Surprisingly, even though the government had been presented with the recommendations of gender economists and the Feminist Policy Collective for moving towards Transformative Financing for Women and G...
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by | On 15 Nov 2021 As an extraordinarily powerful individual, Naomi Osaka presents challenges to institutional power most of us can only imagine. If she worked in coordination with other top athletes across different sp...
by Jeffrey Montez de Oca | On 29 Jun 2021 Only someone with the clout of a world champion, the purse of one of the top-paid athletes of the world, and the influence of a millennial social media celebrity can afford to take on the antiquated a...
by Vidya Subramanian | On 06 Jun 2021 Institutional repositories(IRs), if established in various universities, would help bring out the contributions by Indian researchers on the world map, especially in the field of Arts, Humanities, and...
by Shubhada Nagarkar | On 19 Feb 2021 Publishing research in open access journals has been widely discussed over the last decade. Both free access and open access give the reader seamless access to research papers/articles. So, what’s the...
by Shubhada Nagarkar | On 05 Feb 2021 In 2009, 36 per cent of Karnataka’s population was urban, and 32.7 per cent was poor- higher than the all-India level.This study aims to understand the nature and compute the size of the local public...
by | On 03 Feb 2021 Amidst the economic slowdown triggered by the outbreak of the Covid-19
pandemic in India there have been many demands for the government to
announce a large fiscal stimulus to support the economy. E...
by Ila Patnaik | On 08 Oct 2020 When emerging from this crisis, the govt must consider a fresh approach to reviving growth, revisiting the Centre-state fiscal balance, and devising a re-imagined GST 2.0.
by T.N. Ninan | On 07 Jun 2020 The macroeconomic policy responses to COVID-19 pandemic and the
impact of the pandemic on economic growth, and the level of consumption are analysed. The COVID-19 crisis is a dual crisis - public hea...
by Divy Rangan | On 06 May 2020 The macroeconomic uncertainty created by COVID-19 is hard to measure. The
situation demands simultaneous policy intervention in terms of public health
infrastructure and livelihood. Along with the g...
by Lekha S. Chakraborty | On 29 Apr 2020 A comprehensive multistage Value Added Tax (VAT) system, viz., Goods and Services Tax (GST), is introduced in India since 1 July 2017. GST encompasses various taxes from Union and State indirect tax b...
by Sacchidananda Mukherjee | On 02 Apr 2019 Gender budgeting is a public policy innovation to transform the gender commitments into budgetary commitments. The political economy process of gender budgeting in India has encompassed four distinct...
by Lekha Chakraborty | On 02 Apr 2019 This paper compares the additional gains from higher tax devolution in the post
14th FC period, with the additional burden due to the withdrawal of certain central schemes and the changes in the shar...
by Amarnath H. K. | On 30 Mar 2019 Over 2017-18 there was a sharp rise in Indian government securities (G-Secs) interest rates unrelated to fundamentals. Examining each of the standard explanatory variables shows them to be inadequate...
by Ashima Goyal | On 29 Mar 2019 The paper provides a narrative of Sri Lanka’s history of twin deficits, examines macroeconomic performance from the lens of twin deficits, and discusses the policies adopted to address macroeconomic i...
by Dushni Weerakoon | On 28 Mar 2019 The goal of the note is to lay out and discuss a package of reforms that could be consistent with the objectives of the government. The fiscal instruments that we consider here include the division of...
by Roy Bahl | On 07 Mar 2019 The paper explored deep analytical issues such as the nature of the objective function to be optimized, planning horizon, choice of the discount rates, etc. No wonder, his book “Capital and Developmen...
by Vijay Kelkar | On 30 Jan 2019 In various Asian countries, international trade has raised productivity, lowered mark ups through import competition (while increasing them through cheaper inputs that can be imported), raised wages,...
by Devashish Mitra | On 22 Jan 2019 Intergovernmental fiscal transfers (IGFT) are, in theory, neither good nor bad for tackling gender inequalities. Fiscal federalism with asymmetry in revenue and expenditure assignments inevitably lead...
by Janet G. Stotsky | On 14 Jan 2019 This paper presents an overview of India’s health capacity in managing disaster risks. It looks at demographic, epidemiological and developmental transitions in India and how that impacts decision mak...
by Supriya Krishnan | On 14 Jan 2019 This paper evaluates the quality of privacy policies of five popular online services in India from the perspective of access and readability. The paper ask – do the policies have specific, unambiguous...
by Rishab Bailey | On 07 Jan 2019 The paper examines behavioral constraints in policy-making and in achieving coordination across policies. First it applies psychological concepts to understand policy inadequacies, and next examines h...
by Ashima Goyal | On 29 Oct 2018 The paper highlights the importance of the design of the fiscal features of the federal system of government in ensuring that the potential benefits from its adoption are realized. The economic litera...
by Rosario G. Manasan | On 03 Oct 2018 This working paper summarizes the findings from three of the countries chosen by the study—Mongolia, Myanmar, and Timor-Leste—to represent the range of challenges countries face and need to contend wi...
by Sri Wening Handayani | On 27 Sep 2018 This study attempts to understand the role of greater access to finance, i.e., stocks, bonds, and bank loans, in public–private partnership (PPP) investment in developing countries. Most developing co...
by Suk Hyun | On 10 Aug 2018 This paper first shows that the Domar condition is obtained only from the government budget constraint (namely the supply of government bonds) and does not take into account the demand for government...
by Naoyuki Yoshino | On 19 Jul 2018 The Aquino administration through the Human Development and Poverty Reduction Cluster (HDPRC) and Good Governance and Anti-Corruption Cluster (GGACC) launched the Bottom-up Budgeting (BUB) exercise in...
by Rosario G. Manasan | On 05 Jul 2018 The paper provides estimates of the cost of shifting to a federal form of government under different scenarios in terms of the number of regions. Finally, it concludes with the discussion of why adopt...
by Rosario G. Manasan | On 03 Jul 2018 This study provides a systematic review and summary of the extant knowledge on the impacts of decentralization on health in the Philippines. Despite the country’s twenty-five years of experience in de...
by Michael R.M. Abrigo | On 03 Jul 2018 This paper finds that transparency and efficiency in collection should be improved through automation and accurate recording. Project identification and investment programming must also adhere to the...
by Sheilah G. Napalang | On 29 Jun 2018 India has experienced a remarkable proliferation of 48 Government Funded Health Insurance Schemes (GFHIS) from 1997 to 2018. The paper places the rise of this policy pathway in historical perspective....
by Ila Patnaik | On 15 Jun 2018 This paper tests economic convergence across States in India by incorporating federal fiscal asymmetries and differentials in gross fixed capital formation at the state level. Using dynamic panel mode...
by Lekha Chakraborty | On 15 Jun 2018 This paper seeks to analyze the change in total central transfers to the States and its impact on expenditure on Social Sector in 2015-16(post FFC period) in comparison with 2014-15(pre-FFC pe...
by | On 28 May 2018 The impact assessment of macroeconomic policies on public health
expenditure is very relevant in Indian economy because of tax reform, fiscal consoli-
dation, and expenditure policy reform. These h...
by | On 11 May 2018 The Union Budget takes the long needed step of allocating funds specifically for addressing the nutritional concerns of TB patients, taking note of the considerable evidence of the association between...
by | On 30 Apr 2018 This briefing provides an overview of the key factors that have influenced the European Commission’s carding decisions to date.
by Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) | On 06 Apr 2018 Recently, not only economists but also sociologists, political leaders, policy-makers, non-governmental organizations, and the press are taking a lively interest in the size of the under ground econom...
by Zafar Iqbal | On 28 Mar 2018 This report assesses the state of economic research into those areas, with a
particular focus on empirical methodologies and their adequacy for an assessment of general-equilibrium outcomes. While di...
by Marc-Andreas Muendler | On 20 Mar 2018 The paper examines the impact of conditional fiscal transfers on public employment across gender in India taking the case of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS). Th...
by Lekha Chakraborty | On 19 Mar 2018 Ujwal DISCOM Assurance Yojana (UDAY) required number of State governments to take over debt of power distribution companies in their books of accounts. Though this one time intervention made both debt...
by Pinaki Chakraborty | On 19 Mar 2018 Gender budgeting is a fiscal approach that seeks to use a country’s national and/or local budget(s) to reduce inequality and promote economic growth and equitable development. While literature has exp...
by Lekha Chakraborty | On 16 Mar 2018 This paper reexamines the impact of merger on innovation. Unlike as in Federico et al (2017), it considers the scenario where merged firms combine their research labs. It shows that, in equilibrium, e...
by Piuli Roy Chowdhury | On 14 Mar 2018 The current paper tries to fill this gap by investigating the impact of floods on pregnancy and birth outcomes across conflict-affected and unaffected districts in Pakistan.
by Baishali Goswami | On 08 Mar 2018 The paper argues that the Thirteenth Finance Commission has got to find its own track if it does not want to remain as a pale shadow of its constitutional self. It should ignore those terms of referen...
by K.K. George | On 28 Feb 2018 The paper takes a look at the past record of vertical transfers viz., transfers from the Centre to the States as a whole.
by K.K. George | On 16 Feb 2018 The paper says that this pattern of financing fiscal deficit is reflected in the changing composition of Kerala’s public debt.
by K.K. George | On 15 Feb 2018 This paper has introduced instability in the budgets and has added to the burden of public debt.
by K.K. George | On 15 Feb 2018 The exercise, which is the first of its kind attempted by the Union Government was conducted over a period
of eighteen months. In addition to the technical expertise of the World Bank, experts in pub...
by Niti Aayog GOI | On 09 Feb 2018 FY2018 budget, the budget for final year of the intensive reform period set in the Fiscal Consolidation Plan,
continues to pursue both economic revitalization and fiscal consolidation.
by | On 09 Feb 2018 The report presents a comprehensive analysis of the budgetary provisions for important social sectors and the vulnerable
sections of the population. It also presents an overview of the fiscal indicat...
by Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability CBGA | On 05 Feb 2018 Budget Speech by Municipal Commissioner
by Ajoy Mehta | On 05 Feb 2018 The paper says that this idiosyncrasy of Korea’s current account surplus seems to be related to increasing saving propensity of households especially among aged people.
by Han Chirok | On 01 Feb 2018 Sound public financial management has been one of the pillars of India’s macro-economic
stability in the last three years. Based on this firm footing, the Government, in partnership with
the States,...
by Arun Jaitley | On 31 Jan 2018 Long-run institutional development co-evolves with fiscal accountability involving, perhaps
requiring, a low and declining dependence on devolved resources and a high and rising share of
direct taxe...
by Arun Jaitley | On 31 Jan 2018 We show that even when the exchange rate cannot be devalued, a small set of
conventional fiscal instruments can robustly replicate the real allocations attained under
a nominal exchange rate devalua...
by | On 25 Jan 2018 This guide is for government officials in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) who will be preparing reports and communications on their country’s climate change circumstances and actions under the UN Fra...
by | On 23 Jan 2018 Budget analysis entails analysis and assessment of budget from the lens of marginalised sections
of population with the objective of prioritisation of public
expenditures and collection of revenues...
by Happy Pant | On 17 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 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 This paper aims to promote competitive access for telecommunications providers.
by Krystal Uy | On 14 Dec 2017 Open educational resources (OERs), a disruptive technology, made their appearance in early 2002 as a promising tool for enhancing the quality of and access to education generally and higher education...
by Jouko Sarvi | On 14 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 Public equity markets have increasingly become accessible to small and medium firms with the introduction of dedicated exchange that lower listing criteria to allow such firms to list their equity. Th...
by | On 11 Dec 2017 High and persistent fiscal deficit is one of the major macroeconomic problems in India since the mid-1980s. Fiscal consolidation is in the forefront of policy discussion in India not only at present b...
by | On 04 Dec 2017 The study will use data from 1980-81 to 2015-16 in this regard and employ Johansen cointegration to investigate the long run relationship.
by Syed Ahmed | On 20 Nov 2017 This paper attempts to address the impact of the MGNREGA on the rural agricultural sector, focusing on cropping patterns, irrigated area, crop yields, wages and rural employment. The analysis is based...
by Deepak Varshney | On 06 Nov 2017 This paper investigates the nature of skill formation in Indian Manufacturing. Discussing household, personal,
and labour market characteristics of manufacturing employment in India, the study discus...
by G.D Bino Paul | On 10 Oct 2017 The paper examines the issue of resource adequacy for Right to Education (RTE) by estimating the resource requirement for universalization of elementary education across twelve Indian States. Using RT...
by Sukanya Bose | On 05 Oct 2017 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 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 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 This paper (1) assesses how the Philippines fares in attracting investments compared with its neighboring countries, and (2) evaluates pending incentive reforms in the country.
by Danileen Kristel C Parel | On 04 Sep 2017 As this paper has observed that the macro fundamentals were indeed pointing to this slowdown, notwithstanding the smart recovery in two years of 2009-2011, immediately after the global economic meltdo...
by S Jagadeesan | On 25 Aug 2017 The report says that the manufacturing sector has significant fiscal policy implications.
by M. Singhi | On 24 Aug 2017 The report says that the practice of local democracy has so far mirrored the problems at the national level, with vote-buying, compromised primaries and allegations of vote-rigging in many gubernatori...
by Agnes Cornell | On 10 Aug 2017 Forest and conservation policy in Southeast Asia is now at yet another crossroads. Despite decades of efforts, the challenges ahead remain formidable. These challenges include: (i) continued deforesta...
by Gary Bull | On 08 Aug 2017 The study explores ground-level realities linked with initiatives on tax administration, construction permits, transparency, compliance with environmental and labour laws and regulations, and inspecti...
by Research National Council of Applied Economic | On 31 Jul 2017 The report narrates that CDW can be recycled to replace natural building material; this is not only beneficial for the environment, but also results in substantial cost and resource savings.
by Venkatesh Vunnam | On 28 Jul 2017 The article reviews the recent evaluation evidence on financial services and training
interventions designed to increase the productivity and income of the poor; it includes the
subset of evaluation...
by Mayra Buvinic | On 28 Jul 2017 This study attempts to evaluate the effects of on-farm soil conservation practices on farm profit and its components, revenue, and variable cost. Since farmers self-select themselves as adopters of a...
by Chandan Singha | On 27 Jul 2017 This study looks at the roles that local women leaders can play in addressing the important environmental health issue of sanitation and hand hygiene by improving access to quality sanitation and hygi...
by Atonu Rabbani | On 25 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 The results of this study can be used to strengthen the institutional and statistical capacities of Georgia to routinely collect, compile, analyze, and disseminate internationally comparable financial...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 07 Jul 2017 This study measures the size of fossil fuel subsidies such as underpricing of petroleum products and electricity, tax exemptions, and subsidized credit; examines the potential economic, energy, and en...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 04 Jul 2017 This report focuses on the relatively complex account structure and drawdown rules of the two funds, which are the same in the CTFs of the RMI and the FSM. Using an investment return simulation model,...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 30 Jun 2017 The paper says that preparing and implementing a K–12 transition absorbs considerable financial and human resources. It follows that the reasons for restructuring must be compelling.
