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traces its linkages with the agrarian sector. It uses the context of two developing economies, India and Kenya that were …
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The study utilizes data on major Indian states for 1980-2004 to explore the impact of political competition on state-level income and fiscal variables. The findings suggest that increase in political competition leads to an increase in state per capita income and growth. Focusing on fiscal...
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Agency-based explanations of the great deprivation, contrasted with structure-based explanations, suffer not merely from the criticism of relying on irrational and irresponsible behavior of millions, including that of the most astute financial experts, but are also at a loss to explain why such...
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Singapore and India, two potentially strong Asian allies in today’s global economic order. Practised and adopted in many … enabled it to achieve remarkable successes, posing challenges to bigger economies. India, on the other hand, began its newly …. Subsequent to widespread Structural Adjustment Programmes in 1991, it is only recently that India has started emerging as a …
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We consider commuting in a congested urban area. While an efficient time-varying toll may eliminate queuing, a toll may not be politically feasible. We study the benefit of a substitute: a parking fee at the workplace. An optimal time-varying parking fee is charged at zero rate when there is...
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The number of road traffic casualties is still very lofty and the trend shows a boost with each passing day. The road … traffic accidents involve fatalities due to which economic resources are damaged and the productivity of the economy is … correspondingly impaired. Costs resulting from traffic accidents represent the largest single part of the overall cost of traffic to …
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The number of road traffic casualties is still very lofty and the trend shows a boost with each passing day. The road … traffic accidents involve fatalities due to which economic resources are damaged and the productivity of the economy is … correspondingly impaired. Costs resulting from traffic accidents represent the largest single part of the overall cost of traffic to …
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This paper presents a model of urban traffic congestion that allows for hypercongestion. Hypercongestion has … fundamental importance for the costs of congestion and the effect of policies such as road pricing, transit provision and traffic …
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favorable balance of payments and maintains its long run sustainability. India’s balance of payment position was quite …, therefore, attempts to evaluate the trends and emerging challenges of India’s Balance of Payments. The discussion is broadly … classified into four parts viz. i) India’s balance of payments picture since 1991, ii) emerging role of invisibles and software …
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The study aims to calculate Egypt’s real effective exchange rate at both the bilateral and multilateral levels, estimates the effect of real cross-rate movements on trade in goods and services and on foreign direct investment, and determines the fundamental equilibrium exchange rate for...
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