan 2014 This study identifies three priority areas for India's policymakers as they try to harness economic efficiency and manage spatial equity associated with urbanization. First, to enhance productivity, i...
by World Bank | On 28 Jan 2014 This paper seeks to explain the idea of linking Northeast India to Southeast Asia, which gained popular imagination following the release of the North Eastern Region Vision 2020 document in 2008. Howe...
by Laldinkima Sailo | On 22 Jan 2014 This paper seeks to outline the infrastructure needs of Bangladesh with respect to domestic
sources of finance. While infrastructure encompasses energy, transportation, telecommunications, water and...
by Ishraq Ahmed | On 22 Jan 2014 In many ways, India is kindred with its two neighbors, Bangladesh and Nepal. Whether it is in geography I or demographics, infrastructure or economic issues, or poverty and human development, these th...
by Jayshree Sengupta | On 21 Jan 2014 The relationship between governance and economic development is one of the most important areas of research in international development. Much of the
previous literature has focused on whether better...
by Kunal Sen | On 20 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 The effects of the Indonesian decentralization and democratization process on
budget allocation at the sub-national level is analyzed. Based on panel data for 271 Indonesian districts
for the years...
by Krisztina Kis Katos | On 17 Jan 2014 In many of Southeast Asia’s cities, critical infrastructure development is concentrated in affluent areas; and poor communities, lacking access to basic services, often resort to alternatives that may...
by Sofiah Jamil | On 15 Jan 2014 The effects of rainfall forecasts and realized rainfall on equilibrium agricultural wages are analysed over the course of the agricultural production cycle. It is shown theoretically that a forecast o...
by Mark Rosenzweig | On 13 Jan 2014 The Planning Commission constituted, in September 1989, an 'Expert Group' to consider
methodological and computational aspects of estimation of proportion and number of poor in
India. [Planning Comm...
by Planning Commission | On 07 Jan 2014 The existing literature on Indian growth finds no evidence of convergence across
states. This represents a puzzle given the relatively free flows of capital, labor and
commodities across state borde...
by Samarjit Das | On 27 Nov 2013 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 India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) is one of the largest public works programs globally. Understanding the impacts of NREGS and the pathway through which its impacts are realiz...
by Songqing Jin | On 14 Oct 2013 The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is responsible for providing infrastructure and
services in the metropolitan area. From January 18 to 21, 2013, it bulldozed 1,512 homes (42
blocks) and...
by PUCL Karnataka | On 30 Sep 2013 This paper estimates the short-and-medium-run effects of participating in a sub-
sidized vocational training program aimed at improving labor market outcomes of
women residing in low-income househol...
by Pushkar Maitra | On 30 Sep 2013 The present study attempts to build a SAM for India for 2007–08. This SAM consists of 78
sectors and nine categories of households which are based on occupation and location (i.e.
rural and urban)....
by Basanta K. Pradhan | On 26 Sep 2013 Migration data is matched from the Indian census with climate data to
test the hypothesis of climate variability as a push factor for internal
migration. The main contribution of the analysis is to...
by Ingrid Dallmann | On 06 Sep 2013 Migration can serve as an outlet for employment, higher earnings, and reduced income risk for households in developing countries. The 2004–2005 Human Development Profile of India survey is used to exa...
by Valerie Mueller | On 06 Sep 2013 The paper reviews the existing evidence on migration-poverty interface in the light of the macro and micro level studies in India. It also discusses the extent, patterns, and correlates of short term...
by Amita Shah | On 03 Sep 2013 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 The paper examines how the state and other agencies in the host state (Kerala) responded to reduce the vulnerability of inter-state
migrant workers. The paper also makes an assessment of a pioneering...
by N. Ajith Kumar | On 26 Aug 2013 This report is based on the eighth quinquennial survey on employment and unemployment
conducted in the 66th round of NSS during July 2009 to June 2010. The survey was spread over
7402 villages and 5...
by National Sample Survey Office NSSO | On 19 Aug 2013 The present paper makes an attempt to analyse the progress of India in three important ‘basic human needs’ essential for a human life. These are access to latrine facility, safe drinking water and ele...
by Udaya S. Mishra | On 01 Aug 2013 Patterns of rural-urban migration and employment shifts in a region that is
facing ongoing depletion of groundwater resources in Northern Gujarat, India is discussed. Given that migration typically d...
by Ram Fishman | On 30 Jul 2013 The report deals with the estimation of poverty and identification of poor – differences in approach. It also describes the characteristics and trends of urban poverty. The vulnerability of urban poor...
by Planning Commission, India | On 29 Jul 2013 This paper examines the hypothesis that the persistence of low spatial and marital mobility in rural India, despite increased growth rates and rising inequality in recent years, is due to the existenc...
by Kaivan Munshi | On 22 Jul 2013 Can culture constrain caloric intake and contribute to malnutrition? Inter-state migrants within India consume fewer calories per Rupee of food expenditure compared
to their non-migrant neighbors, ev...
by David Atkin | On 27 Jun 2013 This paper provides a theoretical model of the impact of recession (income shock) on household's
child labor (CL) decision. Parental altruism is endogenized; as their choice of substituting child lab...
by Sahana Roy Chowdhury | On 25 Jun 2013 The study takes a comparative approach by examining household livelihood mobility within two very different villages, in the same district administration of Madhya Pradesh (MP), India. [ODI Working Pa...
by Caroline Wilson | On 26 Apr 2013 Migration can act as a negative force. It can lead to distress migration, which is what happens when people have to go to cities to find work
because they cannot survive on what they can earn in thei...
by Naomi Jacob | On 17 Apr 2013 This paper studies the interaction of incentive pay and social distance
in the dissemination of information. BREAD Working Paper No. 380. URL: [http://ipl.econ.duke.edu/bread/papers/working/380.pdf].
by Erlend Berg | On 16 Apr 2013 H.E Finance Minister’s Speech
for Mishrano Jirga. [Ministry of Finance, Afghanistan]. URL:[http://mof.gov.af/Content/files/HE%20Minister%20Speech%20to%20Mishranow%20Jirga-%20English%20after%20review....
by Ministry of Finance Afghanistan | On 10 Apr 2013 Based on the last four rounds of NSS data the study explores some dimensions of women’s labour market participation across social groups. [CWDS Occasional Paper No.59]. URL:[http://www.cwds.ac.in/OCPa...
by Neetha N | On 01 Mar 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 The present study is an attempt to analyse the
labour market of unorganized saleswomen (working in the registered as well as unregistered shops) in
Ernakulam District, Kerala.
by Martin Patrick | On 25 Feb 2013 As population and human activities expand they exert heavy environmental pressure through the resource requirement, their production and consumption. Hence, it is important to understand the resource...
by B. Sudhakara Reddy | On 12 Feb 2013 There are relatively few theoretical models or empirical
analyses of clientelism which analyse the sources and consequences of clientelism. Data from household surveys in rural West Bengal are used t...
by Pranab Bardhan | On 14 Jan 2013 To understand the ageing in India, a primary survey was carried out in seven states – Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Maharashtra, Odisha, Punjab, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal – having a higher percentage of...
by United Nations Population Fund UNFPA | On 08 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 Son preference is widespread in a number of developing countries. Anecdotal evidence
suggests that women may contribute to the persistence of this phenomenon because they
derive substantial long-run...
by Laura Zimmermann | On 19 Nov 2012 To reduce child under nutrition in India, convergence from various sectors are required. The framework notes that issues related to convergence must be resolved in relation to three major steps in the...
by Rajani Ved | On 16 Nov 2012 In 2011 the US National Institute of Mental Health launched the Grand Challenges to Global Mental Health on the lines of earlier initiatives on ‘Global Health’ and on ‘Global Chronic Non-Common-commun...
by Anonymous | On 05 Oct 2012 The National Food
Security Bill, 2011 was
introduced in the Lok
Sabha by the Minister of
Food, Consumer Affairs
and Public Distribution on
December 22, 2011. The
Bill was referred to the
Stand...
by Sakshi Balani | On 28 Sep 2012 This paper identifies key knowledge gaps on the issue of migration and commuting workers in India. [WP-2012-023]. URL:[http://www.igidr.ac.in/pdf/publication/WP-2012-023.pdf].
by S. Chandrasekhar | On 27 Sep 2012 Although the urban health issue has been of long-standing interest to public health researchers, majority of
the studies have looked upon the urban poor and migrants as distinct subgroups. Another co...
by Prashant Kumar Singh | On 24 Sep 2012 This paper examines whether an individual-level transfer of property rights increases
the individual's bargaining power within the household. The question is analyzed in
the context of a housing ref...
by Shing-Yi Wang | On 18 Sep 2012 As sex ratio imbalances have become a problem in an increasing number of countries, it is important to understand their consequences. With the defeat of the Kuomintang Party in China, more than one mi...
by Simon Chang | On 28 Aug 2012 Review of the book Challenges for Development in 21st Century by Ruby Ojha, B.R. Publications, 2011.
by Vibhuti Patel | On 14 Aug 2012 Agriculture’s share in GDP is less than 15 per cent but it still remains the direct domain of over half of the population whose economic prospects are linked to the performance of agriculture. There a...
by Duvvuri Subbarao | On 03 Aug 2012 Is there an impact of female property rights on male and female suicide rates in India.
