human security, a challenge for development assistance is to combine speedy relief with durable reduction in vulnerability …

We investigate the partial effects of institutions and human capital on growth. We find that cross-country regressions … of the log-level of per capita GDP on instrumented measures of institutions and schooling are uninformative about the … relative importance of institutions and human capital in the long run because of multicollinearity problems. Using dynamic …

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 …

The sharp division between the 'institutions view' and the 'disease view' has been one of the distinctive features of … the 'root causes of economic progress' literature. Based on evidence from cross-national data, the 'institutions school …' claims that institutions are the only root cause of development, whereas the 'disease school' claims that diseases are also …

development. Unlike previous studies which treat trade openness and institutions as competitors in economic development, we find … openness and institutions in economic development. …

This paper has two main objectives. First, it computes capital flight (CF) through trade misinvoicing from India using … data from UNCOMTRADE, MIT Observatory of Economic Complexity and IMF E-library. India’s trade with 17 countries over the … least some of the failures of current macroeconomic policy in India could be attributed to CF. …

This article reviews key past trends in energy security from the perspective of both International Energy Agency … failures provide the basis for 10 reflections to promote energy security in the region. …

Using Census and NSS data this paper studies the evolution of Gender Bias (GB) in the age group 0–6 in India and its … until 2026. The paper also demonstrates that there are wide variations in GB across various states, even districts, of India …

relation to household poverty status in India as evidenced by our analysis of Census data (1951–2001) and those from NSS … over the last three censuses of India there is considerable variation by space, by poverty status and by education of women … bias in education and argue that for approximately half of India's children the Right to Education Act must involve …