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The 1991 Reforms, Indian Economic Growth, and Social Progress
Agarwal, Manmohan - 2013
This paper analyzes the effects of the reforms initiated in India following the balance of payments (BOP) crisis of … compare changes in performance since the reforms, which started in China in 1979 and in India in 1991. Such a comparison shows … in making progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and India lags behind other South Asian countries. The …
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Analyzing the Impact of the World’s Largest Public Works Project on Crime
Das, Satadru - 2016
India started the implementation of a rural public works program in 2006, covering all districts of the country within …
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Why Have Economic Reforms in Mexico Not Generated Growth?
Kehoe, Timothy J. - 2010
Following its opening to trade and foreign investment in the mid-1980s, Mexico's economic growth has been modest at best, particularly in comparison with that of China. Comparing these countries and reviewing the literature, we conclude that the relation between openness and growth is not a...
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Uncertain Duration of Reform : Dynamic Implications
Calvo, Guillermo A. - 1997
We develop a framework to study the effects of policies of uncertain duration on consumption dynamics under both complete and incomplete markets. We focus on the dynamic implications of market incompleteness, specifically on the lack of state-contingent bonds. Two policies are considered: pure...
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Optimal Gradualism
Lehr, Nils H.; Restrepo, Pascual - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper studies how gradualism affects the welfare gains from trade, technology, and reforms. When people face adjustment frictions, gradual shocks create less adverse distributional effects in the short run. We show that there are welfare gains from inducing a more gradual transition via...
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Seeking a premier league economy : the economic effects of British economic reforms, 1980 - 2000 ; [the papers were presented at a preliminary conference and a final conference at...
Card, David E. (ed.); Blundell, Richard W. (contributor);  … - 2004
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Deal with the Devil : The Successes and Limitations of Bureaucratic Reform in India
Dhaliwal, Iqbal - 2014
Employing a technological solution to monitor the attendance of public-sector health care workers in India resulted in …
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China and India : Reforms and the Response
Agarwal, Manmohan - 2013
The relative performance of China and India is compared using two different methods and they provide a very different …Using a two tailed- test we find that China does better than India for most of these indicators. For instance, China … has a higher growth rate of per capita income, XGS and GFCF as also a higher share of XGS, GFCF etc in GDP than does India …
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Local Effects of Land Grant Colleges on Agricultural Innovation and Output
Andrews, Michael J. - 2019
To estimate the local effect of establishing land grant colleges, I compare locations that receive a land grant college to "runner-up" counties that were in contention to receive the land grant but did not for as-good-as-random reasons. I find that establishing a land grant college causes an...
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Modeling the Impacts of Agricultural Support Policies on Emissions from Agriculture
Laborde, David - 2020
) emissions from agriculture. In a step towards a full evaluation of the impacts, it uses a counterfactual global model scenario … that currently tax agriculture have high emission intensities. Policies that directly reduce emission intensities yield …
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