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Does Political Competition Influence Human Development? Evidence from the Indian States
Dash, Bharatee Bhushan; Mukherjee, Sacchidananda - eSocialSciences - 2013
competition. This study empirically examines this proposition by linking political competition with the Human Development Index …
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Poverty, Human Development and Health Financing in India
Purohit, Brijesh C - eSocialSciences - 2012
This study aims at analyzing the differentials across rich and poor states and across rich and poorer strata and rural urban segments of 19 major Indian states. The study indicates that besides individual health financing policies of the respective state governments, there are significant...
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Efficiency of Raising Health Outcomes in the Indian States
J, Prachitha; Shanmugam, K R - eSocialSciences - 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: [http://www.mse.ac.in/pub/working%20pape70%20-%20web(1).pdf].
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Can Insurance Reduce Catastrophic Out-of-Pocket Health Expenditure
Joglekar, Rama - eSocialSciences - 2008
It is argued that for households below poverty line any expenditure on health is catastrophic as they are unable to attain the subsistence level of consumption. Thus, zero percent is taken as a threshold level to define catastrophic health expenditure and examine the impact of health insurance...
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Does Timing of Elections Instigate Riots? A Subnational Study of 16 Indian States, 1958-2004
Vadlamannati, Krishna Chaitanya - eSocialSciences - 2009
Whether timing of the elections leads to riots or not within India. In other words, does timing of elections instigate riots? Using time series crosssectional data for 16 major Indian states for the period 1958 – 2004, it is found that scheduled elections are associated with increase in riots
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Can Institutions be Reformed from Within? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment with the Rajasthan Police
Banerjee, Abhijit; Chattopadhyay, Raghabendra; Duflo, Esther - eSocialSciences - 2012
Institutions in developing countries, particularly those inherited from the colonial period, are often thought to be subject to strong inertia. This study presents the results of a unique randomized trial testing whether these institutions can be reformed through incremental administrative...
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Investment Climate and Total Factor Productivity in Manufacturing: Analysis of Indian States
Goldar, Bishwanath; Veermani, C - eSocialSciences - 2007
Liberalisation initiatives have been taken by India with a view to improve the efficiency of manufacturing industries and achieving faster GDP growth. The present paper investigates the influence of Investment Climate (IC) on the levels of total factor productivity (TFP) in the organised...
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Three Decades of Human Development across Indian States: Inclusive Growth or Perpetual Disparity?
Mukherjee, Sacchidananda; Sikdar, Satadru; Chakraborty, … - eSocialSciences - 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 level have been introduced in India in recent … methodology adopted in the National Human Development Report 2001 has been applied for constructing the Human Development Index …
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Do Indian States have the Power to Devise their Own Policies? A Study on Fiscal Space
Robin, Kim - eSocialSciences - 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 process remains partial: the macro-economic policies as well as most of the taxing powers continue...
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Why was the Participation of Indian States in the Growth Turnaround so Patchy? Some Evidence Based on Robustness Analysis
Ghate, Chetan; Wright, Stephen - eSocialSciences - 2012
In Ghate & Wright Journal of Development Economics, vol. 99 (2012) pp 58–67, it was noted that there was considerable …
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