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Productive Employment and Empowering Education: An Agenda for India’s Youth
Jha, Raghbendra - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2014
extent, technology. This paper argues that India’s demographic dividend with 65 per cent of the population in aged 15-24 in … 2012 is ideally suited to embark on a path of sustained high rate of economic growth for the foreseeable future if India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011170336
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The Consequences of Child Market Work on the Growth of Human Capital
Sim, Armand A; Suryadarma, Daniel; Suryahadi, Asep - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011
Child labor is a phenomenon that has attracted a great amount of attention and research. Theoretical propositions suggest that child labor is inefficient if it adversely affects future earning ability. This paper contributes to the literature on the effects of child market work on human capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009274835
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Language, Mixed Communes and Infrastructure: Sources of Inequality and Ethnic Minorities in Vietnam
Nguyen, Hoa Thi Minh; Kompas, Tom; Breusch, Trevor; … - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2012
This paper re-examines the sources of inequality in Vietnam, a transitional economy with large reductions in poverty from recent and dramatic economic growth, but vastly unequal gains across ethnic groups. Using an instrumental variable approach to provide consistent estimators of explanatory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904345
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005057551
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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