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expenditures, as in China and India, the impact was magnified. Increases in recurrent expenditure, which were made in Brazil and … India, acted as short-term stimulants; additional public investment, as in China, appears to have had a more lasting impact … integration, resulting in differential magnitude and timing of the crisis impact. For example, coastal states in India were …
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The paper presents the policymakers? perspective on the reforms undertaken to manage states? debt and ensure solvency. While the sustained high growth rates of the Indian economy played a part in alleviating the interest burden on debt and ensuring that the debt does not grow in an explosive...
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characteristics and effects of fiscal responsibility laws in seven countries -- Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, India …
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The paper combines state-level fiscal data with household survey data to assess the links between sub-national fiscal policy and income inequality in Brazil over the period 1995-2011. The results indicate that a tighter fiscal stance at the sub-national level is not associated with a...
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This paper explores the building blocks of an institutional framework to govern borrowing by subnational entities to finance infrastructure investment. The framework should help in achieving sustainable financing of development needs and sound management of fiscal risks. Based on international...
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A large national farm panel from India covering a quarter century (1982, 1999, and 2008) is used to show that the …
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This paper examine asymmetric information about migrant earnings and its implications for remittance behavior using a sample of Indian households with husbands working overseas in Qatar. On average, wives underreport their husbands? income and underreporting is more prevalent in households with...
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influencing the incidence of child health gains from access to piped water in rural India. Using propensity score matching methods …
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that estimates the economic costs of the caste system in particular environments: (1) In North India, discrimination … lower-caste children enrolled in English-language schools in Mumbai after India opened itself up to the world market grew …
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This paper presents the results of an investigation of selected census towns in northern India. Census towns are … settlements that India's census classifies as urban although they continue to be governed as rural settlements. The 2011 census …
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