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Foreign Aid and Fiscal Behavior in a Bounded Rathionality Model: Different Policy Regimes

Gang, Ira N.; Khan, Haider Ali - Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick - 1998

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...

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Breakout from Bollywood? Internationalization of Indian Film Industry

Lorenzen, Mark; Taeube, Florian Arun - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2007

In the context of an emerging economy, the paper analyzes indigenous growth and internationalization. Using novel and original data, the paper studies the Indian film cluster in Mumbai, Bollywood. It argues that as the world’s biggest commercial film cluster and a conspicuous growth phenomenon...

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Analyses and evaluation of irregularities in public procurement in India

Tabish, S. Z. S.; Jha, Kumar Neeraj - In: Construction Management and Economics 29 (2011) 3, pp. 261-274

Public procurement is prone to corruption, which in the global construction market alone accounts for an estimated US$340 billion per year. There is a growing need for procurement systems to be able to fight corruption and improve the effectiveness, efficiency, fairness and transparency of...

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Recasting Economic Inequality

Deshpande, Ashwini - In: Review of Social Economy 58 (2000) 3, pp. 381-399

Arguing that it is necessary to refine the study of Indian inequality by studying patterns of inter group disparity, this essay highlights the salience of caste for this purpose. Outlining the imperatives of an economic enquiry into contemporary caste inequality, the essay critically reviews the...

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James Mill and the Theory of Economic Policy in India

Barber, William J. - In: History of Political Economy 1 (1969) 1, pp. 85-100

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The relationship between public education expenditure and economic growth: The case of India

Dastidar, Sayantan Ghosh; Mohan, Sushil; Chatterji, Monojit - Department of Economics Studies, University of Dundee - 2012

The paper reviews the theoretical and the empirical case for public investment in education in India. Though the … aforesaid factors, we argue that the empirical relation between education expenditure and growth for India has been inconsistent. …

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What determines the export performance? A comparative analysis of China and India in the European Union

Coutinho, Ana Luísa; Fontoura, Maria Paula - ISEG - School of Economics and Management, Department … - 2012

This paper aims to assess the competitiveness of exports of manufactured goods from China and India to the European … of trade which allows to identify the products of China and India that appear to have export potential. …

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Impact Evaluation of Traditional Basmati Rice Cultivation in Uttarakhand State of Northern India: What Implications Does It Hold for Geographical Indications?

Jena, Pradyot R.; Grote, Ulrike - In: World Development 40 (2012) 9, pp. 1895-1907

This paper contributes to the impact evaluation of GIs by carrying out a case study of Basmati rice in India. Although … Basmati and nonBasmati rice farmers in Uttarakhand, one of the Northern states1India, officially Republic of India is a …-governing states or regions united by a central (federal) government. In India, this self-governing status of the component states is …

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Fiscal Decentralization and Development Outcomes in India: An Exploratory Analysis

Kalirajan, Kaliappa; Otsuka, Keijiro - In: World Development 40 (2012) 8, pp. 1511-1521

This paper attempts to quantify the impact of fiscal decentralization in India on its social infrastructure and on … rural development. Overall, the results in this paper indicate that Government of India within a federal framework has been …

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Does ownership concentration improve M&A outcomes in emerging markets?

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Selarka, Ekta - In: Journal of Corporate Finance 18 (2012) 4, pp. 717-726

Using firm level data from India, we examine the impact of ownership concentration on post-M&A performance of firms …

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