Financing of corporate growth has generally not been paid much attention in the development economics literature. Recent analysis of the Emerging Markets Data Base of the International Financial Corporation suggests that corporate financing patterns in India, among a select group of other...

This paper presents an analysis of gender patterns in intrahousehold allocation of resources based on household-level consumption data. Invoking the assumption that households seek to equalize the marginal utility of wealth when they allocate resources over the life-cycle, the paper provides a...

This paper presents an analysis of gender effects in intra-household allocation of resources among children over the life-cycle in India. We present a simple three-period model that considers two possible motives for differential allocation of resources: parental preferences (in favour of male...

This paper presents a model of the determinants of urban to rural remittances in developing countries. While the literature on economic development is very rich in explaining migration behaviour, there is no formal theory of how remittances are determined. The framework here is similar to one in...