by Jouko Sarvi | On 21 Jun 2017 The report summarizes important lessons learned and policy implications from the first year of Village Law implementation.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 16 Jun 2017 This report measures the size of associated subsidies on these fossil fuels including direct transfers, tax exemptions, subsidized credit, and losses of state enterprises in India, Indonesia, and Thai...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 14 Jun 2017 In this fourth round of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Corporate Governance initiative of the Asian Development Bank and the ASEAN Capital Markets Forum, over 500 top publicly list...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 05 Jun 2017 Growth in Central Asia is weaker than predicted, while expansion in the Pacific is now expected to be a touch higher. Forecasts are unchanged for East, South, and Southeast Asia. While the Brexit vote...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 02 Jun 2017 This study argues that some of the policies that allowed Bangladesh to prosper in the last few years will become less effective, and the economy will need to “switch gears” to consolidate the growth m...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 23 May 2017 The objective of this report is to help governments and multilateral institutions assess and integrate ID systems into their development activities. The intended audience includes government policy ma...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 May 2017 This paper explores the “Bill of Rights” in the Justice Verma Committee Report as an analytical framework for gender budgeting in justice. Gender budgeting in justice, as a public good, needs effectiv...
by Lekha Chakraborty | On 03 Mar 2017 The study attempts to highlight some of the major hurdles in Delhi’s
governance and fiscal policy in ensuring the safety of women in public spaces. Though violence
against women is widespread and oc...
by Kanika Kaul | On 27 Jan 2017 This study investigates the effect of gender budgeting in India on gender inequality and fiscal
spending. Gender budgeting is an approach to budgeting in which governments use fiscal
policies and ad...
by Janet G Stotsky | On 23 Jan 2017 The core emphasis of rules-based fiscal legislation at the subnational level in India is to
achieve debt sustainability through a numerical ceiling on borrowing and the use of borrowed
resources for...
by Pinaki Chakraborty | On 23 Jan 2017 Goods and Services Tax (GST) is a harmonized tax regime and it can curb black money through practicing clean "invoices" to redeem input credit. In the Union Budget 2017, central government may announc...
by Lekha Chakraborty | On 23 Jan 2017 After the implementation of the Right of Children to
Free and Compulsory Education Act (RTE) in 2010, states
have brought about some improvement in school education
in terms of infrastructure, enro...
by Child Rights and You CRY | On 18 Jan 2017 It is anticipated that this health index will assist in State level monitoring of performance, serve as an
input for providing performance based incentives and improvement in health outcomes, thereby...
by Niti Aayog GOI | On 18 Jan 2017 The Finance Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Mr. Haseeb A. Drabu, presented the Budget for Jammu and Kashmir
for financial year 2017-18 on January 11, 2017.
by Arvind Gayam | On 17 Jan 2017 The paper examines the medium-term fiscal policy (MTFP) and a more conventional medium-term expenditure framework (MTEF) adopted in India under the provisions of the fiscal rules. The MTFP and the MTE...
by Pratap Ranjan Jena | On 10 Jan 2017 Taking note of the limitations and challenges pertaining to gender budget exercise, the
Government of Karnataka has set up a Task Force constituting of academics working in this
area to review the p...
by Jyotsna Jha | On 29 Nov 2016 Conventional wisdom suggests that, to negate fiscal externalities imposed by provinces which
spend too much and raise lower local resources, central authority should always be a first mover
in the t...
by Bodhisattva Sengupta | On 14 Nov 2016 The increasing level of competition for foreign direct investment (FDI) in the ‘90s triggered
many countries to offer various fiscal incentives. Specifically, many Asian countries persistently
keep...
by Ma. Laarni D. Revilla | On 11 Nov 2016 Even almost eight years since resorting to the extraordinary monetary and
fiscal measures to counter the after-effects of the Global Financial Crisis, authorities are still
left wondering about rela...
by S.S. Mundra | On 10 Oct 2016 The recent changes in the institutional and fiscal architecture of the country following the
constitution of NITI Aayog and release of report of the Fourteenth Finance Commission,
have implications...
by Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability CBGA | On 04 Oct 2016 The paper examines the issues around mobilization of resources for the 11 countries of the South-East Asia Region of the World Health Organization (WHO), by analysing their macroeconomic situation, he...
by | On 07 Sep 2016 This paper analyzes the effects of emotional shocks associated with unexpected outcomes of football games played by a prominent college team in the state. It investigates the behavior of judges, the c...
by Ozkan Eren | On 07 Sep 2016 We study the effect of the world’s largest school feeding program on children’s learning outcomes. Staggered implementation across different states of a 2001 Indian Supreme Court Directive mandating t...
by | On 30 Aug 2016 The pressure fiscal expansion exerts on the economy via credit markets in Pakistan is analysed.
Melina and Villa (2014) is extended by allowing government to compete with the private borrowers (firms...
by Sajawal Khan | On 16 Aug 2016 Jurisdictions across the United States have adopted "ban the box" (BTB) policies preventing employers from conducting criminal background checks until late in the job application process. Their goal i...
by Jennifer Doleac | On 05 Aug 2016 This paper uses information from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) and supplementary data sources to examine how cognitive performance, measured at approximately the end of secon...
by Dajun Lin | On 03 Aug 2016 This paper examines social sector expenditures in fifteen Indian states between 1980/81 and 1999/2000 to find out whether the far-reaching economic reforms that began in 1991 had any significant impac...
by | On 19 Jul 2016 This 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 paper models an opposition group’s choice between peace, terrorism, and open conflict. Terrorism emerges if executive constraints are intermediate and rents are sizeable. Open conflict is predict...
by Michael Jetter | On 27 Jun 2016 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 Budget speech of Pakistan 2016-17.
by Mohammad Ishaq Dar | On 17 Jun 2016 The Finance Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Mr. Haseeb A. Drabu, presented the Budget for Jammu and Kashmir
for financial year 2016-17 on May 30, 2016.
by Hasseeb A. Drabu | On 13 Jun 2016 Global commodity prices surge of 2007-08 sent an inflationary shock across the countries. 2014 global prices descend
resulted in significant disinflation in many countries and...
by Muhammad Nadim Hanif | On 06 Jun 2016 In this paper, we analyze how forced displacements caused by violent conflicts affect the wages of displaced workers in Colombia, a country characterized by a long historical prevalence of violent con...
by | On 02 Jun 2016 UNICEF’s Strategic Plan 2014-2017 is a road map for the realization of the rights of every child. The equity strategy, emphasizing the most disadvantaged and excluded children and families, translates...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 31 May 2016 The riskiness of random processes is compared by (a) employing a
decision-theoretic equivalence between processes and lotteries on path spaces to identify the riskiness of the former with that of the...
by Sudhir A. Shah | On 26 May 2016 The paper presents the first rigorous evidence of the effectiveness of a
computer-based adult literacy program. A randomized control trial study of TARA Akshar Plus, an Indian adult literacy program,...
by Ashwini Deshpande | On 26 May 2016 It is important to understand the fiscal capacity that underlies any potential mechanism to implement the social agenda of the SDGs, particularly if the international community wants to hold governmen...
by Victor Kwadwo | 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 The paper examines the fiscal scene of Kerala, during the last one
and a half decades, by looking at the trends in receipts and expenditure.
It finds that a revenue led fiscal consolidation is the w...
by T.M. Thomas Issac | On 20 May 2016 Some politicians argue for the splitting and combining of states to increase government productivity, but there is a dearth of empirical evidence on the optimal size of a state. Using data from Indian...
by Cornelis Haasnoot | On 18 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 This paper presents a plan
that provides an achievable path toward a global policy on Green House
Gas (GHG) emissions. At the heart of it is a small carbon tax (actually a
GHG tax). The proceeds of...
by Mohana Mondal | On 09 May 2016 The Indian Railway (IR) system is one of the four railway systems in the world that transports more than one billion tonnes of traffic annually.
As against a growth of 4 per cent to 4.5 per cent in t...
by Saurabh Bandyopadhyay | On 09 May 2016 The episode of volatility starting on May 22, 2013, when Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke first spoke of the possibility of the US central bank “tapering” its security purchases, had a sharp nega...
by Shekhar Shah | On 09 May 2016 This paper assesses the fiscal space and cyclicality of total Indian Central Government expenditure and its
major components
by Ashima Goyal | On 02 May 2016 Although significant, the share of education in total provincial budgets is declining
except for Balochistan. This year, the government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has
allocated the highest share of its p...
by Institute of Social and Policy Sciences I-SAPS | On 29 Apr 2016 A Patent Act is a country's legislation that controls the use of patents. A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state to an inventor or assignee for a limited period of time in...
by Ministry of Law, Justice and Company Affairs GOI | On 27 Apr 2016 A Patent Act is a country's legislation that controls the use of patents. A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state to an inventor or assignee for a limited period of time in...
by Ministry of Law, Justice and Company Affairs GOI | On 27 Apr 2016 The 2030 Policy Framework confirms the EU's firm commitment to lead by example in tackling climate change. It sets out a binding, economy-wide domestic reduction target of at least 40% greenhouse gas...
by European union | On 26 Apr 2016 The report considers the question of taxes as price versus tribute for contemporary India and makes three points. First, if the accounting cost of services provided exceeds the economic cost (the min...
by | On 15 Apr 2016 Empirical findings across a swathe of countries, advanced and emerging, confirm that the composition of government expenditure can have perceptible growth implications.
by Reserve Bank of India RBI | On 12 Apr 2016 Budget speech by Finance Minister of Malaysia.
by Minister of Finance Malaysia | On 06 Apr 2016 Using the NSSO Employment and Unemployment Survey Rounds as the basis, this paper
examines questions of unemployment, employment and human capital formation among Indian
youth belonging to various s...
by Rajendra P. Mamgain | On 05 Apr 2016 Budget Speech of 2016 by Finance Minister of Singapore.
by Heng Swee Keat | On 28 Mar 2016 Part II of the Budget speech of the finance minister.
by Pradip Kumar Amat | On 21 Mar 2016 The paper is based on a review of the available official data and the existing literature on the Missions. It is divided into three broad sections. The first analyzes data available from the official...
by Lalitha Kamath | On 21 Mar 2016 Public finance systems in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) have evolved substantially over the last three decades. The evolution is continuing, with wide-ranging reforms in budget and debt managem...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 18 Mar 2016 Since April 1, 2015, India’s cooking gas subsidies have been distributed by electronic transfer through the Direct Benefit Transfer for Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) scheme (known as DBTL, or PAHAL1 )...
by | On 18 Mar 2016 Using the method of optimal control, when an incumbent politician derives utility from voting support and dis-utility from budgetary deficit, the equilibrium time paths of both voting support and budg...
by Ganesh Manjhi | On 17 Mar 2016 Over the last two decades, women’s significant progress in educational achievements has not translated into a comparable improvement in their position at work. In many regions in the world, in compari...
by International Labour Organization [ILO] | On 15 Mar 2016 Despite the initiatives of the Finance Commission of India, fiscal performance has been deteriorating and increasingly diverging across Indian states. Given that the state governments are endowed with...
by Panchanan Das | On 14 Mar 2016 The existing empirical literature on Taylor-type interest rate rules has failed to achieve a robust consensus. Indeed, the relatively common finding that the Taylor principle does not hold has fueled...
by Matthew Greenwood Nimmo | On 13 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 After conditions of crisis reigning on the Korean Peninsula in the first half of the year, the reopening of the Kaesong Industrial Complex, among other recent developments, heralds renewed hope for be...
by | On 12 Mar 2016 This policy brief looks at how North Korea has figured as an issue on the sidelines of the recent APEC Summit in Beijing in the context of developments such as Pyongyang’s release of two American pris...
by | On 10 Mar 2016 Related Party Transactions disclosures in Annual Reports have recently gained more attention of the Indian policymakers. This paper aims at finding out the effect of related party transactions disclos...
by Subhra Choudhury | On 10 Mar 2016 Our study investigates the determinants and use of cash holdings by Indian companies. Using a large sample of manufacturing firms that are publicly traded on Bombay Stock exchange for the period of 19...
by Ekta Selarka | On 10 Mar 2016 The adverse fiscal effects of fuel subsidies in developing countries like India are well documented. More recently, few studies have highlighted the fiscal, welfare and environmental effects of possib...
by Brinda Viswanathan | 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 Given the importance of health in overall living standard of people, the present study has attempted to probe into the role of migration in affecting health status and outcomes of population. The heal...
by Shujaat Farooq | On 10 Mar 2016 The role of macroeconomic policy in the different varieties of capitalism has been largely ignored. Recent contributions to the literature have argued that nonliberal economies should be expected to h...
by | On 09 Mar 2016 Intuitively, how we feel about potential outcomes will determine our decisions. Indeed, one of the most influential theories in psychology, Prospect Theory, implicitly assumes that feelings govern cho...
by Caroline J. Charpentier | On 09 Mar 2016 The allocation of scarce budgetary resources away from ‘alternative’ channels of social security underscores interlocking concerns: a) the financial drain that marriages of girls pose to families and...
by Praveena Kodoth | On 09 Mar 2016 The findings of this study show that urban local governments in India continue to remain plagued by numerous problems, which affect their performance in the efficient discharge of their duties. These...
by Rumi Aijaz | On 09 Mar 2016 The paper reflects on the changing scope of the Union Budget
and the Finance Minister’s speech and assesses the evolving content
of these policy instruments in recent years. The analysis undertaken...
by | On 08 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 The Finance Minister of Bihar, Mr. Abdul Bari Siddiqui, presented the Budget for Bihar for the financial year 2016-17.
by Arvind Gayam | On 03 Mar 2016 Environmental non-governmental organisations (ENGOs) have often been depicted as a section of civil society that is highly critical of the lack of political will in addressing environmental issues. Th...
by Sofiah Jamil | On 02 Mar 2016 The Union Budget has failed to deliver on the needs of the marginalised section of population. The spending has been much lower than what was budgeted.
by Paul Divakar | On 01 Mar 2016 The Government of India has publicly committed to a doubling or trebling of government health spending by 2012 and launched a major program, the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), to help spend the...
by Peter Berman | On 01 Mar 2016 Disappointingly, the new health policy that appeared to be robust one, has received little support in the Union Budget.
by | On 01 Mar 2016 This paper examines the fiscal instruments available to different levels of government and their interactions to enhance the effectiveness of public policies for the poorest and hungry groups. Address...
by Ehtisham Ahmad | On 01 Mar 2016 What do we know about the results of decentralized service delivery? Verifying outcomes and results of decentralized policies is a very challenging exercise, given the large number of stakeholders inv...
by Ehtisham Ahmad | On 01 Mar 2016 In the closing decades of the twentieth century there has been an almost complete intellectual triumph of the twin principles of marketization (understood here as referring to the liberalization of do...
by D M NACHANE | On 01 Mar 2016 The 1994 Fiscal Reforms in China were spectacularly successful in meeting the immediate challenges that the economy faced at that time—a sharply dropping tax/GDP ratio, and limited ability of the cent...
by Ehtisham Ahmad | On 01 Mar 2016 The paper highlights a number of issues that countries need to explore in assessing the feasibility of a CCT program: a country needs to assess the current level of specific human capital outcomes and...
