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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

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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A generic approach to investment modelling in recursive dynamic CGE models

Wickramasekara, Piyasiri - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2015

There has been increased emphasis on the linkages between international migration and development at international, regional and national levels in the past two decades. This recognition of migration as a developmental tool has generated calls for mainstreaming migration in development with some...

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Intra-Regional FDI and Economic Integration in South Asia: Trends, Patterns and Prospects

Athukorala, Prema-chandra - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2013

This paper examines trends and patterns of intra-regional FDI in South Asia, with a focus on the potential for integrating production processes among countries in the region through further trade and investment policy reforms. The empirical evidence pieced together from scattered sources...

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Fiscal Policies and Challenges in South Asia

Jha, Raghbendra - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2010

This paper presents a brief overview of the extant fiscal situation in South Asian countries. In particular, I emphasize low tax/GDP ratios and inelastic expenditure/GDP ratios which then lead to structurally entrenched fiscal deficits. The paper also reports on the sustainability of fiscal and...

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Natural Disasters in South Asia

Gaiha, Raghav; Hill, Kenneth; Thapa, Ganesh - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2010

Various types of natural disasters (e.g. extreme temperatures and floods) became more frequent in 1998-09, relative to 1985-97. However, the deadliness of earthquakes rose sharply and of extreme temperatures more than moderately while that of most others (droughts, floods, storms and wildfires)...

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Trade Misinvoicing and Macroeconomic Outcomes in India

Jha, Raghbendra; Nguyen, Truong Duc - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2014

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. …

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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...

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India's Gender Bias in Child Population, Female Education and Growing Prosperity: 1951–2011 with Projections to 2026

Chaudhri, D.P.; Jha, Raghbendra - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011

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 …

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Child Poverty, Demographic Transition and Gender Bias in Education in India: Household Data Analysis (1993–94 and 2004–05)

Chaudhri, D.P.; Jha, Raghbendra - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011

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 …

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Calorie Thresholds and Undernutrition in India, 1993–2004

Kaicker, Nidhi; Gaiha, Raghav - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011

In a recent study, Jensen and Miller (2011) propose a new measure of undernutrition, based on a calorie share of staples threshold. Among the merits of this measure are that (i) it dispenses with calorie norms, and (ii) relies on a behavioural approach to estimate this threshold. What our...

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