This paper uses a unique new data set on nearly a thousand manufacturing firms in Brazil and India to investigate the … power disruption seems to significantly depress adoption and returns to ICT expenditures in India. This may be indicative of …

to unmarried women in India, on child height. We find robust evidence that the HSAA improved the height and weight of …

focuses particularly on how two key countries, China and India, have developed in light of the key recommendations in Peril …

Succession Act Amendment (HSAA), which granted inheritance rights to unmarried women in India, on child health. Our findings …

labour market. A unique, rich and representative data survey for all Indian states and rural India (NFHS-2, 1998-1999) allows … married women aged 15 to 49. Our results for urban and rural India show that the FP effect is significant in rural India, that … India, we compare this effect with that one of Governmental Policies (GP) supporting household income and promoting …

scores and schooling from rural India, we show that higher wages increase human capital investment in early life (in utero to …

This paper employs cross-sectional data from 100 countries to analyze the main determinants of inter-country Internet … diffusion rates. We set up an empirical model based on strong theoretical foundations, in which we regress Internet usage on … that economic strength, infrastructure and knowledge of the English language positively affect Internet connectivity. In …