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Integration and Price Transmission in Key Food Commodity Markets in India

Varela, Gonzalo - 2019

This paper examines patterns of market integration for food commodities in India. First, it tests the extent of … integration. The results reveal that in India, food markets are imperfectly integrated across space, with the law of one price …

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Investment Needs for Irrigation Infrastructure Along Different Socioeconomic Pathways

Palazzo, Amanda - 2019

This paper conducts an assessment of the global costs for expanding, upgrading, and improving irrigation infrastructure in developing countries, along different future scenarios toward 2050. It uses the GLobal BIOsphere Management Model, a partial equilibrium model of the global agricultural and...

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Does Culture Matter or Firm? Demand for Female Labor in Three Indian Cities

Bordia Das, Maitreyi - 2019

unique survey of 618 firms in three of the largest cities in the state of Madhya Pradesh (India)?Bhopal, Indore, and Gwalior … employment in urban India is amenable to policy intervention, and that it is not necessary to wait for culture to change …

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The Textile-Clothing Value Chain in India and Bangladesh : How Appropriate Policies Can Promote (or Inhibit) Trade and Investment

Kabir, Mahfuz - 2019

There are significant value chain linkages between India and Bangladesh, particularly in the textile and apparel sector …. India specializes in the upstream segment, supplying such intermediate inputs as silk, cotton, yarn, and fabrics to … Bangladesh. Bangladesh specializes in the downstream final apparel segment, exporting worldwide as well as to India. Tariffs and …

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Governance in the Gullies : Democratic Responsiveness and Leadership in Delhi's Slums

Jha, Saumitra; Rao, Vijayendra; Woolcock, Michael - 2013

We use detailed ethnographic evidence to design and interpret a broad representative survey of 800 households in Delhi's slums, examining the processes by which residents gain access to formal government and develop their own, informal, modes of leadership. While ethnically homogeneous slums...

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Can Regulation Promote Financial Inclusion?

Chen, Ron - 2019

Despite the commitments of the development community toward broader access to finance, financial inclusion rates worldwide are rather unsatisfactory. To date, around two billion adults do not have access to basic financial services such as savings and checking accounts. Attempting to bridge such...

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Interest Rate Caps : The Theory and the Practice

Ferrari, Aurora - 2018

Ceilings on lending rates remain a widely used policy tool that is intended to lower the overall cost of credit or protect consumers from exorbitant rates. Interest rate caps come in many forms and scopes and, according to their rationale, ceilings can affect a small segment or the overall...

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Reflections of Employers'Gender Preferences in Job Ads in India : An Analysis of Online Job Portal Data

Chowdhury, Afra Rahman - 2018

Using online job portal data and probabilistic regression estimations, the paper investigates the explicit gender bias and salary gap in the Indian job market, reflected in more than 800,000 job recruitment advertisements. Exploring formal and informal sector occupations, the study finds high...

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Asymmetric Information on Noncognitive Skills in the Indian Labor Market : An Experiment in Online Job Portal

Yamauchi, Futoshi - 2018

control trial implemented in an online job portal in India. Job seekers who registered in the portal were asked to take a Big …

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Safety Nets and Natural Disaster Mitigation : Evidence from Cyclone Phailin in Odisha

Christian, Paul - 2018

India and the staggered rollout of a rural livelihoods intervention. Comparisons from household surveys across communities …

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