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... This paper discusses solutions to important incentive problems in micro-health insurance schemes which threaten their sustainability. In particular, three issues explored are : (i) if defining household as unit of insurance always mitigates adverse selection problem; (ii) how ex ante moral...
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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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reference to China and India, with their very distinctive public policy approaches. Much of the economics literature either does …
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Economic policy and policy reform over the last few decades has been motivated by the need to accelerate growth or equivalently to reverse a decline in growth rate. The economic literature on the determinants of growth has burgeoned and disagreement has followed consensus on the policy...
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The paper looks into the level of integration of commodity markets in India, across centres and states using consumer … price data. It measures the extent to which domestic markets for goods in India are integrated, and recommends policy … methodology proposed by Bradford and Lawrence (2004) on the consumer prices of goods in major states across India. This is then …
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The present paper presents the supply and demand trends of rice, wheat, total cereals, pulses, edible oil/oilseeds and sugar/sugarcane. It provides the demand and supply projections for food items during 2011, 2021 and 2026. These projections have been based on change in productivity levels,...
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India's growing economic strength of recent years has seen it adapting its foreign policy to increase its global … vision, most noticeably in Asia, and has broadened the definition of its security interests. As a result, India … global partnership between them.India and Japan share a special relationship as fellow democracies without hegemonic …
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competitiveness in the region. The purpose of this paper is to examine the patterns of U.S. trade relationships with China and India …
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The comparison of the key features of trade integration processes and the economic outcomes in China and India reveals … of public ownership and important regulatory barriers continue to dominate the services sectors. India has gone a long … still persists which likely adds to the hurdles faced by the Indian manufacturing sector. India has revealed a comparative …
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India's emergence in the world economy over the last decade, has often, in popular discourse, been attributed, at least … present an overview of India's technological trajectory with a view to understanding the nuances of India's technological … capability and the role it has played in the process of India's economic progress. Our conclusion is that while India has …
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