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This paper examines the extent and pattern of global production sharing, focusing on East Asia, and probes its implications for the analysis of the determinants of trade flows. Reflecting rapid global spread of production sharing, trade in parts and components has increased at a much faster rate...
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This paper presents a simplified overview of the causes of and policy responses to the East Asian financial crisis, focusing on the four principal countries involved, namely, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and Korea. The main point is that there was a prolonged investment boom in these countries...
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This paper investigates spatial concentration of Chinese manufacturing using the data collected in both the second and third national industrial censuses. It is found that many of China's manufacturing industries were highly geographically concentrated in several coastal regions in 1995. A...
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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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such volatility for India. It provides results on the determinants of inflation volatility and expected inflation …
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threatened. India's national rural employment guarantee scheme's (NREG) institutional design (mandating village assemblies to …
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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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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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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 …
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in workfare programs, particularly in India. Using a unique data set for the Indian state of Rajasthan for 2009-10, this …
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