by Hyun H. Son | On 29 Feb 2016 Highlights of the budget of Japan for the year 2016.
by Ministry of Finance, Japan MOF, Japan | On 29 Feb 2016 There is growing recognition of the importance of identification for sustainable development. Its role is recognized formally in target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals, which calls for provi...
by Alan Gelb | On 28 Feb 2016 This paper reviews empirical evidence on the micro-level consequences of family planning programs in middle- and low-income countries. In doing so, it focuses on fertility outcomes (the number and tim...
by Grant Miller | On 27 Feb 2016 The rising level of urbanisation in India draws attention to inadequate infrastructure levels in urban areas. While many factors play a role in infrastructure development, this paper examines the fina...
by Charan Singh | On 27 Feb 2016 The issue of managing sub-national liabilities is not only an issue in the EU, but is also being a major concern in South Asia, China and Brazil as much of the public investment needed for sustainable...
by Ehtisham Ahmad | On 26 Feb 2016 India’s growth story has largely remained positive on the strength of domestic absorption, and the country has registered a robust and steady pace of economic growth in 2015-16 as it did in 2014-15....
by Arun Jaitley | On 26 Feb 2016 The Minister of Railways, Mr. Suresh Prabhu, presented the Railway Budget 2016-17 to Parliament on February
25, 2016. In his address, he commented on the performance of Railways in 2015-16 and laid o...
by Prachee Mishra | On 26 Feb 2016 With the surge in energy demand in developing Southeast Asia, the propensity of using nuclear energy as an option is growing. Singapore needs to adapt itself and explore the benefits of a ‘nuclearised...
by | On 25 Feb 2016 The present Status Paper for 2015-16 is fifth in this series and reinforces the Government’s commitment to keep the level of public debt within sustainable limits and follow prudent debt management pr...
by Ministry of Finance GOI | On 25 Feb 2016 In India, NCDs have surpassed communicable diseases as the most common causes of morbidity and premature mortality in the country. The indicators and targets are used to track progress of actions desi...
by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare H & FW | On 25 Feb 2016 Under the World Trade Organization, the Philippines has maintained special treatment for rice, which expires on July 2017. Tariffication will involve greater competition from imports and the decline o...
by Roehlano M. Briones | On 25 Feb 2016 Massive Open Online Courses and their advent and rising popularity have had a profound impact on the sphere of education in Philippines. Does this new model present an opportunity to re-envision how t...
by Philippine Institute for Development Studies | On 25 Feb 2016 A framework is proposed for understanding the potential value-added of massive open online courses (MOOCs) along the lines of curation, credentialling, and cost. MOOCs are likely to appeal differently...
by Emmanuel S. de Dios | On 25 Feb 2016 It is now widely agreed that the World Trade Organization (WTO) is in trouble, struggling to deliver the national rewards available from liberalising through multilateral negotiations. Prime Minister...
by Bill Carmichael | On 25 Feb 2016 This paper reports on an Internet-based survey designed to collect information on the state of workplace practices from labor experts and practitioners around the world -- the 2004 Global Labor Survey...
by Richard B. Freeman | On 24 Feb 2016 The World Bank has been requested by the government of India to undertake a study, “Strategies for Low Carbon Growth.” The study considers different options for low-carbon growth trajectories to fisca...
by Ministry of Environment and Forests GOI | On 24 Feb 2016 India’s performance in the early carbon market are analysed, and proposes a series of actions to be undertaken by both the Government of India, and the private sector, if India is to take full advanta...
by World Bank | On 24 Feb 2016 Transparency has been put in processes, changed many rules for protection of environment and we have started taking decisions that are based on policies. The cases that fall within the policy framewor...
by Ministry of Environment and Forests | On 24 Feb 2016 The recent monsoon-related floods have wreaked havoc in Pakistan. Decades of development outcomes have been wiped out and critical human security challenges have been precipitated. It is critical to b...
by | On 23 Feb 2016 Campaigns against big pulp and palm oil producers in Indonesia appear to be driven by local activists on the ground. In reality, they are facilitated by huge budgets and shaped by agendas emanating fr...
by | On 23 Feb 2016 There have been many initiatives to improve education outcomes in South Asia. Still, outcomes remain stubbornly resistant to improvements, at least when considered across the region. To collect and sy...
by Salman Asim | On 21 Feb 2016 This paper examines the conceptual issues surrounding the estimation of savings and investment in Bangladesh and explains why there exist perceptible differences between the estimates of savings and i...
by Mustafa K. Mujeri | On 20 Feb 2016 Using results from the three rounds of Nepal Living Standard Surveys (conducted in 1995, 2003, and 2010), this study empirically assesses whether access to rented tractors or custom hiring services is...
by Hiroyuki Takeshima | On 18 Feb 2016 Rise in the underground economy creates problems for the policy-makers to formulate economic policies, especially the monetary and fiscal policies. It is found that if there was no tax evasion, budget...
by M. Ali Kemal | On 17 Feb 2016 It is investigated whether differences in quality of firm-level corporate governance can explain the firm-level performance in a cross-section of companies listed at Karachi Stock Exchange. Therefore,...
by Attiya Y. Javid | On 17 Feb 2016 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 Agriculture is an important source of greenhouse gas emissions globally, but how do emissions differ among countries? The relative contribution of agriculture to countries’ emissions budgets can infor...
by Meryl Richards | On 17 Feb 2016 This paper focuses on understanding the role of state and region governments in relation to Myanmar's public finances. This has been done to take stock of existing research, better understand the comp...
by The Asia Foundation | On 16 Feb 2016 This study explores the evolution of fiscal resource distribution in Pakistan. Pakistan is a federation comprising four provinces, federally administered areas, and the Islamabad Capital Territory. Be...
by Iftikhar Ahmed | On 16 Feb 2016 The purpose of this paper is to emphasize the importance of Europe’s structural problems and governance as the cause of the current euro area crisis. The euro may have led to bubbles, but member econo...
by Sahoko Kaji | On 16 Feb 2016 This paper develops a multilateral currency system where national currencies are used for trade settlement in East Asia, comprising the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member countries,...
by ll Houng Lee | On 16 Feb 2016 The current thinking on the subject of the central bank communication policy centres squarely on the transparency with which the bank conveys its beliefs on the evolving pattern of macroeconomic funda...
by Bangladesh Bank BB | On 15 Feb 2016 The major challenge facing the Indian economy at this juncture is to provide a big push to the growth momentum while striking a balance between the much-needed capital expenditure and fiscal consolida...
by S.D Naik | On 15 Feb 2016 Lower spread is a vital indicator of the efficiency and competition in the financial system and conducive to higher economic growth of a country via investment spending. In Bangladesh, the spread in t...
by Shamim Ahmed | On 15 Feb 2016 This policy note attempts to introduce the concept and size of tax expenditures in the context of Bangladesh with special references to experiences of India and Pakistan. It shows that the amount of t...
by M. Golam Mortaza | On 15 Feb 2016 This paper tries to investigate the pattern of volatility in the overnight money market rate (call money rate) in Bangladesh using subjective judgment as well as econometric techniques during the peri...
by Md. Shahiduzzaman | On 15 Feb 2016 When money corrupts campaigns and candidates, political finance can undermine the same democratic values and good governance that it also supports. To prevent and address the problem, transparency and...
by Transparency International TI | On 14 Feb 2016 As with any governance framework, participation, transparency and accountability form the guiding principles needed for ensuring policies and decisions on water are responsive to citizens. When these...
by Transparency International TI | On 14 Feb 2016 The National Integrity System encompasses the key institutions, sectors or specific activities (the ‘pillars’) that contribute to integrity, transparency and accountability in a society. When it funct...
by Transparency International TI | On 14 Feb 2016 The characteristics of the area of the Middle East and North Africa known as the MENA region tend to fuel corruption and result in low levels of transparency. Yet anti-corruption strategies have prima...
by Transparency International TI | On 14 Feb 2016 In “Calibrating Law Enforcement and Its Purpose,” published by Addiction on November 10, 2014, Vanda Felbab-Brown comments on Harold Pollack and Peter Reuter’s article “Does tougher enforcement make d...
by Vanda Felbab-Brown | On 14 Feb 2016 This paper analyses monetary policy transparency of the central bank (SBP) using the Eijffinger and Geraats (2006) index. The results show that the SBP scores 4.5 out of 15, which is lower than any of...
by Wasim Shahid Malik | On 14 Feb 2016 The theories of institutional evolution put forth by Douglas North, Darron Acemoglu and Dani Rodrik and the historical experiences of different countries in the context of development (or non-developm...
by M. Idrees Khawaja | On 14 Feb 2016 India has the second largest population of elderly people after China. The living arrangement of the elderly is seen as a parameter of great importance in understanding their plight in developing coun...
by Mitali Sen | On 14 Feb 2016 This paper utilizes a newly collected nationally representative survey data from over 41,550 households to examine social inequality in children’s educational outcomes. The focus is on 8 to11 year old...
by Sonalde Desai | On 13 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 Accountability, transparency and the fight against corruption have been high on the policy agenda in the Middle East and North Africa. Transparency International, as part of a shared endeavour by civi...
by Transparency International TI | On 12 Feb 2016 Public procurement impacts people’s lives and accounts for a big share government budgets. The large monetary transactions involved make the risk of abuse high and the need for anti-corruption safegua...
by Transparency International TI | On 12 Feb 2016 The global economy is growing at an unprecedented pace, bringing large swathe’s of the world’s population out of poverty. But this is not without its challenges. New Growth Models takes a closer look...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 11 Feb 2016 The forthcoming union budget 2016-17 faces several fiscal challenges and it will be tough task for the government to provide positive signals to revive the private investment while pursuing the fiscal...
by Pratap Jena | On 11 Feb 2016 The impending digital transformation of the Fourth Industrial Revolution holds the potential to redefine the very basis of our materials-reliant industrial economy. Enabled by the internet of things,...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 11 Feb 2016 WageIndicator living wage introduces a concept that allows users and stakeholders through web interface to share and compare living wages across countries and regions using a methodology that accounts...
by | On 10 Feb 2016 Over the past four decades, the accumulation of policy legacies and public debt has led to a decline in fiscal flexibility in Germany and the United States. By applying an index of fiscal democracy to...
by | On 08 Feb 2016 This paper traces the process of recognition of children’s budget and the introduction of
Statement 22- Budget Provisions for Schemes for the Welfare of Children in the Expenditure Budget Volume 1. I...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 08 Feb 2016 Empirically observed intertemporal choices about money have long been thought to exhibit present bias, i.e. higher short-term compared to long-term discount rates. Recently, this view has been called...
by Uttara Balakrishnan | On 07 Feb 2016 The probability of being depressed increases dramatically during adolescence and is linked to a range of adverse outcomes. Many studies show a correlation between religiosity and mental health, yet th...
by Jane Cooley Fruehwirth | On 07 Feb 2016 We examine the causal impact of China's higher education expansion on labor market outcomes for young college graduates using China's 2005 1% Population Sample Survey. Exploiting variation in the expa...
by Dongshu Ou | On 07 Feb 2016 This paper investigates how private transfers from internal migration in China affect the expenditure behaviour of families left behind in rural areas. Using data from the Rural-Urban Migration in Chi...
by Sylvie Démurger | On 07 Feb 2016 The Promoting Revenue Transparency: 2011 Report on Oil and Gas Companies, published by Transparency International in partnership with Revenue Watch, rates 44 companies on their levels of transparency....
by Transparency International TI | On 07 Feb 2016 Natural resources can bring considerable amounts of wealth to a country. But transparency must be present for these riches to benefit citizens. Strong disclosure policies on the part of companies help...
by Transparency International TI | On 07 Feb 2016 In this study the relationship between corporate governance and corporate valuation, ownership structure and need of external financing for the Karachi Stock Market is examined for the period 2003 to...
by Attiya Y. Javid | On 06 Feb 2016 While aid flows topped US$ 128 billion in 2010, they have not always been good at achieving results due to corruption and mismanagement that arise from low levels of transparency, accountability and i...
by Transparency International TI | On 06 Feb 2016 The objectives of climate change mitigation projects are undermined when they do not meet sustainable development criteria and transparency standards. In such cases, international mitigation mechanism...
by Transparency International TI | On 06 Feb 2016 This study analyses the transparency of corporate reporting on a range of anticorruption measures among the 105 largest publicly listed multinational companies. Together these companies are worth more...
by Transparency International TI | 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 Pakistan is a federal country. Distribution of resources has a profound impact on income, development, backwardness, and poverty. The paper briefly discusses the federation, its needs and importance i...
by Usman Mustafa | On 06 Feb 2016 Transparency International conducted research into the public reporting practices of 100 emerging markets companies comprising a list of Global Challengers 2011. Based on the methodology of previous T...
by Transparency International TI | On 05 Feb 2016 This Transparency International report, Transparency in Corporate Reporting: Assessing the World’s Largest Companies, evaluates the transparency of corporate reporting by the world’s 124 largest publi...
by Transparency International TI | On 05 Feb 2016 Fighting tax evasion, corruption and opaque money flows should be seen as advancing the same end point: more equitable and better governed countries. When a tax system works right, it can create an ef...
by Transparency International | On 04 Feb 2016 This paper is an attempt to analyze the age-old phenomenon of leaks - the deliberate disclosure of secret information - and its relationship with the principle of transparency in a democracy. Secrets...
by | On 03 Feb 2016 This study attempts to analyse the impact of fiscal decentralisation on economic growth. It also examines the complementarity between fiscal decentralisation and democratic institutions in promoting g...
by Nasir Iqbal | On 03 Feb 2016 This study examines the effect of foreign aid on the fiscal behaviour of the Government of Pakistan. It applies the Autoregressive Distributed Lag model to analyse the relationship that prevailed betw...
by Rabia Butt | On 03 Feb 2016 Public property common pool resources in many developing countries are manage them in a sustainable manner. While this explanation may have some merit, it is certainly inadequate. Instead, we argue th...
by Junaid Memon | On 03 Feb 2016 Language acquisition refers to both learning and teaching a language. It might be argued that both learning and teaching are two sides of the same coin; that a teacher teaches a language while a learn...
by Tariq Rahman | On 02 Feb 2016 Investment incentives rank among the most important policy instruments governments employ to influence the locational decisions of multinational firms. In the wake of the recent increase in locational...
by International Centre for Sustainable Trade and Development | On 02 Feb 2016 In just over a year, the mid-2007 sub-prime housing debacle in the United States has escalated into a global financial crisis and pushed the world economy into recession arguably the deepest since Wor...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 Seventy-six years ago, in the midst of the Great Depression, the United States government introduced the New Deal. The New Deal effectively harnessed the fiscal stimulus for environmental as well as d...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 There is a growing awareness that action is urgently needed to seriously address the climate change problem. The multilateral process that began with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 Responding to the economic and financial crisis, a large number of countries introduced fiscal stimulus packages to support aggregate demand. These have been critical in avoiding the recession becomin...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 The world economy is teetering on the brink of another major downturn. As in 2008, economic woes in the major developed economies are weakening economic prospects around the world. Th ere are multiple...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 Official development assistance declined in real terms in 2011 as a result, in part, of fiscal austerity in many donor countries. Traditional forms of funding have fallen well short of needs to financ...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 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 Transparency is essential to the smooth functioning of a trade system. Improved transparency in agricultural policies and markets will allow trade to play a full role in achieving global food security...
