Tribute to Gail Omvedt : feminist scholar, dalit and feminist activist died on August 25, 2021
by Vibhuti Patel | On 09 Sep 2021 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 This case study describes is how a village, Shahpura, collectively saved its common land, developed a plantation and innovated a way to water it regularly wihout adding to women’s burden. It is a part...
by Anjali P Iyer | On 18 Jan 2021 You could run a sensible subsidy and price support system at a fraction of today's cost, and still have enough money left over to offer a more generous income support to all farmers.
by T.N. Ninan | On 02 Jun 2020 Extant studies deciphering public expenditure on old-age income support in India carry limitations on (a) system expanse, (b) corresponding data collation, and therefore (c) depth of resource conscrip...
by Mukesh Kumar Anand | On 02 Apr 2019 Indian courts are clogged with large backlogs. Part of the reason for the problem is that cases take a very long time to move through the courts. It slows progress of court cases is harmful for the In...
by Pratik Dutta | On 30 Mar 2019 The idea of a Universal Basic Income (UBI)-—periodic and uncon- ditional cash payments to all citizens—has gained renewed attention amid growing concerns about technological unemployment in advanced e...
by | On 28 Mar 2019 In September 2015, the world committed to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which have broad and interconnected social, economic, social, econo...
by Jose Ramon Albert | On 20 Mar 2019 This paper introduces a taxonomy of service activities in GVCs and describes the main statistical challenges in assessing the contribution of manufacturing and services to output, value added, or trad...
by Sébastien Miroudot | On 07 Mar 2019 This study provides an evaluation of five different methodologies of estimation commonly used in the labor share literature and propose a new measurement. Theglobal dataset of the labor income share a...
by Marta Guerriero | On 20 Feb 2019 This paper provides 10 conclusions on the policies needed to achieve three goals of agricultural development in India. These are : (1) There is a need for change in the narrative in the new context; (...
by S. Mahendra Dev | On 26 Dec 2018 This paper analyzes the evolution of the labor share of income in Asia, a region where countries have experienced steep declines and increases as well as stable labor income shares in the quarter-cent...
by Mitali Das | On 13 Dec 2018 This paper exploits the recent molecular genetics evidence on the genetic basis of arsenic excretion and unique information on family links among respondents living in different environments from a la...
by Mark M. Pitt | On 22 Nov 2018 This paper extends this literature by considering a heterogeneous labor market with capital-skill complementarity. Technological advancement, global integration, regulation of labor market and structu...
by Saumik Paul | On 21 Nov 2018 Surface irrigation is a common pool resource characterized by asymmetric appropriation opportunities across upstream and downstream water users. Large canal systems are also predominantly state-manage...
by Hanan G. Jacoby | On 04 Oct 2018 This paper overcomes the constraint and provides some preliminary outcomes from a novel dataset that the authors compile at the sectoral level (10 sectors) for 53 countries, including 20 developing co...
by Yoko Oishi | On 01 Oct 2018 This paper uncovers novel empirical evidence that financial market integration and financial market development interact to change income inequality. When other things are controlled, the effect of fi...
by Jae wook Jung | On 11 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 The People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) remarkable growth performance over the last 3 decades has been associated to very robust export growth, so much so that many refer to it as a clear example of ex...
by Jesus Felipe | On 29 Aug 2018 The reduction of poverty is at the heart of the development agenda both nationally and globally. This is reflected in the Philippine Development Plan, and the worldwide commitment toward the Sustainab...
by Jose Ramon G. Albert | On 27 Aug 2018 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 is part of the joint project of the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) and the Institute of Developing Economies looked into the school participation of children with disab...
by Adrian D. Agbon | On 03 Jul 2018 This paper seeks to address this gap in the literature by examining migration intentions of individuals from a high-emigration rural village in the Philippines. The results provide evidence of a cultu...
by Aubrey D. Tabuga | On 29 Jun 2018 The paper makes an analysis of cash holdings in India and attempts to test its association with tax effort and government spending. The finding arrived is that the ratio of Cash holding to Nominal GDP...
by R. Mohan | On 21 Jun 2018 This paper assesses the effects of the most recent monetary policy behavior of the Bank of Japan (BOJ) (in particular, zero interest rate policy and negative interest rate policy) and Japanese tax pol...
by Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary | On 09 Jun 2018 The relationship between a declining labor income share and a falling relative price of capital requires capital and labor to be gross substitutes at the aggregate level. It argues that this restricti...
by Saumik Paul | On 07 Jun 2018 This study investigates the fuel demand elasticities separately for petrol, diesel, and CNG using data from
July 2004 to June 2015 for Pakistan. The results show that fuel demands are generally (own...
by Muhammad Omer | On 06 Jun 2018 Most countries have witnessed a dramatic increase of income inequality in the past three decades. This paper addresses the question of whether
income inequality is associated with the population prev...
by | On 31 May 2018 Current global inequality measures assume that national-mean income does not matter to
economic
welfare at given household income, as measured in surveys. The paper questions...
by Martin Ravallion | On 16 May 2018 This study considers the fluctuation in the degree of income inequality after the Kuznets curve
completes a single inverted U-shaped curve. It ascertains that new-born technological inventions
incre...
by Inyong Shin | On 14 May 2018 The economic growth outlook for developing Asia remains vibrant.
Asian Development Outlook 2018
foresees continued momentum after growth
accelerated to 6.1% in 2017. The region is expected to ex...
by Asian Bank | On 12 Apr 2018 This paper tries to summarise the current state of knowledge about chronic poverty in
India and identify the agenda for further research. An ove
rview of the trends in incidence
of...
by | On 12 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 This study investigates empirically how human capital, measured by educational attainment,
is related to income distribution. The regressions, using a panel data set covering a broad
range of countr...
by | On 30 Mar 2018 The report says that there has been a long debate in economics regarding the role of money in
an economy particularly in the determination of income and prices.
by Fazal Hussain | On 27 Mar 2018 We examine the importance of total factor productivity (TFP) growth in middle-income countries based
on cross-country panel data for the period 1975–2014. We find that TFP growth contributed signific...
by | On 23 Mar 2018 The report indicated a widespread stagnation of women’s work participation in poorer districts, a narrowing of their work, income, prospects and opportunities, growing wage differentials between men a...
by Centre for Budget and Policy Studies CBPS | On 23 Mar 2018 The issue of land and water for crops. It examines the
kinds of production responses needed to meet demand. It also assesses the potential
of the world’s land and water resources to support these de...
by Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO] | On 22 Mar 2018 The paper says that poverty alleviation is the most persistent challenge facing Pakistan since its inception.
by Rashida Haq | On 21 Mar 2018 This paper introduces a new index of financial inclusion for 151 economies using principal component
analysis to compute weights for aggregating nine indicators of access, availability, and usage. It...
by Rogelio V. Mercado, Jr. | On 20 Mar 2018 The paper makes an analysis of cash holdings in India and attempts to test its association with tax effort and government spending. The finding arrived is that the ratio of Cash holding to Nominal GDP...
by R. Mohan | On 14 Mar 2018 Budget speech of the Finance Minister of Maharashtra.
by Sudhir Mungamtiwar | On 12 Mar 2018 The paper examines a measure of self-reported evaluative wellbeing, the Cantril Ladder, and use data from Gallup to examine wellbeing over the life-cycle. It assesses the validity of the measure, and...
by Angus Deaton | On 07 Mar 2018 Budget speech by Finance Minister of Malaysia.
by Minister of Finance Malaysia | On 09 Feb 2018 This is a dreamy and populist Budget talking high numbers while missing out on empirical realities. The irony is that, looked at closely, it has neither pleased the free market theorists nor has it do...
by K.R. Shyam Sundar | On 09 Feb 2018 This paper is concerned with the way macro-economic strategies can affect the
incidence of poverty, especially among women, and also with the effectiveness of
various forms of government interventio...
by Jayati Ghosh | On 05 Feb 2018 The estimates of
income, receipts and expenditure for the financial year 2018-19
with respect to the budget “E” (Primary Education) Fund Code –
30, as required under the provisions of section 126C...
by Ajoy Mehta | On 05 Feb 2018 The first order fact about the developing world today is that this is an era of unprecedented
prosperity. And that is true about India too which has been one of the most dynamic economic
performers...
by Arun Jaitley | On 31 Jan 2018 most of the major policy measures promised by this government to the Indian
farmers have not seen the light of the day. No social security measures have been taken for
farmers above the age of 60 or...
by ASHA Kisan Swaraj Alliance | On 31 Jan 2018 The paper says that the productivity growth of the service sector would foster economy-wide productivity and it can be achieved by the mitigation of misallocation of resources in service sectors.
by Choi Hyelin | On 26 Jan 2018 UNICEF, WHO, World Bank global and regional child malnutrition estimates from 1990
to 2017 reveal that we are still far from a world without
malnutrition. The joint estimates, published in May 2017,...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 25 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 Linkages with the native place as well as integration within the city constitute backward and forward linkages of slum dwellers. Remittances are important part of these linkages.
The paper explores t...
by | On 18 Jan 2018 A selective survey of recent papers in the area of technological change, automation and employment is presented. The objective is to convey analytical ideas and the empirical evidence that have inform...
by K. V. Ramaswamy | On 16 Jan 2018 This paper examines dimensions of inequality including labour market inequalities and discusses public policies needed for reduction in inequalities. It discusses both inequality of outcomes and inequ...
by S.Mahendra Dev | On 16 Jan 2018 The paper shows that a range of institutional innovations are possible in terms of bridging the health equity divide.
by Kalpana Jain | On 04 Jan 2018 This paper tries to lay bare the intertwined histories of rehabilitation of the refugees from East Pakistan and the development of the city of Calcutta in the initial decades after the partition of Br...
by | On 02 Jan 2018 This paper explores the policy measures that will best lead to the most positive outcomes as standards diffuse through global value chains.
by Raphael Kaplinsky | On 26 Dec 2017 Despite a growing literature on population aging, empirical studies exploring mechanisms between aging and income inequality are scarce. This paper estimates the impact of aging on inequality via the...
by | On 18 Dec 2017 Recent debates of basic income (BI) proposals shine a useful spotlight on the challenges that traditional forms of income support are increasingly facing, and highlight gaps in social provisions that...
by James Browne | On 15 Dec 2017 The study says that the policymakers should see merit in examining whether federalism can indeed
address the sociopolitical and economic problems that hamper the country’s growth.
by PIDS Information Staff | On 11 Dec 2017 The report outlines and critically assesses trends in urban planning education across the globe, specifically in countries of the global South, and the extent to which curricula address issues of incl...
by Vanessa Watson | On 07 Dec 2017 Can a society suffering contests between rich and poor achieve good governance in the face of endemic corruption? The paper examines a stylized poor state with weak institutions in which a “culture of...
by Gil S. Epstein | On 21 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 Whether social transfers should be targeted or universal is an unsolved debate that is particularly relevant for the implementation of social protection schemes in developing countries. While the limi...
by | On 15 Nov 2017 Unconditional basic income, or a job guarantee by government as employer-of-last-resort, are usually discussed as alternative policies, though the first does not provide the benefits of an earned inco...
by Felix FitzRoy | On 08 Nov 2017 This paper highlights the role of initial wealth inequality in determining the technology adoption decision of firms, which in turn impacts upon the overall productivity in an economy. Wealth inequali...
by Surbhi Badhwar | On 08 Nov 2017 This study examines farmers’ enthusiasm towards one of such technologies in four southwestern districts of Pakistan.
by Junaid Memon | On 25 Oct 2017 This approach helps to publish timely, reasonably accurate and globally comparable estimates.
by Wage Indicator | On 23 Oct 2017 This paper creates a de novo data-set using publicly available data on cases at the Indian Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT). The paper applies the statistical techniques of hazard models to addres...
by Pratik Datta | On 17 Oct 2017 The report says that, Karnataka is the second most arid state in the country.
by Mohd. Ali | On 11 Oct 2017 The existing studies on trade misinvoicing have focussed on the discrepancy in reported trade statistics between developing and developed countries. The estimates based on such methods rely on the ass...
by Suranjali Tandon | On 10 Oct 2017 The report narrates the lack of clarity on interconnection with the grid is a major issue.
by Vaishalee Dash | On 10 Oct 2017 Japan, an isolated, backward country in the 1860s, industrialized rapidly to become a major industrial power by the 1930s. South Korea, among the world’s poorest countries in the 1960s,joined the rank...
by Randall Morck | On 25 Sep 2017 The study finds that a U-shaped relationship exists between farm size and farm / farmer's income. The results also show that both on-farm and
off-farm diversification have an inverted U-shape relatio...
by Varun Kumar Das | On 18 Sep 2017 The issue of old-age income security in India assumes significance in view of the expected rise in the elderly population in the years to come, problems of poverty and vulnerability among them and the...
by D Rajasekhar | On 14 Sep 2017 This review paper examines the ill-health experience of women, and whether it has been adequately explored in a socio-cultural context from a gender perspective. A deeper understanding of the wide ran...
by Annapuranam Karuppannan | On 14 Sep 2017 This paper analyses the effect of economic globalization indicators on economic growth through the channels of Total Factor Productivity (TFP) by using panel data approach and conducting policy simula...
by Sovna Mohanty | On 13 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 Shifting cultivation remains the main source of employment for large sections of the rural people who depend on agriculture for their livelihood in the hill areas of Manipur. Its inputs continue to be...
by Marchang Reimeingam | On 12 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 analyses the effect of economic globalization on income inequality in both cross-country and country-specific framework using panel data techniques and policy simulations. The sample compri...
by Sovna Mohanty | On 07 Sep 2017 The paper narrates that the weather is an integral part of our life and weather shocks can have severe implications on income and on household consumption.
by Connie Bayudan-Dacuycuy | On 06 Sep 2017 This paper aims to assess the implications of these bills on the distribution of tax burden across income groups, economic incentives in affected sectors, national government revenues, and likely impa...
by Rosario G. Manasan | On 01 Sep 2017 The report says that the manufacturing sector has significant fiscal policy implications.
by M. Singhi | On 24 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 With one of the Middle East’s largest economies, a growing population,
and rising incomes, Iran contributes significantly to the region’s agricultural commodity consumption. Iran’s rising food demand...
by Mesbah Motamed | On 18 Aug 2017 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 The report says that the BoP, thus, includes all transactions showing: (a) transactions in goods, services and income between an economy and the rest of the world, (b) changes of ownership and other c...
by Reserve Bank of India RBI | On 03 Aug 2017 Should public investment be targeted to big cities or to small towns, if the objective is to
minimize national poverty? To answer this policy question the basic Todaro-type
model of rural-urban migr...
by Luc Christiaensen | On 01 Aug 2017 This approach was chosen to understand the consequences of climate risks as well as the adaptation measures needed to cope with adverse impacts in order to ensure the resilience of all actors involved...
by Samavia Batool | On 01 Aug 2017 For the 2017 G20, the German government has prioritized commitments to reducing the male and female employment gap by 25 percent by 2025, and increasing the quality of women’s employment. Investing in...
by John Ruthrauff | On 31 Jul 2017 This paper focuses on the rationale for state-based market interventions to support smallholder production along with some case studies that follow the evolution and impact of what we call ‘institutio...
by Ryan Nehring | On 28 Jul 2017 The current policy climate in India is rightly addressing the challenges of electric buses, providing an
environment to accelerate their adoption and implementation.
by Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy CSTEP | On 27 Jul 2017 The nature and scale of humanitarian crises are changing. The world is becoming increasingly urbanised – currently, 54 per cent of the world’s population lives in urban environments, which will rise t...
by | On 27 Jul 2017 BRAC has implemented a pilot project titled ‘Skills Development Initiatives for Adolescents (SDIA) on climate adaptive livelihoods’in two districts of south-western Bangladesh to promote some agricult...
by Md Hasib Reza | On 26 Jul 2017 The project provided preventative and curative services, including access to immunization, reproductive health services, limited curative care, nutrition-related services, community outreach on health...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 25 Jul 2017 The report narrates that in Bangladesh, women-owned SMEs have different characteristics when compared with men-owned SMEs and tend to face specific challenges and obstacles.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 25 Jul 2017 This report presents a framework for sustainable energy access planning that planners and policy makers can use to design cost-effective clean energy supply systems that both poor and nonpoor can sust...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 24 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 The purpose of this note is to help development practitioners gather relevant information, conduct analysis, and present both in a standardized diagnostic framework. In addition to the guidance note i...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 14 Jul 2017 This publication reviews various country aspects of SME finance covering the banking sector, nonbank sector, and capital markets. It is expected to support evidence-based policy making and regulations...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 11 Jul 2017 This publication summarizes the results of a pilot study to quantify water and energy use in high-effciency irrigation systems in Viet Nam.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 10 Jul 2017 The results of this study can be used to strengthen the institutional and statistical capacities of Viet Nam to routinely collect, compile, analyze, and disseminate internationally comparable FSIs tha...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 07 Jul 2017 The report says that Cambodia’s growth in the last 20 years has been remarkable and the lives of its people have improved substantially. But low-cost labor advantages on a narrow economic base have dr...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 30 Jun 2017 The report says that yields for 10-year local currency (LCY) government bonds in emerging East Asia were mostly down between 1 September and 31 October. Investor confidence was buoyed as financial mar...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 29 Jun 2017 This report summarizes findings and policy recommendations for the government's 13th Five-Year Plan.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 29 Jun 2017 With mushrooming of commercial drivers, incomes are falling and expenses are rising. Unable to pay monthly loan instalments, cars are being seized, while contracted employees cannot quit. Will legal p...
by Amrit B L S | On 29 Jun 2017 This study informs decision makers regarding major climate change risks to development and provides feasible policy recommendations for consideration to increase resilience and reduce vulnerability in...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 22 Jun 2017 The report narrates that early adoption of information and communication technology can allow developing countries in Asia and the Pacific to move from labor-intensive, natural resources-based to know...
by Jouko Sarvi | On 22 Jun 2017 This report assesses the extent to which inclusive business models promote women's economic empowerment. Examples come from the inclusive business portfolios of the Asian Development Bank, the Inter-A...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 09 Jun 2017 This report presents the case study of that project, whose special features include responsiveness to local contexts and to conditions created by conflict, a well-coordinated system for women collecti...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 06 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 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 The report narrates that in 2015, there were about five lakh road accidents in India, which killed about 1.5 lakh people and injured about five lakh people. India, as a signatory to the Brasilia decla...
by Prachee Mishra | On 30 May 2017 The paper says irrigation schemes in the region are aging and underperforming, and, with land in short supply, there is little scope for creating major new schemes. Persistent inability to attract ade...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 19 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 The Asian Development Bank (ADB) in 2009 approved the Shanxi Integrated Agricultural Development Project to strengthen agricultural production in 26 counties in Shanxi Province. Complementing the proj...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 12 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 Decent work, the core mandate of the ILO, is defined as productive work for women and men in conditions of freedom, equity, security and human dignity.Decent work involves opportunities for work that:...
by International Labour Organization [ILO] | On 17 Apr 2017 BRICS nations are today cooperating on numerous matters of mutual concern. The cooperation is the result of years of deliberation, hard work and commitment. Since the formation of the grouping in the...
by | On 14 Apr 2017 Economists have long recognized the important role of formal schooling and cognitive skills on labor market participation and wages. More recently, increasing attention has turned to the role of perso...
by | On 16 Mar 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 Through a broad portrayal of character of its development, changing
urban patterns, nature of urban economic structure and contents of
urban development policies, this paper takes a political econom...
by Biswaroop Das | On 17 Feb 2017 These are the latest union budget highlights. Gear up to enjoy subsidies, pay newer taxes and enjoy greater freedom, as that covers a major part of the Union Budget 2017.
by | On 01 Feb 2017 This report, The geography of poverty, disasters and climate extremes in 2030, examines the relationship between disasters and poverty. It concludes that, without concerted action, there could be up t...
by | On 23 Jan 2017 The battle against the challenges with food security and nutrition will have to be fought on many fronts at the same time. In general, anything that promotes broad-based or inclusive growth, thereby r...
