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Prospects of Non-Farm Employment and Welfare in Rural Areas

Kaur, Simrit; Kulkarni, Vani S.; Gaiha, Raghav; Pandey, … - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2010

and non-farm employment remain strong. Drawing upon the 50th and 61st rounds of the National Sample Surveys (NSS) for … India in 1993 and 2004, we first review the changes in participation rates in farm and non-farm activities by gender, age …

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Developing High Performance: Performance Management in the Australian Public Service

Blackman, Deborah Ann; Buick, Fiona; O'Donnell, Michael; … - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2012

This paper provides a new conceptualisation of high performance government for the public sector. Despite the concerted focus on performance management in both the public and private sectors, the performance puzzle remains. In part, we argue, this is because of a failure to recognise the complex...

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Dynamics of Public Sector Reforms in Bhutan: Interaction of Values within a Hybrid Administration

Ugyel, Lhawang - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2013

In recent decades public sector reforms have spread globally with tenacity and increasing pace. In particular, elements of new public management-related reforms have been attempted by almost most countries through various policy transfer mechanisms. Amidst such a spread of public sector reforms,...

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A Comparison of the Wage Structure between the Public and Private Sectors in Japan

Morikawa, Masayuki - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2014

This paper compares the wage structure between the public and private sectors in Japan by using a large microdata set covering public and private sector employees. Rather than comparing overall wage levels, we examine the differences in relative wages by gender, age, education, and region....

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Development Impacts of Seasonal and Temporary Migration: A Review of Evidence from the Pacific and Southeast Asia

Gibson, John; McKenzie, David; Rohorua, Halahingano - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National …

Seasonal and temporary migration programs are widely used around the world, yet there is scant evidence as to their development impacts. Absent such evidence, it is difficult to evaluate whether the proliferation of temporary worker programs in recent years is a useful development. This article...

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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 …

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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

Sample Survey (NSS) data for 1993–94 and 2004–05 the paper shows that calorie intakes in both rural and urban areas are …

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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 … in education, and nonparticipation separated as child labor and Nowhere (neither in schools nor in labor force) by …

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