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Sri Lanka's Post-conflict Development Challenge: Learning from the Past
Athukorala, Prema-chandra - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2014
The end of the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka in 2009 generated widespread expectations of a period of sustained economic growth, building on the achievements of the liberalisation reforms sustained over three previous decades. However, recent developments have dampened that optimism, rekindling...
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Contributions of the GATT/WTO to global economic welfare: Empirical evidence
Anderson, Kym - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2014
This paper surveys estimates of the value of the GATT/WTO's contributions to global welfare through providing a forum for negotiating reductions in policy-induced distortions to trade flows, including through the process of accession by new members. After reviewing measures of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011095323
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Sri Lanka's Trade Policy: Reverting to Dirigisme?
Athukorala, Prema-chandra - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2012
This paper surveys recent development in Sri Lankan trade policy, with an emphasis on emerging protectionist tendencies, using Sri Lanka’s Trade Policy Review (2010) by the World Trade Organization as a reference point. The Sri Lankan experience for over the three decades following the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011144021
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TRADE LIBERALIZATION AND INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Bhattacharyya, Sambit - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2008
Recent research shows that the majority of cross-national variation in institutions is related to history. The within variation however is somewhat less explored. We find that the within variation in economic institutions can be explained by trade liberalization. This relationship is robust with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005057552
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How do the poor handle money? What do the financial diaries of char dwellers tell us about financial inclusion?
Kuntala Lahiri–Dutt - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2012
Derived from livelihoods surveys and ethnographic material about people living on the chars, or river islands, in deltaic lower Bengal, this paper illustrates the complex, diverse and ingenious ways that the poor manage money. These islands constitute some of the most vulnerable locations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011201578
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Inflation Volatility and the Inflation-Growth Tradeoff in India
Jha, Raghbendra; Kulkarni, Varsha S. - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2012
such volatility for India. It provides results on the determinants of inflation volatility and expected inflation …
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Networks and Anti-Poverty Programs: The NREG Experience
Shankar, Shylashri; Gaiha, Raghav - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011
threatened. India's national rural employment guarantee scheme's (NREG) institutional design (mandating village assemblies to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008861941
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Inflation, Macroeconomic Policy and Hunger: A Variation on a Theme by C. Rangarajan
Jha, Raghbendra - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2010
This paper re-emphasizes the importance of price stability as a tool for macroeconomic policy and make it more specific by considering a typically (unanticipated) advantage of stabilizing the Consumer Price Index (CPI). I briefly review the recent economic growth performance of the Indian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008861942
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Child Poverty and Compulsory Elementary Education in India: Policy Insights from Household Data Analysis
Chaudhri, D.P.; Jha, Raghbendra - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011
analysis. The paper uses household level data for 2004–05 (NSS 61st Round) and 1993–94 (NSS 50th Round) for India and also … demographic transition in India (particularly the movement in Total Fertility Rates across Indian states) during 1961 … poverty status at the all-India and the state levels are reported and commented upon. Changes in magnitudes & proportions of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008861943
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Food security and small landholders in south Asia
Jha, Raghbendra - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2010
This paper surveys the status of food security in the South Asian countries, particularly India. Particular attention … households who are poor, and iii) rural households who are undernourished. The paper then singles out five disconnects in India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008861944