by | On 30 Jan 2016 Trade liberalization and financial deepening have assumed greater significance for a country’s economic growth performance in recent times. This paper finds that trade openness and financial developme...
by Ram Upendra Das | On 30 Jan 2016 Pakistan’s economy has witnessed occasional spurts in economic growth, unfortunately, the economic growth has not been sustainable. One of the culprits often cited for haphazard growth experience of P...
by Ahmed Waqar Qasim | On 30 Jan 2016 Economists and experts have been batting for bringing the fiscal
federalism, the activist fora has been criticizing the newly brought in fiscal arrangements between Centre and States. This contradict...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 28 Jan 2016 Standards and regulations have externalities for other governments, citizens, and economic actors. The vector for those externalities is international trade, which is the reason that trade agreements...
by | 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 The paper, nonetheless, acknowledges that delivering these benefits would involve significant practical and political challenges. It concludes that if the challenges can be overcome and the mutual ben...
by Kodjo Osei-Lah | On 26 Jan 2016 This paper investigates whether TBT provisions included in RTAs differ from those under the WTO TBT Agreement, and, if they do, whether they entail broader commitments. Our analysis covers 238 RTAs, o...
by Vira Khoroshavina | On 26 Jan 2016 This policy notes highlights the importance of nutrition, it provides an overview of nutrition situation in India, its variation across socio-economic groups and states. further using the undernutriti...
by Ashi Kohli Kathuria | On 26 Jan 2016 Globalization has led to large scale outsourcing of production activities to developing countries manifesting in global commodity chains.The study shows that given a choice, enterprises and workers pr...
by Jeemol Unni | On 26 Jan 2016 A thriving and open Internet provides the foundation for the fourth industrial revolution. There has been growing concern that the Internet may be in danger of splintering into a series of bordered cy...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 25 Jan 2016 Over the last few years, the government has taken a number of initiatives in terms of financial, fiscal, and related policies; adopted strategies; and implemented actions for promoting SME-led economi...
by Naima Nazneen Rikta | On 23 Jan 2016 This note provides estimates of inflation rate of import-concentrated commodities and their contribution to overall inflation in Bangladesh. The results suggest that the Bangladesh economy has been ex...
by M. G. Mortaza | On 23 Jan 2016 Social conflicts have been solved through fiscal policy and the provision of public goods and services over the centuries. Data from India, too, show government expenditure on social services has had...
by Institute of Development Studies IDS | On 23 Jan 2016 In the fiscal year 2011–12, under-recoveries1 incurred by Indian oil-marketing companies for diesel rose to an all-time high of INR81,192 crore (US$15 billion) (Government of India, 2012a). Diesel con...
by Gayatri Khedkar | On 21 Jan 2016 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 This report is a result of that endeavor and reflects the unique perspectives and expertise of center and state actors, health and fiscal policymakers, academics, and civil society actors. It is based...
by (Centre for Global Development) Advisory Faculty | On 18 Jan 2016 A novel dataset is used to study the impact of male scarcity on marital assortative matching and other marriage market outcomes using the large shock that WWI caused to the number of French men. Using...
by | 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 We empirically analyze the language proficiency of migrants in the Netherlands. Traditionally, the emphasis in studying language proficiency and economic outcomes has been on the relation between earn...
by Hans Bloemen | On 15 Jan 2016 This paper assesses the effects of combining fiscal austerity with flexibilization policies aimed at reducing labour costs and increasing competitiveness. Core to our analysis is a global perspective...
by | On 11 Jan 2016 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 This paper synthesizes the evidence of a negative correlation between income inequality and environmental quality. It shows that inequality exerts adverse impact on environmental outcomes through seve...
by | On 11 Jan 2016 The latest ruling by the Supreme Court of India against the government’s project of the National Judicial Appointments Commission has further stirred a public discourse on the best means to have the b...
by Vinod Rai | On 09 Jan 2016 The paper presents the theoretical canvass emphasising the need to adopt an integrated approach towards trade in goods, trade in services and investment in a regional framework. In this context, rules...
by Ram Upendra Das | On 09 Jan 2016 The authors develop a new set of indexes of exchange rate stability, monetary policy independence, and financial market openness as the metrics for the trilemma hypothesis. In their exploration, they...
by Masahiro Kawai | On 07 Jan 2016 Half of the world’s population — 3 billion people — lives below the poverty line, and Asia has the largest share. In pursuit of sustainable economic development and poverty alleviation, there is great...
by Anbumozhi Venkatachalam | 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 This paper argues that as a step towards improving Indian corporate response to climate change, it is worth exploring an appropriate disclosure-based regulation system. It sets out reasons why Indian...
by Bharath Jairaj | On 05 Jan 2016 This paper examines how local politics affects public fund allocations. It uses the context of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in India which was introduced by the Indian National Congr...
by Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay | On 01 Jan 2016 Open educational resources made their appearance in early 2002 as a promising tool for enhancing the quality of and access to education and were perceived to have the potential to reduce costs by reus...
by Jouko Sarvi | On 01 Jan 2016 Utilising a newly created data set we examine the relationship between routine/everyday violence and fiscal decentralization in 98 districts of the Indonesian island of Java. By examining possible rel...
by Mohammad Tadjoeddin | On 30 Dec 2015 This paper will address why the Japanese economy has been trapped in a prolonged slowdown and will provide some remedies for revitalizing the economy.
by Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary | 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 The paper updates debt sustainability analysis (DSA) for developing Asia, conducted in 2011. With the benefit of hindsight, the accuracy of the earlier debt ratio forecasts and underlying macroeconomi...
by Benno Ferrarini | On 29 Dec 2015 This paper explores Gross National Happiness (GNH) as a framework for socio-economic development in Bhutan by elucidating GNH principles that affect the way Bhutanese society and state interact.The pa...
by Karma Ura | On 29 Dec 2015 “Abenomics” refers to the economic policies advocated by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe who became prime minister of Japan for a second time when his party, the Liberal Democratic Party, won an overwhelmin...
by Farhad Hesary | On 29 Dec 2015 This paper examines issues of women’s employment and decent work in the context of the on-going global financial and economic crisis. Recognizing that financial and economic crises affect men and wome...
by UN Women | On 28 Dec 2015 It’s been 7 years since Sachar Committee published its reports, highlighting the deep and extensive deprivations Muslims in India face on the range of counts. It has been as many years since the Centr...
by Sajjad Hassan | On 23 Dec 2015 Many developing countries use tax incentives to attract foreign direct investment, sacrificing immediate revenue from foreign capital, even though the effects of tax incentives on investment, growth,...
by Quan Li | On 23 Dec 2015 Building productive capacities and promoting sustainable industrialization have an important role to play across the spectrum of the integrated 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Agenda reco...
by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UN | On 22 Dec 2015 This paper addresses the issue of disability and its public health implications within the human rights framework. It also throws light on people with physical disabilities at least get noticed but th...
by Leni Chaudhari | On 21 Dec 2015 Preparing and implementing a K–12 transition absorbs considerable financial and human resources. It follows that the reasons for restructuring must be compelling. It follows that the reasons for restr...
by | On 21 Dec 2015 This note builds on lessons learned from the Center for Global Development’s work on intergovernmental fiscal transfers for health and lays out three strategies for donors that fund organizations and...
by Amanda Glassman | On 21 Dec 2015 This paper examines the growth, geographic distribution, and quality concerns of medical education in India, particularly in the private sector. It is observed that an important feature of the conside...
by Pradeep Choudhury | On 18 Dec 2015 Bangladesh has had impressive growth in exports, remittances and foreign exchange reserve in recent year. By analyzing the liberalizing regime from 1979 to this date by adopting a comprehensive approa...
by Abdul Wahab | On 18 Dec 2015 This report makes the case for closing persistent gaps in equity, because the cycle of inequity is neither inevitable nor insurmountable, and the cost of inaction is too high. UNICEF’s commitment to e...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 17 Dec 2015 This essay examines India’s position in international negotiations on climate change and domestic mitigation actions, based on scientific evidence and equity. It is argued that India’s stance has larg...
by D Raghunandan | On 17 Dec 2015 The paper makes use of newly developped information on unemployment dynamics. On the basis of a matching model of the labour market the paper analyses the economic, institutional and policy determinan...
by Ekkehard Ernst | On 16 Dec 2015 The disadvantaged and marginalized groups in Nepal, and particularly women and Dalits, face grave hurdles to acquire post secondary education. Lack of educational access has deprived the rural and m...
by Pramod Dhakal | On 15 Dec 2015 Budgets are the most solid expression of a government’s priorities, performances, decisions and intentions both at the national as well as the level of the states. This budget for children (BfC) in Me...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 08 Dec 2015 This study aims to examine how ‘open’ Indian states are with respect to international trade and uses the index of regional openness thus constructed to reflect on several aspects that affect the level...
by | On 19 Nov 2015 It is often emphasised that seigniorage financing of public sector deficits is technically a “free
lunch” if the economy has not attained the full employment levels. However, conservative
macroecono...
by Lekha S. Chakraborty | On 16 Nov 2015 If the surge in tax collections is sustainable, the finance minister has the elbow room to shoot for a fiscal deficit that is significantly lower than the Budget's 3.9 per cent of GDP, or to bump up.
by T.N. Ninan | On 13 Nov 2015 The objective of this paper is to examine the nature and magnitude of the effects of infrastructure provision on regional economic performance. The empirical evidence of the analysis is based on diffe...
by Naoyuki Yoshino | On 13 Nov 2015 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 Despite lack of infrastructure and facilities, studies over the past decade
has shown that learning outcomes in these schools are equal to or better than those of far more resourcefu...
by Centre for Civil Society CCS | On 29 Oct 2015 This interview is with D Raghunandan of Delhi Science Forum on India’s pledge regarding climate changes negotiations in Paris. The pledge was recently revealed in the documents presented by Prakash J...
by D Raghunandan | On 20 Oct 2015 In this paper the aim is to investigate the different nuances of India's capital account management through empirical analyses as well as descriptive discussions. In particular the study the evolution...
by Rajeswari Sengupta | On 19 Oct 2015 Using a theoretical framework that
combines the essence of Ramsay’s growth model and the New-Keynesian macrodynamics,
and applying the Kalman filter estimation technique, this paper finds that
Indi...
by Harendra Behera | On 16 Oct 2015 The study analyses a rural household’s decision to participate in a public pre-school intervention called the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS), and evaluates its impact on anthropometric out...
by Meenakshi J V | On 15 Oct 2015 What the government needs to do, perhaps, is to spell out an action agenda for the next four months, in the run-up to the 2016 Budget.
by T.N. Ninan | On 02 Oct 2015 This report presents the Hunger And Nutrition Commitment Index (HANCI) 2014. It seeks to: 1. Rank governments on their political commitment to tackling hunger and undernutrition; 2. Measure what gover...
by | On 01 Oct 2015 The Government of India has proposed the National Health Assurance Mission (NHAM) to move the country rapidly towards universal health coverage (UHC), by providing all citizens with specified drugs, d...
by Indrani Gupta | On 30 Sep 2015 This report presents the Hunger And Nutrition Commitment Index (HANCI) 2014. It seeks to: Rank governments on their political commitment to tackling hunger and undernutrition; Measure what governments...
by Rajith Lakshman | On 30 Sep 2015 Women in the communities make efforts to seek allocation under appropriate budget heads to identify streams of revenue, available revenue and the required expenditure. Town planners, policy makers and...
by Vibhuti Patel | On 28 Sep 2015 Can election change the condition of Bihar? At least improving the transport facilities....
by T.N. Ninan | On 26 Sep 2015 This brief highlights that Malnutrition in all of its forms – undernutrition, micronutrient deficiencies, obesity and diet-related non-communicable diseases (NCDs) – imposes unacceptably high economic...
by Food and Nutrition Division FAO | On 25 Sep 2015 There are several challenges before introduction of GST and these can be classified into two broad heads – a) GST Design and Structure related, and b) GST Administration and Institutional. On design r...
by Sacchidananda Mukherjee | On 24 Sep 2015 This paper seeks to provide an overview of the complex and dynamic relationship between nutrition and growth, examine how different growth patterns lead to different nutritional outcomes, and identif...
by | On 22 Sep 2015 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 analyses the legal framework and policy innovations undertaken towards achieving the stated objectives of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act. This paper seeks to cri...
by | On 15 Sep 2015 This report – “Assessment of State Implementation of Business Reforms” is a scorecard to take stock of what reforms have happened, and to identify the way forward for States. The report highlights the...
by World Bank | On 15 Sep 2015 This study examines the status of and trends in foreign investment inflow into the Indian hospital sector and highlights the emerging issues from 2000 to 2014, the era of liberalised foreign investmen...
by | On 14 Sep 2015 Open and participatory budget making is imperative for good
governance; yet by international standards India fares badly
on this count. This article analyses the process of budget
preparation and...
by Vinod Bhanu | On 11 Sep 2015 More than half of Rural Maharashtra defecates in the open. The main issue to understand is the nexus between the access to water and adoption of sanitation practices. It is also interesting to underst...
by Parliamentarian's Group for Children PGC | On 09 Sep 2015 Sanitation in India has to be improved. Women and children are the most affected due to the low sanitation. A check list is given to parliamentarians on how to improve sanitation in the country.
by Parliamentarian's Group for Children PGC | On 08 Sep 2015 This paper summarizes the preliminary findings of Global Nutrition Report (GNR), which we shared at the GNR stakeholder roundtable in New Delhi. The primary recommendations suggested are a set of core...
by | On 04 Sep 2015 Against the backdrop of the new monetary policy framework, this paper analyses the determinants of inflation in the deregulated financial regime. The paper upfront has been kept free from adherence to...
by Lekha Chakraborty | On 25 Aug 2015 The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act (RTE), 2009 ratified education as a fundamental right and seeks to promote equitable access to education for all children up to the age of 14...
by Centre for Civil Society CCS | On 13 Aug 2015 This study focuses on the marketable
domestic public debt of the Government of India (GoI) in terms of size, magnitude, policy and approach followed and also discusses issues and challenges on debt m...
by Lakshmanan L | On 13 Aug 2015 The National Policy on Biofuels sets an indicative target of 20per cent blending of biofuels by 2017 to tackle the twin problem of energy security and climate change. Although biofuels seem to be the...
by Gopinath Reddy | On 13 Aug 2015 This paper considers the implications of an imperfect monetary transmission mechanism for optimal monetary policy choices in an open economy. The asset market channel is restricted in this paper as so...
by | On 11 Aug 2015 This paper aims to provide APEC members with evidence-based guidance on the implementation of the APEC mandate. Theoretically, this approach addresses the free-rider problem. Free riders are countries...
by | On 28 Jul 2015 This paper captures the policy processes leading to the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (RFCTLARR) Ordinance, 2014. It maps the role an...
