This note examines the data base on finances of central government and attempts to reconcile differences between the basic sources of information available in budget papers and Report on Currency and Finance published by Ministry of Finance and Reserve Bank of India respectively. They present...

Savings and growth are often strongly correlated. Thus, it is important to study the determinants of savings and the direction of causality between savings and growth as these have important implications for development policy. Yet, careful empirical studies on savings behavior are missing for...

The author develops a theory of the choice of contractual arrangements in agriculture by analyzing the incentives, risk-premia, and agency (supervision and shirking) costs under different contracts using the principal-agent framework. The theory is able to explain many tenancy-related issues,...

Savings behaviour is important because of the close relation between savings and growth. Thus this paper presents individual country analysis of the savings behaviour in five main South Asian countries, namely India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal, using modern time series procedures....