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National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, Poverty and Prices in Rural India

Gaiha, Raghav; Kulkarni, Vani S.; Pandey, Manoj K.; … - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2009

Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in India -a nation-wide poverty alleviation programme which was introduced in 2005. The focus … poverty, and (ii) whether recent hikes in NREGS wages are inflationary. Our analysis confirms responsiveness of excess demand … to poverty. Also, apprehensions expressed about the inflationary potential of recent hikes in NREGS wages have been …

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Tiny, Poor, Landlocked, Indebted, but Growing: Lessons for Late Reforming Transition Economies from Laos

Bird, Kelly; Hill, Hal - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2010

There are few countries where ‘initial conditions’ are as unfavourable as those of Laos. It is a very poor, least developed country. It is landlocked, sharing its international borders with five neighbours. It has the world’s highest per capita stock of unexploded ordinance, a legacy of...

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Philippine Economic Development: A Turning Point?

Bird, Kelly; Hill, Hal - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2008

Notwithstanding its sometimes negative international image, the Philippine economy has been performing well in recent years. The country is currently experiencing its longest period - five years - of uninterrupted positive per capita economic growth since the 1970s. The key to the recent success...

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The Impact of Foreign Labour on Host Country Wages: The Experience of a Southern Host, Malaysia

Athukorala, Prema-chandra; Devadason, Evelyn S - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011

This paper investigates the impact of foreign labour on domestic manufacturing wages through a case study of Malaysia … unskilled-worker wages, but the magnitude of the impact is rather small. …

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Poverty Nutrition Trap in Rural India

Jha, Raghbendra; Gaiha, Raghav; Sharma, Anurag - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2005

on wages is more significant/higher for the lower quantiles of workers. In the extant literature this is established … of productivity/wages to nutrition. The present paper addresses this lacuna. Third, we are able to establish a critical … wage level for which the PNT trap hypothesis holds. For wages higher than this the hypothesis does not hold. We then argue …

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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...

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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 …

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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...

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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 …

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