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Challenges to Inclusive Growth : A Poverty and Equity Assessment of Djibouti

World Bank Group - 2019

The objective of this report is to present a snapshot of the welfare landscape in Djibouti that will help stakeholders understand poverty's determinants. Exploiting data from the 2017 household expenditure survey, as well as administrative and geospatial data, it provides a detailed analysis of...

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Strengthening Public Finances for Inclusive Growth and Sustainable Development

World Bank Group - 2023

The Republic of Congo is the third-largest crude oil producer in Sub-Saharan Africa after Nigeria and Angola and is heavily dependent on oil production and oil exports. With a population of 5.5 million, Congo is a lower middle-income economy, endowed with abundant natural resources. The economy...

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Development patterns and institutional structures : China and India

Gupta, S. P. (ed.); Gupta, Shyama Prasad (contributor); … - 1995 - 1. publ.

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Testing Limits to Policy Reversal : Evidence from Indian Privatizations

Dastidar, Siddhartha G. - 2007

We examine the effect of regime change on privatization using the 2004 election surprise in India. The pro-reform BJP … slated for definite privatization by the BJP dropped by 3.5 percent relative to private firms. Surprisingly, government …-controlled companies that were only under study for possible privatization fell by 7.5 percent relative to private firms. We interpret this …

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Private Returns to Public Office

Fisman, Raymond - 2012

We study the wealth accumulation of Indian parliamentarians using public disclosures required of all candidates since 2003. Annual asset growth of winners is on average 3 to 6 percentage points higher than runners-up. By performing a within-constituency comparison where both runner-up and winner...

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Technology, jobs and inequality : evidence from India's manufacturing sector

Kapoor, Radhicka - 2016

Faced with easier access to foreign technology and imported capital goods, firms in India's organised manufacturing sector adopted advanced techniques of production leading to increasing automation and a rise in the capital intensity of production. This has raised much concern about the ability...

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Inequality in India Declined During COVID

Gupta, Arpit; Malani, Anup; Woda, Bartosz - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We use a large, representative panel data set from India with monthly data on household finances to examine the incidence of economic harms during the COVID pandemic. We observe a sharp spike in poverty, peaking during India's sharp but short lockdown. However, there was a striking decrease in...

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Social Investments, Informal Risk Sharing, and Inequality

Ambrus, Attila - 2014

This paper studies costly network formation in the context of risk sharing. Neighboring agents negotiate agreements as in Stole and Zwiebel (1996), which results in the social surplus being allocated according to the Myerson value. We uncover two types of inefficiency: overinvestment in social...

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Trade and Inequality in India

Krishna, Pravin - 2011

To study the effects of the dramatic economic reforms undertaken in India in the early 1990s on inequality, this paper examines Theil inequality as well as other inequality measures constructed using Indian household expenditure survey data from 1988-2005. Overall inequality shows some variation...

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India and the global economy

Kumar, Rajiv (contributor); Gupta, Abhijit Sen (contributor) - ICRIER's Silver Jubliee Conference on "India and the … - 2008

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