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Most conventional accounts of India’s recent economic performance associate the pick-up in economic growth with the …
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We investigate how vertical unity within a community interacts with horizontal class divisions of an unequal income … distribution. Community is conceptualized in terms of a public good to which all those in the community have equal access, but from … communities. Ideologies of community solidarity may well trump those of class solidarity because of the implicit sharing of …
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Wealthy individuals often voluntarily provide public goods that the poor also consume. Such philanthropy is perceived as legitimizing one’s wealth. Governments routinely exempt the rich from taxation on grounds of their charitable expenditure. We examine the normative logic of this exemption....
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This paper looks at the interplay between human capital and innovation in the presence of climate and educational policies. Using recent empirical estimates, human capital and general purpose R&D are introduced in an integrated assessment model that has been extensively applied to study the...
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The political economy of resource rich countries is surveyed. The empirical evidence suggests that countries with a large share of primary exports in GNP have bad growth records and high inequality, especially if the quality of institutions and the rule of law are bad. The economic argument that...
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substitute for other borrowing. We then apply this methodology to firms in India that became eligible for directed credit as a …
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The growth of cotton textile imports into Britain from India opened up new opportunities for import substitution as the … labour-saving technological progress meant that unit labour costs became lower than in India despite the much higher wages in …
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Three main features characterize the international financial integration of China and India. First, while only having a … “short equity, long debt.” Third, China and India have improved their net external positions over the last decade although …. Changes in these factors will affect the international financial integration of China and India (through shifts in capital …
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solvency. This is compared with the corresponding cost if India were to repudiate its debts and experience financial autarky as … improves the relative attractiveness of debt repayment. With a 10% discount rate, however, even writing off 75% of India …
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can reduce teacher absence and increase learning. In 57 schools in India, randomly chosen out of 113, a teacher’s daily …
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