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Inside Tarini Bhavan: Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain's padmarag and the richness of South Asian feminism for furthering gender-just, unsectarian human development

Bagchi, B (2012-05-23)
Carrying over: Analysing female Utopias and narratives of education from 17th-century France to 18th-century Britain and 20th-Century India

Bagchi, B (2012-05-23)
Incidence and performance effects of interlocking directorates in emerging market business groups: Evidence from India

De, Bikram (2012-05-23)

The phenomenon of interlocking directorates is widespread among corporate across the world. This paper studies the structure and extent of interlocking directorates within Indian business groups and analyses the performance ...
Understanding fundamentalist belief through Bayesian updating

Mishra, S (2012-05-23)

Using Bayesian updating to deterministic priors persistence of fundamentalist belief like those in the mind of a terrorist is explained. Under such belief system if conditional evidence is diametrically opposite and also ...
Price elasticity estimates for tobacco and other addictive goods in India

John, Rijo M (2012-05-24)

The tax base of tobacco in India is found to be heavily depended on about fteen per cent of the tobacco users who represent cigarettes smokers. Non-cigarette tobacco products used by the majority of tobacco users are ...
Multiple board appointments and firm performance in emerging economies: Evidence from India

Sarkar, Jayati; Sarkar, Subrata (2012-05-24)

The relation between multiple directorships, busy directors and firm performance has been researched predominantly in the context of developed economies, notably the US. This paper extends the existing literature on ...
Incentives from exchange rate regimes in an institutional context

Goyal, Ashima (2012-05-24)

In a simple open EME macromodel, calibrated to the typical institutions and shocks of a densely populated emerging market economy, a monetary stimulus preceding a temporary supply shock can lower interest rates, raise ...
Effects of trade liberalisation, environmental and labour regulations on employment in India's organised textile sector

Badri Narayan, G (2012-05-24)

In recent years, employment has fallen in the organised textile sector despite an aggregate rise in output and capital. This paper analyses the role of various factors that in uence employment using 3- digit classi ...
Social group disparities and poverty in India

Mutatkar, Rohit (2012-05-24)

This paper seeks to provide a profile of social group disparities and poverty in India, where social groups are classified as scheduled caste, scheduled tribe and other social groups, and examine the factors underlying ...
Debt and corporate governance in emerging economies:Evidence from India

Sarkar, Jayati; Sarkar, Subrata (2012-05-24)

We analyze the role of debt in corporate governance with respect to a large emerging economy, India, where debt has been an important source of external finance. First, we examine the extent to which debt acts as a ...
Diversification, propping and monitoring: Business groups,firm performance and the Indian economic transition

Kali, Raja; Sarkar, Jayati (2012-05-24)

The industrial landscape of many emerging economies is characterized by diversified business groups. Given the well-known costs of diversification, their prevalence in emerging economies is a puzzle that has not been ...
Growth and poverty in Maharashtra

Mishra, Srijit; Panda, Manoj (2012-05-24)

Maharashtra is among the richest states in India in terms of per capita income, yet incidence of poverty in the state remains close to the national average. The state’s economy grew at a faster rate than the all-India ...
Interest groups and patent reform in India

Ramanna, A (2012-05-24)

India’s patent reforms represent a shift in India’s policy from one of enormous opposition to revising patent laws according to the WTO, to one of compliance with many aspects of TRIPs (Trade Related Intellectual Property ...
Corruption, default and optimal credit in welfare programs

Saha, Bibhas; Thampy, T (2012-05-24)

In this paper we present a dynamic model of subsidized credit provision to examine how asymmetric information exacerbates ine ciency caused by corruption. Though designed to empower the underprivileged, the fate of such ...
Cheery children, growing girls, and developing young adults: on reading, growing, and hopscotching across categories

Bagchi, Barnita (2012-05-24)
Crowding-out effect of tobacco expenditure and its implications on intra-household resource allocation

John, Rijo M (2012-05-24)

The aim of this paper is to examine if tobacco consumption crowds-out consumption of basic needs and whether it has implications for nutrition intake and intra-household resource allocation in developing countries. In ...
An Analysis of household's tobacco consumption decisions: Evidence from India

John, Rijo M (2012-05-24)

Tobacco products such as bidi and cigarette, both of which are smoked, cater to di erent kinds of households in India, and analyzing them separately may yield results that are useful for public policy. Hence, we analyze ...
Macroeconomic effects of public investment in infrastructure in India

Murty, K.N; Soumya, A (2012-05-25)

This paper attempts to build an aggregative, structural, macroeconometric model for India. Investment and output in the model are disaggregated into four sectors, viz., (a) agriculture including forestry & fishing, (b) ...
CO2 Emissions reduction strategies and economic development of India

Murthy, N. Satyanarayana; Panda, Manoj; Parikh, Kirit (2012-05-25)

This paper examines the consequences of alternative CO2 emission reduction strategies on economic development and, in particular, the implications for the poor by empirically implementing an economy-wide model for India ...
On measuring group-differentials displayed by socio-economic indicators:An extension

Mishra, Srijit (2012-05-25)

In a recent paper, Mishra and Subramanian (2006) propose a measure to explain group-differential which is sensitive to levels in the sense that a given hiatus at lower levels of failure (or higher levels of attainment) is ...

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