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with the process and outcomes of market-based electricity reforms in less-developed, transition and developed economies …
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Corruption is widely identified as a critical problem for developing economies and is also viewed as a priority issue … by international organisations and donors. Governments such as Vietnam place anti-corruption high on their policy agenda … mostly places the blame on implementation failures when the issue is as much a design failure. Templates for anti-corruption …
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' in India effective in curbing corruption? Using a novel panel dataset covering 20 Indian states and the periods 2005 and …In Is corruption influenced by economic growth? Are legal institutions such as the 'Right to Information Act (RTI) 2005 … 2008 we estimate the causal effects of economic growth and law on corruption. To tackle endogeneity concerns we use forest …
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The impact of information on corruption and effective implementation is Janus faced. In this paper we use household … level data to address the issue of corruption in the NREG program in three states: Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra …, information has generated corruption on the part of some informed beneficiaries. Conversely, in areas where poorer and illiterate …
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India has a federal system of governance with both the state or provincial and the Central governments responsible for … variations in economic conditions in turn. It is in this context, this paper examines whether governments in India within a … indicate that Government in India within a federal framework has mechanisms that foster development equitably across its states …
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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...
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such volatility for India. It provides results on the determinants of inflation volatility and expected inflation …
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decisions of households, and regional and ethnic factors on patterns of household level fertility in India. These have helped … determine the composition of India's young (aged 9 to 34) today. Demographic transition is well underway in India with rising … across various groups in India. …
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India suffered humiliations in terms of balance of payments crises in 1991 but since then it has weathered all crises … deficits. It is in this context that an analysis of fiscal and debt problems of India is timely and assumes importance. The … paper delves upon fiscal exuberance and debt management practices in India, the budgetary allocations, changing structure of …
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This paper underscores the substantial spatial disparities across India and evaluates the case for putting together … predictability needed to ensure that India's state driven growth blossoms and attains full fruition. …
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