This paper presents new and official survey information on bank regulations in 142 countries and makes comparisons with … two earlier surveys. The data do not suggest that countries have primarily reformed their bank regulations for the better … agencies, but existing evidence suggests that these reforms will not improve bank stability or efficiency. While some countries …

This paper reassesses what works in banking regulation based on the new World Bank survey (Survey IV) of bank … regulation and supervision around world. The paper briefly presents new and official survey information on bank regulations in … in bank regulations and banking system performance. The data suggest that many countries made capital regulations more …

The paper examines the ways in which recent economic growth has been uneven in China and India and what this has meant … development. The authors argue that the development paths of both China and India have been influenced by, and have generated …

There has been much debate about how much India's poor have shared in the economic growth unleashed by economic reforms … in the 1990s. The authors argue that India has probably maintained its 1980s rate of poverty reduction in the 1990s … economic growth has not done more for India's poor. India's economic growth in the 1990s has not been occurring in the states …

India's huge expansion in rural electrification in the 1980s and 1990s offers lessons for other countries today. The … paper examines the long-term effects of household electrification on consumption, labor supply, and schooling in rural India …

Public knowledge about India's ambitious Employment Guarantee Scheme is low in one of India's poorest states, Bihar …

used to assess the cost-effectiveness of India's Employment Guarantee Scheme in Bihar. Participants are found to have …

theoretically ambiguous implications for the impacts on poverty. In the case of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme …