institutions at the spatial unit of districts in India. The study disentangles the within-industry effect from the within … manufacturing firms in India, which allows for the introduction of firm-specific controls and a battery of fixed effects. The …

, and industry officials everywhere generally anticipate the increasing competitiveness of India in high technology … activities. Using a structural framework, the author argues that Bangalore's (and India's) information technology (IT) industry … the commercial IT industry. To strengthen Bangalore's and India's innovation system, the Indian business model must be …

institutions at the spatial unit of districts in India. The study disentangles the within-industry effect from the within … manufacturing firms in India, which allows for the introduction of firm-specific controls and a battery of fixed effects. The …

depending on whether it is the mother or the father that leaves. A sequential model that explains migration and budget … allocation choices is proposed and its predictions are tested on data from Indonesia. Selection of households into female … left with fathers, the household budget is significantly diverted toward the purchase of adult private goods, but the share …

middle class size in a rigorous quantitative manner. By exploiting publicly available panel data, the expenditure associated … Nigeria. The threshold expenditure for the middle class in Nigeria is found to be 378.39 Naira per capita per day (2010 PPP …

This paper studies whether budget rigidities affect the probability of countries getting into fiscal distress and … reduce the likelihood of governments performing fiscal adjustments. Budget rigidities are constraints that limit the ability … fiscal consolidation. Moreover, the effect of rigid expenditure seems to be more relevant for economies with high inequality …

Fiscal indicators for resource-rich and resource-poor low- and middle-income countries are compared using annual data … metals greater than a 10 percent share. Fuel exporters have a significantly better general government fiscal balance than the … expenditure and extra capital expenditure. Only about a quarter of their extra revenue goes into extra consumption expenditure …

The paper investigates determinants of civic participation in local budget processes in rural areas in the Kyrgyz … civic awareness and interest in local budget processes is relatively high, the participation rate in local budgeting …

(i.e., acting procyclically). Since the economy does not respond symmetrically to government spending increases or …

This paper develops a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model to analyze and derive simple budget rules in the … face of volatile public revenue from natural resources in a low-income country like Niger. The simulation results suggest … transfer to households; public investment is not 100 percent effective in raising output. In the presence of a negative …