by G. Raghuram | On 28 Jul 2015 An Ordinance further to amend the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013. This ordinance, 2015 incorporates the amendments made by t...
by Ministry of Law and Justice GOI | On 21 Jul 2015 This Bill amends the principal Act passed in 2013. The Bill enables the government to exempt five categories of projects from the requirements of social impact assessment, restrictions on acquisition...
by Ministry of Law and Justice GOI | On 21 Jul 2015 This is a Bill to further amend the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013. The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land...
by Ministry of Law and Justice GOI | On 21 Jul 2015 This paper considers the implications of an imperfect monetary transmission mechanism for optimal monetary policy choices in an open economy. The asset market channel is restricted in this paper as so...
by | On 09 Jul 2015 This paper assesses the case for promoting financial education in Asia. It argues that the benefits of investing in financial education can be substantial. Data are limited, but indicate low financial...
by | On 29 Jun 2015 This paper attempts to capture how India embraced the world
economy against the backdrop of the evolving domestic and international economic policy environment. It began with a brief overview of the...
by | On 24 Jun 2015 Statement aims to establish good governance by coordinating activities of different ministries & divisions and supervising activities of field administration in pursuing government policy and strategy...
by Ministry of Finance Bangladesh | On 17 Jun 2015 The statement aims to build a knowledge-based and digital Bangladesh and to advance the socio-economic conditions of all sections of the nation, through the establishment of good governance in the all...
by Ministry of Finance Bangladesh | On 17 Jun 2015 The data generated by the Budgeting Information System has been used to prepare this report which put forward the following major findings- Up to April FY11, 80.2% of the Revenue target of the budget...
by Ministry of Finance Bangladesh | On 17 Jun 2015 This edition of the Afghanistan bulletin provides a snapshot of the actual domestic revenues collection and core budget execution during the quarter. An attempt has been made to provide analytical ana...
by Ministry of Finance Afghanistan | On 16 Jun 2015 This economic outlook by NCAER, analyses expected growth, inflation, balance of payments, fiscal balances, savings and investment trends, and covers the state of important sectors of the economy, inc...
by National Council of Applied Economic Research | On 15 Jun 2015 Budgetary speech presents an outline of the the Budget Implementation Progress report for FY 2010-11. The speech discuss briefly budget framework of bangladesh government and also analyse macroeconomi...
by Ministry of Finance Bangladesh | On 12 Jun 2015 Open budget documents
by test Auth11055 fgdfgdx | On 10 Jun 2015 On the basis of an assessment of the current and evolving macroeconomic situation the statement suggest that the global recovery is still slow and getting increasingly differentiated across regions.
by Raghuram G. Rajan | On 03 Jun 2015 An external review, commissioned by the Programme, Budget and Administration Committee of the Executive Board, was prepared in May 2013, providing detailed analysis of WHO’s administrative and managem...
by World Health Organisation (WHO) | On 26 May 2015 At the Sixty-sixth World Health Assembly in May 2013, Member States requested the Director-General to propose, for consideration by the Sixty-seventh World Health Assembly, in consultation with Member...
by World Health Organisation (WHO) | On 26 May 2015 In context of contemporary debates about censorship, net neutrality and the role of the state in today’s globalising world, it becomes vital to examine the stand taken by various Asian governments tow...
by Nandini Bhattacharya | On 17 Apr 2015 This is an an ordinance further to amend the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013.
by Ministry of Law and Justice GOI | On 17 Apr 2015 This policy review looks at four types of Internet traffic management policies across the globe: legal regulation, transparency, non-neutrality, and government control. Each of these has been employed...
by Christine Stover | On 16 Apr 2015 This is analysis of this year's Union Budget in Hindi. This video discusses on how the government categories budget and how the budget document should be viewed.
by | On 13 Apr 2015 This study projects government spending on education, health care, and social protection in developing Asia up to 2050 as a result of demographic changes and economic growth.
by Sang-Hyop Lee | On 06 Apr 2015 This paper discusses recent developments in the literature on state effectiveness. Each section covers the relevant theory with a special focus on the current knowledge about the mechanisms highlighte...
by | On 01 Apr 2015 There has been a furious debate by political parties and intellectuals alike in Nepal on making the transition to federal system of governance. The attempt to evolve a federal constitution has stumble...
by | On 26 Mar 2015 An ordinance to amend the right to fair compensation and transparency in land acquisition, rehabilitation and resettlement (amendment) ordinance, 2014.
by Ministry of Law and Justice GOI | On 26 Mar 2015 Budget for children is not a separate budget. It is merely an attempt to disaggregate from the overall allocations made, those made specifically for programmes that benefit children. This enables us t...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 24 Mar 2015 The paper provides the Sri Lankan perspective of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) highlighting both the positive outcomes and the negative aspects. The paper shows that the FTA has worked in favor of Sr...
by Saman Kelegama | On 16 Mar 2015 Kerala is chartering a new course and addressing some of the long standing gaps that have existed in Gender Responsive Budgeting work in several countries. Although the state has initiated the process...
by Yamini Mishra | 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 The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement
(Amendment) Bill, 2015 was introduced in Lok Sabha on February 24, 2015 to replace an Ordinance. T...
by PRS Legislative Research | On 11 Mar 2015 The Act aims to ensure a humane, participative, informed and transparent process for Land acquisition, industrialisation, development of essential infrastructural facilities and urbanisation with leas...
by | On 09 Mar 2015 A flagship annual document of the Ministry of Finance, Government of India, Economic Survey 2014–15 reviews the developments in the Indian economy over the previous 12 months, summarizes the performan...
by Ministry of Finance | On 28 Feb 2015 The paper reflects on the changing scope of the Union Budget and the Finance Minister’s speech and assesses the evolving content of these policy instruments in recent years. The analysis undertaken is...
by | On 27 Feb 2015 Gender Budgeting highlights that a government policy or intervention, if formulated and implemented without any attention to the gender-based disadvantages confronting women, might even end up reinfor...
by Pooja Parvati | On 26 Feb 2015 Open defecation and improper garbage disposal are a reality of public spaces in India, not just due to poverty or a lack of initiative on the government, but social acceptance of attitudes which disr...
by Poorva Awasthi | On 24 Feb 2015 The union budget for 2014-15 offers few changes in terms of policy priorities from the United Progressive Alliance government interim budget for 2014-15, and it fails to recognise the cracks in the co...
by Subrat Das | On 20 Feb 2015 This paper explores the need for a Pre-Budget Statement, sub-national transparency and civil society participation to make the budgetary process in India more transparent, accountable and participator...
by Ravi Duggal | On 20 Feb 2015 Important processes relating to government budgets in India have been constrained by some widely-acknowledged challenges in governance in the country. These challenges pertain to lack of adequate tran...
by Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability | On 20 Feb 2015 Access to water and sanitation are strongly influenced by identities of caste, class and gender. The launch of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan presents an opportunity to address some concerns pertaining to...
by Kanika Kaul | On 19 Feb 2015 Government of India (GoI) will present its Budget for 2015-16 on February 28, 2015. After the new Government was sworn in during May 2014, it had a short period of six weeks before presenting the Revi...
by Aditi Nayar | On 19 Feb 2015 Despite the steps towards gender responsive budgeting, the budgetary allocations for promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment show a decline. Not only has the magnitude of the gender budget a...
by | On 17 Feb 2015 An outcome report of IMF-World Bank meetings held in October 2014, this report highlights the stark inequalities in human development in South Asia. Based on parameters such as monetary indicators, he...
by Martin Rama | On 17 Feb 2015 Indian Public Finance Statistics' is an annual publication prepared by the Economic Division of the Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance. This provides a comprehensive overview of the b...
by Ministry of Finance | On 10 Feb 2015 This note presents an analysis of Parliament’s role of financial oversight and examines how to strengthen it. It highlights gaps and solutions to improve the existing structures affecting budgetary an...
by Apoorva Shankar | On 30 Jan 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 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 Inadequate infrastructure was recognized in the Eleventh Plan as a major constraint for rapid growth. The Plan had, therefore, emphasized on the need for massive expansion on investment in infrastruct...
by Geethanjali Nataraj | On 16 Oct 2014 Using the case study of Indonesian women migrating as domestic workers to Singapore, this paper draws on a quantitative survey and qualitative in-depth interviews to examine the migration trajectories...
by Maria Platt | On 24 Sep 2014 The inaugural budget of the NDA led government has been a cause of some surprise and disappointment amongst those who were eagerly expecting a new radical dose of neo-liberal reforms. It appeared that...
by Surajit Mazumdar | On 22 Sep 2014 Accountability is broadly defined as the obligation of those holding power to take responsibility for their behaviour and actions. Essentially the term encapsulates three main elements; answerability...
by Gayatri Sahgal | On 16 Sep 2014 The Government of Odisha has striven to make Odisha the preferred IT destination for IT / ITES / ESDM companies by providing a congenial business environment, an investor friendly policy framework wit...
by Government of Odisha | On 09 Sep 2014 The debt position of the state governments in India, which deteriorated sharply between 1997-98 and 2003-04, has witnessed significant improvement since 2004-05, reflecting the impact of both favourab...
by Atri Mukherjee | On 19 Aug 2014 The FRBM Act was reflective of the shared commitment across political parties towards fiscal conservatism. A decade later, the picture, as reflected in the Union Budget, is yet to change for the bette...
by Surajit Mazumdar | On 07 Aug 2014 The Minister of Finance, Mr. Arun Jaitley, presented the Union Budget 2014-15 to Parliament on July 10,
2014. In this context, some statistics related to budget expenditures, receipts and deficits.
by Saumya Vaishnava | On 16 Jul 2014 India’s health policy has focused on primary health centers and hospitals. The numbers of hospital beds, doctors, and nurses per 1000 persons have often been treated less as inputs and more as measure...
by Aarti Salve | On 14 Jul 2014 The bulletin shows what are the process in presenting budget and the terms used in the budget.
by Lok Sabha Secretariat | On 10 Jul 2014 Governments’ budgets are fundamentally about people’s human rights. Budgets are the central means by which governments can help realize their people’s access to quality education, decent health care s...
by International Budget Partnership IBP | On 10 Jul 2014 The importance of strengthening the human development (HD) achievements in a country to augment its growth potential is well known in development literature. Several initiatives to enhance the HD leve...
by Sacchidananda Mukherjee | On 24 Jun 2014 This ILO flagship report: (i) provides a global overview of the organisation of social protection systems, their coverage and benefits, as well as public expenditures on social security; (ii) followin...
by International Labour Organisation ILO | On 17 Jun 2014 Political parties and elections lie at the center of modern democratic politics. Elections function as the chief means of holding leaders accountable for their actions in democratic societies. Politic...
by Erik Kuhonta | On 28 Apr 2014 This study assessed the sources and levels of infrastructure financing in the Philippines for the
last five years (2008-2012). [PIDS Discussion Paper No. 2014-01].
by Adoracion M. Navarro | On 12 Mar 2014 Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) as an innovation has four specific components: knowledge processes and networking; institutional mechanisms; learning processes and building capacities; and public ac...
by Lekha Chakraborty | On 05 Mar 2014 Budget speech by 2014-15.
by P Chidambaram | On 17 Feb 2014 This paper on the mining sector is an attempt to analyse the sector, in particular, at its competitiveness. Against the backdrop of the Planning Commission’s High-level Committee Report on National Mi...
by Lekha Chakraborty | On 05 Feb 2014 This edition of the Education for All (EFA) Global Monitoring Report demonstrates the reasons why education is pivotal for development in a rapidly changing world. It explains how investing wisely in...
by UNESCO UNESCO | On 30 Jan 2014 With the decentralization process of the 1990s, linked to economic liberalization, there emerged new decisional scope for regional governments to shape their own policies. But the decentralization pro...
by Kim Robin | On 24 Jan 2014 The relationship between governance and economic development is one of the most important areas of research in international development. Much of the
previous literature has focused on whether better...
by Kunal Sen | On 20 Jan 2014 The effects of the Indonesian decentralization and democratization process on
budget allocation at the sub-national level is analyzed. Based on panel data for 271 Indonesian districts
for the years...
by Krisztina Kis Katos | On 17 Jan 2014 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 There are great opportunities for Open Access publications to advance human health, provided the medical research and publishing communities can rise to the challenges that come with them. There are m...
by Plos medicine Editors | On 06 Jan 2014 There are great opportunities for Open Access
publications to advance human health,
provided the medical research and publishing
communities can rise to the challenges
that come with them. There a...
by Plos medicine Editors | On 02 Jan 2014 The Government of India has recently announced that Kerala, Punjab, and West Bengal are
fiscally unsound at the level of general category states. The study reviews this projection
and assesses their...
by Nimai Das | On 26 Nov 2013 Time use statistics is highly neglected in the studies on gender budgeting. The integration of this into this process remains partial or even nil across countries. This paper takes up these issues and...
by Lekha Chakraborty | On 06 Nov 2013 This study is an attempt to examine the decentralized production of supplementary nutrition which has been instituted for the Integrated Child Development Services in
urban Maharashtra, specifically,...
by Natasha S. K. | On 04 Oct 2013 This study examines the differences between two major Mid-day Meal implementation models: the decentralized model where food is cooked and served within the schools premises, and the centralized model...
by Shankar Priya | On 01 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 In this paper it is examined whether a favourable fiscal rule had impact on fiscal balance but what lies behind a particular outcome in a rule based fiscal regime. Often time it is argued that fiscal...
by Pinaki Chakraborty | On 30 Sep 2013 In the study states’ finances is analysed to see whether all states have been able to create a fiscal space and whether their fiscal capacities have increased over time. Then the states’ spending is l...
by Kim Robin | On 23 Sep 2013 In recent years the role of a sound PFM system to achieve the objectives of fiscal discipline, strategic planning, and improved service delivery has been getting increasing public attention in India....
by Pratap Ranjan Jena | On 12 Sep 2013 Recruiting female teachers is frequently suggested as a policy option for improving girls' education outcomes in developing countries, but there is surprisingly little evidence on the effectiveness of...
by Karthik Muralidharan | On 06 Sep 2013 The Hedonic property value method is used to estimate how a dismenity, bad odor from an open sewer system, affects housing prices in the city of Rawalpindi in Pakistan. An estimate of the benefits of...
by Mohammad Irfan | On 05 Sep 2013 This Tenth Nani A. Palkhivala Memorial lecture lecture centres around the role and responsibility of a central bank in a democratic structure. Central banks make macroeconomic policy that influences t...
by Duvvuri Subbarao | On 30 Aug 2013 This paper asks whether the availability of breastfeeding facilities at the workplace helps to reconcile breastfeeding and work commitments. Using data from the 2005 UK Infant Feeding Survey, we model...
by Emilia Bono | On 07 Aug 2013 Obituary: Sharmila Rege (1964 to 2013)
by Vibhuti Patel | On 30 Jul 2013 The National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy (NDSAP) is designed so as to apply to all sharable non-sensitive data available either in digital or analog forms but generated using public funds by...
