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Structure of Financial Savings During Indian Economic Reforms
Jha, Raghbendra; Longjam, Ibotombi - In: Empirical Economics 31 (2006) 4, pp. 861-869
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Obesity, Affluence and Urbanisation in India
Gaiha, Raghav; Jha, Raghbendra; Kulkarni, Vani S. - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2010
Based on data collected from a representative national sample, India Human Development Survey 2005, this paper …
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The Difficulties of the Chinese and Indian Exchange Rate Regimes
Shah, Ajay; Patnaik, Ila - eSocialSciences - 2009
China and India have both attempted distorting the exchange rate in order to foster exports-led growth. This is … real terms) in both India and China are also examined. [NIPFP WP No 2009-62]. …
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Targeting Accuracy of the NREG: Evidence from Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra
Gaiha, Raghav; Shankar, Shylashri; Jha, Raghbendra - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2010
household data collected from three India states, Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra. In all three states, the poor …
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Asia Confronts the Impossible Trinity
Shah, Ajay; Patnaik, Ila - eSocialSciences - 2010
Capital account openness and exchange rate flexibility in 11 Asian countries are examined. Asia has made slow progress on de jure capital account openness, but has made much more progress on de facto capital account openness. While there is a slow pace of increase in exchange rate flexibility,...
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Timing of Capture of Anti-poverty Programs: Rural Public Works and Food for Work Programs in Rural India
Jha, Raghbendra; Bhattacharyya, Sambit; Gaiha, Raghav - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2009
Using National Sample Survey data for rural India we examine the incidence of capture in two workfare programs in rural … India: the Rural Public Works and the Food for Work Programs for 1993-94 and 2004-05 respectively. We discover a high degree …
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Social Safety Nets and Nutrient Deprivation: An Analysis of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Program and the Public Distribution System in India
Jha, Raghbendra; Bhattacharyya, Sambit; Gaiha, Raghav - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2010
Using primary data collected during 2007-08 we examine the nutritional status with respect to the two macronutrients (calories and protein) as well as various micronutrients of rural households in three Indian states: Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Rajasthan. We find that, by and large, there...
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Graduating to Globalisation: A Study of Southern Multinationals
Shah, Ajay; Patnaik, Ila; Demirbas, Dilek - eSocialSciences - 2010
probit models, examining two key hypotheses using firm level panel data from India. First, it is tested whether there are …
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The Puzzle of Muslim Advantage in Child Survival in India
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Valente, Christine; van Soest, Arthur - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
The socio-economic status of Indian Muslims is, on average, considerably lower than that of upper caste Hindus. Muslims have higher fertility and shorter birth spacing and are a minority group that, it has been argued, have poorer access to public goods. They nevertheless exhibit substantially...
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Inflation targeting in India: issues and prospects
Jha, Raghbendra - In: International Review of Applied Economics 22 (2008) 2, pp. 259-270
This paper evaluates the case for inflation targeting (IT) in India. It states the objectives of monetary policy in … India and argues that, with widespread poverty still present, inflation control cannot be an exclusive concern of monetary … India's experience with using nominal targets for monetary policy and why India is not ready for IT. Further, even if India …
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