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The Effect of IMF and World Bank Programmes on Poverty
Easterly, William - eSocialSciences - 2010
Structural adjustment, as measured by the number of adjustment loans from the IMF and World Bank, reduces the growth elasticity of poverty reduction. Growth does reduce poverty, but the author find no evidence for a direct effect of structural adjustment on growth. Instead, the poor benefit less...
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Rising Inequality With High Growth Isn't This Trend Worrisome? Analysis of Kerala Experience
Subrahmanian, KK; Prasad, Syam - eSocialSciences - 2008
The relation between growth, inequality and poverty is the central theme of the paper. While the fast economic growth under the neo-liberal policy regime helps reduce poverty, it increases inequality in income distribution in a way that retards the progress in poverty-reduction. The empirical...
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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 …
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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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Macroeconomic and Monetary Developments Third Quarter Review 2011-12
RBI, Reserve Bank of India - eSocialSciences - 2012
The Growth outlook has weakened as a result of adverse global and domestic factors that have been mentioned above. Business and consumer confidence has been impacted. Professional forecasters now see a weaker growth in the economy. However, inflation and expectations of inflation remain high and...
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Monetary Conditions Index for India
R, Kannan; Sanyal, Siddhartha; Bhoi, Binod Bihari - eSocialSciences - 2007
The authors attempt to construct a monetary conditions index (MCI) for India in order to take both interest rate and exchange rate channels simultaneously into consideration while evaluating the stance of monetary policy and evolving monetary conditions. The paper also constructs a "broad" MCI...
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Budget Speech 2013-2014
Chidambaram, P - eSocialSciences - 2013
Budget Speech by Chidambaram.
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India's Public Distribution System: A National and International Perspective
Radhakrishna, R.; Subbarao, K.; Indrakant, S.; Ravi, C. - eSocialSciences - 2014
This study examines the impact of India's Public Distribution System (PDS) on poor households in terms of income gains, reductions in the incidence and severity of poverty, as well as nutritional improvements. The study suggests that the welfare gains of PDS in terms of income transfer were very...
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Persistent Inequality: An Explanation Based on Limited Parental Altruism
Das, Mausumi - eSocialSciences - 2008
This paper provides an explanation for the observed persistence in income inequality across households in terms limited parental altruism. It is postulated that the degree of parental altruism is ‘limited’ by the financial status of the parent. [CDE WP 101].
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Conceptualising Social Security And Income Redistribution
Kanbur, Ravi - eSocialSciences - 2011
This paper offers a conceptualisation of social security and income redistribution schemes which highlights the strong overlaps between the two. Indeed, it is virtually impossible to disentangle the two in practice. The major conclusion is that any assessment of one cannot proceed without taking...
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