The 3rd Urban Economy Forum is one of the world’s most premier urban gatherings on sustainable urban economies and urban management. The collaborative approach for collective action taken by the organ...
by | On 07 Jan 2022 The issue of government intervention in the education sector is an integral element of considerations of human capital, which itself is a precursor to societal economic growth. On the one hand, it has...
by Markandeya Karthik | On 05 Dec 2021 This Summary for Policymakers (SPM) presents key findings of the Working Group I (WGI) contribution to the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report (AR6)1 on the physical science basis of climate change. The re...
by | On 16 Nov 2021 The Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement,
Emphasizing the importance of multilateralism in tackling climate change and the crucial role of internatio...
by Anonymous | On 16 Nov 2021 From scientific upheavals in the Early Modern to world wars in the twentieth century, Humanities has responded to the crisis and also reinvented itself in terms of methodologies and fields of inquiry....
by Pramod K. Nayar | On 15 Nov 2021 Ambitious actions taken to reduce urban emissions and increase
resilience can enhance cities’ quality of life and social equity in far-reaching ways.4
However, building just cities in an era of clim...
by | On 09 Nov 2021 Prakriti Karyashala, launched in 2012 through the Foundation for Ecological Security (FES), to respond to the rising needs of rural communities to respond to ecological change. It trains a cadre of f...
by Anjali P Iyer | On 20 Nov 2020 The basic story of global inequality in the last three decades has been an overall decline, but one which is composed of quite intricate patterns. There has been a decline in between country inequalit...
by Ravi Kanbur | On 08 Jun 2020 You could run a sensible subsidy and price support system at a fraction of today's cost, and still have enough money left over to offer a more generous income support to all farmers.
by T.N. Ninan | On 02 Jun 2020 This study assesses the impact of nation-wide lockdown in slowing down the spread
of the COVID-19 at the national and state level. An attempt has also been made to examine the
important state-level...
by Rishabh Tyagi | On 27 May 2020 The chapter examines progress as well as continuing concerns in G-20 led financial reforms, with particular emphasis on emerging markets (EMs). Although risks remain they are of a lower order of magni...
by Ashima Goyal | On 25 Apr 2019 This paper identifies five factors that can capture 95% of the variance across 39 US dollar exchange rates based on the principal component method. A time-varying parameter factor-augmented vector aut...
by Hongyi Chen | On 01 Apr 2019 The paper provides a narrative of Sri Lanka’s history of twin deficits, examines macroeconomic performance from the lens of twin deficits, and discusses the policies adopted to address macroeconomic i...
by Dushni Weerakoon | On 28 Mar 2019 Over the coming decades, competition and conflict over land is likely to intensify with the growing pressures of climate change, population growth, increased food insecurity, migration and urbanizatio...
by Secretary-General United Nations | On 21 Mar 2019 This paper introduces a taxonomy of service activities in GVCs and describes the main statistical challenges in assessing the contribution of manufacturing and services to output, value added, or trad...
by Sébastien Miroudot | On 07 Mar 2019 The employment structure of India’s organised manufacturing sector has undergone substantial changes over the last decade with a steep rise in the use of contract workers in place of directly hired wo...
by Radhicka Kapoor | On 03 Feb 2019 This paper tries to understand the trends and the pattern of Outward Foreign Direct Investment (OFDI) by Indian firms and the factors that determine OFDI from India through Cross-Border Mergers and Ac...
by P.L. Beena | On 31 Jan 2019 This paper analyzes the conditions under which an existing bilateral free trade area (FTA) prefers to expand in size and when it prefers consolidation through customs union (CU) formation when the exi...
by Sunandan Ghosh | On 31 Jan 2019 In 2017, global investment in renewables and energy efficiency declined by 3% and there is a risk that it will slow further; clearly fossil fuels still dominate energy investment. This could threaten...
by Jeffrey D. Sachs | On 28 Jan 2019 Intergovernmental fiscal transfers (IGFT) are, in theory, neither good nor bad for tackling gender inequalities. Fiscal federalism with asymmetry in revenue and expenditure assignments inevitably lead...
by Janet G. Stotsky | On 14 Jan 2019 This paper shows that industrialization of developing countries, defined as start of production of investment goods, happens when their share in global production exceeds the global demand for consump...
by Tadateru Hayashi | On 02 Jan 2019 This paper provides 10 conclusions on the policies needed to achieve three goals of agricultural development in India. These are : (1) There is a need for change in the narrative in the new context; (...
by S. Mahendra Dev | On 26 Dec 2018 Basmati rice is Pakistan’s celebrated export. After years of growth, Pakistan’s production and export of basmati has slipped and is on a downward trend. The absence of a strong research and developmen...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 13 Dec 2018 The current global warming trends are extremely likely to be the result of human social and economic activity since the middle of the 20th century (NASA 2018). Evidence of rapid climate change varies...
by Kunmin Kim | On 21 Nov 2018 This paper contributes to the literature in two ways: First, it delineates a concrete application of DLTs in the field of green financing, which offers the potential to increase social welfare. Second...
by Naoyuki Yoshino | On 20 Nov 2018 This paper develops an environmental dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (E-DSGE) model with heterogeneous production sectors. In particular, the model comprises some low-carbon emission firms that...
by Maria Teresa Punzi | On 19 Oct 2018 Lack of access to reliable information on environmental exposure limits opportunities for risk avoiding behavior, particularly in developing countries. Private markets could potentially play a role in...
by Ricardo Maertens | On 04 Oct 2018 The paper highlights the importance of the design of the fiscal features of the federal system of government in ensuring that the potential benefits from its adoption are realized. The economic litera...
by Rosario G. Manasan | On 03 Oct 2018 The study examines the survivability of Philippines MSMEs' exports to select countries. The analysis is based on the survival analysis model of Besedeš and Prusa (2006a; 2006b) and Besedeš and Prusa (...
by Mark Edison Bautista | On 20 Sep 2018 The aim of this paper is of course not to answer that immemorial question, but instead to analyze the production and circulation of arguments seeking to justify di§erent courses of action on the basis...
by Roland Benabou | On 17 Sep 2018 Aging can be harmful to an economy over the long run, as an increase in the share of the elderly population reduces both the labor force and output per adult, and increases the social security burden....
by Hiroko Uchimura-Shiroshi | On 10 Sep 2018 Innovation is recognized as an important driver of productivity, sustained economic growth, and development. It is also a key to finding enduring solutions to socioeconomic and environmental challenge...
by Jose Ramon G. Albert | On 04 Sep 2018 The strength of contract enforcement determines how firms source inputs and organize production. Using microdata on Indian manufacturing plants, it shows that production and sourcing decisions appear...
by Johannes Boehm | On 03 Sep 2018 The paper presents a granular understanding of the associated challenges of mobilizing such finances, drawing from the Indian perspective. It contributes to the present understanding by identifying th...
by Gopal K. Sarangi | On 24 Aug 2018 Asia is a hot spot for emerging and reemerging infectious diseases, including those with pandemic potential. At the same time, the region is grappling with growing antimicrobial resistance and the hea...
by Megan Counahan | On 24 Aug 2018 The paper assesses the performance of India's managed float with respect to maintaining a real competitive exchange rate, its effect on trade, on stability of currency and financial markets, and on in...
by Ashima Goyal | On 24 Aug 2018 This report assesses the impact of NDCs on the energy sectors of ADB’s DMCs in terms of projected changes to the power mix, anticipated investment in energy technologies, as well the resulting emissio...
by Yongping Zhai | On 16 Aug 2018 The expansion of green renewable energy has been very limited in all the Asian countries, despite their various differences. The contributing factors are numerous, but, the financial factor has been t...
by Hooman Peimani | On 16 Aug 2018 The cost of finance has a relatively high impact on the returns and viability of clean energy projects compared with fossil fuel-based energy projects, because the operating costs for renewable energy...
by Purkayastha Dhruba | On 13 Aug 2018 The story of irrevocable erasure and thoroughgoing transformation is part of the story of ‘development’ around Hyderabad as it is elsewhere. A case study of the transformation affecting the villages i...
by Aloka Parasher Sen | On 26 Jul 2018 The paper analyses a nationally representative data set from India for the year 2013 in order to provide evidence on how short term migration is affected by household's ownership of land, and particip...
by Rajeswari Sengupta | On 25 Jul 2018 Gross capital inflows and outflows to and from emerging market economies (EMEs) have witnessed a significant increase since early 2000s. This rapid increase in these flows accompanied by sharp rise in...
by Ashima Goyal | On 25 Jul 2018 A recent WHO database (2018) has identified several of India’s top cities with some of the highest levels of air pollution. Kanpur, Faridabad, Gaya, Varanasi and Patna are the top five most polluted c...
by Niti Aayog GOI | On 16 Jul 2018 Valuing climate information is now an important discourse in mainstream economic thinking with the development of the von Neumann-Morgenstern utility hypothesis and of the refinement of decision theor...
by Celia M. Reyes | On 06 Jul 2018 The paper provides estimates of the cost of shifting to a federal form of government under different scenarios in terms of the number of regions. Finally, it concludes with the discussion of why adopt...
by Rosario G. Manasan | On 03 Jul 2018 This paper aims to analyze the determinants of household energy portfolio in urban and rural areas and to determine how choices are affected by price shocks and weather variabilities in the Philippine...
by Connie Bayudan-Dacuycuy | On 29 Jun 2018 This paper makes an attempt to estimate Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth by using both growth accounting approach and production function approach. Kendrick, Solow and Tornqvist-Theil indices ar...
by G. Alivelu | On 26 Jun 2018 This paper discusses the significance of considering climate change responsiveness in the Union
Budget and what are the existing practices and gaps in documenting climate change financing in India.
...
by Jyotsna Goel | On 21 Jun 2018 In recent years there has been an increased role for health insurance in Indian health care, through government funded health insurance programs and privately purchased health insurance. Our analysis...
by Shefali Malhotra | On 15 Jun 2018 The PILER 2016 report on the Status of Labour Rights, sixth in the series, based on the secondary research, aims to present an overview of the status of labour and the issues in the year impacting lab...
by Pakistan Institute of Labour Education & Research (PILER) | On 14 Jun 2018 In many developing countries, the average firm is small, does not grow and has low productivity. Lack of market integration and limited information on non-local products often leave consumers unaware...
by Robert T. Jensen | On 12 Jun 2018 The solar energy market has seen huge growth in recent years with a vast increase in solar cumulative capacity worldwide. One of the key drivers behind this growth is the decline in solar module price...
by Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary | On 11 Jun 2018 The paper identifies key features of International Monetary Fund (IMF)–supported programs following the 2008 global financial crisis. The statistical analysis of a large sample of countries that borro...
by Carlos De Resende | On 09 Jun 2018 The relationship between a declining labor income share and a falling relative price of capital requires capital and labor to be gross substitutes at the aggregate level. It argues that this restricti...
by Saumik Paul | On 07 Jun 2018 This study investigates the fuel demand elasticities separately for petrol, diesel, and CNG using data from
July 2004 to June 2015 for Pakistan. The results show that fuel demands are generally (own...
by Muhammad Omer | On 06 Jun 2018 This paper is to studies how manufacturing plants in India adjusted to trade liberalization during the period 1998–99 to 2007–08. It estimates how the labor share changed due to tariff reduction. The...
by Prachi Gupta | On 05 Jun 2018 This paper studies a field experiment among energy-intensive Indian manufacturing plants that
offered
energy consulting to raise energy productivity, the amount plants can produce with e...
by Nicholas Ryan | On 30 May 2018 The paper theoretically and empirically show that dismissal laws and laws that impose hurdles on firing of employees - spur innovation and thereby economic growth. Theoretically, dismissal laws make i...
by Krishnamurthy V. Subramanian | On 29 May 2018 This paper estimates production efficiency and shadow prices of
CO2
emissions for thermal
power plants in India. It employs a unique sample of 56 power plants for 2000-2013 acquired
primarily...
by | On 29 May 2018 Biofuels are derived from renewable bio
-
mass resources and, therefore,
provide a strategic advantage to promote sustainable development and to
supplement conventional...
by Government of India GOI | On 17 May 2018 This paper analyses India's participation in more than two decades global climate politics. India has transitioned from a protest voice on the fringes of global climate policy to one that is actively...
by Aniruddh Mohan | On 04 May 2018 The World Development Report 2018 (WDR 2018)—LEARNING to Realize Education’s Promise—is the first ever devoted entirely to education. And the timing is excellent: education has long been critical to h...
by World Bank [WB] | On 04 May 2018 This study analyses the environmental and financial sustainability of solid waste management
in Indian cities. It presents an assessment of the rapidly rising volume of municipal solid...
by | On 26 Apr 2018 This briefing specifically refers to international and regional legal and policy frameworks governing
climate-induced displacement.
by Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) | On 12 Apr 2018 Exploring nonlinearities and time variations in exchange rate pass-through (ERPT) to consumer prices in India for the period from April 2005 to March 2016, this paper finds ERPT is asymmetric with pas...
by | On 09 Apr 2018 The report says that investment in climate change adaptation and mitigation are listed as key ways of minimizing the drivers that force people from their country of origin – one of the GCM’s central o...
by Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) | On 09 Apr 2018 Climate change is an environmental and a human rights issue. EJF views climate change as a primary threat to world peace and security, development and human rights in the 21st century.
by Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) | On 06 Apr 2018 The anxiety that technology will displace jobs on a large scale in
the near future is flooding both academic and public debates, primarily
in the developed world. The recent publication of a study b...
by Sunil Mani | On 04 Apr 2018 In a theoretical model of an environmentally conscious (“green”) monopolist, we show that increasing greenness does not always mean lower output and environmental damages. The Author assumes that a gr...
by Rupayan Pal | On 04 Apr 2018 The paper builds a novel stochastic dynamic regional integrated assessment model (IAM) of the climate and economic system including a number of important climate science elements that are missing in m...
by Yongyang Cai | On 04 Apr 2018 The paper says that the mountains may appear to be one of the few geographic areas less affected by biological invasion.
by Bharat Shrestha | On 03 Apr 2018 This study investigates empirically how human capital, measured by educational attainment,
is related to income distribution. The regressions, using a panel data set covering a broad
range of countr...
by | On 30 Mar 2018 In this paper, we analyse the evolution of the task content of jobs in India between 1983 and
2011. Following standard literature, we calculated five task intensities by combining NSS data
with O-Ne...
by | On 28 Mar 2018 The issue of land and water for crops. It examines the
kinds of production responses needed to meet demand. It also assesses the potential
of the world’s land and water resources to support these de...
by Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO] | On 22 Mar 2018 This paper is based on the presentation given by the author at the Fifth WIEF roundtable on climate change held in Dhaka, organized by the WIEF secretariat on 20 March 2012. The paper will introduce t...
by | On 21 Mar 2018 This report assesses the state of economic research into those areas, with a
particular focus on empirical methodologies and their adequacy for an assessment of general-equilibrium outcomes. While di...
by Marc-Andreas Muendler | On 20 Mar 2018 The paper says that the exchange rate is a vital macroeconomic variable and backbone of trade.
by M. Ali Kemal | On 19 Mar 2018 Sustainable access to energy has the power to catalyze
social and economic development and promote better
educated, healthier, more productive and resilient
communities. Yet many families across th...
by | On 16 Mar 2018 The paper analyzes productivity enhancing effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) among Indian
manufacturing firms. The issue particularly examined is, how country of origin of FDI makes a differe...
by | On 14 Mar 2018 Between 2002-03 and 2012-13, energy consumption intensity and carbon dioxide (CO2)
emissions intensity of Indian manufacturing declined by about 30 percent. During the last 10 to 15 years,
Indian ma...
by | On 05 Mar 2018 The advent of Globalization has led to profound transformation in the global economy in terms
of policy paradigms, growth trajectories and developmental strategies of governance, in the
advanced eco...
by | On 26 Feb 2018 The research was important to see how the scheme is seen by the girls at KGBV, how the teachings shape them, and how does power play come to control them.
by Maitreya Jha | On 23 Feb 2018 Migration is a global phenomenon; and it will continue to do so in the
near future. All through human history, it has been a significant factor
influencing population change. Migration involves the...
by | On 20 Feb 2018 The problems caused by climate change have been recognised as one of the greatest concern of this century. The subject is futuristic, relevant and multi-disciplinary with many stakeholders. The matter...
by | On 16 Feb 2018 A study was conducted to forecast the electricity consumption and demand for Karnataka (as seen by the utilities) for 2017-2022.
by Arijit Chanda | On 13 Feb 2018 The project aims to enhance the resilience of the lives and livelihoods of the most vulnerable populations, particularly women, in the coastal areas of India to climate change and extreme events.
by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) | On 08 Feb 2018 Cambodia’s agriculture sector remains the backbone of the country’s economy. Most of Cambodia’s
people live in rural areas and rely heavily on agriculture for their livelihoods. In recent decades, th...
by Sam Oeurn Ke | On 06 Feb 2018 The issue of coal transitions is coming into focus in
both national and international climate policy discussions.
There are several drivers of this. At one level,
the Paris Agreement marked a signi...
by Oliver Sartor | On 02 Feb 2018 The paper says that this idiosyncrasy of Korea’s current account surplus seems to be related to increasing saving propensity of households especially among aged people.
by Han Chirok | On 01 Feb 2018 The paper also suggests that our index can serve as an alternative measure of the industrial linkages.
by Yoon Joon | On 01 Feb 2018 India continues to undertake and effectively implement a large number of actions relating to
energy, environment and climate, in particular, covering renewable energy, energy efficiency,
sustainable...
by Arun Jaitley | On 01 Feb 2018 Agriculture and allied sector has a critical role in ensuring food security, reducing
poverty and sustaining growth in India. To improve productivity in agriculture the
focus has been on the critica...
by Arun Jaitley | On 31 Jan 2018 Using district-level data on temperature, rainfall and crop production, this
chapter documents a long-term trend of rising temperatures, declining average
precipitation, and increase in extreme prec...
by Arun Jaitley | On 31 Jan 2018 India’s external sector continued to be resilient and strong in 2017-18 so far, with the Balance of
Payments situation continuing to be comfortable with the Current Account Deficit at 1.8 percent of
...
by Arun Jaitley | On 31 Jan 2018 With Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
growth averaging 7.5 per cent between 2014-
15 and 2016-17, India can be rated as among
the best performing economies in the world on
this parameter.
by Arun Jaitley | On 29 Jan 2018 This guide is for government officials in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) who will be preparing reports and communications on their country’s climate change circumstances and actions under the UN Fra...
by | On 23 Jan 2018 The brief says that China has been proactive in intelligence gathering and has even installed signal and intelligence equipment in other countries.
by Vijay Sakhuja | On 23 Jan 2018 This paper links the foreign economic engagement of India’s states with the literature on
federalism, thereby contributing to an understanding of the political economy of FDI in-
flows in a parliame...
by Chanchal Kumar Sharma | On 22 Jan 2018 This issue brief takes a broad overview of the journey of CWC and OPCW during the last two decades.
by Ajey Lele | On 17 Jan 2018 A selective survey of recent papers in the area of technological change, automation and employment is presented. The objective is to convey analytical ideas and the empirical evidence that have inform...
by K. V. Ramaswamy | On 16 Jan 2018 This paper examines dimensions of inequality including labour market inequalities and discusses public policies needed for reduction in inequalities. It discusses both inequality of outcomes and inequ...
by S.Mahendra Dev | On 16 Jan 2018 This paper introduces a new, publicly available database for tracking merchandise trade in the global value chains for apparel/textile/footwear, motor vehicles and parts, and electronics, developed or...
by Michael Ferrantino | On 16 Jan 2018 The paper talks about the growing demand in the clean energy industry is expected to increase LCE
production to about 410,000 tonne by 2025.
by Tanmay Sarkar | On 12 Jan 2018 Threats of international water conflicts have garnered headlines in many parts of the world including South Asia. Yet, there are almost no examples of outright water war
in history. Instead, national...
by | On 12 Jan 2018 The study shows that the operational stock of industrial robots in manufacturing industry has been showing a systematic increase with the density of robots in the manufacturing sector increasing from...
by Sunil Mani | On 10 Jan 2018 The report says that sun radiates energy uniformly in all directions in the form of electromagnetic waves. Solar energy is clean, non-depleting and abundantly available to mankind.
by National Institute of Advanced Studies | On 09 Jan 2018 This study has shown that while most shrimp farmers are aware of the risks in business, they are not actively adopting the standards.
by A. Enamul Haque | On 29 Dec 2017 This article summarises a case study conducted by the author based on a long period of research on the behaviour of firms in technology transfer and local capacity building in that country.
by Linsu Kim | On 27 Dec 2017 his paper develops the contours of an ambitious approach to fossil fuel subsidy reform using the multilateral trade system.
by Joel Trachtman | On 26 Dec 2017 This paper has been conceived as an exploratory scoping exercise intended to identify and better understand trade-related issues and knowledge gaps, including how various types of trade measures and p...
by International Centre for Development (ICTSD) | On 22 Dec 2017 The overall goal of this paper is to review and document the likely impacts of climate change on China’s agricultural production, efforts that China might be able to make in reducing greenhouses gas e...
by Jinxia Wang | On 21 Dec 2017 The purpose of this paper is to propose specific ways in which developing countries can best fuel trade in the digital era.
by Kati Suominen | On 21 Dec 2017 This paper seeks to support the on-going negotiations by identifying common ground and differences with respect to notifications and transparency, analysing the feasibility of various ideas, and discu...
by Arthur Appleton | On 20 Dec 2017 This paper discusses the practice of energy dual pricing in the broader context of fossil fuel subsidy reform.
by Anna Marhold | On 20 Dec 2017 This article provides a systematic review of the published literature to date on infant health production and how it has evolved over the past 3-4 decades as data have become more available, computing...
by Hope Corman | On 19 Dec 2017 The report says that Manitoba is a province rich in agricultural lands, where the agriculture sector is a cornerstone for the economy.
by International Centre and Sustainable Development | On 18 Dec 2017 The paper narrates that the inclusive growth requires boosting incomes of workers currently in agriculture, either by shifting them to better-paying jobs outside agriculture or raising wages within ag...
by Roehlano M. Briones | On 13 Dec 2017 The report says that despite the government’s various poverty reduction and social protection programs, poverty remains a social problem the country needs to hurdle.
by Connie Bayudan-Dacuycuy | On 13 Dec 2017 The paper discusses the changes in the new 2011-12 base year series of the Index of Industrial Production (IIP) to ask, whether the new series has improved our under-standing of the growth in the manu...
by Radhika Pandey | On 12 Dec 2017 Public equity markets have increasingly become accessible to small and medium firms with the introduction of dedicated exchange that lower listing criteria to allow such firms to list their equity. Th...
by | On 11 Dec 2017 This inaugural issue of the World Bank Group’s Global Investment Competitiveness Report presents novel analytical insights and empirical evidence on foreign direct investment’s (FDI) drivers and contr...
by World Bank [WB] | On 08 Dec 2017 The results of this study indicate that climate change acts in combination with many other socioeconomic determinants of migration.
by Fahad Saeed | On 04 Dec 2017 This paper narrates about the challenge of meeting energy demand is likely to get more complex, as it is growing to keep pace with the population growth and expanding economy.
by Muhammad Iftikhar | On 01 Dec 2017 Faced with easier access to foreign technology and imported capital goods, firms in India's organised manufacturing sector adopted advanced techniques of production leading to increasing automation an...
by Radhicka Kapoor | On 01 Dec 2017 This paper reviews the investment situation in energy sector of Pakistan. Using secondary data sources,
official documents and pledges by development partners.
by Huma Khan | On 30 Nov 2017 This paper uses detailed production data from a half million Chinese manufacturing plants over 1998-2007 to estimate the effects of temperature on firm-level total factor productivity (TFP), factor in...
by Peng Zhang | On 28 Nov 2017 This paper examines the effects of the 2008–09 global economic crisis on people’s pro-environmental behaviour and willingness to pay for climate change mitigation. The paper hypothesise that the crisi...
by Artjoms Ivlevs | On 28 Nov 2017 Using the Burke, Hsiang, and Miguel (2015) framework, we examine the nonlinear response effect of economic growth to historic temperature and precipitation fluctuations. We confirm that aside from the...
by | On 23 Nov 2017 Asia and the Pacific continues to be exposed to climate change impacts. Home to the majority of the world’s poor, the population of the region is particularly vulnerable to those impacts. Unabated war...
by Asian Bank | On 23 Nov 2017 Most empirical studies on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) use cross-sectional data or case studies, making causality hard to establish. The paper overcomes this limitation by using panel data on...
by Shuangqi Wu | On 23 Nov 2017 Digitalization is the buzzword under which profound changes of the labor market can be summarized. Next to automation, i.e., the increasing use of robots, “intelligent” machines and more comprehensive...
by Werner Eichhorst | On 23 Nov 2017 The study says that there are certain misconceptions about the power sector’s circular debt, which has generated controversy in the country.
by Dr. Abid Suleri | On 21 Nov 2017 The papers says that there is a need to invest in educational sector to maximize the human capital, which not only helps in economic growth but also contributes to economic development of the country.
by Syed Kazmi | On 17 Nov 2017 The sexuality of the disabled person has largely been ignored. If it is
at all acknowledged, then it has been largely through a ‘medical lens.
The understanding of sexuality not only as a personal d...
by Renu Addlakha | On 17 Nov 2017 The Author considers outsourcing decision of a firm in a Cournot duopoly with incomplete information. There is incomplete information about the production technology of one firm. It is shown that outs...
by Tarun Kabiraj | On 14 Nov 2017 Increased integration with global financial markets has amplified the complexity of macroeconomic management in India. The diverse objectives of a robust growth rate, healthy current account deficit,...
by Abhijit Sen Gupta | On 13 Nov 2017 This paper is an attempt to document the evolution of India’s aggregate productivity, decomposed into the contributions of detailed industrial sectors and structural change during 1980-2011. Using the...
by K L Krishna | On 08 Nov 2017 This analysis has identified three major challenges, which need to be addressed to make module manufacturing competitive in India
by Bhupesh Verma | On 02 Nov 2017 This report will also summarize experiences with the technical assessment process as of early 2017 and offer an overview of initial REDD+ results reporting and technical analyses of those reports.
by Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO] | On 31 Oct 2017 This study analyzes the effect of daily movements in KSE-100 Index due to different policies announced as well as incidents/events happened in the country.
by Shahid Raza | On 31 Oct 2017 This study is a part of Indo-US bilateral JCERDC project for Development of Sustainable Advanced Ligno-cellulosic Biofuels Systems (SALBS). We profusely thank our Director, Prof. S. Galab for his cons...
by M. Gopinath Reddy | On 27 Oct 2017 This study evaluates the impact of various socio economic and environmental variables on the incidence of diseases in district Bhimber of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK).
by Salma Kousar | On 27 Oct 2017 The report says that there are well known explanations in contemporary economic
literature which explain this counterproductive impact of depreciation.
by . Atiq-ur-Rehman | On 26 Oct 2017 This paper examines in detail Pakistan’s export performance in the light of emerging global challenges and identifies key structural and policy issues that stifle Pakistan’s exports.
by Afia Malik | On 25 Oct 2017 Iran’s game-changing nuclear deal with the West and imminent ending of the US-led sanctions open a window of opportunity for deeper Indo-Iranian relations. On the sidelines of the BRICS summit in
Ufa...
by Research and Information System for Developing Countries | On 17 Oct 2017 This informative note presents soil carbon sequestration as an option for offsetting this emissions through a market-based mechanism within the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International...
by Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO] | On 16 Oct 2017 The report narrates that the Government of India has announced an ambitious solar power target of 100 GW by 2022.
by Bhupesh Verma | On 12 Oct 2017 The report says that, Karnataka is the second most arid state in the country.
by Mohd. Ali | On 11 Oct 2017 This paper concentrates on the impact of a few macroeconomic variables—nominal exchange rate, economic activity in host countries and workers' outflow—in determining the remittance inflows to Nepal.
by Bhubanesh Pant | On 09 Oct 2017 The analysis showed that the relationship of financial literacy of small borrowers was significant with their financial attitude and behavior.
by Ramesh Chaulagain | On 06 Oct 2017 The report says that the global growth is firming, contributing to an improvement in confidence.
by World Bank [WB] | On 04 Oct 2017 The empirical context of our study is Indonesia, a country with a long tradition of regulating consumer energy prices and a recent change in subsidy policies, facilitated by dramatically falling oil p...
by Sebastian Renner | On 29 Sep 2017 This paper estimates the optimal inflation rate in Nepal based on the data of the period 1978–2016.
by Nepal Rastra Bank Research Department NRB | On 28 Sep 2017 This paper explores the question of structural transformation and income distribution through the eyes of the pioneer in such analysis, Simon Kuznets.
by Ravi Kanbur | On 27 Sep 2017 The paper investigate the predictive power of Divisia monetary aggregates in explaining exchange rate variations for India, Israel, Poland, UK and the US, in the years leading up to and following the...
by Taniya Ghosh | On 18 Sep 2017 The study finds that a U-shaped relationship exists between farm size and farm / farmer's income. The results also show that both on-farm and
off-farm diversification have an inverted U-shape relatio...
by Varun Kumar Das | On 18 Sep 2017 This paper discusses (a) changes in measurement in industry and services (b) changes made in agriculture sector and (c) major issues on the measurement of GDP in new series. There are long term or leg...
by S. Mahendra Dev | On 18 Sep 2017 In recent days, the process of federalization within the Indian Union has become more debatable due to the unequal federal development at various levels. In this context, the issues of state formation...
by Susant Kumar Naik | On 14 Sep 2017 Shifting cultivation remains the main source of employment for large sections of the rural people who depend on agriculture for their livelihood in the hill areas of Manipur. Its inputs continue to be...
by Marchang Reimeingam | On 12 Sep 2017 Labour productivity in an economy or industry may increase due to intrinsic increase in productivity (due to capital deepening or TFP growth) or due to the reallocation of workers to more productive s...
by Rosa Abraham | On 11 Sep 2017 The paper discusses the nature and extent of non-farm activities in India using India Human Development Survey unit record data. An exercise carried out to understand the determinants of income from n...
by Meenakshi Rajeev | On 11 Sep 2017 This paper examines the operation of the gold standard (GS) during the period 1870-1914, its heyday. It discusses the theory of balance of payments adjustment under the GS. Theory postulates automatic...
by Manmohan Agarwal | On 06 Sep 2017 The report says that the global financial meltdown contributed to slowing down of global solar deployment, and allowed Indian developers to squeeze their costs further, demanding preferential rates an...
by Mohd. Ali | On 29 Aug 2017 The report narrates about, should India’s national defence budget be discussed and deliberated in public domain?
by Deba Mohanty | On 28 Aug 2017 This paper by Centad looks at the initiatives and their outcome through the construction of an Improvement Index and suggests a relook.
by S Jagadeesan | On 25 Aug 2017 The report says that the base year of GDP is also revised regularly to have it aligned with the structural shifts that the economy witnesses continuously.
by M. Singhi | On 24 Aug 2017 The impacts of climate change on global temperatures profoundly affect people’s ability to sustain their livelihoods as well as their health; both of these dimensions in turn influence the migration o...
by International Organisation for Migration | On 18 Aug 2017 With one of the Middle East’s largest economies, a growing population,
and rising incomes, Iran contributes significantly to the region’s agricultural commodity consumption. Iran’s rising food demand...
by Mesbah Motamed | On 18 Aug 2017 This study’s framework could serve as an
alternative development paradigm for India and other developing countries.
by Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy CSTEP | On 14 Aug 2017 The present study is an attempt to examine the impact of international trade on manufacturing productivity in India. The literature on international trade suggests that the productivity of domestic ma...
by R Rijesh | On 09 Aug 2017 South Asia faces a wide array of social, political, and economic issues that already threaten security in the region. The region has a history of border disputes, sectarian violence, and government co...
by David Antos | On 09 Aug 2017 Forest and conservation policy in Southeast Asia is now at yet another crossroads. Despite decades of efforts, the challenges ahead remain formidable. These challenges include: (i) continued deforesta...
by Gary Bull | On 08 Aug 2017 Low carbon development has gained policy prominence and is a concern of both environment and development policy globally and in China
and India. This paper discusses the role of China and India as im...
by Shailly Kedia | On 03 Aug 2017 The study focuses on various drivers of overnight inter-bank rate spread under
the new liquidity management framework during July 2013 to December 2016.