by Ministry of Science and Technology GOI | On 30 Jul 2013 This paper evaluates the President’s Budget (PB) or the National Expenditure
Program (NEP) for 2013. The assessment is composed of four parts: (i) an evaluation
of the overall fiscal picture as proj...
by Rosario G. Manasan | On 25 Jul 2013 Supplementary Budget for the fiscal year 2012-13 and the Budget Estimates for the fiscal year 2013-14. [http://www.mof.gov.bd/en/budget/13_14/budget_speech/speech_en.pdf].
by Abul Maal Abdul Muhith | On 07 Jun 2013 This study measures the efficiency of Indian states in
raising health outcomes, using the stochastic frontier methodology for
panel data for the period 2000-2009. [MSE WORKING PAPER 70/2012]. URL: [...
by Prachitha J | On 16 Apr 2013 H.E Finance Minister’s Speech
for Mishrano Jirga. [Ministry of Finance, Afghanistan]. URL:[http://mof.gov.af/Content/files/HE%20Minister%20Speech%20to%20Mishranow%20Jirga-%20English%20after%20review....
by Ministry of Finance Afghanistan | On 10 Apr 2013 The national budget is truly a potent tool for the economy to journey towards inclusive growth that would empower Filipinos through deliverance from backbreaking poverty. [Senate of the Philippines]....
by Senate Economic Planning Office SEPO | On 08 Apr 2013 Budget speech by Minister of Finance. [Ministry of Finance]. URL:[http://www.finance.gov.pk/budget/budget_Speech_12_13.pdf].
by Minister of Finance Pakistan | On 22 Mar 2013 Following is the full text of report on the implementation of central and local budgets in 2012 and on draft central and local budgets for 2013, which was submitted for review on March 5, 2013 at the...
by Ministry of Finance China | On 21 Mar 2013 Budget speech presented by Prasanna Acharya. General Budget is presented.
by Government of Orissa | On 25 Feb 2013 India's Open Budget score is 68 out of 100. India's budget documents have been found to be informative and as providing substantial relevant information to people.
by MINISTRY OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FOOD AND PUBLIC DIST GOI | On 15 Feb 2013 reveals that the national budgets of 77 of the 100 countries assessed – these 77 countries are home to half the world’s population – fail to meet basic standards of budget transparency; the average sc...
by International Budget Partnership IBP | On 14 Feb 2013 This paper analyses the property tax system in India, examines the reasons for its low revenue productivity, reviews the recent reform initiatives and identifies further reform areas. [NIPFP Working P...
by M. Govinda Rao | On 06 Feb 2013 Review of the book Food Security in Asia, by Amitava Mukherjee Sage Publications India 2011
pp. xix+392, Rs 895/-.
by Rudra Narayan Mishra | On 04 Jan 2013 The scheme titled National Programme for Youth Adolescent Development (NPYAD) has been formulated by merger of four 100% central sector grants-in-aid schemes of the Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports...
by Ministry of Youth and Sports Affairs YAS | On 28 Sep 2012 This paper focuses on the assessment of energy savings potential in seven highly energy consuming industries. The paper estimates the energy savings potential for each of these industries using unit l...
by Manish Gupta | On 17 Sep 2012 The report reflects the collective assessment
of the Sub Committee of the Financial Stability and Development Council (FSDC) on potential risks to financial stability. [RBI]. URL:[http://rbidocs.rbi....
by Reserve Bank of India RBI | On 04 Sep 2012 This paper covers recent trends in a series of broad indicators of the financial health of the Government of Kerala with its developmental policy as the backdrop. It examines fiscal balances in Kerala...
by Tapas K. Sen | On 30 Aug 2012 This paper discusses the scope of the many challenges and sets out a long-term strategy for overcoming them and putting the Japanese economy on a stable growth path. [Working Paper No. 376]. URL:[http...
by Masahiro Kawai | On 24 Aug 2012 The BasicNeeds model of Mental Health and Development (MHD), Nepal emphasizes
user empowerment, community development, strengthening of health
systems, and policy influencing.
The Nepal program was...
by Shoba Raja | On 24 Aug 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 The violence in Myanmar’s western Rakhine State appears to have died down. However, partisan portrayals of the violence risks jeopardising the security of locals and Myanmar’s reform process with extr...
by Kyaw San Wai | On 31 Jul 2012 The paper reviews the economic growth and productivity dynamics of Philippine economy in the past fifty years. The paper also provides an estimation of determinants of total factor productivity and la...
by Gilberto M Llanto | On 29 May 2012 Parliament met for the Budget Session between March 16 and May 22 with a three-week recess in April. Both Houses met for 35 days each. A special sitting was convened on Sunday, May 13 to commemorate 6...
by Rohit Kumar | On 23 May 2012 The wealth accumulation of Indian parliamentarians using public disclosures
required of all candidates since 2003 are studied. Annual asset growth of winners is on average 3 to 6 percentage points hi...
by Raymond Fisman | On 18 May 2012 This study analyses India’s inflation using the Phillips curve theory. To estimate an open-economy Phillips curve, we need three variables: (1) inflation (2) the output gap and (3) the real effective...
by Karan Singh | On 26 Apr 2012 The audiovisual sector is a significant component of the economy in terms of wealth creation and employment and audiovisual industries also play an important cultural role. This study reviews the main...
by Gillian Doyle | On 20 Apr 2012 Th is study, which is supported by the ministries of fi nance and
the central banks of the BRICS, focuses on synergies and complementarities
between the economies, highlighting their role as growth
...
by Ministry of Finance | On 18 Apr 2012 Hon’ble Finance Minister Shri Raghavji presented the budget for year 2012-13.
The salient features of the budget estimates of 2012-13 are as follows:-
• Total expenditure of ` 80030.98 crores for th...
by Madhya Pradesh Government | On 13 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 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 budgetary data for 2011-12 indicates the commitment of States to carry forward fiscal correction,
as evident from the emergence of revenue surplus after a gap of two years and consequent reductio...
by Reserve Bank of India RBI | On 03 Apr 2012 Adult height, as a marker of childhood health, has recently become a focus in
understanding the relationship between childhood health and health outcomes at
older ages. However, measured height of t...
by Wei Huang | On 02 Apr 2012 Budget Speech
of
PU H.LIANSAILOVA
HON’BLE FINANCE MINISTER. [Government of Mizoram]. URL:[http://mizoram.nic.in/budget/Interim%20Budget%20Speech%2012-13.pdf].
by Finance Minister Mizoram | On 29 Mar 2012 1) Allocating budget to the measure for the real revitalization of Japan to recover Japan’s economy and society
2) Reviewing the existing budget based on the result of evaluation by the Policy Propos...
by Ministry of Finance, Japan MOF, Japan | On 28 Mar 2012 Budget speech by Ministry of Finance, Goa. [Budget Speech]. URL:[http://www.goa.gov.in/pdf/Speech12-13.pdf].
by Goa Government | On 28 Mar 2012 This study examines whether the allocation of public expenditures of
the Indian states are significantly influenced by government specific political
characteristics. Three types of government specif...
by Bharatee Bhusana Dash | On 27 Mar 2012 Budget presented to Municipal Commissioner. . [BMC Annual Reports]. URL:[http://www.mcgm.gov.in/irj/go/km/docs/documents/MCGM%20Department%20List/Chief%20Accountant%20(Finance)/Budget/Complete%20Engli...
by Municipal Commissioner BMC | On 22 Mar 2012 The transfer system in India is discussed and analyses expenditure
needs of States to provide essential health infrastructure. It also analyzes the fiscal space for
health care in terms of stimulati...
by M Govinda Rao | On 19 Mar 2012 The food security Bill's focus ignores changes in agriculture and eating habits. [BS editorial]. URL:[http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/t-n-ninan-notremembered-country/467874/].
by T.N. Ninan | On 19 Mar 2012 Speech of Pranab Mukherjee Minister of Finance, India. [Budget Speech]. URL:[http://indiabudget.nic.in/ub2012-13/bs/bs.pdf].
by Pranab Mukherjee | On 16 Mar 2012 This paper analyses the impact of transmission of international oil prices and domestic oil price pass-through policy on major macroeconomic variables in India with the help of a macroeconomic policy...
by N R Bhanumurthy | On 16 Mar 2012 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 This paper assesses how the economic support provided by parents to young adults as they
complete their education and enter the labor market is related to the family’s socioeconomic
circumstances. W...
by Deborah Cobb clark | On 07 Mar 2012 Government-ownedand-
controlled
corporations were
initially created as
solutions to market
imperfections. It is
ironic therefore, that
in recent years, they
have come to be seen
as problems t...
by Senate Economic Planning Office SEPO | On 06 Mar 2012 Outward-oriented economies seem to grow faster than inward-looking ones. Does the literature on convergence have anything to say on this? In the dynamic Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson model, with factor-pr...
by Partha Sen | On 28 Feb 2012 A
bill
to regulate public procurement with the objectives of ensuring transparency, fair and equitable treatment of bidders, promoting competition, enhancing efficiency and economy and safeguarding...
by Ministry of Finance | On 24 Feb 2012 The effect of electoral rules and forms of government on public policy outcomes using a new dataset on agriculture and food policies from 74 countries over the 1960-2005 period is investigated. Using...
by Alessandro Olper | On 22 Feb 2012 The increasing occurrence of national, regional, and global financial crises, together with their rising costs and complexity, have increased calls for greater regional and global monetary cooperation...
by Mario Lamberte | On 21 Feb 2012 Empirical evidence on the beneficial effects of fiscal transparency ranges from improved budgetary outcomes, to lower sovereign borrowing costs and decreased corruption. Despite this, hardly any effor...
by Joachim Wehner | On 19 Feb 2012 Since 1999 the Chinese government implemented budget reform measures to streamline administrative processes. The government made considerable technical and process advances in just a few years, includ...
by Julian Wu | On 19 Feb 2012 Radio is the most widespread mass-medium in the developing world. It is affordable, easy to use and ubiquitous. This article shows how radio is an invaluable tool for reaching and involving the poor...
by Mary Myers | On 19 Feb 2012 This paper reviews and discusses available empirical research on the impact of violent conflict
on the level and access to education of civilian and combatant populations affected by violence. Three
...
by Patricia Justino | On 15 Feb 2012 The aim of this paper is to compare the technical efficiency of Indian Banks operating
abroad and foreign banks operating in India and to investigate the effect of openness of the
country, ownership...
by Vivek Kumar | On 08 Feb 2012 The sovereign debt problems in the peripheral economies of the euro zone has started to pose a serious threat to the main economies of the Europe and perhaps to the future of the 'euro‘ itself. Such a...
by M R Anand | On 06 Feb 2012 This essay examines the trajectory of India?s fiscal policy with a focus on historical trends, fiscal discipline frameworks, fiscal responses to the global financial crisis and subsequent return to a...
by Supriyo De | On 31 Jan 2012 RBI Governor D. Subbarao answering to researchers after publishing the monetary policy. [RBI]. URL:[http://rbidocs.rbi.org.in/rdocs/Content/PDFs/RBIRA27012012.pdf]
by Reserve Bank of India RBI | On 30 Jan 2012 The aim of this paper is to explore the relationship between the quality of the budget process and human development outcomes. It looks in particular at at the relationship between the OBI and human d...
by Sakiko Fukuda-Parr | On 17 Jan 2012 The current global financial crisis has reopened an old debate on the international monetary system by baring weaknesses and flaws that have long been known. The debate is centred on both stability an...
by Alok Sheel | On 10 Jan 2012 This article focuses on the Open
Knowledge Definition and the Panton
Principles for Open Data in Science. Some of the tools the group has
developed to facilitate the generation and
use of open dat...
by Jennifer C Molloy | On 03 Jan 2012 This paper tries to highlight the importance of intensity and severity of
any deprivation while comparing welfare outcomes across the groups for any given relevant characteristics. It argues that whe...
by Rudra Narayan Mishra | On 15 Dec 2011 The public sectors of different countries are shaped by many factors, but they share common challenges. Those challenges make public sector performance management more complex than it is in the privat...
by Louise Ross | On 14 Dec 2011 Scientific authors who pay to publish
their articles in an open-access publication
should be congratulated for doing so. They
also should be aware that they may not be
getting full open access fro...
by Michael W Carroll | On 13 Dec 2011 The paper explores how inter-organizational relationships foster
organizational learning process through experiential and vicarious learning. The paper further
explores various factors that impact t...
by Vijayta Doshi | On 08 Dec 2011 How does informality in emerging economies affect the conduct of monetary and
fiscal policy? To answer this question two-sector, formal-informal new
Keynesian closed-economy is constructed. The inf...
by Nicoletta Batini | On 02 Dec 2011 Construction is a $1.7 trillion industry worldwide, much of which is linked to publicly financed
projects. Outcomes from this financing are frequently suboptimal. Cost and time escalation, as
well a...
by Charles Kenny | On 25 Nov 2011 With deep crisis weakening potential output growth, the need for an
explicit growth policy is emerging most starkly in Japan, the EU and
the US. If properly shaped, this will help to consolidate bud...
by Klaus Deutsch | On 21 Nov 2011 The Program CEA extends to the study to an impact analysis of the Radio programs to assess
whether the expenditure being made for this intervention is helping the students in improving
their learnin...
by Shubhashansha Bakshi | On 16 Nov 2011 Editors reflect on recent research and analysis in PLoS Medicine that highlights the need to fully evaluate rapid and convenient diagnostics. They argue that while rapidly determining the cause of an...
by Plos medicine Editors | On 31 Oct 2011 In an earlier paper (Alagh, Munish, 2011) it was shown that macro economics matters in
agriculture. The relevance of understanding the impact of macro-economic policy on
agriculture was outlined. A...
by Munish Alagh | On 24 Oct 2011 There has been a growing concern on the official estimates of poverty released by the Planning
commission. The official poverty estimates have been severely criticised on various counts. In view
of...
by Planning Commission | On 21 Oct 2011 Apart from being BRIC countries, what India and Brazil have in common is a large service sector that contributes significantly to the GDP. The service sector contributed 66% to the Brazilian GDP and 5...
by Rekha Jain | On 18 Oct 2011 This study analyses the behaviour of monetary and fiscal policies
interaction in India using quarterly data for 2000Q2 to 2010Q1. It finds that,
even after the elimination of automatic monetisation...
by Janak Raj | On 11 Oct 2011 In this paper the objective functions of the regions as well as their decision to provide
public investment are endogenized in a model of competition for foreign owned mobile capital. It is demonstra...
by Rupayan Pal | On 04 Oct 2011 This paper provides an economic valuation of the recreational uses of
atoll-based marine resources in the Republic of the Maldives. A travel demand model to estimate the benefits of atoll-based marin...
by Mahadev G Bhat | On 30 Sep 2011 This paper starts by examining some of the variables that have been considered important
determinants of openness and how views of these have changed over the last twenty
years. It then considers th...
by Kenneth E Jackson | On 29 Sep 2011 This paper, examines the possibility of adopting Oil- to- Cash scheme in Iraq. Here, a new opportunity is identified which aims for direct distribution of Iraqi oil rents in the planned production exp...
by Johnny West | On 19 Sep 2011 An SIIO paradigm, based on structure and ideas that become engraved in institutions and affect
outcomes, is developed to examine and assesses monetary policy in India after independence. Narrative
h...
by Ashima Goyal | On 16 Sep 2011 In preparing the Approach Paper, the Planning Commission has consulted much more
widely than ever before recognising the fact that citizens are now much better informed and
also keen to engage. Over...
by Planning Commission, India | On 12 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 An attempt is made to identify the determinants of yield spreads between the
State and Central government securities in a panel data framework as has been used in
several cross-country studies. This...
by Dhritidyuti Bose | On 08 Aug 2011 The study makes specific recommendations for decisionmakers
in industry, society and politics on how to handle new
network technologies. URL:[http://www.dbresearch.com/PROD/DBR_INTERNET_EN-PROD/PROD...
by Thomas F Dapp | On 02 Aug 2011 More than one out of every five principals leaves their school each year. In some cases, these career changes are driven by the choices of district leadership. In other cases, principals initiate the...
by Tara Béteille | On 27 Jul 2011 This paper analyses the impact of domestic and external shocks on the Indian economy.