by | On 18 Jan 2017 Disparities in income and wealth have all along been present in almost every society across the world. However, the rate of increase in inequality in the distribution of income and wealth has been ala...
by | On 10 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 The Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) has launched a multicountry Economics of Sanitation Initiative (ESI) to study the economic impacts of poor sanitation and the costs and benefits of improved sani...
by | On 27 Dec 2016 This discussion paper examines the current state of sanitation services in India in relation to two goals—Goal 7 of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which calls on countries to halve, by 2015,...
by Asian Bank | On 27 Dec 2016 The paper examines consumption, income, regional, social and gender inequalities in India. Income
inequalities are much higher that of consumption. It also looks at inequalities in opportunities like...
by S.Mahendra Dev | On 19 Dec 2016 In collaboration with the Government of Bihar, India, a large-scale experiment is conducted to evaluate whether transparency in fiscal transfer systems can increase
accountability and reduce corrupt...
by Abhijit Banerjee | On 02 Dec 2016 Air pollution causes some of the most serious long-term impacts on human
health. Unlike other health problems, the diseases caused by air-pollution
are likely to affect everyone exposed to polluted...
by Amrita Ghatak | On 25 Nov 2016 Beyond the issue of unaccounted monies lying overseas, however, is the issue of unaccounted monies lying in India and what is perceived to be the parallel economy. There is, of course, this issue of w...
by FICCI Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Indu | On 09 Nov 2016 Using nationally representative longitudinal survey, the paper examines the income mobility among rural (urban) Indian households over 1993-2004 and 2004-2011 (2004-2011). The paper finds mobility est...
by Mehtabul Azam | On 03 Nov 2016 Urbanization has both benefits and costs. In a market economy, the trade-off between
benefits and costs determines the level, speed, and place of urbanization. This paper
summarizes research finding...
by Kala Seetharam Sridhar | On 28 Oct 2016 A foreign exchange crisis in 1991 induced India to abandon decades of inward-looking socialism and adopt economic reforms that have converted the once-lumbering elephant into the latest Asian tiger. I...
by | On 28 Oct 2016 Against the backdrop of the global financial and economic crisis, policy makers around the world took steps in the past year to make it easier for local firms to start up and operate. This is importan...
by World Bank [WB} | On 27 Oct 2016 This paper examines the macroeconomic impact of World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business (EDB) rank, of increasing importance to policy makers, using simple but robust cross-country regressions. Its main f...
by | On 27 Oct 2016 The Population Reference Bureau informs people around the world about
population, health, and the environment, and empowers them to use that
information to advance the well-being of current and futu...
by | On 21 Oct 2016 As an economy transforms from an agricultural economy to an industrial economy, a decline in participation of female labour force is observed. This is attributed to the shift from family-based product...
by | On 19 Oct 2016 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 This paper examines how a reduction in the financial resources available to lone parents affects repartnering. We exploit natural experiment that reduced the financial resources available to a subset...
by | On 18 Oct 2016 Demographic transition due to population aging is an emerging trend throughout the developing world,
and it is especially acute in China, which has undergone demographic transition more rapidly than...
by Xinxin Wang | On 10 Oct 2016 This paper suggests a reinterpretation of global growth—encompassing notions of unconditional convergence and the middle income trap—in the past 50 years through the lens of growth theory. Two modes o...
by Sutirtha Roy | On 10 Oct 2016 We analyze the impact of trade-induced income shocks on the size of local government, and the provision of public services. Areas in the US with declining labor demand and incomes due to increasing im...
by | On 10 Oct 2016 It is generally recognised that poverty is experienced differently according to their gender, age, caste, class and ethnicity and within households. Income levels, food security and indeed life choice...
by | On 05 Oct 2016 The concern of this paper is limited to the approaches to rural women's development and an
understanding of their work roles in the planning strategies. [CWDS Working paper].
by Kumud Sharma | On 30 Sep 2016 NITI Aayog aims to build strong States that will come together to build a strong India. As the government’s premier think-tank, we view knowledge building & transfer as the enabler of real transformat...
by Niti Aayog GOI | On 27 Sep 2016 the role of institutional innovations
and subsidy policy interventions in the diffusion of micro-irrigation across
the state in the recent years. While the first part makes a comprehensive
review o...
by Chandra Sekhar Bahinipati | On 26 Sep 2016 India can substantially increase her production and yield in
pulses with a strategic emphasis on research in public and private sector, expanding irrigation
infrastructure, provision of MSP to pulse...
by Satish Y Deodhar | On 23 Sep 2016 Economic inequalities in income and wealth, social inequalities in health, education and access to welfare services, gender and racial inequalities, cultural and religious discrimination, barriers to...
by | On 22 Sep 2016 Supply-demand imbalance at a given time is the main problem in India. Not much can be done with demand, as increase and shifting patterns in demand are normal with economic growth and urbanisation. St...
by C S C Sekhar | On 20 Sep 2016 The poor do not consume as much water as the rest of the population, but despite the promises, despite the bland assertions of politicians and policy makers, they can and frequently do pay for what li...
by | On 16 Sep 2016 Rising prices and declining consumption of pulses cause concern in terms of both nutrition and food
inflation in India. This paper outlines policy strategies to increase the availability of pulses at...
by P.K. Joshi | On 16 Sep 2016 This is particularly so when the current solar power capacity in the country has just touched
8000 MW by July end, 2016, and no country in the world has such an ambitious target as
India has set out...
by Ashok Gulati | On 16 Sep 2016 This brief focuses on the pathway from agricultural income to better diets, health, and nutrition, illustrated in blue in the figure below. However, all of the pathways are interrelated. Agricultural...
by | On 09 Sep 2016 This paper attempts to examine the impact of government expenditure in social sector on economic growth at the state level for 15 major states. The study reveals that the share of social sector expend...
by | On 07 Sep 2016 Global indicators are important for understanding progress towards each of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, they can mask sub-national and thematic variations. They cannot explain ho...
by | On 02 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 Using a large-scale novel panel dataset (2005–14) on schools from the Indian state of Assam, we test for the impact of violent conflict on female students’ enrollment rates. We find that a doubling of...
by | On 30 Aug 2016 The paper presents a model for tax compliance based on prospect theory wherein an
individual makes the decision whether to file, and declare a certain amount of income, or to not
file based on a set...
by R.Kavita Rao | On 17 Aug 2016 This report considers migration in the context of environmental change over the next 50 years. The scope of this report is international: it examines global migration trends, but also internal migrati...
by | On 10 Aug 2016 This paper revisits the role of manufacturing and services in economic development in the light of the following new facts: (a) a faster growth of services than that of manufacturing in many developin...
by | On 08 Aug 2016 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 Gaps in educational achievement between high- and low-income children are growing. Administrative datasets maintained by states and districts lack information about income but do indicate whether a st...
by Katherine Michelmore | On 01 Aug 2016 This paper reports existing and fresh evidence on some of the direct and indirect linkages between trust and subjective well-being. This paper first uses data from three large international surveys –...
by John Helliwell | On 26 Jul 2016 As of July 7, 2016, rainfall in the country in the 2016 monsoon season is estimated to be 1% above normal rainfall. However, due to deficient rainfall in the country resulting in drought conditions ov...
by Tanvi Deshpande | On 18 Jul 2016 Financial literacy is the mix of one’s knowledge, skill and attitude towards financial matters. It helps to make informed decisions and well-being of an individual. Research has been conducted globall...
by | On 18 Jul 2016 Gender-based inequalities translate into greater value being placed on the health and survival of males than of females. In India, examples of health and population indicators that are driven by gende...
by | On 15 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 The recent commodity boom has seriously affected South Asia, particularly due to higher food prices and their impact on the welfare of poor and vulnerable populations. This paper describes the food cr...
by S.Mahendra Dev | On 12 Jul 2016 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 There is a need for a paradigm shift in approach from development to
efficient management by making concerted efforts to achieve higher standards of efficiency in water use in all the three sectors....
by Ministry of Water Resources GOI | On 04 Jul 2016 India’s water crisis is often perceived to have been perpetuated by the widening gap between the utilizable water resources and the aggregate demand for water in agriculture and other sectors in certa...
by | On 04 Jul 2016 This paper aims to present an overview and analysis of the current investment landscape in Cambodia, as well as its impacts on people and the environment. It is hoped that the information ...
by Mark Grimsditch | On 01 Jul 2016 This paper estimates the monetary value of cutting PM2.5, a dominant source of air pollution in China. By matching hedonic happiness in a nationally representative survey with daily air quality data a...
by Xin Zhang | On 30 Jun 2016 This paper attempts to study the cyclical behaviour of social sector spending including that on education and health for the 17 non-special category states covering the period 2000-01 to 2012-13. It f...
by | On 30 Jun 2016 This report builds and expands upon the analyses of Report Card No. 6 which considered relative income poverty affecting children and policies to mitigate it. This report provides a pioneering, compre...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 30 Jun 2016 Current paper aims to understand how the governments in different
parts of the world have leveraged upon the private sector to achieve specific
educational goals. The idea here is not to recommend o...
by Centre for Civil Society CCS | On 29 Jun 2016 International migration offers individuals and their families the potential to experience immediate and large gains in their incomes, and offers a large number of other positive benefits to the sendin...
by | On 28 Jun 2016 The paper finds a systematic and economically sizeable relationship between income levels and life expectancy in a panel dataset of 197 countries over 213 years. By itself, GDP/capita explains more th...
by Michael Jetter | On 28 Jun 2016 This paper 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 In this study an attempt is made to analyse the distribution of public health spending in Karnataka state, by analysing the Budget and Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) round-III data. The study als...
by Varun Sharma | On 24 Jun 2016 The present report is a result of efforts that were spread over a period of more than a year (2013
– 2014) and included two national level consultations and sharing meetings held in Delhi, visit to m...
by Simpreet . | On 23 Jun 2016 Small land holders dominate Indian agriculture, and need off-farm income for survival. Analysis shows that for sufficient off-farm income
opportunities, growth in agriculture, manufacturing, or touri...
by Brajesh Jha | On 22 Jun 2016 Over the last decade, trans-national and local advocacy networks have been projecting the low-cost unregulated schools market in India as a cost-efficient, high-quality and equitable solution for educ...
by | On 22 Jun 2016 India’s expanding partnership with Afghanistan has grown into multi-sectoral activities in all parts of Afghanistan. India’s reconstruction and developmental programmes in Afghanistan follow prioritie...
by Ministry of External Affairs, GoI MEA | On 21 Jun 2016 Budget speech of Pakistan 2016-17.
by Mohammad Ishaq Dar | On 17 Jun 2016 This study is an attempt to use group information collected from different farmers (e.g.marginal, small, and medium farmers and tenants) in eastern Uttar Pradesh in India to address a question relevan...
by Amarnath Tripathi | On 16 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 According to a report from the Mckinsey Global Institute, India is set to witness a leap in urban population by almost 25 crore over the next 20 years. That translates to roughly 35,000 more people in...
by | On 09 Jun 2016 Using unique data from Pakistan we estimate a model of demand for differentiated products in 112 rural education markets with significant choice among public and private schools. Our model accounts fo...
by | On 09 Jun 2016 It is observed that even in a stagnant region with limited opportunities
income mobility is occurring,to a limited extent though.Agrarian contract forces households to look for better avenues. With i...
by Arup Mitra | On 07 Jun 2016 This study is undertaken to
quantify the benefits of contract farming
(CF)
on farmers’ income in a case
where new market opportunities are emerging for smallholder farmers in Nepal.
CF
is...
by Anjani Kumar | On 07 Jun 2016 Rising emission of greenhouse gasses (GHGs) and growing economic
inequalities have emerged as key challenges for policymakers over the
past two decades and the problems are likely to intensify in th...
by Unmesh Patnaik | On 03 Jun 2016 Credit Suisse recently revealed that the richest 1% have now accumulated more wealth than the rest of the world put together. Meanwhile, the wealth owned by the bottom half of humanity has fallen by a...
by | On 02 Jun 2016 Discrimination against women from or even before birth guarantees them a marginal role in Indian society, and ensures that they are poorer, less educated, and facing more unemployment and health risks...
by | On 31 May 2016 This Report Card presents an overview of inequalities in child well-being in 41 countries of the European Union (EU) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). It focuses o...
by | On 31 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 paper starts with a discussion of the general context of growth and poverty across the region, exposure to risk or crisis, and the nature of vulnerability
facing individuals, households and commu...
by | On 25 May 2016 Charcoal is the main cooking energy source for people living in Maputo city. It is also a crucial source of income for rural producers in Mabalane district, a key supplier of Maputo’s charcoal. But Ma...
by Sophia Baumert | On 25 May 2016 Rapid degradation of peri-urban ecosystems is resulting in a loss of associated ecosystem services. Water provision, storm- and waste-water regulation, along with protection from natural disasters and...
by Rockeffeller Foundation RF | On 25 May 2016 The paper examines the public financial management (PFM) of Sikkim focusing mainly on resources generation effort and budget management practices. We note that any deviation from the Central transfers...
by Pratap R Jena | On 23 May 2016 Since its independence the government
of Bangladesh had taken various measures to reduce the intensity of poverty on rural
people in Bangladesh. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to examine wh...
by Mahfuza Akther | On 20 May 2016 This edition of the World Employment and Social Outlook (WESO) examines the relationship between decent work and poverty reduction. It starts by documenting trends in poverty around the world while pa...
by International Labour Organisation ILO | On 19 May 2016 The demand for urban water supply service is increasing rapidly as globalisation accelerates economic development and brings improvements in living standards in India with the interactive
effects of...
by | On 12 May 2016 Water rights in India in a formal, legal manner are still under formulation. Rights based on centuries old customs and conventions currently prevail. In recent years, reforms have sought to introduce...
by | On 12 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 study is expected to contribute to stimulating debate around the broader issues of safeguarding the interests of migrant workers through financial mainstreaming of their income, raising efficacy o...
by | On 11 May 2016 The report of a high level committee led by Vijay Kelkar to promote balanced development in Maharashtra has several important recommendations. But will it all come to nought because of its failure to...
by | On 11 May 2016 This government report provides information about the state income of Tamil Nadu
by Tamil Nadu Government | 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 Maternity leave reduces neonatal and infant mortality rates in high-income countries. However, the impact of maternity leave on infant health has not been rigorously evaluated in low- and middle-incom...
by Arjit Nandi | On 22 Apr 2016 Agricultural water use is the main one among all water uses. Despite this use plays an essential role in food and fiber world supplies, provides for mitigating poverty in many regions, and produces a...
by Luis Santos Pereira | On 13 Apr 2016 Agriculture in Andhra Pradesh is in an advanced stage of crisis. While this is a generalised rural crisis, the burden has fallen disproportionately on small and marginal farmers, tenant farmers and ru...
by Government Andhra Pradesh | On 12 Apr 2016 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 Budget Speech by Pradip Kumar Amat.
by Pradip Kumar Amat | 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 working paper outlines a set of indicators at the outcome and impact level for the agriculture and rural development sector. It does not focus on implementation (e.g. output level indicators such...
by European union | On 20 Mar 2016 In 2010, Cambodia outlined a plan aimed at developing its rice sector into a major rice exporting country. The rice sector was chosen due to comparative advantages in land, perceptions of significant...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 18 Mar 2016 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 Over the past three decades, the world has witnessed economic growth accompanied by widening of income inequalities. In the face of rising income inequalities, it becomes imperative to ask what happen...
by Sangeeta Bansal | On 16 Mar 2016 This paper examines the impact of strengthening Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) on within-country income inequality for a cross-section of 65 developed and developing countries for the time period...
by Swati Saini | On 16 Mar 2016 This paper empirically examines human capital’s contribution to economy-wide technological progress and also on technical efficiency gain depending on its distance to frontier in a panel of 75 countri...
by Sujata Basu | On 15 Mar 2016 This case study covers two related projects funded by the Asian Development Bank: the North East Coastal Community Development Project (NECCDP), which aimed to improve sustainable livelihood and natur...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 Mar 2016 Asia has been continuously growing, and this growth has alleviated poverty and increased the number of middle income countries in the region. However, the recent regional and global economic slowdown...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 Mar 2016 Poverty alleviation is the cornerstone and mission of the development community. Yet perhaps the community’s focus on low-income countries (LICs) has skewed a healthy and accurate evaluation of the ef...
by | On 14 Mar 2016 Tenancy has been on the rise in the post economic liberalization period from the decades of 1990s. It was also viewed that freeing the lease market for land may contribute to equity as well as efficie...
by E Revathi | On 14 Mar 2016 This paper examines the dependence of states on central fiscal transfers. It particularly focuses on the role of transfers through tax devolution under the recommendation of the Finance Commissions. T...
by D K Srivastava | On 13 Mar 2016 China’s new leadership must rebalance the country’s economy if it is to avoid falling into the middle income trap. Yet slowing growth rates make drastic reforms politically sensitive at a time when th...
by | On 12 Mar 2016 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 Established in 2000; the Millennium Development Goals had played a major role in bringing back the developmental issues to focus. Nearing the end of the stipulated time when they had to be achieved an...
by Zareena Begum Irfan | 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 specific question to be explored in this study is: whether or not trade liberalisation (tariff reduction) policies improve income distribution and reduce poverty in Pakistan?
by Rizwana Siddiqui | 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 The study deals with pension system reforms for the Pakistan economy and highlights the current situation and future prospects. The study presents an overview of the problems prevailing in current pay...
by Umaima Arif | On 10 Mar 2016 This paper empirically tests the role of search frictions in driving qualification mismatches in the labor market. Using new data from several low-income economies in urban Asia we find that overeduca...
by Kenn Chua | On 10 Mar 2016 The share of income held by the top 1 percent in many countries around the world has been rising persistently over the last 30 years. But we continue to know little about how the rising top income sha...
by Richard V. Burkhauser | On 09 Mar 2016 The debate on common property resource centres on issues of a particular strategy for managing it in order to cater to the growing demand for communities that depend on it and the economy at large tha...
by Jharna Pathak | On 09 Mar 2016 India’s latest Budget focuses on the rural sector and the economically vulnerable sections and makes large allocations for agriculture and social sector programmes without compromising on fiscal disci...
by Amitendu Palit | On 04 Mar 2016 It presents a comprehensive analysis of the priorities and proposals in Union Budget 2016-17, focusing on social sectors (such as education, health, drinking water and sanitation, food security etc.)...
by Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability CBGA | On 02 Mar 2016 This paper examines the fiscal instruments available to different levels of government and their interactions to enhance the effectiveness of public policies for the poorest and hungry groups. Address...
by Ehtisham Ahmad | On 01 Mar 2016 ATNI is a global initiative that evaluates the largest food and beverage manufacturers’ policies, practices and disclosure related to all types of poor nutrition. It provides companies with a tool to...
by Access to Nutrition Index (ATNI) | On 01 Mar 2016 The analysis of the paper begins in the next section by setting out broad economic changes in India as key context for change in Palanpur, with a particular focus on the three drivers set out above; s...
by Himanshu Prof | On 29 Feb 2016 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 In this paper we examine incentives to cheat in the Mexican tax system and argue that these are affected by interactions between taxes. We use variation in tax status between Mexican firms and variati...
by Ehtisham Ahmad | On 29 Feb 2016 Issues or problems associated with land have become more multi-layered in the 21st century. In the Philippines, a number of “pro-poor” land laws were enacted after the Marcos dictatorship. These laws...
by Focus on the Global South FGS | On 29 Feb 2016 The Productivity Commission program of studies on the productivity of different sectors — to date, Mining, Electricity, gas and water, and Manufacturing — provide some insight into what lies behind th...
by Jenny Gordon | On 29 Feb 2016 Low birth weight is a major public health problem in India. About 30% of all infants born in hospitals are reported to weigh less than 2.5 kg at birth. Studies carried out by ICMR in the late seventie...
by Sarath Gopalan | On 29 Feb 2016 Has Narendra Modi re-set his political sights? What's there in the Budget?
by T.N. Ninan | On 29 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 Proposals to reform the personal income tax has gained prominence in recent months. To date, personal income tax reform is part and parcel of the platform of a number of the candidates in the 2016 pre...
