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  • 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 ...
  • Relative prices, the price level and inflation: Effects of asymmetric and sticky adjustment 
    Tripathi, Shruti; Goyal, Ashima (2012-06-04)
    The paper examines how relative price shocks can affect the price level and then inflation. Using Indian data we find: (i) price increases exceed price decreases. Aggregate inflation depends on the distribution of relative ...
  • An Economic policy and legal analysis of the micro finance institutions (development & regulation) bill, 2011 
    Roy, Shubho; Sane, Renuka; Thomas, Susan (2012-06-04)
    In response to the Second Micro Finance Crisis in Andhra Pradesh, which took place in October 2010, the Ministry of Finance has pro- posed a new Micro Finance Institutions (Development & Regulation) Bill. This paper ...
  • Political competition and leadership in tax competition 
    Pal, Rupayan; Sharma, Ajay (2012-06-04)
    In this paper, we introduce political competition in a sequential move tax competition game between two regions for foreign owned mobile capital. It shows that in case of sequential move, political delegation takes place ...
  • Food, hunger and ethics 
    Mishra, Srijit (2012-06-04)
    Management of hunger has to look into issues of availability, accessibility and adequacy. Posing it from an ethical perspective the paper argues out in favour of right to food. But, for this to happen, the state has to ...
  • Urban transport sustainability indicators – Application of multi-view black-box (MVBB) framework 
    Nathan, Hippu Salk Kristle; Reddy, B. Sudhakara (2012-06-04)
    In a recent work Nathan and Reddy (2011a) have proposed a Multi-view Black-box (MVBB) framework for development of sustainable development indicators (SDIs) for an urban setup. The framework is flexible to be applied to ...
  • Competition for foreign capital: Endogenous objective, public investment and tax 
    Pal, Rupayan; Sharma, Ajay (2012-06-04)
    In this paper we endogenize the objective functions of the regions as well as their decision to provide public investment in a model of competition for foreign owned mobile capital. We demonstrate that the competing ...
  • Cross-LoC trade in Kashmir: From line of control to line of commerce 
    Kira, Altaf Hussain (2012-06-04)
    The initiation of Cross-Line of Control (LoC) trade across Jammu and Kashmir in October 2008 signaled the beginning of a new era. It was 61 years ago in 1947 that trade across line of control had stopped. The initiative ...
  • Estimates of workers commuting from rural to urban and urban to rural India: A Note 
    Chandrasekhar, S (2012-06-04)
    We provide estimates of workers residing in rural (urban) India and commuting to urban (rural) areas for work. The estimates are based on National Sample Survey Organisation’s survey of Employment and Unemployment ...
  • History of monetary policy in India since independence 
    Goyal, Ashima (2012-06-04)
    An SIIO paradigm, based on structure and ideas that become engraved in institutions and affect outcomes, is developed to examine and assesses monetary policy in India after independence. Narrative history, data analysis, ...

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