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The Roots of Gender Inequality in Developing Countries
Jayachandran, Seema - eSocialSciences - 2014
underdevelopment itself? Or do the societies that are poor today hold certain cultural views that lead to gender inequality? This …
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Statistics in the Reserve Bank of India
Mohanty, Deepak - eSocialSciences - 2014
RBI has taken several steps to improve the processing of data. Information system will also be enhanced very soon. [Remarks at Reserve Bank of India at the 8th Statistics Day Conference, Mumbai].
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The Difficulties of the Chinese and Indian Exchange Rate Regimes
Shah, Ajay; Patnaik, Ila - eSocialSciences - 2009
China and India have both attempted distorting the exchange rate in order to foster exports-led growth. This is described as the Bretton Woods II framework, where developing countries buy bonds in the US and keep undervalued exchange rates, in order to foster export-led growth. The costs and...
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Fertility Regulation in an Economic Crisis
McKelvey, Christopher; Thomas, Duncan; Frankenberg, … - eSocialSciences - 2011
Substantial international aid is spent reducing the cost of contraception in developing countries, as part of a larger effort to reduce global fertility and increase investment per child worldwide. The importance for fertility behaviors of keeping contraceptive prices low, however, remains...
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The Persistence of Underdevelopment:Institutions, Human Capital or Constituencies?
Rajan, Raghuram G.; Zingales, Luigi - eSocialSciences - 2006
Why is underdevelopment so persistent? One explanation is that poor countries do not have institutions that can support … growth. Because institutions (both good and bad) are persistent, underdevelopment is persistent. An alternative view is that … underdevelopment comes from poor education. Neither explanation is fully satisfactory, the first because it does not explain why poor …
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New Thinking on Corporate Bond Market in India
Banerji, Sanjay; Gangopadhyay, Krishna; Patnaik, Ila; … - eSocialSciences - 2012
What are major factors behind underdevelopment of corporate bond market in India? One of the major bottlenecks to the …
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Role of Financial Sector in Spurring Growth and Expanding Financial Inclusion in North Eastern Region
Bhaskar, P. Vijaya - eSocialSciences - 2014
The present speech analyses the significant role which can be played by the financial sector in spurring growth and expanding financial inclusion in NER. [CII Banking Collagium in Kolkata].
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Innovation and Growth: Role of the Financial Sector
Mohan, Rakesh - eSocialSciences - 2008
A brief overview is provided about India’s long-term growth performance. Then an attempt is made to set out the conditions for successful innovations. To assess the role of innovations in the Indian economy, the estimated contributions of productivity gains to real GDP growth is...
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Ethics and the World of Finance
Subbarao, Duvvuri - eSocialSciences - 2009
How do we, as individuals, approach issues of ethics and values? Are our approaches different in our personal and professional lives? Are issues of ethics different in the financial sector? What are the ethical issues thrown up by the current crisis? Has economics, as an academic discipline,...
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National Budget of Bhutan-2011-12
eSocialSciences; Minister of Finance Bhutan - 2012
Budget speech by the Finance Minister of Bhutan. [Budget Speech]. URL:[http://www.mof.gov.bt/downloads/Budgetreport2012.pdf].
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