requirements due to health improvements and lower activity levels in India, we develop an alternative explanation embedded in a … standard demand theory framework, with food price and expenditure effects and shifting food and expenditure elasticities. The … recent period (2004-2009). But there is also weakening of food price and expenditure elasticities over this period. Closer …

Engel curve shifted down-especially in rural India- over the period 1993–2004. The puzzle for the longer period analysed by … capita household expenditure, across the expenditure scale, in 2004. In trying to resolve this puzzle, they are emphatic that … consumption-through both own and cross-price effects — is confirmed. Although calorieincome/ expenditure elasticities are large …

framework, with food prices and expenditure (as a proxy for income) cast in a pivotal role. Based on different experiments … urban areas. Our results show consistently robust food price and expenditure effects. Besides, shifts in food price …

This paper examines the impact of liberalisation reform on export performance of India. The empirical analysis involves … estimating an export demand-supply model for manufacturing and merchandised exports, applying ARDL approach to cointegration …; however, overall liberalisations reforms seem to have positive impact in India’s manufacturing export performance but this is …

If public expenditure and public revenue are I(0) public debt is sustainable but if these are I(1) and not cointegrated … that India’s public debt is unsustainable. We re-investigate this issue by allowing for endogenous structural breaks for … two data sets - the British period 1871-1921 and the post independence period 1950-1997. Revenue and expenditure series …

countries need more public expenditure; (ii) developing country fiscal stance is often pro-cyclical; (iii) developing country …This paper presents a broad overview of fiscal issues confronting developing countries. Three of these are (i …) developing countries have low tax/GDP and expenditure/GDP ratios compared to developed countries, even though developing …

International experience has shown that mining and resources sector participation in Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs …

We evaluate potential global impacts of increase in U.S. natural gas exports as a result of the shale gas boom. To our … exports rise. The overall U.S. results mirror the global ones, but the magnitude of income gains depends upon how the rate of … increase and level of exports are determined, and the price elasticity of natural gas supply. The U.S. benefits more when …

-intensive manufacturing. We examine the direct and indirect impact of exports on jobs, based on an analysis of input-output tables over the … through exports in manufacturing industries in after the AFC, because of slower growth in manufacturing exports and a shift … economies, the main constraints to job creation through exports appear to have been on the supply side; these include too poor …

Vietnam’s key exports and the private sector’s capacity to compete globally. Although flexible labour markets have ensured low …