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  • Counting the poor: Measurement and other issues 
    Rangarajan, C; Mahendra Dev, S (2014-12)
    In June 2012, the Government of India appointed an Expert Group (C. Rangarajan as Chairman) to take a fresh look at the methodology for the measurement of poverty. The Committee submitted its report towards the end of June ...
  • Student politics: A Game-theoretic exploration 
    Munshi, Soumyanetra (2014-11)
    Students in institutes of higher education often engage in campus-politics. Typically there are student-parties who electorally compete with each other to gain control of the union which is usually the apex student body ...
  • External shocks 
    Goyal, Ashima (2014-11)
    After the global financial crisis, India was exposed to many external shocks from commodity prices and foreign capital flows. Although capital flow fluctuations were largely due to global risk-on risk-off factors, a widening ...
  • Measures, spatial profile and determinants of dietary diversity: Evidence from India 
    Das, Mousumi (2014-11)
    Food security policies in developing countries generally focus on calorie intake, which is not sufficient to tackle the triple burden of malnutrition: undernourishment, micronutrient deficiencies and over-nutrition. ...
  • Neighborhood and agricultural clusters across states of India 
    Chatterjee, Tirtha; Ganesh Kumar, A (2014-10)
    In this study we trace how number and members of income clusters have changed in Indian agriculture over the last four and a half decades. Two features which stand out in our results are that not all geographical neighbors ...
  • India's energy system transition-survival of the greenest 
    Reddy, B. Sudhakara (2014-10)
    The transition to a clean and green energy system is an economic and social transformation that is exciting as well as challenging. The world today faces a formidable challenge in transforming its economy from being driven ...
  • MGNREGA works and their impacts: A Rapid assessment in Maharashtra 
    Narayanan, Sudha; Ranaware, Krushna; Das, Upasak; Kulkarni, Ashwini (2014-10)
    This paper presents the results of a survey of over 4100 works created under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) and over 4800 randomly selected users across 100 villages in 20 districts ...
  • Creating youth employment in Asia 
    Mahendra Dev, S (2014-10)
    Several countries in the Asia-Pacific region are experiencing demographic changes. Over 60 per cent of the world's youth live in Asia and the Pacific, which translates into more than 750 million young women and men aged ...
  • Strategic trade policy for network goods oligopolies 
    Ghosh, Anomita; Pal, Rupayan (2014-09)
    We analyze strategic trade policy for differentiated network goods oligopolies under alternative scenarios, when there is export-rivalry between two countries. We show that, under price competition without managerial ...
  • The Cult of statistical significance - A Review 
    Motiram, Sripad (2014-09)
    I present a review and extended discussion of The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice and Lives by Deirdre McCloskey and Stephen Ziliak, a work that raises important issues related ...
  • Estimating workers' bargaining power and firms' Markup in India: Implications of reforms and labour regulations 
    Pal, Rupayan; Rathore, Udayan (2014-09)
    We examine implications of industrial deregulations, trade liberalisation and labour regulations on workers' bargaining power and firms' markup in Indian manufacturing industries, using state-wise three-digit industry-level ...
  • Linkages between parental education, utilization of health care facilities and health status of children: Evidence from India 
    Bhakta, Runu; Ganesh Kumar, A (2014-09)
    In this paper we identify the multiple channels by which parental education affects child health status. These can be summarised as follows: (a) parental education directly improves child health status; (b) amongst all ...
  • Spatial convergence and growth in Indian agriculture: 1967-2010 
    Chaterjee, Tirtha (2014-09)
    Inter-state diversity has been a perennial feature of Indian agriculture. The study probes if per capita income in Indian agriculture has converged across states in the last four and a half decades. It finds strong evidence ...
  • Does autonomy matter in state owned enterprises? Evidence from performance contracts in India 
    Gunasekar, Sangeetha; Sarkar, Jayati (2014-08)
    The empirical effect of enterprise autonomy on the performance of state-owned enterprises is surprisingly scant despite autonomy being a preferred reform instrument in many countries, and often chosen over privatization. ...
  • Local skill concentrations and district employment growth: A Spatial simultaneous equation approach for India 
    Balasubramanian, Ishwarya (2014-08)
    The focus of this paper is to explore the role of spatial distribution of skills in explaining differential growth rates of employment across Indian districts between the years 2001 and 2011 by using data from Census of ...
  • Why tax effort falls short of capacity in Indian States: A Stochastic frontier approach 
    Garg, Sandhya; Goyal, Ashima; Pal, Rupayan (2014-08)
    Taxation is an important tool to enhance the economic development and to finance the expenditure responsibilities of a government. This paper attempts to measure the tax capacity and tax effort of 14 major Indian states ...
  • The Imprecision of volatility indexes 
    Grover, Rohini; Shah, Ajay (2014-08)
    Concerns about sampling noise arise when a VIX estimator is computed by aggregating several imprecise implied volatility estimates. We propose a bootstrap strategy to measure the imprecision of a model based VIX estimator. ...
  • The Political economy of MGNREGS spending in Andhra Pradesh 
    Sheahan, Megan; Liu, Yanyan; Barrett, Christopher B; Narayanan, Sudha (2014-07)
    Are ostensibly demand-driven public programs less susceptible to political clientelism even when private goods are allocated? We investigate this conjecture using expenditure data at the local level from India's National ...
  • Corporate debt market in India: Lessons from the South African experience 
    Sengupta, Rajeswari; Anand, Vaibhav (2014-07)
    Development of long-term debt markets is critical for the mobilization of the huge magnitude of funding required to finance potential businesses as well as infrastructure expansion. India has been distinctly lagging behind ...
  • Budget 2014: Marginal realignment of tactics to strategy 
    Goyal, Ashima (2014-07)
    The paper examines the restructuring of expenditure in the first budget of the new government, and its feasibility. It compares the increase in budget allocations for key macroeconomic aggregates and sectoral plan outlays ...