Using state level variation in legal changes to women's property rights, it is shown that better property
righ...
by Siwan Anderson | On 02 Aug 2012 This paper explores the evolution of two dedicated freight corridors in
India (covering a distance of around 3300 kilometers), and critique them from the perspective of
delivering the intended rail...
by Sobhesh Kumar Agarwalla | On 31 Jul 2012 There is a huge crisis for water all around the world, certainly in India with groundwater table going down and drinking water selling almost at the rate of toned milk. That also shows that country ha...
by Anil K Gupta | On 20 Jul 2012 This paper discusses the evolution of Model Concession Agreement for National Highways, the vital framework on which the success of Public Private Partnership lies. The key learnings of this study wou...
by Ramakrishnan T S | On 18 Jul 2012 The major objective of this paper to examine the determinants of child malnutrition, based on the Pakistan Panel Household Survey (PPHS-2010). The study has focused on individual (child), household an...
by G M Arif | On 16 Jul 2012 The Philippines has often been cited as the global model in managing international
labor migration. Despite the complexity of our management infrastructure, however,
some gaps still remain. This pap...
by Julyn S Ambito | On 12 Jul 2012 In 2007, the state of Andhra Pradesh in southern India began rolling out the Aarogyasri health
insurance to reduce catastrophic health expenditures in households “below the poverty line.” The program...
by Victoria Fan | On 05 Jul 2012 Budget of Bhutan 2012-13. URL:[http://www.mof.gov.bt/downloads/BudgetReport2012.pdf].
by Minister of Finance Bhutan | On 04 Jul 2012 The objective in this
paper is to estimate the role played by such factors in determining the
utilisation of formal health care to cure diarrhoea and certain respiratory
illnesses plaguing young ch...
by Anindita Chakrabarti | On 02 Jul 2012 This paper analyzes income related inequality in financial inclusion in India using a
representative household level survey data, linked to State-level factors. This paper also provides estimates of...
by Rama Pal | On 27 Jun 2012 This paper provides an empirical basis for the perceived link between rural infrastructure
and agricultural productivity. It validates the hypothesis that deficiencies in rural infrastructure
e.g.,...
by Gilberto M Llanto | On 24 May 2012 This study used social
capital as an organizing framework to capture VO members’ group behaviour, and
their current status along programme activities. The study compared the status of
intervention...
by Nayma Qayum | On 22 May 2012 This paper focuses on the effects of domestic and international remittances on children’s
well-being. Using data from the 1992/93 and 1997/98 Vietnam Living Standards Surveys, an investigation of the...
by Michele Binci | On 11 May 2012 This brief reviews recent evidence, examines main research challenges in identifying migration–climate links and discusses the policy options for formalizing migration as an adaptation mechanism to cl...
by Jean-François Maystadt | On 09 May 2012 In this paper, a new framework for analyzing corruption in public bureaucracies is provided. The standard way to model corruption is as an example of moral hazard, which then leads to a focus on bette...
by Abhijit Banerjee | On 24 Apr 2012 The paper examines the determinants of remittance inflow by applying ordinary least square method
(OLS). The model include the weighted average GDP of the six (Saudi Arabia (KSA), United Arab
Emirat...
by Mst. Nurnaher Begum | On 24 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 Modeling of the seasonal time-of-day pricing is done of electricity for two types of power systems
– pure hydro and hydro-thermal under four structural welfare assumptions
– first-best, second-best,...
by N. Vijayamohanan Pillai | On 20 Apr 2012 The study examines the different aspects of labor in the rural household economy. It
identifies the factors that significantly determine the rural households' labor allocation decisions.
Moreover, i...
by Maria Teresa C Sanchez | On 18 Apr 2012 Budget Speech by Minister of Finance. [Government of Gujarat]. URL:[http://financedepartment.gujarat.gov.in/budget12_13_pdf/FM_Speech_English_Part_A_Final.pdf].
by Ministry of Finance Government of Gujarat | On 12 Apr 2012 What India has to do to overcome the dents that India has suffered in its international image? India will have to play a delicate game of exercising autonomy in its pursuit of national objectives with...
by T.N. Ninan | On 10 Apr 2012 The analysis of micro impacts of macroeconomic adjustment policies (MIMAP) is a relatively new discipline. It has spawned out of the concern that adjustment policies aimed to correct macroeconomic imb...
by Celia M Reyes | On 04 Apr 2012 Labour market insecurity, recognised as pervasive in rural India, is
multi-faceted. This study attempts to fill a gap in the research on
key dimensions of labour market insecurity by using the Natio...
by Padmini Desikachar | On 02 Apr 2012 Speech of Thiru O. Panneerselvam, Hon’ble Minister
for Finance, Government of Tamil Nadu,
presenting the Budget for the year
2012-2013 to the Legislative Assembly on
26th March, 2012. [Government...
by Tamil Nadu Government | On 27 Mar 2012 A
bill
further to amend the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 and the Special Marriage Act, 1954. [PRS]. URL:[http://www.prsindia.org/uploads/media/Marriage%20Laws/Marriage%20Laws%20Bill%202010.pdf].
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 26 Mar 2012 Over the last two decades, community-based forest management has
graduated from being an experimental strategy to becoming a much more
mainstream approach. In developing countries, an estimated 22 p...
by Priya Shyamsundar | On 19 Mar 2012 The transfer system in India is discussed and analyses expenditure
needs of States to provide essential health infrastructure. It also analyzes the fiscal space for
health care in terms of stimulati...
by M Govinda Rao | On 19 Mar 2012 Major shifts in the policy initiated in the electricity sector are well documented, only then the effect of the policy change can be analyzed, especially from the point of view of laying down future p...
by Planning Commission | On 19 Mar 2012 This brief uses Government reported data to analyse Sarva Shiksha Ahiyan performance along the following parameters: a) Overall trends in allocation and expenditures, b) Expenditure performance across...
by Accountability Initiative | On 16 Mar 2012 The Minister of Railways, Dinesh Trivedi, presented the
Railways Budget 2012 to Parliament on 14th March. In
his address, he commented on the performance of
Railways in 2011-12 and laid out his bud...
by Rohit Kumar | On 16 Mar 2012 BUDGET SPEECH 2011-2012 by
DR. ABDUL HAFEEZ SHAIKH, Minister for Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and
Planning & Development.
by Minister of Finance Pakistan | On 12 Mar 2012 The 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 Time is an important economic resource that can be spent in a variety of
ways. Diverse demands on a person’s time may reach a point where the
individual may be categorized as time poor. Time poverty...
by Najam us Saqib | On 09 Mar 2012 This paper estimates the effect of access to transportation networks on regional economic
outcomes in China over a twenty-period of rapid income growth. It addresses
the problem of the endogenous pl...
by Abhijit Banerjee | 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 Budget speech 2012.
by Mahinda Rajapaksa | On 24 Feb 2012 The main objective of the study is to investigate whether there is any evidence to support the
view that the disbursement of micro finance to women reduces the incidence of domestic
violence, and if...
by Institute of Social Studies Trust ISST | On 23 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 This paper reviews and discusses available empirical research on the impact of violent conflict
on the level and access to education of civilian and combatant populations affected by violence. Three
...
by Patricia Justino | On 15 Feb 2012 A stated objective of Myanmar is to become a modern developed nation that
will stand shoulder to shoulder – proud, dignified and tall – with the countries
of the world. How far has Myanmar come in a...
by U Myint | On 15 Feb 2012 Unpredictable rainfall is an important risk for agricultural activity, and farmers in developing
countries often receive incomplete insurance from informal risk-sharing networks. The demand for, and...
by A. Mushfiq Mobarak | On 10 Feb 2012 This study investigates the relationship between saving, investment and economic growth
for India over the period 1950-51 to 2007-08. The literature on the role of saving in promoting
economic growt...
by Ramesh Jangili | On 09 Feb 2012 Using the Pakistan Social and Living Measurement Survey (PSLM), conducted in
2007-08, the paper measures the magnitude of the middle class (definition given by Thurow (1987); Birdsall, Graham and
Pe...
by Durr-e- Nayab | On 06 Feb 2012 In this paper a test for appropriate policies is done that could help control the
use of plastic bags in Delhi. In January 2009, the Government of Delhi
introduced a wide-ranging ban on the use of p...
by Kanupriya Gupta | On 03 Feb 2012 The Gender Quality Action Learning programme initiated a village level intervention in 2007 in 10 districts to increase knowledge, change perception, attitudes, and practice/behaviour of the villagers...
by Md. Abdul Alim | On 03 Feb 2012 Home to over 25 per cent of the world’s hungry poor, India faces major food security challenges and the situation has barely improved in two decades. Will the National Food Security Bill that the Indi...
by Sally Trethewie | On 27 Jan 2012 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 This paper analyses gender dimensions in rural to urban migration (age
10 years and above) in Pakistan. The study is based on Labour Force Surveys
1996-2006. The findings of the study show that over...
by Shahnaz Hamid | On 20 Jan 2012 The present paper explores the nexus between gender-energy-poverty, highlights areas of gender
concern, and suggests actions. It is analyzed how women from rural areas and low income
households are...
by B. Sudhakara Reddy | On 19 Jan 2012 It has been widely documented that the poor spend a significant proportion of their income on gifts even at the expense of basic consumption. We test three competing explanations of this phenomenon—pe...
by Xi Chen | On 10 Jan 2012 In Nepal an innovative form of forestry management, known as the
Leasehold Forestry (LHF) Programme, is being introduced to protect forest
land and help it regenerate. A new SANDEE study analyzes th...
by South Asian Network for Development SANDEE | On 10 Jan 2012 Many Sri Lankan companies, particularly in the food processing sector, do
not have adequate management systems in place to control and dispose
solid waste. In order to address this challenge, a new...
by South Asian Network for Development SANDEE | On 09 Jan 2012 The 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 Ad hoc peer-to-peer mobile phone networks (phone MANETs) enable cheap village level
telephony for cash-strapped, off-the-grid communities. Broadcasting is a fundamental operation
in such manets and...
by Kavitha Ranganathan | On 04 Jan 2012 Water is arguably the most
important natural resource
and because it is scarce, its
optimal usage and proper
management must be
ensured.
