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The elephant in the ground: managing oil and sovereign wealth

Bremer, Ton van den; Ploeg, Frederick van der; Wills, Samuel - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2014

a fund’s portfolio through additional leverage and hedging. First-best spending should be a share of total wealth, and … any unhedged volatility must be managed by precautionary savings. If oil prices are pro-cyclical, oil should be extracted …

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OPEC and non-OPEC oil production and the global economy

Ratti, Ronald A.; Vespignani, Joaquin L. - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2014

Hamilton identifies 1973 to 1996 as “the age of OPEC” and 1997 to the present as “a new industrial age.” During 1974-1996 growth in non-OPEC oil production Granger causes growth in OPEC oil production. OPEC oil production decreases significantly with positive shocks to non-OPEC oil...

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Asia Rising: Emerging East Asian Economies as Foreign Investors

Hill, Hal; Jongwanich, Juthathip - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011

This paper documents and analyzes the rise of emerging East Asian economies as major international investors. Foreign direct investment (FDI) from these economies is rising faster than their economic growth, trade, and inward FDI, and the region is by far the most important investor from the...

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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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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...

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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 …This paper extends the New Keynesian Phillips curve model to include inflation volatility and tests the determinants of … volatility for OLS and ARDL (1,1) models and for change in inflation volatility and change in expected inflation volatility using …

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