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The Exchange Rate Regime in Asia: From Crisis to Crisis
Shah, Ajay; Patnaik, Ila; Sethy, Anmol; … - eSocialSciences - 2010
Prior to the Asian financial crisis, most Asian exchange rates were de facto pegged to the US Dollar. In the crisis … durable Bretton Woods II arrangement, Asia then went on to slowly raise flexibility and reduce the role for the US Dollar … paper proposes a new measure of dollar pegging, the \Bretton Woods II score". [NIPFP WP No. 69]. …
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Managing Capital Flows: The Case of India
Shah, Ajay; Patnaik, Ila - eSocialSciences - 2008
reform. The monetary policy regime has consisted essentially of a pegged exchange rate to the US dollar throughout. [WP No …
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Recent Financial Market Developments and Implications for Monetary Policy
Mohan, Rakesh - eSocialSciences - 2007
The nature of the financial turbulence that happened recently in US and Europe, why it happened, where it happened, and the implications for central banks. Some of the forces that led up to and characterized the recent spate of events, the specific responses of central banks and some challenges...
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East and West: The Twain Shall Meet: A Cross-cultural Perspective on Higher Education
Desai, Tejas A. - eSocialSciences - 2010
and American higher education systems.[W.P. No. 2009-04-03] …
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The Importance of Being Wanted
Do, Quy-Toan; Phung, Tung Duc - eSocialSciences - 2010
We identify birth wantedness as a source of better child outcomes. In Vietnam, the year of birth is widely believed to determine success. As a result, cohorts born in auspicious years are 12 percent larger. Comparing siblings with one another, those of auspicious cohorts are found to have 2...
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Power and Resistance: Silence and Secrecy in Avatar - The Last Airbender
Viswanath, Gayatri - eSocialSciences - 2014
In the American animated television series, Avatar: The Last Airbender (ATLA), a visually Asian-influenced world of …
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Less Smoke, More Mirrors: Where India Really Stands on Solar Power and Other Renewables
Wheeler, David; Shome, Saurabh - eSocialSciences - 2010
international pressure to cut emissions, no guarantees of compensatory financing, and a continuing American failure to adopt …
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A New Debt Crisis? Assessing the Impact of the Financial Crisis on Developing Countries
Edwards, Sarah - eSocialSciences - 2009
This report is intended as a wake-up call to anyone who thinks the developing world debt crisis has been resolved. In fact, it assesses fears of a new debt crisis, more serious than before, spreading to nearly 40 countries. 38 of the 43 countries that the World Bank calculates are most...
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American housing market: a source of relief or weakness?
Nageswaran, V. Anantha - eSocialSciences - 2006
drop in nine years. In the immediate aftermath of this report, the US currency gave up some ground against the Euro and …
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Where Are India’s International Reserves Invested?
Rajan, Ramkishen S.; Gopalan, Sasidaran - eSocialSciences - 2010
Most standard indicators suggest that India’s reserve stock is more than adequate. The rapid stockpiling of foreign exchange reserves implies that the RBI has been leaning-against-the-wind to keep down the value of the Indian Rupee. As India has become more export-oriented it has become...
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