Water governance in the
Philippines, however, has
becom...
by Senate Economic Planning Office SEPO | On 03 Jan 2012 The financial implications of the food security bill can be questioned. But the
Bill proposes to protect the citizens from hunger and improve the nutritional intake of women and children.
by Rudra Narayan Mishra | On 30 Dec 2011 The BRAC Water, Sanitation and Hygiene programme reached 150 upazilas in collaboration with the Government of Bangladesh since 2006. This study assessed the changes in the use of tubewell water and w...
by Nepal C. Dey | On 28 Dec 2011 The report is a rich source with qualitative and quantitative data on the status of children in India from authentic and established sources. [HAQCRC report]. URL:[http://www.haqcrc.org/sites/default/...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 28 Dec 2011 The paper attempts to empirically test a naïve version of what is rather
stylistically termed as “feminisation of poverty”, using the sub-sample of
female -headed households (FHHs) from two househol...
by Umer Khalid | On 21 Dec 2011 Pre-harvest lean seasons are widespread in the agrarian areas of Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Every year, these seasonal famines force millions of people to succumb to poverty and hunger. An incentive...
by Gharad Bryan | On 20 Dec 2011 The study analyzes the role of the leasehold forestry (LHF) program in improving household welfare in Nepal. Both the time saved in biomass collection and the addition to income through increases in b...
by Bishnu Prasad Sharma | On 15 Dec 2011 How does informality in emerging economies affect the conduct of monetary and
fiscal policy? To answer this question two-sector, formal-informal new
Keynesian closed-economy is constructed. The inf...
by Nicoletta Batini | On 02 Dec 2011 The objective of this policy is to ensure safe, affordable, quick, comfortable, reliable
and sustainable access for the growing number of city residents to jobs, education, recreation
and such other...
by Ministry of Urban Development GOI | On 30 Nov 2011 This paper analyses the impact of the retail FDI policy on Indian consumers and make policy recommendations for the Indian government. Based on a primary survey of Indian consumers, the paper examines...
by Arpita Mukherjee | On 28 Nov 2011 A novel experimental auction design that exploits
an exogenous variation in the probability of winning to test for the presence
of expectations-based reference dependent preferences is provided. [Wo...
by Abhijit Banerji | On 22 Nov 2011 The present paper adopts a diagnostic approach; problems of non-farm employment in
rural sector are identified by studying pattern and process of rural employment using data
from the NSS quinquennia...
by Brajesh Jha | On 22 Nov 2011 The Program CEA extends to the study to an impact analysis of the Radio programs to assess
whether the expenditure being made for this intervention is helping the students in improving
their learnin...
by Shubhashansha Bakshi | On 16 Nov 2011 Spending on consumption items is examined which have signaling value in social
interactions across groups with distinctive social identities in India, where social identities are
defined by caste an...
by Melanie Khamis | On 10 Nov 2011 This paper discusses Asia’s infrastructure needs and its
corresponding financing needs and challenges. It proposes ways to address financing gaps by identifying potential
financing sources and instr...
by Biswa Nath Bhattacharyay | On 09 Nov 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 Apart from being BRIC countries, what India and Brazil have in common is a large service sector that contributes significantly to the GDP. The service sector contributed 66% to the Brazilian GDP and 5...
by Rekha Jain | On 18 Oct 2011 This study estimates the transaction costs entailed in maintaining Farmer
Managed Irrigation Systems (FMIS) in Nepal based on a case study of
60 irrigation systems in the Kathmandu valley. It analyz...
by Ram Chandra Bhattarai | On 18 Oct 2011 Women workers In India constitute one third of the total workforce. Majority of these
women are engaged in the un-organized sectors such as agriculture, construction,
domestic services etc. The over...
by Bharat Jyoti BJ | On 18 Oct 2011 The Indian national program of agriclinics and agribusiness centers, started in 2002, aims to provide farmers with a reliable alternative to the private input dealer by subsidizing technically trained...
by Claire J Glendenning | On 14 Oct 2011 NTP-2011 has the vision Broadband on Demand and envisages leveraging telecom infrastructure to enable all citizens and businesses, both in rural and urban landscape, to participate in the Internet and...
by Ministry of Communication & Information Technology GOI | On 13 Oct 2011 While there is much written on the youth bulge in developing countries, little is being done to address the problems of the elderly. And yet demographically, it is this section that is showing high gr...
by Lakshmi Priya | On 10 Oct 2011 Through the use of secondary data, field visits and focus group discussions, this study explores the dynamics of the evolution of the economic life in Greater Faridpur over the last 100d years (1910-2...
by Selim Raihan | On 04 Oct 2011 Among the major challenges currently faced by humanity are food
security and climate change. Agriculture plays a significant role in
both. Adapting to climate change is expected to be an increasing
...
by Claire Schaffnit Chatterjee | On 26 Sep 2011 The foundation of the new policy, known as the “National Policy for Senior Citizens 2011” is based on several factors. These include the demographic explosion among the elderly, the changing economy a...
by Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment GOI | On 19 Sep 2011 An SIIO paradigm, based on structure and ideas that become engraved in institutions and affect
outcomes, is developed to examine and assesses monetary policy in India after independence. Narrative
h...
by Ashima Goyal | On 16 Sep 2011 This study
analyses the pollution-income relationship (for both local and global
pollution), separately across rural and urban households in India based
on unit record data on fuel consumption obta...
by K S Kavi Kumar | On 14 Sep 2011 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 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 Over 160,000 people died in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. The correlates of
survival are examined using data from the Study of the Tsunami Aftermath and Recovery
(STAR), a population-representative...
by Elizabeth Frankenberg | On 06 Sep 2011 The project aimed to
find the reasons for bottlenecks in the present system that deprive the
tribal community of the benefit of schemes. Five villages from each block have been selected to
make tot...
by Maharana Pratap Adhyayan Evam Jan Kalyan Sansthan Jaipur | On 02 Sep 2011 Poverty and food security in the context of Bangladesh has become a major concern
over time. While efforts have been intensified to increase crop yield through increased
land use, using inorganic fe...
by Shyamal C Ghosh | On 30 Aug 2011 This paper examines whether ownership and increased competitive pressure affect food retailers’ market power, analysing whether all actors involved in the food supply chain deviate from the pricing be...
by Eleni A Kaditi | On 29 Aug 2011 The study initially reviews the infrastructure facilities for the 33 districts of Maharashtra for one year i.e.1999-2000. Using this, the extent of disparities between these regions is found. Further...
by A M Swaminathan | On 29 Aug 2011 In this paper agriculture’s role in the Indian enigma is reassessed by exploring two key pathways, an income–consumption pathway and an employment–time use pathway, linking agricultural conditions to...
by Derek Headey | On 29 Aug 2011 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 The main objective of this paper is to examine the patterns of gender differences for children in the north state of Haryana in India for health outcomes. Specifically it addresses the incidence, and...
by Suresh Sharma | On 23 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 This paper provides estimates of poverty and inequality across states as also for different sub-groups of
population for 2004-05 by using the old and new methods of the Planning Commission. The new m...
by Durgesh C Pathak | On 17 Aug 2011 In this study the analytical framework for identifying and benchmarking systemically important financial institutions is discussed. First, the main concepts underlying the SIFI definition are laid out...
by Christian Weistroffer | On 12 Aug 2011 The current audit builds on the recommendations of the Stuy Report of 2009. It covers the period of May 2003 to December 2010 after the conclusion of the Games. It also covers hosting of the Games dev...
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 09 Aug 2011 This paper, exploring primary data collected from 1510 women domestic workers in
Mumbai, evidently brings out that domestic work as a feminine occupation in a global
city like Mumbai is a epitome of...
by G.D Bino Paul | On 08 Aug 2011 This paper is a review of the different coping mechanisms adopted by the households in
different dryland area of India. The primary focus of the present paper is to understand
the coping mechanisms...
by Nikhil Govind | On 05 Aug 2011 As per UNSNA recommendations, valuables as a separate item had been introduced in the
expenditure side of GDP. Since India is one of largest importer and user of gold for various purposes,
this trea...
by Rakesh Kumar | On 04 Aug 2011 The study seeks to examine the extent of financial inclusion in West Bengal. It is observed from
the study that although there has been an improvement in outreach activity in the banking sector,
the...
by Sadhan Kumar Chattopadhyay | On 03 Aug 2011 The structuralist perspective envisages poverty, especially in rural India, as a long duration phenomenon. Over time, most of the structural features of poverty have remained more or less intact. As a...
by Amita Shah | On 02 Aug 2011 Information and Communication
Technology (ICT’s)
bring lot of opportunities to women in the work situations and small business.
Teleporting, flexi time and work from home arrangements are some of t...
by Government of India Ministry of Women and Child Development | On 29 Jul 2011 The importance of academia- industry linkages for development of an economy is well
recognized. With a view to make the higher technical education relevant, by forging and
catalyzing functional link...
by Jancy Ayyaswamy | On 26 Jul 2011 TRAI has initiated this consultation paper suo-motu focusing on future looking regulatory framework for provisioning of Mobile Value Added Services. URL:[http://www.trai.gov.in/WriteReadData/trai/uplo...
by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) | On 26 Jul 2011 There is a burgeoning academic literature on happiness polls that has used a range of different
measures and approaches across countries rich and poor alike to answer the question, “what makes
peopl...
by Charles Kenny | On 21 Jul 2011 The study highlights interlinkages amongst district level poverty, socioeconomic developmental indices, RCH-care utilization and fertility. Thereby the study formulates a recursive model to highlight...
by S C Gulati | On 11 Jul 2011 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 uses data from a household survey to estimate changes in land distribution in
rural West Bengal between 1967-2004 and decompose these into contributions of
different factors. There was a...
by Pranab Bardhan | On 09 Jun 2011 India has been facing rapid urbanization. There is a two-fold increase in urban population
during 1971-2001, registering a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3.8%. Among all the problems
caus...
by Sudhakar Yedla | On 03 Jun 2011 This paper explores whether child labourers come from, not only the poor, but also the
poorest households in Bangladesh or not. The paper also tries to explain what determines the
participation of c...
by Zulfiqar Ali | On 03 Jun 2011 The recent financial crisis has rekindled interest in the foreign aid supply behaviour of
bilateral donors. Using the latest data covering the period 1960-2009, this paper
examines how such behaviou...
by Sam Jones | On 01 Jun 2011 Is the poor human capital investment by rural Indian families primarily a supply
side or a demand side issue? School attendance and total human capital
investment time (time in school plus travel ti...
by Sripad Motiram | On 01 Jun 2011 The purpose of this paper is to pursue the implications of closing, in the sense of
rendering determinate, the Sraffa equations of production, prices and distribution
[Sraffa (1960)] by adding to th...
by Rajas Parchure | On 01 Jun 2011 Good public infrastructure management means more than increasing
the quantity of infrastructure stocks; it also involves improving the
quality of infrastructure. This study seeks to document the...
by Chengfang Liu | On 25 May 2011 This study reveals the importance of tank irrigation in the lives of poor households and suggests that the poor may bear the bulk of the burden from tank deterioration. Tank-based agricultural income...
by South Asian Network for Development and Environmen Economics | On 19 May 2011 The objective of this study is to show how the demand for a rentable
house can be quantitatively expressed. The data set is obtained by a primary (sample) survey of 209
households randomly selecte...
by S.K. Mishra | On 18 May 2011 Depending upon the criterion of ownership (whether private or public/social), infrastructure may be classified into: (i) social infrastructure or social overhead capital and (ii) private infrastru...
by S.K. Mishra | On 11 May 2011 The paper is an attempt to deal with pros and cons of deregulating savings deposit interest rate and take on board the suggestions of various stakeholders for either maintaining the status quo or dere...
by Reserve Bank of India RBI | On 02 May 2011 This particular field study is concerned with Van Panchayats, which can be seen as a variant of Common Property Resources. A comparison of the efficacy of this specific CPR across three villages in U...
by Chandana Anusha | On 27 Apr 2011 GDP growth likely to average 8.2 per cent over 11th Plan: short of the 9% target, but remarkable given the global crisis and drought. Basic objective : Faster, More Inclusive, and Sustainable Growth
...
by Planning Commission | On 25 Apr 2011 The paper examines the poverty status of 4,198 households resident in 18 villages of Rajasthan, India, at four points of time between 1977 to 2010 using retrospective methodology known as Stages of Pr...
by Anirudh Krishna | On 20 Apr 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 Many severe health risks in developing countries could be substantially reduced with access to appropriate
preventive measures. However, the associated costs are often high enough to restrict access...
by Alessandro Tarozzi | On 12 Apr 2011 Budget speech by finance minister. URL: [http://delhi.gov.in/wps/wcm/connect/21d1f280463783518436871b84a2a7b0/CM+Speech+-+PRINT.pdf?MOD=AJPERES].
by Government of Delhi | On 30 Mar 2011 A comprehensive assessment of the multiple benefits of mangrove ecosystems and their
restoration efforts in Gujarat is made. The study is important and contextual as there are very
limited empirical...
by P.K. Viswanathan | On 29 Mar 2011 This article estimates the proportion of grain "diverted" from the Public Distribution System (PDS) to the open market, using the well-established method of matching state offtake figures published by...
by Reetika Khera | On 21 Mar 2011 Commercialization is a process by which the new knowledge is converted to products and
services of commercial value. The model for commercialization of biotechnology is not a
linear one. Due to emer...
by S. Visalakshi | On 18 Mar 2011 This paper addresses differences in outcomes across households residing in slums and
non-slum urban areas of India. Using a nationally representative household data set, they
undertake a robust mult...
by S. Chandrasekhar | On 16 Mar 2011 The Chin State of Burma (also known as Myanmar) is an isolated ethnic minority area with poor health
outcomes and reports of food insecurity and human rights violations. A report on a population-base...
by Richard Sollom | On 09 Mar 2011 Budget reactions from various sectors
by Leena Chandan | On 09 Mar 2011 This study focuses on the nature of safety violence in Delhi, the perceptions of safety among women and
men, infrastructure to redress their causes and their outcomes. URL: [http://wcd.nic.in/].
by Society for Development Studies | On 08 Mar 2011 Railway Budget 2011-12.
by Mamata Banerjee | On 25 Feb 2011 The Economic Advisory Council in its review of the economy has predicted a continued high growth but has suggested steps to sustain this growth, chief among them:Containing inflation by focusing both...
by C. Rangarajan | On 21 Feb 2011 Budget expectations from various sectors are given. URL:[ http://www.myiris.com/newsCentre/storyShow.php?fileR=20110217120638043&secID=fromnewsroom&secTitle=From the News Room&dir=2011/02/17].
by IRIS India IRIS | On 21 Feb 2011 They show under general demand and cost conditions that in a mixed duopoly with pollution the
government can (and will) implement the socially optimal outputs and abatements by a tax-subsidy
scheme...
by Rupayan Pal | On 16 Feb 2011 This study examines the influence of household poverty experienced during early
childhood on early marriage and outcomes in schooling and workforce participation for girls
during adolescence in Nepa...
by Ashish Bajracharya | On 14 Feb 2011 Infrastructure services play a significant role in trade costs by
reducing distribution margins, lowering prices, and raising
consumer welfare. They also lower transaction costs, add value,
and inc...
by Douglas H. Brooks | On 11 Feb 2011 This paper considers how the official poverty line in India would have to change, if it were to be set at a level that allowed urban households to afford minimally adequate accommodation. It discusses...
by S. Chandrashekar | On 02 Feb 2011 Bangladesh is making consistent progress in poverty reduction since early 1990s. According to
Household Income-Expenditure Surveys, poverty rate has declined from more than 60% in 1990-
91 to just a...
by Munshi Sulaiman | On 01 Feb 2011 This paper examines the country specific effect of policy reform on infrastructure spending in
China and India. In China we have examined how marketization and decentralization has
affected the co...
by Pinaki Chakraborty | On 10 Jan 2011 This study assessed the sex preferences in intra-household food distribution among school going siblings
in a rural area of Bangladesh. The study also examines the effect of women's involvement in BR...
by Rita Das Roy | On 06 Jan 2011 This paper analyzes the effect of different types of cook-stoves on firewood demand at the
household level. Nationally representative household data from Nepal is used for the study. [SANDEE Working...
by Mani Nepal | On 05 Jan 2011 In this paper they provide the first estimate of the level and distribution of global household wealth. Mean
assets and debts within countries are measured, partly or wholly, for 38 countries using...
by James B. Davies | On 03 Jan 2011 Using data from a survey of Bangladeshi households, this paper investigates the link
between female status and food security. Employing three different indicators of female
status – husband’s an...
by Mohammad A. Razzaque | On 29 Dec 2010 The objective of this study was to identify and understand the problems
faced by women-headed households. The study was undertaken with two assumptions: (1) a support
system is in place which ensure...
by Naomi Hossain | On 28 Dec 2010 Using data from a survey of Bangladeshi households, this paper explores the determinants of
domestic violence against women as well as its implications for the resources allocated to
women. The fi...
by Mohammad Mokammel Karim Toufique | On 27 Dec 2010 This paper investigates some major changes in the wealth distribution in China using
the data from two national household surveys conducted in 1995 and 2002. The surveys
collected rich informatio...
by Shi Li | On 27 Dec 2010 This paper presents a global perspective on infrastructure coverage and the poor that many people will think they have seen before but they have not. In this paper they introduce a new data source for...
by Kristin Komives | On 08 Dec 2010 Slippage is one of the main bottlenecks of achieving full coverage of water and sanitation
services in India. This paper makes an attempt to identify the causes of slippage
in a systematic manner. T...
by V. Ratna Reddy | On 02 Dec 2010 In this paper, an attempt is made to identify some key challenges for infrastructure
sectors in post-conflict reconstruction. In spite of the Hague and Geneva Conventions,
infrastructure can be da...
by P. B. Anand | On 01 Dec 2010 There has been much recent research on the world distribution of income, but also
growing recognition of the importance of other contributions to well-being, including
those of household wealth. W...
