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We examine the prudential implications of the co-existence between the standardized approach and the internal ratings-based (IRB) approach, as defined in the new Basle Accord. We consider a model in which sophisticated banks, eligible for the IRB approach, and unsophisticated banks, eligible for...
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-weighted asset ratio (CRAR) of the banking sector in India. In the current regime of Basel I, Indian banking system is performing … as well as India's own minimum regulatory requirement of 9 per cent. As the revised capital adequacy norms, Basel II, are …
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This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion...
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agricultural productivity and income, which can reduce the wage gap. Since crop yields in India are far lower than many other …-absorbing technological change in Indian agriculture. Efforts to ramp up industrialization should be taken up in earnest only after the wage …
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The public distribution system (PDS) has been one of the main policy instruments of the Government of India (GoI) to … that at an all-India level, 46.7 per cent or 25.9 MMTs of the off-taken grain did not reach the intended PDS beneficiaries … in 2011-12. The percent share of total leakage increased with states where greater percent of India's poor resided (five …
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The National Food Security Act (NFSA) 2013 combines and expands the scope of some existing food-based welfare schemes. It will be distributing raw rations, meal(s) and/or cash. Approximately 81.35 crore persons or 16.57 crore households are to benefit under the targeted public distribution...
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. The Government of India (GoI) has supported agriculture through budgetary provisions as well as through revenues foregone …Given the importance of agriculture in any sizable country to feed its people, most countries have subsidised … agriculture in the past, be they developed countries like the United States of America or countries in the European Union or Japan …
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, when India celebrates 75 years of her independence. This is a grand vision for ushering in a sort of revolution in clean … energy in India in the next six years. In a country that generates more than 60 percent of its power by burning coal, and … country has just touched 8000 MW by July end, 2016, and no country in the world has such an ambitious target as India has set …
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network expansion in rural India on adoption of high yielding variety seeds and chemical fertilizers. Our empirical strategy …
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Access to safe water is necessary for lives and livelihoods. In India, a mid-term assessment reveals that the country … factors constrain access to safe drinking water and proper sanitation in India for both the urban and rural poor, and that …
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