by Rosario G. Manasan | On 25 Feb 2016 The implementation of the "Higher Education Modernization Act of 1997", CHED Memorandum Order No. 20, and "Public Higher Education Reform Framework" granted state universities and colleges (SUCs) the...
by Rosario G. Manasan | On 25 Feb 2016 While the Philippines has had a new economic growth trajectory in recent years, the country has had little progress in reducing poverty and in making growth more inclusive. In this paper, the authors...
by Jose Ramon G. Albert | On 24 Feb 2016 The rapid economic growth achieved after globalization by most of the developing countries, has imposed considerable social costs and has become a major threat to sustainable development. However it i...
by Prakash Nelliyat | On 23 Feb 2016 Since the elasticity of substitution between capital and labor is not always one, and since technical progress is not always Harrod-neutral, it is desirable to have an endogenous growth model that adm...
by Hing-Man Leung | On 23 Feb 2016 Rapid trade-led economic growth in emerging Asia has been shifting the global economic and industrial centres of gravity away from the north Atlantic, raising the importance of Asia in world trade but...
by Kym Anderson | On 22 Feb 2016 Japan's ageing population also has a sort of depth. By “depth,” I mean that within the older population itself the proportion of very old people aged 75 years old and over is increasing particularly r...
by Atsushi Seike | On 21 Feb 2016 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 This paper examines the economic case for the South Asia Free Trade Area (SAFTA) Agreement signed on January 6 th, 2004 by India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, and the Maldives. It s...
by Tercan Baysan | 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 Green growth entails several different kinds of processes: conversion to low-carbon energy, climate resilience, and response to climate shocks. Equity implies a fair sharing of the costs, within count...
by Jeffrey D. Sachs | On 21 Feb 2016 In the megacities of developing Southeast Asia, the important role of the informal sector in supporting economic development is often under-recognised. Cities seeking to address the economic risks and...
by | On 19 Feb 2016 This NTS Working Paper examines the prospects for the ASEAN Plus Three Emergency Rice Reserve (APTERR) launched in July 2012. It looks at whether the APTERR can overcome the limitations of past rice r...
by | On 19 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 In this lecture Marja Hoek Smit argues that housing finance is critical to solve the housing problem, increasing, as it does, the number of households that can afford to acquire a house in the formal...
by | On 19 Feb 2016 The lecture is based on the realization that little attention is being paid to the inexorable increase in urban populations, particularly in very low income countries. Almost all of the world’s next 2...
by | On 19 Feb 2016 Foreign capital inflows (FKI) help an economy by financing the imbalance between income and expenditure. However, their impact on poverty in the recipient economy is a controversial issue. In this stu...
by Rizwana Siddiqui | On 18 Feb 2016 This paper takes a political economy perspective in analysing the nature and causes on the decline in bureaucratic conduct.
by Ali Cheema | On 18 Feb 2016 This study extends the analysis of causality by Husain and Rashid (2006) by taking care of the shift in the variables due to the price hikes in the early 1970s. Casual relation between real income and...
by Fazal Husain | On 17 Feb 2016 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 Agriculture is important sector for Indian economy. The agricultural growth output and rural income has to increase, only then can we think of an all-inclusive development of the economy. The problems...
by Environmental Management & Policy Research Institute | 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 paper conducts an integrated assessment of climate change impacts and climate mitigation on agricultural commodity markets and food availability in low- and middle-income countries. The analysis...
by Petr Havlík | On 17 Feb 2016 Climate change demands new approaches to agriculture: farmers’ practices will need to change in order to adapt to and mitigate changing conditions. Gender is central to this change. Agriculture is a f...
by Sophia Huyer | On 17 Feb 2016 Developing economies are seeking to promote financial inclusion, i.e., greater access to financial services for low-income households and firms, as part of their overall strategies for economic and fi...
by Peter J. Morgan | On 16 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 Industrialized countries had their share of carbon emissions. Can the developing countries also get a fair share in their deal for reducing carbon emissions and clear their way to development?
by Aakriti Singh | 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 Is household income enough for human development or should government direct resources towards the provision of social services to improve capabilities of individuals? The former is emphasised by the...
by Rizwana Siddiqui | On 14 Feb 2016 This paper explores linkages between governance and pro-poor growth in Pakistan for the period 1996 to 2005. The analysis indicates that governance indicators have low scores and rank at the lowest pe...
by Rashida Haq | On 14 Feb 2016 The present study investigates the trends in inequality, welfare, and growth based on per capita household income/consumption in Pakistan, both its rural and urban areas, from 1963-64 to 2004-05. It e...
by Nadia Zakir | On 14 Feb 2016 Indian income inequality reflects the high values typical of most low and middle income economies, well above those observed for the high income LIS countries. There is also substantial variation in i...
by Reeve Vanneman | On 14 Feb 2016 Private schooling in India has expanded rapidly in the past decade. However, few studies have looked at its implications for educational quality. Using data from the recently collected India Human Dev...
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 There is great regional variation on utilization of maternal health care services across India. While regional differences have long been established, why women in some states are more likely to utili...
by Sonalde Desai | On 12 Feb 2016 This paper uses panel data from a pilot project and evaluates the impact of conditional cash transfers on consumption, education, and nutrition outcomes among poor rural families in Bangladesh. Given...
by Céline Ferré | On 12 Feb 2016 The Global Gender Gap Index seeks to measure one important aspect of gender equality: the relative gaps between women and men, across a large set of countries and across the four key areas of health,...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 11 Feb 2016 In India an official definition of the term urban by Census is: over 5000 population; a population density of over 400 persons per sq km; over 75% of male workforce in non-primary activities. This art...
by Organising Team (MFC) | On 09 Feb 2016 The workers have to put up with poor housing and living conditions that cramp and disrupt their family lives. There is no government plan to house these workers when industrial areas like in Jeedimetl...
by Mithun Som | On 09 Feb 2016 In absolute terms, the MCGM has presented a budget for the year 2015-16 wherein its income is Rs. 33,000 crores and expenditure is Rs 31,000 crores. Out of this expenditure, it has allotted Rs. 2,552...
by Sadanand Nadkarni | On 09 Feb 2016 Can we create awareness among the urban poor and create documents for them? What are the steps to be followed for that?
by K.R. Antony | On 09 Feb 2016 We investigate how, in temporary economic hardship, agents change their consumption of health services, and how this depends on whether the service is universally free-of-charge visits to GP’s or priv...
by Nicolai Kristensen | 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 The study investigates the impact of changes in terms of trade in Pakistan on its income and consumption potentials, by employing two measures of terms of trade, namely, barter terms of trade and inco...
by Nishat Fatima | On 06 Feb 2016 Given the importance of Consumer Price Index (CPI), there has been long debate on its measurement issues. It is the best and most well-known indicator of inflation, which is further used for evaluatin...
by Mahmood Khalid | On 06 Feb 2016 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 Together against Corruption provides the strategic framework for Transparency International’s collective ambition and actions for the years 2016-2020. Our movement’s fourth strategy, it builds on the...
by Transparency International | On 03 Feb 2016 The World Bank was founded to correct failures in international capital markets. That role has shifted over the past 70 years. Modern analyses should proceed from the premise that the Bank’s central g...
by Michael Clemens | On 03 Feb 2016 This study empirically investigates the impact of foreign capital and governance on the economic growth by employing country level data from 1984 to 2010 for Asian developing countries. Governance; fo...
by Unbreen Qayyum | On 03 Feb 2016 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 03 Feb 2016 Attempts to explain why ending hunger has been so hard, so here the focus is on four main themes: the complex role of markets, the importance of government policies, the historical process of structur...
by C. Peter Timmer | On 03 Feb 2016 This paper addresses the effects of changes in the level and composition of global demand, and especially of global rebalancing, on trade flows and employment from a demand perspective. It emphasizes...
by International Centre for Sustainable Trade and Development | On 03 Feb 2016 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 This paper combines data from a unique NGO survey in Lebanon with local indicators of religious and income polarization to assess which factors contribute to the emergence of faith-based or confession...
by | On 02 Feb 2016 Remittances – money sent home by migrants – can help families survive conflicts or natural disasters. However, humanitarian agencies often fail to consider remittances when planning interventions. Thi...
by Paul Harvey | On 01 Feb 2016 Governments in Asia must prioritise technologies that improve fishery productivity to meet the growing local and international demand for fish. This increased productivity must be sustainable, however...
by The WorldFish Center TWC | On 01 Feb 2016 This study combines rigorous analysis with clear, easy-to-understand presentation of empirical results. It does not advocate any particular kind of pension system or type of reform. The goal is to inf...
by OECD Development Centre | On 01 Feb 2016 This study combines rigorous analysis with clear, easy-to-understand presentation of empirical results. It does not advocate any particular kind of pension system or type of reform. The goal is to inf...
by OECD Development Centre | On 31 Jan 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 Over the past decade, international donors increased financing for health in developing countries substantively. Much of the additional support has come from the rapid expansion of so-called vertical...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 Arguably, ensuring food and nutrition security for all people in the coming decades is the major challenge for the global community. Food demand is increasing in aggregate and per capita values, in pa...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 Savings behaviour is important because of the close relation between savings and growth. Further, the direction of causality between savings and growth is of critical importance for development policy...
by Ranjan Kumar Dash | On 30 Jan 2016 The parliamentary general elections in 1977 was a watershed in the political landscape of Sri Lanka. The government that came into power mid-year sought a more liberalized and open economy, and hence...
by Nanda Abeywickrama | On 30 Jan 2016 In recent years, tax compliance has come to the centre of both academic and policy discourse for several reasons. In the first place, tax-GDP ratio in Bangladesh is very low (10.6%) when compared with...
by Nasiruddin Ahmed | On 30 Jan 2016 The paper looks into the recent experience in exports and imports of drugs and pharmaceutical products. It is found that there is a tremendous growth in the exports. The paper suggests the removal of...
by Reji K Joseph | On 30 Jan 2016 The present paper titled Public Expenditure, Employment and Poverty in Bangladesh An Empirical Analysis has been prepared under the CPD-UNDP collaboration programme on Pro-Poor Macroeconomic Policies...
by Centre for Policy Dialogue CPD | On 29 Jan 2016 The present paper titled Poverty-Environment Nexus: An Investigation of Linkage and Policy Implications has been prepared under the CPD-UNDP collaboration programme on Pro-Poor Macroeconomic Policies...
by Centre for Policy Dialogue CPD | On 29 Jan 2016 This study first reviews current thinking on the underlying causes of conflicts and disasters, identifying poverty as a major driver of both. Poverty breeds frustration, compelling the poor to turn to...
by Surendra Varma | On 29 Jan 2016 South Asia has attracted global attention because it has experienced rapid GDP growth over the last two decades. What is not so well known is that South Asia is the least integrated region in the worl...
by Ejaz Ghani | On 29 Jan 2016 What does the Philippines need to do to transform its economy into a high middle-income economy and ensure that the benefits from such a transformation are within reach of every Filipino? Investment i...
by | On 29 Jan 2016 This paper reviews the literature on the potential biophysical and economic impacts of climate change in the Himalayas. Existing observations indicate that the temperature is rising at a higher rate i...
by Kumud Acharya | On 28 Jan 2016 East Asian economies have experienced rapid growth over three decades, with relatively low levels of income inequality, and appear to have also achieved reductions in income inequality. We argue that...
by | On 28 Jan 2016 In order to understand the importance of reducing air pollution and its likely trans-boundary effects, it is important to first review the socioeconomic situation of the South Asian member states. Sou...
by Mahmood Khwaja | On 28 Jan 2016 This paper analyse the situation of the women working in subcontracting
arrangements in the industry. In the analysis of value chains we found that women workers in all segments were not the direct...
by Jeemol Unni | On 28 Jan 2016 In rural India social and cultural norms are deep rooted in society. Access to productive assets, employment opportunities and consequently incomes are to a large extent influenced by these social fac...
by Jeemol Unni | On 28 Jan 2016 The paper argues that the difference in the mode of programme implementation between Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat exerts an influence on the function and performance of the local institutions created as...
by R. Parthasarathy | On 28 Jan 2016 An overview is provided of the state of knowledge on internal migration in developing economies, with particular emphasis on recent contributions to the literature. The overview is divided into five s...
by | On 28 Jan 2016 This note looks beyond the parameters of a three-tier public health care system, to the supportive institutional arrangements necessary for provision of effective and accountable services to improve h...
by Shomikho Raha | On 28 Jan 2016 This paper enquires into the potential of wells (as TWHS) in the Thar Desert area of Rajasthan. Following a detailed analysis of hydrological and structural aspects of the source and quality of water,...
by Keshab Das | On 28 Jan 2016 Developing Asia’s rapid growth rates that have contributed to a remarkable
decline in the incidence of poverty have also been accompanied by rising
income and expenditure inequalities and persistenc...
by | On 28 Jan 2016 This article explores the connection between income inequality and health in both, poor and rich countries. Mechanisms like non-linear income effects, credit restrictions, nutritional traps, public go...
by | On 28 Jan 2016 How rapidly will child undernutrition respond to income growth? This study explores that question using household survey data from 12 countries. In addition, data on the undernutrition rates since the...
by | On 28 Jan 2016 The research study highlights the financial inclusion needs of cycle rickshaw pullers in India. These include access to service sectors; improvement of asset base; employment of their women; increase...
by | On 27 Jan 2016 In most countries international migration has received more attention than internal agriculture labour migration. Even though internal agriculture labour migration has become an important livelihood...
by | On 27 Jan 2016 The objective of this working paper is to critically test the assertion that pro-poor "green" tourism is one of the best development options for the majority of least developed countries (LDCs) -- a c...
by Shoaib Akhtar | On 27 Jan 2016 Understanding and managing urbanisation in developing countries is one of the major global policy challenges for the first half of the 21st century. Rapidly growing towns and cities are increasingly r...
by | On 26 Jan 2016 A growing literature suggests that high-income countries export high-quality goods. Two hypotheses may explain such specialization, with different implications for welfare, inequality, and trade polic...
by Roberta Piermartini | On 26 Jan 2016 This paper develops new estimates of export quality, far more extensive than previous efforts, covering 178 countries and hundreds of products during the period 1962—2010. It finds that quality upgrad...
by Christian Henn | On 26 Jan 2016 This paper looks at the approach adopted by the government of Tamil Nadu where drug procurement and supply is done through an autonomous agency. The paper emphasises the need for such goverment interv...
by N. Lalitha | On 26 Jan 2016 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 The poor are not uniformly disadvantaged. For the most health indicators, the status of ‘excluded groups’ such as scheduled caste and scheduled tribes, and Muslims is significantly worse than that of...
by Sukhade Thorat | On 26 Jan 2016 Using Data from National Family Health Surveys (NFHS), this note shows the patterns of child growth in India. It also shows that in India the status of recommended essential interventions in this wind...
by Purnima Menon | 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 The paper critically reviews the course of events that led to the development of codes of conduct for the microfinance industry in the country and examines their effectiveness in motivating microfinan...
by Tara S Nair | On 25 Jan 2016 This note provides estimates of the contribution of food prices to inflation in Bangladesh. The results suggest that the current inflation takes a bigger toll on the poor because they spend more of th...
by M. Golam Mortaza | On 23 Jan 2016 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 The BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) are increasingly prominent in development cooperation activities in low-income countries in Africa and worldwide, presenting a pote...
by Institute of Development Studies IDS | On 23 Jan 2016 Could a rich-country social planner, capable only of forcing capital flows across borders but not directly into the hands of individual poor-country entrepreneurs, improve the efficiency of the global...
by | On 22 Jan 2016 The transition to a clean and green energy system is an economic and social transformation that is exciting as well as challenging. The world today faces a formidable challenge in transforming its eco...
by A. Ganesh-Kumar | On 22 Jan 2016 The experience of working together on the original paper, which was published in 2008,6 was highly positive. This motivated Cesar Victora, on behalf of the principal investigators, to apply for a rese...
by Linda Richter | On 21 Jan 2016 The paper argues that there is great disparity of incomes between developed and developing countries. Relative income gap of the developing countries which was 10.8 per cent in 2000 was 15.1 per cent...
by | On 21 Jan 2016 This paper analyses shifts in economic power over the last almost five decades. Developing countries and regions have increased their share of incremental world income and incremental world exports ov...
by Manmohan Agarwal | On 21 Jan 2016 With the twin objectives of improving health and education of the poor children, India has embarked upon an ambitious scheme of providing mid day meals (MDM) in the government and government-assisted...
by Satish Deodhar | On 19 Jan 2016 The relationship between poor sanitation, water borne disease, mortality and malnutrition is well documented. Statistics about the number of deaths due to diarrhea as well as stunting caused by malnut...
by Deepak Sanan | On 19 Jan 2016 Published by the Division for Social Policy and Development (DSPD) of UN DESA, the report places special focus on policy and disadvantaged social groups, in addition to examining the consequences of h...
by United Nations (UN) | On 19 Jan 2016 Social transfers, a non-contributory form of social protection, present a great potential to tackle poverty and inequality, and support inclusive socioeconomic development. Yet, they also represent a...
by | On 19 Jan 2016 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 This working group on Disadvantaged Farmers, including women is one of the key working groups for defining agricultural policy in the Twelfth Five Year Plan. Eighty-three percent of India’s farmers cu...
by Bina Agarwal | On 19 Jan 2016 This paper asks whether the increased openness and technological innovation in East Asia have contributed to an increased demand for skills in the region. We explore a unique firm level data set acros...
by Rita Almeida | On 19 Jan 2016 What has allowed the Indian print media to grow, while newspapers are declining in the west? The first is literacy. Back in 1981, shortly after India’s magazine market got new life, only 40 percent of...
by T. N. Ninan | On 19 Jan 2016 With the global community mobilizing to achieve universal health coverage, adequate, efficient, and evidence-based investments in hospitals must be a cornerstone of efforts to build sustainable and ef...
by (Centre for Global Development) Advisory Faculty | On 18 Jan 2016 A growing concern on widening income gap between the rich and the poor, the policy
mismatch in tackling the relative poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing...
by | On 15 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 Discrimination against women and girls carries a high development cost. This third edition of the SIGI captures and measures gender-based discrimination in social institutions- social norms, practices...
by OECD Development Centre | On 13 Jan 2016 The new role that middle-income countries (MICs) play in the global landscape obliges international community to review the configuration of the development cooperation system. On the one hand, MICs s...
by | On 11 Jan 2016 Analyses of redistributive policies often focus on income flows to examine the nexus between redistribution and economic growth. With strengthening signs of growing economic inequality in many countri...
by | On 11 Jan 2016 China has departed from the East Asian model of development by letting inequality to rise to a high level, which is contributing to China’s current problems of macroeconomic imbalance, declining effic...
by | On 11 Jan 2016 This paper revisits the earlier assessments of the Palma Proposition and the ‘Palma Ratio’. The former is a proposition that currently changes in income or consumption inequality are (almost) exclusiv...
by | On 11 Jan 2016 The vision of Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY)
will be to ensure access to some means of protective irrigation to all agricultural farms in the country, to produce ‘per drop more crop’,...
by Ministry of Agriculture GOI | 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 This paper tries to explain the main characteristics of the Indian government and corporate bond markets and what has contributed to the poor development of the latter. It goes on to show that an oppo...
by Chandrani Sarma | On 09 Jan 2016 The system of participatory (or joint) forest management was commenced in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan in 1996 through Asian Development Bank's funded project. These forest refo...
by Tanvir Ali | On 08 Jan 2016 Effective monitoring of access to, quantity of and quality of water is a key consideration for India. Given the large investments and big programmes and schemes including the current thrust of Sector...
by People's Science Institute PSI | On 07 Jan 2016 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 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 paper, with reference to the literature on research on violent conflicts, discusses socio-economic uncertainty and characteristics of coping with it in the context of violent mass conflicts. Rese...
by Gyöngyvér Demény | On 07 Jan 2016 As cross-border movements of goods, capital, and labor are intensifying, it is likely that goods markets in East Asia will become increasingly integrated. This study investigates the current state of...
by Woosik Moon | On 07 Jan 2016 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 The evidence that antibiotic use in agriculture creates a pool of resistant bacteria in farm animals is not in dispute. The key questions relate to the magnitude of the risk to human health, and the p...