Applying OLS with Newey-West estimator and va...
by Sunil Kumar | On 03 Aug 2017 This paper revisits the issue of determinants of inflation in India in a Phillips curve framework and makes two key contributions in relation to existing studies. First, in the context of the Reserve...
by Harendra Behera | On 03 Aug 2017 The publication includes the Agriculture Agreement as well as the decisions taken on agriculture at the 2013 Bali Ministerial Conference and the 2015 Nairobi Ministerial Conference.
by World Trade Organisation WTO | On 02 Aug 2017 The way we work, the skills we need to thrive in our jobs and the trajectories of our careers are rapidly evolving. These changes—driven by technological innovation, demographics, shifting business mo...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 01 Aug 2017 This approach was chosen to understand the consequences of climate risks as well as the adaptation measures needed to cope with adverse impacts in order to ensure the resilience of all actors involved...
by Samavia Batool | On 01 Aug 2017 The NCAER State Investment Potential Index 2017 (N-SIPI 2017) is the second edition in the annual series of rankings of states on their growth and investment potential. It is a systematic and evidence...
by Research National Council of Applied Economic | On 31 Jul 2017 Many poverty alleviation programs aiming to enhance nutrition include behavior change
communication (BCC). This study uses a field experiment in Bangladesh to assess the
impacts of BCC, focusing on...
by Berber Kramer | On 31 Jul 2017 This report may lead other nations to follow suit, but countries which do not have
large quantities of SNF may find it difficult to justify geological repositories from economic considerations.
by | On 31 Jul 2017 The report concludes with the strategies that Karnataka should focus on in order to achieve the objectives of 24x7 Power for All.
by Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy CSTEP | On 31 Jul 2017 The major components in a ST plant are the heliostats, receivers, tower, HTF, working fluid and
power block.
by G. Srilakshmi | On 28 Jul 2017 This paper focuses on the rationale for state-based market interventions to support smallholder production along with some case studies that follow the evolution and impact of what we call ‘institutio...
by Ryan Nehring | On 28 Jul 2017 The seventh goal of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is dedicated to ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all by 2030. While energy was implicit in the Mi...
by Hannah Goozee | On 28 Jul 2017 his series of project publications aims to capture the tools, methods, and processes developed under the EC and ILO joint project entitled “Strengthening the
Impact on Employment of Sector and Trade...
by Internaional Labour Organization [ILO] | On 28 Jul 2017 This paper analyse data from the Nepal Living Standard Survey for the year 2010/11 to determine the extent to which these programs have reached the poor. The Government of Nepal has been providing fin...
by Dipendra Bhattarai | On 28 Jul 2017 The main objective of the paper is to of add clarity to the debate over the economic effects of regulations like the CPP. It is shown that studies of the same regulation
using similar methodologies c...
by Noah Kaufman | On 28 Jul 2017 The expert paper further estimates significant potential for an overall improvement in balance of trade with increased blending in the context of an expected recovery in global crude oil prices.
by Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy CSTEP | On 27 Jul 2017 The incidence of parent-child co-residence in India is among the highest in the world. This paper examines the role of intra-household exchanges and potential bequests in creating incentives for adult...
by Sonalde Desai | On 27 Jul 2017 BRAC has implemented a pilot project titled ‘Skills Development Initiatives for Adolescents (SDIA) on climate adaptive livelihoods’in two districts of south-western Bangladesh to promote some agricult...
by Md Hasib Reza | On 26 Jul 2017 This report summarizes the investments in clean energy made by the operations departments of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in 2014.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 26 Jul 2017 The study investigates whether the farmers’ perception of changes in climate have led to any changes in their farming practices over the last three decades. The study surveyed 496 farmers living near...
by Nanda Kaji Budhathoki | On 25 Jul 2017 This report presents a framework for sustainable energy access planning that planners and policy makers can use to design cost-effective clean energy supply systems that both poor and nonpoor can sust...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 24 Jul 2017 The report narrates that the local currency bond market in emerging East Asia continued to expand in 1Q15 to reach US$8.3 trillion at end-March.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 24 Jul 2017 The paper estimates the relationship between the current account and fiscal deficit, and the real exchange rate, in a structural vector auto regression, with Indian data for the managed float period 1...
by Ashima Goyal | On 22 Jul 2017 Using Input-Output (IO) analysis, this study provides the time series estimates of domestic value added (DVA) content of India's merchandise and services exports for the period 1999-2000 to 2012-13 an...
by Veeramani C | On 21 Jul 2017 The report provides outlines of business models relevant to pursuing the renewable energy and energy efficiency targets adopted by the five Greater Mekong Subregion countries: Cambodia, the Lao People...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 20 Jul 2017 Greater gains in energy savings are possible from improved energy efficiency and conservation measures, both as a smart business investment, and an imperative for the global community.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 18 Jul 2017 Renewable energy is a challenge, but also an opportunity for new industries, employment, and new ways to reduce dependency on fuel imports, provide electricity to poor remote areas, reduce air polluti...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 18 Jul 2017 This study was undertaken under ABMI. It addresses two key questions: (i) Why is local currency bond financing not more widely used for infrastructure projects in ASEAN+3? and (ii) What can be done to...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 18 Jul 2017 The report discusses the most recent projections pertaining to climate change and climate change impacts in Asia and the Pacific, and the consequences of these changes to human systems, particularly f...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 14 Jul 2017 The NEP anticipates major transformations on the energy demand and
supply sides arising out of fast evolving technology, consumer behaviour
and air quality considerations. It provides for a flexible...
by Niti Aayog GOI | On 13 Jul 2017 This publication is a continuation of the APWF Framework Document on Water and Climate Change Adaptation, developed for leaders and policy-makers in Asia and the Pacific in 2012.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 12 Jul 2017 This report describes the conduct of the cost-benefit analysis of climate proofing investment projects. An important message is that the presence of uncertainty about climate change does not invalidat...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 10 Jul 2017 This publication summarizes the results of a pilot study to quantify water and energy use in high-effciency irrigation systems in Viet Nam.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 10 Jul 2017 This report summarizes the initial activities of the Regional Hub, and contextualizes the challenges in Asia and the Pacific with the global efforts to reach the 2030 targets.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 06 Jul 2017 The results of the study indicate that climate change will likely have significant negative impacts on agricultural output in Fiji, Papua New Guinea, and Solomon Islands.
by M.W. Rosegrant | On 05 Jul 2017 This publication offers a snapshot of the region’s energy sources and how they are used, and presents recent developments and challenges that emphasize the urgency and necessity of sustainable energy...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 05 Jul 2017 This study measures the size of fossil fuel subsidies such as underpricing of petroleum products and electricity, tax exemptions, and subsidized credit; examines the potential economic, energy, and en...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 04 Jul 2017 This study measures the size of fossil fuel subsidies such as tax breaks for diesel and natural gas, market price support for natural gas for vehicles, and free electricity for low-income consumers as...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 04 Jul 2017 The report says that yields for 10-year local currency (LCY) government bonds in emerging East Asia were mostly down between 1 September and 31 October. Investor confidence was buoyed as financial mar...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 29 Jun 2017 This report summarizes findings and policy recommendations for the government's 13th Five-Year Plan.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 29 Jun 2017 The video, produced as part of the AusAID-UNDP Climate Change Adaptation Programme, shares experiences of small and marginal farmers practicing integrated bio-pest management. It encourages farmers to...
by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) | On 27 Jun 2017 This report is an assessment of the potential, the barriers and the challenges in demonstrating and deploying Carbon capture and storage (CCS) in the People's Republic of China. It identifies unique l...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 26 Jun 2017 This study informs decision makers regarding major climate change risks to development and provides feasible policy recommendations for consideration to increase resilience and reduce vulnerability in...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 22 Jun 2017 The report narrates that early adoption of information and communication technology can allow developing countries in Asia and the Pacific to move from labor-intensive, natural resources-based to know...
by Jouko Sarvi | On 22 Jun 2017 The paper says that Sri Lanka has emerged in recent years as one of the most dynamic countries in South Asia. With a rich cultural heritage, an increasingly sophisticated work force, and a strategic l...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 19 Jun 2017 The paper suggests that the impacts of climate change in Southeast Asia may be larger than previously estimated, possibly reaching 11% of gross domestic product by 2100.
by David Raitzer | On 19 Jun 2017 The report narrates that the yields of local currency bonds in most emerging East Asian markets remained on a downward trajectory in the first month and a half of 2016, pressured by worries over globa...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 Jun 2017 This report measures the size of associated subsidies on these fossil fuels including direct transfers, tax exemptions, subsidized credit, and losses of state enterprises in India, Indonesia, and Thai...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 14 Jun 2017 The report as that there are currently 17 emissions trading systems (ETS) in place in four continents and account for nearly 40% of global gross domestic product. In Asia and the Pacific region, there...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 12 Jun 2017 This report summarizes the investments in clean energy made by ADB in 2015, condensing information from project databases and formal reports in an easy-to-reference format. This report was prepared by...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 08 Jun 2017 The rapid growth of urban areas has often resulted in the siting of poorly designed infrastructure and assets in hazard-prone areas, increasing disaster risk.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 05 Jun 2017 The paper uses a food systems approach to analyze the bidirectional relationships between climate change and food and nutrition along the entire food value chain. It then identifies adaptation and mit...
by Jessica Fanzo | On 30 May 2017 Under the Constitution of India, for a bill to be enacted into a law, it has to be approved by both Houses of the Parliament - the Lower House (Lok Sabha) and the Upper House (Rajya Sabha). There is o...
by Pratik Datta | On 26 May 2017 In line with the recommendations of the 2nd National Commission on Labour, Ministry of Labour & Employment has taken steps for simplification, amalgamation and rationalization of Central Labour Laws a...
by | On 23 May 2017 This report presents the findings of a climate risk financing study conducted by the GMS Core Environment Program in 28 rural communities in Cambodia, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, and Viet Na...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 22 May 2017 The report says India can save 64% of anticipated passenger road-based mobility-related energy demand and 37% of carbon emissions in 2030 by pursuing a shared, electric, and connected mobility future....
by Shikha Juyal | On 17 May 2017 This publication highlights the results of a successful partnership between the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the International Centre for Environmental Management (ICEM) with cofinancing from the...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 10 May 2017 The paper mentions that over the 25 years that the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has partnered with Mongolia, the country continues to be defined to a certain extent by its transition to free market re...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 10 May 2017 The research focuses on financial exclusion in three segments: base of pyramid (BoP); women; and micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs). From our research, we estimate that addressing this oppor...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 09 May 2017 This paper says that district cooling is feasible in the PRC and deserves further development because it can significantly improve the efficiency of energy use, as well as indoor climate, with energy...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 09 May 2017 This report updates by presenting infrastructure investment needs for all
45 DMCs from 2016 to 2030, the final year of the United Nations Sustainable Development
Goals. Two sets of estimates are pre...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 05 May 2017 The focus of this report is on energy storage for the power grid in support of larger
penetration of renewable energy. The emphasis is on energy storage and associated
power electronics that are dep...
by Pramod Jain | On 05 May 2017 The ecological complexity of the Central and West Asian region gives way to diverse ecosystems
with rich natural resources and hydrocarbon reserves; countries in this region are not only
exposed to...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 04 May 2017 This study contributes to a growing body of research demonstrating that adoption of
internationally available and well-proven energy efficiency measures can improve the
effectiveness, sustainability...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 04 May 2017 High growth rates during the precrisis period have helped South Asia reduce poverty rates and raise living standards.
But despite gains in alleviating poverty, the number of poor people in the region...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 04 May 2017 This study provides a snapshot of the sustainability of selected Indian cities by employing 57 indicators
in four dimensions to develop an overall city sustainability index. In recent years, its comp...
by B.Sudhakara Reddy | On 03 May 2017 This paper aims to analyze the differential impact of exchange rate undervaluation on growth and exports in different countries. The paper considers two sets of countries in our dataset-18 countries a...
by Sanika Sulochani Ramanayake | On 03 May 2017 South Asia continues to be one of the most important crisis regions in the 21st century. It is characterized by an interlocking web of old and new security risks. There are unresolved territorial disp...
by | On 17 Apr 2017 BRICS nations are today cooperating on numerous matters of mutual concern. The cooperation is the result of years of deliberation, hard work and commitment. Since the formation of the grouping in the...
by | On 14 Apr 2017 Increasing water scarcity is expected to impact food production and the livelihoods of millions of farmers in semi arid developing countries over the next decades. Multiple studies project that this a...
by | On 22 Mar 2017 This report explores the challenges and opportunities represented by the
complex interrelationship between forests, agriculture and sustainable
development. It demonstrates that the sustainable mana...
by Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO] | On 21 Mar 2017 The Finance Minister of Assam , MrHimanta Biswa Sarma presented the Budget for Assam for financial year 2017-18 on February 7, 2017. [PRS].
by Arvind Gayam | On 09 Feb 2017 The problems of water, energy, climate change, and urbanisation, are all intertwined; they are, also, all 'wicked'. There is little consensus on how to effectively navigate these problems, let alone,...
by | On 02 Feb 2017 The Union Budget for 2017-18 will be presented on February 1, 2017. In this context, we present data regarding the state of
the Indian economy in 2016-17, across indicators such as gross domestic pro...
by Tanvi Deshpande | On 01 Feb 2017 Reveiw of ‘Population, Health and Environment’ Edited by Sayeed Unisa, T.V. Sekher, Chander Shekhar, Abhishek Singh, L.K.Dwivedi and M.R. Pradhan by Rawat Pubslishers.
by Manisha Karne | On 30 Jan 2017 This article examines pollution and environmental mortality in an economy where fertility is endogenous and output is produced from labor and capital by two sectors, dirty and clean. An emission tax c...
by | On 24 Jan 2017 Indian cities are facing the problem of severe air pollution and vehicles are a major source. The economically vibrant cities like Delhi, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai provide numerous job opp...
by Sudakshina Gupta | On 24 Jan 2017 This report, The geography of poverty, disasters and climate extremes in 2030, examines the relationship between disasters and poverty. It concludes that, without concerted action, there could be up t...
by | On 23 Jan 2017 Developing countries are the most vulnerable to climate change impacts because they have fewer resources to adapt: socially, technologically and financially. Climate change is anticipated to have far...
by United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific | On 23 Jan 2017 Rapid urbanisation with an increase in urban population from 28.3% (in 1950) to 50% (in 2010) is witnessed in megacities in India. Urbanisation is one of the demographic issues in the 21st century and...
by Bharath H. Aithal | On 16 Jan 2017 The demographic structure of South Asian countries are rapidly transforming, which can greatly influence future rice production and consumption in the region. Literature on the impact of demographic t...
by | On 11 Jan 2017 The Global Wind Energy Council is pleased to present this 6th edition of the Global Wind Energy Outlook, looking at the future of our industry out to 2020, 2030 and ultimately to 2050. What happens in...
by | On 05 Jan 2017 Shortage of electricity prompted the countries to give a momentum to renewable energy resources. Renewable energy refers to energy resources that Aries naturally and repeatedly in the environment and...
by | On 04 Jan 2017 Climate change mitigation is a global challenge, however its impact will be varied across regions and temperature zones. Small island states will be hit the hardest with sea level rise. In bigger coun...
by | On 28 Dec 2016 Global warming not only causes a change in average temperature and precipitation but also increases the frequency of floods, droughts, heat waves, and the intensity of typhoons and hurricanes followin...
by | On 28 Dec 2016 The impact of climate change is studied in many aspects in different locations in the country and it is concluded that there is high impact on agriculture compared to any other sector in the country....
by | On 28 Dec 2016 This WWF Living Planet Report comes at a critical juncture following the remarkable successes in 2015 of the Paris Agreement on climate change and the agreement on the Sustainable Development Goals fo...
by World Wide Fund | On 23 Dec 2016 India's Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) outlines its intent to scale up the country's clean-energy capacity. At the same...
by | On 21 Dec 2016 The paper examines consumption, income, regional, social and gender inequalities in India. Income
inequalities are much higher that of consumption. It also looks at inequalities in opportunities like...
by S.Mahendra Dev | On 19 Dec 2016 The study attempted to investigate the determinants of inflation in case of
Pakistan and to check the validity of monetarist stance that inflation is always
and everywhere a monetary phenomenon by i...
by Mehak Moazam | On 07 Dec 2016 Every year, India wastes about 18 per cent of fruits and vegetables, due to lack of post-harvest storage facilities. The cold storage sector has been one of the most
undermined sectors in India, devo...
by Madhu Sivaraman | On 05 Dec 2016 State legislatures are responsible for making laws on key subjects like land, police and health. They are also
tasked with approving the expenditure of money for their respective states every year. T...
by Prianka Rao | On 30 Nov 2016 Temporary labour migration is often touted as a triple-win: a win for destination countries that can support a level of economic activity that would be impossible without foreign labour; a win for cou...
by | On 24 Nov 2016 This paper aims to capture the current situation of nurse migration from an
Asian perspective. Asian countries are sources of nurses as well as hosts for
foreign nurses. They also provide opportunit...
by | On 24 Nov 2016 The paper shows that disincentives generated by the successive governments in Kerala through imposing artificial barriers on the freedom of farmers and
agricultural entrepreneurs resulted in the coll...
by Lekshmi R Nair | On 08 Nov 2016 In Pakistan, women work primarily in the home or on the farm. Their participation in work outside these areas, particularly in formal employment, is extremely low. It is possible that some forms of wo...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 04 Nov 2016 This inaugural report on the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is a first accounting of where the world stands at the start of our collective journey to 2030. The report analyses selected in...
by | On 03 Nov 2016 A foreign exchange crisis in 1991 induced India to abandon decades of inward-looking socialism and adopt economic reforms that have converted the once-lumbering elephant into the latest Asian tiger. I...
by | On 28 Oct 2016 Against the backdrop of the global financial and economic crisis, policy makers around the world took steps in the past year to make it easier for local firms to start up and operate. This is importan...
by World Bank [WB} | On 27 Oct 2016 The paper argues that there is strong rationale for India-Africa collaboration on food security, given their common challenge of hunger, undernutrition, and low productivity. This paper offers specifi...
by | On 24 Oct 2016 This policy brief proposes reorganisation of current industry
structure and proposes a new organizational structure for the
railways to meet the needs of the 21st century . [CPPR Policy Brief Series...
by Centre for Public Policy Research CPPR | On 21 Oct 2016 Can countries with binding budget constraints increase the benefits of school transfers
through better program design? A cost-neutral change is used in the design of India’s
school meal program to s...
by Farzana Afridi | On 20 Oct 2016 As an economy transforms from an agricultural economy to an industrial economy, a decline in participation of female labour force is observed. This is attributed to the shift from family-based product...
by | On 19 Oct 2016 The puzzling decline in female labour force participation in India in the context of high economic growth has recently generated considerable academic interest. Increasing educational enrolment by wom...
by | On 19 Oct 2016 The Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) on zero hunger is a top priority on the international agenda, and eliminating hunger globally is naturally and inevitably tied to farming. Therefore, the SDGs ha...
by | On 19 Oct 2016 Numerous studies have explored urban growth and the emergence of the megapolitan phenomenon through increasing growth in the number of cities with over 10 million inhabitants. Similarly, the processes...
by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultura [UNESCO] | On 19 Oct 2016 Climatic changes and increasing climatic variability are likely to aggravate the problem of future food security by exerting pressure on agriculture. However, there are lot of uncertainties about the...
by | On 17 Oct 2016 “Men, Masculinities and Climate Change: A Discussion Paper” aims to establish a rationale for understanding boys’ and men’s multiple roles in climate change by conducting an analysis of masculinities...
by | On 13 Oct 2016 The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report notes that up to 2050, the main impact of climate change on health will be an increase in illness and deaths related to the env...
by World Health Organisation (WHO) | On 13 Oct 2016 The objectives of monetary policy have always been a topic of intensive debate. This debate has
resurfaced during the past few years. In India too monetary policy-making appears to have
undergone si...
by Lokendra Kumawat | On 10 Oct 2016 This is the third annual report for the MenEngage Alliance’s Global Strategic Plan 2012-2016, in which the main activities and achievements of 2015, based on the four strategic objectives are reported...
by MenEngage Global Alliance | On 07 Oct 2016 Using data from two rounds of the Employment-Unemployment Survey of the National Sample Survey for 2004-5 and 2009-10, we investigate the relationship between social identity, specifically caste ident...
by | On 05 Oct 2016 The recent changes in the institutional and fiscal architecture of the country following the
constitution of NITI Aayog and release of report of the Fourteenth Finance Commission,
have implications...
by Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability CBGA | On 04 Oct 2016 A skilled and educated workforce can support the competitiveness of enterprises of all sizes.
However, smaller firms may face greater challenges in developing human capital. We
explore differences b...
by Paul Vandenberg | On 04 Oct 2016 The concern of this paper is limited to the approaches to rural women's development and an
understanding of their work roles in the planning strategies. [CWDS Working paper].
by Kumud Sharma | On 30 Sep 2016 This report presents a summary of methods and results of the latest WHO global assessment of ambient air pollution exposure and the resulting burden of disease.
Air pollution has become a growing con...
by World Health Organisation (WHO) | On 28 Sep 2016 Although evidence shows that women are both victims of climate change and important contributors of knowledge and skills in disaster risk, adaptation and mitigation strategies, the gender perspective...
by | On 23 Sep 2016 The 48 Least Developed Countries (LDCs) are the only country grouping to have a dedicated article in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Article 4.9 commits all parties to the conv...
by | On 22 Sep 2016 Sports has been a force for good ever since humanity existed. It brings people together, catalyses cultural and societal change, encourages free spirit, instils discipline and significantly enough, te...
by | On 21 Sep 2016 Engaging is a major concern. Utilising the leisure time of the youth and harnessing their exuberance and raw energy for creative activities is essential. Simultaneously, but more substantially there i...
by United Nations (UN) | On 21 Sep 2016 The report begins with an overview of the Iron and Steel Industry in the context of its importance to Indian economy and introduces the objective of this study. The status of the industry by productio...
by | On 19 Sep 2016 Expanded international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills allows this paper to analyze potential sources of the cross-country variation of comparably estimated labor-market returns to skills i...
by | On 19 Sep 2016 Produced on the occasion of World Water Day 2007, which focused on the issue of water scarcity, this publication addresses the challenges of water scarcity in relation to climate change, rural areas,...
by Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO] | On 16 Sep 2016 This is particularly so when the current solar power capacity in the country has just touched
8000 MW by July end, 2016, and no country in the world has such an ambitious target as
India has set out...
by Ashok Gulati | On 16 Sep 2016 Climate change is a term that refers to major changes in temperature, rainfall, snow, or wind patterns lasting for decades or longer. Both human-made and natural factors contribute to climate change”...
by | On 14 Sep 2016 Current efforts to address global warming largely focus on mitigating climate change. However, in light of predictions of increased temperatures, rising sea levels, and changing disease patterns in In...
by | On 14 Sep 2016 The article review the issues related to climate change and its adverse impact on human health in India. Evidences shows that in India climate change has caused threat to public health from extreme we...
by Varsha Chorsiya | On 12 Sep 2016 Climate change has the potential to influence the earth’s biological systems, however, its effects on human health are not well defined. Developing nations with limited resources are expected to face...
by | On 12 Sep 2016 This paper sets out the water and food security challenges in Least Development Countries (LDCs) and developing countries. The document explores the rainfed-irrigation nexus in different regions of th...
by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNCTAD | On 12 Sep 2016 Food insecurity and under-nutrition remain pressing problems in the developing world. Despite their direct contribution to food production, small-scale farmers and their households are disproportionat...
by Steve Wiggins | On 06 Sep 2016 Many national and international environmental agreements acknowledge that the impoverishment of ecosystems is limiting the world’s capacity to adapt to climate change and that ecosystem-based adaptati...
by | On 05 Sep 2016 India is one of the world’s largest producers as well as consumer of food products, with the sector playing an important role in contributing to the development of the economy. Considering the critica...
by FICCI Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Indu | On 01 Sep 2016 Enhancing the ability of smallholders to connect with the knowledge, networks, and institutions necessary to improve their productivity, food security, and employment opportunities is a fundamental de...
by World Bank [WB] | On 01 Sep 2016 This study provided a brief discussion of the international migration, an age old common phenomenon is an emerging economic development issue and remittances growth. Approach: Each year Bangladesh exp...
by | On 31 Aug 2016 The high levels of under-nutrition and persisting hunger in the region not only calls for an assessment of the situation of food production and consumption but also issues like access to food by the p...
by Arindam Banerjee | On 31 Aug 2016 Comprehensive program evaluation requires capturing indirect effects of an intervention,
such as changes in leaders’ efforts and constituents’ attitudes towards leaders. We
study political economy r...
by | On 30 Aug 2016 This paper examines how to manage urban climate-related impacts by promoting planned and autonomous adaptation to improve climate change resilience. An analytical framework is developed by combining u...
by | On 29 Aug 2016 It is clear that positive policy action is needed to build the resilience of citizens and the state to changing climate and disaster shocks and stresses. What is not so clear is why there is a lag in...
by | On 29 Aug 2016 The ultimate goal of the resource manual is to ensure that all children
may equitably exercise their educational and environmental rights
in totality, as described in the Convention. The resource ma...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 29 Aug 2016 Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (referred to as “Ningxia”
below) is one of the most water stressed regions in China. In order to help governments and corporations gain a better understanding of water s...
by Lijin Zhong | On 29 Aug 2016 China and India have successfully integrated into the world economy. Once specialised in textiles, they have developed new export-oriented sectors linked to the information and communication technolog...
by | On 24 Aug 2016 Women farmers around the world are taking the lead in putting crop and varietal conservation and diversification strategies into practice as a way to strengthen local climate change adaptation capacit...
by | On 17 Aug 2016 To monitor changes in absolute poverty across time, it is crucial to ensure that the established poverty line is a fixed standard of living that represents the minimum standard required by an individu...
by Jose Ramon Alber | On 17 Aug 2016 This paper presents new data commissioned from the research consultancy CE Delft on the greenhouse gas emissions footprints and water scarcity footprints of major food commodities. The data demonstrat...
by Oxfam International | On 16 Aug 2016 The Global Forest Watch (GFW) Climate online platform
catalyzes action on climate change by providing timely and
credible answers to questions about the impacts of tropical
deforestation on global...
by nancy Harris | On 12 Aug 2016 the study has been able to highlight the increasing
role that agriculture credit is playing in supporting agriculture production in recent
times- credit accounted for 16% of the total value of paid...
by Sudha Narayanan | On 10 Aug 2016 This report reviews the main trends in global poverty, assesses projections on poverty trends for the medium term, and considers the implications for antipoverty policy. Three main points emerge from...
by Armando Barrientos | On 10 Aug 2016 Over the next several decades, the world faces an historic challenge and opportunity at the nexus of food security, economic development, and the environment. The world needs to be food secure. The wo...
by Craig Hanson | On 10 Aug 2016 SIDS underscore social development as one of the three dimensions of sustainable development key to ensuring results are achieved for most vulnerable and disadvantaged. Small island developing states...
by UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs UNDESA | On 09 Aug 2016 This Work Programme will leverage research and innovation to address major societal challenges. Ensuring food and nutritional security, together with resource efficiency, and facing climate change. Ac...
by European union | On 09 Aug 2016 India is moving towards introducing a Goods and Services Tax (GST). The GST
would be a multistage comprehensive value added tax (VAT) encompassing both
goods and services. Given the federal structur...
by Sacchidananda Mukherjee | On 09 Aug 2016 70% of the population engaged in agriculture. The vast majority of the poor and food insecure are in rural areas. Therefore poverty alleviation and food security must start in these areas. The most cr...
by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNCTAD | On 09 Aug 2016 This paper revisits the role of manufacturing and services in economic development in the light of the following new facts: (a) a faster growth of services than that of manufacturing in many developin...
by | On 08 Aug 2016 The working paper attempts to describe the correlation between migration and child labour by reviewing secondary data of migrant children with or without their families, and children left-behind by th...
by | On 04 Aug 2016 This section looks at a range of factors that enable progress towards food security and nutrition goals. The list of factors – economic growth, agricultural productivity growth, markets (including int...
by Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO] | On 03 Aug 2016 The share of coastal shipping in the modal mix of domestic freight
transportation in India is currently very low despite it being more costeffective,
fuel-efficient and environment-friendly compared...
by Lavanya Ravikanth Anneboina | On 03 Aug 2016 A further subsidy in the form of credit support was estimated to be between CNY 3.5 and 35.7 billion (USD 0.57 billion and USD 5.8 billion). The major subsidies included tax relief, investment in asse...
by | On 02 Aug 2016 The time is opportune to ensure the causes and consequences of this urgent issue are better addressed. Policy makers are pushing for concerted progress across humanitarian and sustainable development...
by | On 01 Aug 2016 CSTEP organised a stakeholder consultation workshop on the wind energy sector at the request of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) recently. The main objectives of this workshop were to d...
by | On 27 Jul 2016 The impact of South-South migration on the income of migrants and natives is smaller than for South-North migration. However, even small increases in income can have substantial welfare implications f...
by | On 27 Jul 2016 Labor migration presents both challenges and opportunities in today’s global world. As the scale, scope, and complexity of the phenomenon have grown, states and other stakeholders have become aware of...
by Sridhar K. Khatri | On 27 Jul 2016 At the 16th session of Conference of Parties (COP) to the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the COP adopted
decisions in which it decided to establish a Green Climate F...
by Prodipto Ghosh | On 26 Jul 2016 Khadi sector is an over-regulated one in India, where the entire production process, sales, distribution, and marketing is fully regulated by the government. The paper examines the growth of Khadi sec...
by Lekshmi R Nair | On 25 Jul 2016 This paper discusses the role of fossil-based power generation technologies in supporting renewable energy investments. It studies the deployment of technologies conditional on all other drivers in 26...
by Elena Verdolini | On 25 Jul 2016 Migration research commonly assumes that youth migrate as dependent family members or are motivated by current labor opportunities and immediate financial returns. These perspectives ignore how migrat...
by | On 25 Jul 2016 The agenda is a road map for people that will
build on the success of the Millennium Development Goals and ensure sustainable social and economic progress worldwide. It seeks not only to eradicate ex...
by United Nations (UN) | On 20 Jul 2016 This paper analyses what is possible as a low carbon scenario for India using India Energy Security Scenarios-2047 tool developed by the erstwhile Planning Commission and later refined by its successo...
by Montek Ahluwalia | On 19 Jul 2016 The MDG on hunger requires that the proportion of people suffering from hunger be halved between 1990 and 2015. Behind this apparently simple statement lies much complexity: the food intake required t...
by | On 19 Jul 2016 This paper reviews the current state of the literature on Indian urbanization to analyze existing urban development trajectories at the state level in order to understand the challenges Indian cities...
by Meenu Tewari | On 15 Jul 2016 The paper investigates the dynamic relationship between movements in oil prices and exchange rates with macroeconomic variables like price, output, interest rate and money by using structural vector a...
by Taniya Ghosh | On 12 Jul 2016 The term “Demographic Dividend” is a much talked about subject today. In India, it has also been a cynosure of discussion. It is a population bulge in the working age category and occurs when a fallin...
by Suhas Roy | On 11 Jul 2016 This new era has created challenges and opportunities for societies throughout the world. It also has served to underscore the clear linkage between migration and development, as well as the opportuni...
by United Nations (UN) | On 07 Jul 2016 This paper presents Asia-Pacific’s likely progress across the Sustainable Development Goals agenda, if trends continue on their current trajectories. Some Asian countries have been the world’s top per...
by | On 07 Jul 2016 Crude oil and other petroleum products play an important role in India’s energy security and in sustaining its high growth rate. Against that background, this document empirically analyses petroleum d...
by Pradeep Agrawal | On 07 Jul 2016 Facing scarcity of a production factor, a firm can develop technologies to either substitute the scarce factor
(price effect) or complement the more abundant factors (market size effect). Whether th...
by zhibo Tan | On 06 Jul 2016 Directors are liable for any act of omission or commission. They have a reputation to protect. While Independent directors might engage in passive monitoring; when apprised of a decision where the pro...
by Preet Singh | On 05 Jul 2016 This report has benefited from substantial input from many people, including the members of the Thematic Group and hundreds of suggestions received from experts representing all sectors of agriculture...
by | On 05 Jul 2016 Taxation policies in India have historically not been environmentally oriented. A tax system is needed whic is environmentally more rational. It is argued in this study that India is currently going...
by D K Srivastava | On 01 Jul 2016 The Climate Knowledge and Development Network supported a Vulnerability and Risk Assessment process in Uttarakhand to provide the Government of Uttarakhand with the evidence base to refine and priorit...
by Climate and Development Knowledge Network CDKN | On 30 Jun 2016 In recent years, China has developed and implemented
a range of policies to address climate change, reduce
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and transition toward
a low-carbon and climate-resilient s...
by Katherine Ross | On 30 Jun 2016 All living beings on earth need water for their daily life. As it is becoming scarce and the demand is increasing proper management of water is needed.
by Aakriti Singh | On 30 Jun 2016 Global commodity prices surge of 2007-08 sent an inflationary shock across the countries. 2014 global
prices descend resulted in significant disinflation in many countries and even deflation in some
...
by Muhammad Nadim Hanif | On 30 Jun 2016 A persistent multi-year drought in Central and Southwest Asia has affected close to 60 million people as of November 2001. Chronic political instability in many parts of this region and the recent mil...
by | On 24 Jun 2016 This study is to scout, spawn and sustain grassroots green innovations and outstanding traditional knowledge. It studies the creative and innovative coping strategies of knowledge rich-economically po...
by Anil K Gupta | On 24 Jun 2016 Food security is a priority issue in Nepal. In spite of recent progress, Nepal is amongst the most at-risk countries in the world in terms of prevalence of stunting and wasting: 42 per cent of childre...
by World Food Programme WFP | On 24 Jun 2016 The study attempts to measure the total benefits from rice varietal improvement research in China and India using variety adoption and performance data over the last two decades. It then uses informat...
by | On 23 Jun 2016 The problems of food security and agriculture should be viewed within the context of the broader structural transformation as Asia becomes increasingly urban and nonagricultural. This paper aims to re...
by Asian Bank | On 23 Jun 2016 There was a felt to revise the National Forest Policy, 1988
to integrate the vision of sustainable forest management
based on the principles of ecosystem approach,
landscape level planning and the...
by Indian Institute of Forest Management IIFM | On 21 Jun 2016 There are efforts to control inflation. A new governor and the committee should try to bring low inflation future for India which has got many benefits.
by Raghuram G. Rajan | On 21 Jun 2016 Review of Inside-Outside: Two Views of Social Change in Rural India. Edited by B. S. Baviskar and D. W. Attwood, Sage Publications, New Delh, 2014.
by | On 20 Jun 2016 The sustainable management and restoration of our landscapes – achieving land degradation neutrality - will deliver many co-benefits. From biodiversity conservation and combating climate change to ens...
by | On 17 Jun 2016 The farm household model has played a central role in improving the understanding of small-scale agricultural households and non-farm enterprises. Under the assumptions that all current and future mar...
by Daniel LaFave | On 17 Jun 2016 This study is an attempt to use group information collected from different farmers (e.g.marginal, small, and medium farmers and tenants) in eastern Uttar Pradesh in India to address a question relevan...
by Amarnath Tripathi | On 16 Jun 2016 Almost a billion people around
the world are now suffering from hunger and
malnutrition - a dramatic rise in number since the
soaring food prices over the last three years. Of
these, about half ar...
by Focus on the Global South FGS | On 10 Jun 2016 A number of initiatives have been taken by the government as well as the private sector to address the challenge of energy access in India. In this context, WWF-India conducted a study to measure/asse...
by | On 09 Jun 2016 In India, a majority of rural households meet their energy requirements from traditional fuel sources, such as fuel wood, agricultural residues and kerosene. Statistics shows that 21 percent of villag...
by | On 09 Jun 2016 The paper examines the effects of political strikes and labour unrest on production in 33 large ready-made garment factories in Bangladesh. We find that the political strikes (hartals) lasting one or...
by | On 08 Jun 2016 The report details how rising CO2 emissions are altering the chemical balance of our oceans and outlines the wide-ranging consequences of this emerging issue on marine food chains and ecosystems as we...
by United Nations Environment Programme UNEP | On 07 Jun 2016 The objective of this report is to catalyse thinking about the ways in which agriculture – which has a vital role in global food security, development and natural resources use – can and must be fully...
by Aziz Elbehri | On 06 Jun 2016 The role of one
consumption-based solution: shifting the diets of populations who consume high amounts of calories, protein, and animal-based foods are analysed. Specifically, we consider three
in...
by Janet Ranganathan | On 06 Jun 2016 Honor and stigma play a role in environmental protection. Environmental honors are bestowed on
people and firms who go out of their way to do right by the environment. Similarly, environmental
stigm...
by Prasenjit Banerjee | On 03 Jun 2016 Rising emission of greenhouse gasses (GHGs) and growing economic
inequalities have emerged as key challenges for policymakers over the
past two decades and the problems are likely to intensify in th...
by Unmesh Patnaik | On 03 Jun 2016 This study, based on analysis of secondary data, assesses the current state of electricity access in PHCs and rural primary schools. Given the increasing policy support for solar energy in India, it a...
by | On 02 Jun 2016 The UNEP Year Book 2012 examines emerging environmental issues and policy-relevant developments,
while providing an overview of the latest trends based on key environmental indicators. It spotlights...
by United Nations Environment Programme UNEP | On 02 Jun 2016 This inaugural report provides an analysis of developing countries’ overall RE and EE initiatives, as well as specific projects and case studies that detail their countries’ implementation of EE and R...
by United Nations Environment Programme UNEP | On 02 Jun 2016 Wind energy is a very important contributor in the global power sector, today, contributing nearly 4% of overall electricity generation. The main drivers include energy security, climate change and en...
by Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy CSTEP | On 01 Jun 2016 Climate variability and climate change pose an enormous pressure on population, infrastructure, livelihood, and socio-economic conditions. Evidences of climate change are already visible on many secto...
by Vimal Mishra | On 30 May 2016 The present handbook is designed to provide United Nations country teams and national and international stakeholders with guidance on the definitions, rationale, concepts and sources of the data for t...
by United Nations (UN) | On 27 May 2016 People’s Science Institute carried out the first trials of the
System of Wheat Intensification (SWI) during rabi 2006-
07. Starting with systematic research trials on farmers’
fields, SWI practice...
by Ravi Chopra | On 27 May 2016 Climate mitigation programmes and finance mechanisms like Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) must engage millions of forest farmers if they are to halt deforestation...
by Jeffrey Campbell | On 25 May 2016 Charcoal is the main cooking energy source for people living in Maputo city. It is also a crucial source of income for rural producers in Mabalane district, a key supplier of Maputo’s charcoal. But Ma...
by Sophia Baumert | On 25 May 2016 This paper focuses on the automobile industry and examines the nature of global value chains in it with reference to the case of India. The aim is to explore the relation between lead firms, particula...
by Saon Ray | On 23 May 2016 Climate refugees are basically poor, helpless people forced to migrate from their homes because of climatic changes. Even as migration stands to be the most time-tested coping mechanism of the people,...
by | On 19 May 2016 The policy guidelines were developed as part of the pilot project 'Incorporating Needs and Roles of Women in Water and Energy Management in Rural Areas in South Asia-Capacity Building in Rural Areas o...
by | On 18 May 2016 This publication highlights the link between rainwater harvesting, ecosystems and human wellbeing and draws the attention of readers to both the negative and positive aspects of using this technology...
by | On 18 May 2016 "Modern energy access” is finally on the international agenda, but the current common definition of 100 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per capita per year is far too low.
