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Recent years have seen an increasing interest in using public-works programs as anti-poverty measures in developing countries. This paper analyzes the rural labor market impacts of the Indian National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, one of the most ambitious programs of its kind, by using a...
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This paper is one of the first comprehensive attempts to compare earnings in urban China and India over the recent …
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Rural elderly have 40% of the income of those in urban areas, spend a larger share of their income on food, are in worse health, work later into their lives, and depend more on their children, lacking pensions and public services. The birth quota since 1980 has particularly restricted the...
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"This paper evaluates the impact of some key factor market reforms on ruralurban inequality and income distribution, using a household-disaggregated, recursive dynamic computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of People's Republic of China. It also explores how these factor market reforms...
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We study the impact of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on children's educational outcomes …
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-15 years of age using two cohorts of children drawn from the Young Lives Survey for India. The inputs into the production …
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The international community has committed itself to adopt a global climate agreement in Paris in 2015, which shall enter into force in 2020 and shall be legally-binding for all. In advance of the negotiations, parties shall submit the so-called Intended Nationally Determined Contributions...
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This paper analyses the integration of China and India into the global economy. To this end, it presents estimates from … China’s trade intensity is higher than fundamentals would suggest, whereas the converse is true for India. Second, Chinese …, China’s exports of services tend to complement its exports of goods, while India’s exports are growing only in deregulated …
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(China) and India - in trade, investments and infrastructure development can foster outward-oriented development and economic … economic integration between China and India involving common neighbouring countries could be increasing. This paper discusses … the above subject in the context of possible areas of China - India economic cooperation and integration in the Eastern …
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