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  • Political strongholds and budget allocation for developmental expenditure: Evidence from Indian states, 1971-2005 
    Kaushik, Arun; Pal, Rupayan (2014-06-06)
    This paper examines the effects of political factors on allocation of revenue budget for developmental expenditure by the sub-national governments, using data from 15 major states in India during the period 1971-2005. ...
  • Small farmers in India: Challenges and opportunities 
    Mahendra Dev, S (2014-05-20)
    This paper examines the roles and challenges of small holding agriculture in India. It covers trends in agricultural growth, cultivation patterns, participation of small holding agriculture, productivity performance of ...
  • Income related inequality in financial inclusion and role of banks: Evidence on financial exclusion in India 
    Pal, Rama; Pal, Rupayan (2014-03-05)
    This paper analyzes income related inequality in financial inclusion in India using a representative household level survey data, linked to State-level factors. It shows that (a) the extent of financial exclusion is quite ...
  • What should regulation do in the field of micro-finance? 
    Sane, Renuka; Thomas, Susan (2012-06-06)
    Recent events in India have brought a fresh focus on the appropriate regulatory stance towards micro-finance. In this paper, we review facts and recent experience about Indian microfinance. We analyse the puzzles of ...
  • Measuring and explaining the asymmetry of liquidity 
    Tayal, Rajat; Thomas, Susan (2012-06-06)
    This paper examines transactions costs in buying versus selling using a large database of snapshots of the limit order book. On the equity spot market, there is clear evidence of asymmetry in liquidity: transactions ...
  • Do changes in distance-to-default anticipate changes in the credit rating? 
    Aggarwal, Nidhi; Singh, Manish; Thomas, Susan (2012-06-06)
    Distance-to-default (DtD) from the Merton model has been used in the credit risk literature, most successfully as an input into reduced form models for forecasting default. In this paper, we suggest that the change in ...
  • A Corporate governance index for large listed companies in India 
    Sarkar, Jayati; Sarkar, Subrata; Sen, Kaustav (2012-06-06)
    We construct a Corporate Governance Index for 500 large listed Indian firms for the period from 2003 to 2008 in this paper. The index construction uses information on four important corporate governance mechanisms: the ...
  • How much should you own? Cross-ownership and privatization 
    Pal, Rupayan (2012-06-06)
    This paper investigates the effects of cross-ownership on optimal privatization, and vice-versa, in mixed duopoly. It shows that cross-ownership is profitable to the private firm only if the level of privatization of the ...
  • Services-led growth, employment and job quality: A Study of manufacturing and service-sector in urban India 
    Ramaswamy, K.V; Agrawal, Tushar (2012-06-06)
    This is a study of employment growth, structure, and job quality outcomes in manufacturing and service-sector in urban India spanning the period 1999-2000 to 2009-10. The context is that of dynamic growth of service-sector ...
  • Agriculture-nutrition linkages and policies in India 
    Mahendra Dev, S (2012-06-06)
    This paper looks at some key entry points for agriculture to influence nutrition and suggests policies for nutrition-sensitive agricultural development, within the current policy framework. In addition, it reviews three ...
  • How is financial regulation different for micro-finance? 
    Sahoo, M; Sane, Renuka; Thomas, Susan (2012-06-06)
    What is the role of nancial regulation in the eld of micro- nance? This paper identifies two features of micro- finance which call for unique treatment in policy considerations as compared to policy thinking in the ...
  • Stability and policy rules in emerging markets 
    Goyal, Ashima; Tripathi, Shruti (2012-06-06)
    Stability results for an open economy DSGE adapted to an emerging market (SOEME) with a dualistic structure have the same structure as in the original model, but those derived for the simulated version turn out to impose ...
  • Energy in the development strategy of Indian households- the missing half 
    Reddy, B. Sudhakara; Nathan, Hippu Salk Kristle (2012-06-06)
    There is a growing consensus that universalisation of modern energy services is central to reducing major elements of poverty and hunger, increasing literacy and education, and improving health care, employment opportunities, ...
  • Technical productivity analysis for cement industry at firm level 
    Ray, Binaykumar; Reddy, B. Sudhakara (2012-06-06)
    This paper analyses the energy use in the manufacture of cement in India during 1992–2005. Cement manufacturing requires large amounts of various energy inputs. The most common types of energy carriers used are coal, ...
  • To bt or not to bt? Risk and uncertainty considerations in technology assessment 
    Gaurav, Sarthak; Mishra, Srijit (2012-06-06)
    The acreage under the transgenic Bt cotton seeds in India has risen significantly since its legalization in the year 2002. Discussions on the advantages from the technology have focused on increments in productivity and ...
  • Polarization, inequality and growth: The Indian experience 
    Motiram, Sripad; Sarma, Nayantara (2012-06-04)
    We analyze polarization in India roughly in the past two and half decades using consumption expenditure data. We show that polarization has increased sharply since the 1990s, reversing the earlier trend. On multidimensional ...
  • Demand or supply for schooling in rural India? 
    Motiram, Sripad; Osberg, Lars (2012-06-04)
    Is the poor human capital investment by rural Indian families primarily a supply side or a demand side issue? We examine school attendance and total human capital investment time (time in school plus travel time plus ...
  • A Regulatory approach to financial product advice and distribution 
    Sahoo, M; Sane, Renuka (2012-06-04)
    Financial distribution, where the distributor is the agent of both the product provider and the customer, has been found to inherently work against the interests of customers, in the form of high service fees and perverse ...
  • Monetary operating procedures: Principles and the Indian process 
    Goyal, Ashima (2012-06-04)
    As markets deepen and interest elasticities increase it is optimal for emerging markets to shift towards an interest rate instrument since continuing monetization of the economy implies money demand shocks are large. In ...
  • Size-class and returns to cultivation in India: A Cold case reopened 
    Gaurav, Sarthak; Mishra, Srijit (2012-06-04)
    This paper investigates the relationship between returns to cultivation per hectare and size-class of land cultivated in India, using unit level data from the 59th round National Sample Survey, 2003. The analysis is done ...

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