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While output declined in virtually all transition economies in the initial years, the speed and extent of the recovery that followed has varied widely across these countries. The contrast between the more and less successful transitions, the latter largely in the former Soviet Union, raises many...
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Employing a technological solution to monitor the attendance of public-sector health care workers in India resulted in …
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This paper analyzes the effects of the reforms initiated in India following the balance of payments (BOP) crisis of … changes in performance since the reforms, which started in China in 1979 and in India in 1991. Such a comparison shows more … progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and India lags behind other South Asian countries. The responsiveness …
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The relative performance of China and India is compared using two different methods and they provide a very different … goods and services and of gross fixed capital formation. Using a two tailed- test we find that China does better than India … higher share of XGS, GFCF etc in GDP than does India. We also find that China usually has a lower CV, namely a more stable …
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India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991. We find a downward trend in poverty …
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knowledge gain from watching an information movie in rural India, while randomized village assignment identifies knowledge …
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This paper studies the long-run effects of a "big-push" program providing a large asset transfer to the poorest Indian households. In a randomized controlled trial that follows these households over 10 years, we find positive effects on consumption (0.6 SD), food security (0.1 SD), income (0.3...
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, India, we find that “gung ho entrepreneurs” (GEs), households who were already running a business before microfinance …
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This paper explores the aggregate economic effects from India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS …
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assemblies in India generated by national policies that cause reservations to be revised and the time lags with which revised …
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