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The Indian View of Economic Development: Resilience and the Quest for Growth
Jha, Raghbendra - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005057549
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Dietary Transition in India: An Analysis Based on NSS Data for 1993 and 2004
Kaicker, Nidhi; Kulkarni, Vani S.; Gaiha, Raghav - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011
Our study examines changes in diets over the period 1993-2004. Diets have shifted away from cereals towards higher consumption of fruits, vegetables, oils and livestock products. Using household data, reduced form demand relations are estimated for nine food commodities. Significant own and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009274830
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Vulnerability as Expected Poverty in Rural India
Jha, Raghbendra; Kang, Woojin; Nagarajan, Hari K.; … - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2012
Using a unique panel data for rural India for the periods 1999 and 2006 this paper models vulnerability to poverty. We … quantify household vulnerability in rural India in 1999 and 2006, investigate the determinants of ex post poverty as well as ex … policy variables which can be targeted to reduce the incidence of vulnerability in rural India. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010640534
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Vulnerability and Responses to Risk in Rural India
Jha, Raghbendra; Kang, Woojin; Nagarajan, Hari K.; … - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2012
its components on a unique data set this paper demonstrates that in rural India household vulnerability is most explained …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010640539
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Has Dietary Transition Slowed Down in India: An analysis based on 50th, 61st and 66th Rounds of NSS
Gaiha, Raghav; Kaicker, Nidhi; Imai, Katsushi; … - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2012
Our study examines changes in diets over the period 1993-2009. Diets have shifted away from cereals towards higher consumption of fruits, vegetables, oils and livestock products. Using household data, a food diversity index (FDI) is constructed, based on five food commodities. Significant price...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010640540
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Poverty, Undernutrition and Vulnerability in Rural India: Public Works versus Food Subsidy
Jha, Raghbendra; Imai, Katsushi S.; Gaiha, Raghav - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2008
food subsidy programme, on consumption poverty, vulnerability and undernutrition in India drawing upon the large household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005106841
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Malaysian Economic Development: Looking Backwards and Forward
Hill, Hal - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2010
This paper provides an analytical and forward-looking overview of Malaysian economic development. Looking back over its 53 years of Independence, we identify the key stylized facts to include the country's generally rapid economic growth and structural change; its consistent openness, especially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008861952
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Growth, Growth Accelerations and the Poor: Lessons from Indonesia
Bhattacharyya, Sambit; Resosudarmo, Budy R. - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2013
We study the impact of growth and growth accelerations on poverty and inequality in Indonesia using a new panel dataset covering 26 provinces over the period 1977-2010. This dataset allows us to distinguish between mining and non-mining sectors of the economy. We find that growth in non-mining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010700291
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'By a Silken Thread': regional banking integration and pathways to financial development in Japan's Great Recession
Hoffmann, Mathias; Okubo, Toshihiro - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2013
Regional differences in banking integration determined how Japan's Great Recession after 1990 spread across the country. We explain these differences with the emergence of silk reeling as the main export industry after Japan's opening to trade in the 19th century. The silk-exporting prefectures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011186035
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The Best of Times and the Worst of Times: Indonesia and Economic Crises
Hill, Hal - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2012
This paper examines the experience of Indonesia during two major crisis episodes, the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis and the 2008-09 global economic recession. In the first episode, Indonesia experienced a deep economic and political crisis, while in the second the impacts were very mild. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010640557