by James B. Davies | On 25 Nov 2010 This paper documents the convergence of incomes across Indian states over the period
1965 to 1998. It departs from traditional analyses of convergence by tracking the
evolution of the entire income...
by Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay | On 22 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 This paper examines regional heterogeneity both from statistical
and cartographic perspectives, using factor analysis of non-demographic
data, models of fertility determinants and district-wise mapp...
by Christophe Z. Guilmoto | On 11 Nov 2010 This paper shows that, in case of differentiated products mixed duopoly, environmental damage
increases (decreases) with the level of privatization, if the level of privatization is less (more) than
...
by Rupayan Pal | On 03 Nov 2010 This paper makes an attempt to estimate the index of informal sector employment
which can be attributed to the supply-push phenomenon. Factors which explain the
inter-state variations include the...
by Dibyendu S. Maiti | On 02 Nov 2010 Although the overall economic performance of economies in South Asia in recent years has been impressive, there is concern that an aging and increasingly inadequate infrastructure may limit the potent...
by John Gilbert | 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 International trade has played an essential role in Asia’s remarkable growth, development,
and integration in recent decades. Infrastructure, both hard and soft, has played an integral
part in facil...
by Douglas H. Brooks | On 28 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 This study analyzes the determinants of stress in public-private partnerships (PPPs) in
infrastructure investment. While project failures seldom occur, there are many stresses that
hinder success. O...
by Renato E. Reside, Jr. | On 27 Oct 2010 The three issues laid out in today’s agenda are particularly relevant at this juncture
and how we answer them in the months ahead will determine how the world
regains and then sustains economic grow...
by Duvvuri Subbarao | On 18 Oct 2010 Economic growth and poverty reduction require for a country to establish efficient rules
for economic and political transactions. Poor countries suffer from inadequate, inefficient
transaction rules...
by Ke-young Chu | On 12 Oct 2010 China’s consumers are better understood when looked at as two distinct classes: urban consumers and rural consumers. The urban households are much richer than their rural counterparts and consume thre...
by Syetarn Hansakul | On 12 Oct 2010 This paper attempts to fill gaps faced by policymakers and practitioners in the evaluation of cross-border infrastructure projects. It first defines what constitutes cross-border infrastructure projec...
by Manabu Fujimura | On 07 Oct 2010 This study attempts to quantify the links between infrastructure investment and poverty reduction using a multi-region general equilibrium model, supplemented with household survey data for the Greate...
by Susan Stone | On 05 Oct 2010 India experienced high economic growth in the 1990s. Some earlier studies, which attempted to identify the influence of growth on poverty dynamics in the country by including growth variables among th...
by Nidhi Dhamija | On 04 Oct 2010 This study examines a range of crossborder infrastructure development issues related to the
Asian countries. Despite active pursuit of private investment in infrastructure by most
developing count...
by Prabir De | On 01 Oct 2010 The information included in this publication covers the public
debt management strategies adopted in 2009, the movements
in debt stock during the year and the related costs and risks and
the primar...
by Central Bank of SriLanka CBSL | On 30 Sep 2010 This paper estimates the need for infrastructure investment, including energy, transport, telecommunications, water, and sanitation during 2010-2020, in order to meet growing demands for services and...
by Biswa Nath Bhattacharyay | On 27 Sep 2010
Using a structural dynamic programming model, we investigate the relative importance of
family background variables and individual specific abilities in explaining cross-sectional
differences in...
by Christian Belzil | On 23 Sep 2010 This paper investigates the socio-economic determinants of school attendance in India, and the
possible causes of disadvantage faced by the girl child. Based on Census data for 1981 and 1991, the
de...
by Usha Jayachandran | On 17 Sep 2010 Labour income is often a major source of income not only for landless rural households but also for the 'small' farmers in Asian agriculture. Fluctuations in labour income can be quite marked, owing t...
by Sunil Kanwar | On 10 Sep 2010 This paper reviews the available literature that links regional food security to the
Mekong River’s wild capture fisheries, and argues for recognition of the existing
contribution that the fisheries...
by Brooke Peterson | On 08 Sep 2010 This paper examines the interdependence of cross-ownership and level of privatization in case of
differentiated products mixed duopoly. It shows that it is optimal for the private firm not to own any...
by Rupayan Pal | On 03 Sep 2010 This paper provides an analysis of demographic and health surveys of Private-Public Mix in Women and Health in Low-Income countries. As always the Demographic and Health Survey is a very valuable sour...
by Supon Limwattananon | On 31 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 Review of 'Promoting Economic Cooperation in South Asia'; S. Ahmed, S. Kalegama and E. Ghani (Editors). Published by Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2010
by Sandhya S . Iyer | On 17 Aug 2010 This paper proposes a rating based scheme for encouraging user participation in adhoc
mobile phone mesh networks. These networks are particularly attractive for
remote/rural areas in developing coun...
by Kavitha Ranganathan | On 06 Aug 2010 The paper is a study of the relationship between poverty and environment by using a purpose-collected survey data from 535 households in 60 different villages of the Jhabua district of India. The meth...
by Shreekant Gupta | On 26 Jul 2010 To make Asia more economically sustainable and resilient against external shocks, regional economies need to be rebalanced toward regional demand- and trade-driven growth through increased regional co...
by Biswa N Bhattacharyay | On 09 Jul 2010 Capitalizing on recent estimates of infrastructure financing requirements in Asia, this paper frames a scenario for infrastructure development in the region and estimates the external effects of infra...
by Fan Zhai | On 30 Jun 2010 A mid-term survey of the CFPR/TUP programme participants (at the end of 1st cycle of 18 months intervention) on health and related issues was done during July-September 2004. The survey involved re-in...
by Syed Masud Ahmed | On 16 Jun 2010 Vietnam's (re) discovery in recent years by the international investor community gives the country a second chance to become and Asia tiger. The article looks into the economic, social, political, per...
by Tamara Trinh | On 16 Jun 2010 Public Works Department is engaged in planning, designing, construction and maintenance of
government assets in the field of built environment and infrastructure development. This paper talks about...
by Sabith Ullah Khan | On 16 Jun 2010 This paper looks at the overall performance of the CFPR/TUP programme using the 2002 baseline survey and 2005 repeat survey. All the topics covered in this study could be analysed more deeply, but tha...
by Mehnaz Rabbani | On 15 Jun 2010 The present study shows that informal barriers/para-tariff in India-Bangladesh trade are already high and further trade liberalisation without improving the infrastructure and reducing corruption woul...
by Samantak Das | On 14 Jun 2010 The objective of this paper is to study the health seeking behaviour in patients reporting with
cough of 3 weeks or more to Tuberculosis Units & Microscopy Centres in East District of
Sikkim and to...
by Karma Jigme Tobgay | On 11 Jun 2010 This paper explores whether child labourers come from, not only the poor, but also the poorest households in Bangladesh or not. The paper also tries to explain what determines the participation of chi...
by | On 04 Jun 2010 Without a better
understanding of the interactions between international players, households and public sector, it will be difficult for climate negotiators and donor institutions to
determine the...
by Brian Blankespoor | On 01 Jun 2010 Over 330 million people live in India’s cities; 35 cities have a population of over a
million and three (Mumbai, Delhi, and Kolkata) of the 10 largest metropolises in the world
are in India. India’s...
by M. Govinda Rao | On 21 May 2010 This paper reviews the development of the social security system and trends in the urban labor market in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Despite its remarkable economic achievement, the PRC face...
by Wang Dewen | On 20 May 2010 The discussion focusses on women in poverty their
concentration in rural and urban areas, and the organisational approach for their mobilization
and empowerment. Maximum emphasis has been placed on...
by Narayana K Banerjee | On 17 May 2010 This paper attempts to
understand the various risks faced by households living in disaster prone regions of
rural India and specifically examine the effectiveness of coping mechanisms adopted
by ho...
by Unmesh Patnaik | On 12 Apr 2010 The purpose of this study to help shed light on the entrepreneurship, entrepreneurs and enterprise growth in
Wenzhou. The study is done by relying on a probabilistic firm survey that we carried out i...
by John Strauss | On 08 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 The paper raises some hard questions that need to be answered before one can conclude that events such as Common Wealth Games has a positive effect on the host community. Can the financial requirement...
by Vinayak Uppal | On 23 Mar 2010 The attention of the media and planners has been focussed almost exclusively on rural and tribal malnutrition. However, malnutrition among urban children, particularly the economically vulnerable slum...
by Neeraj Hatekar | On 22 Mar 2010 Budget speech 2010-2011 by Pranab Mukherjee
by Pranab Mukherjee | On 26 Feb 2010 Female work participation in West Bengal is one of the lowest among all
the states in India. However, it varies widely across the state’s 341
blocks. An analysis of some block level characteristics...
by Indrani Chakraborty | On 26 Feb 2010 This study
seeks to identify the engineering, behavioural and socio-economic determinants of childhood
diarrhoea and its duration and to compute the resulting costs borne by slum dwellers. The study...
by M. Jahangir Alam | On 22 Feb 2010 West Bengal is not among the best performing states with regard
to NREGA. The performance of all districts in the state
is not equally discouraging. Some districts, in fact, have done well in
gener...
by Subrata Mukherjee | On 19 Feb 2010 The paper studies the socio-economic impact of the shift of slum dwellers to new rehabilitation site of Chandivali. It also discuses the issue of availability and choice of employment as a key driver...
by Damien Vaquier | On 18 Feb 2010 The study examines the manner in which India is engaged in constructing a credible and stable
deterrence relationship with two of its nuclear armed adversaries, Pakistan and China with an arsenal
mu...
by Manpreet Sethi | On 16 Feb 2010 The present paper attempts to modify definition of catastrophic out-of-pocket health expenditure by characterising it based on consumption of necessities. Catastrophic health expenditure is defined as...
by Rama Pal | On 11 Feb 2010 The main issues surrounding this concern and provides a range of policy,
regulatory, and institutional measures that could help strengthen the impact of transport infrastructure on poverty reduction...
by Sununtar Setboonsarng | On 10 Feb 2010 This paper examines national-level explanations for poverty decline in Bangladesh in micro-level
detail, in order to better understand the nature of the causalities at work and why some
households h...
by Naila Kabeer | On 28 Jan 2010 This paper estimates
the storm protection benefits due to mangroves during the super cyclone of 1999 in Orissa.
