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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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Pollard's Pacific reflections

Pollard, Steve - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2013

Steve Pollard, known in the Pacific as a government employee, researcher, consultant, and donor staffer, recently retired from the ADB. He has almost 30 years' experience working toward the interests of better policy for better livelihoods in the Pacific, almost 40 years' experience in...

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Economic Roots of Political Conflict: The Case of Sri Lanka

Abeyratne, Sirimal - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2002

Escalation of political conflict in many developing countries and their impact on economic development has been a topical issue in recent development literature. The overwhelming emphasis on ‘ethnic conflicts’ in this literature has, however, precluded looking at political conflict in the...

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Does the Size and Quality of the Government Explain the Size and Efficiency of the Financial Sector?

Cooray, Arusha - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2010

This study examines the impact of two dimensions of the government, namely, size and quality, on two dimensions of the financial sector, size and efficiency, in a cross section of 71 economies. The study finds that while increased quality of the government as measured by governance and legal...

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Female parlamentarians and economic growth: Evidence from a large panel

Burke, Paul J.; Jayasuriya, Dinuk - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2012

This article investigates whether female political representation affects economic growth. Panel estimates for 119 democracies using fixed effects specifications and a system generalized method of moments approach suggest that, over recent decades, countries with higher shares of women in...

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Does Democracy Explain Gender Differentials in Education?

Cooray, Arusha - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2009

democracy, that democracy alone does not explain gender differentials in education in Africa and Asia. The results indicate that …

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Unbundled Institutions, Human Capital and Growth

Bhattacharyya, Sambit - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2008

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...

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Economic Growth in Developing Countries: Is Landlockedness Destiny?

Paudel, Ramesh Chandra - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2014

This paper examines the determinants of economic growth in developing countries within the standard growth regression framework, with special attention being paid to the experience of landlocked countries. The results confirm the findings of previous studies that landlockedness hampers economic...

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After Soeharto: Prospects for reform and recovery in Indonesia

McLeod, Ross H - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2003

With Soeharto's demise, Indonesia gained democracy but lost effective government. The economy has been slow to recover …

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Targeting Accuracy of the NREG: Evidence from Madhya Pradesh and Tamil Nadu

Jha, Raghbendra; Gaiha, Raghav; Shankar, Shylashri; … - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2010

specific poverty threshold, stochastic dominance tests are used. Madhya Pradesh demonstrated much better targeting than Tamil … Nadu in terms of the FGT class of poverty indices over a wide range of poverty thresholds. This finding is significant as …

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