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The Structural Relationship Between Current and Capital Account Balance in India : A Time Series Analysis
Chakraborty, Debashis; Mukherjee, Jaydeep; Sinha, Tanaya - 2010
aftermath of the Southeast Asian crisis, the limitation of the liberal capital regime for a developing country like India is … often highlighted in the literature. However, the probable impact of introducing KAC on CAB in India generally is discussed … theoretically. Though some of the existing studies in India have earlier focused on this research question, they have done so by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014194754
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Socioeconomic Progress Across the Major Indian States : Converging or Diverging
Goli, Srinivas; Arokiasamy, P.; Reddy, Bheemeshwar - 2013
The purpose of this paper is to examine the progress in socioeconomic conditions across the major states of India by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014154852
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Service Sector Led Economic Growth in India and Some Measurement and Database Issues
Saikia, Dilip - 2017
In recent years there has been a rapid and sustained growth of the service sector in the Indian economy. But unfortunately, while the importance of the services is growing statistical data and other relevant information of the services are abysmally low. There are problems relating to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014187326
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Social and economic implications of HIV/AIDS: evidence from West Bengal
Sarker, Debnarayan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Based on household level’ field survey in West Bengal State in Indian context, this study suggests that poverty and lower level of human capital provide the basic initiatives for both rural –urban migration and risky occupational choice for household’s income, and thus contributes to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323448
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Environmental pressures and rural-urban migration: The case of Bangladesh
Herrmann, Michael; Svarin, David - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Bangladesh, like other least developed countries (LDC), has a large rural population and agricultural labor force. At the turn of the Millennium 75 percent of the LDCs’ population still lived in rural areas and 71 percent of the LDCs’ labor force was involved in agriculture. Yet, even the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837076
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Early and Late Demographic Transitions: the Role of Urbanization
Cuberes, David - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper uses new estimates of the dates on which different countries have experienced their demographic transition to address two empirical questions. First, I study the importance of different socioeconomic variables on the timing of these transitions. Second, I distinguish between countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008506923
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System-wide Impacts of Agricultural Export Taxes: A Simulation Experiment with Ethiopian Data
Gelan, Ayele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
This paper examines rural-urban spillover effects of agricultural price policy in a developing economy. It employs a computable general equilibrium methodology based on a bi-regional social accounting matrix for Ethiopia. The simulation experiment quantifies system-wide impacts of exports tax on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619481
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Can International Factor Mobility lessen Wage Inequality in a Dual Economy?
Beladi, Hamid; Chaudhuri, Sarbajit; Yabuuchi, Shigemi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
We introduce international labor mobility in a three-sector general equilibrium model with rural-urban migration. We demonstrate that under some reasonable conditions an inflow of foreign skilled labor (capital) can reduce skilled-unskilled wage inequality.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619981
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Demographic and Economic Trends: Implications for International Mobility
Martin, Philip - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
About three percent of the world’s 6.1 billion people were international migrants in 2000. Population growth is expected to slow between 2000 and 2050 in comparison to 1950-2000, but international migration is expected to rise as persisting demographic and economic inequalities that motivate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008559046
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Current Trends in Migration in the Commonwealth of Independent States
Abazov, Rafis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper assesses recent migration trends in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Within the last decade (1999-2009) the Russian Federation became the world’s second largest recipient of migrants after the United States, while the Ukraine became the fourth largest and Kazakhstan...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008559084