overcome credit, storage, and commitment constraints through a localized inventory credit scheme. Exploiting random variations … scheme on beneficiaries as well as its spillover effects. Take-up of storage is high (94 percent), while credit take-up is …

The paper formalizes and tests the hypothesis that greater exposure to big shocks induces stronger societal responses … for adaptation and protection from future big shocks. Support for this hypothesis is found in various strands of the …

is benefiting from global integration. The second South Asia is rural, land locked, full of poverty, and lagging. The … lagging regions, in terms of both per capita income and poverty incidence, in South Asia are either land-locked or located in …

stocks from emerging economies that trade in domestic and international markets. The cross-market premium (the ratio between … international ones induced by capital controls. Crises affect financial integration by generating more volatility in the cross …

poor rural setting, this paper demonstrates that trade can induce asymmetric growth. Under certain, plausible, assumptions …