by | On 06 Jan 2016 Water samples were collected from groundwater sources used by the communities residing in several settlements around the UCIL factory. These sources included handpumps, tubewells and one open well. A...
by | On 06 Jan 2016 The Bhakra-Nangal multipurpose project is among the earliest water resource development projects undertaken by Independent India. Though the main objectives were stated as irrigation and power generat...
by Shripad Dharmadhikary | On 05 Jan 2016 The present study was taken up in this context with the objective of examining the land
laws and administration in AP and see how the existing laws are implemented, forced
acquisition of lands is ta...
by Ramachandraiah C | On 05 Jan 2016 This is a perception survey of business owners and operators in four districts of Nepal. The survey provides a snapshot of prevailing state of business environment in Nepal and identifies most critica...
by Bal Khadka | On 02 Jan 2016 This regional study commissioned by The Asia Foundation entitled "Labour Migration: Trends and Patterns" examines the patterns and process of labour migration by Nepali and Bangladeshi migrant workers...
by The Asia Foundation | On 02 Jan 2016 Indonesia is a net importer of grains, horticulture and livestock produce. The instability of food prices since 2008 has led to a renewed emphasis on food security. Despite increasing food crop produc...
by Victor Pontines | On 01 Jan 2016 This paper examines the impact of minimum wage policies on employment, income, and working time of Chinese workers. Using data from China Health and Nutrition Survey, we focus on identifying the effec...
by Xiaoxi Zhang | On 01 Jan 2016 Clearly, the monograph addresses a set of critical issues related to the forest rights and livelihood and makes a sincere effort to draw attention to the plight of forest dependent communities. Policy...
by Tapas Kumar Sarangi | On 30 Dec 2015 The failures of water management have been extensively studied and reviewed and the shortcomings are listed.
by Ravi Chopra | On 29 Dec 2015 The Hilaungad watershed, a sub-catchment of the larger Lastargad basin, lies on the west bank of the Mandakini river which rises from the nearby snow covered peaks of the high Himalayas. For the purpo...
by Ravi Chopra | 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 Myanmar’s agriculture sector offers substantial unexploited potential to underpin the country’s inclusive economic development. With extensive land, water, and labor resources, as well as proximity to...
by Jindra Samson | 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 The Infant Health and Development Program (IHDP) was designed to promote the development of low-birth weight (up to 2,500 grams) and premature (up to 37 weeks gestational age) infants. There is eviden...
by | On 29 Dec 2015 Subnational conflict is the most widespread, deadly and enduring, form of conflict in Asia. Over the past 20 years, there have been 26 subnational conflicts in South and Southeast Asia, affecting half...
by Ben Oppenheim | On 26 Dec 2015 In this paper, income distributions for developing countries in Asia are modeled using beta-2 distributions, which are estimated by a method of moments procedure applied to grouped data. Estimated par...
by Duangkamon Chotikapanich | On 24 Dec 2015 Rural women suffer double discrimination because they are female and poor. Though women are the biggest food producers, they earn only one-tenth of the world’s income and own less than 1% of the world...
by | On 23 Dec 2015 Severe chronic poverty persists in India, partly because of the poor capacity of the state in India to provide for its poor. An action research project, underway in five poorest districts in the count...
by Sajjad Hassan | On 23 Dec 2015 Highlights lessons learned from implementing development schemes and policies, which have incorporated adaptation due to the increasing incidence of extreme weather events.
by | On 21 Dec 2015 The challenge of aligning higher education services (programs) with evolving labor market changes, and responding to knowledge-based economy of respective developing countries, has been difficult for...
by Jouko Sarvi | On 21 Dec 2015 The question of what keeps people mired in poverty is one of great importance to policy-makers and economists alike. The world’s poor typically lack both capital and skills, and each of these two fact...
by Oriana Bandiera | On 18 Dec 2015 The success or failure of a company is often ascribed to the behavior of its CEO. Yet little is known about what top managers actually do, whether this matters for firm performance, and why it differ...
by Oriana Bandiera | On 18 Dec 2015 Health insurance is expected to promote equity in access to health, financial protection, reduce escalating healthcare cost, enhance provider networks and enable country to make an optimal use of limi...
by Shailender Hooda | On 18 Dec 2015 This brief describes key findings from a rigorous seven-year evaluation of the first of these livelihood programmes, BRAC’s ‘Targeting the Ultra-Poor’ programme in rural Bangladesh. Targeted household...
by Clare Balboni | On 18 Dec 2015 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 This paper studies the effect of electricity on income, using the Nepal Living Standards Survey-III (NLSSIII), carried out in the years 2010-11. To account for endogeneity issues, we use Three Stage L...
by Matias Fontenla | On 18 Dec 2015 The paper present concise evidence of recent trends in inequality and labour income shares and to identify possible causes as a basis for developing potential policy responses. This report takes up th...
by Internaional Labour Organization [ILO] | On 17 Dec 2015 Today’s children, and their children, are the ones who will live with the consequences of climate change. This report looks at how children, and particularly the most vulnerable, are affected and what...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 17 Dec 2015 Minimum wage increases are not a very effective mechanism for reducing poverty. They are not related to decreases in poverty rates. They can cost some low-income workers their jobs. And most minimum w...
by Richard Burkhauser | On 16 Dec 2015 In recent months tax has climbed up the political agenda in ways that would have been unthinkable only a couple of years ago.
Creating a fairer international tax system was a central ambition of both...
by Mick Moore | On 16 Dec 2015 Many low and middle-income countries have pluralistic health systems with a variety of providers of health-related goods and services in terms of their level of training, their ownership (public or pr...
by Henry Lucas | On 16 Dec 2015 This paper discusses the current status of financial inclusion, education, and regulation in the Philippines and measures to foster financial inclusion. The primary policy challenge faced by the gover...
by Gilberto M. Llanto | On 15 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 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 The purpose of this manual is to collaborate with grass-roots organizations, in particular with NGOs, in defining the content of economic, social and cultural rights (ESC rights) and to empower the ac...
by Maritza Formisano Prada | On 10 Dec 2015 This report summarizes current knowledge of the anticipated impacts of climate change on water availability for agriculture. The implications for local and national food security are examined; and the...
by | On 04 Dec 2015 Expectations are high for a good and fair new climate change agreement at the
much anticipated on-going climate change summit in Paris. Such expectations are elusive if the negotiations fail to face...
by Raman Letchumanan | On 03 Dec 2015 Almost a sixth of the world’s population and a large fraction of its poorest people live in India. Until recently, national poverty estimates were widely criticized because they relied on aggregate pr...
by | On 02 Dec 2015 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 Indonesia’s rate of birth registration is imprecisely measured but is low, especially among the poorer, rural, population. At the same time, the country has developed a system of population registrati...
by Cate Sumner | On 20 Nov 2015 The paper examines the effect of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), one of the largest workfare programs in the world, on human capital investment. Since NREGS increases labor...
by | On 16 Nov 2015 While much progress has been made over the last 25 years in measuring global poverty, there are
a number of challenges ahead. The paper discusses three sets of problems: (i) how to allow for
social...
by Martin Ravallion | On 16 Nov 2015 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 One of social science’s core roles is to inform evidence-based policy making and policy interventions that produce pro-poor outcomes. This paper explores prominent debates on research uptake and polic...
by | On 05 Nov 2015 This paper primarily aims to capture the changing patterns of consumption expenditure of three broad classes, namely, the ‘upper’ ‘middle’ and ‘bottom’ classes in the rural and urban India. In contras...
by | On 05 Nov 2015 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 The paper argues that both the income/expenditure and nutritional measures of poverty suffer with their own limitations. However, for both conceptual and practical considerations, the income/expenditu...
by | On 30 Oct 2015 It is evident that the poor, especially women and children are highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change because of their limited adaptive capacity. In such circumstances, BRAC Disaster, Envi...
by Tahera Akter | On 26 Oct 2015 This paper documents the pervasiveness of women’s lack of income security in old age across a large number of countries, but also points to a number of important policy measures that can be taken to a...
by | On 20 Oct 2015 This paper examines the multi-dimensional nature of urban poverty with special emphasis on ill-health led deprivation. As a driver of poverty, ill-health reduces the income earning potential and incre...
by Samik Chowdhury | On 20 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 More than 850 million people in developing countries are excluded from a wide range of information and knowledge, with the rural poor in
particular remaining isolated from both traditional media and...
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 The extent to which growth reduces global poverty has been disputed for 30 years. A major problem is that consumption measured from household surveys, which is used to measure poverty, grows less rapi...
by Angus Deaton | On 13 Oct 2015 The General Assembly of the United Nations adopted in 2000 a set of “Millennium Development Goals” the first of which is to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, more specifically to “reduce by half,...
by Angus Deaton | On 13 Oct 2015 This paper tries to assess the impact of coping strategies on household welfare. The paper tries to identify the components of vulnerability to better focus policy. India, particularly rural India, h...
by Raghbendra Jha | On 12 Oct 2015 Based mainly on secondary data and partly on primary information obtained through field surveys in selected rural areas in Bihar in 2011, this paper firstly argues the critical importance of agricultu...
by | On 11 Oct 2015 This paper on Urban Poverty in Asia looks at the different dimensions of poverty in Asia, both income and nonincome, its two main regions, including a brief account of who and what class of people are...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 09 Oct 2015 This paper is an attempt to expand the debate on the impact that the South Asian Diaspora groups are having on the countries of their origin. It goes beyond the discussion of the quantum and structure...
by | On 08 Oct 2015 The middle class plays a critical role in the development of a country. It is not only expected to create employment as business start-ups but also to boost investment and production as consumers. Thi...
by Martin Joseph M. Raymundo | On 07 Oct 2015 The paper discusses India’s rapid services-led growth has always seemed rather fortuitous and unsustainable. For, both historical experience and economic reasoning lead us to expect growth at India’s...
by | On 01 Oct 2015 Research from South India suggests that climate change will affect
ground water availability with serious and negative implications
for agriculture. Any increase in temperature above a threshold of
...
by R. Balasubramanian | On 30 Sep 2015 Roughly 40 percent of the world’s poor live in South Asia, where poverty is basically a rural problem. Therefore, a significant gain in rural poverty reduction in this sub-region will be crucial to re...
by | On 30 Sep 2015 This paper tries to identify food insecure population of the country, analyse the availability, storage, procurement of food grain , assess the effectiveness of PDS, identify the discrepancies in the...
by Ishita Aditya Ray | On 28 Sep 2015 Can election change the condition of Bihar? At least improving the transport facilities....
by T.N. Ninan | On 26 Sep 2015 The National Health Profile 2015 prepared by the Central Bureau for Health Intelligence (CBHI) has revealed some disturbing facts about India’s healthcare sector. It shows the poor patient to bed rati...
by Central Bureau for Health Intelligence (CBHI) | On 25 Sep 2015 This study explores the inter-generational effects of health shocks using longitudinal data of Young Lives project conducted in the southern state of India, Andhra Pradesh for two cohorts of children...
by Sowmya Dhanaraj | On 25 Sep 2015 This study examines the implications of variations in climate variables on ground water sources of irrigation and agricultural income in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Our findings, based on a panel...
by Balasubramanian R | On 24 Sep 2015 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 Challenge of Slums presents the first global assessment of slums, emphasizing their problems and prospects. It presents estimates of the numbers of urban slum dwellers and examines the factors tha...
by United Nations Human Settlements Programme UN-Habitat | On 23 Sep 2015 This planning commission report on Food Security deals with the changing consumption pattern for food in India and reviews some studies on demand and supply projections for cereals in India. It also e...
by Planning Commission | On 21 Sep 2015 This paper reviews the literature on the performance of commonly found social safety net programs in developing countries. The evidence suggests that universal food subsidies have very limited potenti...
by | On 18 Sep 2015 In this paper results are analysed from a field experiment exploring the response of poor households in China to food price subsidies. Many developing countries use food price subsidies or price cont...
by | On 18 Sep 2015 This paper measures the percolation of food subsidy expenditures to the poor. The paper proposes a metric that takes into account the depth and width of income transfer. The metric is applied to food...
by Shikha Jha | On 18 Sep 2015 The paper addresses the issue of growth and development by looking at evidence from six country case studies to assess how to enhance the employment impact of social protection programmes by improving...
by United Nations Development Programme UNDP | On 16 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 paper examines, in particular, the effects of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) programme on employment, wages and incomes of the rural poor. It also considers its effect on...
by | On 14 Sep 2015 The goal of this study is to examine whether promising a Conditional Cash Transfer (conditional on matriculation) at the start of junior high increases the rate at which disadvantaged students matricu...
by Fan Li | On 09 Sep 2015 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 The report explores how climate change has become one of the major challenges to the enjoyment of the basic rights to life, food, health, water, housing and self-determination in one of the World's mo...
by Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) | On 08 Sep 2015 In any health system, the health worker determines the nature and quality of services provided. Data demonstrate that most health systems across the globe face nursing shortages, varying across region...
by | On 07 Sep 2015 This paper provides an analysis of financial development and inclusion in developing Asia using data from a wide array of sources. In terms of aggregate measures of financial development, the region a...
by | On 07 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 paper offers a ctitical understanding of the policy approaches for rural industrialization by underscoring inadequate understanding of the dynamics understanding of the dynamics or specificities...
by Keshab Das | On 03 Sep 2015 This paper from a two-day conference in New Delhi explores the relevance of CCTs in addressing entrenched issues of urban poverty even as across Asia there remain few social protection measures that p...
by United Nations Development Programme UNDP | On 31 Aug 2015 Over the past 15 years, important gains have been made in gender equality. Gender gaps in educational attainment have shrunk substantially. In fact, in many high-income countries, young women’s educat...
by Megan Gerecke | On 31 Aug 2015 This study aims to shed light on the industry that profits from the recruitment of women from South Asian countries into domestic work employment in the Middle East, with a particular focus on Banglad...
by Katharine Jones | On 27 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 The report takes into account present scenario of urban poverty in India. Incidence of urban poverty can be attributed to lack of development as also to the nature and pattern of development. Importa...
by | On 25 Aug 2015 This paper is a review of the recent advances in the measurement of inequality. Inequality can have several dimensions. Economists are mostly concerned with the income and consumption dimensions of in...
by Almas Heshmati | On 24 Aug 2015 A juvenile or a child is any person below the age of 18 years. Over the last 10 years, crimes committed by
children, as a percentage of all crimes committed in the country, have risen from 1.0% to 1....
by Apoorva Shankar | On 21 Aug 2015 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 This paper compares the experience of poverty reduction in China and India. It finds that more than economic growth per se, what has mattered crucially is the nature of the growth: whether it is assoc...
by Jayati Ghosh | On 21 Aug 2015 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 Unemployment rates in countries across the world are typically positively correlated with GDP. China is an unusual outlier from the pattern, with abnormally low, and suspiciously stable, unemployment...
by Shuaizhang Feng | On 19 Aug 2015 This report of the steering committee on rapid poverty reduction and local area development for the Eleventh Five Year Plan (2007-2012). The first section attempts to examine the data on the poor, the...
by Planning Commission, India | On 14 Aug 2015 This report examines changes in the lives of rural households and in the rural economy against the backdrop of changes brought about by the programme. This research report addresses such challenging q...
by Sonalde Desai | On 13 Aug 2015 In 2014 our previous study ‘Future Diets’ (Keats and Wiggins 2014) described how across the world an increasing share of the population is overweight and obese, with the rate of increase particularly...
by Rafael Moreira Claro | On 12 Aug 2015 This publication highlights the relevance in India and the multiplicity of entry points of the right to the city as a vehicle for social inclusion and sustainable social development for Indian cities....
by Centre de Sciences Humaines CSH | On 12 Aug 2015 The central objective of the paper is to empirically examine the relationship between financial development and income inequality. Theoretically, there are grounds for both a positive and negative
re...
by Donghyun Park | On 12 Aug 2015 This working paper records the findings of the project and discusses the key principles that underpin the Danish and Finnish welfare states. The paper reflects on the critical issues that must be cons...
by Valerie Koh | On 11 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 Subjective well-being has attracted sharply increasing attention among researchers and policy makers in recent years. The public also pays a lot of attention to it, evidenced by the heavy use of the w...
by | On 06 Aug 2015 This paper examines wealth distribution in China and India. As China and India have witnessed significant growth rates between 1980 and 2000s, how this growth has been distributed amongst its citizens...
by | On 30 Jul 2015 This paper reviews the long run developments in the distribution of personal income and wealth. It also discusses suggested explanations for the observed patterns. It tries to answer questions such as...
by | On 30 Jul 2015 In this Briefing paper the focus has been exclusively on one half of the inequality equation - ending extreme poverty. Inequality and the extreme wealth that contributes to it were seen as either not
...
by Oxfam International | On 30 Jul 2015 This Policy note on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment is central to the attainment of the overarching goal of enabling poor rural women and men to improve their food security and nutrition, rais...
by International Fund for Agricultural Development IFAD | On 29 Jul 2015 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 its...
by Sevanti Ninan | On 26 Jul 2015 Constitutionally in India, the individual states have responsibility for water, forests, and agriculture. Major canal irrigation accounts for over 80 percent of India's irrigation. This paper observes...
by Zareena Begum Irfan | On 24 Jul 2015 Economic mobility is a significant consequence of income inequality and growth. In this paper, authors have used a unique ARIS/ REDS surveys data set for rural India spanning three decades to determin...
by Kailash Chandra Pradhan | On 21 Jul 2015 Indonesia’s rate of birth registration is imprecisely
measured but is low, especially among the
poorer, rural, population. At the same time, the
country has developed a system of population
regist...
by Cate Sumner | On 16 Jul 2015 Cross-country studies have found that hotter years are associated with lower output in poor countries. Using high-frequency micro-data from manufacturing firms in India, we show that worker heat stre...
by Anant Sudarsan | On 07 Jul 2015 Greece is in huge financial trouble. Greece is paying the price for past follies like fictitious national accounts, unsustainable pension programmes, non-existent tax revenues and (the biggest mistake...
by T.N. Ninan | On 04 Jul 2015 The need for revision of the 1979 land legislation was being felt for a long time and hence the then Ministry of Agriculture started the work on it with the formation of a multi-sector committee in 20...
by Dasho Kinzang Dorji | On 26 Jun 2015 This paper presents an empirical model for minimising selection failure by tax departments in selecting cases for scrutiny assessment. This model also provides a new methodology for estimating tax gap...
by Sudhanshu Kumar | 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 Budget FY11 contains Speech of the Bangladesh Finance Minister on the implementation status and macroeconomic analysis up to second quarter (July-December).
by | On 12 Jun 2015 Faster economic growth of some of the backward states like Bihar, Uttarakhand and Chhattisgarh in the post 2004-05 compels us to think if it is any indicative of convergence among states of India. How...
by Anjali Masarguppi | On 10 Jun 2015 The paper analyses the inter-district inequality of per capita incomes in Maharashtra for the period 2001-2009 and finds that inter-district inequality rose for the period 2001-05 and subsequently dec...
by Neeraj Hatekar | On 10 Jun 2015 It is proposed in this study that the development experience in Kerala has resulted ultimately in weakening the material basis of public action. On limited evidence it is pointed out that the poor in...
by P.K.Michael Tharakan | On 10 Jun 2015 The present study discusses the trends and patterns in agricultural growth at the national and sub-national levels in India. Data on important variables like area, production, input use and value of o...
by Elumalai Kannan | On 04 Jun 2015 New technologies are leading to an exponential increase in the volume and types of data available, creating unprecedented possibilities for informing and transforming society and protecting the enviro...
by Independent Extpert Advisory Group on a Data Revol (UN-IEAG) | On 21 May 2015 The study finds that about 58 per cent of the subsidized food grains issued from the Central Pool do not reach the BPL families because of identification errors, nontransparent operation and unethical...
by Planning Commission | On 08 May 2015 The National Health Policy framed from time to time provides the framework for the implementation of policies and programmes for health care. The Eleventh Five Year Plan had focused on the poor and th...
