We examine how the source of foreign aid affects the composition of the recipient government's spending. Does the source of aid -- bilateral or miltilateral -- influence ricipient policy-makers' choice between development and nondevelopment expenditure? We depart from previous literature by...

The main purpose of this paper is to look at the incorporation of gender and the informal sector within a general equilibrium framework for India. Moreover, we clarify some important links between a gender aware informal sector based social accounting matrix (SAM) and general equilibrium models...

We examine how the source of foreign aid affects the composition of the recipient government's spending. Does the source of aid - bilateral or miltilateral - influence ricipient policy-makers' choice between development and nondevelopment expenditure? We depart from previous literature by...

We examine how the source of foreign aid affects the composition of the recipient government's spending. Does the source of aid - bilateral or multilateral - influence recipient policy-makers' choice between development and nondevelopment expenditure? We depart from previous literature by...

After 1991 economic reforms, India relaxed investment regulation norms, allowing states to form their own investment policy frameworks. Withdrawal of controls exercised by the central government to approve investments in Special Economic Zones (SEZs) and Export Oriented Units (EOUs) has...