To reflect likely demand and historica...
by Todd Moss | On 18 May 2016 The interministerial group will rework its strategy on labour laws and tweak it in such a manner that it maximises benefits for both workers and employers. In this paper, we outline the manner in whi...
by Shamika Ravi | On 18 May 2016 Solving the problem of environmental threats and a dwindling biodiversity has been on the international agenda for some decades now. The formulation of environmental questions, however, is changing sl...
by | On 18 May 2016 Biodiversity is the variability among living organisms, including genetic and structural difference between individual and within and between individual and within and between species. Biodiversity pl...
by | On 18 May 2016 Kerala has the largest proportion of land area under wetlands among all the states of India, changes to which can significantly affect ecosystem processes. Compared to other states of the country, wet...
by Sheeba Abraham | On 17 May 2016 Management of regulated water systems has become increasingly
complex due to rapid socio-economic growth and environmental changes in river basins over recent decades. This paper focusses on the publ...
by Zareena Begum Irfan | On 17 May 2016 Now in its 11th edition, The Global Risks Report 2016 draws attention to ways that global risks could evolve and interact in the next decade. The year 2016 marks a forceful departure from past finding...
by [WEF] World Economic Forum | On 11 May 2016 The impacts of climate change will be channeled primarily through the water cycle, with consequences that could be large and uneven across the globe. Water-related climate risks cascade through food,...
by World Bank [WB] | On 11 May 2016 The air pollution in Delhi is shown and how the air quality index is calculated and the health impacts are shown here.
by J.K. Bassin | On 11 May 2016 The Indian Railway (IR) system is one of the four railway systems in the world that transports more than one billion tonnes of traffic annually.
As against a growth of 4 per cent to 4.5 per cent in t...
by Saurabh Bandyopadhyay | On 09 May 2016 The episode of volatility starting on May 22, 2013, when Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke first spoke of the possibility of the US central bank “tapering” its security purchases, had a sharp nega...
by Shekhar Shah | On 09 May 2016 The lecture examines the recent developments in the external sector and address some critical issues such as the appropriate level of current account deficit, exchange rate policy, adequacy of reserve...
by C. Rangarajan | On 06 May 2016 Rivers in Kerala are assailed by pollution, sedimentation, sand mining, and constriction of flows. The indiscriminate and unscientific sand mining,
even in the midst of many regulatory and protective...
by Lakshmi Sreedhar | On 04 May 2016 Climate change combat is often in the hands of policy-makers, researchers and
governments. However it is the marginalised and indigenous communities that feel
the full force of climate change effect...
by Serina Rahman | On 03 May 2016 Derivatives are an integral risk management tool for business entities and financial institutions. However, derivatives markets can also lead to excessive and opaque risk taking which may result in sy...
by Reserve Bank of India RBI | On 03 May 2016 This paper examines what the empirical evidence has to say about the strength of monetary transmission in India, using the structural vector autoregression (SVAR) methods that have been applied broadl...
by | On 02 May 2016 This paper presents a quantitative assessment of Sustainable Energy Security (SES) of the energy demand sub-system for India by calculating a SES index. The demand sub-system has been evaluated for fo...
by | On 02 May 2016 It is going to be 25 years since India embarked on big-bang economic reforms in 1991. What are the achievements in terms of growth and inclusive growth in the post-reform period? What are the issues i...
by S. Mahendra Dev | On 02 May 2016 The transition to a low carbon economy heralds an economic and social transformation that is exciting as well as challenging. The challenges that face India include: enhancing economic opportunities a...
by | On 02 May 2016 The paper describes the institutional features of these markets, with special emphasis on the process of liberalization and deepening in Indian FX markets, in the context of global integration. Since...
by Ashima Goyal | On 02 May 2016 This paper shows that the institutional changes such as Inflation Targeting (IT) helps lower inflation without depending upon the level of Central Bank Independence (CBI) in a country as is suggested...
by | On 02 May 2016 Using an indicator-based approach, the present study develops a framework for
sustainable energy security of India. First, it presents the energy supply and demand situation in the country under diff...
by | On 02 May 2016 This paper evaluates the case for greater exchange rate coordination in South Asia. With inter-regional integration in South Asia progressing at a faster pace than the region's integration with the wo...
by Rajeswari Sengupta | On 02 May 2016 This paper revisits the Dornbusch exchange rate overshooting in a different model setting.
by Taniya Ghosh | On 02 May 2016 This study investigates the effects of the 2008 global financial crisis on the performance of different
microfinance ownership types. The analysis in this study relies on a novel methodological frame...
by Mahinda Wijesiri | On 02 May 2016 This report is aimed at better informing that debate by demystifying the
global and South Asian apparel markets, estimating the potential gains in exports and jobs (including for women), and identify...
by Gladys Lopez Acevedo | On 29 Apr 2016 The report argues that state responses to women’s claims making provide a complex and variegated picture of a non-linear, slow, sporadic and contingent process of policy change, with iterations and re...
by Shraddha Chigateri | On 29 Apr 2016 This paper investigates the relative effectiveness of the different media
used by the state government of Odisha, India to disseminate Information, Education and Communication (IEC) material to avert...
by Saudamini Das | On 28 Apr 2016 This is a 2011 Census report on Population, Size and Decadal Change in Kerala
by Census India | On 27 Apr 2016 The Communication sets out the EU's vision for a transparent and dynamic, legally binding United Nations climate change agreement that sets the world on a pathway to prevent global warming from reachi...
by European union | On 26 Apr 2016 Energy is used to heat and to cool buildings and homes, transport goods, and power the economy. But with ageing infrastructure, poorly integrated markets, and uncoordinated policies, our consumers,
h...
by European union | On 26 Apr 2016 The 2030 Policy Framework confirms the EU's firm commitment to lead by example in tackling climate change. It sets out a binding, economy-wide domestic reduction target of at least 40% greenhouse gas...
by European union | On 26 Apr 2016 Food security in the 76 low- and middle-income countries included in this report is expected to improve between 2014 and 2015. These countries are low- and middle-income countries as classified by the...
by Anthony Murray | On 12 Apr 2016 A gradual moderation in growth is currently underway in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). This is the result of a combination of factors, including a shrinking working-age population, the natural...
by | On 06 Apr 2016 A study was undertaken by the Council for Social Development with the sponsorship of Planning Commission, Government of India with the following specific objectives to analyse the impact of NFSM initi...
by Ankita Goyal | On 05 Apr 2016 IFPRI’s Flagship Report puts into perspective the major food policy issues, developments, and decisions of 2015 and highlights challenges and opportunities for 2016. This year’s report takes an in-dep...
by International Food Policy Research Institute | On 04 Apr 2016 Rate of coastal erosion in the Indian Sundarban have been measured to be
about5.50 sq kms / year within the time frame of 2001 - 2009 and eventually it is most
dominant in the south western edges of...
by Sugata Hazra | On 29 Mar 2016 The Global Energy Architecture Performance Index Report 2016 ranks 126 countries on their ability to deliver secure, affordable and sustainable energy. The results of the global Energy Architecture Pe...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 22 Mar 2016 The economic structure and rates of growth across the states in India are markedly different, with significant disparities in income per capita growth as well as sector-specific performance. The high-...
by Alokesh Barua | On 21 Mar 2016 The paper traces the impact of welfare and development on the Nicobarese not only in terms of economic and social domination, but in relation to its influence on cultural meanings and practices. The
...
by Ajay Saini | On 21 Mar 2016 Optimality of pro-cyclical monetary policy in the presence of informal sector and firm level
constraint is analysed. The findings suggest that in case of export demand shock pro-cyclical monetary pol...
by Waqas Ahmed | On 21 Mar 2016 India-Bangladesh relations are advancing rapidly in recent times. There are of course some impediments such as non-tariff barriers (NTBs) in trade, and the Teesta water-sharing dispute that need to be...
by Chandrani Sarma | On 21 Mar 2016 In 2010, Cambodia outlined a plan aimed at developing its rice sector into a major rice exporting country. The rice sector was chosen due to comparative advantages in land, perceptions of significant...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 18 Mar 2016 This report discusses specific climate change impact and vulnerabilities, and identifies technologies needed to help reduce those vulnerabilities.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 18 Mar 2016 Since April 1, 2015, India’s cooking gas subsidies have been distributed by electronic transfer through the Direct Benefit Transfer for Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) scheme (known as DBTL, or PAHAL1 )...
by | On 18 Mar 2016 Existence of Environmental Kuznet’s Curve (EKC) is an empirical issue to analyze as evidence from the literature has been mixed. This study focuses on indoor air pollution generated from the use of fu...
by K.S. Kavi Kumar | On 16 Mar 2016 In this paper, we empirically investigate the episodes of currency market stress/crisis in India during the period 1992 – 2012 with the help of a monthly EMP index for India constructed for this perio...
by Anuradha Guru | On 16 Mar 2016 The paper explores the potential effect of intergovernmental grants (IGG) on sub-national (local) environmental policy in a federal structure. In the model, a politically-inclined local government rec...
by Divya Datt | On 15 Mar 2016 This paper tries to explain India’s manufacturing growth performance in terms of the technological conditions of production, namely, the returns to scale (RTS) and the elasticity of substitution (ES)...
by Alokesh Barua | On 15 Mar 2016 This paper empirically examines human capital’s contribution to economy-wide technological progress and also on technical efficiency gain depending on its distance to frontier in a panel of 75 countri...
by Sujata Basu | On 15 Mar 2016 This paper presents an economic analysis of science research and knowledge creation in Indian universities. We posit that faculty’s research effort is an outcome of her optimum time allocation decisio...
by Sabyasachi Saha | On 15 Mar 2016 In the context of EU and OECD countries, formal employment contracts between the employer and employee for full time work can still be taken to be the norm, despite the growth of non-standard forms of...
by | On 15 Mar 2016 The Metaguidelines for Water and Climate Change were developed by the Asia–Pacific Water Forum (APWF) and Asian Development Bank (ADB) in collaboration with the Global Water Partnership (GWP). This pu...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 Mar 2016 This report is the outcome of the regional technical assistance on Strengthening Institutional Capacity to Compile and Analyze Financial Soundness Indicators for Investment Climate Assessment (RETA 77...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 Mar 2016 This report aims to support the national carbon emission reduction plan in railway station buildings; to learn and make use of the advanced technologies in international building management; and to en...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 Mar 2016 The objective of this study is to systematically assess the prevalence of different types of fossil fuel subsidies in Indonesia and analyze the potential impacts of their removal. It is hoped that thi...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 Mar 2016 The objective of this study is to systematically assess the prevalence of different types of fossil fuel subsidies in Thailand and analyze the potential impacts of their removal. It is hoped that this...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 Mar 2016 This report discusses the experiences and commonly encountered issues when developing railway interchange hubs. It proposes basic design principles as well as research approaches. The report focuses o...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 Mar 2016 The education systems in Asia, including technical and vocational education and training (TVET), were well suited at the time to allow Asia to become the world’s assembly line. In simple terms, formal...
by Sungsup Ra | On 15 Mar 2016 Recent years have witnessed a large number of studies and reports aimed generally at providing estimates of the economic costs of climate change and of the economic costs of adaptation to climate chan...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 Mar 2016 The study considers key trends, in terms of disaster incidence, sources of vulnerability, and social and economic impacts. This is followed by discussions of some of the major issues: compound disaste...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 Mar 2016 The goal in this article is to articulate the methodology used in this book to bring out the several dimensions on which it differs from current approaches to social science. Among the key differences...
by Asad Zaman | On 14 Mar 2016 With last week’s WTO ruling against India on a complaint by the US in early 2013 that India’s Domestic Content Requirement (DCR) for some solar power projects violating WTO prohibitions, it is incumbe...
by D Raghunandan | On 14 Mar 2016 The “shale gas revolution” in the US could provide significant leverage in the US “pivot” to Asia. As China looks to absorb the technological know-how of shale gas extraction from North America, great...
by | On 12 Mar 2016 As India prepares for the release of its long anticipated shale gas policy, pressure continues to mount on New Delhi. An increase in coal imports over the past 12 months has demonstrated the stress on...
by | On 12 Mar 2016 Drug production is a significant factor in widespread environmental degradation, yet a lack of reliable data makes it difficult to pinpoint the extent of this damage. Future research should be directe...
by | On 12 Mar 2016 After a period of stability between China and Vietnam in the South China Sea with positive developments in terms of dispute management, China’s dispatch of a drilling rig to areas west of the Paracel...
by | On 11 Mar 2016 While Russia and China are heralding a new “strategic partnership,” this policy brief explores how competition between the two countries may increasingly emerge in regard to Central Asia—a region wher...
by | On 11 Mar 2016 Biofuels are acquiring importance due to their potential to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. The two most important biofuels – viz., bioethanol and bio-diesel, are largely considered supplementary t...
by K.S. Kavi Kumar | On 11 Mar 2016 In this paper we present a choice function of a rural household about her/his ward?s schooling. It makes an empirical evaluation on the basis of simple theoretical framework using primary data set, su...
by Debdulal Thakur | On 11 Mar 2016 This study examines the Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth of the preexisting units on a balanced sample for ten years (1998-1999 to 2007- 2008) following the Levinsohn and Petrin (2003) technique...
by Santosh Kumar Sahu | On 11 Mar 2016 Recreation is an important ecosystem service in coastal and marine ecosystems. The methodology for valuing recreational services is well developed in the literature. To the best of our knowledge, this...
by Pranab Mukhopadhyay | On 10 Mar 2016 Our study investigates the determinants and use of cash holdings by Indian companies. Using a large sample of manufacturing firms that are publicly traded on Bombay Stock exchange for the period of 19...
by Ekta Selarka | On 10 Mar 2016 The adverse fiscal effects of fuel subsidies in developing countries like India are well documented. More recently, few studies have highlighted the fiscal, welfare and environmental effects of possib...
by Brinda Viswanathan | On 10 Mar 2016 In Pakistan, despite an increase in per capita food availability and resultant rise in per capita calorie and protein intake, the prevalence of malnutrition has not improved over last 20 years [Nation...
by Sarfraz K. Qureshi | On 10 Mar 2016 Pakistan has implemented various structural change and stabilisation programmes over the last twelve years with a view to improving the levels of efficiency and consequently higher levels of output an...
by A.R. Kemal | On 10 Mar 2016 This study intends to analyze the impact of fiscal policy relating to subsidies (production and consumption subsidies), government current expenditure and expenditure on health and education on income...
by Zafar Iqbal | On 10 Mar 2016 In the present SAM, the input-output industry classifications have been condensed into five main production accounts namely agriculture, industry, health, education and other sectors. The SAM 1989-90...
by Rizwana Siddiqui | On 10 Mar 2016 The objective in this study is to examine the issues and constraints faced by the power sector in Pakistan. The paper will try to evaluate the reasons behind the current energy crisis despite present...
by Afia Malik | On 10 Mar 2016 The paper explores possible frontiers of historical-institutionalist analysis. It argues three points: that progress will require a return from a static to a dynamic perspective in which change is no...
by Wolfgang Streeck | On 09 Mar 2016 The neo-classical economics literature incorporated the notion of environment during the mid 20th century, but climate change has found its place in the economics discourse during the early 1980s. Dur...
by Unmesh Patnaik | On 09 Mar 2016 The paper develops a new econometric framework that simultaneously allows recovering heterogeneity in demand, TFP and markups across firms while leaving the correlation among the three unrestricted. W...
by Emanuele Forlani | On 09 Mar 2016 Multiproduct firms dominate production, and their product turnover contributes substantially to aggregate growth. Firms continually adapt their product mix, but what determines which products firms ex...
by Johannes Boehm | On 09 Mar 2016 The paper analyse the institutional designs for welfare system in Korea and their possible effects on the establishment of a welfare state. The paper also discusses some possible effects of the recent...
by Yeon-Myung KIM | On 09 Mar 2016 The allocation of scarce budgetary resources away from ‘alternative’ channels of social security underscores interlocking concerns: a) the financial drain that marriages of girls pose to families and...
by Praveena Kodoth | On 09 Mar 2016 This article intends to bring to light the energy security concept in the region, while analyzing how this multilateral cooperative energy scheme can contribute to building a new regional economic sec...
by Se Hyun Ahn | On 09 Mar 2016 This paper looks into the role of community based natural resource management focussing on the Joint Forest Management (JFM) in India. The analysis presented is the result of triangulation of critical...
by Madhusudan Bandi | On 09 Mar 2016 The year 2009 marks a new era of change. One would immediately associate it with the Obama administration and its promises for change, such as the US policies in addressing climate change. A shift has...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 06 Mar 2016 Due to the pragmatic need for ensuring energy security, governments of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have to date emphasised the potential economic and technological benefits of n...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 06 Mar 2016 Notwithstanding the global financial crisis, energy security remains one of the top priorities for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The need to reduce reliance on fossil fuels in th...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 05 Mar 2016 This NTS-Alert examines the nexus between water management and food security in Asia and how climate change exacerbates the adverse impacts that result from poor water management. It then highlights t...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 05 Mar 2016 With less than 11 weeks to the UNFCCC meeting in Copenhagen, the United Nations Climate Summit was held on 22 September 2009, in a bid to rally international support and action against climate change....
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 05 Mar 2016 Southeast Asia is potentially one of the more vulnerable regions to climate change impacts, as many of the countries in the region have relatively low levels of development, weak infrastructure, long...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 05 Mar 2016 In the last two years, there has been a proliferation of acquisitions of farmland in resource-rich but capital-starved countries in the Global South. International reports attribute this trend to gove...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 05 Mar 2016 India’s latest Budget focuses on the rural sector and the economically vulnerable sections and makes large allocations for agriculture and social sector programmes without compromising on fiscal disci...
by Amitendu Palit | On 04 Mar 2016 The 2010 Corruption Perceptions Index reveals that nearly three quarters of the 178 countries in the index have a score of below five, on a scale of 10 (highly clean) to 0 (highly corrupt). Denmark, N...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 03 Mar 2016 The recent UN Climate Change Conference (COP16) in Cancun, Mexico concluded on a generally positive note as growing optimism replaced the disappointment that defined the 2009 talks in Copenhagen.While...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 03 Mar 2016 As with previous annual meetings of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), outcomes of the recently concluded 16th Conference of the Parties (COP16) have implications for...
by J. Ewing | On 03 Mar 2016 The recent 2010 UN climate change conference in Cancún, Mexico, and the resulting Cancun Agreement, has shown that there is an increasing recognition of the need to protect the poor and vulnerable in...
by | On 03 Mar 2016 Geoengineering techniques are currently experiencing a surge of interest, as it has become widely accepted that global warming is both real and potentially problematic. The historical failure to contr...
by Jochen Pranti | On 03 Mar 2016 The debate on the risks and opportunities of geoengineering is currently gaining momentum. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is, for the first time, assessing the scientific basis as well...
by | On 03 Mar 2016 The problems caused by Japan’s recent nuclear power plant crisis have revived the debate on the future of nuclear energy. Discussions appear to be centred around the dilemma of whether or not to rely...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 03 Mar 2016 The Jakarta Post recently reported experts as saying that ‘[e]xtreme weather caused by climate change has given people another reason to migrate’. The comment was made in reference to a soon-to-be rel...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 03 Mar 2016 Hydroclimate variations since 1300 in central and monsoonal Asia and their interplay on interannual and interdecadal timescales are investigated using the tree-ring based Palmer Drought Severity Index...
by Keyan Fang | On 03 Mar 2016 The controversy surrounding the Australia¬Malaysia refugee swap agreement that would have seen 800 asylum seekers sent to Malaysia in exchange for 4,000 processed refugees took a decisive turn on 31...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 02 Mar 2016 Prior to the triple disaster of March 2011, Japan was perceived as one of the more well-prepared nations in the world in the area of disaster response. However, the earthquake, tsunami and most partic...
by Sofiah Jamil | On 02 Mar 2016 In 2011, China’s nuclear power ambitions were shaken, first by the Fukushima disaster which undermined public trust in nuclear energy worldwide, then by the spectacular crash of China’s flagship trans...
by | On 02 Mar 2016 The papers by the experts from the region furnish close studies of crucial issues and actors. They examine climate impacts on coastal ecosystems, explore adaptation strategies, and illuminate the poli...
by Amit Pandya | On 02 Mar 2016 For a long time, sending countries have been the focus of efforts to combat trafficking in persons (TIP). However, in recent years, destination countries such as Singapore have also stepped up their e...
by Pau Hangzo | On 01 Mar 2016 This paper analyses the various legal, political, military and economic circumstances of the two territorial disputes in the ECS, and it evaluates the approaches by both sides to turn the ECS from a `...
by Reinhard Drifte | On 01 Mar 2016 In this paper, we take as given the need for public action on climate change (see Stern, 2007), and that carbon taxation is one of the key instruments for influencing both behaviour of consumers and p...
by Ehtisham Ahmad | On 01 Mar 2016 Should tax reforms be guided by rules of thumb suggested by the IMF, or directions or reform based on analytical approaches, such as optimal tax theory? In many cases, the applications of the directio...
by Ehtisham Ahmad | On 01 Mar 2016 Climate-induced migration is not a new phenomenon but is slowly becoming the new found focus as researchers have begun taking up a range of studies. A lot of literature has already been out there as a...
by Sarabjit Kaur | On 01 Mar 2016 Annual food production is enough to feed the 6.9 billion people in the world today. However, access and distribution of food in order that people do not have to die due to hunger continues to remain e...
by Ruth Kattumuri | On 01 Mar 2016 In this paper, we examine the asymmetric approaches to sharing natural resource revenues in Indonesia. We examine in Section 2, some of the potential theoretical arguments underlying...
by Cut Agustina | On 01 Mar 2016 Trends regarding the central government’s sources of financing including tax revenue, disinvestments, and its revenue and capital expenditure, including subsidies. Estimates are presented in the 2016-...
by Mandira Kala | On 01 Mar 2016 We present a framework for the analysis of tax and benefit policy in countries with significant informality. Our framework allows us to jointly analyse the e!ects of various taxes and benefits on ince...
by Ehtisham Ahmad | On 01 Mar 2016 A central theme in all the studies of Palanpur that have been undertaken to date has been the changing nature of agriculture. One of the reasons for selecting Palanpur from amongst the many villages t...
by Himanshu Prof | On 29 Feb 2016 The analysis of the paper begins in the next section by setting out broad economic changes in India as key context for change in Palanpur, with a particular focus on the three drivers set out above; s...
by Himanshu Prof | On 29 Feb 2016 India's policy on agriculture in the context of climate change, is foregrounded by the need to produce enough grain to meet the food requirements of the country. To promote sustainable agriculture, po...
by | On 29 Feb 2016 Empirical evidence suggests that the emergence of international production networks in East Asia results from market-driven forces such as vertical specialization and higher production costs in the ho...
by Kornkarun Cheewatrakoolpong | On 29 Feb 2016 This paper explores the “black box” of innovation in the electronics production network in East Asia through a mapping exercise of technological capabilities and an econometric analysis of exporting i...
by Ganeshan Wignaraja | On 29 Feb 2016 This study provides a conceptual framework to explain what kinds of difficulties a late-follower will suffer from when it tries to join pre-existing International Production Networks (IPNs). We consid...
by Jeongmeen Suh | On 29 Feb 2016 This executive summary attempts to measure developed new techniques of measuring poverty. These techniques will be discussed here. The attempts to measure absolute poverty in India were made to know w...
by Manoranjan Pal | On 29 Feb 2016 The government recognizes the urgency and importance of the actions that need to be taken collectively to meet the ultimate objective of the Convention i.e. stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations i...
by Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Chang GOI | On 29 Feb 2016 The toolkit contains a list of practical climate friendly initiatives that can be adopted by individuals, educational institutions, and workplaces with detailed calculations of annual CO 2 emissions r...
by Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Chang GOI | On 29 Feb 2016 The GoI, in collaboration with Global Environment Facility (GEF), has been addressing critical gaps related to policy, regulation, capacity, technology, management and finance. The completed GEF proje...
by Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Chang GOI | On 29 Feb 2016 Implementation of the Adaptation Fund and GCF direct access modalities is still in a relatively early stage. (The Adaptation Fund accredited its first implementing entities in 2010; the GCF did so in...
by Indira Masullo | On 29 Feb 2016 WRI is keen to track its on-ground impact to serve as a feedback mechanism to Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission (KERC) and as a learning for other state regulators who may be looking for sol...
by Deepak Sriram Krishnan | On 29 Feb 2016 This paper serves as background for a South Asian regional workshop that will bring together adaptation information users and producers to inform likely new investments in the information base for cli...
by Ayesha Dinshaw | On 29 Feb 2016 This paper studies price discovery and volatility in the context of introduction of Nifty futures at the National Stock Exchange (NSE) in June 2000. Cointegration and Generalised Auto Regressive Cond...
by M. T. Raju | On 28 Feb 2016 This paper presents an overview of the corporate debt market in India. A study of the structure and the status of the corporate debt market along with the current policies initiated by Securities and...
by M. T. Raju | On 28 Feb 2016 In September, the Japanese government announced that it would phase out nuclear energy by 2040. Just one week later, it stepped back from specifying an explicit timeframe. The about-turn illustrates J...
by Lina Gong | On 27 Feb 2016 Is the new Green Climate Fund (GCF) set to be yet another unwieldy addition to the climate finance web? While the form of the GCF, and its functions, has yet to be fully determined, it has been framed...
by Sofiah Jamil | On 27 Feb 2016 Reactions to December’s UN climate change talks in Doha have been defined largely by frustration with the pace, scope and ambition of the process. Exasperated and often derisive voices lament the va...
by Gianna Gayle Amul | On 27 Feb 2016 On 18 June 2013, Dr J. Jackson Ewing sat down with Professor Ibrahim Gambari to discuss his views on resolving conflicts and building sustainable peace in the 21st century. Professor Gambari’s famil...
by Lina Gong | On 27 Feb 2016 Southeast Asia is a region highly vulnerable to near and long-term climatic changes. In order to jointly address emerging climate risks and to complement multilateral negotiations through enhanced reg...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 27 Feb 2016 Today, millions of people experience insecurity as a result of new and complex issues threatening human welfare and dignity, such as climate change and the contested or inefficient use of energy and w...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 27 Feb 2016 Energy security is no longer just about the security of supply; it is multifaceted and inextricably linked to public health and environmental issues. Amidst political instability in oil-producing regi...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 27 Feb 2016 In Southeast Asia, primary energy demand is projected to increase from 554.8 Mtoe in 2010 to 1,110.2 Mtoe in 2035. Oil will continue to dominate the energy mix with coal share growing at the fastest a...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 27 Feb 2016 Year 2015 ended with scenes of congratulatory jubilation in Paris. The world had for once come together to deliver what is now referred to as the Paris Agreement at the end of the 21st United Nations...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 27 Feb 2016 Continuous rise in food prices has been posing a serious policy challenge in India. Milk is a major contributor to the food price rise due to its high growth in demand in the domestic and internationa...
by S. Rajeshwaran | On 27 Feb 2016 Literature in economic development shows how countries diverge and converge in economic growth owing to technological change and capital accumulation. This paper examines micro level issues of competi...
by Murali Patibandla | On 27 Feb 2016 The dynamics of the monetary system is undergoing significant changes in India. The entire concept and flow of money; narrow, broad or base, is being influenced by measures related to financial inclus...
by Charan Singh | On 27 Feb 2016 THE NEWS has been coming in thick and fast. Floods and landslides caused by heavy rainfalls in parts of Southeast Asia seem to have become normal occurrences. As if this is not enough, we also hear of...
by Mely Caballero-Anthony | On 26 Feb 2016 WHILE the media incessantly highlights the Muslim world’s battle with Islamophobia and the political crises in Iraq, Gaza and Iran, another set of issues that is just as pertinent — but often overlook...
by Sofiah Jamil | On 26 Feb 2016 THE WORLD’S surging demand for energy, coupled with the urgent need to mitigate the impact of climate change, has pressed many states to explore clean energy alternatives. For many developing countrie...
by Mely Caballero-Anthony | On 26 Feb 2016 The prospect of nuclear energy as an alternative to traditional fossil fuels has increased sharply due to soaring oil prices. This has been further boosted by the challenge of global climate change. D...
by | On 26 Feb 2016 Nuclear energy has emerged as a viable option to provide base load power for many nations. However, countries in Southeast Asia planning to develop nuclear reactors could face a multitude of problems....
by | On 26 Feb 2016 Global efforts to tackle climate change and food security are hampered by North-South differences over cost sharing. But rising interdependence and the South’s new pragmatism and bargaining power are...
by | On 26 Feb 2016 From the Subregional Workshop on Energy Security and Non-Traditional Security Singapore 27 – 29 August 2008, Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel. The workshop on Energy and Non-Traditional Security (NTS)...
by | On 26 Feb 2016 In India, agriculture is inherently a risky venture due to uncertainty in production and volatility in price, and more so in the context of increased climatic aberrations and globalisation. Therefore,...
by Dr Mamata Swain | On 26 Feb 2016 India’s growth story has largely remained positive on the strength of domestic absorption, and the country has registered a robust and steady pace of economic growth in 2015-16 as it did in 2014-15....
by Arun Jaitley | On 26 Feb 2016 This year’s Economic Survey comes at a time of unusual volatility in the
international economic environment. Markets have begun to swing on fears
that the global recovery may be faltering, while ris...
by Arun Jaitley | On 26 Feb 2016 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-w...
by N. Murthy | On 25 Feb 2016 The pursuit of energy security traditionally revolves around securing supply sources. Is there more to it than just supply issues? The effectiveness of energy security also depends on whether energy c...
by | On 25 Feb 2016 Alleged market failures and the abuse or overuse of governance have shown that energy security could no longer be sufficiently ensured by working with the market or governance alone. Recent global con...
by | On 25 Feb 2016 Energy supply and price volatility are no longer the only concerns that constitute contemporary energy security problems, which now comprise environmental and socioeconomic issues. Mitigating these no...
by Collin Koh | On 25 Feb 2016 With the surge in energy demand in developing Southeast Asia, the propensity of using nuclear energy as an option is growing. Singapore needs to adapt itself and explore the benefits of a ‘nuclearised...
by | On 25 Feb 2016 The ASEAN Petroleum Security Agreement signed recently in Thailand marks a milestone for ensuring regional energy security by including a provision for voluntary oil stockpiles. However, mandatory, as...
by | On 25 Feb 2016 East Asia is one of the three main economic blocks in the world. Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries – as New Industrial Economies (NIEs) – and China – as an emerging power – are...
by | On 25 Feb 2016 As governments gear up to meet in Copenhagen later this year to formulate a post-Kyoto Protocol framework on climate change, governments have been slow in translating scientific knowledge into policy...
by | On 25 Feb 2016 The nuclear power states have not resolved the issue of permanent storage of nuclear spent fuel. Countries with existing nuclear facilities also face challenges to the temporary storage of their spent...
by | On 25 Feb 2016 Indonesia has experienced robust, sustained growth over the past 30 years, accompanied by swift socioeconomic change. However, Indonesian women have remained only moderately engaged in the labor marke...
by Simone Schaner | On 25 Feb 2016 The 1990s saw East Asia becoming more integrated as trade barriers fell, trade intensity and intra-industry trade increased, and production networks formed. This greater integration has resulted in ch...
by Yose Damuri | On 24 Feb 2016 Despite some recovery in recent years, Central Asian Republics (CARs) remain in difficult economic situation and they present a serious challenge to Asia. It is in the mutual interest of both CARs and...
by Ramgopal Agarwala | On 24 Feb 2016 The devastation and catastrophe wrought by Typhoon Kestana on the Philippines’ capital Manila reflect a huge gap between rising vulnerabilities and preparedness at the national and regional levels. As...
by | On 24 Feb 2016 Debates about climate change as a threat to international peace have focused on conflict, civil unrest, and the consequences for states. Human security offers an alternative, people-centred approach t...
by Lorraine Elliot | On 24 Feb 2016 At the recent United Nations general debate, US President Barack Obama outlined his vision for US foreign policy, making a clear break with the previous administration. The shift has significant impli...
by | On 24 Feb 2016 Efforts to improve the business climate in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) Province are still facing significant obstacles. Moreover, a healthy business climate is needed to create conditions conducive to ha...
by Widjajanti Suharyo | On 24 Feb 2016 The Accord adopted at the Copenhagen Climate Change summit has done little to advance global efforts on dealing with the impact of climate change. It does little to meet ASEAN expectations or ensure t...
by Lorraine Elliot | On 24 Feb 2016 The Copenhagen Summit in December 2009 failed to yield a concrete, politically-binding agreement among states to reduce carbon emissions in order to mitigate climate change. This is so despite the wid...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 24 Feb 2016 This paper offers a review of a broad set of issues that are recurrent in international discussions about interconnectedness of energy and security in China’s international relations. The primary purp...
by Zha Daojiong | On 24 Feb 2016 Efforts to understand the connection between climate change and national, regional and international security have fuelled something of a climate security industry, evidenced in a range of reports fro...
by Lorraine Elliot | On 24 Feb 2016 The key question therefore is what India, as a member of the global community which is to collectively address the global challenge of climate change, can be expected to do?and what it has been alread...
by World Bank | On 24 Feb 2016 This is a preliminary report for the World Bank regarding emissions of greenhouse gases from hydropower reservoirs in India. The objective of the work, according to the terms-of reference, is, inter a...
by World Bank | On 24 Feb 2016 Transparency has been put in processes, changed many rules for protection of environment and we have started taking decisions that are based on policies. The cases that fall within the policy framewor...
by Ministry of Environment and Forests | On 24 Feb 2016 This paper aims to analyze how contracts are determined and modified given diverse agricultural settings and to examine the implications of these changes with respect to their efficiency, distribution...
by Leonardo Lanzona | On 24 Feb 2016 If ASEAN intends to meaningfully enhance its energy security, take greater steps to protect itself from instabilities in the international energy market, and effectively underpin its continued develop...
by | On 23 Feb 2016 Much literature on East Asia’s energy security has focused on the dynamics of competition over resources and how potential conflicts could arise from this. While this analytical perspective identifies...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 23 Feb 2016 The Singapore government treats energy security as a means towards achieving sustainable economic growth. It is on that note that the Economic Strategies Committee (ESC) and National Energy Policy (NE...
by | On 23 Feb 2016 The rise of Julia Gillard as Australia’s prime minister has given Kevin Rudd the dubious honour of being probably the first political leader to fall victim to climate change. What does this mean for A...
