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Boundary concepts for interdisciplinary analysis of irrigation water management in South Asia

Mollinga, Peter P. - 2010

, particularly India. The focus is concepts that capture the hybridity of irrigation systems as complex systems, and cross the …

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Does the Quality of Electricity Matter? Evidence from Rural India

Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Pelli, Martino; Ural Marchand, Beyza - 2013

This paper estimates the returns to household income due to improved access to electricity in rural India. We examine …

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Economy Wide Impact of the Trade Integration between Japan and India: A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis

Bhattacharyay, Biswa Nath; Mukhopadhyay, Kakali - 2013

Japan and India signed the much-awaited Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) on 16th February 2011. The …, the study evaluates the economy wide impact of the proposed CEPA between India and Japan at 2020. The study has used a … India and Japan in 2020 after tariff reduction compared to Business as Usual (BAU) scenario. A marginal export growth is …

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Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in India

Azam, Mehtabul - 2013

In this paper, we examine the intergenerational occupational mobility in India among men born during 1945-85. Following …

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Cycling to School: Increasing Secondary School Enrollment for Girls in India

Muralidharan, Karthik; Prakash, Nishith - 2013

We study the impact of an innovative program in the Indian state of Bihar that aimed to reduce the gender gap in secondary school enrollment by providing girls who continued to secondary school with a bicycle that would improve access to school. Using data from a large representative household...

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Do Business Groups Help or Hinder Technological Progress in Emerging Markets? Evidence from India

Bhaumik, Sumon K.; Zhou, Ying - 2014

Business groups, which are ubiquitous in emerging market economies, balance the advantages of characteristics such as internal capital markets with the disadvantages such as inefficient internal distribution of resources and suppression of technological and other forms of innovativeness. In this...

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What Explains the Stagnation of Female Labor Force Participation in Urban India?

Klasen, Stephan; Pieters, Janneke - 2013

We study the surprisingly low level and stagnation of female labor force participation rates in urban India between …

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Path-Breakers: How Does Women's Political Participation Respond to Electoral Success?

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Iyer, Lakshmi - 2013

regression discontinuity afforded by close elections between women and men in India's state elections, we find that a woman … margin in India where a substantial number of incumbents do not contest re-election. There is no significant entry of new …

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Missing Women: Age and Disease: A Correction

Klasen, Stephan; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2013

among children in India, that gender bias in mortality is larger in Sub‐Saharan Africa than in China and India, and that …

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Does Improved Sanitation Reduce Diarrhea in Children in Rural India?

Kumar, Santosh; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2012

for children under five years of age in India. Using Propensity Score Matching (PSM), we fi nd that access to improved …

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