By combining GIS data with census information, the paper examines the mangrove mediate...
by Saudamini Das | On 25 Jan 2010 A concise overview of the energy related aspects of sustainable development programmes and declarations, followed by a short summary of events and documents explicitly devoted to energy matters are gi...
by International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA | On 25 Jan 2010 This paper examines the effectiveness of damage control mechanisms to reduce crop losses
from agricultural pests. It uses data from a sample of Cole crop (Cauliflower and Cabbage)
growing households...
by Ratna Kumar Jha | On 22 Jan 2010 This collection of 19 new essays written by civil
society activists, trade unionists and other water
practitioners, presents examples of ongoing
struggles against water privatization and
commercia...
by Focus on the Global South FGS | On 22 Jan 2010 Market-based approaches to environmental management, such as payment for
environmental services (PES), have attracted unprecedented attention during the past
decade. PES policies, in particular, hav...
by Bhim Adhikari | On 20 Jan 2010 Multiple Meanings of Money: How Women See Microfinance by Smita Premchander, V. Prameela, M. Chidambaranathan, L. JeyaseelanSage publication, 2009, Pp 264, Rs. 595/-
by Sanchita Das | On 20 Jan 2010 This paper looks at rural infrastructure facilities in India, the lack of which is
demonstrated to be an impediment to sustained economic development. It is argued that problems of rural infrastruct...
by Suman Bery | On 15 Jan 2010 In many parts of rural India the use of wood for fuel is the cause of significant environmental and health problems. Efforts to help people switch to cleaner fuels have not been effective and fuelwood...
by ARABINDA MISHRA | On 18 Dec 2009 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 The objective of the study is to find out the primary reason to encourage public
private participation in health care delivery system in Uttar Pradesh and the study
also aim to analyse UPHSDP -a Wor...
by Bibi Ishrat Jahan | On 07 Dec 2009 This paper tries to look into the status of poverty and multiple deprivations among tribal communities in the state and explores policy options for strengthening their livelihoods through a combinatio...
by Amita Shah | On 27 Nov 2009 Hemlata James is the principal of the Government middle school in Haat Pipaliya in Madhya Pradesh and is credited with making the school one of the best in the area: since she has taken over the numb...
by Rinchin Rinchin | On 26 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 report summarises findings from the USAID-sponsored project on models of financing for slum upgrading in India, undertaken on behalf of SPARC,a Mumbai-based NGO involved in slum upgrading and th...
by Sally Merrill | On 19 Nov 2009 This paper aims at discussing some of the important issues relating to sustainable urban form that would lead to sustainable urban development with possible references to India. The paper is based on...
by Basudha Chattopadhyay | On 17 Nov 2009 The paper is a research which studies the government policies and agendas that affect the poor in India. For the research 8 to 10 families, who had been intervened several years ago were re-interviewe...
by Solomon Benjamin | On 16 Nov 2009 Migration decisions to urban areas that are backed by economic rationale
and attempts to understand gains accruing to individuals from migration,
in terms of poverty outcomes are analysed. The analy...
by William Joe | On 16 Nov 2009 A qualitative study was conducted in the six states of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and Haryana to understand the socio-economic, cultural and demographic features a...
by Indian Trust for Innovation and Social Change ITISC | On 12 Nov 2009 Various issues related to delays and cost overruns in publically funded infrastructure projects are investigated. The study is based on, by far, the largest data-set of 850 projects across seventeen i...
by Ram Singh | On 11 Nov 2009 INHP adopted a multiple volunteer per village model, with one volunteer serving the immediate neighborhood of about 20-30 households to rationalize volunteer workloads and to ensure cultural compatibi...
by CARE India | On 09 Nov 2009 The government of India started offering widespread crop in insurance in 1985,
with the Comprehensive Crop Insurance Scheme. The CCIS has been replaced by
the National Agriculture Insurance Scheme....
by Jennifer Ifft | On 06 Nov 2009 This paper is about the financial lives of poor households. It
examines the different sources of income and expenditure of the poor
households residing in a coastal settlement in Kerala. The method...
by B. S. Suran | On 29 Oct 2009 Simultaneous relationship between telecommunications and the economic growth,
using data for developing countries are examined. Using 3SLS, a system
of equations that endogenize economic growth and...
by Kala Seetharam Sridhar | 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 The paper argues that economism and, in particular, the individual drive to maximize utility and amass profit are not enough to ensure the efficient functioning of an economy; and that even for elemen...
by Kaushik Basu | On 09 Oct 2009 The emergence of a large and dynamic middle class raises Asia’s profile as an attractive market destination for products ranging from consumer goods to financial services. There are even hopes that th...
by Steffen Dyck | On 06 Oct 2009 Fiscal policy measures are a key means by which governments can influence
distribution and poverty, but in fact the relationships between fiscal policy and poverty are not well understood. The most c...
by Andrew McKay | On 05 Oct 2009 This paper analyzes the determinants of participation in nonfarm activities and of
nonfarm incomes across rural households. A unique data set collected in the Himalayan region of India allows us to...
by Maja Micevska | On 30 Sep 2009 The effects of indoor air pollution on respiratory health after adjusting for endogenous health behaviours are estimated. The study includes measurements on indoor air pollution and is based on detail...
by Krishna Prasad Pant | On 17 Sep 2009 The present study
attempts to capture chronic poverty in Sri Lanka by examining general information on poverty and drawing conclusions on those who are likely to be among the chronic poor.
Certain p...
by Indra Tudawe | On 17 Sep 2009 The paper reviews the trends over three decades in the consumption of cereals, calories and micronutrients and nutritional status based on anthropometric measures using the data sets of NSS, NNMB and...
by Radhakrishna R | On 15 Sep 2009 This paper estimates respective roles of private investments in irrigation and local
government programs (land reforms, extension services, and infrastructure investments)
in the growth of farm prod...
by Pranab Bardhan | On 14 Sep 2009 The Policy Paper seeks to give voice to a local government vision on financing and stems from a shared understanding of the challenges we face. The Policy Paper contains 25 concrete recom- mendations...
by UCLG Committee on Local Finance and Development UCLG | On 12 Sep 2009 Open access journal publishing is currently at a systematic disadvantage
relative to the traditional subscription-based journal publishing. A simple, cost effective remedy to this inequity is propose...
by Stuart M. Shieber | On 31 Aug 2009 The consumption patterns, socio-economic distribution and the household
choice of a variety of tobacco products across rural and urban India are analyzed. Using a Multinomial Logit Model, the choice...
by Rijo M John | On 19 Aug 2009 This paper examines the levels, patterns, and determinants of
morbidity in Kerala. This study is based on a community survey
conducted in 2004, in three districts of the state namely
Thiruvananthap...
by Navaneetham K | On 14 Aug 2009 This paper argues that with the recent economic reforms, an efficient and active debt market, particularly in long-term private debt instruments, is essential for the
country to realize the full bene...
by Pronab Sen | On 13 Aug 2009 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 study examines household behaviour related to fuelwood collection and use. The focus is on
identifying the behavioral transition of fuelwood-using households from collection to purchase.