by | On 23 Feb 2016 Seventy per cent of the world’s population are expected to live in urban areas by 2050. Food production to feed this larger, more urban and richer population will have to be done in the face of changi...
by | On 23 Feb 2016 The rapid economic growth achieved after globalization by most of the developing countries, has imposed considerable social costs and has become a major threat to sustainable development. However it i...
by Prakash Nelliyat | On 23 Feb 2016 Contract growing has been defined as an agreement between farmers and processing and/or marketing firms under forward agreements, usually at predetermined prices for the production and supply of agric...
by Larry Digal | On 23 Feb 2016 The next President of the Philippines faces many challenges to his incoming administration. A crucial one is ensuring the country’s energy security. Addressing this will strengthen the Philippine econ...
by | On 23 Feb 2016 In this paper, we develop an endogenous growth model that combines structural change with repeated product improvements. There are two sectors in the present paper, one is traditional sector, and the...
by Justin Yifu Lin | On 23 Feb 2016 Adequate supplies of natural resources have always been preconditions for economic growth. The requirements for energy and metallic mineral resources have been larger and more obvious with the modern...
by Dominic Meagher | On 23 Feb 2016 This paper reviews and highlights lessons from the stabilisation and reform programme that Thailand, Malaysia and Korea implemented in response to the 1997 crisis. The three countries’ rapid recovery...
by Kanit Sangsubhan | On 23 Feb 2016 The nuclear crisis in Japan has received heightened attention in the wake of the tsunami. Will it result in a catastrophic meltdown, as experienced in Chernobyl more than two decades ago, and trigger...
by | On 22 Feb 2016 Existing work on energy security tends to over-emphasise the prospect of competition and conflict over resources while under-exploring the promise of cooperation. This policy brief provides a framewor...
by | On 22 Feb 2016 This paper seeks to explore and assess the implications of climate insecurities for the armed forces of the Asia-Pacific region, and in particular Southeast Asia. It identifies key issues and trends r...
by | On 22 Feb 2016 The global food crisis of 2007 to 2008 – which was characterised by both volatility in food prices and shortages of food – and the uneven but almost certainly largely negative impacts of climate chang...
by Lorraine Elliot | On 22 Feb 2016 The Centre for Non-Traditional Security (NTS) Studies in the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), organised a study-group meeting to address the topic of ‘Climate Change, Migration an...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 22 Feb 2016 Feeding Asia’s growing population requires modern agriculture based on the latest science and technology. Asian countries should embrace modern farming techniques and invest in R&D to develop sustaina...
by | On 22 Feb 2016 In this paper we attempt to explain the China Puzzle: coexistence of accelerating economic growth and worsening growth outlook. The root cause lies in China’s unique liberalization approach, i.e., the...
by Huang Yiping | On 22 Feb 2016 This paper reviews some of the current debates on the reform of the international monetary system. Despite its deficiencies, the United States (US) dollar will remain the dominant currency and Special...
by Yung Chul Park | On 22 Feb 2016 There is enough food in the world to feed everyone, yet one billion people are hungry. Biotech approaches to food production will not enhance food security in Asia unless severe distortions in existin...
by | On 22 Feb 2016 Indonesia’s position as a regional champion of democracy and human rights has become prominent in international forums since the resignation of President Suharto in 1998 and the subsequent period of i...
by Alistair D.B. Cook | On 22 Feb 2016 This NTS Insight is a discussion paper prepared for a Pilot Workshop on ‘Governing Geoengineering in the 21st Century: Asian Perspectives’ to be held on 18-19 July 2011 in Singapore. The author, Profe...
by | On 22 Feb 2016 Budget speech by the Hon’ble Minister for Finance and Public Works, Government of Tamil Nadu
by O Panneerselvam | On 22 Feb 2016 The Fifth Assessment Report of Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC AR5 WGII), on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, was released in March 2014. In providing the...
by Clare Stott | On 21 Feb 2016 The South Asia region is lagging behind many regions in the world in regional electricity cooperation and trading, despite the huge anticipated benefits. This study uses an electricity planning model...
by Govinda Timilsina | On 21 Feb 2016 There have been many initiatives to improve education outcomes in South Asia. Still, outcomes remain stubbornly resistant to improvements, at least when considered across the region. To collect and sy...
by Salman Asim | On 21 Feb 2016 This paper discusses Japan’s strategy for Asian monetary integration. It argues that Japan faces three major policy challenges when promoting intraregional exchange rate stability. First, there must b...
by Masahiro Kawai | On 21 Feb 2016 The world's oil consumption has been increasing for more than a century with a few exceptions. This paper examines the impact of the decrease in oil production on major economies using a computable ge...
by Naohiko Yahaba | On 21 Feb 2016 The present report summarises major results that seeks to trace the supply chains of a group of essential commodities and, in view of their future supply (domestic production and import) prospect, att...
by Centre for Policy Dialogue CPD | On 21 Feb 2016 Green growth entails several different kinds of processes: conversion to low-carbon energy, climate resilience, and response to climate shocks. Equity implies a fair sharing of the costs, within count...
by Jeffrey D. Sachs | On 21 Feb 2016 This article analyses the motivation and impact of the 2009 intervention of the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) in benchmark price negotiations. The impact of the transition from benchmark pri...
by Luke Hurst | On 21 Feb 2016 Myanmar’s recent suspension of a China-funded dam project draws attention to cross-border electricity inter- connectivity between China and its southern neighbours Vietnam, Thailand and Laos, apart fr...
by | On 20 Feb 2016 The 2011 outcomes from the UN’s annual climate change meetings have again been met with both cautious optimism and charges that the process shows few signs of effectively addressing global climate cha...
by | On 20 Feb 2016 Migration and displacement are among the range of pressures on people and their communities likely to arise from the economic, social and environmental consequences of climate change. Despite fragment...
by Lorraine Elliot | On 20 Feb 2016 The availability of rice has long been considered a key indicator of food security in Southeast Asia. However, for largely strategic reasons, there is a paucity of information in the public domain on...
by Sally Trethewie | On 20 Feb 2016 This study attempts to assess the impact of two shocks-trade liberalization and a deline in remittances from abroad-on poverty in Pakistan using a CGE framework.
by Rizwana Siddiqui | On 19 Feb 2016 The proposition that migration as a result of climate change has consequences for regional and global security has become prominent in public discourse over the last few years. Yet much of that debate...
by | On 19 Feb 2016 This report presents the proceedings of a Policy Roundtable on Asian Non-Traditional Security held in Beijing on 30-31 July 2012. Attended by academics and policymakers from across the region, the Rou...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 19 Feb 2016 This issues brief outlines key points brought up at an Energy Security Seminar on ‘Risk and Resilience: Securing Energy in Insecure Spaces’ held on 29-30 October 2012 in Singapore. Energy vulnerabilit...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 19 Feb 2016 Southeast Asia is witnessing a revival of interest in civil nuclear energy development in the region. Behind this shift are factors such as political transition in Japan, the lure of economic benefits...
by | On 19 Feb 2016 In his lecture on “Post-industrial dynamics and urban housing”, Hugo Priemus advocates a mixed urban housing strategy to provide high-quality urban housing for knowledge workers and affordable housing...
by Hugo Priemus | On 19 Feb 2016 Zero-tillage, residue management and precision nutrient management techniques are being promoted in the rice–wheat (RW) production system of Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGPs) to enhance climate change adapt...
by Tek Sapkota | On 19 Feb 2016 Conservation agriculture (CA), comprising minimum soil disturbance, retention of crop residues and crop diversification, is widely promoted for reducing soil degradation and improving agricultural sus...
by David Powlson | On 19 Feb 2016 This paper provides structural estimates of heterogeneous returns to work experience for Japanese married women. A dynamic model of labor force participation is used to account for dynamic selfselecti...
by Ken Yamada | On 19 Feb 2016 The consumption-leisure choice model implies that an exogenous change in tax rates will induce a change in labor supply. This implication is expected to be important to labor supplied by secondary ear...
by Ken Yamada | On 19 Feb 2016 The literature has focused on motives to explain remittance behavior. But as non-anonymous transfers, remittances are apt to be influenced by giving norms as well. We formula...
by Michael Alba | On 19 Feb 2016 The present study has examined the changes in the employment scenario of Bangladesh following the pursuance of the trade liberalisation strategy and the possible effects of further trade liberalisatio...
by Wasel Shadat | On 19 Feb 2016 Transforming the City towards Low-Carbon Resilience” introduces urban design principles that support the transformation of existing cities towards more resilience regarding the impact of climate chang...
by | On 19 Feb 2016 This paper takes a political economy perspective in analysing the nature and causes on the decline in bureaucratic conduct.
by Ali Cheema | On 18 Feb 2016 The adoption of the Paris Agreement on 12 December by 195 governments is a major turning point in the global fight against climate change. To date, 190 governments have committed to specific actions t...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 18 Feb 2016 The present study reviews the framework
on adaptation in India and provides an estimation of the public resources devoted to
this sector.
by Kaushik Ganguly | On 18 Feb 2016 In October 2015, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change released a Draft Environment Laws (Amendment) Bill 2015 proposing amendments to the Environment (Protection) Act 1986 and the Na...
by Shibani Ghosh | On 18 Feb 2016 Asia’s rapid change across socio-economic and political spheres, amid population growth and rising demand for food, feed and energy supplies, is unprecedented. To strike a balance between economic gro...
by Research Consultative Group on International Agricultural | On 18 Feb 2016 Reanalyses data sets, being temporally and spatially complete and available on six hourly timescales, are extremely convenient to use. Real observations represent the climate system with greater fidel...
by Richard Washington | On 18 Feb 2016 This study investigated the effects of different mixing ratios of crop residues and biochar with liquid digestate from anaerobically treated pig manure on CH4, CO2, and N2O emissions over 84 days in a...
by Vu Quynh | On 18 Feb 2016 This workshop was conducted as part of the mitigation strategies in rice production project, implemented with support from the agriculture initiative of the Climate and Clean Air Coalition. The projec...
by B. Sander | On 18 Feb 2016 This NTS Policy Brief is based on the proceedings of the Expert Group Meeting on the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) 2015: Opportunities and Challenges for Food Security held in June 2013. A key messag...
by | On 17 Feb 2016 Most countries depend on three “food taps” – imports, self-production, reserve stocks – to make food available. All countries import some amount of food to meet their increasingly diverse dietary dema...
by | On 17 Feb 2016 Many Asian countries are highly susceptible to climate hazards, resulting in food insecurity. The magnitude of the devastation of typhoon Haiyan should serve as a clarion call for regional action to i...
by | On 17 Feb 2016 This NTS Insight explores the possible effects of rapid development in Iskandar Malaysia for air quality on both sides of the Straits of Johor. It unpacks relevant regulatory structures in Malaysia, a...
by | On 17 Feb 2016 In Southeast Asia, rising population and technological advances mean that unfortunately human traffickers have a growing target base online and are making greater use of technology. Nevertheless, crea...
by | On 17 Feb 2016 The paper examines the volatility spillover between the stock market and the foreign exchange market in Pakistan. For the longrun relationship we use the Engle Granger two-step procedure and the volat...
by Abdul Qayyum | On 17 Feb 2016 This paper describes the structure and construction of a social accounting matrix (SAM) for Pakistan for 001-02. A SAM is an internally consistent extended set of national accounts that disaggregates...
by Paul Dorosh | On 17 Feb 2016 Policy in Pakistan has been fairly path-dependant, placing a higher weight on export promotion and domestic industrialisation development than on domestic commerce. Yet domestic commerce is growing ra...
by Nadeem Ul Haque | On 17 Feb 2016 It is investigated whether differences in quality of firm-level corporate governance can explain the firm-level performance in a cross-section of companies listed at Karachi Stock Exchange. Therefore,...
by Attiya Y. Javid | On 17 Feb 2016 Agriculture is important sector for Indian economy. The agricultural growth output and rural income has to increase, only then can we think of an all-inclusive development of the economy. The problems...
by Environmental Management & Policy Research Institute | On 17 Feb 2016 The increasing variability of seasonal climate and increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events that are expected to accompany climate change will impact agricultural production and fo...
by Ruby Policarpio | On 17 Feb 2016 This paper conducts an integrated assessment of climate change impacts and climate mitigation on agricultural commodity markets and food availability in low- and middle-income countries. The analysis...
by Petr Havlík | On 17 Feb 2016 Agriculture is an important source of greenhouse gas emissions globally, but how do emissions differ among countries? The relative contribution of agriculture to countries’ emissions budgets can infor...
by Meryl Richards | On 17 Feb 2016 Climate change demands new approaches to agriculture: farmers’ practices will need to change in order to adapt to and mitigate changing conditions. Gender is central to this change. Agriculture is a f...
by Sophia Huyer | On 17 Feb 2016 Despite being the biggest contributors to climate change and home to majority of the world’s population, cities have so far had little say in global climate negotiations. As the frontlines of climate...
by | On 16 Feb 2016 As some Southeast Asian countries consider using nuclear energy, the region should now be preparing a regional nuclear emergency response, incorporating technological and nuclear emergencies into its...
by | On 16 Feb 2016 Climate change is set to shift food production centres and change the power dynamics of food supply and demand. Notwithstanding the general foreboding of doom and gloom from climate change, are there...
by | On 16 Feb 2016 With the growing urgency of energy security in an era of climate change, the option to increase the share of renewables and nuclear energy in the energy mix will increasingly become attractive in Asia...
by | On 16 Feb 2016 The ‘climate refugee’ is not a new phenomenon. We are most likely set to see thousands displaced within their own countries or across borders as a result of adverse weather in future. This year’s fore...
by | On 16 Feb 2016 All eyes are on Paris where world leaders will meet for the much anticipated 2015 climate change conference. They are expected to reach a consensus on a legally-binding climate agreement for all count...
by | On 16 Feb 2016 WHO has declared the Zika outbreak as a global public health emergency. While uncertainty on the linkage between Zika and microcephaly remains, it is time to understand the potential formation of futu...
by | On 16 Feb 2016 The Paris Agreement on Climate Change hailed as the first truly universal and unanimous agreement on climate was celebrated as progress in humanity’s collective fight against climate change. But what...
by | On 16 Feb 2016 In its founding documents, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) seeks the stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere to “ensure[s] that food production is not t...
by Meryl Richards | On 16 Feb 2016 This report, which forms part of the PIRCCA project outputs, focuses on the results of the survey conducted in the first half of 2015 on climate change perception and adaptation strategies of male and...
by Michael Sheinkman | On 16 Feb 2016 (Public Sector Reforms) PSR must be based on the recognition that people are at the heart of public service. As a result, managing human resources must be at the centre of any effort. The people who...
by Nadeem Ul Haque | On 16 Feb 2016 Throughout Pakistan’s history, policy has sought to promote exports through government support and incentives. The government machinery is geared to export promotion especially through direct and indi...
by Nadeem Ul Haque | On 16 Feb 2016 This paper examines the efficiency of the large scale manufacturing sector of Pakistan using the stochastic production frontier approach. A stochastic production frontier is estimated for two periods—...
by Tariq Mahmood | On 16 Feb 2016 The study employs Girton and Roper (1977) measure of exchange market pressure—sum of exchange rate depreciation and foreign reserves outflow, to examine the interaction between exchange market pressur...
by M. Idrees Khawaja | On 16 Feb 2016 The purpose of this paper is to emphasize the importance of Europe’s structural problems and governance as the cause of the current euro area crisis. The euro may have led to bubbles, but member econo...
by Sahoko Kaji | On 16 Feb 2016 Driven by the increasingly important role of supply chains in global production, this paper studies empirical association between global credit-market shocks and firm behavior towards liquidity needs...
by Yothin Jinjarak | On 16 Feb 2016 This paper evaluates the prospects for the renminbi’s role as an international currency and the implications for global financial markets. Although the People’s Republic of China (PRC) does not have e...
by Eswar Prasad | On 16 Feb 2016 This paper studies how East Asia’s trade composition and orientation have changed over the past decade and analyzes the implications for the region and beyond. Over the last 2 decades we have witnesse...
by Matthias Helble | On 16 Feb 2016 Japan has reached the limits of conventional macroeconomic policy. In order to overcome deflation and achieve sustainable economic growth, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) recently set an inflation target of 2...
by Naoyuki Yoshino | On 16 Feb 2016 This paper examines the road and railway links in Myanmar connecting northeast India on the one side with the rest of Southeast Asia on the other. It also discusses the importance of new deep-sea port...
by Hector Florento | On 16 Feb 2016 Thailand’s increasing importance as a regional co-production base and as an intra-regional trade and border trade hub is due mainly to recent changes in its economic structure, namely, the lack of ope...
by Suthiphand Chirathivat | On 16 Feb 2016 The Taylor rule (1993) focuses only on two objectives: output and inflation. In practice, the central bank’s loss function (especially in developing countries) contains objectives other than these two...
by Wasim Shahid Malik | On 15 Feb 2016 This study examines the effect of the earthquake of October 8, 2005 on the price behaviour and activities of Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE). Sixty firms are selected from those listed on Karachi Stock E...
by Attiya Y. Javid | On 15 Feb 2016 Industrialized countries had their share of carbon emissions. Can the developing countries also get a fair share in their deal for reducing carbon emissions and clear their way to development?
by Aakriti Singh | On 15 Feb 2016 Emergence of the global market has heightened the role of trade in world economy and made industrialization as an integral system of global trade and production. Bangladesh economy at present is more...
by Md. Nehal Ahmed | On 15 Feb 2016 This paper attempts to analyze the underlying causes and impact of the recent developments in the foreign exchange and money markets.
by Md. Habibur Rahman | On 15 Feb 2016 This policy note is an exploratory attempt to verify the popular argument that cost side factors are no less contributory than demand side factors in stimulating inflation in the Bangladesh economy. T...
by Md. Alauddin Majumder | On 15 Feb 2016 Bangladesh Bank (BB) adjusted its monetary policy stance during 2005 in order to contain inflationary pressures and facilitate stability in the foreign exchange market. At the end of 2005, interest ra...
by Shubhasish Barua | On 15 Feb 2016 The cultivation of opium poppy in Afghanistan is nothing new. Although the drug economy diversified and became more vertically integrated after the fall of the Taliban, it had already emerged and deep...
by Vanda Felbab-Brown | On 14 Feb 2016 This article examines three elements of the popular narrative of China’s involvement in the development of Afghanistan’s vast natural resource wealth. It argues that Chinese companies invested in Afgh...
by Erica Downs | On 14 Feb 2016 The Toolkit o#ers a step-by-step guide for integrating Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation into the coastal and marine ecosystem management that will be quite useful for the "eld pra...
by Sriyanie Miththapala | On 14 Feb 2016 Earlier studies that investigated the J-Curve phenomenon for Pakistan employed aggregate trade data. These studies suffered from the “aggregation bias” problem. In order to overcome this constraint, t...
by Zehra Aftab | On 14 Feb 2016 This is an attempt to empirically investigate the risk and return relationship of individual stocks traded at Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE), the main equity market in Pakistan. The analysis is based on...
by Attiya Y. Javid | On 14 Feb 2016 This study examines the Capital Asset Pricing Model of Sharpe (1964) Lintner (1965) and Black (1972) as the benchmark model in the asset pricing theory. The empirical findings indicate that the Sharpe...
by Attiya Y. Javid | On 14 Feb 2016 The theories of institutional evolution put forth by Douglas North, Darron Acemoglu and Dani Rodrik and the historical experiences of different countries in the context of development (or non-developm...
by M. Idrees Khawaja | On 14 Feb 2016 Financing efforts by countries to adapt to climate change will require enormous amounts of resources and investments, both from the public and private sectors. How climate financing is generated, gove...
by Transparency International TI | On 12 Feb 2016 Rice seed production, marketing, distribution situation in Bangladesh and India is not considered to be efficient. This has led to low availability and accessibility of modern varieties (MV) rice seed...
by Mahfuz Kabir | On 11 Feb 2016 Global megatrends such as climate change and resource scarcity force a rethinking of this crucial network, especially in the light of a reshuffling of global economic activity and significant demand g...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 11 Feb 2016 This report looks at what a new energy architecture might look like and how best-in-class enabling environments have already helped some high-ranking countries begin their transitions to more efficien...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 11 Feb 2016 The World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Climate Change’s report, Climate Adaptation: Seizing the Challenge, captures some of the latest thinking in the field of climate adaptation and fina...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 11 Feb 2016 The impending digital transformation of the Fourth Industrial Revolution holds the potential to redefine the very basis of our materials-reliant industrial economy. Enabled by the internet of things,...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 11 Feb 2016 This paper finds that PTAs are clearly drivers of significant IP reform in developing countries and that the implementation challenge for these countries is real and complex. The challenge does not on...
by | On 10 Feb 2016 This paper examined the role of culture in urban health inequity by drawing a case of a basti in Surat (City in Gujarat, India). Like many other Indian cities, Surat is vulnerable in terms of populati...
by | On 09 Feb 2016 India has a number of policies that contribute to climate mitigation but what is required to implement these into action is proper planning and allocation in the budget
by T. V. Ramachandra | On 09 Feb 2016 Modern societies regard knowledge as a production factor in its own right. The market is the prevailing governance mode of their economies, and it is supposed to be the most appropriate mode of tradin...
by | On 08 Feb 2016 This issue paper – published in the context of the ICTSD project on Fisheries, International Trade and Sustainable Development – aims to contribute to debates to develop fisheries and trade policies a...
by | On 08 Feb 2016 Liberalization of environmental goods that are climate-friendly could aid climate mitigation efforts by lowering costs of these goods by reducing or eliminating higher tariffs and non-tariff barriers...
by International Centre and Sustainable Development | On 08 Feb 2016 The Report on the State of the World’s Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture provides a comprehensive overview on the status and trends of conservation and use of plant genetic resources at...
by Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO] | On 08 Feb 2016 With 37% of fish harvest exported as food for human consumption or in non-edible forms, trade policies and measures constitute an essential part of the overall policy framework needed to support susta...
by | On 08 Feb 2016 The census of agriculture is one of the key pillars of a national statistical system, and in many developing countries it is often the only means of producing statistical information on the structure...
by Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO] | On 08 Feb 2016 Today’s climate financing landscape poses a number of governance challenges. It is characterised by fragmentation and weak coordination, begging better clarity, connectivity and accountability for tho...
by Transparency International TI | On 07 Feb 2016 The Promoting Revenue Transparency: 2011 Report on Oil and Gas Companies, published by Transparency International in partnership with Revenue Watch, rates 44 companies on their levels of transparency....
by Transparency International TI | On 07 Feb 2016 The Global Corruption Report is the first comprehensive publication of its kind to explore the corruption risks related to tackling climate change. From international policy-making to national level m...
by Transparency International TI | On 06 Feb 2016 The objectives of climate change mitigation projects are undermined when they do not meet sustainable development criteria and transparency standards. In such cases, international mitigation mechanism...
by Transparency International TI | On 06 Feb 2016 In this study, an investigation of the effects of capital inflows on domestic price level, monetary expansion and exchange rate volatility. To proceed with this, linear and nonlinear cointegration and...
by Abdul Rashid | On 06 Feb 2016 Protecting Climate Finance: An Anti-Corruption Assessment of the Adaptation Fund is the first in a series of reports by Transparency International aimed at analysing the policies and practices that se...
by Transparency International TI | On 05 Feb 2016 Protecting Climate Finance: An Anti-corruption Assessment of the Climate Investment Funds is the second in a series of reports by Transparency International aimed at analysing the policies and practic...
by Transparency International TI | On 05 Feb 2016 Protecting Climate Finance: An Anti-corruption Assessment of the Global Environment Facility’s Least Developed Countries Fund and Special Climate Change Fund is the third in a series of reports by Tra...
by Transparency International TI | On 05 Feb 2016 This report aims to provide the emerging lessons from a representative sample of 20 country case studies that could help policy makers to address implementation challenges, including overcoming politi...
by | On 05 Feb 2016 This think piece examines the emergence of global innovations networks and their implications for multilateral trade rules. After pointing out, that the WTO agreements were reached with little direct...
by | On 05 Feb 2016 How can trade policy respond to the needs and concerns of more than a billion people in the developing world that lack access to energy for fulfilling their daily needs such as cooking and lighting? A...
by | On 05 Feb 2016 Achieving the sustainable development goals and countering climate change will require considerably more resources than what public finances alone can afford. By curbing illicit financial flows and re...
by Transparency International | On 05 Feb 2016 This study attempts to explore the impact of foreign aid on the quality of governance and how conflicts, whether internal or external affect the overall situation. Conflicts affect governance directly...
by Unbreen Qayyum | On 03 Feb 2016 A specific proposal is suggested for the Green Climate Fund (GCF) to pilot a pay for results agreement – using a Cash on Delivery (COD) approach – to slow climate change through reductions in deforest...
by William Savedoff | On 03 Feb 2016 Dividend policy is an important issue of corporate finance and the present study examines the effect of market imperfections such as asymmetric information, agency costs and transaction cost of issuin...
by Darakhshan Younis | On 03 Feb 2016 This study explains the underpricing phenomenon through the relationship of underpricing (initial returns), ownership structure and aftermarket liquidity empirically by using cross-sectional data of 5...
by Malik Muhammad Shehr Yar | On 03 Feb 2016 The paper examines the dynamic relationship and volatility spillovers between the stock market and the foreign exchange market in Pakistan using weekly data from 02 July, 1997 to 04 July 2012. Johanse...
by Abdul Qayyum | On 03 Feb 2016 The present study empirically examines the short term under and overreaction effect in the Karachi Stock Exchange, Pakistan, in the context of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis considering the period f...
by Asiya Sohail | On 03 Feb 2016 This paper addresses the effects of changes in the level and composition of global demand, and especially of global rebalancing, on trade flows and employment from a demand perspective. It emphasizes...
by International Centre for Sustainable Trade and Development | On 03 Feb 2016 This study evaluates the link between disaggregate energy consumption (coal, petroleum, electricity, renewable energy consumption), economic growth and environment for Asian Developing countries. Coin...
by Ali Cheema | On 03 Feb 2016 This study investigates the existence of accrual anomaly by using a
sample of 340 non-financial firms listed at Karachi Stock Exchange. The
objective of the study is to examine the persistence of th...
by Jawad Mohammad | On 03 Feb 2016 In recent years, Central Asia has increasingly come under the focus of the European Union (EU). This development occurred not least due to a series of interruptions in the supply of Russian natural ga...
by Sijbren Jong | On 03 Feb 2016 Although labour force participation in Pakistan has improved from 50.33 percent in 2006-07 to 57.24 percent in 2010-111 as well as employment has increased from 47.65 million to 53.84 million, however...
by Syed Akther Shah | On 02 Feb 2016 The reform program that Pakistan gradually implemented during the 1980s and the early 1990s dismantled many of the components of the ISI strategy.1 The extent of dependence on quantitative import cont...
by Zafar Mahmood | On 02 Feb 2016 The agriculture sector in Pakistan sustains the livelihoods of 45 per cent of the national population. Both the direct and indirect contributions of the agriculture sector to overall growth and wellbe...
by Golam Rasul | On 02 Feb 2016 This study analyzes a new type of religiosity that has appeared in force in the streets and public squares during the Arab revolts: youth religiosity. My approach relies on an understanding of religio...
by | On 02 Feb 2016 Climate change is the most pressing challenge of our time. Addressing it requires an unprecedented mobilisation of human and financial resources to alter our patterns of production, consumption and en...
by International Centre and Sustainable Development | On 02 Feb 2016 India’s engagement with Africa through trade, investment, aid and technological collaboration can support growth and structural transformation in African economies. This paper, which is part of a majo...
by Environmental Management & Policy Research Institute | On 02 Feb 2016 This paper focuses on this new trend in global energy, and examines its influence on oil prices in the international markets, as well as its long-run economic, political, and geostrategic implications...
by | On 01 Feb 2016 Data about employment exchanges, how they function and suggestions for improvement are given here.
by Aarti Salve | On 01 Feb 2016 In addition to providing multiple services and goods, forests can play a key role in tackling climate change. Forestry, as defined by the IPCC accounts for around 17.4 per cent of global GHG emissions...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 Forests are crucial for rural development, access to water, agricultural productivity, energy, soil conservation, and flood control. Forests are also home to at least 80 per cent of terrestrial biodiv...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 There is a growing awareness that action is urgently needed to seriously address the climate change problem. The multilateral process that began with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 The international negotiations on climate change actions, including mechanisms for the efficient and equitable transfer of technologies for mitigation and adaptation, are currently being deliberated u...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 The introduction and diffusion of new technologies is crucial in meeting the challenges of climate change and fostering a rapid transition to a low-carbon economy. Such technologies are expected to in...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 Long-term planning and investment are essential to prevent increasing vulnerability to climate change in developing countries. Tackling only the impacts will fail: fragmented action are only partial s...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 It is now beyond scientific doubt that the emissions of greenhouse gases need to be reduced significantly to prevent dangerous interference in the climate system and avoid dramatic consequences of glo...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 There is a broad consensus that without the active participation of developing countries, global temperatures cannot be stabilized at a safe level. It is also agreed that even if temperatures are cont...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 Following a period during which policy options in many developing countries were confined to a standardized set of market friendly measures, there is growing recognition that one size does not fit all...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 A temperature increase of 2 degree celsius above pre-industrial levels is the maximum target range established by the scientific community for stabilizing carbon concentrations at a level that prevent...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 The issue of climate change currently holds the attention of the international community. Worsening emissions predictions and a perception that impacts are occurring more rapidly than anticipated have...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 About 2.7 billion people do not have access to modern energy. Without it, they have little chance of achieving a decent living standard. Much more economic progress is needed to lift the living standa...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 Sustainable development requires a fundamental, global green technological transformation over the next 30 to 40 years. Otherwise, it will be impossible to simultaneously meet the goals of ending pove...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 Difficulties in raising sufficient resources to finance internationally agreed development goals and global objectives, such as combating climate change, have led the quest for new and innovative sour...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 Official development assistance declined in real terms in 2011 as a result, in part, of fiscal austerity in many donor countries. Traditional forms of funding have fallen well short of needs to financ...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 The multiple challenges that cities face also represent a strategic opportunity to build sustainable cities and reap the benefits of rapid urbanization. Urban development should be understood as a bal...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 Arguably, ensuring food and nutrition security for all people in the coming decades is the major challenge for the global community. Food demand is increasing in aggregate and per capita values, in pa...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 Accelerating progress to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) will serve to advance human development and also to lay a solid foundation for the pursuance of sustainable development goals a...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 There is an emerging consensus holding that sustainable development requires a radical transformation of the world’s energy system. This brief suggests that countries will need to manage large and com...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 India’s presence in the East Asia Summit signals not only a victory for New Delhi’s “Look East” policy but also an implicit “Look West” policy on the part of India’s neighbors to the east. This conver...
by Ellen L. Frost | On 31 Jan 2016 It has become an article of faith in international trade negotiations that farmers in developing countries have much to gain from agricultural trade liberalization. This paper assesses the evidence fo...
by Timothy A. Wise | On 31 Jan 2016 This report is the result of the joint workshop on Building resilience for adaptation to climate change in the agriculture sector was organized by FAO and OECD. One of the conclusions of that 2010 Wor...
by Alexandre Meybeck | On 31 Jan 2016 Climate change adds to the existing challenges faced by cities. Cities – as net consumers rather than producers of food – are already highly vulnerable to the disruption of critical food and other sup...
by Marielle Dubbeling | On 30 Jan 2016 The climate-smart agriculture (CSA) concept reflects the ambition to improve the integration of agriculture development and climate responsiveness. CSA aims to achieve food security and broader develo...
by World Bank [WB] | On 30 Jan 2016 caling-up renewable energy as a means to address climate change will require addressing impediments to the global diffusion of sustainable energy goods and services. Trade policy can contribute in thi...
by | On 30 Jan 2016 This paper focuses on liberalizing environmental goods (EGs) in the transport sector. The reduction or removal of trade restrictions affecting transport-related EGs supports the deployment of cl...
by | On 30 Jan 2016 In the last decade, the commodity issues have re-emerged as central to development initiatives and poverty alleviation strategies. The objective of this Issue Paper by Charles Mather is to contribute...
by | On 30 Jan 2016 Early studies on the potential impacts of climate change indicated that agriculture was not likely to be severely affected, as carbon fertilization and trade flows were thought to be able to compensat...
by | On 30 Jan 2016 In this paper, Prof. Tim Josling analyses whether an international scheme for targeted consumer food subsidies could represent a practical contribution to overcoming food insecurity in developing coun...
by | On 30 Jan 2016 Agricultural prices, along with the prices of primary commodities in general, have been both high and volatile over 2006-11. These developments impact the poor and other vulnerable non-farm households...
by | On 30 Jan 2016 Previous agricultural trade negotiations were conducted when global prices were lower. They focused on policies that artificially expanded supply in some countries, or reduced demand in other countrie...
by | On 30 Jan 2016 An increasing concentration of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the atmosphere is believed to be contributing to global warming. Agriculture is a significant contributor to GHG emissions through crop and an...
by | On 30 Jan 2016 This report provides some reflections and insights on the level of awareness, practices, and organizational and institutional issues being faced by countries as they adapt to climate change, based on...
by Catherine Ragasa | On 30 Jan 2016 The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) is a new survey-based index designed to measure the empowerment, agency, and inclusion of women in the agricultural sector. The WEAI was initially d...
by Sabina Alkire | On 30 Jan 2016 In this discussion paper, the question of technology transfer, intellectual property rights is addressed in the context of climate change. Technology development and transfer has been identified as a...
by K.Ravi Srinivas | On 30 Jan 2016 The paper looks into the recent experience in exports and imports of drugs and pharmaceutical products. It is found that there is a tremendous growth in the exports. The paper suggests the removal of...
by Reji K Joseph | On 30 Jan 2016 The ARCAB programme has a well-developed theory of change (ARCAB 2012). This encompasses broader issues relating to the scaling up and out of CBA that are central to ARCAB as a whole and its goal of a...
by Sarder Alam | On 29 Jan 2016 This paper analyzes the applicability of the theory of optimum currency area to the pegged exchange rate regime between Bhutan and India. Most of the optimum currency criteria hold true for Bhutan and...
by Karma Galey | On 29 Jan 2016 The study presented here was designed to develop comprehensive baseline information on the glaciers of the entire HKH region organised by major basins and sub-basins. The glacier inventory was prepare...
by Samjwal Bajracharya | On 29 Jan 2016 The price of crude oil has lost 54% of its value since September 2014 and there are no indications that the fall in prices will stop here unless a major production cut by OPEC is declared. The reasons...
by | On 29 Jan 2016 Inadequate application of nitrogen (N) fertilizer has been identified by the Food Staples Sufficiency Program as a major constraint in achieving rice self-sufficiency. The available literature on fert...
by | On 29 Jan 2016 The use of subsidy instruments, broadly defined to include fiscal measures and investment incentives, has been a constant feature of government policy in both high-income and emerging economies. This...
by | On 29 Jan 2016 The Sachar Commission Report of 2006 on Social, Economic and Educational Status of the Muslim Community of India generated widespread awareness of the socioeconomic disparity and exclusion of religiou...
by Riaz Hassan | On 29 Jan 2016 Mountain communities in the developing world are often marginalised from political influence and economic opportunities and generally face high levels of poverty. The ecosystems they dwell in are amon...
by Mirjam Macchi | On 28 Jan 2016 In the debate on climate change, methods of producing products and energy are of paramount importance. While the product or the form of energy resulting may be the same, diverging production processes...
