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Caste, Ethnicity and Poverty in Rural India

Sen, Kunal; Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

This paper analyzes the determinants of rural poverty in India, contrasting the situation of the Scheduled Caste (SC) and Schedule Tribe (ST) households with the non-scheduled population. The incidence of poverty among SC and ST households is significantly higher than non-scheduled households....

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Competitive Pressures From Trade Exposure: Evidence from Indian Manufacturing

Sen, Kunal; Chand, S. - In: Indian Economic Review 34 (1999) July, pp. 113-126

Does exposure to international trade have a pro-competitive effect on domestic pricing? This paper attends to this question in two stages: first, by developing a simple methodology to test the above proposition by linking domestic pricing behaviour to external competition via a simple mark-up...

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Was the Mandal Commission Right? Living Standard Differences between Backward Classes and Other Social Groups in India

Gang, Ira N.; Sen, Kunal; Yun, Myeong-Su - Centre for Economic Development and Institutions … - 2008

Affirmative action has been at the heart of public policies towards the socially disadvantaged in India. Compensatory discrimination policies which have been adopted for the Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) since independence were recommended for Other Backward Classes (OBC) by...

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Poverty in Rural India: Ethnicity and Caste

Gang, Ira N.; Sen, Kunal; Yun, Myeong-Su - Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick - 2006

This paper analyzes the determinants of rural poverty in India, contrasting the situation of scheduled caste (SC) and scheduled tribe (ST) households with the non-scheduled population. The incidence of poverty in SC and ST households is much higher than among non-scheduled households. By...

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Was the Mandal Commission Right? Living Standard Differences between Backward Classes and Other Social Groups in India

Gang, Ira N.; Sen, Kunal; Yun, Myeong-Su - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763708

Processed Food Exports from Developing Countries: Patterns and Determinants

Athukorala, Prema-Chandra; Sen, Kunal - Australian National University, Department of Economics - 1996

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Reforms and Investment in India

Athukorala, Prema-Chandra; Sen, Kunal - Australian National University, Department of Economics - 1996

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Trade Liberalization and Productivity Growth: Evidence from Indian Manufacturing

Chand, Satish; Sen, Kunal - Australian National University, Department of Economics - 1996

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Caste, Ethnicity and Poverty in Rural India

Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su; Sen, Kunal - Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick - 2002

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International Trade and Manufacturing Employment: Is India following the Footsteps of Asia or Africa?

Sen, Kunal - In: Review of Development Economics 13 (2009) 4, pp. 765-777

The Indian manufacturing sector has rapidly increased its integration with the world economy since the 1991 trade reforms. We examine whether trade integration created or destroyed jobs in the Indian manufacturing sector, and compare India's employment outcomes with four other...

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