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Credit scoring was introduced in India in 2007. We study the pace of its adoption by new private banks (NPBs) and state … banks suggests that neither bank size nor government ownership fully explains adoption patterns. Organizational culture …
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pre-crisis data, in order to study the impact of government guarantees on bank performance during a crisis. Using bank … private sector bank branches in districts with greater exposure to state-owned banks experienced deposit withdrawals and … shortening of deposit maturity. In contrast, nearby vulnerable state-owned bank branches grew their deposit base and increased …
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, Germany, Japan, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Together, the studies …
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Parochial politics is typically associated with poor leadership and low levels of public good provision. This paper explores the possibility that community involvement in politics need not necessarily worsen governance and, indeed, can be efficiency-enhancing when the context is appropriate....
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efficiency. In India, the current government flagship program on universal primary education organizes both locally elected …
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We use the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys data to analyze the employment of both labor and capital in Indian …
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in India for quot;lower-castequot; groups. We find that it successfully targets the financially disadvantaged: the …
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This paper uses household survey data form several developing countries to investigate whether the poor (defined as those living under $1 or $2 dollars a day at PPP) and the non poor have different mortality rates in old age. We construct a proxy measure of longevity, which is the probability...
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this hypothesis using nationally representative data from rural India. We use birth size as a measure of initial health …
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prevalence in India prior to a nationwide eradication program in the 1950s. We find that the program led to modest increases in …
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