by | On 28 Jan 2016 Substantial literature has emerged in the past two decades on the meaning of “soft law”, its purposes, and its consequences for effective international cooperation. This paper argues that the distinct...
by | On 28 Jan 2016 Any donor has a model for allocating assistance to developing countries. The model is implicit, most often so for bilateral donors, or explicit, most often so for international institutions. Why this...
by Patrick Guillaumont | On 28 Jan 2016 This paper reviews the literature on the potential biophysical and economic impacts of climate change in the Himalayas. Existing observations indicate that the temperature is rising at a higher rate i...
by Kumud Acharya | On 28 Jan 2016 The adoption of the ambitious post-2015 agenda centring on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the United Nations (UN) in New York in September marks an opportune moment to suggest development...
by | On 28 Jan 2016 Subsidies are a critical instrument in the toolbox that governments use to achieve a variety of policy goals. In an increasingly interdependent world, addressing the negative externalities of subsidie...
by | On 28 Jan 2016 Available literature on regional trade integration in South Asia points to a variety of economic and non-economic factors that have slowed the integration process. The major non-economic factors inclu...
by South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics & Environment SAWTEE | On 28 Jan 2016 Over the past two decades, regional trade agreements (RTAs) have proliferated alongside the WTO system, involving a wide variety of agreements. In the absence of significant progress on the multilater...
by | On 28 Jan 2016 New thinking and practical approaches are needed to address the threats to human security that climate change combined with social vulnerability pose for current and future patterns of loss and damage...
by Koko Warner | On 28 Jan 2016 International investment needs are tremendous. This requires that the international investment regime constitutes a framework for increased flows of sustainable foreign direct investment for sustainab...
by | On 28 Jan 2016 This paper documents the extent of inequality of educational opportunity in India spanning the period 1983-2004 using National Sample Survey (NSS) data. We build on recent developments in the literatu...
by | On 28 Jan 2016 This document elaborates the scientific framework of the Adaptation to Change Programme in an attempt to improve the connections between science, policy, practice, and stakeholders and to tackle chall...
by International Centre for Integrated Mountain Devel ICIMOD | On 28 Jan 2016 The multilateral rules-based trading system has been crucial in helping states to cooperate and gradually open up borders to encourage trade and investment for development. It has contributed to tempe...
by | On 28 Jan 2016 The study finds that a high order of technology and yield gap exists and
indicates that there is enormous scope to accelerate the pace of growth in the production of both oilseeds as well as pulses....
by B.L. Kumar | On 28 Jan 2016 This paper compares the experiences in India and China and draws lessons for policy formulation. The important lessons are: (a) self-financing nature of FLC/SWC is a crucial factor for achieving effec...
by Jeemol Unni | On 28 Jan 2016 Asia and the Pacific is home to 60 per cent of the global population aged 15 to 24 years. Across this geographically, politically, socially, culturally and economically expansive region, youth are a v...
by United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific | On 28 Jan 2016 With the challenges of access to energy, energy security, and the imperative of climate change becoming more pronounced in recent years, interest in clean energy has surged. Mitigation efforts to limi...
by | On 27 Jan 2016 Voices around the world are demanding leadership and action in 2015 on poverty, inequality and climate change. These universal challenges demand global action, and this year presents unprecedented opp...
by United Nations Development Programme UNDP | On 27 Jan 2016 Most international commerce is carried out by multinational firms, which use their foreign affiliates for the majority of their foreign sales. In this paper, I examine the determinants of multinationa...
by Penn Stat | On 27 Jan 2016 The primary motivation behind this research is the need to accelerate the supply of renewable energy because of the important role that it plays in mitigating climate change and in fostering sustainab...
by | On 26 Jan 2016 This case study explores the relationship between socioeconomic opportunity and exclusion in relation to minority gender and sexualities in Nepal.The study, a component of a wider programme on Sexuali...
by | On 26 Jan 2016 The proposed SDGs constitute a comprehensive, universal and interactive agenda of structural transformations as the pathway to sustainable development, leaving no-one behind while creating green econo...
by | On 26 Jan 2016 While greater focus has been cast on analysis of policy changes affecting trade in goods in the aftermath of the financial crisis, little is known about the direction of policies affecting trade in se...
by Martin Roy | On 26 Jan 2016 Some innovations within the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) have demonstrated significant improvements in the nutritional status of children. This note discusses four such innovations, as...
by Ashi Kohli Kathuria | On 26 Jan 2016 The paper examines the spatial pattern of poverty in India and tries to understand how multiple deprivation leads to reproduction of poverty especially in forest-based economies in the central-eastern...
by Amita Shah | On 26 Jan 2016 Globalization has led to large scale outsourcing of production activities to developing countries manifesting in global commodity chains.The study shows that given a choice, enterprises and workers pr...
by Jeemol Unni | On 26 Jan 2016 This paper examines the agroforestry initiative adopted by the Government of Gujarat with the aim to enhance the incomes of tribal households facing numerous production constraints. The specific objec...
by Jharna Pathak | On 26 Jan 2016 This report describes the outcomes of a 2015 symposium on Ageing in Emerging Markets convened by the Emerging Markets Symposium at Green Templeton College, Oxford. It focusses on the causes and conseq...
by | On 25 Jan 2016 Electricity markets in fast-growing economies face different challenges than those in more mature markets. Mature markets with stable demand for electricity are transitioning to a more sustainable mix...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 25 Jan 2016 A large number of rural households in the state of Odisha, India are dependent on agriculture for their basic livelihoods, which is affected by the frequent occurrence of climate externalities like cy...
by Chandra Sekhar Bahinipati | On 25 Jan 2016 This paper uses the Malmquist Productivity Index (MPI) to estimate change in total factor productivity (TFP) and its constituent components for software companies in India during 1999–2008. On average...
by Nira Ramachandran | On 24 Jan 2016 This study aims at investigating two important issues concerning the exchange rate intervention policy of the Reserve Bank of India: (1) whether there is any asymmetry in intervention; and (2) whether...
by M. Ramachandran | On 24 Jan 2016 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...
by Ashima Goyal | On 24 Jan 2016 It is predicted that climate change will aggravate the presence of sudden (e.g. cyclones, floods etc.) and chronic (e.g. drought, erosion) hazards to agrarian communities in Bangladesh. According to t...
by Md Maniruzzaman | On 23 Jan 2016 This publication summarises CDKN’s partnership work with Bangladesh to date, highlighting key achievements and signposting further information. We are involved at many levels, by investing in policy-r...
by Climate and Development Outlook CDO | On 23 Jan 2016 The survey had two main aims – to provide a replicable baseline that could be measured over time and to inform the development of communication strategies in the future. The project has also developed...
by Stephan Faris | On 23 Jan 2016 This note examines the volatility in stock prices in the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) during 2003- 2007. Excessive volatility and fluctuations in stock price fail to provide the correct signal on compan...
by Md. Habibour Rahman | On 23 Jan 2016 Rice, a major staple crop for India and Bangladesh is important not only for ensuring food security, but also the livelihood security of large number of small and marginal farmers engaged in rice cult...
by Neha Jain | On 23 Jan 2016 This Briefing Paper examines the linkages between climate change, food security and trade in South Asia. Studies suggest that in Asia the heat stress due to climate change will reduce crop yields in t...
by Ram Jha | On 23 Jan 2016 Drawing on secondary literature and interviews and discussions with community members, local government officials, and various experts, the report proposes a mechanism through which LGIs could provide...
by International Centre for Climate Change and Develo ICCCAD | On 23 Jan 2016 The ARCAB programme has a well-developed theory of change (ARCAB 2012). This encompasses broader issues relating to the scaling up and out of CBA that are central to ARCAB as a whole and its goal of a...
by Hannah Reid | On 23 Jan 2016 A recent project under the CMI-CPD institutional collaboration agreement has looked at the effect of corruption on investment in the energy sector. A distinction is made between the extraction of ener...
by Arne Wiig | On 23 Jan 2016 Energy remains one of the key inputs to socio-economic progress in developing societies. South Asian nations, namely Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lank...
by Anoop Singh | On 23 Jan 2016 The study concludes that existing legal and policy frameworks provide a limited scope to assess and address both the current and potential future risk of loss and damage associated with the adverse im...
by Abdullah Faruque | On 23 Jan 2016 The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will define the priorities of the UN’s development agendabeyond 2015. But the reality of climate change impacts will render these aspirational goals almost imp...
by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC | On 23 Jan 2016 This note examines the current methodology of setting the requirements and availability of food grains used by FPMU and identifies areas where efforts are needed to rationalize demand and supply estim...
by Bangladesh Bank | On 23 Jan 2016 This report summarizes outcomes of collaboration between ADB and implementing agencies of Bhutan, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, the Philippines, and Viet Nam to address gaps in the production of a...
by Asian Bank | On 23 Jan 2016 Alliances’ of public and private actors can play a crucial role in accelerating the transition to sustainable energy systems, and these groupings can be ‘engineered’. Based on research findings from I...
by Institute of Development Studies IDS | On 23 Jan 2016 The focus of this research is on the determinants of low-carbon investment in the world’s two largest emerging economies: China and India. While these countries are responsible for the biggest growth...
by Stephen Spratt | On 23 Jan 2016 This document outlines one component of India’s INDC submission to the UNFCCC focussing on the renewable energy contribution to its future electricity mix. So far, the Government of India has articula...
by Sudatta Ray | On 22 Jan 2016 New analysis suggests that the impacts of climate change in Southeast Asia may be larger than previously estimated, possibly reaching 11% of gross domestic product by 2100.
by | On 22 Jan 2016 The setting up of the New Development Bank was first suggested by India in early 2012 in order to fund its domestic energy and infrastructure needs, namely power transmission, 11 roads and ports. Fina...
by Stephen Spratt | On 22 Jan 2016 The paper focuses to reduce hunger and increase food and income security of resource poor farm families in South Asia through the development and inclusive adoption of new cereal varieties, sustainabl...
by | On 22 Jan 2016 World trade has experienced a significant slowdown since the 2008 financial crisis. Over this period, the global ratio of trade expansion to income growth has halved. An effective global trade and inv...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 22 Jan 2016 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 eco...
by A. Ganesh-Kumar | On 22 Jan 2016 The effort has been to ensure that these studies are fact-based and objective and are not seen as a “government study”. We believe that the debates and negotiations on climate change are best served b...
by Climate Modelling Forum CMF | On 22 Jan 2016 India is witnessing rapid growth in the urban centers. Urbanization trend is expected to accelerate in coming decades as well. It is projected that the number of cities with a population of more than...
by Urban Climate Change Resilience UCCR | On 21 Jan 2016 The purpose of this evaluation was to quantify the impact of the recent policy change in West Bengal relating to the pricing of electricity from a flat-rate tariff to a metered tariff. The study attem...
by Meenakshi J V | On 21 Jan 2016 In India, institutional arrangements around climate finance have mostly followed national policy responses to climate change. This paper maps the emergence of climate change policy in India and subseq...
by Vyoma Jha | On 21 Jan 2016 This Study surveys the progress that APEC has made towards promoting regional economic cooperation and integration. It examines the desirability of India joining APEC and looks at possible benefits an...
by V. S. Seshadri | On 21 Jan 2016 This paper is a study of climate change discourse in urban India. It suggests that the policies being articulated to deal with climate issues are premised on incremental changes rather than radical re...
by Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay | On 21 Jan 2016 This discussion paper seeks to understand the nature of the ongoing demographic transition in South Asia and the challenges faced by the countries of the region to augment their future supply of skill...
by Biswajit Dhar | On 21 Jan 2016 This discussion paper examines the use of three different technological options in the Indian agriculture. It shows that support to organic farming is increasing but at this stage innovation related i...
by Sachin Chaturvedi | On 21 Jan 2016 This working paper seeks to explore the potential impact of future demographic and climate change on migration patterns in developing countries, in order to identify policy implications for internatio...
by | On 20 Jan 2016 The 2009 World Survey on the Role of Women in Development addresses the important theme of “Women’s control over economic resources and access to financial resources, including microfinance”. The Worl...
by UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs UNDESA | On 20 Jan 2016 This book collects the findings of a group of scientists and economists who have taken stock of climate change impacts on food and agriculture at global and regional levels over the past two decades....
by Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO] | On 20 Jan 2016 The Conference on climate change in Paris in December 2015 demonstrated what an uphill road it is for all nations to ‘come together and save the world’. India, the fourth-largest contributor to worldw...
by Chandrani Sarma | On 20 Jan 2016 With the twin objectives of improving health and education of the poor children, India has embarked upon an ambitious scheme of providing mid day meals (MDM) in the government and government-assisted...
by Satish Deodhar | On 19 Jan 2016 The Paris Agreement on climate change has united the world in the pursuit of an ambitious climate goal. However, goals alone will not avert catastrophic climate change. Credible commitments to aggress...
by Noah Deich | On 19 Jan 2016 This study attempts to break down ‘climate change’ into ‘climate related shocks and stresses in the course of time’ and conceptualizes the food security and nutrition outcomes as combination of the ad...
by Chris Béné | On 19 Jan 2016 Increasing coverage and maintaining infrastructure are two of the biggest challenges confronting the water supply sector in both industrialized and developing countries. The last two decades have witn...
by | On 19 Jan 2016 Among the most significant impacts of climate change is the potential increase of food insecurity and malnutrition. The aim of this primer is to summarise the current state of knowledge on the impacts...
by Richard Choularton | On 19 Jan 2016 In the limited literature on gender and climate change, two themes predominate – women as vulnerable or virtuous in relation to the environment. Two viewpoints become obvious: women in the South will...
by Seema Arora-Jonsson | On 19 Jan 2016 This brief outlines the context, current proposals and concerns around the proposed carbon tax and summarises the recommendations of the Davis Tax Committee on the carbon tax, which were released as p...
by Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies TIPS | On 19 Jan 2016 Research on clientelism broadly assumes that local political agents, or brokers, possess fine-grained information on voters’ political preferences, and often can directly or indirectly monitor their v...
by Mark Schneider | On 18 Jan 2016 In this paper, we analyze the sources of output growth in the past three decades
and discuss the outlook going forward. Projections are made for the growth of factors of
production and the growth of...
by Ila Patnaik | On 18 Jan 2016 The Global Risks Report 2016 features perspectives from nearly 750 experts on the perceived impact and likelihood of 29 prevalent global risks over a 10-year timeframe. The risks are divided into five...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 18 Jan 2016 We study how international migration changes the private transfers made between households in the migrant sending communities of developing countries. A priori, it is indeterminate whether migration a...
by | On 15 Jan 2016 Eldis has brought together an editorially selected range of over 170 research resources from diverse perspectives and publishers. The theme focuses on gender equality and the role that both women and...
by E. Esplen | On 14 Jan 2016 In this brief review of recent approaches relevant to climate smart agriculture (CSA) programs, the researcher presents ideas on why emerging CSA policies and plans lack the attention to gender that w...
by Sonja Vermeulen | On 14 Jan 2016 This study, relying primarily on qualitative data from Côte d’Ivoire, examines how income allocation and intra-household dynamics affect household resilience during the lean season. Its findings indic...
by Elizabeth Kiewisch | On 14 Jan 2016 This learning brief synthesises lessons drawn from CARE’s Adaptation Learning Programme for Africa (ALP), which has been supporting vulnerable communities in sub-Saharan Africa to adapt to the impacts...
by Webb J. | On 13 Jan 2016 For years, civil society organisations and researchers have highlighted that, as weather patterns become increasingly unpredictable and extreme events such as floods, heatwaves or storms become more c...
by A Otzelberger | On 13 Jan 2016 The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were introduced to monitor implementation of the United Nations Millennium Declaration which set out a vision for inclusive and sustainable globalization based...
by Sakiko Fukuda-Parr | On 13 Jan 2016 The focus of this report is on vulnerabilities in natural resources and rural livelihoods, which stand at the front line of climate change impact. The overarching objective of this report is to promot...
by World Bank [WB} | On 12 Jan 2016 To achieve the greatest possible human welfare, the Stockholm Environment Institute’s Climate and Regional Economics of Development (CRED) model calls for rapid reduction of greenhouse gas emissions t...
by | On 11 Jan 2016 This paper explores the scope for Innovative Development Finance (IDF) to compensate for declining Official Development Assistance (ODA) and/or to enhance the efficiency of ODA. It shows that IDF has...
by | On 11 Jan 2016 This paper aims to test the validity of the hypothesis that climate change in the coming years is likely to induce massive migration to and from South Asia, both within and across the borders. This pa...
by | On 11 Jan 2016 Developing and developed countries alike need a paradigm shift in agricultural development: from a "green revolution" to a "truly ecological intensification" approach. This implies a rapid and signifi...
by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNCTAD | On 09 Jan 2016 In the 1970s, the oil-producing and exporting countries of the Middle East delivered a shock to the global economic system that had many unexpected consequences. The then-quadrupling of the price of o...
by Shahid Javed Burki | On 09 Jan 2016 The paper looks at the flow of ideas from the South Asian Diaspora groups to their original homelands. This is occurring in the areas of economic management and political change. As a result of the in...
by Shahid Javed Burki | On 09 Jan 2016 This study was carried out in Jagatpur VDC of Chitwan district. The study was done using quantitative and qualitative research methodology using Key informant interview, household survey and focus gro...
by Roshna Maharjan | On 08 Jan 2016 Understanding the demographic changes that are likely to unfold over the coming years, as well as the challenges and opportunities that they present for achieving sustainable development, is important...
by United Nations (UN) | On 08 Jan 2016 This paper discusses mechanisms to prevent and resolve foreign exchange crises in East Asia. Policies and mechanisms at the country level as well as regional and global levels are discussed. Policies...
by Andrew Cooper | On 07 Jan 2016 The formation of regional production networks in East Asia has occurred mainly through market forces, without much help from regional institutions in promoting the creation of a single Asian market. W...
by Masahiro Kawai | On 07 Jan 2016 The authors develop a new set of indexes of exchange rate stability, monetary policy independence, and financial market openness as the metrics for the trilemma hypothesis. In their exploration, they...
by Masahiro Kawai | On 07 Jan 2016 Cross-border production networks have been playing an increasingly important role in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries’ trade in recent years, but micro-level studies are ra...
by Ganeshan Wignaraja | On 07 Jan 2016 Singapore is the most industrialized and urbanized country in Southeast Asia and is totally dependent on oil and natural gas imports to satisfy its energy needs. Its national energy policy framework s...
by Tilak Doshi | On 07 Jan 2016 As cross-border movements of goods, capital, and labor are intensifying, it is likely that goods markets in East Asia will become increasingly integrated. This study investigates the current state of...
by Woosik Moon | On 07 Jan 2016 This paper covers threes issues: first, defining and measuring inclusive growth; second, the relationship between international trade and inequality; and third, the links between infrastructure and in...
by Juzhong Zhuang | On 07 Jan 2016 A recent survey done by Vikas Bharati, an Unnao-based voluntary organization, revealed that 35%, 47.8% and 60.3% of children were affected with dental fluorosis, in Junior High School, Thana, Janta Sh...
by People's Science Institute PSI | On 06 Jan 2016 Japan has suffered from sluggish economic growth and recession since the 1990s, a phenomenon dubbed “Japan’s Lost Decade.” The People’s Republic of China, many countries in the eurozone, and the Unite...
by Naoyuki Yoshino | On 06 Jan 2016 The Bhakra-Nangal multipurpose project is among the earliest water resource development projects undertaken by Independent India. Though the main objectives were stated as irrigation and power generat...
by Shripad Dharmadhikary | On 05 Jan 2016 Production around the world is now increasingly characterized by shorter product cycles and just-in-time processes. Consequently, the reliability of the supplier is an important distinguishing charact...
by Mokhopadhyay Partha | On 05 Jan 2016 Climate litigation is in its infancy in India. Climate-related claims have yet to be litigated in the courts. There are a few cases in which climate change has been referred to but only in passing. Th...
by Lavanya Rajamani | On 05 Jan 2016 This paper argues that as a step towards improving Indian corporate response to climate change, it is worth exploring an appropriate disclosure-based regulation system. It sets out reasons why Indian...
by Bharath Jairaj | On 05 Jan 2016 This paper—which draws on inputs to, and discussions at, a methods development workshop—highlights the various concepts, methods, and tools that SoC researchers are considering to measure nutrition-re...
by | On 04 Jan 2016 Road Transportation, Regulations and Charges in Indonesia. To assess the size and nature of domestic road transportation costs, The Asia Foundation, in partnership with the University of Indonesia's I...
by The Asia Foundation | On 02 Jan 2016 Indonesia is a net importer of grains, horticulture and livestock produce. The instability of food prices since 2008 has led to a renewed emphasis on food security. Despite increasing food crop produc...
by Victor Pontines | On 01 Jan 2016 Global capital flows into emerging markets, including those in Asia, continue to be volatile, generating both benefits and costs. The latter are associated with episodes of currency and banking crises...
by Ramón López | On 01 Jan 2016 A study of how PPPs have been employed by ADB developing member countries in Asia and the Pacific identified seven initiatives that adopted the underlying principles of PPP in developing and deliverin...
by Jouko Sarvi | On 01 Jan 2016 This paper examines the economic and trade effects of infrastructure in Asia. Infrastructure plays a key role in facilitating trade, especially since recent trade liberalization in Asia has resulted i...
by Jamilah Mahyideen | On 01 Jan 2016 Changes in climate and global warming may require population to migrate, which can lead to acculturation stress. It can also lead to increased rates of physical illnesses, which secondarily would be a...
by | On 30 Dec 2015 Structural change has a far-reaching impact on inequality. Extensive structural change is both a cause and consequence of the exceptionally rapid economic growth, which enabled developing Asia to rais...
by Donghyun Park | On 30 Dec 2015 This paper presents a simple model of industrial upgrading as a result of backward and forward information linkages between upstream and downstream relations. It also serves as an empirical investigat...
by Tomohiro Machikita | On 30 Dec 2015 The failures of water management have been extensively studied and reviewed and the shortcomings are listed.
by Ravi Chopra | On 29 Dec 2015 Intense climate-related natural disasters—floods, storms, as well as droughts and heat waves—have been on the rise worldwide. Is there an ominous link between the global increase of these hydrometeoro...
by Ramón López | On 29 Dec 2015 Southeast Asia is vulnerable to climate change, yet is also on a carbon intensive development trajectory.The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has analyzed the potential role the region can play in climate...
by Jindra Samson | On 29 Dec 2015 This paper documents lessons learned during the implementation of two loans: the Renewable Energy Development Sector Project, and the Power Transmission Improvement Sector Project.Electrification in I...
by Bagus Mudiantoro | On 29 Dec 2015 The paper examines ASEAN’s political and security challenges and prospects in the coming two decades. The challenges facing ASEAN could be classified into six broad categories: (1) the shifting balanc...
by Amitav Acharya | On 29 Dec 2015 This paper aims to provide a non-technical explanation of the concept of trade in value added, with particular reference to East Asia. The trade in value added approach allows us to redefine the relat...
by Satoshi Inomata | On 29 Dec 2015 Released on the eve of the Paris climate change conference (COP21), this report – a mix of infographics and country case examples – outlines UNDP’s decades-long support to partner countries to tackle...
by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) | On 29 Dec 2015 Improving physical connectivity between South and Southeast Asia has long been recognized as a key element in promoting greater trade and investment linkages within the region. As an island economy, S...
by Dushni Weerakoon | On 29 Dec 2015 We estimate the response of Asian stock market prices to exogenous monetary policy shocks using a vector error correction model. In our paper, monetary policy transmits to stock market price through t...
by Farzana Sehrin | On 29 Dec 2015 This note presents data regarding Parliament’s productivity during Winter Session 2015.
by Kusum Malik | On 26 Dec 2015 This handbook is designed as guidance for policymakers and practitioners to mainstream pro-poor environment and climate concerns into planning, budgeting and monitoring. Mainstreaming is achieved by p...
by United Nations Development Programme [UNDP] | On 24 Dec 2015 Since the majority of the population in the developing world relies on micro and small businesses for their livelihoods, it is imperative that this segment of the economy becomes more resilient to fut...
by | On 24 Dec 2015 This paper examines the domestic sources of the internationalization of national oil companies (NOCs) in China and India. It argues that – counter to notions of state-led internationalization – the go...
by Jonas Mecklinga | On 23 Dec 2015 Banana (Musa sapientum) is an important fruit crop in India. Bananas are grown in more than 150 countries, producing 105 million tonnes of fruit per year. The global production of banana is around 102...
by Agricultural Marketing | On 22 Dec 2015 Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will require high levels of productive private and public sector investment, which in turn requires a suitable investment climate. This paper provide...
by | On 22 Dec 2015 This paper seeks to identify the strategic and economic variables involved in India’s decision about whether or not to pursue a proposed natural gas pipeline from Iran. There is a lot of misinformatio...
by | On 22 Dec 2015 This report is a step in this direction. In particular, the knowledge and
understanding of impacts as deduced from the Global Circulation Models and Regional Climate Models are not adequate to assess...
by Government of India GOI | On 22 Dec 2015 India occupies an intriguing dual position in global climate politics – a poor and developing economy with low levels of historical and per capita emissions, and a large and rapidly growing economy wi...
by Navroz Dubash | On 21 Dec 2015 Highlights lessons learned from implementing development schemes and policies, which have incorporated adaptation due to the increasing incidence of extreme weather events.
by | On 21 Dec 2015 The strengthening of El Niño weather phenomenon has led to lower than average rainfall for India’s monsoon season, thereby raising concerns for paddy crops production.
by Aritra Chakrabarty | On 21 Dec 2015 It is vital for countries to identify climate risks, reduce these risks through mitigation, and adapt to these risks—thereby increasing resilience and reducing vulnerability. This study informs decisi...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 21 Dec 2015 The challenge of aligning higher education services (programs) with evolving labor market changes, and responding to knowledge-based economy of respective developing countries, has been difficult for...
by Jouko Sarvi | On 21 Dec 2015 The intention of this paper is to examine whether Real Exchange Rate (RER)depreciation has any impact on export, import and trade balance of Bangladesh.
Real exchange rate is calculated using Tk./do...
by Maidul Chowdhury | On 19 Dec 2015 The world’s poorest people lack capital and skills and toil for others in occupations that others shun. Using a large-scale and long-term randomized control trial in Bangladesh this paper demonstrates...
by Munshi Sulaiman | On 18 Dec 2015 This paper considers the role of the exchange rate in the economy and its importance as a macroeconomic instrument, and outlines the policy choices that are available to governments in general, and th...
by Keith Jefferis | On 18 Dec 2015 This paper studies the effect of electricity on income, using the Nepal Living Standards Survey-III (NLSSIII), carried out in the years 2010-11. To account for endogeneity issues, we use Three Stage L...
by Matias Fontenla | On 18 Dec 2015 The main intention of the paper is to investigate the extent of sterilization of Bangladesh Bank to offset the monetary expansionary effect of reserve accumulation in the foreign exchange market.
To...
by Mst. Nurnaher Begum | On 18 Dec 2015 Bangladesh has had impressive growth in exports, remittances and foreign exchange reserve in recent year. By analyzing the liberalizing regime from 1979 to this date by adopting a comprehensive approa...
by Abdul Wahab | On 18 Dec 2015 In order to understand the current phase of Naxalism, there is a need to understand different aspects of organizational transformation that have occurred within the Naxal movement, since the genesis a...
by Rajat Kumar Kujur | On 18 Dec 2015 This paper assesses the emphasis of the literature on different agriculture–nutrition pathways in Bangladesh. More research is needed on the links between agriculture and nutrition in country-specific...
by | On 18 Dec 2015 This collection of articles captures and disseminates some perspectives on climate change from the Indian context. Starting from an argument on a new climate deal to highlighting the importance of the...
by Sunita Narain | On 17 Dec 2015 The report attempts to provide a comprehensive overview of the
constitutional developments in the Kingdom of Bhutan. Starting from the premonarchy era and looking closely at the different phases of m...
by | On 17 Dec 2015 This report makes the case for closing persistent gaps in equity, because the cycle of inequity is neither inevitable nor insurmountable, and the cost of inaction is too high. UNICEF’s commitment to e...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 17 Dec 2015 Today’s children, and their children, are the ones who will live with the consequences of climate change. This report looks at how children, and particularly the most vulnerable, are affected and what...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 17 Dec 2015 The challenge of climate change is huge; it requires an urgent response from all generations. As the effects of climate change become more visible and extreme, they are likely to affect adversely the...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 17 Dec 2015 This essay examines India’s position in international negotiations on climate change and domestic mitigation actions, based on scientific evidence and equity. It is argued that India’s stance has larg...
by D Raghunandan | On 17 Dec 2015 Food security and nutrition is a major global challenge. SDC’s Global Programme Food Security(GPFS) represents an innovative initiative of Switzerland in addressing food security and nutrition challen...
by Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC | On 17 Dec 2015 Major health problems persist, particularly in tropical countries, which are still struggling with infectious diseases while increasingly having to deal with noncommunicable diseases. Several classic...
by David E. Bloom | On 17 Dec 2015 The metabolic rift describes the relation between the relatively short extractive cycles of the economy and the very long cycles involved in the creation and restitution of natural resources. This rif...
by Barbara Harriss-White | On 17 Dec 2015 Many economists and policymakers advocate a fundamental shift towards "green growth" as the new, qualitatively-different growth paradigm, largely based on enhanced material/resource/energy efficiency,...
by Ulrich Hoffmann | On 16 Dec 2015 This paper places the bio-genetic industry within the larger political economic framework of globalisation and privatisation, thus employing a framework that is often omitted from discussions on ARTs,...
by Sarojini Nadimpally | On 16 Dec 2015 Is there an ominous link between the global increase of the hydrometeorological and climatological events on the one side and anthropogenic climate change on the other? This paper considers three main...
by Vinod Thomas | On 15 Dec 2015 The study finds that micro hydro (MH) has significant impact on reduction in fuel wood consumption. Communities are more inclined to harvest fuel wood from government forest. These led to the promotio...
by Bishwa Koirala | On 15 Dec 2015 The key challenge is to develop a policy that facilitates the adaptive capacity of migration rather than inhibiting it. Such an endeavour and subsequent shift in policy where it is sub-optimal is impe...
by Richard Black | On 15 Dec 2015 Limiting global warming to 2° Celsius above global mean temperature in pre-indus- trial times has become a widely debated possible goal for climate policy. It has been supported by many scientists, th...
by | On 13 Dec 2015 This paper aims to measure the changes in the type and depth of knowledge and understanding on sexual and reproductive health and gender issues, and how they obtained that knowledge. Secondly, changes...
by Md. Abdul Alim | On 11 Dec 2015 This paper examines the historical attributes of energy transition and finds various critical factors that determine the success of such shift: appropriate IPR regimes; local innovation; economic feas...
by | On 11 Dec 2015 The SkyShares model helps policy-makers explore a range of diffe ent policy scenarios. It enables users to relate a target limit for temperature change to a global emissions ceiling; to allocate this...
by Owen Barder | On 11 Dec 2015 This paper reviews the adaptation components of the Intended
Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) submitted by developed,
emerging, and least developed nations, and suggests how such measures...
by | On 11 Dec 2015 There are a wide range of agriculture-based practices and technologies that have the potential to increase food production and the adaptive capacity of the food production system, as well as reduce em...
by | On 09 Dec 2015 The World Economic Forum along with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) convened the National Strategy Day on India on 3rd and 4th of November to provide a platform to boost economic growth and...
by | On 09 Dec 2015 These Notes are mainly about three interconnected themes; the international and Indian ‘take’ on control over land (and water); the distinction between an agricultural crisis and an agrarian crisis;...
by Sheila Bhalla | On 09 Dec 2015 A framework for comparing mitigation effort is drawn, drawing from a set
of principles for designing and implementing informative metrics. A template for organizing metrics on mitigation effort is pr...
by William Pizer | On 09 Dec 2015 This report is the third in a series of papers from the Center for American Progress that examines the implications of the climate change, migration, and security nexus. Our analysis highlights the ov...
by | On 09 Dec 2015 Rapid urbanization together with climate change is emerging as the most challenging issue of the twenty-first century. As the region with the highest percentage increase in urban population over the l...
by UN-HABITAT UNHABITAT | On 07 Dec 2015 This Food Policy Report presents research results that quantify the climate-change impacts, assesses the consequences for food security, and estimates the investments that would offset the negative co...
by International Food Policy Research Institute | On 07 Dec 2015 The “Progress of the World's Women 2008/2009: Who Answers to Women?” demonstrates that one of the most powerful constraints on realizing women's rights and achieving the Millennium Development Goals (...
by | On 07 Dec 2015 The immense social, economic and environmental consequences of climate change and loss of essential ecosystems are becoming clear. Their effects are already being felt in floods, droughts, and devasta...
by | On 07 Dec 2015 Climate change has been the part of many discussions and to understand it causal factors behind it data is needed.
by Ministry of Statistics and Prog Implementation (MOSPI) | On 07 Dec 2015 A fair deal on climate change for developed and developing countries is identified by focusing not on equitable emissions quotas but on fair access to energy services.
by Nancy Birdsall | On 07 Dec 2015 The Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action agreed to transmit the text titled “Draft agreement and draft decision on workstreams 1 and 2 of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Dur...
by United Nations UN | On 07 Dec 2015 The Kyoto Protocol is an international treaty, 1998, which extends the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that commits State Parties to reduce greenhouse gases emissi...
by United Nations UN | On 07 Dec 2015 The government should encourage the use of solar energy.
by T.N. Ninan | On 04 Dec 2015 This report summarizes current knowledge of the anticipated impacts of climate change on water availability for agriculture. The implications for local and national food security are examined; and the...
by | On 04 Dec 2015 In the recent past, several initiatives have been taken to address the challenges in the power sector. These include structural
changes in the regulatory framework as proposed by the Electricity (Ame...
by Prachee Mishra | On 04 Dec 2015 The future of tropical deforestation is projected from 2016-2050 with and without carbon pricing policies, based on 18 million observations of historical forest loss spanning 101 tropical countries.
by Jonah Busch | On 04 Dec 2015 Changes in food habits mean people are finding new ways to enjoy food and new foods to enjoy, often with greater convenience and ease. Most people feel they understand little about how new foods affec...
by | On 03 Dec 2015 This report argues that what is urgently needed is a tested but far from fully exploited approach to funding forest conservation: pay-for-performance transfers, under which public (and private) funder...
by Nancy Birdsall | On 03 Dec 2015 Expectations are high for a good and fair new climate change agreement at the
much anticipated on-going climate change summit in Paris. Such expectations are elusive if the negotiations fail to face...
by Raman Letchumanan | On 03 Dec 2015 South Asia’s changing climate has had many different impacts including changes in ecosystems, more severe storms, rainfall that is more concentrated in a few days per year leading to more floods and m...
by E. Somanathan | On 01 Dec 2015 This paper reports and models the discrepancy between the full bidding and endow and upgrade findings from a willingness-to-pay (WTP) elicitation Becker-Degroot-Marschak (BDM) experiment for an improv...
by Banerji A | On 30 Nov 2015 Intense climate-related disasters—floods, storms, droughts, and heat waves—have been on the rise worldwide. At the same time and coupled with an increasing concentration of greenhouse gases in the atm...
by Vinod Thomas | On 30 Nov 2015 The development and utilization of renewable energy sources has been accorded high priority by the Government of India. The policies and programmes implemented by the Ministry of New and Renewable Ene...