by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare H & FW | On 28 Apr 2015 This report provides evidence that poor, hungry and malnourished people use some of their additional income either to produce or purchase more food, aiming to increase their dietary energy intake and...
by Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN UN | On 09 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 Understanding the link between financial inclusion, poverty, and income inequality at the country level will help policymakers design and
implement programs that will broaden access to financial serv...
by | On 27 Mar 2015 Speech of Finance Minister of Maharashtra
by | On 23 Mar 2015 This paper argues that that per capita income in all states in India increased in the past four decades but in fact no sign of convergence could be visible as it was expected in the context of liberal...
by | On 13 Mar 2015 The objective of this study is to examine the structural basis on which Finance Commissions make their awards rather than examining the predictability of the forecasts. The story of Finance Commission...
by | On 12 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 In spite of an increase in the number of government schemes to address the problem of undernutrition, the situation has improved only marginally. A number of factors such as spaces, ethnicities, incom...
by Rudra Narayan Mishra | On 25 Feb 2015 The paper mainly discusses the issues and policies relating to inequality in Southeast Asia. Policies to reduce inequality include more efficient fiscal policies, improve infrastructure and generating...
by Josef Yap | On 29 Jan 2015 The paper distinguishes between the stock of income generating assets such as human capital and wealth and deriving income flows in order to clarify the differences between growth-equity trade off deb...
by Pierre Kohler | On 28 Jan 2015 The objective of paper is to demonstrate feasibility of nutrition-sensitive agriculture. The proposed model is being tested in two select locations to demonstrate improvement in nutrition status throu...
by M S Swaminathan | On 21 Jan 2015 The paper estimates the minimum wage's effects on low-skilled workers' employment and income trajectories. The increased binding minimum wage had significant, negative effects on the employment and in...
by Jeffrey Clemens | On 19 Jan 2015 The report argues the recent setback in global economy and ways to strengthen the growth in developing countries. with a view to undertake growth and recovery in high-income countries, there is need t...
by World Bank | On 14 Jan 2015 The paper explores the impact of the existence of such a mechanism on the effectiveness of various policy instruments in influencing outcomes on the official foreign exchange markets and GDP. The pape...
by R.Kavita Rao | On 13 Jan 2015 This study has used India Human Development Survey, 2005 to study
the factors influencing the Body Mass Index (BMI) of women between 20
to 40 years of age in India. BMI captures both undernutrition...
by Shikha Dahiya | On 28 Nov 2014 The objective of this paper is to analyse the nature and magnitude of the problem and determinants of child labour and their participation in the workforce at an early age. The results reveal that fam...
by Kabita Sahu | On 20 Nov 2014 Using rich longitudinal survey data from the Indonesia Family Life Survey (IFLS), evidence is
presented on the relationship between three measures of health- and education-related human capital
of c...
by Daniel LaFave | On 17 Nov 2014 In this study how number and members of income clusters have changed in Indian agriculture
over the last four and a half decades are traced. Two features which stand out in our results are that not a...
by Tirtha Chaterjee | On 14 Nov 2014 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 The report provides a detailed quantitative account of the four notified minority communities – Sikhs, Christians, Buddhists and Parsis using all available information. The study takes into account th...
by Institute Human Development | On 11 Nov 2014 Out-of-pocket payments make up a large proportion of total health expenditure leading to inequity amongst the poorer sections. Recently government of India has instigated various demand side financing...
by Harshad Thakur | On 11 Nov 2014 While the union government announced its plan to extend the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana to the unorganised working class poor. The Government of Maharashtra has decided to scrap RSBY and replace it...
by Sujata Gothoskar | On 11 Nov 2014 The tepid-to-torrid transformation in India’s economic growth since the early 1980s is one of
the big stories of recent times. Whereas “Midnight’s children” saw their standard of living
double ove...
by Arvind Subramanian | On 22 Oct 2014 The authors estimate the respective contributions of institutions, geography, and trade in determining income levels around the world, using recently developed instrumental variables for institutions...
by Arvind Subramanian | On 21 Oct 2014 This paper marks the first attempt at examining the growth performance across Indian states for the 2000s, a period also
marked by the global financial crisis. Four key finding emerge from the paper...
by Arvind Subramanian | On 21 Oct 2014 Why it is so hard
to find a robust effect of aid on the long-term growth of poor countries, even those with good
policies. A possible offset to the beneficial effects of aid is examined using a meth...
by Raghuram G. Rajan | On 20 Oct 2014 In 2008, two earnest young men set out to boost soya bean yields in the semi-arid region of Bundi in Rajasthan. Rainfall there is meagre and the soil lacks nutrients. But there are ready buyers for so...
by Civil Society | On 20 Oct 2014 India has the dubious distinction of having the highest burden of malnutrition in
the world – higher than Sub-Saharan Africa. Nearly 50 per cent of our children
are underweight and stunted and 70...
by National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, India | On 16 Oct 2014 Deforestation in developing and middle income countries is an urgent global problem, affecting climate change, soil erosion, major river basins, and livelihoods of poor households living near the fore...
by Jean Marie Baland | On 24 Sep 2014 ICDS is one of the most critical programmes of the Government of India, implemented by Department of Women and Child Development. In course of several fieldwork in North Bihar the investigating team o...
by Government of India Ministry of Women and Child Development | On 15 Sep 2014 Rapid rise in the price of food grains and their continued upsurge is a matter of concern for not only the government and policy makers but also for all concerned with social welfare. This is particul...
by Gopakumar K.U. | On 15 Sep 2014 Cultural traditions and a lack of legal protections are driving tens of millions of girls around the world into early marriage, subjecting them to violence, poverty and mistreatment. Equality Now, in...
by Equality Now | On 12 Sep 2014 Keeping in mind the significant number of labour engaged in informal sector of the economy, the report has probed into the characteristic of the informal labour force and the enterprises in which they...
by National Sample Survey Office NSSO | On 09 Sep 2014 Inter-state diversity has been a perennial feature of Indian agriculture. The study probes if per capita income in Indian agriculture has converged across states in the last four and a half decades. I...
by Tirtha Chaterjee | On 06 Sep 2014 The Planning Commission completed 50 years of its setting up on 15th March, 2000. At the time it was set up the purpose of the Planning Commission was to formulate the five year and the annual plans f...
by Planning Commission | On 18 Aug 2014 This paper studies how changes in climatic variables such as temperature and rainfall impact migration through agriculture. Bangladesh is recognized as one of the most vulnerable countries to climate...
by Paritosh Roy | On 31 Jul 2014 PUDR’s opposition to the penalty of death is three decades old. Like everything else our opposition on capital punishment is evolving and is a ‘work in progress’. Starting with serious objections to t...
by PUDR Peoples Union for Democratic Rights | On 25 Jul 2014 This paper describes four lessons derived from 115 rigorous impact evaluations of educational initiatives in 33 low- and middle-income countries. First, reducing the costs of going to school and provi...
by Richard Murnane | On 17 Jul 2014 This study examines the impact of India's Public Distribution System (PDS) on poor households in terms of income gains, reductions in the incidence and severity of poverty, as well as nutritional impr...
by R. Radhakrishna | On 07 Jul 2014 This study analyses the demand and supply side determinants of textile
and garments’ exports of Pakistan using time series data for the period 1972–
2010. Eight trading partners (US, UK, Canada, It...
by Rabia Latif | On 01 Jul 2014 This note provides an estimate of incidence of poor and poverty risk in India across NSS regions for
2004-05 and 2009-10 in rural and urban areas. It raises concern on increasing poverty risk and als...
by Srijit Mishra | On 23 Jun 2014 The present study analyses the labour market situation in India over the last two decades. Given the growth profile, which has been quite robust in recent years, one pertinent question is whether Indi...
by Arup Mitra | 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 position paper identifies that there is a strong need for a new and forward-looking education agenda that completes unfinished business while going beyond the current goals in terms of depth and...
by UNESCO UNESCO | On 16 May 2014 Gender equality is one of the six goals of the global Education for All campaign that UNESCO leads. This was launched in 2000, when the countries of the world agreed to “eliminate gender disparities i...
by Edward B. Fiske | On 12 May 2014 In the hopes of earning money for a better life, and with few other alternatives, millions migrate to big cities or across borders to work as live-in nannies, caretakers for the elderly, and house-cle...
by Nisha Varia | On 08 May 2014 This Report surveys critical aspects of human development, from political freedoms and empowerment to sustainability and human security, and outlines a broader agenda for research and policies to resp...
by Jeni Klugman | On 06 May 2014 The analysis in this report leads to an overall conclusion that the IFSS is an excellent strategy on paper and a relevant framework for different stakeholders, but in reality it lacks implementing pow...
by Josee Koch | On 29 Apr 2014 This report demonstrates that inequality in society is an old and fatal phenomenon. If left unchecked, it can undermine the very foundations of development and social and domestic peace. This Report r...
by United Nations Development Programme UNDP | On 18 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 Price transmission is theoretically examined and how exogenous consumer price shocks (triggered for instance by income changes, global shocks, or by changes in consumer preferences) are transmitted to...
by Johan F.M. Swinnen | On 20 Mar 2014 This report provides an independent review of the evidence about the impact of inequality. The report examines whether or not there is a link between income inequality and health and social problems;...
by Karen Rowlingson | On 14 Mar 2014 This paper shows how India initiated the process to integrate its domestic economy with the world economy from early 1990s due to severe balance of payments crisis, high fiscal deficit and high inflat...
by Indrajit Bairagya | On 10 Mar 2014 Global trade in goods and services, which today amounts to more than $20 trillion, includes a significant amount of double counting. Raw material extracted in one country may be exported first to a se...
by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development | On 10 Mar 2014 The paper discusses two of the trends in market-oriented health-sector reforms pushed forward from the international institutions, namely: the introduction of user fees for public services and the gro...
by Margaret Whitehead | On 04 Mar 2014 If banks solve an inter-temporal problem under adverse selection and moral hazard, then bank specific
factors, regulatory and supervisory features, market structure, and macroeconomic factors affect
...
by Jugnu Ansari | On 21 Feb 2014 While Asia continues to set pace as the world’s fastest growing region, some Asian middle-income countries (MICs) are showing signs of economic slowdown and face stiff competition from lower-cost econ...
by ASIA FOUNDATION | On 10 Feb 2014 The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has supported increased access to energy through the most cost-effective method—by expanding the electricity grid. Yet in this second decade of the 21st century, when...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | 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 Increasing job opportunities and decent work for women are essential for inclusive growth, and they are vital for advancing economic and social development in a country. This approach to attaining eco...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 16 Jan 2014 The paper is concerned with the high levels of infant and child illness and death amongst poor urban
slum communities in Rajasthan, a state with one of the highest infant mortality rates in India. Ur...
by Maya Unnithan Kumar | On 15 Jan 2014 During September 2013, Parliament passed the National Food Security Act (NFSA), 2013. The NFSA seeks to make the right to food a legal entitlement by providing subsidised food grains to nearly two-th...
by Sakshi Balani | On 07 Jan 2014 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 Despite high and long-lasting economic growth, inequalities are widening in most countries in Asia and the Pacific. Currently over 1.6 billion people in the region live on less than $2 per day, of whi...
by United Nations Economic and Social Commission (UNESCAP) | On 23 Dec 2013 This study is an attempt to generate empirical evidence on attitude towards risk of forest dependent
communities (FDCs). The FDCs covered in the study include two different geographical regions
from...
by B. Sundar | On 05 Dec 2013 This policy note offers a preliminary assessment of the compatibility between the WTO and efforts to protect the human right to adequate food as part of the post-crisis food security agenda. Existing...
by Olivier Schutter | On 02 Dec 2013 The existing literature on Indian growth finds no evidence of convergence across
states. This represents a puzzle given the relatively free flows of capital, labor and
commodities across state borde...
by Samarjit Das | On 27 Nov 2013 The major objective of the paper is to examine the economic conditions of the in-migrant
workers in Kerala. This has been done by analysing their savings, income and consumption
pattern and nature o...
by Dilip Saikia | On 11 Nov 2013 This paper examines who contributes and who persists in contributing in a national, voluntary, defined
contributory pension program, where the government provides the incentive of matching contributi...
by Renuka Sane | On 28 Oct 2013 This report synthesises a national study on domestic migration and remittance flows, four migration
corridor studies, and an analysis of the Indian payment system with respect to small money transfe...
by Y S P Thorat | On 22 Oct 2013 The article shows how it is possible to achieve economic growth and equitable income distribution using human development approach through empirical evidence from the state of Kerala.
by Ankush Agrawal | On 14 Oct 2013 The paper reports investigation of a study on the influence of various socio-demographic factors on
different dimensions of financial literacy among the working young in urban India. While the influe...
by Sobhesh Kumar Agarwalla | On 14 Oct 2013 The present study attempts to analyse the effect of capital gains and inheritance taxes on individual decisions to migrate. [NIPFP WP no. 81].
by Martin David | On 11 Oct 2013 This study estimates the weather sensitivity of rice yield in India, using disaggregated (district) level information on rice and high resolution daily
weather data over the period 1969-2007. Compare...
by Anubhab Pattanayak | On 11 Oct 2013 The project aims to grow fruits and vegetables on roof tops of community houses. This will be income generating for the community. [DRP].
by } Design Research Publication Cell DRP | On 10 Oct 2013 India’s Unique Identification (UID) project offers important lessons for other countries. UID’s performance data show that large
countries can implement biometric ID
programs with low levels of excl...
by Alan Gelb | On 07 Oct 2013 The Human Capital Index explores the contributors
and inhibitors to the development and deployment of a
healthy, educated and productive labour force, and has
generated the information contained in...
by World Economic Forum WEF | On 04 Oct 2013 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 A large-scale randomized experiment was conducted in the Philippines testing the impact of unilaterally facilitating international labor migration. [BREAD Working Paper No. 396].
by Emily Beam | On 03 Sep 2013 For agricultural subsidies to be efficient in improving farmers’ incomes and eradicating hunger, holistic policy intervention is required. Complementary policies such as increased access to credit and...
by Maria C.S. Morales | On 30 Aug 2013 This paper is an attempt to understand the emerging migration patterns in India and issues underlying it. With globalisation, urbanisation and accompanying changes in socio-economic conditions, migran...
by Sandhya Rani Mahapatro | On 07 Aug 2013 A recap of the previous poverty estimates can be found here. [Planning Commission]. URL:[http://planningcommission.nic.in/news/pre_pov2307.pdf].
by Planning Commission | On 05 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 The international trade in Afghan drugs is one of the most significant transnational threats emanating from Central Asia.
Exacerbated by weak border management, corruption, and lack of income-generat...
by Lars-Erik Lundin | On 26 Jul 2013 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 Theft and corruption are common in electricity distribution systems worldwide. Electricity theft is analysed in the framework of an individual’s choice under uncertainty and through a three-layered pr...
by Faisal Jamil | On 10 Jul 2013 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 28 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 An Observer portrays the plight of inter state migrants in India. Dreams are limns of reality that sometimes remain shattered, which also signifies the fact that life is a beautiful 'bitter fruit'.
...
by Raghu Raman | On 04 Jun 2013 This report attempts to provide a comprehensive
analysis of the state of water resource
development and management in India, based on
secondary information. It maps the current
challenges and sugg...
by Anjal Prakash | On 30 Apr 2013 This brief explores circular migration in India and the policy response, and impact of this
policy response, on the welfare of migrants and more broadly, on regional inequality. [ODI Policy Brief No....
by Kate Bird | On 24 Apr 2013 The present study is concerned with the migrant who has changed his/her place of
residence from a state other than Punjab and is working in brick-kiln industry as worker. [Repec]. URL:[http://mpra.ub...
by Gursharan Singh Kainth | On 15 Apr 2013 This paper records the findings of a small investigation into a fragment of experiences of people living on streets and into the social, economic, nutritional situation of urban homeless men, women, b...
by Harsh Mander | On 10 Apr 2013 The report investigate the relationship between growth and deprivation in India, an issue of immense interest. Given the continuing controversy in India over poverty lines, they used a framework that...
by Sripad Motiram | On 07 Mar 2013 There is lack of clarity and concepts in the Economic Survey. The Survey has not covered many topics which it was expected to cover.
by Suryanarayana M H | On 02 Mar 2013 The case of Bhubaneswar vending zone perfectly qualifies the theme of making market
work for the poor. This is a pioneering lead taken to develop an exclusive market for the vendors
which presents a...
by Randhir Kumar | On 01 Mar 2013 The budget has come with schemes for rural India. It has got schemes for women, youth and poor.
by Sunil Duggal | On 28 Feb 2013 Budget presented by Shri Prasanna Acharya. The first part contains the Agriculture Budget.
by Orissa Government | On 25 Feb 2013 Nagaland’s population decreased during 2001–11 after growing at abnormally high
rates during the past few decades. This is the first time since independence that a state
in India has witnessed an ab...
by Ankush Agrawal | On 21 Feb 2013 The estimates of receipt and income and expenditure pertaining to the Budgets ‘A’ (Fund code 11, 12, 60, 70), ‘B’ (Fund Code 21, 22, 23) and ‘E’ (Fund Code 40) for the financial year 2013-14 in pursua...
by Municipal Commissioner BMC | On 11 Feb 2013 A longitudinal household survey from World Bank Living Standards Measurement Survey (LSMS) was used for the study. A relatively small (but representative) sample of households residing in the mountain...
by Jean-Marie Baland | On 28 Jan 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 The determinants of exports of services, distinguishing between modern and
traditional services are considered. The growth of export volumes and so-called export surges –
periods of rapid sustained...
by Barry Eichengreen | On 02 Jan 2013 This study was conducted in 25 neighborhoods and 5 zones of the Ahmedabad
Municipal Corporation (AMC). A total of 50 sanitation workers were interviewed and
through them the condition of their famil...
by Ashish Mishra | On 05 Dec 2012 Middle-income countries (MICs) are now home to most of the world’s extreme poor—the billion people living on less than $1.25 a day and a further billion people living on between $1.25 and $2. At the s...
by Andy Sumner | On 05 Nov 2012 A rigorous econometric
analysis of a civil conflict is conducted that the Indian Prime Minister has called the single biggest internal
security challenge ever faced by his country, the so-called Mao...
by Davesh Kapur | On 13 Oct 2012 Is there a gender gap in mathematics across many low- and middle-income countries?
