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The paper studies the solvency of the Indian public sector and the eventual monetization and inflation implied by …
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This paper examines the behavior of quarterly inflation in India since 1994, both headline inflation and core inflation … headline inflation feed into expected inflation and future core inflation. Several aspects of India's inflation process are … as measured by the weighted median of price changes across industries. We explain core inflation with a Phillips curve in …
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"A long-standing question in social science is to what extent differences in management cause differences in firm performance. To investigate this we ran a management field experiment on large Indian textile firms. We provided free consulting on modern management practices to a randomly chosen...
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school and household inputs, and test its predictions in two very different low-income country settings - Zambia and India …
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protection. We use new survey data from India, the results of interviews with industry, government and multinational institutions …
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We estimate the rate of total factor productivity growth in Indian manufacturing industry for the period 1973-1992, and compare the results to those obtained by Young for the East Asian Tigers. We then interpret our results in light of Krugman's hypothesis that, because the Asian Miracle was...
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A significant amount of software development is being outsourced to countries such as India. Many Indian software firms …
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-run business groups, domestic financial institutions, and foreign financial institutions. Using data from India in the early 1990s …
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We show using a theoretical framework that embeds a voting model in a general-equilibrium model of a rural economy with two interest groups defined by land ownership that the effects of democratization--a shift from control of public resources by the landed elite to a democratic regime with...
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This paper measures excess labor supply in equilibrium. We examine hiring shocks--which employ 24% of the labor force in external month-long jobs--in Indian local labor markets. In peak months, wages increase instantaneously and local aggregate employment declines. In lean months, consistent...
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