The st...
by ARABINDA MISHRA | On 29 Jul 2009 This paper provides an overview of conceptual understandings of, and
methodological research issues on, the relationship between chronic, or long-term,
poverty and processes of migration. The paper...
by Uma Kothari | On 13 Jul 2009 Budget reactions from various sectors and by various people in the industry
by Leena Chandan | On 10 Jul 2009 Access to clean water should be declared a basic human right for three reasons. First, access to clean water can substantially reduce the global burden of disease caused by water-borne infections. Sec...
by PLoS Medicine | On 09 Jul 2009 The thrust of this budget on the expenditure side is twofold. Continue with the fiscal stimulus measures and extend these for another six months or one years as the case maybe. Significant among these...
by IRIS India IRIS | On 09 Jul 2009 Over the life of RACHNA, three sets of population based surveys were conducted: 1. Program wide baseline and endline surveys for INHP-II and Chayan to assess program performance; 2.Rapid Assessments S...
by Rachna Program | On 07 Jul 2009 The debate around retrenchment of pension systems became really popular in the 1990’s after the pioneering experience of Chile in 1981.The disastrous outcomes of the Chilean reform were widely known b...
by Camila Gripp | On 04 Jul 2009 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 This publication was produced as a direction to increase the capability
of Member States to plan and implement nuclear power programmes and to establish and
enhance national nuclear infrastructure....
by International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA | On 19 Jun 2009 The poverty scenario in Gujarat is marked by three features: (1) low incidence of poverty (2) spatial concentration and (3) adoption of targeted policy for poverty reduction. One of the important high...
by Amita Shah | On 16 Jun 2009 The paper contours of a feasible design of VAT in India. It also takes on board the various alternatives proposed. It looks at the issues that need resolution and the options available for resolving t...
by R.Kavita Rao | On 12 Jun 2009 This paper seeks to evaluate quantity and quality of service delivery in rural public health facilities under NRHM. On appropriate and feasible measures, the former is assessed on the static and dynam...
by Kaveri Gill | On 02 Jun 2009 The chronic drought in Rajasthan affects everyone. But people are affected in different ways. This may be because of locality, form of livelihood, caste and class.This report carries the voices of gir...
by ECHO Save the Children (U.K) | On 31 May 2009 The rapid spread of modern supply chains in developing countries is profoundly changing the way food is produced and traded. In this paper we examine the gender implications in modern supply chains. W...
by Miet Maertens | On 29 May 2009 Using a survey of 1774 users and non-users in 84 slums in three metropolitan cities (Delhi, Ahmedabad and Kolkata), we try to understand the impact of mobiles on their social and economic lives. Urban...
by Ankur Sarin | On 27 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 The study aimed at identifying social and biomedical risk factors attributable to perinatal and neonatal mortality (PN, NNM) in rural Punjab.
by Rohina Joshi | On 30 Apr 2009 Evaluations of Balika Shikshan Shivir of Lok Jumbish Rajasthan was carried out with the
objective of capturing the tangible and intangible outcomes, areas of concern thrown up
by this experience and...
by Vimala Ramachandran | On 29 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 This paper attempts to build an aggregative, structural,macroeconometric model for India. Investment and output in the model are disaggregated into four sectors namely(a) agriculture including forestr...
by K.N Murty | On 02 Mar 2009 Speech of Sri K. Rosaiah
by Government Andhra Pradesh | On 23 Feb 2009 For a country like India that contains a large number of Urban Agglomerations (UAs), suburbanisation has drawn little attention of the literature. I focus on this sparsely studied issue in this work....
by Kala Seetharam Sridhar | On 20 Feb 2009 The study attempts to empirically examine whether the adoption of organic
farming practices leads to better health. As a proxy for health status, a comparison of the health expenditure patterns of or...
by Sunantar Setboonsarng | On 22 Jan 2009 Much recent thinking on poverty and poverty reduction is ‘big’ in terms of its ideas, units of analysis, datasets, plans and ambitions. While recognising some of the benefits of such approaches this p...
by David Hulme | On 21 Jan 2009 The focus of this study is to analyze the pattern and costs
of services in four areas, which critically affect most households in Kerala .
The major concerns of this paper include answers to questio...
by Zachariah KC | On 12 Jan 2009 An attempt has been made to discuss various aspects of unpaid household work such as its treatment in the system of National Accounts, and the methodologies of its valuation. With the help relevant da...
by R N Pandey | On 09 Jan 2009 The objective of this study is to report on the extent and nature of involvement of children in the coir industry. For this purpose, it was decided to study only those operations of the industry in w...
by Leela Gulati | On 24 Dec 2008 The paper discusses the poor health statistics for children in the age group of 11-19. The main reasons for deteriorating health are identified as reduction in cost of food products, lack of physical...
by Jeff Chester | On 22 Dec 2008 The aim of this study was to examine the association between visual impairment from cataract and poverty in adults in Kenya, Bangladesh, and the Philippines. A population-based case–control study was...
by Hannah Kuper | On 18 Dec 2008 This paper analyses interrelationships between ‘economic development’, ‘health’, and ‘environment’ in a simultaneous equations framework. The endogenous variables chosen for the model are GDPPC (per c...
by A L Nagar | On 17 Dec 2008 The present paper tries to empirically examine the changing profile of distribution and ownership of livestock across different regions of India and specifically for Gujarat. Besides, primary data col...
by Amita Shah | On 21 Nov 2008 This study presents a comprehensive picture of poverty chnages in China in the period of 1978-95. Using two micro data sets from Household Income Surverys of 1988 and 1995, the author examines poverty...
by Li Shi | On 18 Nov 2008 The policy brief describes the life stories of five people, to show the face of human face of chronic poverty. It also suggests that such life history material can be an important source of data for p...
by Martin Prowse | On 11 Nov 2008 This paper discusses the criticality of electricity the vital modern economic infrastucture concerning its role in and nexus with rural development. Introducing broad issues in rural infrastructure an...
by Keshab Das | On 06 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 study tries to understand the main causes of tank degradation and the complex interrelationships among poverty, private coping mechanisms and community coping mechanisms that affect tank performa...
by Balasubramanian R | On 17 Oct 2008 This paper examines steady states of an overlapping generations economy with a given
distribution of household locations over a one-dimensional interval. Parents decide whether
or not to educate the...
by Dilip Mookherjee | On 06 Oct 2008 Recognising the dearth of detailed analyses of economic and environmental performance of traditional water harvesting systems (TWHS) meant exclusively for domestic use, this paper enquires into the re...
by Keshab Das | On 26 Sep 2008 The lecture is about the payment system in India, which is an important element of the financial sector infrastructure. The lecture also shows the evolution and objectives of the Indian payment system...
by Leeladhar V | On 25 Sep 2008 This paper provides an explanation for the observed persistence in income inequality across households in terms limited parental altruism. It is postulated that the degree of parental altruism is ‘lim...
by Mausumi Das | On 24 Sep 2008 The relation between growth, inequality and poverty is the central
theme of the paper. While the fast economic growth under the neo-liberal policy regime helps reduce poverty, it increases inequality...
by KK Subrahmanian | On 16 Sep 2008 It is argued that for households below poverty line any expenditure on health is catastrophic as they are unable to attain the subsistence level of consumption. Thus, zero percent is taken as a thres...
by Rama Joglekar | On 15 Sep 2008 Much existing literature champions renewables implementation on India’s Sagar Island as an unqualified rural electrification success story. Photovoltaic (PV) and wind systems put in place by the West...
by Sam Shrank | On 25 Aug 2008 Volume III Eleventh Five year plan
by Planning Commission, India | On 18 Aug 2008 India has undertaken extensive reforms in its manufacturing sector in the last two
decades. However, an acceleration of growth in manufacturing, and a concomitant
increase in employment, has eluded...
by Poonam Gupta | On 11 Aug 2008 This study aimed to provide some insights into sanitation-related strategies taken
by the BRAC Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Programme from an
economic point of view. The aim of this report i...
by Kazi Faisal Bin Seraj | On 06 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 This paper analyses the determinants of growth and profit behaviour of the Chinese and Indian IT Software firms.
by N.S. Siddharthan | On 30 Jul 2008 This paper exploited five different data sets of the national household survey in pre- (years 2000 and 2001) and post- (years 2002 and 2004) universal health care coverage (UC) periods to analyse tren...
by Supon Limwattananon | On 26 Jul 2008 The purpose of this study is to review the changes that have taken
place recently in water supply and sanitation services and examine
the role of various stakeholders involved in urban governance in...
by Agnes Huchon | On 15 Jul 2008 Many popular social programmes have limited coverage among households at
the very bottom of the income and wealth distribution. If a programme reaches
the poor, but neglects the destitute, the (pre-...
by Isha Dewan | On 12 Jun 2008 The financial sector has built capabilities such that, with appropriate policy changes, it can grow tremendously, both domestically and internationally. the report touches upon two reasons for financi...
by Raghuram G. Rajan | On 14 Apr 2008 A monthly compilation by IRIS.
by IRIS India IRIS | On 09 Apr 2008 A brief overview is provided about India’s long-term growth performance. Then an attempt is made to set out the conditions for successful innovations. To assess the role of innovations in the Indian...
by Rakesh Mohan | On 03 Apr 2008 Traditionally private consumption expenditure estimated by the two agencies differed. Factors attributed to the differences include coverage, reference time frames and concepts and methods of estimati...
by Joice John | On 20 Mar 2008 This paper investigates a range of aspects including socio economic status,morality, morbidity requiring inpatient as well as outpatient care, health care-seeking behavior etc.
by Akash Acharya | On 10 Mar 2008 Budget for Children (BfC) is not a separate budget. It is merely an attempt to disaggregate from the overall budget, the allocations made specifically for programmes that benefit children. From 2000-0...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 04 Mar 2008 Quick findings for feedback as well as further analysis. [Contact Pravas Ranjan Mishra CYSD, E-1, Institutional Area, RRL PO., Bhubaneswar India - 751 013
Tel. +91-674-2300774, 2301725 Fax: +91-674-...
by Orissa Government | On 22 Feb 2008 Boosting women’s relative control of income and other economic resources has so many consequences that positively enhance both gender equality and development that female economic empowerment may be c...
by Rae Lesser Blumberg | On 20 Feb 2008 People living in almost fifty percent of the districts in West Bengal are exposed to arsenic contaminated water. The economic costs imposed by arsenic-related health problems are estimated. Data from...
by Joyashree Roy | On 08 Feb 2008 Commenting on recent research articles which look at the potential health benefits of behaviour change, the PLoS Medicine Editors say that publication of the findings of such research is only one part...
by PLoS Medicine | On 01 Feb 2008 This study, entitled “Municipal Finance in India – An Assessment”, undertaken for the Development Research Group (DRG), Reserve Bank of India examines the performance of Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) in I...
