Showing 1 - 10 of 422
macroeconomic outcomes in India. We estimate a DSGE model with an informal sector, and rigidities in the formal labor and product … markets. Along with increasing GDP and employment, deregulation also leads to lower informality and greater product market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011705079
This paper explores the causes of India''s productivity surge around 1980, more than a decade before serious economic … response, because India was far away from its income-possibility frontier. Registered manufacturing, which had been built up in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401305
Pakistan undertook major financial sector reforms starting in the late 1980s. The effects of these reforms on the profitability and cost and revenue efficiency of the banking sector are evaluated. The revenue performance of all banks, and especially the privatized banks, improved significantly,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400681
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486189
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010479453
We examine how the development of the digital infrastructure known as the 'India Stack'-including an interoperable … of financial services. While each individual component of the India Stack is important, we argue that its key overarching … synergies across the layers of the Stack. Until recently, a large share of India's population lacked access to formal banking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518740
continue have a dominant share in the market. Contractual savings systems have been improved, but pension funds in India are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011716448
It is widely perceived that competition in the Indian banking sector has increased since the inception of the financial sector reforms in 1992. Using annual data on scheduled commercial banks for the period 1996-2004, the paper evaluates the validity of this claim in the Indian context. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400691
commercial banks. The analysis focuses on examining the behavior and determinants of bank intermediation costs and profitability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403674
The large holdings of government securities by banks in India draw attention to their risk as interest rates are at … of recommendations regarding government policies and individual bank practices to manage interest rate risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014402042