A macro-modelling framework is developed that evaluates the impact of two
domestic shocks (rainfall shortfall an...
by B B Bhattacharya | On 15 Jul 2011 This paper analyzes the inter-state imbalances in three major sectors of
the economy, namely, education, health and family welfare, and water
supply and sanitation for fifteen major states. It uses...
by C Bhujanga Rao | On 14 Jul 2011 Growth, poverty reduction, and social peace are all undermined when public expenditure management and taxation are weak and when the fiscal deficit and public debt are not managed successfully. And la...
by Tony Addison | On 04 Jul 2011 In a two-sector model, where one of the sectors is monopolistically competitive and subject to increasing returns to scale but without love for variety, the effects of a balanced budget fiscal expansi...
by Partha Sen | On 20 Jun 2011 The UNU-WIDER project on 'Spatial Disparities in Human Development' has collected and analysed evidence on the extent of spatial inequalities within developing countries. The studies find that spatial...
by Ravi Kanbur | On 15 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 Unequal access to and distribution of public knowledge is governed by Northern standards and is increasingly inappropriate in the age of the networked “Invisible College”. Academic journals remain the...
by Leslie Chan | On 14 May 2011 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 Review of Policy and Practice in Asian Distance
Edited by Belawati Tiawati and Baggaley Jon Education,
Sage, Publications, India 2010, 260 pages, Rs. 650/-
by Madhu Parhar | On 06 May 2011 This study investigates whether the type of cook stove
a household uses has an impact on its level of
firewood use. Not surprisingly, the study finds that households with traditional mud stoves
use...
by Mani Nepal | On 05 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 This paper attempts to address both theoretical and practical considerations for a tax such as financial transactions taxes (FTT). It includes examples of FTT in the wider context, for example, on sto...
by Parthasarathi Shome | On 18 Apr 2011 This note is intended as a brief guide on how the budget papers are organised, and how to find the exact information that a reader wants (expenditure on a particular scheme of interest, or total budge...
by Avinash Celestine | On 12 Apr 2011 The important recommendations of the Thirteenth Finance Commission (THFC) can be categorised under the
following heads:
• Enhanced vertical devolution from 30.5 to 32 per cent of divisible pool of
...
by Pinaki Chakraborty | On 31 Mar 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 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 Budget speech by Finance minister. URL:[http://punjabgovt.nic.in/departments/Budget/budget/budget.htm].
by Government of Punjab | On 16 Mar 2011 The
budgetary policy of the Government has a major
role to play in achieving objectives of gender
equality and growth through content and
direction of Fiscal and Monetary Policies,
measures for r...
by Government of India Ministry of Women and Child Development | On 08 Mar 2011 The objective of this study is to review the analytical literature on the
relationship between decentralisation and development, bring out the impact of
decentralisation on economic development from...
by M.Govinda Rao | On 07 Mar 2011 Budget speech 2011-2012 by Pranab Mukherjee.
by Pranab Mukherjee | On 01 Mar 2011 All proposals and policy measures in the forthcoming Budget may best be summed up as efforts to improve the sustainability of growth. Specific objectives are likely to be lowering inflation and defici...
by IRIS India IRIS | On 22 Feb 2011 The Budget process of India predates the independence. The Budget was first introduced on 7th April, 1860, two years after the transfer of Indian administration from East-India Company to British Crow...
by Ministry of Finance | On 22 Feb 2011 Nine preliminary lessons from the Great Recession for monetary and financial policies are presented. [3rd P. R. Brahmananda Memorial Lecture].
by Stanley Fischer | On 18 Feb 2011 In the context of the low levels of regional cooperation among South Asian countries
when compared with the successful results from cooperation in East Asia (consisting of
South East and East Asian...
by Ramesh Chandra | On 18 Feb 2011 The Open Budget Survey is the only independent and comparative measure of government budget practices, with its rigorous approach receiving substantial praise from international public finance experts...
by Vivek Ramkumar | On 17 Feb 2011 The failure of the Climate Summit in Copenhagen in December
2009 emphasized the limitations of greenhouse gas (GHG)
mitigation as a singular policy response to climate change and
highlighted the ur...
by South Asian Network for Development and Environmen Economics | On 15 Feb 2011 This paper develops tools to examine selected major issues in the Indian economy. The study computes the potential growth rate of the economy and the agricultural sector, extends the analysis of fisca...
by Mathew Joseph | On 11 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 INHP-II promoted a set of simple interventions to influence neonatal outcomes, including antenatal
tetanus toxoid, clean delivery and cord care, early and exclusive breastfeeding and thermal care, as...
by Rachna Program | On 07 Feb 2011 Privatization is analysed in a general equilibrium model of a small, tariff-distorted,
open economy. There is a differentiated good produced by both private and public
sector enterprises. A reductio...
by Arghya Ghosh | On 04 Feb 2011 The purpose of this policy brief is to draw lessons from the
recent and ongoing macroeconomic policy experience of Asia’s
economies. To do so, in each of three policy areas (monetary,
fiscal, and e...
by Shinji Takagi | On 04 Feb 2011 Since a crisis is a shock impinging on a system, the response can be used to deduce aspects of the
system’s structure. Analysis of the crisis and recovery suggests aggregate supply in India is elasti...
by Ashima Goyal | On 01 Feb 2011 The paper examines two issues associated with aid and fiscal policy. First, how best the
conditionality behind foreign aid, sometimes non-economic, is complied within a
principal-agent framework. In...
by S Mansoob Murshed | On 01 Feb 2011 An overview of corporate and quasi-sovereign debt in Russia is provided. Fiscal sustainability in Russia in a broader framework analysed. Scenarios for public debt developments until 2020, also taking...
by Maria Arakelyan | On 31 Jan 2011 The exchange rate-based monetary policy followed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is outlined. Possible theoretical frameworks, including a reaction function is outlined. The way the MAS h...
by Partha Sen | On 31 Jan 2011 Budget transparency has become central to a number of international development
discourses, ranging from the financing of climate change mitigation, to country-
level actions to meet interna...
by International Budget Partnership IBP | On 30 Jan 2011 Despite low expectations, the UN climate change negotiations in Cancún made important progress thanks to decisive Mexican diplomacy and a renewed conviction that reducing emissions can drive green gro...
by Caio Koch Weser | On 25 Jan 2011 This paper reviews the challenges and experiences in rebuilding fiscal institutions in
postconflict environments, based on advice from the IMF’s Fiscal Affairs Department to
selected countries. Th...
by Sanjeev Gupta | On 20 Jan 2011 The paper analyzes the changing INR trends over the reform period, in the context of fundamental
determinants of exchange rates. [WP-2010-024].
by Ashima Goyal | On 13 Jan 2011 This paper examines the country specific effect of policy reform on infrastructure spending in
China and India. In China we have examined how marketization and decentralization has
affected the co...
by Pinaki Chakraborty | On 10 Jan 2011 The focus of this paper is to examine the approach of the Commission in
regard to its Terms of Reference (ToR) and analyse the recommendations relating to its main task, namely
tax devolution and gr...
by M Govinda Rao | On 07 Jan 2011 The use of monetary policy in India has been constrained by a loose fiscal policy and capital flows. Capital inflows have the potential to cause a Dutch Disease-type situation. The RBI has carried out...
by Partha Sen | On 06 Jan 2011 This paper analyzes the effect of different types of cook-stoves on firewood demand at the
household level. Nationally representative household data from Nepal is used for the study. [SANDEE Working...
by Mani Nepal | On 05 Jan 2011 Through its pioneering surveys in recent years, the Transparency International (TI) has tried to gauge the extent of corruption in different countries, identify Government departments where corruption...
by Prof. Subhash Bhatnagar | On 06 Dec 2010 Building on recent work in the fiscal response literature, the present paper develops a new fiscal
response model, which, for the first time in the relevant literature, combines the ideas of both
en...
by George Mavrotas | On 24 Nov 2010 It is clear from the implications of growth theory that the impact of aid depends on how
it affects savings, investment and government behaviour. In respect of low-income
countries, which are the pr...
by Mark McGillivray | On 19 Nov 2010 The focus of the paper is to review the Terms of Reference (TOR)
of the Twelfth Finance Commission with special reference to Kerala.
It also critically examines the emphasis on fiscal deficit reduct...
by K. P. Kannan | On 18 Nov 2010 This paper looks at public sector debt in developing countries, being concerned
specifically with the relationship between aid inflows and the public sector borrowing
requirement net of aid loans. A...
by Simon Feeny | On 17 Nov 2010 This paper assesses recent theorising and empirical evidence on the impact of fiscal
policy—taxes, public expenditures and budget deficits—on long-run growth. It
considers the relevance of recent ad...
by Norman Gemmell | On 12 Nov 2010 For many low-income countries, there has been an extended period in which fiscal
policy was not a choice, or was a choice made by authorities external to the country. For
a number of them, this situ...
by Christopher S. Adam | On 12 Nov 2010 The privileging of internal resources over external finance is not
only the most democratic but also the most politically desirable option.
The implications of the ADB loan for Kerala is situated ag...
by K. Ravi Raman | On 09 Nov 2010 Age structural transition is a process and a consequence of shifting
age structure from a young aged population to old aged population. It is
well known that economic growth in the East Asian countr...
by K. Navaneetham | On 04 Nov 2010 “Open Skies,” in general, refers to the liberalization of aviation markets that can be pursued
on a bilateral, regional, or multilateral basis. At the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
(ASEAN)...
by Siew Yean Tham | On 29 Oct 2010 This paper is an attempt to analyse the tax leakage in the broader
context of fiscal crisis in Kerala, highlighting the relationship between
the two. Tax leakage by causing a revenue drain may adver...
by Rakhe PB | On 27 Oct 2010 For most people the story of Indian reforms starts in the nineties, following the
BOP crisis of 1990-91. There was a detectable increase in the rate of growth of the
Indian economy in the 1980s aris...
by Arvind Virmani | On 26 Oct 2010 The paper identifies those elements in the configuration of fiscal parameters
confronting the country that give cause for concern, and examines whether the fiscal
reform measures taken address these...
by Indira Rajaraman | On 20 Oct 2010 The global economic and financial crisis has sparked an unprecedentedly large, generalized
fiscal policy response in practically all major industrial and emerging economies, which will
change the fi...
by Pier Carlo Padoan | On 15 Oct 2010 The current global economic crisis has led to greater prominence for the issue of strengthening social protection systems in Asia. This paper analyzes the key factors determining and the possible aven...
by Mukul G. Asher | On 12 Oct 2010 The paper examines the recent European crisis management programs of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to see how the lessons of Asia were applied. Compared to the Asian programs of 1997, the Euro...
by Shinji Takagi | On 11 Oct 2010 This paper examines fiscal policy issues in the Republic of Korea (hereafter Korea) after the 2009 global financial crisis, including the timing of fiscal policy responses, the effectiveness of expans...
by Kiseok Hong | On 07 Oct 2010 An attempt
has been made to understand the factors leading to the worsening
situation of the state finances. Investigations reveal that the revenue
receipts of the state could not keep pace with ex...
by N K Bishnoi | On 05 Oct 2010 The growth rebalancing model, which places the nontradable services sector on center stage, is important to spur on faster growth in this sector and tap its potential to become another engine of growt...
by Rafaelita M. Aldaba | On 29 Sep 2010 The need for fiscal consolidation and sustainability is one of the key macroeconomic issues confronting Indian economy. This paper attempts to understand India’s current fiscal situation, its likely f...
by Rajiv Kumar | On 28 Sep 2010 Pratt (1964) and Yaari (1969) contain the classical results pertaining to the
equivalence of various notions of comparative risk aversion of von Neumann-
Morgenstern utilities in the setting with re...
by Sudhir A. Shah | On 27 Sep 2010 In this paper a fiscal consolidation program for India has been presented based
on a policy simulation model that enables us to examine the macroeconomic
implications of alternative fiscal strateg...
by Sudipto Mundle | On 09 Sep 2010 The turmoil that has characterised the global financial markets
since the 1990s, and particularly the crisis in East Asia, has generated
a great deal of support for proposals to add some frictions t...
by Ramkishen Rajan | On 21 Jul 2010 Despite signs of recovery from the global financial crisis, the GDP growth rate for the
Indian economy is likely to be between 5.8 to 6.1 per cent in 2009-10, below the 6.7
per cent recorded in fisc...
by Mathew Joseph | On 14 Jul 2010 The paper provides information about the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Bill and also discuses some issues related to this bill.
by Shruti Rajagopalan | On 06 Jul 2010 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 Over 330 million people live in India’s cities; 35 cities have a population of over a
million and three (Mumbai, Delhi, and Kolkata) of the 10 largest metropolises in the world
are in India. India’s...
by M. Govinda Rao | On 21 May 2010 Cutting the deficit this year was the easy part; the real fiscal challenge lies ahead
by T.N. Ninan | On 03 Mar 2010 Budget speech 2010-2011 by Pranab Mukherjee
by Pranab Mukherjee | On 26 Feb 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 India’s general government deficits and public debt have remained
high despite faster economic growth in recent years and periodic attempts to instil
greater fiscal discipline. Modest fiscal tighten...
by Paul Rawkins | On 04 Feb 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 Climate change is one of the most important issues of the next
decades and has the potential to severely impact societies,
economies and human wellbeing.
by Caio Koch-Weser | On 16 Dec 2009 This brief seeks to address questions on how the funds are collected, dsitributes at the international level, mechanisms to ensure that the recipient countries are managing the funds in a transparent...
by Athena Ballesteros | On 15 Dec 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 The dominance of the mainstream paradigm of growth is being increasingly superseded by the Sustainable Human Development approach. No Concept of development, however, can be complete unless and until...
by Ritu Dewan | On 20 Nov 2009 An attempt has been made in this paper to critically analyse the parameters/
criteria on which basis awards are finalized. With special reference to poorer states, the
following aspects have been di...
by Keshab Das | On 03 Nov 2009 From the perspective of Emerging Market Economies (EMEs) and particularly for that of India, five concerns are expressed. These are: first, timing of exit from the accommodative monetary policy in the...
