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dataset of schools across 1297 villages in India, this paper shows that the large investments over the past decade have led to … teachers. Thus, at current margins, policies that decrease the inefficiency of public spending in India are likely to yield …
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of the Indian economy, capital flows to India have moved in tandem with broad global trends. This paper looks at the … extent to which India?s monetary policy has been affected by the ebbs and flows of the capital it receives. For ease of …
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India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991. The study finds a downward trend in …
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India has pursued an active food security policy for many years, using a combination of trade policy interventions …
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This paper examines poor households in the city of Mumbai and their exposure, vulnerability, and ability to respond to recurrent floods. The paper discusses policy implications for future adaptive capacity, resilience, and poverty alleviation. The study focuses particularly on the poor...
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Policy makers in developing countries, including India, are increasingly sensitive to the links between spatial … of granularity. This methodology is applied to India, where individual household survey records are mapped to ?places … spatial productivity patterns across India. The paper shows that there is a gradation of spatial performance across places …
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The Delhi Metro (DM) is a mass rapid transit system serving the National Capital Region of India. It is also the world …
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This paper documents the changing structure of wages in India over the post-reform era, the roughly two-decade period … Indian state. While real wages have risen across India over the past two decades, the increase has been greater in rural …
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In democracies, innovative political institutions have opened up scope for direct public participation often in the form of talk: citizens talking to the state and mutual talk among citizens on matters concerning community development. A prominent example is the Indian gram sabha, or village...
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This paper uses a large scale field experiment in India to study attitudinal, behavioral, and cognitive constraints …
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