by P K Mohanty | On 29 Jan 2008 This study analyses the changes in prevalence of undernutrition between the 1980s and 1990s at the national and sub-national levels in India and focuses on the rural-urban comparisons. The study explo...
by Meenakshi J V | On 17 Jan 2008 A monthly compilation by IRIS.
by IRIS India IRIS | On 11 Jan 2008 This study examines the impact of agrarian distress on the different socio-economic groups, the strategies of livelihood adopted by households and the local institution in shaping these strategies. Th...
by K.N. Nair | On 02 Jan 2008 The outline of an action agenda to address issues regarding barriers to creating an equitable society that we urgently need to take up. [at XXXI ISSC at SNDT women's University].
by Datye K R | On 28 Dec 2007 A method of collecting family histories that would act as a means of linking households from the panel studies with individual life histories is proposed. The procedure used to construct a three-gener...
by Robert Miller | On 07 Nov 2007 The Overseas Development Institute in the UK recently carried out a study on ICT for rural livelihoods, commissioned by InfoDev. The study included a literature and donor review in collaboration with...
by Paul Matthews | On 26 Oct 2007 Examines the evidence for various explantions usually offered for the differences infertility behaviour across regions and over time in India. The data sets used in the study are National Sample Surve...
by Pramila Krishnan | On 24 Oct 2007 The causes and consequences of child labour are examined theoretically and empirically within a household decision framework, with endogenous fertility and mortality. The data come from a nationally r...
by Alessandro Cigno | On 16 Oct 2007 As we celebrate 60 years of political independence and take pride in our dynamic private sector, our remarkable IT successes and all the other usual dimensions of success, let us remind ourselves that...
by Shankar Acharya | On 08 Oct 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 The introduction or expansion of a nuclear power programme in a country and its successful execution is largely dependent on the network of national infrastructure, covering a wide range of activities...
by International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA | On 21 Aug 2007 Allocation of local public good over three jurisdictions with individuals with heterogeneous tastes, in a model with democratic institutions and majority rule. The nature of electoral uncertainty, the...
by Santhanu Gupta | On 16 Aug 2007 The roles of social affiliation, measured by caste, in shaping investments in child health are assessed. The special setting that is chosen for the analysis – tea estates in the South Indian High Rang...
by Nancy Luke | On 23 Jul 2007 Panel studies based on the same set of sample households or individuals at two points of time 5 or 10 years apart are time consuming and are relatively rare in social science research. Such a method,...
by Zachariah KC | On 23 Jul 2007 Some of the major problems in primary healthcare relate to training and
capacity building of health service providers in foreseeable future. It is in this
background that government set up a Task Fo...
by Task Force on Medical Education | On 21 Jul 2007 Earlier this year, the Indian government’s High Powered Expert Committee (HPEC) put forward its recommendations on how Mumbai could be made into an International Financial Center. The HPEC’s report co...
by Sanjeev Sanyal | On 19 Jun 2007 Relatively small proportion of literature has focused upon health behaviours and types of health services used by the poor in rural Bangladesh, particularly ultra poor households.This study aimed to e...
by Shahaduz Zaman | On 14 Jun 2007 Aa framework for the analytical treatment of terrorist problems is suggested and then brings out the importance of financial and socio-economic factors. The framework classifies the various causes of...
by Siddhartha Mitra | On 31 May 2007 The proposition that social capital expands household welfare is tested by estimating the effects of social interactions on per capita expenditure among a sample of 810 households in northern Banglade...
by Farhad Ameen | On 30 May 2007 The concern for ethical decision-making among the regulators, social groups and managers has substantially increased since failure of some of the prominent business organizations like Shell and Enron...
by Sunil Kumar Maheshwari | On 30 May 2007 Infrastructure is generally defined as the physical framework of facilities through which goods and services are provided to the public. a strong correlation exists between per capita GDP and availabi...
by P. Nayak | On 29 May 2007 The reasons for the low levels of utilization of basic health services may be household income, high illiteracy and ignorance, and a host of traditional factors. An attempt is made to discuss the issu...
by Abusaleh Shariff | On 17 Apr 2007 The growth performance of agriculture in Maharashtra was highly impressive is the early part of the green revolution period but deteriorated after 1980-81. the severe set back to growth in yield per h...
by Sawant S D | On 22 Mar 2007 Grounded in a popular stereotype that female-headed households are the ‘poorest of the poor’, it is often assumed that women and children suffer greater poverty than in households which conform with a...
by Sylvia Chant | On 30 Jan 2007 Social scientists often emphasize how ‘culture’ and ‘social norms’ can be important determinants of economic behavior and development. This raises questions of the relative importance of economic ince...
by Kaushik Basu | On 26 Dec 2006 This study aims to investigate the impact of CFPR/TUP programme on the food and nutrient consumption. The report is presented in two parts- the first part is based on the comparison of food and energy...
by Farhana Haseen | On 19 Dec 2006 The paper investigates the complex system of causes affecting tropical deforestation at a worldwide level. There is no generally accepted theory in the deforestation literature to indicate which varia...
by Silviu S. Scrieciu | On 27 Nov 2006 Over 75% of the annual estimated 9.5 million deaths in India occur in the home, and the large majority of these do not have a certified cause. India and other developing countries urgently need reliab...
by Prabhat Jha | On 31 Oct 2006 Despite the general consensus that microfinance does not reach the poorest; recent evidence suggests that nearly 15% of microfinance clients in Bangladesh are among the poorest. It is from the realiza...
by Proloy Barua | On 25 Oct 2006 Decisions on infrastructure development that may be critical to people's health status are, however, made without proper consultation of health authorities and experts. When negative health impacts oc...
by World Health Organisation (WHO) | On 01 Jun 2006 This paper outlines the Fund-Bank analytical frameworks and presents a critical appraisal indicating the importance of both demand and supply constraints in the countries undertaking Fund adjustment p...
by Brigitte Granville | On 27 Apr 2006 This paper deals with the agrarian distress experienced in parts of rural Kerala from the latter half of the 1990s, and the ways in which the distress affected the livelihoods of cultivating household...
by R. Ramakumar | On 26 Mar 2006 Review of:
Communication Technology and Human Development: Recent Experiences in the Indian Social Sector by Avik Ghosh;
Sage Publications, New Delhi; 2006; Rs. 340.
by Devan Chandrasekher | On 23 Mar 2006 Amidst massive ethnographical and anthropological literature on India’s tribes, patterns of their demographic behaviour (e.g. fertility and mortality) have received relatively little attention. Howeve...
by Arup Maharatna | On 14 Mar 2006 Infrastructure
by Ministry of Finance | On 27 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 Review of 'The Economics of Elementary Education in India: The Challenge of Public Finance, Private Provision and Household Costs' edited by Santosh Mehrotra;
Sage, New Delhi; 2005, pp.328.
by P. Geetha Rani . | On 20 Jan 2006 Organizations operate in the social milieu and therefore the socio-cultural factors greatly influence the organizational culture. The Asian societies are patriarchal in nature that gives superior posi...
by Sunita Singh-Sengupta | On 13 Jan 2006 This Consultation Paper, being issued with a view to making recommendations to the Government under section 11(1)(a)(iv) of the TRAI Act, focuses on the need to bring about convergence in all aspects...
by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) | On 04 Jan 2006 Even as some households are coming out of poverty, other households are concurrently falling into poverty. Poverty creation and poverty destruction are proceeding alongside. A bottom-up methodology...
by Anirudh Krishna | On 08 Dec 2005 A fresh wave of globalisation since the early 1990s has created both hope and despair. Failure of state has reaffirmed faith in market based institutions. Expansion in trade across national borders an...
by Sudarshan Iyengar | On 07 Dec 2005 This is a qualitative study conducted by Sama in collaboration with Mahila Jagriti Sanstha,a community-based organisation in Gomia, Jharkhand to understand the interrelationship between gender and mal...
by SAMA .. | On 17 Sep 2005 The years of turmoil in the Kashmir valley have resulted in a breakdown of the state machinery, especially the health infrastructure, with the breakdown of peripheral facilities and the migration of d...
by Zamrooda Khanday | On 10 Sep 2005 This article builds upon the recognition that the declining child sex ratios are a result of an ongoing process of societal change. Looking at areas both in the north and in the south which have shown...
by Mattias Larsen | On 03 Sep 2005 In contrast to behaviouralism, which held that institutions reflect the society in which they are embedded, New Institutionalists argue that institutions have an inner logic of action, enjoy autonomy...
by Sudha Pai | On 01 Sep 2005 Anthropologists work in many parts of the world in close personal association with the peoples and situations they study. In a field of such complex involvements, misunderstandings, conflicts, and th...
by Anonymous | On 12 Aug 2005 The research discussed in the report revisits the notion of access to health care in Koppal, an economically disadvantaged district in northern Karnataka. This issue is important to households experie...
by Aditi Iyer | On 08 Aug 2005 Provision of quality urban infrastructure is an area of major concern for the Indian Economy. The financing of this component of infrastructure may turn out to be a somewhat tractable problem, even in...
by Abhay Pethe | On 05 Aug 2005 Infrastructure in general and urban infrastructure in particular has proved to be a pons asinorum of economic development. Whilst infrastructure is an umbrella term, provision of many of its component...
by Abhay Pethe | On 05 Aug 2005 |