A detailed, comparable test score data is used to analyze this. Micro level data on school performance linked
to h...
by Prashant Bharadwaj | On 04 Oct 2012 This study aims at analyzing
the differentials across rich and poor states and across rich and poorer
strata and rural urban segments of 19 major Indian states. The study
indicates that besides ind...
by Brijesh C Purohit | On 28 Sep 2012 A historical narrative of Bihar is provided context to much of its current state, Focus is given on its contemporary economy in the past three decades to better understand the moribund state of its ec...
by Arnab Mukherji | On 28 Sep 2012 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 analyses the trends in volume of food subsidy in the post-reforms period (1991-92 to 2012-13) and then examines various components of food subsidy, which are under the control of FCI and th...
by Vijay Paul Sharma | On 20 Sep 2012 A primary census-type panel household survey is show that in 18 villages in rural China, child health status has barely improved in the past decades despite more than double digit of annual per capita...
by Xi Chen | On 07 Sep 2012 The task of the Sub-committee was to review the existing methodologies for estimating the contribution of unorganized/informal sector to GDP and suggest measures to facilitate direct estimation. The G...
by NCEUS NCEUS | On 06 Sep 2012 This Report is focused on the informal or the unorganized economy which accounts for an overwhelming proportion of the poor and vulnerable population in an otherwise shining
India. It concentrates on...
by NCEUS NCEUS | On 05 Sep 2012 A brief outline of the economic and financial structure of the State and the various financial inclusion initiatives taken by the Reserve Bank is highlighted. But there are some policy challenges in s...
by Deepak Mohanty | On 03 Sep 2012 Rapid ageing of the population globally represents an unprecedented historical trend. As pension and healthcare costs are positively correlated with rising incomes, ageing, urbanization, and a shift f...
by Azad Singh Bali | On 20 Aug 2012 Improving maternal and newborn health in low-income settings requires both health service and community
action. Previous community initiatives have been predominantly rural, but India is urbanizing....
by Neena Shah More | On 17 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 Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is increasing and is a risk for type 2 diabetes. Evidence supporting screening comes mostly from high-income countries. Prevalence and outcomes in urban Viet Nam ar...
by Jane E Hirst | On 03 Aug 2012 The frequency of intense floods and storms is increasing globally, particularly in Asia-Pacific,
amid the specter of climate change. Associated with these natural disasters are more variable
and ext...
by Vinod Thomas | On 26 Jul 2012 India is having large population, a fast growing economy with
national focus on inclusive growth and an urgent need to develop a vibrant and
stable financial system, it is all the more necessary to...
by Pranab Mukherjee | On 20 Jul 2012 What are the implications
of a green economy for the poor and hungry? How can the poor benefit
from and thrive under a green economy? What role can agriculture
play? What are the possible trade-off...
by Shenggen Fan | On 17 Jul 2012 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 Creating and developing fair and evidence-based national and global systems to more rationally set priorities for public spending on health. An interim secretariat should be there to incubate a global...
by Amanda Glassman | On 10 Jul 2012 The different role of intra- and inter-national university-industry collaboration in industrial
innovation in emerging economies are investigated. Based on a national firm-level survey database from...
by Xiaolan Fu | On 09 Jul 2012 A randomized evaluation of a school library program on children’s language skills is conducted. The program had little impact on students’ scores on a language test administered 16 months after implem...
by Evan Borkum | On 09 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 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 Recent events in India have brought a fresh focus on the appropriate regulatory stance towards micro-finance. In this paper, facts and recent experience about
Indian microfinance is reviewed. The puz...
by Renuka Sane | On 19 Jun 2012 The paper investigates the profitability of 78 Islamic banks in 25 countries for the period of 1992-2009. The Fixed Effect Model (FEM) used to analyse profitability shows that profit efficiency is pos...
by NOR HAYATI BT AHMAD | On 24 May 2012 The present paper is part of a larger study on agricultural
growth and rural incomes in the Philippines. This study examines
the farm-nonfarm linkages of agricultural growth and the mechanisms
by w...
by Arsenio M. Balisacan | On 24 May 2012 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 Adolescent fertility in low- and middle-income countries presents a severe impediment to development and
can lead to school dropout, lost productivity, and the intergenerational transmission of pover...
by Kate McQueston | On 15 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 A broad overview of the current state of pension systems in the People’s Republic of China, Indonesia, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Viet Nam is provided. An anal...
by Donghyun Park | On 30 Apr 2012 The NAC Working Group held three national consultations on different aspects of the issue of declining child sex ratio. The Working Group conveners also separately met with Ministry of Women and Child...
by Farah Naqvi | On 25 Apr 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 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 This paper provides a synthesis of the experiences of six countries (Brazil, China, India, Malaysia, Mexico, and Nigeria) in enhancing food security of their population. Approximately 46 per cent of t...
by Pooja Sharma | On 16 Apr 2012 The main objective of this paper is to explore the potential role of social pensions and other noncontributory schemes in Asia, informed by insights from theory and international experience. The paper...
by Armando Barrientos | On 13 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 SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTER
DATO’ SRI MOHD. NAJIB BIN TUN ABDUL RAZAK
INTRODUCING THE MOTION TO TABLE THE
TENTH MALAYSIA PLAN. [Prime Minister's office Malaysia]. URL:[http://www.pmo.gov.my/?menu=...
by Prime Minister Malaysia | On 11 Apr 2012 The link between poverty, the middle class and institutional outcomes are analyzed using a
newly developed cross-country panel dataset containing detailed information on the
distribution of income a...
by Norman Loayza | On 09 Apr 2012 The salient features of the budget estimates of 2012-13 of Madhya Pradesh. [Ministry of Finance Madhya Pradesh]. URL:[http://www.mp.gov.in/finance/index.htm].
by Madhya Pradesh Government | On 04 Apr 2012 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 The populous, fast growing emerging economies of Brazil, China, Egypt, India and South Africa face daunting challenges on the energy, environment and climate change fronts. These five countries accoun...
by Kirit Parikh | On 02 Apr 2012 The paper estimates the elasticity of Imports with respect to relative prices and income for Pakistan from 1971 to 2009. What distinguishes this paper from the earlier studies is the use of robust est...
by Khurram Ashfaq Baluch | On 30 Mar 2012 Despite recent achievements to reduce child mortality, neonatal deaths continue to remain high, accounting
for 41% of all deaths in children under five years of age worldwide, of which over 90% occur...
by Hadley K Herbert | On 29 Mar 2012 The poverty line deviates from the reality. The government's redefinition is a good thing, but the danger is it won't go far enough. [BS Weekend ruminations]. URL:[http://www.business-standard.com/ind...
by T.N. Ninan | On 27 Mar 2012 Budget for the year 2012-13. [Government of Maharashtra]. URL:[http://maharashtra.gov.in/pdf/english_speech_part_I.pdf].
by Maharashtra Government | On 27 Mar 2012 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 The paper considers the process of discovery for subsoil resources, including both hard minerals and
hydrocarbons and estimates its magnitude in recent years, as derived from the sum of extraction an...
by Alan Gelb | On 20 Mar 2012 Rapid demographic ageing is a growing public health issue in many low- and middle-income countries
(LAMICs). Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a construct frequently used to define groups of people...
by Ana Luisa Sosa | On 19 Mar 2012 The report reviews the status and performance of agriculture, especially
during the last two decades, and also presents what could be the way forward, given
our objectives of accelerated growth, inc...
by Ministry of Agriculture GOI | On 14 Mar 2012 BUDGET SPEECH 2011-2012 by
DR. ABDUL HAFEEZ SHAIKH, Minister for Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and
Planning & Development.
by Minister of Finance Pakistan | On 12 Mar 2012 The purpose of this report is twofold. First, a compendium of relevant data is presented on the state of the services sector in the ACI (ASEAN, PRC and India) countries, focusing on its contribution t...
by Ben Shepherd | On 12 Mar 2012 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 Utilizing data from the power corporation of Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state,
the politics of electricity theft over a ten year period (2000–09) is studied. It is seen that electricity the...
by Miriam Golden | On 06 Mar 2012 The vital status of 12,373 people aged 65 years and over was determined 3–5 years after baseline survey in
sites in Latin America, India, and China. Crude and standardised mortality rates are reporte...
by Cleusa P Ferri | On 05 Mar 2012 Poor governance and lack of state capabilities
in around 45 countries pose a
threat to global security and development.
The involvement of the international
community is required to help
these st...
by Wim Naudé | On 02 Mar 2012 The experience of childhood is increasingly urban. Over half the world’s people – including more than a
billion children – now live in cities and towns. This report adds to the growing body of eviden...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 01 Mar 2012 More than 13% of the global burden of
disease for mental disorders is due to
neuro psychiatric disorders, and over 70%
of this burden lies in low- and middleincome
countries. Suicide is one of the...
by Mark Tomlinson | On 01 Mar 2012 In India, as in many developing countries, wastewater is often used to
irrigate crops. This undoubtedly helps to recycle useful nutrients through
the food chain, but, as there can be toxic chemicals...
by Vivekananda Mukherjee | On 27 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 research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural
diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic
developm...
by Quamrul Ashraf | On 16 Feb 2012 Saving is an important part of the economic process that gives rise to investment and
economic growth. In this paper an attempt is made to explore the relationship between saving
and investment in t...
by Sanjib Bordoloi | On 14 Feb 2012 Unpredictable rainfall is an important risk for agricultural activity, and farmers in developing
countries often receive incomplete insurance from informal risk-sharing networks. The demand for, and...
by A. Mushfiq Mobarak | On 10 Feb 2012 This paper describes business and growth rate cycles with special reference to the Indian economy. It uses the classical NBER approach to determine the timing of recessions and expansions in the India...
by Pami Dua | On 10 Feb 2012 This 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 This paper examines the long-term impacts of improved school quality at the elementary school stage on subsequent schooling investments and labor market outcomes using unique data from a recent survey...
by Futoshi Yamauchi | On 31 Jan 2012 After a decade of rapid economic growth, many developing countries have attained middle-income status. But poverty reduction in these countries has not kept pace with economic growth. As a result, mos...
by Amanda Glassman | On 31 Jan 2012 Home to over 25 per cent of the world’s hungry poor, India faces major food security challenges and the situation has barely improved in two decades. Will the National Food Security Bill that the Indi...
by Sally Trethewie | On 27 Jan 2012 Production costs and crop incomes in drought years are analyzed to test a simplistic theory of risk based
on first principles. A mixed-methods framework is employed to draw inferences by combining da...
by Sarthak Gaurav | On 24 Jan 2012 The 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 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 The Task Force has identified that there is a need to re-assess the ultimate irrigation potential in the country. The report identifies that there is a need to increase irrigation efficiency and has s...
by Planning Commission | On 06 Jan 2012 As the world of work becomes increasingly
24 hour, shift work will become
more common. Shift work has the potential to
accelerate the progression of the global
epidemic of obesity and diabetes. Ob...
by PLoS Medicine Editors | On 06 Jan 2012 Based on the variable rate of gross domestic product per capita growth and its sources, this
paper first identifies five phases of economic development that are common to China, Japan,
and Korea: M...
by Masahiko Aoki | On 04 Jan 2012 The focus is on the central role played by state-regulated commission agents, known as brokers: agents who are widely present in Indian markets to assist sellers in finding buyers through organizing a...
by Bart Minten | On 29 Dec 2011 Major differences between the Lok Pal Bill 2011 and the Lok Pal and Lokayuktas Bill, 2011.URL: [http://www.prsindia.org/uploads/media/Lok%20Pal%20Bill%202011/Major%20differences%20between%20the%20Lok%...
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 28 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 This paper examines how the neoliberal policies have influenced the water
sector reform policies and interventions in India, particularly, in the states
of Maharashtra and Gujarat. In doing so, the...
by Viswanathan P K | On 26 Dec 2011 The underlying study intends to show the impact of foreign remittances
on the educational performance of children in the households receiving these
remittances. Much of the literature in this area c...
by Muhammad Nasir | On 13 Dec 2011 The distribution effects or incidence of consumption taxes such as the Value Added Tax (VAT), Goods and Services Tax (GST) remains a contentious issue. Three aspects have to be distinguished. First is...
by Parthasarathi Shome | On 13 Dec 2011 The paper reports the results of an empirical study on the profitability
of rice cultivation in the East Calcutta Wetlands region where untreated
sewage water from the city of Calcutta, India, is us...
by Vivekananda Mukherjee | On 13 Dec 2011 Review of the book 'Social Income and Insecurity: A Study in Gujarat' by
Guy Standing, Jeemol Unni, Renana Jhabvala, and Uma Rani
Routledge India, 2010 216 pages.
by N. Vijayamohanan Pillai | On 12 Dec 2011 The MHTF–PLoS Collection in
2011–12 will focus on quality of maternal
health care, as it is clear that such a focus
is now a global imperative [9]. The quality
of maternal health care is highly va...
by Samantha R Lattof | On 02 Dec 2011 The Pension Fund Regulatory
and Development Authority Bill,
2011 was introduced in the Lok
Sabha by Mr. Pranab Mukherjee,
Minister for Finance on March
24, 2011.
The Bill was referred to the
St...
by M. R. Madhavan | On 01 Dec 2011 This paper analyses the impact of the retail FDI policy on Indian consumers and make policy recommendations for the Indian government. Based on a primary survey of Indian consumers, the paper examines...
by Arpita Mukherjee | On 28 Nov 2011 This policy brief takes a preliminary look at portability of social
security in ASEAN, particularly old-age, retirement, and
survivor benefits. The next section discusses the growth of
intra-ASEAN...
by Gloria O. Pasadilla | On 28 Nov 2011 The trends in food
inflation over the past 60 years are given. Having thus set the context, the factors
driving structural food inflation, which should give us a perspective of the
underlying dynam...
by Duvvuri Subbarao | On 24 Nov 2011 Rural households in developing economies frequently use precautionary saving to cope with income risk. Such prudent behavior can be strengthened in transition economies where more risks are typically...
by Ling Jin | On 23 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 study tries to better understand three fields which seems
to be essential with respect to the problem of a facilitated
access to medicines :
1. the ambiguous position of intellectual property...
by Bastein Briand | On 17 Nov 2011 A
bill
to provide for the establishment of an Authority to promote old age income security by
establishing, developing and regulating pension funds, to protect the interests of
subscribers to sche...
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 17 Nov 2011 It is widely agreed by economists and political scientists that the middle class is vital to progress
because of its many virtues. But it is difficult to define a middle class by income in a manner t...
by Charles Kenny | On 16 Nov 2011 Mumbai is the capital of Maharashtra, a large highly industrialised, progressive state that until a decade ago, reported
remarkable progress on social and economic indices. Today, it is still a leadi...
by eSocialSciences eSS | On 11 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 India has embarked upon an economic model driven by the free market incorporating processes of liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation. Our children today live, in what some describe as “Brand...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 10 Nov 2011 The 1% rich and powerful have found the Occupy Wall Street movement unsettling and have also made attempts at curbing its influence and outreach. It is now possible for stock-traders in international...
by Bhalchandra Kango | On 08 Nov 2011 Goa is celebrating the Golden Jubilee Year of its Liberation. The recent economic achievements of the state are highlighted. The economic and financial structure of the state as well as the various fi...
by Deepak Mohanty | On 04 Nov 2011 This brief presents a review of the potential opportunities
and challenges of using nanotech applications for agriculture, food, and
water in developing countries. [IFPRI Policy Brief 19]. URL:[http...
by Guillaume Gruère | On 01 Nov 2011 Neighborhood Associations have assumed an important role in public policy decision making as the principal voice of the middle class across urban India. In recent years, these associations have sought...
by Poulomi Chakrabarti | On 20 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 The Indian economy has shown considerable resilience to the global economic crisis by maintaining one of the highest growth rates in the world. The services sector accounted for around 88 per cent of...
by Abhijit Das | On 13 Oct 2011 This paper examines
some of the explicit as well as not so explicit trends in relation to women’s
employment in India from 1993-94 till 2009-10 and argues that they indicate a
grave and continuing...
by Indrani Mazumdar | On 10 Oct 2011 Management of hunger has to look into issues of availability, accessibility and adequacy. Posing it from
an ethical perspective the paper argues out in favour of right to food. But, for this to happe...
by Srijit Mishra | On 30 Sep 2011 To ensure that the benefits to the poor go to the really poor, then there has to be proper definitions for poverty and poverty line. URL:[http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/t-n-ninan-poverty-...
by T.N. Ninan | On 28 Sep 2011 Over the last decade, the profile of central banks has gone up. First, we had the Great Moderation - a period of extraordinary benign macroeconomic environment globally, characterized by steady growth...
by Duvvuri Subbarao | On 27 Sep 2011 Income originating within geographical boundaries of urban and rural areas of Gujarat is estimated
for three benchmark years – 1993-94, 1999-00 and 2004-05 - at current prices following the broad
me...
by Ravindra H Dholakia | On 26 Sep 2011 Substantial international aid is spent reducing the cost of contraception in
developing countries, as part of a larger effort to reduce global fertility and
increase investment per child worldwide....
by Christopher McKelvey | On 09 Sep 2011 This paper focuses on macroeconomic linkages with agriculture. From an extensive
literature review the question that emerges is: is there a structural constraint in Indian
agriculture or does Indian...
by Munish Alagh | On 02 Sep 2011 This paper examines the structure of India’s cereal seed and agbiotech industries, its potential effects on innovation and social welfare, and the policies that may improve both industry performance a...
by David J Spielman | On 31 Aug 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 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 The present study discusses factors responsible for agricultural diversification at
different levels: country (India), state (Haryana) and farms of Kurukshetra district in
Haryana. The study regress...
by Brajesh Jha | On 29 Aug 2011 Agro-industries are given high priority in India particularly because of their great potential
for contributing to development. The emphasis on village-based agro-industries was
introduced almost a...
by Vasant P Gandhi | On 29 Aug 2011 Whether viewed as “land grabs” or as agricultural investment
for development, large-scale land deals by investors
in developing countries are generating considerable
attention. However, investors,...
by Julia Behrman | 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 Participatory irrigation management programme as a prelude to irrigation
management transfer to users is being set up by many states for over five
years now. Though it is recognized that the governm...
by R Parthasarathy | On 25 Aug 2011 This paper examines the strategy for obtaining adequate resources for the
Indian State, where the goals of the State comprise the provision of public
goods (which, by de nition, bene t everyone) and...
by P.V. Srinivasan | On 24 Aug 2011 Some services directly produce outputs that are important for human development, such as basic human services. Many other services are important inputs into the production and distribution of goods th...
by Ben Shepherd | On 24 Aug 2011 This study provides a profile of deprivation with respect to consumer expenditure,
cereal consumption and energy intake across demographic and agro-climatic regions
as defined by the National Sample...
by Suryanarayana M H | On 23 Aug 2011 Poor returns to cultivation and absence of non-farm opportunities are indicative of the larger
socio-economic malaise in rural India. This is accentuated by the multiple risks that the
farmer faces...
by Srijit Mishra | On 23 Aug 2011 This paper draws on the experiences of
the Far East Economic Crisis in 1998 and argues that: (1) the poor depended heavily
on bonding social capital during the Crisis, but the crunch-point beyond wh...
by Sam Wong | On 22 Aug 2011 There is a need to
focus more on the economic well-being
of the farmers, rather than just on
production. Socio-economic well-being
must be a prime consideration of
agricultural policy, besides pr...
by Ministry of Agriculture GOI | On 19 Aug 2011 This article looks into the role of land reform in comparison to concentric ef fort
to augment agricultural GDP. Redistribut ive land reform policy aims to improve
land endowments of poor, though va...
by Debdatta Pal | On 18 Aug 2011 Poverty and well-being are multidimensional. Nobody questions that deprivations and achievements
go beyond income. There is, however, sharp disagreement on whether the various dimensions of
poverty...
by Nora Lustig | On 11 Aug 2011 Food quality has become an important determinant of success in global food trade and growers for international markets have to continuously adjust to buyers’ requirements. It is however not clear to w...
by Anneleen Vandeplas | On 03 Aug 2011 Health care systems are
necessary in all countries, the importance
of strong health care systems to fragile
nations, and the damage done to these
systems during conflict, receive less attention
t...
by PLoS Medicine Editors | On 29 Jul 2011 Focusing on the power sector, Wheeler estimates energy growth and incremental costs for six low-carbon energy technologies (biomass, solar, wind, geothermal, hydro, and nuclear) in 174 countries from...
by David Wheeler | On 25 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 In this paper the evolution of beer consumption is analyzed between countries and over time. Historically, there have been major changes in beer consumption in the world. In recent times, per
capita...
by Liesbeth Colen | On 18 Jul 2011 A documentation of different aspects of human deprivation in the old age other than the
measurement of income poverty is done. Aspects of economic, health and social aspects of
deprivation and how i...
by Syam Prasad | On 14 Jul 2011 This paper examines challenges associated with early stages of decentralizing the
administration and management of forest resources. It is based on review of literature
on forest, decentralization a...
by Aruna Kumar Monditoka | On 07 Jul 2011 In this paper three diseases- malaria,diabetes and rotavirus- selected because of their contrast. The paper examines the severity of their presence in developing countries and suggests viable solution...
by Alyna C Smith | On 07 Jul 2011 This paper is an attempt to revisit the pioneering work of Riazuddin and Khan (2002). A complete
business cycle has been elapsed (2002-2010) since their study, so there is need to review the results
...
by Syed Kalim Hyder Bukhari | On 05 Jul 2011 The Fisher's equation has become a foundation stone of
modern macroeconomic, monetary and financial theories. Here it is shown that despite the estabilished status of Fisher's equation, it stands on...
by Rajas Parchure | On 04 Jul 2011 A common finding in the empirical civil war literature is that population size and per
capita income are highly significant predictors of civil war incidence and onset. This
paper shows that the com...
by Markus Brückner | On 27 Jun 2011 The Jubilee 2000 movement, which called for the cancellation of the foreign debts of the poorest nations, reached its zenith in the late 1990s and 2000—and then, by design, shut down. In the space of...
