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Reflections on Energy Security in the Asia Pacific
Cronshaw, Ian; Grafton, Quentin - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National …
This article reviews key past trends in energy security from the perspective of both International Energy Agency members and the Asia Pacific over the past 30 years, and assesses future energy risks. Developments in energy efficiency, unconventional oil and gas, and stationary renewable energy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010742030
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Reflections on Energy Security in the Asia Pacific
Cronshaw, Ian; Grafton, Quentin - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National …
This article reviews key past trends in energy security from the perspective of both International Energy Agency members and the Asia Pacific over the past 30 years, and assesses future energy risks. Developments in energy efficiency, unconventional oil and gas, and stationary renewable energy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904354
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Exchange rate policy and export performance in a landlocked developing country: The case of Nepal
Paudel, Ramesh C; Burke, Paul J - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2015
This paper examines the implications of Nepal’s exchange rate policy for its export performance over the period 1980 …–2010. We first document Nepal’s long-standing currency peg against the Indian rupee and that Nepal’s real exchange rate … appreciation has adversely affected Nepal’s exports, especially to third-country markets. Nepal’s exchange rate-related export …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252692
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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 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011201578
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011201603
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008861941
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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
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008861942
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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 … poverty status at the all-India and the state levels are reported and commented upon. Changes in magnitudes & proportions of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008861943
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Food security and small landholders in south Asia
Jha, Raghbendra - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2010
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008861944
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Body Mass Index, Participation, Duration of Work and Earnings under NREGS: Evidence from Rajasthan
Jha, Raghbendra; Gaiha, Raghav; Pandey, Manoj K. - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011
in workfare programs, particularly in India. Using a unique data set for the Indian state of Rajasthan for 2009-10, this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008861946