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, many economies experienced a brief period of extreme flexibility. A `fear of floating' gave reduced flexibility when the … crisis subsided, but flexibility after the crisis was greater than that seen prior to the crisis. Contrary to the idea of a … durable Bretton Woods II arrangement, Asia then went on to slowly raise flexibility and reduce the role for the US Dollar …
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Stalemate in agricultural negotiations at the WTO has persisted with a continued lack of convergence on most important issues of trade-distorting domestic support, market access and related flexibilities in respect of developing countries’ right to regulate. One of the key issues for...
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Considering the Indian context as the basis of enquiry into industrial clustering three important issues that largely determine the performance and strategy of firms to survive compete and grow are identified. These three issues relate to the characteristics of the existing and potential market;...
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The FRBM Act was reflective of the shared commitment across political parties towards fiscal conservatism. A decade later, the picture, as reflected in the Union Budget, is yet to change for the better. And given the interests that the current Government represents, a real departure from the...
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The PAISA exercise uses planning and budgeting systems as the entry point, it is an attempt to build an empirical understanding of current governance processes at the grassroots to push for a larger debate on state capacity and administrative capability for building an education delivery...
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A review and extended discussion is presented of The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice and Lives by Deirdre McCloskey and Stephen Ziliak, a work that raises important issues related to the practice of statistics and that has been widely commented...
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The paper lays out a consistent frame work for monetary management in the context of excess capital inflows. There is …
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natural resource management. It calls for building on the existing governance instruments that are diverse from regulation to …
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The challenges of providing insurance to Indian agricultural sector in a manner that is both meaningful and sustaining. Critical assessment of the existing initiative and present possible options for improvement are presented. [NABARD Occasional Paper No. 44]....
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Inflation management is one of the hardest tasks an economic policymaker has to undertake. It appears, at first sight …
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