by David Roodman | On 22 Jun 2011 The present study is an evaluation of the food-for-work component of Sampoorna
Grameen Rozgar Yojana (SGRY) in Satara, Aurangabad, Gadchiroli and Akola districts of
Maharashtra. SGRY was launched al...
by Manoj Panda | On 21 Jun 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 burden from tank deterioration. Tank-based agricultural income make...
by R. Balasubramaniam | On 16 Jun 2011 Over the last 25 years, the international community has pursued a series of measures to address unsustainable debt burdens in low-income countries. Early actions focused on debt relief for official bi...
by Ben Leo | On 15 Jun 2011 The objective of this research and policy brief is to analyse different mechanisms of access to land for the rural poor in an era when redistribution through expropriative land reform is largely incon...
by Alain de Janvry | On 10 Jun 2011 This policy brief reports the main findings of the study on changes in within-country income inequality over the last two decades and on the links between poverty, inequality, and growth. It focuses o...
by Giovanni Andrea Cornia | On 08 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 In this paper the authors argue that two major factors underlie improved global health outcomes: first,
the discovery of cheap technologies that can dramatically improve outcomes; second, the adoptio...
by Ursula Casabonne | On 03 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 During the initial phases of the opening-up of the Chinese economy, the overriding objective was
to raise output and incomes. Economic restructuring undermined the health care system, which
became...
by Dhruv Mankad | On 26 May 2011 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 Microfinance programmes are known for their potential to generate income and employment and alleviate poverty in developing countries. They are considered for an important approach to poverty alleviat...
by National Council of Applied Economic Research | On 13 May 2011 This paper updates the Fund’s consolidated income and expenditure outlook
from the projections in January 2011. The paper incorporates and extends the income and budget projections in the companion...
by International Monetary Fund | On 13 May 2011 This paper contains the public statement on income and expenditure of
Fiscal Year 2010‐11. URL: [http://www.mof.gov.np/publication/speech/2010_1/pdf/budgetspeech_english.pdf]
by Ministry of Finance, Government of Nepal | On 10 May 2011 This paper examines
the employment and unemployment situation of the youth in India during the last two-and-half decades
namely, 1983 to 2007-08. It analyses the trends in labour force and workforce...
by S.Mahendra Dev | On 10 May 2011 “Sell to the poor if you want to be rich” were the words spoken by the experts in rural marketing. Every marketer loves to reach out to the fat wallets where the selling is obvious, easy and conspicuo...
by Kusum Dharamshi | On 09 May 2011 In this study the DAPCHDI
with the data given by Sarker et al. in their paper is re-computed to compare the composite index with
theirs. The HDR-2005 or the HDR-2006 adds little to the HDR-2004 da...
by S.K. Mishra | On 06 May 2011 National Budget of the country is the annual program of the Government's expenditure and income for a fiscal year. In a developing economy like Bangladesh, the national annual budgets reflect the gove...
by Atiur Rahman | On 03 May 2011 The excellent systematic review in this
week’s PLoS Medicine by Paul Garner and
colleagues focuses discussion on this
critical issue. Their finding of poor quality
in both the public and private s...
by Jishnu Das | On 29 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 Part I of the Budget speech by Finance Minister
by Maharashtra Government | On 18 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 This article is a research on the water services available in north eastern parts of Mumbai. It aims as highlighting the ability of communities to design and run functional systems to overcome the sho...
by Rémi de BERCEGOL | On 08 Apr 2011 The Department of Energy was created on 24th April 1990 consequent upon bifurcation of the then Irrigation & Power Department. Energy as in Electricity is one of the prime inputs for both the economic...
by Government of Orissa | On 05 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 State income, public finances, agriculture and animal husbandry, education, health, population etc are given importance in the economic survey. URL: [http://mahades.maharashtra.gov.in/files/publicatio...
by Maharashtra Government | On 23 Mar 2011 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 Most of the world’s poor no longer live in low-income countries. An estimated 960 million poor people—a new bottom billion—live in middle-income countries, a result of the graduation of several populo...
by Andy Sumner | On 21 Mar 2011 This
paper aims to review the main considerations around food price
movements. It includes a discussion on the impact of speculation. URL:[https://www.dbresearch.com/PROD/DBR_INTERNET_EN-PROD/PROD00...
by Claire Schaffnit Chatterjee | On 16 Mar 2011 Budget speech by Finance minister. URL:[http://punjabgovt.nic.in/departments/Budget/budget/budget.htm].
by Government of Punjab | On 16 Mar 2011 India has been running large-scale interventions in the energy
sector over the last decades. Still, there is a dearth of reliable and
readily available price and income elasticities of demand to bas...
by Haripriya Gundimeda | On 14 Mar 2011 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 The problems of failed states, including the repeated return to power of former warlords are examined. It is argued that this causes institutions to become weaker and people to get poorer. It is argue...
by Raghuram G. Rajan | On 04 Mar 2011 Budget presented to Municipal Commissioner
by Municipal Commissioner BMC | On 01 Mar 2011 This report is a call to policy makers and concerned citizens to use this talisman, to
redeem the pledges made by the Constituent Assembly and to recognise the fact that the numbers and proportions o...
by Aasha Kapur Mehta | On 22 Feb 2011 This policy brief aims to summarise evidence and discuss various concerns about charging user fees from a low-income perspective.
by ... CEHAT | On 16 Feb 2011 Increasing life expectancy in South Asia is resulting in a demographic transition that can, under the right
circumstances, yield dividends through more favorable dependency ratios for a time. With ag...
by Michael Maurice Engelgau | On 10 Feb 2011 This submission to the UNCRC Committee is primarily addressing the right to be heard in
judicial processes. It analyses the space available within the legal system that ensures that
children are giv...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 07 Feb 2011 The aim of this paper is to study the devolution of finances in Karnataka. For facilitating the study the budgets of Zilla Panchayats of four districts are analyzed and also development of these regio...
by A. Indira | On 07 Feb 2011 The effects of climate change have been and will be worse in poor countries and small-island states, those least able to adapt to the climate-related disasters. In this paper, senior fellow David Whee...
by David Wheeler | On 01 Feb 2011 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 offers a conceptualisation of social security and income redistribution schemes which highlights the strong overlaps between the two. Indeed, it is virtually impossible to disentangle the t...
by Ravi Kanbur | On 27 Jan 2011 This paper grew out of our bewilderment with the insouciance with which some in the donor
community seem ready to abandon accounting for the use of aid. If one listens to the rhetoric
surrounding...
by Nathalie Holvoet | On 20 Jan 2011 International comparisons of average national incomes omit important information about
leisure, home production, health, etc. They are also bedevilled by index number
problems. This paper suggests...
by Steve Dowrick | On 17 Jan 2011 There has been growing concern over conversion of coastal rice paddies to shrimp farms. This study estimates the external cost of shrimp-induced salinity on crop production by comparing two villages i...
by L. Umamaheswari | On 13 Jan 2011 Bourguignon and Fields (‘Poverty Measures and Anti-Poverty Policy’) and
Gangopadhyay and Subramanian (‘Optimal Budgetary Intervention in Poverty
Alleviation Schemes’) have derived optimal budgeta...
by S. Subramanian | On 07 Jan 2011 Endemic poverty is the stark reality that one confronts immediately about rural Bangladesh. Almost
50% of the rural households are now bereft of any visible resources, which could enable them to eke
...
by Monirul Islam Khan | On 06 Jan 2011 The Meghna-Dhonagoda Embankment (MDE) is an example of a flood control scheme which also regulates
irrigation and drainage of the area inside it. This intervention in the natural functioning of the e...
by Saira Ansary | On 06 Jan 2011 The basic objective of this study was to look at the profit rates made by VO members once they have
made investments in projects financed through BRAC loans. BRAC’s twin objectives of employment and
...
by Hassan Zaman | On 28 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 study explores the effect of women’s involvement in BRAC’s income and health development
activities on the nutritional status of their children aged 6-72 months. MUAC measurements of 1,518
chil...
by Masuma Khatun | On 23 Dec 2010 This study examines the marginal productivity of water and other inputs in dry season rice production in Bangladesh. Agriculture is the major water using sector in Bangladesh, but water is in shortsup...
by Nasima Tanveer Chowdhury | On 17 Dec 2010 Health evidence confirms that the
burden of disease associated with inadequate
Hygience, Sanitation, Water (HSW) is overwhelmingly (although
not exclusively) carried by the poor and
disadvantaged...
by Jamie Bartram | On 16 Dec 2010 There is a high prevalence of antepartum depression and low birth weight (LBW) in Bangladesh. In
high- and low-income countries, prior evidence linking maternal depressive and anxiety symptoms with i...
by Hashima E Nasreen | On 14 Dec 2010 This paper reviews recent research dealing with the relationships between economic
growth, income distribution, and poverty. This generally fails to find any systematic
pattern of change in income d...
by Arne Bigsten | On 09 Dec 2010 Using information in the public domain and data from a pilot study, this paper
argues that adoption of life-cycle cost approaches (LCCA) could play a significant role in rectifying this
situation by...
by V Ratna Reddy | On 08 Dec 2010 Over the last decade, India has been one of the fastest growing economies, and has
experienced considerable decline in overall income poverty. However, in a vast country
like India, poverty levels v...
by Shatakshee Dhongde | On 03 Dec 2010 This paper surveys the various composite well-being indices that have been inter-country
assessments over the last 40 or soy ears, including the well known Human Development Index
(HDI). A number of...
by Mark McGillivray | On 03 Dec 2010 This paper introduces two composite indices of globalization. The first is based on the
Kearney/Foreign Policy magazine and the second is obtained from principal component
analysis. They indicate...
by Almas Heshmati | On 30 Nov 2010 Structural adjustment, as measured by the number of adjustment loans from the IMF
and World Bank, reduces the growth elasticity of poverty reduction. Growth does
reduce poverty, but the author find...
by William Easterly | On 19 Nov 2010 This paper is a look at the food balance sheet of Kerela, the extent of undernutrition and malnutrition in Kerela. For ths purpose, 57 items of food normally available in the State were taken into acc...
by P.G.K. Panikar | On 19 Nov 2010 This paper discusses the issue of social responsibility of Indian microfinance
using two theoretical streams from business social responsibility research –
stakeholder theory and social contract the...
by Tara S Nair | On 15 Nov 2010 Economic development brings about, with rising national product and income per capita, certain broad changes in the structure of production and industrial distribution of the working force. It has lo...
by P.G.K. Panikar | On 10 Nov 2010 Many editors
are likely to deny that thoughts of a rising Impact Factor
(IF) might influence their acceptance rates.
by Harvey Marcovitch | On 05 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 They conducted a global study of the long-term issuer ratings of nonfinancial firms from Standard and Poor's Ratings Services (S&P) for the period 1998–2003. Specifically, they focused on the solicite...
by Winnie P. H. Poon | 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 It outlines the broad framework and the strategy for poverty
reduction based on four pillars: (a) accelerating economic growth while maintaining the
macroeconomic stability; (b) improving the govern...
by Ministry of Finance, Government of Pakistan, | On 19 Oct 2010 The Mekong is under threat. The governments of Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand
are considering plans to build eleven big hydropower dams on the Mekong River’s
lower mainstream. If built, these dams wou...
by International Rivers Network IRN | On 19 Oct 2010 Kerala has been a model to other states for her achievements in
social development. But in terms of economic growth her performance
has for long been very poor and a matter of deep concern. In this...
by P. Mohanan Pillai | On 08 Oct 2010 The Indian economy has recently grown at historically unprecedented rates and is now one of the
fastest-growing economies in the world. Real GDP per head grew at 3.95 percent a year from
1980 to 2...
by Angus Deaton | On 05 Oct 2010 This paper speaks to companies seeking practical ways to alleviate global poverty. The
private sector has several inherent competitive advantages to bring to bear in this effort
through which they c...
by Staci Warden | On 15 Sep 2010 The government gave out some interesting numbers on Monday. The revenue secretary told a news conference that nearly 96 per cent of the 32.5 million who pay income tax reported a taxable income of und...
by T.N. Ninan | On 14 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 In this paper, the influence of stronger intellectual property protection on technology transfer into developing countries via licensing is analyzed. Using panel data for the post-TRIPs period 1995-20...
by Sunil Kanwar | On 09 Sep 2010 In this paper, we analyze the extent to which market forces create an incentive for cloning
human beings. We show that a market for cloning arises if a large enough fraction of the clone’s
income ca...
by Gilles Saint Paul | On 13 Aug 2010 This paper attempts to examine the relationship between health and economic growth. The rate of growth is measured using gross national income (GNI) and health status is measured using infant mortalit...
by Garima Malik | On 04 Aug 2010 This piece is a discussion of the pros and cons of incomes tax, and the people who administer it, initiated on the occasion of Income Tax Day.
by T.N. Ninan | On 03 Aug 2010 BRAC designed and implemented a project namely Kallyan project aiming to
improve the quality of life of the retrenched workers of state-owned enterprises of
Bangladesh. This study aimed to map the p...
by Narayan Chandra Das | On 28 Jul 2010 This paper is a report on an on-going project, which asks a number of questions
relevant to the study of state capacity. What are the main economic
and political determinants of the state’s capacity...
by Timothy Besley | On 15 Jul 2010 Incomplete information is a commitment device for time consistency problems. In the context of time consistent labour income taxation privacy can lead to a Pareto superior outcome and increases the ef...
by Kai A. Konrad | On 09 Jul 2010 This brief will argue that Constituency Development Funds (CDFs) have a negative impact on accountability and service delivery that most poor countries can ill afford. The risks associated with CDFs s...
by Albert van Zyl | On 08 Jul 2010 The impact of globalization on global and local inequality is hotly debated in the recent
literature. This study considers the separate issue of the impact of globalization on
poverty through quan...
by Adriaan Kalwij | On 28 Jun 2010 Various trends, including an increasing emphasis on fiscal decentralization; political democratization in many areas; globalization and the financial liberalization that often accompanies it; growing...
by James Alm | On 18 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 This study aimed to explore the current state of awareness and knowledge among the community people about presbyopia and its treatment, barriers to detection of presbyopia and its correction by using...
by Syed Masud Ahmed | On 10 Jun 2010 In this
paper an argument is made that the concept of inclusive growth should go beyond the traditional emphasis on the poor
(and the rest) and take into account changes in the size and economic c...
by Nancy Birdsall | On 31 May 2010 This paper studies the impact of services trade liberalization under the currently negotiated EU-India
FTA on women’s lives in India and tries to delineate the concern areas. Relevant sectors of int...
by Ranja Sengupta | On 25 May 2010 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 Is Asia a cohesive analytical unit in any practical sense?
by T.N. Ninan | On 17 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 argues that the relation between temptations and the level
of consumption plays a key role in explaining the observed behaviors of
the poor. Temptation goods are defined to be the set of...
by Abhijit Banerjee | On 13 May 2010 Obstacles to improving survival include: many newborn infants are invisible to
health services; care-seeking for maternal and newborn ailments is limited;
health workers are often not skilled and co...
by Nirmala Nair | On 03 May 2010 This paper reviews the capacity of colleges and universities to serve poor and vulnerable populations during past and present economic shocks. The main argument is that the environment of the global r...
by Gerard Postiglione | On 12 Apr 2010 The editors stress the impact of inadequate road safety on global health, in both developed and low- and middle-income countries. "Research into the risk factors for injury from road traffic crashes,...
by PLoS Medicine | On 08 Apr 2010 Report from the 11th Media Dialogue ’North East: Fallen off the Media Map? or Why Does the Media Give so Lettle Space to this Vast Region?
by Shambhu Ghatak | On 07 Apr 2010 This paper examines migrants choice of destination conditional on migration. To this
end, an empirical strategy is designed which remedies both migration selection and unobserved
heterogeneity probl...
by Marcel Fafchamps | On 18 Mar 2010 This paper uses the most recent wave of Consumer Expenditure Survey 2004-05 to examine the distribution of Out of Pocket (OOP) healthcare payments in India. [WP 418].
by Udaya S. Mishra | On 08 Mar 2010 Budget speech by finance minister Dr. Thomas Issac
by Government of Kerala Govt | On 05 Mar 2010 The paper discusses the participation of poor participate in growth, and how different forms of growth connect to poverty. Also the paper discusses important policy levers, in relation to agriculture,...
by Chronic Poverty Research Centre CPRC | On 18 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 The purpose of this study was to explore the role and importance of human resources for the
scaling up of health services in low income countries. In the case studies, the following have been analyze...
by Christoph Kurowski | On 28 Jan 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 The record of different post reform governments in meeting their targets and improving both delivery and finances is assessed. A variety of indices are constructed, and consistency checks devised to m...
by Ashima Goyal | On 27 Jan 2010 A review of the various primary measures of inflation with a particular reference to the divergence between WPI and CPI. Focus is also given on different secondary (derived) measures of inflation, par...
by Deepak Mohanty | On 21 Jan 2010 Available evidence suggests high intergenerational correlation of economic status,
and persistent disparities in health status between the rich and the poor. This paper
proposes a novel mechanism li...
by Shankha Chakraborty | On 19 Jan 2010 This note seeks to show that the debate on ‘Pro-Poor Growth’ is sterile and largely
academic with few policy insights.
by Suryanarayana M H | On 15 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 Discusses about the different poverty measuements.
by T.N. Ninan | On 22 Dec 2009 Kerala’s success in human development demonstrated that efficient functioning of government
health care delivery system opens the doors of prosperity for the poor and vulnerable sections
of the popu...
by Varatharajan D | On 21 Dec 2009 A fact-finding mission was undertaken by HAQ: Centre for Child Rights in June 2006 at the request of the Child Welfare Committee, Nirmal Chhaya, Delhi, to follow-up on the children rescued from the Za...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 16 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 Indian cities are characterised by rapid growth in human as well as motor vehicle populations. Although the poor benefit the least from motor vehicle activity, they bear the brunt of its impacts. The...
by Madhav Badami | On 26 Nov 2009 This conference is one of the most important and most complex in the history of climate policy negotiations. The objective is to form a treaty as a successor for the Kyoto Protocol. To enable a breakt...
by Eric Heymann | On 26 Nov 2009 Introducing patent rights in developing country markets might stimulate greater R and D investment targeting their specific health needs – areas long neglected. This paper examines this argument using...
by Jean O Lanjouw | On 26 Nov 2009 Health data, poverty, and inequality exist in a complex global co-dependency, therefore making meaningful comparisons of health across widely different settings challenging. Less data exist on the hea...
by Peter Byass | On 24 Nov 2009 The time may have come to stop thinking of five-year plans, and to focus instead on 10- and 20-year scenarios.
by T.N. Ninan | On 23 Nov 2009 This paper mainly addresses the economic dimensions, concentrating on the importance of international trade to state-building and the need for global public goods in a global market economy. The focu...
by Tony Addison | On 23 Nov 2009 This 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 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 Questions about Chinese aid—how large it is and how fast it is growing; how decisions are made on how much aid is provided each year; which countries receive it and how much they get; how the aid is m...
by Carol Lancaster | On 10 Nov 2009 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 Review of the most salient issues in ecological economics when the subject is applied to the field of economic development. The aim here has
not been to be scholastic but to examine the lives of the...
by Partha Dasgupta | On 06 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 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 Private practice in the health sector was re-introduced from 1980, when China began its economic reform from a planned economy to a market economy. But today the total number of private sector provide...
by Ying Bian | On 30 Sep 2009 There is a growing recognition that global warming is a problem, but little attention
has been paid to the likely impact at the country level, especially in the developing
world. The stakes for worl...
by William R Cline | On 23 Sep 2009 Are economic reforms and the greater role of markets responsible for growth being anti-poor and anti-equality, or is it the failure of governance in poverty-ridden states like Bihar and Jharkhand that...
by T.N. Ninan | On 22 Sep 2009 India is home to fantastic water harvesting traditions that have evolved over millennia. The central western Himalayan states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand are no exceptions to these traditions....
by People's Science Institute PSI | On 21 Sep 2009 This paper is an attempt to apply the technique of social cost - benefit analysis to the problem of choice of technology in building construction in Kerala. [WP No. 30].
