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Examining the Decoupling Hypothesis for India
Shah, Ajay; Patnaik, Ila; Jayaram, Shruthi - eSocialSciences - 2009
This paper examines the decoupling hypothesis for India. This paper analyses business cycle synchronization between India and a set of industrial economies, particularly the United States, over the period 1992 to 2008. The evidence suggests that the Indian business cycle exhibits increasing...
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State-Led or Market-Led Green Revolution? Role of Private Irrigation Investment vis-a-vis Local Government Programs in West Bengal’s Farm Productivity Growth
Bardhan, Pranab; Mookherjee, Dilip; Kumar, Neha - eSocialSciences - 2009
, extension services, and infrastructure investments) in the growth of farm productivity in West Bengal, India between 1981-95. A …
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Budget of Nepal 2011-12
eSocialSciences; Ministry of Finance, Government of Nepal - 2012
Budget speech by Nepal Finance Minister. URL:[http://www.mof.gov.np/publication/speech/2011/pdf/budgetspeech_english.pdf].
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Seasonal Migration and Risk Aversion
Bryan, Gharad; Chowdhury, Shyamal; Mobarak, A. Mushfiq - eSocialSciences - 2011
Pre-harvest lean seasons are widespread in the agrarian areas of Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Every year, these seasonal famines force millions of people to succumb to poverty and hunger. An incentive of $8.50 is assigned to households in Bangladesh to out-migrate during the lean season, and...
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“Group Measurement†of NREGA work: The Jalore Experiment
Khera, Reetika - eSocialSciences - 2009
The paper takes a closer look at an experiment of NREGA training mates (worksite supervisors) in Rajasthan to improve worksite management. It is based on a four-day field visit (11-14 February, 2008) to Jalore district where this experiment is said to have been a success. A team of three...
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Graduating to Globalisation: A Study of Southern Multinationals
Shah, Ajay; Patnaik, Ila; Demirbas, Dilek - eSocialSciences - 2010
productivity and different modes of globalisation activities. This paper attempts to understand this relationship through ordered …
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Disentangling the Global Financial Crisis: A Review of the Global Response
Thenuwara, H. N. - eSocialSciences - 2009
risks in some asset classes, productivity slowdown, debt default, regulatory inaction, and some policy mistakes. The purpose …
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Impact of Imported Intermediate and Capital Goods on Economic Growth: A Cross Country Analysis
Veermani, C - eSocialSciences - 2009
Knowledge accumulation in the richer countries provides them with comparative advantages in higher productivity … products. The countries that import the higher productivity intermediate products and capital equipments produced in the richer … productivity level associated with a country's imports. Using instrumental variable method (to address the endogeneity problems …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004985543
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Workbook on Life Skills
eSocialSciences; Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of … - 2009
RGNIYD planned to develop a workbook on Life Skills which would help adolescents to both understand the concepts of the ten core Life Skills and practice them. The workbook has been carefully designed so that adolescents learn and internalise the concepts through an interactive methodology. Each...
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Aggregate Productivity Growth in Indian Manufacturing: An Application of Domar Aggregation
Das, Deb Kusum; Kalita, Gunajit - eSocialSciences - 2009
An attempt is made to compute the aggregate productivity growth using the Domar aggregation technique. Building up from … the Total Factor Productivity Growth (TFPG) estimates for 3-digit industries, we have used Domar weights to computed total … factor productivity (TFP) growth for selected 10, 2-digit industries for the period 1980-2000. [ICRIER WP no. 239]. …
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