by D Subbarao | On 15 Oct 2009 Fiscal policy measures are a key means by which governments can influence
distribution and poverty, but in fact the relationships between fiscal policy and poverty are not well understood. The most c...
by Andrew McKay | On 05 Oct 2009 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 Open access journal publishing is currently at a systematic disadvantage
relative to the traditional subscription-based journal publishing. A simple, cost effective remedy to this inequity is propose...
by Stuart M. Shieber | On 31 Aug 2009 The present study has sought to introduce, conceptualise and
operationalise a scheme for integrating the ‘quality’ dimension of public
spending into the devolution scheme of intergovernmental transf...
by Mala Lalvani | On 20 Aug 2009 The present study examines issues related to fiscal federalism at the third tier in general and grants to local bodies in particular. The study presents a normative framework to estimate the requireme...
by Abhay Pethe | On 14 Aug 2009 The primary objective of this report is to bring together the experiences and learnings of a range of actors affected by, and involved in the disaster response in order to identify factors that have i...
by Tata Institue of Social Sciences TISS | On 28 Jul 2009 The thrust of this budget on the expenditure side is twofold. Continue with the fiscal stimulus measures and extend these for another six months or one years as the case maybe. Significant among these...
by IRIS India IRIS | On 09 Jul 2009 Budget 2009-2010 by Pranab Mukherjee
by Pranab Mukherjee | On 09 Jul 2009 Key features of budget presented by the Finance Minister
by Pranab Mukherjee | On 06 Jul 2009 This paper investigates the relative importance of monetary and fiscal policies in altering real output of Bangladesh. An unrestricted vector auto regression (VAR) framework based on the St. Louis equ...
by Md. Habibur Rahman | On 27 Jun 2009 The Author considera a decision-making environment with an outcome space that is a convex and compact subset of a vector space belonging to a general class of such spaces. Given this outcome space,he...
by Sudhir A. Shah | On 22 Jun 2009 This report presents an analysis of the strategy required to generate the required resources for investment in various services necessary to achieve the MDGs. The analysis attempts to quantify the fis...
by M. Govinda Rao | On 20 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 At this moment, the world is undergoing the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression of 1930s. It is not clear exactly which factors instigated the crisis, but there are many candidates; the f...
by H. N. Thenuwara | On 15 Jun 2009 The paper aims to assess the fiscal health of five urban agglomerations (UAs) in India viz. Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Chennai, and Pune. The sample consists of five corporations and sixty three small...
by Simanti Bandyopadhyay | On 14 Jun 2009 Health economics is increasingly recognized as a discipline that has much to offer developing countries in addressing these problems, but how can it help? What economic concepts and tools can be appli...
by Anne Mills | On 04 Jun 2009 This paper is about hopscotching, and in turn jumps over many disciplinary categories, from literature to gender studies to development studies. At one level this is the voice of the interdisciplinary...
by Barnita Bagchi | On 29 May 2009 This paper investigates the determination of inflation in the framework of an open economy forward-looking as well as conventional backward-looking Phillips curve for eight Asian countries- Japan, Ho...
by Pami Dua | On 22 May 2009 Dr. Bimal Jalan, Governor gave a welcome remark to Prof. Charles Goodhart on his 11th C. D. Deshmukh Memorial Lecture on 'Whither Central Banking ?' This paper revolves around Dr. Jalan's summary and...
by Dr Bimal Jalan | On 21 May 2009 Macroeconomic modelling is generally motivated by two objectives: forecasting and more significantly, policy analysis. In pursuit of both these objectives,
every model must ideally satisfy four crite...
by V. Pandit | On 16 May 2009 This paper analyzes Singapore’s multi-pronged approach to managing prolonged low fertility which has led to population aging, labor force shortages, increasing elderly dependency ratios, and feminizat...
by Mukul. G Asher | On 15 May 2009 This inaugural piece addresses a fundamental problem of communication – how to effectively talk about an issue. It’s not as simple as it seems. Its always known that people did not always “hear” what...
by Joseph Grady | On 05 May 2009 This paper analyses the effects of access to Rural Public Works (RPW) and the Public
Distribution System (PDS), a public food subsidy programme, on consumption poverty,
vulnerability and undernutrit...
by Raghbendra Jha | On 27 Apr 2009 This paper attempts to build an aggregative, structural,macroeconometric model for India. Investment and output in the model are disaggregated into four sectors namely(a) agriculture including forestr...
by K.N Murty | On 02 Mar 2009 Budget speech by finance minister of Karnataka
by Government of Karnataka GoK | On 24 Feb 2009 Speech of Sri K. Rosaiah
by Government Andhra Pradesh | On 23 Feb 2009 Examines whether there are any funds for children related activities.
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 19 Feb 2009 Key features of Budget presented by Shri Pranab Mukherjee
by Ministry of Finance | On 16 Feb 2009 The free/open source software movement is an economic, social and political movement that has triggered a new recognition of the importance of open knowledge systems, especially in developing countrie...
by Shambhu Ghatak | On 06 Feb 2009 The paper attempts to construct political influence variables and explain discrepancies in fund disbursement through proper econometric specification in the Indian context.
by Rongili Biswas | On 21 Jan 2009 This paper examines the strategic nature of choice of environmental standards under
different degrees of openness of countries. It also compares and contrasts equilibrium
environmental standards and...
by Rabindra N Bhattacharya | On 23 Dec 2008 The study examines the impact of aggregate government
expenditure and its two broader components such as revenue expenditure
and capital expenditure on the growth rate of output in the Indian contex...
by Hrushikesh Mallick | On 22 Dec 2008 The main objectives of this report are to identify and propose policies,
factors and conditions that could mitigate or avoid double mismatches. policies here means any course of action pursued and ad...
by Khee-Giap Tan | On 19 Dec 2008 Whether there should be transparency in political finance? Whether there should be a control over the money that the political parties are receiving?
by Marcin Walecki | On 04 Dec 2008 Politicians face high-powered electoral pressures while bureaucrats face longer-term, low powered incentives. Given constitutional constraints, what incentives do politicians employ to control bureauc...
by Lakshmi Iyer | On 02 Dec 2008 This paper focuses on the role of fiscal and monetary policies in the evolution of the Indian economy over the years, with particular attention being given to the reforms undertaken in these policies...
by Rakesh Mohan | On 28 Nov 2008 In the context of the current public policy focus on rising food prices and their implications for food security, this paper examines two major issues raised: (i) Universalization of the public distri...
by Suryanarayana M H | On 04 Nov 2008 The paper reviews India’s macroeconomic performance and policies since 2000. The
first section briefly summarizes key macroeconomic developments regarding
economic growth, inflation, external bala...
by Shankar Acharya | On 02 Nov 2008 The paper reviews India’s macroeconomic performance and policies since 2000. The first section briefly summarizes key macroeconomic developments regarding
economic growth, inflation, external balance...
by Shankar Acharya | On 29 Oct 2008 The paper argues that irrespective of the wording of the Terms of Reference
(ToR), the Commission would do well to focus on its primary task of recommending
transfers to serve the objective of equit...
by M.Govinda Rao | On 06 Oct 2008 An optimizing model of a small open emerging market economy (SOEME) with
dualistic labour markets and two types of consumers, is used to derive the natural
interest rate, terms of trade and potentia...
by Ashima Goyal | On 24 Sep 2008 A practitioner’s perspective of fiscal policy, and economic reforms.
by Y V Reddy | On 14 Aug 2008 In this study an attempt is made to examine the equity aspect due to
reforms in the banking sector at sub-regional level in the state of Andhra Pradesh
covering the period 1985 to 2004. [CESS WP 68]...
by K S Reddy | On 04 Aug 2008 The challenges for journalists and the media community in South Asia encompass a range of factors that indicate the level of press freedom in any country: Physical attacks, threats and questionable le...
by Sukumar Muralidharan | On 04 May 2008 Budget presented by Goa finance minister for the year 2008-09.
by Goa Government | On 01 Apr 2008 The paper starts with a brief review of some criticisms of the Peer Review system – labelled ex-ante top-down PR system – for the evaluation of academic works. The critiques are grouped into efficienc...
by Grazia Ietto-Gillies | On 24 Mar 2008 Budget for Children (BfC) is not a separate budget. It is merely an attempt to disaggregate from the overall budget, the allocations made specifically for programmes that benefit children. From 2000-0...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 04 Mar 2008 This manual is intended to help local governments to uphold the human rights of women, by involving them in identifying their needs and with their participation, to find possible solutions and move to...
by Aleyamma Vijayan | On 04 Feb 2008 Commenting on recent research articles which look at the potential health benefits of behaviour change, the PLoS Medicine Editors say that publication of the findings of such research is only one part...
by PLoS Medicine | On 01 Feb 2008 This study, entitled “Municipal Finance in India – An Assessment”, undertaken for the Development Research Group (DRG), Reserve Bank of India examines the performance of Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) in I...
by P K Mohanty | On 29 Jan 2008 Review of Globalisation and Opening Markets in Developing Countries and Impact on National Firms and Public Governance: The Case of India by Jean-Francois Huchet & Joel Ruet, Scientific Coordinators,...
by Lakshmanan L | On 19 Jan 2008 An estimation of the real equilibrium exchange rate for India for the period in the latter half of the 1990s using fundamental economic variables by decomposing a structural VAR vested with appropriat...
by Himanshu Joshi | On 18 Jan 2008 The Reserve Bank, as the regulator of the banking sector, has been actively engaged, from the very beginning, in the review, examination and evaluation of customer service in the banks. It has been re...
by Leeladhar V | On 26 Oct 2007 The key elements of effective central banking that account for much of the improvement in monetary policy around the world today are outlined and explained. The past quarter of the century has been a...
by Marvin Goodfriend | On 09 Oct 2007 The States, relative to the Centre, have taken the centre-stage in the reform process since the areas of highest national priority now fall essentially within the purview of the States. The unique and...
by Y V Reddy | On 26 Sep 2007 Annual report of RBI for the year 2006-07
by Reserve Bank of India | On 31 Aug 2007 The Budget is an important tool in the hands of the state for affirmative action for improvement of gender relations through reduction of gender gap in the development process. It can help to reduce e...
by Vibhuti Patel | On 03 Aug 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 The paper has argued that to expand coverage of micro-pensions, social entrepreneurship (along with social responsibility) will be needed by the financial sector, including the MFIs, insurance compani...
by Mukul Asher | On 08 May 2007 The Budget does not sufficiently recognize the need for re-balancing the role of the state and the market, and of the public and the private sectors for managing increasingly complex economic and stra...
by Mukul Asher | On 07 Mar 2007 Of every 100 rupees in the Union Budget 2007-08, only 4 rupees and 84 paise has been promised by the Finance Minister for children. Within the child budget, the share of education and child protectio...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 05 Mar 2007 This paper investigates the relationship between capital account openness and
inflation since the 1980s. It argues that widespread capital account liberalization
during the last two decades appears...
by Abhijit Sen Gupta | On 23 Feb 2007 Theoretical literature identifies two variants of crowding out in an economy–real and financial. The real (direct) crowding out occurs when the increase in public investment displaces private capital...
by Lekha S. Chakraborty | On 17 Feb 2007 Knoweldge itself is seamless, as ideas spark other ideas, or reject unworkable ones. Through public access to science, at last we will have the advantage of being able to move from primary literature...
by | On 14 Feb 2007 During the last few years there has been a significant attempt to change the status of women in Morocco. Considerable efforts have been made to incorporate mainstream gender in socio-economic policies...
by M.Govinda Rao | On 27 Dec 2006 With the strengthening of the fiscal decentralisation
process in the Philippines, local government units (LGUs) were provided
with more opportunities in terms of local level gender responsive
budge...
by Lekha S. Chakraborty | On 27 Dec 2006 This paper, based on ‘capabilities’ approach, analyses the ‘development outcomes’ forf ‘tribals’ of rural south Gujarat and examines the relative roles of physical, human and social capital within a...
by Arti Nanavati | On 26 Nov 2006 Fiscal incentive is closely related with extra budgetary revenues.This paper examines the impact of fiscal revenues under decentralisation on responsiveness of public goods provision to real local nee...
by Xin-Qiao Ping | On 21 Nov 2006 This paper analyses the scope and limitations of gender responsive budgeting in Mexico within the overall framework of fiscal decentralisation. However, decentralised gender responsive budgeting can b...
by Lekha S. Chakraborty | On 31 Oct 2006 Open access (OA) to the research literature has the potential to accelerate recognition and dissemination of research findings, but its actual effects are controversial. This was a longitudinal biblio...
by Gunther Eysenbach | On 27 Sep 2006 Senators John Cornyn (Texas) and Joseph Lieberman (Connecticut)
have introduced a bill whereby federal agencies with research expenditure
over US$100 million per year must ensure that research arti...
by Hemal Prathasarathy | On 27 Sep 2006 As an increasing number of funding agencies realize the need to enhance impact by reducing restrictions on access to research articles, academic and research
institutions have an opportunity to play...
by Hemal Prathasarathy | On 27 Sep 2006 A research article by Gunther Eysenbach published in May 2006 in PLoS Biology
provides robust evidence that openaccess articles (OA articles) are more
immediately recognized and cited than non-OA ar...
by Catriona MacCallum | On 27 Sep 2006 The upward harmonization through TRIPS, the TRIPS Plus provision in
various bilateral and free trade agreements is resulting in the global
spread of the enclosure with nation states acting as guaran...
by Krishna Ravi Srinivas | On 29 Aug 2006 The science base in the developing world cannot be strengthened without access to the global library of research information. Currently, this is nearly impossible due to the high costs of journal subs...
by Leslie Chan | On 25 May 2006 This paper attempts to identify the factors that determine the export competitiveness of firms in the Indian pharmaceutical industry. Our findings suggest that the competitiveness of firms depends not...
by Aradhna Aggarwal | On 21 Apr 2006 While critical perspectives on the budget are certainly necessary and are useful, they are not sufficient to produce the change necessary. For that we need to encourage civil society initiatives on en...
by Maithreyi Krishnaraj | On 07 Apr 2006 It’s healthy for news organizations to be much more open about their decision making than they have been in the past. But in response to relentless pounding from bloggers and other critics, is the tra...
by Rachel Smolkin | On 26 Mar 2006 There has been a perception that since the introduction of what have derisively
been called “neo-liberal” reforms, the social sectors i.e. those dealing with
education and health, have suffered. Is...
by Ajit Karnik | On 07 Mar 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 deals with the challenges of fiscal federalism in
planned economies. Planned economies through their various policy instruments to
control the resource allocation introduce several source...
by M.Govinda Rao | On 06 Feb 2006 Contents
I. The Real Economy -- 1
Agricultural Situation
Industrial Performance
Business Expectations Surveys
Services Sector
II. Fiscal Situation 14
Combined Government Fi...
by Reserve Bank of India | On 25 Jan 2006 Large dollar reserves in Asian EMEs accompany large U.S. fiscal and current account deficits. Analysis of strategic sales by Asian EMEs suggests that an attack on the dollar is not certain but is poss...
by Ashima Goyal | On 21 Nov 2005 |