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The 1991 Reforms, Indian Economic Growth, and Social Progress
Agarwal, Manmohan - 2013
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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Analyzing the Impact of the World's Largest Public Works Project on Crime
Das, Satadru - 2016
India started the implementation of a rural public works program in 2006, covering all districts of the country within …
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Why Have Economic Reforms in Mexico Not Generated Growth?
Kehoe, Timothy J. - 2010
Following its opening to trade and foreign investment in the mid-1980s, Mexico's economic growth has been modest at best, particularly in comparison with that of China. Comparing these countries and reviewing the literature, we conclude that the relation between openness and growth is not a...
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Uncertain Duration of Reform : Dynamic Implications
Calvo, Guillermo A.; Drazen, Allan - 2021
We develop a framework to study the effects of policies of uncertain duration on consumption dynamics under both complete and incomplete markets. We focus on the dynamic implications of market incompleteness, specifically on the lack of state-contingent bonds. Two policies are considered: pure...
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China and India : Reforms and the Response: How Differently Have the Economies Behaved
Agarwal, Manmohan - 2013
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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Deal with the Devil : The Successes and Limitations of Bureaucratic Reform in India
Dhaliwal, Iqbal - 2014
Employing a technological solution to monitor the attendance of public-sector health care workers in India resulted in …
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Finance, Farms, and the Fed's Early Years
Carlin, Bruce I. - 2017
hand-collected data on banking and agriculture in Illinois in the early 20th century. The mechanism for the Fed's effect on … agriculture was a bank credit channel, operating independently of any deflationary effect on money supply. Our findings suggest …
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Did Inequality in Farm Sizes Lead to Suppression of Banking and Credit in the Late Nineteenth Century?
Jaremski, Matthew - 2017
This paper creates a new database that covers all banks in the United States in the census years between 1870 and 1900 to test the interaction between inequality and financial development when the banking system was starting over from scratch. A fixed-effects panel regression shows that the...
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External Validity in a Stochastic World
Rosenzweig, Mark R. - 2016
in agriculture, small and medium enterprises and human capital differ significantly from year to year. We also show how …
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Tax Farming Redux : Experimental Evidence on Performance Pay for Tax Collectors
Khan, Adnan - 2014
Performance pay for tax collectors has the potential to raise revenues, but might come at a cost if taxpayers face undue pressure from collectors. We report the first large-scale field experiment on these issues, where we experimentally allocated 482 property tax units in Punjab, Pakistan into...
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