by | On 27 Nov 2015 Over the last twenty years, the overwhelming majority (90%) of disasters have been caused by floods, storms, heatwaves and other weather-related events. In total, 6,457 weather-related disasters were...
by | On 25 Nov 2015 Malnutrition remains the world’s most serious health problem and the single biggest contributor to child deaths. It is time to restore the bridge between agriculture and health. FAO’s Member Countries...
by Graeme Thomas | On 24 Nov 2015 This report attempts to compare the latest medium-term projections for wheat, rice, coarse grains, oilseeds, vegetable oils and sugar made by four international institutions (OECD/FAO, USDA, FAPRI, an...
by National Council of Applied Economic Research | On 18 Nov 2015 For a large variety of data recorded by the Census of India, such as those
on language, age structure, religion, and on individual Scheduled Castes and
Tribes, the district is the lowest level of ag...
by Hemanshu Kumar | On 17 Nov 2015 This paper provides a much needed analysis of how Theories of Change are used in the day-to-day practice of an international development organisation, The Asia Foundation. The Foundation uses the appr...
by | On 16 Nov 2015 What the government should is to concentrate on economic issues with diversionary issues being put back in the cupboard.
by T.N. Ninan | On 07 Nov 2015 Our tradition of debate in an environment of respect and tolerance. By upholding it, by fighting for it, the students can repay their teachers and your parents. And you will be doing our country a gre...
by Raghuram G. Rajan | On 03 Nov 2015 IFPRI and India’s partnership played a particularly important role following the Green Revolution when that partnership analyzed the necessary policies to both promote domestic food production and to...
by International Food Policy Research Institute | On 03 Nov 2015 Conservation agriculture (CA) technologies are being developed for the cereal production systems of South Asia to address the multifaceted problems of decelerating agricultural productivity, resource...
by Vijesh Krishna | On 02 Nov 2015 This interview with Vijoo Krishnan, Joint Secretary All India Kisan Sabha, on the agrarian crises leading to farmer suicides and rising prices of food grains traces backs the agrarian crises to the ne...
by Vijoo Krishnan | On 02 Nov 2015 This study measures the nutritional status (using Body Mass Index or BMI) of TB patients before, at two months, and after completion of TB treatment (DOTS) to study the changes during treatment and it...
by Environmental Management & Policy Research Institute | On 29 Oct 2015 It is evident that the poor, especially women and children are highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change because of their limited adaptive capacity. In such circumstances, BRAC Disaster, Envi...
by Tahera Akter | On 26 Oct 2015 In Nepal, as in many developing countries, concerns are increasing about the negative impact of climate change on agricultural yields and food security. The Nepalese have already seen changes in their...
by | On 22 Oct 2015 Bangladesh is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change. People are getting educated at different levels on how to deal with potential impacts. One such educational mode was the preparati...
by | On 21 Oct 2015 This paper examines how growth, social reproduction and gender equality are connected in ways that make care work a key determinant of macroeconomic policy outcomes, growth and development. The paper...
by | On 21 Oct 2015 This interview is with D Raghunandan of Delhi Science Forum on India’s pledge regarding climate changes negotiations in Paris. The pledge was recently revealed in the documents presented by Prakash J...
by D Raghunandan | On 20 Oct 2015 This is an analytical narrative about post-conflict dynamics of poverty in a block of villages in north Bihar known as ‘the Mushahari Project’. It is related with the socio-economic and political cons...
by Anand Kumar | On 20 Oct 2015 In this paper the aim is to investigate the different nuances of India's capital account management through empirical analyses as well as descriptive discussions. In particular the study the evolution...
by Rajeswari Sengupta | On 19 Oct 2015 the influence of the industry financial composition on the export flow between
Pakistan and its trading partners is determined. The importing countries are split according to their OECD membership st...
by Aadil Nakhoda | On 16 Oct 2015 As the Indian Ocean region increasingly becomes a more important geopolitical space, global powers and smaller states are laying down their stakes. This paper examines the military build-up of major I...
by | On 15 Oct 2015 Present study has been
undertaken to understand that to what extent reforms measures in terms of repeal of
the act has affected investment in agricultural marketing infrastructure. The present
s...
by Vijay Intodia | On 14 Oct 2015 Green revolution has made the country self-sufficient in food grain production, mainly rice and wheat. We now need to usher in a rainbow revolution which encompasses not only agriculture but the allie...
by R K P Singh | On 13 Oct 2015 The new dread-word is deflation. What does this mean for India? This can cause a threat for domestic producers. This is because of the global situation. We can be prepared and by improving efficiency...
by T.N. Ninan | On 09 Oct 2015 The 2015-16 Global Monitoring Report, produced jointly by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, details the progress the world has made towards global development goals and examines the impa...
by International Monetary Fund [IMF] | On 09 Oct 2015 This paper brings out the importance of soil fertility management (SFM) with respect to agricultural production and livelihood contribution to the rural people. It looks into the farmers' own knowledg...
by B. Suresh Reddy | On 08 Oct 2015 This paper studies how status competition for marriage partners can generate surprising effects on the real exchange rate (RER). In theory, a rise in the sex ratio (increasing relative surplus of men)...
by Qingyuan Du | On 08 Oct 2015 This study explores the interaction between formal social protection and agriculture by proposing a theory of change and conducting an empirical review that identifies how social protection impacts ag...
by Nyasha Tirivayi | On 07 Oct 2015 What the government needs to do, perhaps, is to spell out an action agenda for the next four months, in the run-up to the 2016 Budget.
by T.N. Ninan | On 02 Oct 2015 Policy makers in India need to pay careful attention to the potential impacts of climate change on food production. Research in Tamil Nadu suggests that rice and sorghum yields are likely to decline b...
by V. Saravanakumar | On 30 Sep 2015 Research from South India suggests that climate change will affect
ground water availability with serious and negative implications
for agriculture. Any increase in temperature above a threshold of
...
by R. Balasubramanian | On 30 Sep 2015 Roughly 40 percent of the world’s poor live in South Asia, where poverty is basically a rural problem. Therefore, a significant gain in rural poverty reduction in this sub-region will be crucial to re...
by | On 30 Sep 2015 This synthesis paper informs the development community about the effects of climate change on migration patterns within and out of developing countries, concentrating on the economic aspects of migrat...
by | On 29 Sep 2015 This study uses panel data for 39 years and 13 districts to estimate the yield sensitivity of major food crops to climate change in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It first estimated the margina...
by V. Saravanakumar | On 25 Sep 2015 This paper investigates the determinants of energy and emission intensities of manufacturing firms in India, from 2000 to 2014. Given that Indian manufacturing sector is one of the world’s most pollut...
by Santosh K. Sahu | On 25 Sep 2015 How did India respond to globalization in the realm of inward foreign direct investment (FDI)? This paper presents the economic institutional change favouring FDI inflows at the union level of India b...
by | On 25 Sep 2015 This study examines the implications of variations in climate variables on ground water sources of irrigation and agricultural income in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Our findings, based on a panel...
by Balasubramanian R | On 24 Sep 2015 This paper, seeks to understand why firms in the garment and textile sector choose to comply with or ignore Pakistan’s environmental regulations and effluent standards. Based on survey of 60 firms, it...
by Ghulam Samad | On 23 Sep 2015 The paper attempts to address the problem of undernutrition in India and its adverse effects on children and adults. Today, food security concerns include not only the problems of physical availabili...
by | On 22 Sep 2015 The growing frequency of urban disasters and the lessons learned from mega-events such as the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti have spurred the development of human rights gu...
by Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre | On 22 Sep 2015 Although India’s plans for market reforms and opening up agriculture with earnest optimism and anticipation, every step on the way was laced with caution and deliberation and every action was weighed...
by Nilabja Ghosh | On 21 Sep 2015 This paper reviews the literature on the performance of commonly found social safety net programs in developing countries. The evidence suggests that universal food subsidies have very limited potenti...
by | On 18 Sep 2015 In this paper results are analysed from a field experiment exploring the response of poor households in China to food price subsidies. Many developing countries use food price subsidies or price cont...
by | On 18 Sep 2015 This paper measures the percolation of food subsidy expenditures to the poor. The paper proposes a metric that takes into account the depth and width of income transfer. The metric is applied to food...
by Shikha Jha | On 18 Sep 2015 As stress on Indian agriculture increases because of several reasons, such as continuous fragmentation of landholdings and climate change, there is a serious threat to livelihood based on farming. Thi...
by Digvijay S. Negi | On 17 Sep 2015 This paper is an attempt to historicize and contextualize the role of technology in history. Technology has always been the determinant part of every culture and civilization. But in no other period i...
by | On 16 Sep 2015 This paper critiques the last decade of research on the effects of high-skill emigration from developing countries, and proposes six new directions for fruitful research. The study singles out a cor...
by Michael Clemens | On 16 Sep 2015 Review of Climate Insurgency: A Strategy for Survival by Jeremy Brecher. Boulder: Paradigm Publishers, 2015. 170 pp. Rs. 8.925/- Hardcover, IISBN-13: 978-1612058207.
by Peter St. Clair | On 15 Sep 2015 This study examines whether skewness of the cross sectional distribution of relative price changes is positively associated with aggregate inflation as predicted by the Menu cost model of Ball and Man...
by Sartaj Rather | On 14 Sep 2015 The possibility of developing regional production networks in specific sectors
between nations of South Asia has been explored in this paper. The case
of the leather and leather goods cluster in T...
by Keshab Das | On 11 Sep 2015 The goal of this study is to examine whether promising a Conditional Cash Transfer (conditional on matriculation) at the start of junior high increases the rate at which disadvantaged students matricu...
by Fan Li | On 09 Sep 2015 The report explores how climate change has become one of the major challenges to the enjoyment of the basic rights to life, food, health, water, housing and self-determination in one of the World's mo...
by Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) | On 08 Sep 2015 The report calls for overfishing, pirate fishing and modern-day slavery in the Thai fishing industry to be addressed as interconnected issues. It examines the complex and multi-faceted problems in Tha...
by Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) | On 08 Sep 2015 Critically analysing assumptions is a much needed endeavour in international development policy and practice: existing management tools rarely encourage critical thinking and there are considerable po...
by | On 08 Sep 2015 The Kerala Perspective Plan 2030 (KPP) is a Government of Kerala initiative that will serve as the basis for implementation of a series of initiatives aimed at fostering sustainable and inclusive grow...
by Government of Kerala Govt | On 04 Sep 2015 The study builds on the India Energy Security Scenarios (IESS) 2047 tool developed by NITI Aayog by adding a ‘quality of life’ dimension to the energy and emissions pathways. The study aims to evaluat...
by | On 28 Aug 2015 This article unravels the migrants’ incidence of skill mismatch taking into consideration different migration flows. Mismatch is the situation in which workers have jobs for which lower skill levels a...
by | On 26 Aug 2015 the paper provides an overview of the growth and status of Indian tea plantation sector delineating the trends
in economic performance in the global context in a historic perspective. It then examine...
by Viswanathan P K | On 25 Aug 2015 Poverty reduction and economic growth can be sustained only if natural resources are managed on a sustainable basis. Greening rural development can stimulate rural economies, create jobs and help main...
by United Nations Development Programme UNDP | On 24 Aug 2015 This paper presents the findings of a study undertaken by IIED in partnership with Plan International on urban children’s risk and agency in four large Asian cities: Dhaka (Bangladesh), Kathmandu (Nep...
by | On 24 Aug 2015 The impacts of climate change, including increasingly severe weather patterns, reach across every country and citizen worldwide, compelling nations to implement sustainable adaptation measures. In ord...
by | On 24 Aug 2015 Aquaculture has grown in leaps and bounds in the last couple of decades in Bangladesh. This is welcomed by most as increasing fish production is expected to contribute to enhancing food security in a...
by Kazi Ali Toufique | On 21 Aug 2015 This paper compares the experience of poverty reduction in China and India. It finds that more than economic growth per se, what has mattered crucially is the nature of the growth: whether it is assoc...
by Jayati Ghosh | On 21 Aug 2015 This study undertakes a choice experiment in order to identify differences in local demand for watershed services in the Koshi basin of Nepal. The paper first examines the possibility of using a non-m...
by Rajesh Kumar Rai | On 20 Aug 2015 The concern of climate change have emphasized in the field of economics too owing to the challenge of adapting to global warming for sustainable development and growth. This challenge becomes central...
by | On 17 Aug 2015 This paper reviews existing structural transformation models and prominent literatures and then empirically examines Nepalese economic structure. The research findings reveal that industrial sector is...
by | On 17 Aug 2015 The National Policy on Biofuels sets an indicative target of 20per cent blending of biofuels by 2017 to tackle the twin problem of energy security and climate change. Although biofuels seem to be the...
by Gopinath Reddy | On 13 Aug 2015 In 2014 our previous study ‘Future Diets’ (Keats and Wiggins 2014) described how across the world an increasing share of the population is overweight and obese, with the rate of increase particularly...
by Rafael Moreira Claro | On 12 Aug 2015 This paper considers the implications of an imperfect monetary transmission mechanism for optimal monetary policy choices in an open economy. The asset market channel is restricted in this paper as so...
by | On 11 Aug 2015 This
paper is an attempt to know the equilibrium exchange rate of Taka to measure exchange rate misalignment. To estimate
the equilibrium real exchange rate we use macroeconomic balance approach, wh...
by Md. Akhtaruzzaman | On 11 Aug 2015 This report is by the National Sample Survey Office, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India is part of the series on household consumer expenditure on utilisation of...
by National Sample Survey Office NSSO | On 31 Jul 2015 For a sample of 42 high and middle income countries analyzed over a period
of 30 years ranging from 1982 till 2011, this paper shows that while an efficient trilemma policy choice
can help lower inf...
by | On 31 Jul 2015 The report looks beyond the proclamations and communiqués to assess what has really changed since the crisis erupted. While not exhaustive, the report looks at: Overseas Development Assistance, both i...
by | On 30 Jul 2015 Poverty and environmental factors are interlinked and hold crucial importance for economic development. The poor depend so much on their natural resource base and primary production sources that the d...
by | On 30 Jul 2015 This study extends the understanding of global production network (GPN) analysis by considering the post-consumption activities of the product in question, namely mobile phones. The authors examine th...
by Parvez Alam | On 29 Jul 2015 This paper studies the policy determinants of economic transition and estimates the demand for labor in the infant private sector in urban China. It shows that a reform that untied access to housing i...
by Lakshmi Iyer | On 20 Jul 2015 This study explores the three-way linkage between weather variability, agricultural performance and internal migration in India. It estimates a two-equation model, which examines variations in weather...
by | On 17 Jul 2015 Fish is an important source of food and livelihood for people. Owing to their proximity to the sea, coastal communities have long depended on this resource to meet their nutritional needs. Does this,...
by Lavanya Ravikanth Anneboina | On 16 Jul 2015 The links between climate change and disasters in South Asia, such as flooding in Pakistan or cyclones in Bangladesh, are increasingly evident.
However, there is little recognition of the potentially...
by | On 14 Jul 2015 Mapping mortality impacts of the projected climate in urban areas of developing countries will play a crucial role in instituting planned adaptation measures to protect public health. A comprehensive...
by Hem H Dholakia | On 14 Jul 2015 The impact of urbanization on growth and equality, and on urban and rural poverty are well-documented but do not discuss alternative models of urbanization.
While the relationship between urbanizat...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 13 Jul 2015 This study estimates the entrance fee that can be charged to visitors
for ‘turtle watching’ to ascertain whether revenues from such fees can
be used to compensate fishermen and reduce such illegal...
by R. M. Wasantha Rathnayake | On 10 Jul 2015 This paper attempts a welfare comparison of population where only ordinal information is available at the micro level in terms of multi-dimensional discrete well-being indicators. This does not involv...
by Udaya S. Mishra | On 08 Jul 2015 The study is an attempt to bring to the fore a Commons perspective of agriculture, livestock and rural livelihoods in the dryland and tribal areas of India. Would agriculture, livestock and rural live...
by Foundation for Ecological Security FES | On 07 Jul 2015 Cross-country studies have found that hotter years are associated with lower output in poor countries. Using high-frequency micro-data from manufacturing firms in India, we show that worker heat stre...
by Anant Sudarsan | On 07 Jul 2015 The need for revision of the 1979 land legislation was being felt for a long time and hence the then Ministry of Agriculture started the work on it with the formation of a multi-sector committee in 20...
by Dasho Kinzang Dorji | On 26 Jun 2015 This technical paper provides evidence-based estimates of the likelihood of disaster-induced displacement in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. It att...
by Justin Ginnetti | On 24 Jun 2015 This RSIS policy brief identifies possible implications of climate change disturbances on crops and livestock in world production centers by 2030,
2050 and 2080. Policy recommendations for importing...
by | On 22 Jun 2015 This paper aims at understanding the different dimensions of life cycle of a
seaport enabling the port-planners to decide on their strategies. There are
different stages in the life cycle of an orga...
by Deepankar Sinha | On 19 Jun 2015 While there is growing attention to climate policy, effective coordination, design and implementation of policy require attention to institutional design for climate governance. This paper examines th...
by | On 16 Jun 2015 This report is a report by the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition of the Committee on World Food Security. Water is key to food security and nutrition. However there are many c...
by Food and Nutrition Division FAO | On 10 Jun 2015 The United Nations' first Creative Economy Report was published in early 2008, at a time when the world economy had been under- going a period of expansion. The report concluded that the creative indu...
by | On 07 Jun 2015 This article provides evidence on the role of consumer food subsidies in improving nutritional intake
and diet quality by evaluating the expansion of the government food assistance program coverage i...
by Andaleeb Rahman | On 05 Jun 2015 India's significant economic growth over the last decade has led to an inexorable rise in energy demand. Currently, India faces a challenging energy shortage. To grow at 9 per cent over the next 20 ye...
by Vivan Sharan | On 05 Jun 2015 Events in many parts of the world over the last decade – starting with protests in Greece in December 2008, following the death of a young student at the hands of the police, and continuing through th...
by | On 05 Jun 2015 On 12 February 2015, hundreds of workers of garment factories at Udyog Vihar, Gurgaon, came out on the streets and pelted stones at some of the garment factory buildings in response to the rumour of t...
by PUDR Peoples Union for Democratic Rights | On 05 Jun 2015 The Working Group recognises the need for enhanced, inclusive and sustainable growth in rainfed areas. It identifies factors contributing to instability in production system under rainfed conditions e...
by Planning Commission | On 20 May 2015 This paper reviews the replacement of the state sales taxes by the Value Added Tax in 2005 marked a significant step forward in the reform of domestic trade taxes in India. Implemented under the leade...
by | On 19 May 2015 This report look at various youth issues and then suggest changes that can be targeted at redressing the same. There is an opportunity in which hard hitting reforms can be instituted to strengthen you...
by | On 12 May 2015 The purpose of the study is to extend the period of analysis of the impact of new seed fertiliser technology from 1990-93 to 2003-06. A special significance to economic reforms in India in 1991 is giv...
by Gurmail Singh | On 12 May 2015 The January 2014 issue of YOJANA contains the following articles - Tribal and Marginalized Communities, Constitutional Provisions, Laws and Tribes, Actualising Adivasi Self-Rule, The Food Bill, Wild F...
by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting MIB | On 11 May 2015 The Policy aims to holistically address the issues of vehicular emissions, vehicular technologies and auto fuel quality in a cost efficient manner, while ensuring the security of fuel supply.
by Lok Sabha Secretariat | On 07 May 2015 This paper empirically analyses sources of extreme economic distress in rural India. We use district-level data on farmers’ suicides in two major states during the years 1998 to 2004 to estimate the e...
by | On 29 Apr 2015 This Five Year Plan document focuses on Economic Sectors which provides plans for Agriculture, Industry, Energy, Transport, Communication, Rural Development, Urban Development and Other Priority Secto...
by Planning Commission | On 23 Apr 2015 Developing countries like India are under international pressure to sign a legally binding emissions treaty to avert catastrophic climatic change. Developing countries, however, have argued that any i...
by | On 21 Apr 2015 The report documents compendium of state policies from perspective of climate change mitigation with findings such as many states endowed with rich natural resources are naturally very environment fri...
by | On 21 Apr 2015 The National Agroforestry Policy, which deals with the practice of integrating trees, crops and livestock on the same plot of land, was launched February 10, the first day of the World Congress on Agr...
by | On 21 Apr 2015 The aim of this paper is to provide policy-makers with a helpful overview of the technical and economic aspects of water use in agriculture, with particular emphasis on crop and livestock production....
by Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN UN | On 15 Apr 2015 Coal is an environmentalist’s bugbear. The use of coal to generate energy is the key reason the world is looking at a catastrophic future because of climate change. Recognising this, global civil soci...
by Sunita Narain | On 08 Apr 2015 An Act to provide for allocation of coal mines and vesting of the right, title and interest in and over the land and mine infrastructure together with mining leases to successful bidders and allottees...
by Ministry of Law and Justice GOI | On 02 Apr 2015 The basic purpose of this paper is to contextualise and highlight the issue of labour and working conditions in industries in the global South engaged in subcontracting operations under the control of...
by Keshab Das | On 31 Mar 2015 ASEAN is in a unique position to push for heightened global awareness and action for the vulnerable Pacific populations facing the possibility of relocation. Yet, it is strangely silent on the issue....
by | On 27 Mar 2015 Budget 2015, presented by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, has a first. In it, India has accepted that it has a de-facto carbon tax—on petroleum products and dirty coal. Arguably, the only big green ini...
by Sunita Narain | On 25 Mar 2015 The paper examines the policies of the central as well as state governments with respect to the agricultural market, specifically in rice and wheat markets, analyses their shortcomings and argues for...
by Dr Anandi Subramanian | On 23 Mar 2015 This working paper reflects Indis's domestic production on exports and imports. The paper also highlights upon India’s two policy instruments, namely price controls and reserving market segment for sm...
by | On 18 Mar 2015 The World Water Development Report is produced by the World Water Assessment Programme, a programme of UN-Water hosted by UNESCO, and is the result of the joint efforts of the UN agencies and entities...
by Environmental Management & Policy Research Institute | On 13 Mar 2015 This paper evaluates the fiscal and welfare implications of fuel subsidy reform in India. Fuel subsidies are found to be badly targeted, with the richest ten percent of households receiving seven time...
by | On 11 Mar 2015 Attaining food security is a matter of prime importance for India where more than a-third of its population is estimated to be absolutely poor, and as many as one half of its children have suffered fr...
by | On 11 Mar 2015 The recent South Asian (other than that of Bangladesh) experience of a growing merchandise trade deficit and the challenge of job creation have forced attention back on the role of manufacturing. Bang...
by | On 09 Mar 2015 This Briefing Paper attempts to present a range of initiatives highlighting policy designs and their implementation in various sectors with states and non-state to set up cooperation on climate chan...
by | On 05 Mar 2015 What does the decision to save groundwater in Punjab or Haryana have to do with air pollution in Delhi? Plenty. We need to know this because many actions have unintended and deadly consequences.
by Sunita Narain | On 26 Feb 2015 Climate change is for real and there are two responses – mitigation or adaptation. What does the Union Budget need to do about climate change adaptation?
by Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability | On 26 Feb 2015 People want to live in a safe prosperous country where they enjoy freedom of thought and action, and where they can exercise their democratic rights to choose their government. But how do countries en...
by Raghuram G. Rajan | On 24 Feb 2015 The energy sector unquestionably constitutes one of the major driving forces of Indian economy. Ever since the 12th Plan has projected the growth rate of 8-9 per cent per annum for the economy for the...
by Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability | On 20 Feb 2015 Union Budget 2014-15 is the first budget of the new government at the Centre. Some of the complex issues like price rise and corruption were central to the General Elections held in early 2014; hence...
by Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability | On 19 Feb 2015 The purpose of this paper is to explore current practice, speculate on future patterns of PPP and discuss how partnership can be leveraged in the development process. The paper seeks to view PPP exper...
by Andy Hall | On 16 Feb 2015 This report outlines the wide-ranging risks investors and companies face from water scarcity and how global climate change will heighten those risks in many parts of the world. The report makes clear...
by | On 04 Feb 2015 This paper makes a case for sustained investments in research and extension to address the numerous challenges along the pathway from agriculture production and distribution to consumption and utiliza...
by | On 30 Jan 2015 The studies broad aim is to access the welfare impact of solar home systems (SHS) on households and to evaluate the present institutional structure and financing mechanisms. Also it accesses the direc...
by Shahidur R. Khandker | On 27 Jan 2015 Developing countries do not come with a clear plan or proactive position to climate change negotiations, whereas industrialised nations do - to erase their contribution to the emissions already presen...
by Sunita Narain | On 22 Jan 2015 This paper aim to provide an account of growth in India based on its internal dynamics. This helps to place the relative roles of policy, shocks, and internal dynamics. The paper leads us to conclude...
by Pulapre Balakrishnan | On 21 Jan 2015 The paper examines the policies of the central as well as state governments with respect to the agricultural market, specifically in rice and wheat markets, analyses their shortcomings and argues for...
by Anandi Subramanian | On 16 Jan 2015 The paper explores the impact of the existence of such a mechanism on the effectiveness of various policy instruments in influencing outcomes on the official foreign exchange markets and GDP. The pape...
by R.Kavita Rao | On 13 Jan 2015 Despite the efforts made by the government to develop the handloom sector, there has been a decline in the number of weavers and the sector is struggling with various other problems. The paper discuss...
by Planning Commission, India | On 13 Jan 2015 The bilateral Joint Announcement on Climate Change Agreement released by the US and China on 11 November on the sidelines of the APEC Meeting in Beijing has imparted a new momentum to the troubled neg...
by D Raghunandan | On 21 Dec 2014 Ensuring food and nutrition security is a challenge for India, given its huge population and high
levels of poverty and malnutrition. India is a net agricultural exporter, particularly of milk, fruit...
by T. Nanda Kumar | On 18 Dec 2014 India continues to suffer from
under-nutrition among large
sections of its population. The
country is unlikely to realise the
first millennium development
goal by 2015. How can
agriculture be us...
by Suneetha Kadiyala | On 18 Dec 2014 Recently, the U.S. and China signed a bilateral treaty according to which they would equalise green house emissions by 2030, followed by a gradual reduction in emissions. Not part of the treaty, India...
by Sunita Narain | On 17 Dec 2014 The Climate Change Performance Index is an instrument supposed to enhance transparency in international climate politics. Its aim is to encourage political and social pressure on those countries which...
by | On 15 Dec 2014 The US “peaked” its emissions in 2012. Countries which were required to cut emissions did not do so at the scale or pace needed. The Durban CoP agreed that the world would work to finalise a new agree...
by Sunita Narain | On 03 Dec 2014 This paper shows that high temperatures may reduce manufactur-
ing output by lowering worker productivity via heat stress. Using an
annual panel of manufacturing plants in India, and daily primary m...
by E. Somanathan | On 01 Dec 2014 It investigate whether food price subsidies affect household nutrition using
a dramatic expansion of the availability of subsidized rice in the Indian
state of Chhattisgarh in the early 2000’s. Hous...
by Prasad Krishnamurthy | On 28 Nov 2014 The usual explanations for the
divergence between calorie intake
and consumption expenditure
in India ignore the enormous
squeeze on food budgets arising
from dispossession (leading to
loss of a...
by Deepankar Basu | On 28 Nov 2014 The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) is approaching eight years of
implementation. Since 2006, it has offered up to 100 days per year of guaranteed public works
employm...
by Anil K. Bhargava | On 28 Nov 2014 In India, biofuel has gained in popularity in recent years because of its potential
as a clean energy source and a means to stimulate rural development.
Yet, growth in Jatropha, a key bio-fuel crop,...
by Kishor Goswami | On 27 Nov 2014 This article seeks firstly to look at the three aspects of food security in India, viz., food availability, accessibility, and absorption. Secondly, an attempt has been made to study food security in...
by Reshmi Banerjee | On 27 Nov 2014 This background paper aims first is to outline the rationale and merits for
enhancing the nutrition-sensitivity of agricultural interventions in general, highlighting
recognised pathways which lin...
by Toni Darbas | On 20 Nov 2014 This paper uses the data envelopment analysis (DEA) based Malmquist productivity index to estimate total factor productivity growth (TFPG), technical change, and efficiency change for a panel of firms...
by Saon Ray | On 18 Nov 2014 This Global Nutrition Report is the first in an annual series. It tracks worldwide progress in improving nutrition status, identifies bottlenecks to change, highlights opportunities for action, and co...
by Independent Expert Group (IEG) | On 17 Nov 2014 Among other contraceptive methods, sterilization is an important option for individuals and couples to control their fertility. Sterilization is one of the most widely used forms of contraception in t...
by United Nations Population Fund UNFPA | On 13 Nov 2014 India has shown an impressive economic growth of about 8 percent per year in the last decade. But
the coexistence of impressive growth with widespread poverty and hunger is a real worry and a
seri...
by Asia-Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutions | On 12 Nov 2014 It is time to go beyond just lip service to push green reforms in building standards. On analysing reports from the Indian Green Building Council, researchers at the Centre for Science and Environment...
by Sunita Narain | On 11 Nov 2014 This paper estimates the impact of China’s exchange rate changes on exports of competitor
countries in third markets, which is called as the “spillover effect. Recent theory is used to
develop an id...
by Aaditya Mattoo | On 29 Oct 2014 Two aspects of global imbalances - undervalued exchange rates and sovereign wealth funds - require a multilateral response. This paper proposes new rules in the World Trade Organization to discipline...
by Prachi Mishra | On 22 Oct 2014 This paper examines the sensitivity of rice yield in Nepal to changes in climate variables and the magnitude of potential impacts on rice productivity in the future. The findings draw attention to the...
by Prakash K. Karn | On 22 Oct 2014 International negotiations on climate change have been dogged by mutual accusations between industrialized and developing countries, shrinking global carbon budget and change in power relations as a r...
by Aaditya Mattoo | On 20 Oct 2014 Why it is so hard
to find a robust effect of aid on the long-term growth of poor countries, even those with good
policies. A possible offset to the beneficial effects of aid is examined using a meth...
by Raghuram G. Rajan | On 20 Oct 2014 In 2008, two earnest young men set out to boost soya bean yields in the semi-arid region of Bundi in Rajasthan. Rainfall there is meagre and the soil lacks nutrients. But there are ready buyers for so...
by Civil Society | On 20 Oct 2014 The tension between trade and climate change has arisen in part because of the assumption that climate change action (e.g., carbon price increases) can be taken as a given. The question that many pape...
by Aaditya Mattoo | On 20 Oct 2014 India has the dubious distinction of having the highest burden of malnutrition in
the world – higher than Sub-Saharan Africa. Nearly 50 per cent of our children
are underweight and stunted and 70...
by National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, India | On 16 Oct 2014 Food inflation in India has remained stubborn in recent years. A number of proximate
factors such as increasing demand particularly arising from higher rural wages, rising
agricultural cost of produ...
by Thangzason Sonna | On 14 Oct 2014 There is no question that India and other parts of the still-under-construction world must build green. The building sector is a major contributor to climate change and local environmental destruction...
by Sunita Narain | On 14 Oct 2014 An evaluation of the country’s buffer stock policy reveals gaps and inefficiencies.
