The absence of reliable data on employment was well known in India.
For ensuring that the sample sizes for its estimates from its annual
employment and unemployment sur... Category: Employment: Non-Farm
by T.N. Srinivasan | On 01 Aug 2017 |
This paper studies a field experiment among energy-intensive Indian manufacturing plants that
offered
energy consulting to raise energy productivity, the amount plants can produce with e... Category: Industry
by Nicholas Ryan | On 01 May 2018 |
Current global inequality measures assume that national-mean income does not matter to
economic
welfare at given household income, as measured in surveys. The paper questions... Category: Development Studies
by Mada Ranjith | On 01 Dec 2017 |
India introduced the Goods and Services Tax (GST) on 1 July 2017 after a
decade of preparation. Ideally, GST should reduce tax driving the market by
enabling businesses to invest, reflecting... Category: Indian Economy
by Parthasarathi Shome | On 01 Oct 2017 |
The focus in this paper is on growth, inequality and poverty, particularly in relation to urbanization. The analysis is pursued at three levels of disaggregation: states, districts and the million-plu... Category: Poverty and Inequality
by Arup Mitra | On 01 Aug 2017 |
The paper investigated the productivity enhancing e
ffects of FDI in Indian manufacturing firms,
with a particular focus on the differences in FDI i
mpact according to the county of origin of FDI.... Category: Industry
by Bishwanath Goldar | On 01 Oct 2017 |
We analyse the evolution of the Indian economy over the past six
decades, particularly identifying structural breaks. We find that usually
there has been a gradual change in the indicators of the ec... Category: Development Studies
by Lindsey Jones | On 01 Nov 2015 |
This paper develops a growth framework of a typical developing and democratic setting with
formal and informal sectors, which faces trade-off of redistribution through either direct
subsidy or strat... Category: Development Studies
by Dibyendu Maiti | On 01 Mar 2018 |
The anxiety that technology will displace jobs on a large scale in
the near future is flooding both academic and public debates, primarily
in the developed world. The recent publication of a study b... Category: Development Studies
by Sunil Mani | On 01 Dec 2017 |
A basic premise of representative democracy is that all those subject to
policy should have a voice in its making. However, policies enacted by electorally accountable governments often fail to refle... Category: Development Studies
by thiruppathi P | On 01 Apr 2003 |