by K P Kannan | On 21 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 This paper based on Indian and international documents assesses existing definition, criteria and methodologies for estimating employment and income generated in the informal economy in India. [NCEUS...
by Sheila Bhalla | On 02 Sep 2009 The study attempts to examine the impact of remittances on macroeconomic activities (private consumption and investment) and its implications on economic growth in India for the period from 1966-67 to...
by Hrushikesh Mallick | On 01 Sep 2009 This paper explores the efforts of government to interrupt the intergenerational transmission of poverty. It focuses on the practices and effects of the Primary Education Stipend Programme, a conditio...
by Naomi Hossain | On 17 Aug 2009 This paper examines the efficacy of the current system of public foodgrains management and
policies in promoting food security in the country. It argues that the system has outlived its
usefulness,...
by A. Ganesh Kumar | On 13 Aug 2009 The focus should be to simplify the technology which can operate on any platform. The technology solution to the business needs should be user-friendly without much third-party or IT vendor interventi...
by Chakrabarty K C | On 11 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 Despite the negative impact of the current crisis and many
remaining uncertainties about the actual economic recovery path,
the medium-term outlook for Hong Kong’s banks remains
favourable.
by Robert Mülhaupt | On 15 Jul 2009 A large number of new Shasthya Shebikas were recruited under the maternal, neonatal and child health (MNCH) program besides the existing ones. This study attempts to explore whether and how the income...
by Mahjabeen Rahman | On 27 Jun 2009 This paper examines the extent to which income differences across the racial groups can account for observed residential segregation. The authors adopt an approach to the decomposition of segregation...
by Rajiv Sethi | On 27 Jun 2009 This note analyses the major characteristics of the current inflationary episode in the economy along with its probable impact on different population groups in Bangladesh. The note also draws some po...
by Mustafa. K. Mujeri | On 27 Jun 2009 The paper analyzes the effects of changes in consumption factor on the calculation of inflation calculation in Bangladesh. This is important as there might exist some volatile and non-trend components...
by Md. Habibour Rahman | On 27 Jun 2009 The objectives of this paper are to assess the knowledge retention on IGA training, and to explore the quality of participation in financial and non-financial services by the BDP ultra poor. We found...
by Proloy Barua | On 25 Jun 2009 Groundwater has rapidly emerged to occupy a dominant place in India’s agriculture and food security in the recent years. It has become the main source of growth in irrigated area over the past 3 decad...
by Vasant P Gandhi | On 23 Jun 2009 Sal seeds could provide effective livelihoods support for poor people when few alternative natural resource based strategies are available
by Sanjoy Patnaik | On 23 Jun 2009 It is critical to emphasize that intergovernmental fiscal relations must be thought of as a system and that all the pieces in the system must fit together if decentralization is to work properly. Vari...
by Richard.M. Bird | On 16 Jun 2009 The paper examines the impact of recent inflation and financial shocks on the vulnerable, and explores policy design to reduce both future shocks and vulnerability to shocks. Inflation affects the typ...
by Ashima Goyal | On 22 May 2009 Papers and Proceedings of The Third Annual Himalayan Policy Research ConferenceSession Chairs and Discussants
Session 1A: Conflict Resolution and Democratic Transitions
Chair: Christopher Can...
by Vijaya R. Sharma | On 19 May 2009 This paper will hopefully provide an important methodological tool for all
researchers who may be attempting to analyze and explain the growth of the service
sector and its share in the Indian GDP o...
by Barry Eichengreen | On 08 May 2009 To understand how gender, women’s rights and citizenship intersect with innovation in SouthAsia, one must begin by considering some of the main features of life for South Asian women, about a half of...
by Sujata Byravan | On 06 May 2009 2009 Budget speech
by Ministry of Finance and Planning Sri Lanka | On 20 Apr 2009 Speech of Sri K. Rosaiah
by Government Andhra Pradesh | On 23 Feb 2009 Budget speech by finance minister Dr. Thomas Issac
by Government of Kerala Govt | On 23 Feb 2009 This paper argues that it is becoming increasingly difficult for
most developing countries to achieve rapid growth through industrialization, and especially through export oriented activities. But th...
by Peter Sheehan | On 03 Feb 2009 The paper proposes a Public accountability information system (PAIS), with a web enabled public information system and a smart card recording all the benefits that the poor are entitled to receive thr...
by Arvind Virmani | On 22 Jan 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 A framework for national surveillance, monitoring, and research that could help inform guideline development in low-income settings. [Plos Medicine Policy Forum].
by Mike English | On 07 Jan 2009 Building upon a larger research project at four sites in the Western Ghats
of peninsular India, this study examines the link between stream flow, agricultural water use and
economic returns to agric...
by SHARACHCHANDRA LELE | On 02 Jan 2009 The pharmaceutical industry is expanding worldwide. For some years now, it has been benefiting from the particular dynamics of the Asian economies as both purchasers and producers. It is not only the...
by Uwe Perlitz | On 12 Dec 2008 This paper quantifies the impact of terrorism and conflicts on income per capita growth in Asia for 1970–2004. Transnational terrorist attacks had a significant growth-limiting effect. An additional t...
by Khusrav Gaibulloev | On 05 Dec 2008 What does citizenship mean to poor and socially excluded people? How do their views help us understand and analyse what 'inclusive' citizenship means?
by Naila Kabeer | On 20 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 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 It is attempted to understand the implications of equality in water distribution on social welfare with a simple abstract analysis using Leontief-type fixed production function.
by Sashi Sivramakrishna | On 16 Oct 2008 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 Watershed development is a very important rural development programme in India. This paper studies 60 community groups in 12 micro-watersheds in South India to understand how villagers cooperate to ma...
by D. Suresh Kumar | 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 It is argued that the reason for the ills of irrigation management is the alienation of
farmers from the process of planning and implementation. Often 'lack of political will' is identified as the ma...
by V. Ratna Reddy | On 23 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 This report is about people living in chronic poverty – people who remain
poor for much or all of their lives, many of whom will pass on their poverty to
their children, and all too often die easily...
by Chronic Poverty Research Centre CPRC | On 15 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 This study examines the contribution of tourism towards improving the livelihoods of local people in a remote island village of the Indian Sundarbans.
by Indrila Guha | On 18 Aug 2008 The current paper is an attempt to capture the process of child development along the age continuum of 0 to 11, with special reference to children living in diverse poverty situations.
by Vimala Ramachandran | On 08 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 The Poverty Argument arises from the single fact that any family with a critically low level of income and struggling to keep “the wolf from the door” must, in order to survive, send the children to w...
by M. Nagarjuna | On 23 Jul 2008 In this paper, a model of North-South trade is developed to analyze the impact of a label certifying the absence of child labour in the export production of the South. [WP no 144].
by Jean Marie Baland | On 19 Jul 2008 The 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 The ultra poor are caught in a below-subsistence trap from which it is difficult for them to break free using available resources and mechanisms. Time is not an ally for the ultra poor, as things gene...
by Imran Matin | On 01 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 An important method of managing resources to finance consistent and
balanced human development lies in the reprioritisation of current
expenditure in accordance with the urgent needs and shortfalls...
by Tapas K. Sen | On 13 May 2008 In the past tank systems of water storage and use played an important role in the region’s prosperity. In recent times these tanks are being neglected. A case in point is the Kaveripakkam tank in Tam...
by K Sivasubramaniyan | On 03 May 2008 The principles of the ‘bottom-up’ approach to adaptation are followed. It believes that one of the starting points for adaptation to climate change should be the present. The focus should not just be...
by Lucy Scott | On 13 Apr 2008 This paper deals with the integration of gender in policies relating to information and communication technology to empower socially excluded poor women as producers of this technology. In this contex...
by Mohanan Pillai P | On 25 Mar 2008 Speech describes India’s experiences on ‘Inclusive Growth’ - a topic which is both current and close to the hearts of public policymakers and central bankers of emerging economies. [Independence Comme...
by Usha Thorat | On 14 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 SPEECH OF SRI K. ROSAIAH, HONOURABLE FINANCE MINISTER WHILE PRESENTING THE BUDGET FOR THE YEAR 2008-09 TO THE ANDHRA PRADESH STATE LEGISLATURE.
by Government Andhra Pradesh | On 10 Mar 2008 The budget is an election budget. There are lots of sectors which needs more attention. Many questions are raised at the end of the document which the government may fail to answer
by Arun Kumar | On 04 Mar 2008 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 Shows how the macro economic variables of Indian Economy are performing.
by P Chidambaram | On 11 Feb 2008 The first of the eight Millennium Development Goals is to halve extreme poverty and hunger by 2015. In India, thirty two and a half million people fall below the national poverty line by making out-of...
by Charu C. Garg | On 07 Feb 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 World AIDS Day, the annual December 1 commemoration, first took place in 1988 under the auspices of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS. At that time there was no idea about HIV treatment b...
by PLoS Medicine | On 11 Jan 2008 The United Nations Development Programme has just put out its latest Human Development Report, containing the human development index (HDI) for 177 countries, with the data being for 2005. India ranks...
by T.N. Ninan | On 03 Dec 2007 The scope for bancassurance models as feasible source of sustainable income to banking sector is explored by exploiting the synergy in the context of India having the largest banking network on the on...
by Karunagaran A | On 27 Nov 2007 Only when (and if) the “haves” develop genuine empathy for the “have-nots,” and come to acknowledge their own long-term interdependence with all other humans, will the global economy be improved to an...
by PLoS Medicine | On 06 Nov 2007 To assess the effectiveness and draw lessons from the targeting strategy used in a new BRAC programme called Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction-Targeting the Ultra Poor (CFPR/TUP) that aim...
by Imran Matin | On 09 Oct 2007 The Expert Group constituted by the Planning commission to examine issues related to groundwater management and ownership has made extensive recommendations tha need to be taken seriously. Most impor...
by K.V. Raju | On 04 Oct 2007 It is time India recognises its dependency on groundwater resources, which is only going to increase in the coming years, partly because of growing urbanisation and industrialisation. In view of the g...
by Kirit Parikh | On 03 Oct 2007 Over the last decade there has been a major push within policy circles to strengthen community initiatives related to natural resources management. The success or failure of such projects is an import...
by Athula Senaratne | On 29 Aug 2007 This paper is principally focused on the changes in the size and structure of work force and the changes in labour productivity, wages and poverty in India in the first quinquennuim of the 21st centur...
by K. Sundaram | On 30 Jul 2007 If the poor are to benefit from economic growth, then they need the skills that are in growing demand, and the capacity to raise their productivity as smallholder farmers and micro-entrepreneurs. Yet,...
by Tony Addison | On 20 Jul 2007 What exactly is 'economic marginalization'? How should one conceptualize it, and what are the implications of such conceptualization? Economic marginalization can be conceptualized as outcome or as p...
by Ravi Kanbur | On 05 Jul 2007 The PDS programme in Gujarat since the formation of the State in 1960 is reviewd and comments are given briefly upon its effectiveness in delivery. The food security issue for the poor is also address...
by Sudarshan Iyengar | On 04 Jul 2007 This paper measures environmental efficiency (EE) and environmental productivity (EP) and analyses differences in these across countries. It explores the macroeconomic factors that could explain these...
by Surender Kumar | On 14 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 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 A dynamic heterogeneous agent general equilibrium model is constructed to quantify the effects of child labor legislation on human capital accumulation and the distribution of wealth and welfare. Cruc...
by Dirk Krueger | On 23 May 2007 This paper focuses on government investment and expenditure policies.
Going beyond the growth experience, the author also tries to relate the
policy experience to the issues of aggregate poverty, in...
by Arvind Virmani | On 25 Apr 2007 Attention has been paid to the significance of the non-farm sector in the rural Indian economy since the early 1970s. The importance of earnings from secondary non-farm occupations is not well documen...
by Peter Lanjouw | On 23 Mar 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 Finance Secretary's Memorandum on
Budget Estimates year 2007-2008
by Finance Ministry Chhattisgarh | On 09 Mar 2007 The paper disuses and analyzes the condition of cotton farmers of Andra Pradesh and the reasons for their committing suicides.
by Reji K Joseph | On 05 Mar 2007 The urban advantage in health masks enormous disparities between the poor and the
non-poor in urban areas of Sub Saharan Africa. Specific policies geared at preferentially improving the health and nu...
by Jean-Christophe Fotso | On 23 Feb 2007 A desert journey, from a pool where both humans and camels drank, to a bavadi then to a water tap in Khaba village has some valuable lessons about the ground realities of the social forces around wate...
by Meera Baindur | On 16 Feb 2007 Banking sector in India is currently passing through an exciting and challenging
phase. The reform measures have brought about sweeping changes in this vital sector
of the country's economy. This pa...
by Ramasastri A.S. | On 10 Jan 2007 People in poor countries live shorter lives than people in rich countries so that, if we scale income by some index of health, there is more inequality in the world than if we consider income alone. S...
by Angus S. Deaton | On 28 Dec 2006 A commonly alleged pitfall of decentralization is that poverty, socio-economic inequality and lack of political competition allow local elites to capture local governments. This hypothesis is empirica...
by Pranab Bardhan | On 27 Dec 2006 There are two factors that make additional central
transfers for reinforcing health services essential: (a) while
the prescription of spending 3 percent of GDP on health
may be an appropriate objec...
by Mita Choudhury | On 26 Dec 2006 Close observers especially in the water and forestry sector point out that user
organizations may not fit well within the system of local governance and “linking them to Panchayats may undermine thei...
by Videh Upadhyay | On 20 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 This report documents the history of the systems of rice intensification (SRI, for short) in India in the last few years and presents some of the institutional changes and challenges that SRI throws u...
by C. Shambu Prasad | On 06 Dec 2006 Ironically the poverty situation, as reflected in the official statistics, depicts a
rather contrary scenario with dryland regions having lower incidence of poverty
despite their adverse agro-climat...
by Amita Shah | On 29 Nov 2006 There is a glaring paradox in all commonly used measures of poverty.
The death of a poor person, because of poverty, reduces poverty according
to these measures. This surely violates our basic intui...
by Ravi Kanbur | On 27 Nov 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 This paper examines the patterns of loan utilisation and repayment among micro-finance group members for Wayland district of Kerala. It argues that 100 per cent repayment by members need not always in...
by Emil Mathew | On 12 Aug 2006 The 11th Plan provides an opportunity to restructure policies to achieve a new
vision of growth that will be much more broad based and inclusive, bringing about a
faster reduction in poverty and hel...
by Planning Commission | On 19 Jul 2006 The ’social impacts’ of dams may be defined as 'impacts on the lives of individual people or groups or categories of people, or forms of social organisation'. Social impacts are distinct from environm...
by William Adams | On 11 May 2006 Based on field work in a village panchayat in Kerala, analyzing
the complex issues concerning the development and working of irrigation
institutions, the present study reveals that successful manage...
by Vineetha Menon | On 27 Apr 2006 On November 28, 2003, roughly 300 grassroots activists, people affected by
large dams and representatives from NGOs gathered in a small village in Rasi
Salai district in Northeast Thailand. They met...
by Susanne Wong | On 25 Apr 2006 The dams debate is simple because behind the array of facts and figures, of economic statistics and engineering calculations, lie a number of basic and easily understood principles. If adhered to and...
by World Commission on Dams WCD | On 24 Apr 2006 This paper claims that the roots and remedies of health inequalities reflected in the major academic debates that culminated with full force towards the turn of the last century, have done little to u...
by Vijay Kumar Yadavendu | On 30 Mar 2006 The bulk of the resources must go to the UPA Government’s eight flagship programmes: Sarva Siksha Abhiyan, Mid-day Meal Scheme, Rajiv Gandhi Drinking Water Mission, Total Sanitation Campaign, National...
by Ministry of Finance | On 28 Feb 2006 Agriculture
by Ministry of Finance | On 27 Feb 2006 The challenge to the tax system to expand both the revenue base
and progressively bring into the net larger number of taxpayers remains as daunting as ever. The object is not to ignore the generally...
by Standing Committee on Finance | On 26 Feb 2006 This paper discusses the stylised problems relating to water and irrigation in India and argues tht most of the inefficeincies, misuse and environmental damage have their roots in the mispricing of wa...
by Sebastian Morris | On 24 Feb 2006 The increase in direct taxes has not been able to offset the decline that resulted from the reduction in customs tariff and decline in excise revenue. The task facing the policymakers now is to explor...
by Amaresh Bagchi | On 01 Feb 2006 A note on the long-awaited Draft National Pharmaceutical Policy 2006. The Policy appears to have taken into consideration consumer needs, paying respect to rational therapeutics. A closer examinati...
by All-India Drug Action Network (AIDAN) | On 28 Jan 2006 This paper distinguishes the contribution of information and communication technology (ICT) sector to economic development by manufacturing and service activities in Karnataka State. Using the availab...
by M.R. Narayana | On 19 Jan 2006 This paper deals with the impact of irrigation on agrarian change and local politics in the period, 1960 to 1996 in the irrigated region of South Telengana, Andhra Pradesh. The article is based on a p...
by V. Anil Kumar | On 17 Jan 2006 In 2002 the government had formulated a new Drug Policy,
but the same could not be implemented due to litigation involving
it. As a consequence, the policy of 1994 continues to be in force.The
pr...
by Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals | On 16 Jan 2006 This is a case study of the Yeshasvini Health Insurance Scheme for rural
farmers and peasants in Karnataka. The scheme, now in its second year of
operation, covers 2.2 million farmers and peasants w...
by Sarosh Kuruvilla | On 13 Jan 2006 The Task Force recommends that price regulation should be on the basis of ‘Essentiality’ of the drug and it should be applied only to formulations and not to upstream products, such as bulk drugs. No...
by Task Force on Pharmaceutical Pricing | On 22 Dec 2005 The construction of large dams is one of the most costly and controversial forms of public infrastructure investment in developing countries, but little is known about their impact. This paper studies...
by Esther Duflo | On 21 Nov 2005 The February agitation of farmers and the drought affected of rural South Maharashtra, in the form of a two-day ‘sit in’ last in Mumbai led to ministerial-level negotiations and several important deci...
by Anant Phadke | On 04 Oct 2005 This study looked at the intersection of reproductive health and mental health of women among the urban poor in Delhi, India. It is part of a larger study that seeks to understand how differences in e...
by Ranendra Das | On 17 Sep 2005 This note highlights the main issues and outlines the proposed action plan in respect of the following five major areas in Agriculture and Irrigation:
(1) Augmentation of water resources for irrigati...
by C.H. Hanumantha Rao | On 09 Sep 2005 Little is known about the mechanisms underlying the transfer of economic status between generations. This paper addresses the question of whether inter-generational correlations in health contribute t...
by Janet Currie | On 09 Sep 2005 This paper uses variation induced by firm closures to explore the intergenerational effects of worker displacement. Using a Canadian panel of administrative data that follows almost 60,000 father-chil...
by Philip Oreopolous | On 03 Sep 2005 Textbook analysis tells us that in a competitive labor market, the introduction of a minimum wage above the competitive equilibrium wage will cause unemployment. This paper makes two contributions to...
by Gary Fields | On 30 Aug 2005 Crop insurance is recognised to be a basic instrument for maintaining stability in farm income, through promoting technology, encouraging investment, and increasing credit flow in the agricultural sec...
by Manoj Kumar K | On 11 Aug 2005 Procedures for fixing of prices of bulk drugs
by Anonymous | On 10 Aug 2005 Drug Policy of 1986
by | On 10 Aug 2005 This study has made some suggestions for the consideration of the Twelfth Finance Commission. We have provided a conceptual framework comprising eight cardinal principles abbreviated as FAIR PLAN. We...
by Abhay Pethe | On 05 Aug 2005 The broad question this paper seeks to address is whether the notion of a membershipbased organisation of the poor (“MBOPs”) has practical application in modern day South Africa. There are some obviou...
by Jan Theron | On 31 Mar 2005 Based on the undocumented field experiences of FAO staff working with rural institutions in developing countries and project documents produced by UN agencies, this paper provides an overview on some...
by E Crowley | On 30 Mar 2005 |