The paper examines individuals’ abilities to identify the highly central people in their social networks, where … centrality is defined by diffusion centrality (Banerjee, Chandrasekhar, Duflo, and Jackson, 2013), which characterizes a nodeâ …€™s influence in spreading information. It first show that diffusion centrality nests standard centrality measures – degree …

village to test theories such as Jackson and Rogers (2007) that link information aggregation in networks to the structure of …

A new survey finds that only 17 drugs are under active development for maternal health indications, which is less than …

A brief overview is provided about India’s long-term growth performance. Then an attempt is made to set out the … productivity gains to real GDP growth is explained. Then the focus is given on the role of financial sector reforms in contributing … to innovation and growth. Finally, an outline of the role of monetary policy in sustaining growth and innovations by …

twenty-period of rapid income growth. It addresses the problem of the endogenous placement of networks by exploiting the fact …This paper estimates the effect of access to transportation networks on regional economic outcomes in China over a … that these networks tend to connect historical cities.[BREAD Working Paper No. 325]. URL …

Information plays a vital role in lives of individuals/groups for development and growth. Just information does not …

This paper reviews the development of the social security system and trends in the urban labor market in the Peopleâ … and urban household income to decrease and has thus slowed down household consumption growth. The provision of broader … households more security for spending that could reduce the high savings rate and help achieve a balanced growth path in the long …

of the nation to the holistic development of the young people of the country. This document aims to reinforce existing …

fact that China has succeeded therefore should lead us to question our textbook doctrines of development. Much of this …