Large quantities of food grains have accumulated in the godowns of the Food Corporation of
India (FCI) and its nom...
by Shweta Saini | On 26 Sep 2014 Violence against Women and Girls: Lessons from South Asia examines the prevalence and factors associated with various types of violence against women and girls in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Indi...
by Jennifer L. Solotaroff | On 25 Sep 2014 The intention of this paper is to examine the impact of Indian Rupee depreciation on Bangladesh Economy. The empirical results obtained from OLS for the sample period from
2007:10 to 2013:10 show tha...
by Sayera Younus | On 25 Sep 2014 Deforestation in developing and middle income countries is an urgent global problem, affecting climate change, soil erosion, major river basins, and livelihoods of poor households living near the fore...
by Jean Marie Baland | On 24 Sep 2014 With a population of 1.43 billion people, one-third of whom live in poverty, the South Asia developing members of ADB face the challenge of achieving and sustaining rapid economic growth to reduce pov...
by Sanjay Upadhyaya | On 19 Sep 2014 The concept of food security has undergone considerable changes in recent years. Food availability and stability were considered good measures of food security till the seventies and the achievement o...
by K. Venkata Reddy | On 18 Sep 2014 A picture about the macroeconomy that is, the world economy and the domestic economy is given. The two recent regulatory measures are given here. [FICCI/IBA Annual Banking Conference].
by Raghuram G. Rajan | On 18 Sep 2014 In developing countries, a large part of the livelihood derives services of natural resources and ecosystem and these are critical for sustainable livelihoods. It has been universally acknowledged tha...
by Dharmendra Chandurkar | On 17 Sep 2014 In spite of the rapid growth of the Indian economy, the fraction of the rural population living in poverty has declined only modestly. Increasing indebtedness, rises in input prices, and rapid commerc...
by Raj M. Desai | On 17 Sep 2014 This brief is one of series on scaling up in agriculture, rural development, and nutrition. PepsiCo is a global business operating in more than 200 countries and territories and rooted in creating and...
by Beth Sauerhaft | On 17 Sep 2014 The global economic crises that started in 2008 have exposed commodity markets to increasing price
volatility and raised concerns for higher inflation, food security and poverty reduction. This seri...
by S.Mahendra Dev | On 12 Sep 2014 There is perhaps only one broad certainty in the contemporary debate on climate change: not only does climate change affect different nations and communities differently, but the responses of individu...
by Vivan Sharan | On 02 Sep 2014 In the Hindu Kush Himalayas, climate change is threatening the livelihoods of those directly dependent on agriculture and the natural resource base. Rural women are disproportionately vulnerable to th...
by Suman Bisht | On 28 Aug 2014 Smart is as smart does. The NDA government’s proposal to build 100 “smart” cities will work only if it can reinvent the very idea of urban growth in a country like India. Smart thinking will require t...
by Sunita Narain | On 21 Aug 2014 New strategies are needed to address the impacts of rapid urbanisation around the world, including increasing demands for energy, water, sanitation, public services, education and health, according to...
by UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs UNDESA | On 21 Aug 2014 The World Youth Report focus on youth and climate change, and is intended to highlight the important role young people play in addressing climate change, and to offer suggestions on how young people m...
by UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs UNDESA | On 12 Aug 2014 This paper studies how changes in climatic variables such as temperature and rainfall impact migration through agriculture. Bangladesh is recognized as one of the most vulnerable countries to climate...
by Paritosh Roy | On 31 Jul 2014 An 'Energy Index', which is aggregated from energy indicators is a rich source of information and is
helpful in providing an assessment of a country's performance. This has, however, resulted in
mus...
by Kapil Narula | On 24 Jul 2014 The Government of India (GoI) currently invests more than Rs 90,000 crores per annum on youth development programmes or approximately Rs 2,710 per young individual per year, through youth-targeted (hi...
by Ministry of Youth and Sports Affairs YAS | On 21 Jul 2014 This study underscores the need to connect the dots if the practice of son preference and its manifestation, discrimination against daughters, is to be addressed. Clearly, it is not only about impleme...
by Kirti Singh | On 07 Jul 2014 This study examines the impact of India's Public Distribution System (PDS) on poor households in terms of income gains, reductions in the incidence and severity of poverty, as well as nutritional impr...
by R. Radhakrishna | On 07 Jul 2014 This study analyses the demand and supply side determinants of textile
and garments’ exports of Pakistan using time series data for the period 1972–
2010. Eight trading partners (US, UK, Canada, It...
by Rabia Latif | On 01 Jul 2014 This paper describes the growth and structural changes in employment in the long and short periods, with a special focus on the period since economic liberalisation. It assesses the employment challen...
by T. S. Papola | On 23 May 2014 Many transition and developing economies have reduced direct public involvement in the production and trade of seed and other agricultural inputs. This trend creates opportunities for farmers to reali...
by David Gisselquist | On 23 May 2014 This position paper identifies that there is a strong need for a new and forward-looking education agenda that completes unfinished business while going beyond the current goals in terms of depth and...
by UNESCO UNESCO | On 16 May 2014 This document represents the first action plan on climate change adopted by Government of Karnataka. Assessments and conclusions presented are based on published research and data. The present knowled...
by Environmental Management & Policy Research Institute | On 12 May 2014 This Report surveys critical aspects of human development, from political freedoms and empowerment to sustainability and human security, and outlines a broader agenda for research and policies to resp...
by Jeni Klugman | On 06 May 2014 The primary Policy objective of the Department of Food& Public Distribution is to ensure food security for the country through timely and efficient procurement and distribution of foodgrains. This inv...
by MINISTRY OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FOOD AND PUBLIC DIST GOI | On 05 May 2014 Widespread and systemic gender discrimination in Nepal has led to hundreds of thousands of women suffering from a reproductive health condition that leaves them in great pain, unable to carry out dail...
by Amnesty International AI, | On 30 Apr 2014 The analysis in this report leads to an overall conclusion that the IFSS is an excellent strategy on paper and a relevant framework for different stakeholders, but in reality it lacks implementing pow...
by Josee Koch | On 29 Apr 2014 A fairly long series of normal monsoons has coincided with a policy of ensuring relatively higher returns on production of rice and wheat and led to a surplus of food grains accumulated in the FCI god...
by Arvind Virmani | On 28 Apr 2014 The recent global food crisis can be seen as a wake-up call which can be turned into an opportunity by developing countries and the international community to revitalize global agriculture producti...
by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development | On 22 Apr 2014 The issue of instability attracted lot of attention of researchers in the early phase of adoption of green revolution technology. It was found that adoption of new technology had increased instability...
by Ramesh Chand | On 18 Apr 2014 This study was undertaken to assess farmers’ preferences and willingness to pay (WTP) for various climate-smart interventions in the Indo-Gangetic Plain. To assess farmers’ choices and their WTP for t...
by Garima Taneja | On 07 Apr 2014 This study uses micro data and an OLG model to show that general equi-
librium forces are critical for understanding the relationship between aggregate
fertility and household savings. [BREAD WP No....
by Abhijit Banerjee | On 03 Apr 2014 Price transmission is theoretically examined and how exogenous consumer price shocks (triggered for instance by income changes, global shocks, or by changes in consumer preferences) are transmitted to...
by Johan F.M. Swinnen | On 20 Mar 2014 This paper focusses on the interaction between fossil fuels and farming in India, to capture total intensity of fossils in farming and offer some evidence on inflationary impact of fossil fuel price i...
by Mukesh Kumar Anand | On 13 Mar 2014 Inequality is rising in India alongside rapid economic growth, reinforcing the need to investigate social mobility. Are children from less well-off sections also able to rise to higher-paying position...
by Anirudh Krishna | On 04 Mar 2014 The National Development Council (NDC)in its 53rd meeting held on 29th May, 2007 adopted a resolution to launch a Food Security Mission comprising rice, wheat and pulses to increase the production of...
by Ministry of Agriculture GOI | On 03 Mar 2014 To gain a better understanding of the changes in the numbers of cultivators and Agricultural labor (marginal or main), it is useful to read them with the change in the number of agricultural holdings...
by Rahul Goswami | On 28 Feb 2014 This paper attempts to shift the focus from ‘women’ to the significance of the
gender equation by assessing the intensity of gender disparity across geographic space,
and enquiring into the reasons...
by Nira Ramachandran | On 04 Feb 2014 This paper studies the productivity impact of a contract change. The setting is a tea plantation in
India. The activity in question is tea-plucking, the output from which is measurable and contractib...
by Rajshri Jayaraman | On 24 Jan 2014 Despite ensuring ample availability of food, existence of food insecurity at the micro-level in the country has remained a formidable challenge for India. The recently introduced National Food Securit...
by Ashok Gulati | On 23 Jan 2014 This paper seeks to outline the infrastructure needs of Bangladesh with respect to domestic
sources of finance. While infrastructure encompasses energy, transportation, telecommunications, water and...
by Ishraq Ahmed | On 22 Jan 2014 The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has supported increased access to energy through the most cost-effective method—by expanding the electricity grid. Yet in this second decade of the 21st century, when...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 20 Jan 2014 Lack of access to electricity and modern cooking fuels constitutes energy poverty. Access to modern energy requires improved technologies and financing
instruments and sources. The pro-poor public–pr...
by Benjamin Sovacool | On 20 Jan 2014 This paper focuses on two different types of malnutrition and then looks at the links between poor nutrition and agriculture.Malnutrition is one of the most devastating problems worldwide and its dire...
by Kevin Cleaver | On 16 Jan 2014 The effects of rainfall forecasts and realized rainfall on equilibrium agricultural wages are analysed over the course of the agricultural production cycle. It is shown theoretically that a forecast o...
by Mark Rosenzweig | On 13 Jan 2014 In this paper, the effects of submergence due to heavy
rainfall and river over-flow on rice production in the coastal Barisal
region of Bangladesh is investigated. The study plots level data to comp...
by Afsana Haque | On 31 Dec 2013 The law has to seek not only to make corruption painful and hurtful after the event, but to make corruption unnecessary, undesirable
and difficult to embark upon at the inception. Indeed many of such...
by Rajya Sabha | On 20 Dec 2013 The past two years have been challenging ones for the Asia-Pacific region in several respects, but 2011 has been particularly unforgettable for how it has focused the attention of so many people on th...
by ... CEHAT | On 13 Dec 2013 This
paper is an attempt to compute Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emission from
fossil fuel consumption for firms in Indian manufacturing sector from
2000 to 2011 by adopting the IPCC Reference Approach. Th...
by Santosh Kumar Sahu | On 26 Nov 2013 The continued difficulties of the World Trade Organization to achieve further multilateral trade liberalization in the Doha Round negotiations have raised questions about its continued relevance. This...
by Biswajit Dhar | On 19 Nov 2013 This paper provides empirical evidence of the impact of female intra-household decision-making power on dairy productivity in India, based on evidence from a household-level dataset which was collecte...
by Astrid Sneyers | On 07 Nov 2013 According to new assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), human influence on the climate is clearly evident.
It is extremely likely that human influence has been the domina...
by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC | On 23 Oct 2013 India has been traditionally vulnerable to natural disasters on account of its unique geo-climatic conditions. About 60% of the landmass is prone to earthquakes of various intensities; over 40 million...
by Government of India Ministry of Home Affairs | On 17 Oct 2013 This study estimates the weather sensitivity of rice yield in India, using disaggregated (district) level information on rice and high resolution daily
weather data over the period 1969-2007. Compare...
by Anubhab Pattanayak | On 11 Oct 2013 The project aims to grow fruits and vegetables on roof tops of community houses. This will be income generating for the community. [DRP].
by } Design Research Publication Cell DRP | On 10 Oct 2013 The gendered division of household labour, stigma attached to paid labour and status production
has precipitated withdrawal from paid work as a strategy to reduce the double burden of women. Upward s...
by Vinoj Abraham | On 09 Oct 2013 National Food Security Bill (NFSB) aims to make food easily accessible at affordable prices to people. But there are operational and financial difficulties in implementing this.
by Sweety Thomas | On 07 Oct 2013 This study is an attempt to examine the decentralized production of supplementary nutrition which has been instituted for the Integrated Child Development Services in
urban Maharashtra, specifically,...
by Natasha S. K. | On 04 Oct 2013 India is the top remittance receiving nation in the world. The international remittance receipts in India have grown at an impressive rate of 300 per cent during the past decade. Understanding the tru...
by Puja Guha | On 13 Sep 2013 Migration data is matched from the Indian census with climate data to
test the hypothesis of climate variability as a push factor for internal
migration. The main contribution of the analysis is to...
by Ingrid Dallmann | On 06 Sep 2013 This paper considers the welfare and distributional
consequences of higher relative food prices in rural India
through the lens of a specific-factors, general equilibrium, trade model applied at the...
by Hanan G Jacoby | On 22 Aug 2013 This paper argues that attempts at state-building in Afghanistan have led to institutions that are
not robust. The state institutions and organizations continue to be highly dependent on external
re...
by Frauke de Weijer | On 20 Aug 2013 In China’s foreign affairs and security studies, the concept of the ‘neighborhood’
(zhoubian) has a special meaning that has changed gradually over time. As China has developed, its leadership has be...
by Zhang Chi | On 12 Aug 2013 An analysis of the ability of employers to provide care and attention as a way to motivate their employees is done. Workers not only compare their wages, as pointed out in previous literature, but als...
by Saima Naeem | On 09 Aug 2013 An act to provide for the regulation of production, supply and distribution of infant milk substitutes, feeding bottles and infant food with a view to the protection and promotion of breastfeeding and...
by Ministry of Law, Justice and Company Affairs GOI | On 06 Aug 2013 Patterns of rural-urban migration and employment shifts in a region that is
facing ongoing depletion of groundwater resources in Northern Gujarat, India is discussed. Given that migration typically d...
by Ram Fishman | On 30 Jul 2013 Fuel price hikes have always been unpopular in Indonesia, largely because of their wide-ranging impact on the population. Yet, it is undeniable that the current high subsidies are unsustainable. To mo...
by Margareth Sembiring | On 26 Jul 2013 This study raises some relevant issues and examines them from an economic perspective. To begin with, it would examine how did the Indian approach, official in particular, to defining and measuring po...
by Suryanarayana M H | On 26 Jul 2013 India is increasingly focusing on its rainfed areas due to demand for food and nutrition security, and escalating farmer distress. But agricultural policy paralysis has meant that the familiar, extern...
by Srijit Mishra | On 16 Jul 2013 Theft and corruption are common in electricity distribution systems worldwide. Electricity theft is analysed in the framework of an individual’s choice under uncertainty and through a three-layered pr...
by Faisal Jamil | On 10 Jul 2013 Burning agriculture residues has multiple negative effects including local air pollution, increase in black carbon and contributions to regional and global climate change. This study seeks to understa...
by Tanvir Ahmed | On 03 Jul 2013 This paper provides a theoretical model of the impact of recession (income shock) on household's
child labor (CL) decision. Parental altruism is endogenized; as their choice of substituting child lab...
by Sahana Roy Chowdhury | On 25 Jun 2013 As reports of severe harassment of Maruti workers and their families trickled in
in late July 2012, Peoples Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) undertook a fact
finding investigation into the inciden...
by PUDR Peoples Union for Democratic Rights | On 07 Jun 2013 Supplementary Budget for the fiscal year 2012-13 and the Budget Estimates for the fiscal year 2013-14. [http://www.mof.gov.bd/en/budget/13_14/budget_speech/speech_en.pdf].
by Abul Maal Abdul Muhith | On 07 Jun 2013 This study explores the three way linkage between weather variability,
agricultural performance and internal migration in India at state and
district level using Indian Census data.[MSE].
by Brinda Viswanathan | On 06 Jun 2013 The present study attempts
to, (a) analyse the broad patterns of temporary and permanent migration
in India; and (b) explore the determinants of temporary and permanent
migration with special focus...
by K S Kavi Kumar | On 06 Jun 2013 It is widely believed that the decline in agricultural productivity in the Dhemaji district of Assam, India, is due to flood-induced sand depositions in paddy fields. Increased sand content reduces th...
by Kalyan Das | On 27 May 2013 Since 2002, the Indian state of Odisha has been undertaking a grassroots awareness campaign on “dos and don’ts” during heat wave conditions through the Disaster Risk Management (DRM) program. The sele...
by Saudamini Das | On 24 May 2013 Notwithstanding its impressive economic growth, food insecurity in South Asia continues to be a stark reality for a large number of households. Despite several successful policy interventions by Gover...
by K.S. Kavi Kumar | On 23 May 2013 This paper assesses the impact of climate change on Indian agriculture covering a cross section
of crops, seasons and regions based on existing literature. The study notes that the impact of
climate...
by K N Ninan | On 24 Apr 2013 The overall goal of this paper is to analyse the political economy of food price policies in
China during the global food crisis. The results show that given China’s unique economic and
political co...
by Jikun Huang | On 18 Apr 2013 A
bill further to amend the Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992. [PRS]. URL:[http://www.prsindia.org/uploads/media//SEBI%20(A)%20Bill,%202013/The%20Securities%20and%20Exchange%20Board%20...
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 19 Mar 2013 The budget offers no programme for job creation or any substantive policy measures to contain inflation that continues to erode the real wage while it commits itself to cash transfers and cuts in subs...
by Gautam Mody | On 01 Mar 2013 Reviving economic growth is the priority of the government. [http://presidentofindia.nic.in/sp210213.html].
by Pranab Mukherjee | On 22 Feb 2013 In the megacities of developing Southeast Asia, the informal sector plays an important role in supporting economic development.
Yet, in discussions of the ramifications of climaterelated
natural haz...
by Sofiah Jamil | On 13 Feb 2013 Using a 30-year dataset on district level yields with more than 200 districts and pairing it with a newly available gridded weather data set this paper estimates the impact of climate change on major...
by Chandra Kiran B Krishnamurthy | On 12 Feb 2013 As population and human activities expand they exert heavy environmental pressure through the resource requirement, their production and consumption. Hence, it is important to understand the resource...
by B. Sudhakara Reddy | On 12 Feb 2013 A bill
to consolidate and amend the law relating to companies. [PRS]. URL:[http://www.prsindia.org/uploads/media/Company/companies%20bill%202011.pdf].
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 11 Feb 2013 The determinants of exports of services, distinguishing between modern and
traditional services are considered. The growth of export volumes and so-called export surges –
periods of rapid sustained...
by Barry Eichengreen | On 02 Jan 2013 Review of the book 'Climate Change in Asia and the Pacific: How Can Countries Adapt?' Venkatachalam Anbumozhi; Meinhard Breiling; Selvarajah Pathmarajah; Vangimalla R. Reddy (Eds)
SA...
by Sunil Nautiyal | On 21 Nov 2012 A key driver of foreign investment in land, food security is a challenge mankind has been confronted with in various times and places. Wherever human societies have developed, growing needs have led t...
by Claire Schaffnit Chatterjee | On 15 Nov 2012 While a wide range of factors influence rural-rural and rural-urban migration in developing countries, there is significant interest in analyzing the role of agricultural distress and growing inter-re...
by K S Kavi Kumar | On 05 Nov 2012 This paper estimates the impact of climate change on food grain yields in India, namely rice and millets. We estimate a crop-specific agricultural production function with exogenous
climate variables...
by Shreekant Gupta | On 05 Nov 2012 This paper identifies the important economic activities that use diesel and discusses the contribution of those sectors in GDP. Other important petroleum products and, their limited substitution possi...
by Mukesh Kumar Anand | On 17 Oct 2012 Food wastage is prevalent in Southeast Asia and has significant implications for the region’s food, environmental and economic security. It is likely that the region wastes approximately 33 per cent o...
by Paul S Teng | On 08 Oct 2012 A bill to establish an Authority and such other regulatory bodies for regulation of radiation
safety or nuclear safety and achieving highest standards of such safety based on
scientific approach, op...
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 01 Oct 2012 This paper analyses the trends in volume of food subsidy in the post-reforms period (1991-92 to 2012-13) and then examines various components of food subsidy, which are under the control of FCI and th...
by Vijay Paul Sharma | On 20 Sep 2012 This paper focuses on the assessment of energy savings potential in seven highly energy consuming industries. The paper estimates the energy savings potential for each of these industries using unit l...
by Manish Gupta | On 17 Sep 2012 This paper discusses the scope of the many challenges and sets out a long-term strategy for overcoming them and putting the Japanese economy on a stable growth path. [Working Paper No. 376]. URL:[http...
by Masahiro Kawai | On 24 Aug 2012 Environmental change is regarded by many geopolitical experts as one of the biggest threats to international security in the coming
years. In Southern Asia, its impact on rivers, and thus water secur...
by Dhanasree Jayaram | On 07 Aug 2012 The frequency of intense floods and storms is increasing globally, particularly in Asia-Pacific,
amid the specter of climate change. Associated with these natural disasters are more variable
and ext...
by Vinod Thomas | On 26 Jul 2012 Recent history tells us that the growth rate of the economy does not automatically go up and down with good and bad monsoons. [BS Weekend Ruminations]. URL:[http://www.business-standard.com/india/news...
by T.N. Ninan | On 18 Jul 2012 What are the implications
of a green economy for the poor and hungry? How can the poor benefit
from and thrive under a green economy? What role can agriculture
play? What are the possible trade-off...
by Shenggen Fan | On 17 Jul 2012 Developing Asia is the driver of today's emissions intensive global economy. As the principle source of future emissions, the region is critical to the task of global climate change mitigation. Reflec...
by Stephen Howes | On 16 Jul 2012 Why should health advocates be concerned about the new marketing paradigm? Because young people's choices about what to eat and when are largely shaped by food and beverage marketing -- and these indu...
by Berkeley Media Studies Group BMSG | On 13 Jul 2012 Using data from the India Human Development Survey (IHDS) 2005, intergenerational
occupational mobility in India is examined, an issue on which very few systematic and rigorous studies exist. Individ...
by Sripad Motiram | On 12 Jul 2012 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...
by Arun Kaushik | On 10 Jul 2012 All known examples of life belong to the same biology, but there is increasing enthusiasm among astronomers, astrobiologists, and synthetic biologists that other forms of life may soon be discovered o...
by Gerald F Joyce | On 10 Jul 2012 Creating and developing fair and evidence-based national and global systems to more rationally set priorities for public spending on health. An interim secretariat should be there to incubate a global...
by Amanda Glassman | On 10 Jul 2012 The Association of Southeast Asian Nations
(ASEAN) small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are under scrutiny for their engagement in production networks following recent emphasis on increasing intra-reg...
by Ganeshan Wignaraja | On 06 Jul 2012 Review of the book From Individual to Community: Issues in Development Studies--Essays in Memory of Malcolm Adiseshiah by Nandan Nawn.
by Nandan Nawn | On 05 Jul 2012 This paper explores the interplay between two neighbors that have been
victims of history, Japan and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
(DPRK, also known as North Korea). [ISDP Asia Paper]. U...
by Bert Edström | On 05 Jul 2012 The deficit in the supply of electricity relative to demand at peak hours in 2011-12 was 11 per cent. While
generation capacity has increased, the fuel supply situation has deteriorated. Here, some f...
by Karan Malik | On 04 Jul 2012 A comprehense documentation - using
both annual and quarterly data - an exhaustive set of stylized facts for the
Indian business cycle in the pre and post reform period, the data is used to
report...
by Chetan Ghate | On 19 Jun 2012 The ecosystem of the Eastern Himalayas are vulnerable to climate change as a result of their ecological fragility and economic marginality. The conservation policies at national and regional levels ar...
by Karma Tse-ring | On 28 May 2012 The research was undertaken to better
understand the current policy and plans of the Cambodian government for the electricity
sector; map the decision-making process; develop a greater understanding...
by Carl Middleton | On 25 May 2012 The 9.0 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami that severally damaged the Fukushima nuclear plant have been described
as ending the ‘nuclear renaissance’ in Japan. The government is in a hard pl...
by Elliot Brennan | On 25 May 2012 This paper takes a broader view and explores the multiple effects that global warming and climate change could have on food production and food security. Dealing with climate change would require stre...
by S. Richa | On 24 May 2012 This study is an attempt to explore the cost of unserved energy due to
power outages in Pakistan that started in 2007. The study is based on a survey
conducted for four major industrial cities of Pu...
by Rehana Siddiqui | On 24 May 2012 In the run-up to Rio+20, this Asia-Pacific Human Development Report takes a bold look at climate change and what can be done about it.
Tackling head-on the issue of poverty reduction and human deve...
by United Nations Development Programme UNDP | On 21 May 2012 Regional governance systems and national frameworks to address climate change and accelerate green growth in Asia are reviewed and tools to address climate change are outlined. Options for regional le...
by Heinrich-Wilhelm Wyes | On 11 May 2012 This brief reviews recent evidence, examines main research challenges in identifying migration–climate links and discusses the policy options for formalizing migration as an adaptation mechanism to cl...
by Jean-François Maystadt | On 09 May 2012 Tropical deforestation accounts for almost one-fifth of greenhouse gas emissions
worldwide and threatens the world.s most diverse ecosystems. The prevalence of illegal
forest extraction in the tropi...
by Robin Burgess | On 08 May 2012 It is conventional wisdom that it is possible to reduce exposure to indoor air pollution, improve health outcomes, and decrease greenhouse gas emissions in the rural areas of developing countries thro...
by Rema Hanna | On 03 May 2012 This study examines the contribution of Bt cotton adoption to long- term average cotton yields in India using a panel data analysis of production variables in nine Indian cotton-producing states from...
by Guillaume P Gruere | On 25 Apr 2012 This study examines how the changing demographics in Pakistan,
resulting primarily from fertility transition, would affect educational attainment
of school-age population during the next two decades...
by Naushin Mahmood | On 23 Apr 2012 Learning profiles that track changes in student skills per year of schooling often find shockingly
low learning gains. Using data from three recent studies in South Asia and Africa, it is shown that
...
by Lant Pritchett | On 23 Apr 2012 India’s experience with exporting services is examined. The country’s experience is distinctive in that services, especially modern tradable
services, comprise a significantly larger share of GDP tha...
by Barry Eichengreen | On 23 Apr 2012 The paper examines the implications of Myanmar's reforms for its neighbours- China, India, Thailand and Bangladesh. Issues of major concern to the four countries include energy, humanitarian consequen...
by Lina Gong | On 20 Apr 2012 Modeling of the seasonal time-of-day pricing is done of electricity for two types of power systems
– pure hydro and hydro-thermal under four structural welfare assumptions
– first-best, second-best,...
by N. Vijayamohanan Pillai | On 20 Apr 2012 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 liquid...
by Rajat Tayal | On 19 Apr 2012 Review of the book Community Policing: Misnomer or Fact? Author: Veerendra Mishra
Sage, New Delhi.
by Vijay Raghavan | On 16 Apr 2012 Thailand has made significant progresses toward green and low-carbon development; however, there is a need to further address the issue. The country has to focus on the implementation of no-regret pol...
by Qwanruedee Chotichanathawewong | On 16 Apr 2012 The Financial Crisis of 2007-2008 and the Great Recession of 2007-2009 are now in the past. Again there was the debt crisis of 2010-11. During the worst of the recent financial crisis/Great Recession...
by Michael D Bordo | On 13 Apr 2012 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. [WP-2012-010]. URL:[http:...
by Nidhi Aggarwal | On 10 Apr 2012 The salient features of the budget estimates of 2012-13 of Madhya Pradesh. [Ministry of Finance Madhya Pradesh]. URL:[http://www.mp.gov.in/finance/index.htm].
by Madhya Pradesh Government | On 04 Apr 2012 The populous, fast growing emerging economies of Brazil, China, Egypt, India and South Africa face daunting challenges on the energy, environment and climate change fronts. These five countries accoun...
by Kirit Parikh | On 02 Apr 2012 The paper estimates the elasticity of Imports with respect to relative prices and income for Pakistan from 1971 to 2009. What distinguishes this paper from the earlier studies is the use of robust est...
by Khurram Ashfaq Baluch | On 30 Mar 2012 This paper reviews the key policies with regard to agriculture inputs such as seed, fertilizer, water, agricultural equipment, research, extension, and agricultural credit. It also provides an overvie...
by Ganga Shreedhar | On 29 Mar 2012 The burning of agricultural field residue, such as stalks and stubble,
during the wheat and rice harvesting seasons in the Indo-Gangetic
plains results in substantial emissions of trace gases and pa...
by Ridhima Gupta | On 28 Mar 2012 Budget Speech by Shri Prafulla Chandra Ghadai. [Government of Odisha]. URL:[http://www.orissa.gov.in/finance/Budgets/2012-13/BUDGET%20SPEECH%20ENGLISH.pdf].
by Government of Orissa | On 27 Mar 2012 Speech of Thiru O. Panneerselvam, Hon’ble Minister
for Finance, Government of Tamil Nadu,
presenting the Budget for the year
2012-2013 to the Legislative Assembly on
26th March, 2012. [Government...
by Tamil Nadu Government | On 27 Mar 2012 The food security Bill's focus ignores changes in agriculture and eating habits. [BS editorial]. URL:[http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/t-n-ninan-notremembered-country/467874/].
by T.N. Ninan | On 19 Mar 2012 What the Budget of India, 2012-13 has got for children? [HAQCRC]. URL:[http://www.haqcrc.org/sites/default/files/BfC%202012-13_0.pdf].
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 19 Mar 2012 The effect of export subsidies on the under-invoicing of exports in Bangladesh is analyzed. In a framework that allows for unobserved heterogeneity among importing countries and product specificities,...
by Pranav Kumar Gupta | On 16 Mar 2012 This paper analyses the impact of transmission of international oil prices and domestic oil price pass-through policy on major macroeconomic variables in India with the help of a macroeconomic policy...
by N R Bhanumurthy | On 16 Mar 2012 Economic Survey-Chapter1. [Economic Survey]. URL:[http://indiabudget.nic.in/survey.asp]
by Pranab Mukherjee | On 15 Mar 2012 The report reviews the status and performance of agriculture, especially
during the last two decades, and also presents what could be the way forward, given
our objectives of accelerated growth, inc...
by Ministry of Agriculture GOI | On 14 Mar 2012 Budget speech 2011-12 by Finance minister. URL:[http://www.mof.gov.bd/en/budget/11_12/budget_speech/speech_en.pdf].
by Abul Maal Abdul Muhith | On 14 Mar 2012 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...
by K.V. Ramaswamy | On 12 Mar 2012 BUDGET SPEECH 2011-2012 by
DR. ABDUL HAFEEZ SHAIKH, Minister for Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and
Planning & Development.
by Minister of Finance Pakistan | On 12 Mar 2012 The purpose of this report is twofold. First, a compendium of relevant data is presented on the state of the services sector in the ACI (ASEAN, PRC and India) countries, focusing on its contribution t...
by Ben Shepherd | On 12 Mar 2012 The main objectives of this seminar has been to contribute to the
understanding of the development processes and problems related to water security and climate
change; to focus on studies relating t...
by Gursharan Singh Kainth | On 12 Mar 2012 The developing economies of Asia are confronted by serious environmental problems that threaten to undermine future growth, food security, and regional stability. This study considers four major envir...
by Stephen Howes | On 06 Mar 2012 Budget speech by Nepal Finance Minister. URL:[http://www.mof.gov.np/publication/speech/2011/pdf/budgetspeech_english.pdf].
by Ministry of Finance, Government of Nepal | On 06 Mar 2012 Five years age, International Rivers started monitoring the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean
Development Mechanism (CDM), concerned that funds marked for climate change mitigation would be
used to encourage c...
by Barbara Haya | On 01 Mar 2012 In the last ten years, economic issues related to currency policy have become the major ongoing
dispute between China and the U.S. Especially the U.S. Congress is stridently demanding
a tougher poli...
by Nicola Nymalm | On 01 Mar 2012 In India, as in many developing countries, wastewater is often used to
irrigate crops. This undoubtedly helps to recycle useful nutrients through
the food chain, but, as there can be toxic chemicals...
by Vivekananda Mukherjee | On 27 Feb 2012 What have the MDGs achieved? And what might their achievements mean for any second
generation of MDGs or MDGs 2.0? We argue that the MDGs may have played a role in increasing
aid and that developmen...
by Charles Kenny | On 24 Feb 2012 The paper aims at understanding the reasons which influence migration and mobility choices, ways by which vulnerabilities can be managed and the role that local, national and regional policy responses...
by Lorraine Elliot | On 24 Feb 2012 Girish Sant, co-founder of Prayas Energy Group, a pro-people's thin tank on energy issues, an inspiration to many, suffered a fatal heart attack on February3, 2012. A short note on his life and work.
by Anonymous | On 20 Feb 2012 This interview with Girish Sant, head of Prayas Energy Group and one of India's foremost energy experts, was made during COP17 in Durban. Girish died on February 2, 2012. This interview was published...
by Marian M | On 20 Feb 2012 A stated objective of Myanmar is to become a modern developed nation that
will stand shoulder to shoulder – proud, dignified and tall – with the countries
of the world. How far has Myanmar come in a...
by U Myint | On 15 Feb 2012 Saving is an important part of the economic process that gives rise to investment and
economic growth. In this paper an attempt is made to explore the relationship between saving
and investment in t...
by Sanjib Bordoloi | On 14 Feb 2012 Unpredictable rainfall is an important risk for agricultural activity, and farmers in developing
countries often receive incomplete insurance from informal risk-sharing networks. The demand for, and...
by A. Mushfiq Mobarak | On 10 Feb 2012 he caste system – a system of elaborately stratified social hierarchy – distinguishes India
from most other societies. Among the most distinctive factors of the caste system is the close
link betwee...
by Ira Gang | On 07 Feb 2012 The sovereign debt problems in the peripheral economies of the euro zone has started to pose a serious threat to the main economies of the Europe and perhaps to the future of the 'euro‘ itself. Such a...
by M R Anand | On 06 Feb 2012 A large number of studies in Nepal have been conducted to identify the factors responsible for
inflation based on the different theories of inflation. Although these studies provide insight
into the...
by Nepal Rastra Bank Research Department NRB | On 02 Feb 2012 Singapore and Malaysia are considering sharing electricity. Will this pave the way for an ASEAN-wide electricity grid, or even cooperation in the supply of nuclear energy? [RSIS No. 007/2012]. URL:[ht...
by Alvin Chew | On 01 Feb 2012 Wetlands, which include tropical mangroves and boreal
peatlands, are among the most valuable ecosystems in the
world because they provide critical ecosystem goods and
services, such as carbon stora...
by David Moreno Mateos | On 01 Feb 2012 This essay examines the trajectory of India?s fiscal policy with a focus on historical trends, fiscal discipline frameworks, fiscal responses to the global financial crisis and subsequent return to a...
by Supriyo De | On 31 Jan 2012 RBI Governor D. Subbarao answering to researchers after publishing the monetary policy. [RBI]. URL:[http://rbidocs.rbi.org.in/rdocs/Content/PDFs/RBIRA27012012.pdf]
by Reserve Bank of India RBI | On 30 Jan 2012 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
carri...
by Binay Kumar Ray | On 30 Jan 2012 This paper explains the gaps between official objectives and the actual accomplishments of the Aquino government, with an emphasis on the implementation record of agricultural-based strategies. Summar...
by V. Bruce J Tolentino | On 30 Jan 2012 The paper discusses the pros and cons of
the already proposed international cooperative mechanisms toward climate change
mitigation and highlights the problem of information revelation, particularly...
by Meeta Keswani Mehra | On 27 Jan 2012 Production costs and crop incomes in drought years are analyzed to test a simplistic theory of risk based
on first principles. A mixed-methods framework is employed to draw inferences by combining da...
by Sarthak Gaurav | On 24 Jan 2012 The pilot study is situated within the framework of understanding the functioning of the private sector in regards to policy and access to health care for the poor. It attempts to understand and explo...
by SAMA .. | On 22 Jan 2012 With the enormous advances in medicine and medical technologies, today 85 percent of the cases of infertility can be taken care of through medicines, surgery and/or the new medical technologies such a...
by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare H & FW | On 21 Jan 2012 The Draft Assisted Reproductive Technology Bill and Rules 2010, is the latest draft of following the incorporation of additions and modifications to the Draft Bill 2008. The new Draft was expected to...
by SAMA .. | On 21 Jan 2012 The paper studies the subsidy policy in Bangladesh. It analyses implications of subsidy policies; both pros and cons and also suggests some possible solutions.
by M Asaduzzaman | On 20 Jan 2012 The present paper explores the nexus between gender-energy-poverty, highlights areas of gender
concern, and suggests actions. It is analyzed how women from rural areas and low income
households are...
by B. Sudhakara Reddy | On 19 Jan 2012 The State Focus Paper (SFP) consolidates the PLPs of all the 30 districts and highlights the potential
for flow of credit to various sectors in agriculture and rural development. The credit potential...
by National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Devt NABARD | On 06 Jan 2012 A simple method is applied to study the relative quality of Chinese versus European products
exported in the clothing sector after the end of the Multi-Fiber Arrangement. Based on the
model of Foste...
by Hylke Vandenbussche | On 03 Jan 2012 In the year 2008, the Government of India announced its National Policy on biofuels, mandating a phase-wise implementation of the programme of ethanol blending with petrol in various states. This stud...
by Saon Ray | On 02 Jan 2012 This Policy Brief discusses the proposed amendments to Republic Act No. 7653 (RA 7653). The
first part briefly presents the mandate of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP). It then describes the
fi...
by Senate Economic Planning Office SEPO | On 29 Dec 2011 This paper uses a large panel database to investigate the determinants of forest clearing in
Indonesian kabupatens since 2005. The study incorporates short-run changes in prices and demand
for palm...
by David Wheeler | On 28 Dec 2011 The Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), New Delhi organized a workshop ‘Strengthening the Role of Agriculture...
by Srijit Mishra | On 27 Dec 2011 This paper focuses on homebased women workers and discusses the specific issues of
their vulnerability as women and as workers, in the framework of their basic citizenship
right to economic and soci...
by Indrani Mazumdar | On 26 Dec 2011 The paper reviews selected initiatives taken by Asian countries to comply with emerging global sustainability standards, reporting, and management systems, and tracks the response of Asian businesses...
by Venkatachalam Anbumozhi | On 26 Dec 2011 This paper examines how the neoliberal policies have influenced the water
sector reform policies and interventions in India, particularly, in the states
of Maharashtra and Gujarat. In doing so, the...
by Viswanathan P K | On 26 Dec 2011 The Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (DPEA) initiated at the Conference of Parties (CoP 17) mandated to finalise by 2015 a new legal structure to govern greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of nations c...
by D.Raghunandan | On 20 Dec 2011 One of the methods of measuring the effectiveness of monetary policies is via inspection of
monetary neutrality in the economy. It is a concept from classical economics and it suggests that
changes...
by Mukesh Khanal | On 16 Dec 2011 The three year journey of the G-20 Heads of Government Summit from Washington in 2008 to Paris this November is signified by two markers of the depth of the global capitalist crisis. First, that the c...
by Louise Ross | On 14 Dec 2011 The distribution effects or incidence of consumption taxes such as the Value Added Tax (VAT), Goods and Services Tax (GST) remains a contentious issue. Three aspects have to be distinguished. First is...
by Parthasarathi Shome | On 13 Dec 2011 Review of the book 'Social Income and Insecurity: A Study in Gujarat' by
Guy Standing, Jeemol Unni, Renana Jhabvala, and Uma Rani
Routledge India, 2010 216 pages.
by N. Vijayamohanan Pillai | On 12 Dec 2011 Climate change is increasingly being recognised as a global crisis, but responses to it have so far been overly focused on scientific and economic solutions. How then do we move towards more people-ce...
by Emmeline Skinner | On 03 Dec 2011 The objective of this policy is to ensure safe, affordable, quick, comfortable, reliable
and sustainable access for the growing number of city residents to jobs, education, recreation
and such other...
by Ministry of Urban Development GOI | On 30 Nov 2011 India's development challenges. The India growth story was thrown off track by the global financial crisis which engulfed virtually every country in the world. We recovered from the crisis sooner than...
by Duvvuri Subbarao | On 30 Nov 2011 P roponents of large dams, hoping to capitalize on concern for climate change, are promoting a major expansion of large dams in developing countries. Yet large dams are highly vulnerable to climate ch...
by International Rivers Network IRN | On 24 Nov 2011 With deep crisis weakening potential output growth, the need for an
explicit growth policy is emerging most starkly in Japan, the EU and
the US. If properly shaped, this will help to consolidate bud...
by Klaus Deutsch | On 21 Nov 2011 The Impossible Trinity doctrine still holds a powerful sway over policymakers, advisors
(particularly the International Monetary Fund [IMF]) and academia. In East Asia over the past
decade, however,...
by Stephen Grenville | On 15 Nov 2011 In analyzing this phenomenon for Indian manufacturing industries, this study tries to find out the determinants of profitability of firms based on three energy clusters (natural gas, petroleum, coal)...
by Santosh Kumar Sahu | On 10 Nov 2011 This paper discusses Asia’s infrastructure needs and its
corresponding financing needs and challenges. It proposes ways to address financing gaps by identifying potential
financing sources and instr...
by Biswa Nath Bhattacharyay | On 09 Nov 2011 The rapid export growth of China's township-village enterprises (TVEs)
has not been well understood and explained. Using a simple analytical model
and exploring a unique dataset on China's TVEs the...
by Changqi Wu | On 08 Nov 2011 Review of the book 'Locating Cultural Change Theory, Method, Process'
Partha Pratim Basu and Ipshita Chanda (eds.)
Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2011, 279 pp, Rs.795/.
by Hemali Sanghavi | On 04 Nov 2011 This paper attempts to explain why internationalization processes to China are growing
despite the significant difficulties that foreign direct investments into China encounter.
The answer to this q...
by Geny Piotti | On 04 Nov 2011 In support of the financial-accelerator theory, evidence is found on countercyclical price-cost
banking margins possibly explaining the amplifications of business cycles in Pakistan. [WP 41]. URL:[ht...
by Shah Hussein | On 03 Nov 2011 Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) have been engaged in discussions on the future of the climate change regime. While the principle of “common but differenti...
by Anuradha R. V. | On 01 Nov 2011 The mainstay of the public transport system in Kerala is the private
stage carriages (PSC), the economics of operation of which is the subject
of this paper. The long run sustainability of the secto...
by Narayana D | On 28 Oct 2011 The production and marketing scenario of coconut in the country has witnessed a
phenomenal development, particularly in the field of production such as development of
improved high yielding dwarf va...
by Ministry of Agriculture GOI | On 21 Oct 2011 Review of the book 'Population, Gender and Reproductive Health'.
F Ram, Sayeed Unisa and T V Sekher (eds.), Rawat publications, 2011, 416 pp, Rs 925
by K.S. James | On 20 Oct 2011 With a review of the historic role of India as a supplier of Antiretrovirals (ARV) medicines the paper outlines some of the key rulings in Indian courts as the interpretation of the new patent laws ar...
by Cassandra Sweet | On 19 Oct 2011 This paper compares and contrasts the nature and scope of change in the domestic climate governance of India and South Africa between 2007 and 2010. It uses an actor-centered approach to analyze the d...
by Babette Never | On 18 Oct 2011 This study estimates the transaction costs entailed in maintaining Farmer
Managed Irrigation Systems (FMIS) in Nepal based on a case study of
60 irrigation systems in the Kathmandu valley. It analyz...
by Ram Chandra Bhattarai | On 18 Oct 2011 While examining participatory development projects, existing contributions have demonstrated how aid resources are often captured by local elites. This paper hypothesises that another possible source...
by G.Ananda Vadivelu | On 18 Oct 2011 When India purchased 200 tonnes of gold under the International Monetary
Fund's limited gold sales programme, it was interpreted inter alia that it may further
inflate the gold price when the price...
by Karunagaran A | On 17 Oct 2011 Through the use of secondary data, field visits and focus group discussions, this study explores the dynamics of the evolution of the economic life in Greater Faridpur over the last 100d years (1910-2...
by Selim Raihan | On 04 Oct 2011 A bill to consolidate and amend the law relating to the
scientific development and regulation of mines and
minerals under the control of the Union. URL:[http://pib.nic.in/archieve/others/2011/sep/d2...
by Ministry of Mines GOI | On 03 Oct 2011 This paper starts by examining some of the variables that have been considered important
determinants of openness and how views of these have changed over the last twenty
years. It then considers th...
by Kenneth E Jackson | On 29 Sep 2011 The growth of East Asia’s intra-regional trade is driven largely by increased component
trade within global electronics production networks. Data on both electronics trade and
production elucidate a...
by Byron Gangnes | On 29 Sep 2011 Inflation management is one of the hardest tasks an economic policymaker has to undertake. It appears, at first sight, that one can rely entirely on commonsense to carry out this task. But that will b...
by Kaushik Basu | On 28 Sep 2011 Income originating within geographical boundaries of urban and rural areas of Gujarat is estimated
for three benchmark years – 1993-94, 1999-00 and 2004-05 - at current prices following the broad
me...
by Ravindra H Dholakia | On 26 Sep 2011 Among the major challenges currently faced by humanity are food
security and climate change. Agriculture plays a significant role in
both. Adapting to climate change is expected to be an increasing
...
by Claire Schaffnit Chatterjee | On 26 Sep 2011 A review of the various issues related to gender and poverty and examine the relationships between gender and various indices, including the human development index (HDI), the gender inequality index...
by Midori Aoyagi | On 22 Sep 2011 This paper, examines the possibility of adopting Oil- to- Cash scheme in Iraq. Here, a new opportunity is identified which aims for direct distribution of Iraqi oil rents in the planned production exp...
by Johnny West | On 19 Sep 2011 How does innovation impact on development?
How, and under what conditions,
do entrepreneurs in developing
countries innovate? And what can be
done to support innovation by entrepreneurs
in develo...
by Wim Naude | On 16 Sep 2011 This study
analyses the pollution-income relationship (for both local and global
pollution), separately across rural and urban households in India based
on unit record data on fuel consumption obta...
by K S Kavi Kumar | On 14 Sep 2011 This background paper seeks to brief readers on the extent of the development, production and
consumption of agrofuels, particularly liquid fuels for transport, in the Mekong region. The area of focu...
by Rebeca Leonard | On 12 Sep 2011 International Rivers strongly supports policy measures that can promote a rapid expansion of
renewable energy sources. But these measures need to be based on a holistic understanding of
sustainabili...
by International Rivers Network IRN | On 07 Sep 2011 The outsourcing decision of a firm for a key input of a final good production to an independent input supplier even though the firm has an option of producing that key input in-house at a lower cost w...
by Tarun Kabiraj | On 02 Sep 2011 This paper examines the structure of India’s cereal seed and agbiotech industries, its potential effects on innovation and social welfare, and the policies that may improve both industry performance a...
by David J Spielman | On 31 Aug 2011 Participatory irrigation management programme as a prelude to irrigation
management transfer to users is being set up by many states for over five
years now. Though it is recognized that the governm...
by R Parthasarathy | On 25 Aug 2011 Production is often affected by environmental conditions. For example, rice harvests might be
damaged by infiltration of saline water from neighboring shrimp farms, fish catch might be reduced
by th...
by Jeffrey Vincent | On 24 Aug 2011 The objective of this paper is to identify climate change related threats and vulnerabilities associated
with agriculture as a sector and agriculture as people’s livelihoods (exposure, sensitivity, a...
by S. Mahendra Dev | On 17 Aug 2011 The paper attempts to explore the technology spillover effects of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Indian manufacturing industries across different selected clusters in India. To measure the spillov...
by Pami Dua | On 12 Aug 2011 The reality today is that we are constantly confronting and experiencing change. People change jobs, homes and even hometowns and indeed, spouses and significant others. In the face of such change, p...
by Dhanwanti Nayak | On 09 Aug 2011 Given the declining share of traditional agricultural commodities in production, consumption and
trade, horticulture and other non-traditional high-value agriculture represent an important area of
p...
by Vijay Paul Sharma | On 09 Aug 2011 This paper is a review of the different coping mechanisms adopted by the households in
different dryland area of India. The primary focus of the present paper is to understand
the coping mechanisms...
by Nikhil Govind | On 05 Aug 2011 This paper attempts to examine technical efficiency and productivity performance of Indian scheduled commercial banks, for the period 1979-2008. A model is constructed using multiple output/multiple i...
by S S Rajan | On 03 Aug 2011 The study makes specific recommendations for decisionmakers
in industry, society and politics on how to handle new
network technologies. URL:[http://www.dbresearch.com/PROD/DBR_INTERNET_EN-PROD/PROD...
by Thomas F Dapp | On 02 Aug 2011 This paper reviews India.s low-carbon high growth inclusive
policy initiatives, comments on their financial sustainability and
environmental sustainability and suggests desirable changes. The focus...
by U. Sankar | On 29 Jul 2011 Focusing on the power sector, Wheeler estimates energy growth and incremental costs for six low-carbon energy technologies (biomass, solar, wind, geothermal, hydro, and nuclear) in 174 countries from...
by David Wheeler | On 25 Jul 2011 Using the most comprehensive data file ever compiled on air pollution, water pollution,
environmental regulations, and infant mortality from a developing country, the paper examines
the effectivenes...
by Michael Greenstone | On 11 Jul 2011 Why do many households remain exposed to large exogenous sources of non-systematic
income risk? Why don’t financial markets develop to pool these risks? This paper uses a
series of randomized field...
by Shawn Cole | On 06 Jul 2011 This paper considers how exchange rates affect East Asian trade. The evidence indicates that exports produced within regional production networks depend on exchange rates throughout the region while l...
by Willem Thorbecke | On 01 Jul 2011 Polls show that many Americans increasingly see the country’s
trade openness asmore of a threat than an opportunity, and the
bipartisan political consensus in favor of openmarkets is badly
frayed....
by Kimberly Ann Elliot | On 01 Jul 2011 Approximately three-fourths of the world’s 1.5 billion young people live in developing countries. Globally, young people make up nearly half of the ranks of the world's unemployed. Unemployment rates...
by CommonWealth Secretariat | On 01 Jul 2011 The fast growing demand for fresh water-coupled with the need to protect the environment has made
many areas of India and the rest of the World vulnerable to water shortages for various uses of the
...
by Perini Praveena Sri | On 29 Jun 2011 Mathematical formulations of Frank D. Graham’s theory of multicountry
multicommodity trade have not provided numerical methods for finding the
world trade equilibrium. Graham was in possession of su...
by Rajas Parchure | On 27 Jun 2011 In order to tackle the issues of desertification, land degradation and droughts, 22 major
programmes are being implemented in the country, including, the “Mission for Green India”,
one of the Missio...
by Ministry of Environment and Forests GOI | On 21 Jun 2011 Adopting a micro-level framework of impact of FDI in an industry, this study empirically
examines the following three issues in the context of Indian machinery industry (IMI) -
division 28 of Nation...
by Pradeep Kumar Keshari | On 14 Jun 2011 The article is a report of RBI Minister Duvvuri Subbarao on issuesing concerning the G-20 countries and also issues effecting all the countries collectively.
by Duvvuri Subbarao | On 13 Jun 2011 The National Steel Policy (NSP-2005) lays stress
on accelerating growth in domestic production and
consumption of steel to achieve global competitiveness
not only in terms of cost quality and produ...
by R Venkatesan | On 07 Jun 2011 The purpose of this paper is to pursue the implications of closing, in the sense of
rendering determinate, the Sraffa equations of production, prices and distribution
[Sraffa (1960)] by adding to th...
by Rajas Parchure | On 01 Jun 2011 The issue of farmers’ indebtedness becomes a matter of intense debate whenever the
agricultural sector faces distress. But, the root cause of the current crisis is not indebtedness
alone - indebtedn...
by Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research | On 30 May 2011 Hong Kong has had a linked exchange rate regime of one kind or another
for most of its history as a trading and financial centre.
In 1863 the Hong Kong Government declared the silver dollar – then a...
by Hong Kong Monetary Authority | On 27 May 2011 Under the new industrial policy announced in 2002 and the export-import policy announced
thereafter, SEZs have been sought to be created in several parts of the country for promoting
industrial pr...
by Chetan Vaidya | On 26 May 2011 As a country progressively engages in international trade, its factors of production
will increasingly enter into the export sector, where their return is higher, compared
to the import competing...
by Dibyendu Maiti | On 23 May 2011 Globalisation is a concious and deliberate effort of a socio-economic system to permit the factors of production, the produce and the socio-economic forces to permeate across boundaries and remove any...
by S.K. Mishra | On 20 May 2011 Development finance is at a turning point. There is talk about a “triple revolution of goals, actors
and tools.” As much of Asia grows its way out of poverty, aid will increasingly be focused on Afr...
by Nemat Shafik | On 13 May 2011 This journal by OKD Institute of Social Change and Development contains different articles, papers, book reviews on social change and development.
by OKD Institute of Social Change and Development | On 12 May 2011 The investment climate of a region reflects the location specific factors that provide opportunities and incentives for firms to invest, create jobs, and expand. A good investment cl...
by Errol D'souza | On 11 May 2011 The rise of China in the world economy and in international trade has raised the
possibility of a rise of the Yuan as an international currency, particularly after the
Chinese authorities have under...
by Vimal Balasubramaniam | On 05 May 2011 In most cases, energy use in the production of a given desirable output results in the generation
of undesirable output also as a by-product. Thus, the aim of this paper is to estimate energy use...
by Sabuj Kumar Mandal | On 02 May 2011 The world’s biggest carbon offset market, the Clean Development Mechanism, is a global shell game that is
increasing greenhouse gas emissions behind the guise of promoting sustainable development. It...
by International Rivers Network IRN | On 28 Apr 2011 GDP growth likely to average 8.2 per cent over 11th Plan: short of the 9% target, but remarkable given the global crisis and drought. Basic objective : Faster, More Inclusive, and Sustainable Growth
...
by Planning Commission | On 25 Apr 2011 In this paper, four categories of existing resource-mobilization options are examined, including
(1) transportation levies; (2) currency and financial transaction taxes; (3) capitalization of IMF
S...
by Nancy Birdsall | On 21 Apr 2011 In 2010 and 2011, there has been a fresh wave of interest in cap-
ital controls. India is one of the few large countries with a complex
system of capital controls, and hence others an opportunity to...
by Ila Patnaik | On 21 Apr 2011 In this study, two types of aid transfers - boats and houses are examined- that were made to
rehabilitate tsunami-affected fishery households in Sri Lanka. The goal is to investigate the
distributio...
by Asha Gunawardena | On 20 Apr 2011 Part I of the Budget speech by Finance Minister
by Maharashtra Government | On 18 Apr 2011 Some option series in the market are far less liquid than others. Market illiquidity can reduce the
informativeness of option prices. In this paper, an alternative schemes are proposed to estimate im...
by Rohini Grover | On 09 Apr 2011 An
attempt has been made in this paper to analyse the financing pattern of
Indian corporate sector during 1990-2009. This paper further seeks to
identify the pattern of resource mobilisation of Ind...
by P L Beena | On 08 Apr 2011 This presentation was given at the Managing Foreign Exchange Reserves in the Crisis and After Seminar by Robert N. McCauley, which was held in Tokyo, Japan on 15 March 2011. URL: [http://www.adbi.org/...
by Robert N. McCauley | On 06 Apr 2011 The Department of Energy was created on 24th April 1990 consequent upon bifurcation of the then Irrigation & Power Department. Energy as in Electricity is one of the prime inputs for both the economic...
by Government of Orissa | On 05 Apr 2011 The Government of Karnataka considers high growth of agriculture and allied sectors as a
means to accelerate the state’s GDP growth, enable farmers to earn higher income and
ensure food security. Ka...
by Government of Karnataka | On 05 Apr 2011 Climate change is one of the complex problems facing mankind today.
The overriding complexity of the problem is attributed to its deeper global
ramifications on a vast range of issues impacting the...
by Government of Madhya Pradesh | On 30 Mar 2011 As countries in South Asia ready
themselves for climate change and the possibility
of increased frequency in natural disasters, it is
useful to understand how well post disaster
operations work to...
by South Asian Network for Development SANDEE | On 28 Mar 2011 The International Atomic Energy Agency addresses global issues related to nuclear technology, in accordance with its Statute. In carrying out this mandate, the agency has sought to provide independent...
by International Atomic Energy Agency | On 25 Mar 2011 The paper examines the situation of financial crisis prevailing in the world economy and its impact on urbanization and development. URL: [http://www.fgks.in/event/Pardos.pdf]
by Françoise Pardos | On 24 Mar 2011 The objective of the paper is to test the empirical regularity that exporters are more productive than non-exporters in India. TFP is calculated from the Cobb-Douglas Production
function using a fixe...
by Vinish Kathuria | On 21 Mar 2011 Tsunamis, hurricanes, tidal bores and other large
storms threaten many coastal communities in
Bangladesh. With climate change, the frequency
of such natural disasters is expected to rise and
it is...
by Sakib Mahmud | On 21 Mar 2011 The Tsunami in 2004 devastated Sri Lanka. In its
aftermath, followed aid and support from multiple
sources. As countries in South Asia ready
themselves for climate change and the possibility
of in...
by Asha Gunawardena | On 18 Mar 2011 The briefing kit highlights key examples
of policies, regulations and laws that reflect these WCD
recommendations and references specific projects that
demonstrate them in action. [IRN brief]. URL:...
by International Rivers Network IRN | On 17 Mar 2011 In this study, they attempt to quantify the effect of improved
population health on technical efficiency in agricultural production.
Using data for over 260 districts in 15 Indian states, they emplo...
by Atheendar S. Venkataramani | On 17 Mar 2011 Budget speech by Finance Minister.
by Ministry of Finance and Planning Sri Lanka | On 17 Mar 2011 This
paper aims to review the main considerations around food price
movements. It includes a discussion on the impact of speculation. URL:[https://www.dbresearch.com/PROD/DBR_INTERNET_EN-PROD/PROD00...
by Claire Schaffnit Chatterjee | On 16 Mar 2011 A structure for the green venture fund (GVF) and explain the design rationale, operating principles and key parameters for two funds of funds for technology innovation and deployment is proposed. Some...
by Darius Nassiry | On 16 Mar 2011 The State of the World's Children 2011 examines the global state of adolescents; outlines the challenges they face in health, education, protection and participation; and explores the risks and vulner...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 14 Mar 2011 Based on the recommendations the National Advisory Council had already communicated to the Government, as a first step towards preparing the draft National Food Security Bill, a detailed Framework Not...
by National Advisory Council NAC | On 04 Mar 2011 The multidisciplinary research project on the Forest in the North and the South, organised by UNU-WIDER, shows that, in spite of modest forest expansions in the North, the ongoing deforestation of the...
by Patrick Humphreys | On 28 Feb 2011 The issue of farmers’ indebtedness becomes a matter of intense debate whenever the
agricultural sector faces distress. But, the root cause of the current crisis is not indebtedness
alone - indebtedn...
by Ministry of Finance | On 28 Feb 2011 In India, as elsewhere in the world, climate change is
now high on the political and public agenda. In the subcontinent,
particular attention is being paid to the impact
of climatic changes on agri...
by K.S. Kavi Kumar | On 22 Feb 2011 This study attempts to develop a dynamic factor model (DFM) to
forecast industrial production and price level in India. For this purpose, domestic as well as
external economic indicators, that appea...
by Sanjib Bordoloi | On 21 Feb 2011 Nine preliminary lessons from the Great Recession for monetary and financial policies are presented. [3rd P. R. Brahmananda Memorial Lecture].
by Stanley Fischer | On 18 Feb 2011 The present report aims to generate greater
awareness and environmental consciousness amongst
our citizens. The objective of the report, therefore,
is to generate a national debate among various
s...
by Ministry of Environment and Forests GOI | On 16 Feb 2011 The failure of the Climate Summit in Copenhagen in December
2009 emphasized the limitations of greenhouse gas (GHG)
mitigation as a singular policy response to climate change and
highlighted the ur...
by South Asian Network for Development and Environmen Economics | On 15 Feb 2011 This paper develops tools to examine selected major issues in the Indian economy. The study computes the potential growth rate of the economy and the agricultural sector, extends the analysis of fisca...
by Mathew Joseph | On 11 Feb 2011 Agriculture is a climate sensitive sector and provides livelihood for more
than 60 percent of Indian population. There have been a large number of
studies over the past decade that tried to assess t...
by Ishwarya Balasubramanian | On 09 Feb 2011 This study is aimed at assessing the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures (ASCM) from the perspective of the developing countries such as India and identifying the improvements and clari...
by Anwarul Hoda | On 08 Feb 2011 Privatization is analysed in a general equilibrium model of a small, tariff-distorted,
open economy. There is a differentiated good produced by both private and public
sector enterprises. A reductio...
by Arghya Ghosh | On 04 Feb 2011 The effects of climate change have been and will be worse in poor countries and small-island states, those least able to adapt to the climate-related disasters. In this paper, senior fellow David Whee...
by David Wheeler | On 01 Feb 2011 Improving our ability to cope with floods under current and future climates requires adopting a more sophisticated set of techniques -- the "soft path" of flood risk management, which aims to understa...
by International Rivers Network IRN | On 31 Jan 2011 The exchange rate-based monetary policy followed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is outlined. Possible theoretical frameworks, including a reaction function is outlined. The way the MAS h...
by Partha Sen | On 31 Jan 2011 In the face of persistent rural poverty, an incomplete agrarian transition, the
predominance of small and marginal farms and an emerging feminization of
agriculture, this paper argues for a new in...
by Bina Agarwal | On 28 Jan 2011 As the conception of and debates on regional powers have been led by political science, this paper aims to contribute to the discussion from an economics perspective. Based on the discussion of differ...
by Robert KAppel | On 28 Jan 2011 India’s low carbon inclusive growth strategy is framed in the context of
multiple goals and its national circumstances. In many cases, cobenefits
such as energy security, universal access to cl...
by U. Sankar | On 28 Jan 2011 Despite low expectations, the UN climate change negotiations in Cancún made important progress thanks to decisive Mexican diplomacy and a renewed conviction that reducing emissions can drive green gro...
by Caio Koch Weser | On 25 Jan 2011 International comparisons of average national incomes omit important information about
leisure, home production, health, etc. They are also bedevilled by index number
problems. This paper suggests...
by Steve Dowrick | On 17 Jan 2011 This Policy Brief discusses whether
Bangladesh should continue to pursue
a national food security strategy based
on self-reliance or return to its earlier
policy of food self-sufficiency through
...
by Uttam Kumar Deb | On 17 Jan 2011 The paper analyzes the changing INR trends over the reform period, in the context of fundamental
determinants of exchange rates. [WP-2010-024].
by Ashima Goyal | On 13 Jan 2011 This study seeks to derive lessons from the French nuclear energy experience that can be
used to guide the Indian programme as it steps on the pedal to fast track nuclear expansion. [Occasional Paper...
by Manpreet Sethi | On 13 Jan 2011 In this paper they use large survey data sets of firms provided by the World Bank for China, India,
and Brazil—Investment Climate Surveys—to address the important question: what
determines the loc...
by Kala Seetharam Sridhar | On 12 Jan 2011 This paper proposes a structural VAR model which extends the frameworks of
Hoffmaister and Roldós (2001) and Prasad (1999). The model is then used to analyse
the sources of China’s trade balance flu...
by Yin Zhang | On 07 Jan 2011 India has over a century old tradition of development and production of vaccines. The Government
rightly adopted self-sufficiency in vaccine production and self-reliance in vaccine technology as its...
by Anant Phadke | On 05 Jan 2011 This paper aims to analyse urban mobility patterns and consequent impacts on energy and environment
in India. We investigate the quantity of energy use in 23 metropolitan regions for the period 1981–...
by B. Sudhakara Reddy | On 03 Jan 2011 This study examines the marginal productivity of water and other inputs in dry season rice production in Bangladesh. Agriculture is the major water using sector in Bangladesh, but water is in shortsup...
by Nasima Tanveer Chowdhury | On 17 Dec 2010 The 1990s will be the first decade after the revolutionary upheavals in the world
economic and political system following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of
the Cold War. Democracy ha...
by Arjun Sengupta | On 13 Dec 2010 Over the past two years the solar industry has shown itself to be incredibly resilient to the general economic crisis.
Supported by cost-cutting and efficiency improvements, the photovoltaics (PV) in...
by Bank Sarasin | On 10 Dec 2010 The report provides an assessment of impact of climate change in 2030s on four key sectors in four climate sensitive regions of India.
by Ministry of Environment and Forests GOI | On 01 Dec 2010 This paper examines the question if the Heavily Indebted Poor Country (HIPC)
Initiative provides a good basis for the HIPCs to exit from repeated debt rescheduling.
Building on other reviews of the...
by Bernhard G. Gunter | On 23 Nov 2010 Assessments of the performance of Indian commercial banks are
not new in the literature. However, most of the earlier studies consider
relatively partial measures such as technical efficiency of the...
by Anup Kumar Bhandari | On 17 Nov 2010 A persistent widening of skill based wage inequality in the Indian
Organised Manufacturing sector has been reported by many researchers.
Two main hypotheses had been tested in developed economies to...
by Vinoj Abraham | On 17 Nov 2010 This paper connects experience with emissions
trading, from programs like the U.S. Rain program, to
lessons for implementation of a Trading Pilot Scheme
in India. This experience suggests that four...
by Esther Duflo | On 16 Nov 2010 Age structural transition is a process and a consequence of shifting
age structure from a young aged population to old aged population. It is
well known that economic growth in the East Asian countr...
by K. Navaneetham | On 04 Nov 2010 This paper estimated the pass-through effects of yuan’s exchange rates on prices of the US and Japanese imports from the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Empirical results show that, a 1% nominal app...
by Yuqing Xing | On 04 Nov 2010 Asia faces very large infrastructure funding demands, estimated at around US$750 billion per year for energy, transport, telecommunications, water, and sanitation during 2010–2020 (ADB/ADBI 2009). Asi...
by Biswa Nath Bhattacharyay | On 03 Nov 2010 Production networks and the regional division of labor have been established in East Asia resulting in massive vertical intra-industry trade in parts and components within the region. This phenomenon...
by Hank Lim | On 02 Nov 2010 Recently, a dramatic accumulation in foreign exchange reserves has been widely observed in developing countries. This paper explores the possible long-run impacts of this trend on macroeconomic variab...
by Shin-ichi Fukuda | On 01 Nov 2010 This paper discusses the factors that promote clusters and the role of clusters in the
generation and spread of human capital The analysis in the paper is based on a comparative study of software fir...
by V. N. Balasubramanyam | On 29 Oct 2010 We examine why it is important to consider seemingly autonomous but more
embedded socio-political-economic aspects in assessing the impact of changes in
Science and Technology (S&T) on human capital...
by Bino Paul G.D | On 29 Oct 2010 This paper is an attempt to understand the relationship between the labour and energy
intensity for firms drawn from pulp and paper industries in Indian manufacturing. Pulp and paper industry account...
by K. Narayanan | On 29 Oct 2010 A developing economy like India is often characterised by a labour market with demand and supply of labour and a wage that even if competitively determined may not be adequate for the poor household t...
by Diganta Mukherjee | On 29 Oct 2010 The 2008 episode of food price explosion, political turmoil, and human suffering
revealed important flaws in the current global food architecture. This paper argues that
to safeguard the strengths...
by Luc Christiaensen | On 27 Oct 2010 In the context of production linkages in which downstream producers require freight services
provided by transport operators, the author show that the strategic choice of using an alternative
transp...
by Ying Yi Tsai | On 27 Oct 2010 The East Asian crisis of 1997-98 and the Mexican crisis of 1994
generated much concern among policy analysts regarding the role of
macroeconomic policies in the management of capital inflows. A seri...
by Indrani Chakraborty | On 14 Oct 2010 The global financial crisis and the resulting economic slowdown may be assumed to have at
least the benefit of also reducing environmental degradation in the individual countries. This
paper discu...
by Venkatachalam Anbumozhi | On 07 Oct 2010 The role of the state in industrialisation is a much discussed topic these days. Specifically this role has witnessed itself in the form of direct intervention by the states through owning the means...
by Sunil Mani | On 01 Oct 2010 This paper traces the effects of the “East Asian Miracle,” the 1997–1998 Asian Crisis, the recovery, and the 2008–2009 global financial crisis on ASEAN countries. It also considers how ASEAN countries...
by Willem Thorbecke | On 28 Sep 2010 This paper estimates the need for infrastructure investment, including energy, transport, telecommunications, water, and sanitation during 2010-2020, in order to meet growing demands for services and...
by Biswa Nath Bhattacharyay | On 27 Sep 2010 This paper analyzes the institutions and markets that govern groundwater allocation in the sugarcane
belt of Uttar Pradesh, India, using primary, plot-level data from a village which shares the typic...
by A. Banerji | On 14 Sep 2010 In India, there is a large divergence between CPI and WPI inflation trends in
the past, wide dispersion in inflation across commodity groups within WPI,
and significant volatility in headline WPI in...
by Nadhanael G V | On 08 Sep 2010 This study provides an in-depth assessment of Concentrating solar power (CSP) potential in China and
India using high-resolution spatial data for site selection and modeling of plant performance, ass...
by Kevin Ummel | On 03 Sep 2010 The export of textiles from India accounts for about one-third of India’s total exports. What is more
significant is that textiles as a group, is also the largest net foreign exchange earner in as...
by Avih Rastogi | On 01 Sep 2010 Agricultural subsidies that encourage production and productivity have been widely criticized
because of the cost of subsidies and they are perceived to be far from uniformly distributed. There is
a...
by Vijay Paul Sharma | On 27 Aug 2010 In this paper regional variation in suitability for cultivating
potatoes, together with time variation arising from their introduction to
the Old World from the Americas is being exploited, to estim...
by Nathan Nunn | On 26 Aug 2010 Climate change has become one of the most important global issues of our time, with far-
reaching natural, socio- economic, and political impacts. In order to equip the community to
deal with the...
by Vidhi . | On 12 Aug 2010 The differential multiple tax regime across sectors of production leads to distortions in
allocation of resources thus introducing inefficiencies in the sectors of domestic production.
With regard t...
by Rajesh Chadha | On 12 Aug 2010 This paper presents the experience of using systems such as Earth Tube Heat Exchangers for environmental control in dwellings of zoo animals, and greenhouse in arid area of Kutch. Mention has also bee...
by Girja Sharan | On 04 Aug 2010 With the alarming rate of growth in vehicle population and travel demand, the energy consumption has increased significantly contributing to the rise of GHG emissions. Therefore, the development of a...
by P. Balachandra | On 30 Jul 2010 This paper explores the process of Environmental Control in Greenhouse and Animal Houses with Earth-Tube-Heat-Exchangers in hot semi-arid north-west India. [Working Paper No. 2009-11-04]
by Girja Sharan | On 20 Jul 2010 This study estimates the morbidity costs of reduction in air pollution in Dhaka, the capital of
Bangladesh, using the Cost-of-Illness (COI) approach. COI is defined as the sum of lost earnings
due t...
by Tanzir Chowdhury | On 19 Jul 2010 As a consequence of the flexibility mechanisms incorporated in the Kyoto Protocol (KP), incentive-based policies
such as emissions trading and the clean development mechanism (CDM) are being widely d...
by Shreekant Gupta | On 07 Jul 2010 The paper discuses and analyzes the present state of affairs of the Delhi Energy Development Agency (DEDA).
by Arjun Bhattacharya | On 30 Jun 2010 Enormous trade surpluses are problematic for the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the
rest of the world. They primarily stem from processing trade. This paper investigates how
exchange rate ch...
by Willem Thorbecke | On 30 Jun 2010 Prior to the Asian financial crisis, most Asian exchange rates were de facto pegged
to the US Dollar. In the crisis, many economies experienced a brief period of extreme flexibility. A `fear of float...
by Ila Patnaik | On 18 Jun 2010 This occasional publication
series is part of the Social Equity and Opportunity Forum in the Dean’s Office of the College of
Urban and Public Affairs. Directed by Janet Hammer, Ph.D., the Forum emph...
by Joseph Grady | On 10 Jun 2010 Stylized facts for South Asia show the dominance of supply shocks, amplified by macroeconomic policies
and procyclical current accounts. Interest and exchange rate volatility rose initially on libera...
by Ashima Goyal | On 09 Jun 2010 Without a better
understanding of the interactions between international players, households and public sector, it will be difficult for climate negotiators and donor institutions to
determine the...
by Brian Blankespoor | On 01 Jun 2010 This paper studies the impact of services trade liberalization under the currently negotiated EU-India
FTA on women’s lives in India and tries to delineate the concern areas. Relevant sectors of int...
by Ranja Sengupta | On 25 May 2010 This paper is about a field experiment which was designed to estimate the relative
importance of competing effects of targeted subsidies for health products. It has been found out that, for a health...
by Pascaline Dupas | On 25 May 2010 Over 330 million people live in India’s cities; 35 cities have a population of over a
million and three (Mumbai, Delhi, and Kolkata) of the 10 largest metropolises in the world
are in India. India’s...
by M. Govinda Rao | On 21 May 2010 A simple evolutionary model is used to understand the critical rate of environmental change beyond which a population must decline and go extinct. The model is used to highlight the major determinants...
by Luis-Miguel Chevin | On 21 May 2010 Until recently, India’s intransigent negotiating posture has conveyed the impression that it will not accept any
carbon emissions limits without full compensation and more stringent carbon limitation...
by David Wheeler | On 20 May 2010 The world’s biggest carbon offset market, the Clean Development Mechanism, is a global shell game that is
increasing greenhouse gas emissions behind the guise of promoting sustainable development. It...
by Patrick McCully | On 14 May 2010 The paper examines the factors that influence energy intensity in Indian industries. It has
two parts. In the first part, trends in energy intensity are analysis and cross-industry panel
data (taken...
by Bishwanath Goldar | On 13 May 2010 In this paper we attempt to provide a comprehensive understanding of the drivers of
academic research and patenting in India. Research inputs by a faculty member are considered to be an outcome of
h...
by Amit Shovon Ray | On 20 Apr 2010 This paper attempts to
understand the various risks faced by households living in disaster prone regions of
rural India and specifically examine the effectiveness of coping mechanisms adopted
by ho...
by Unmesh Patnaik | On 12 Apr 2010 How does the Reserve Bank of India implement monetary policy? The objectives and framework of monetary policy, as they have evolved, the operational aspects of monetary policy have been discussed. Th...
by Deepak Mohanty | On 08 Apr 2010 The implications of sea-level rise and storm surges for 84 developing countries and 577 of their cyclone-vulnerable coastal cities with populations greater than 100,000 are explored. Combining the mos...
by Susmita Dasgupta | On 25 Feb 2010 The paper discusses the participation of poor participate in growth, and how different forms of growth connect to poverty. Also the paper discusses important policy levers, in relation to agriculture,...
by Chronic Poverty Research Centre CPRC | On 18 Feb 2010 In Nepal, agriculture is commercializing day by day
and levels of agro-chemical use are growing. This is
beginning to raise concerns about the health and environmental
impacts of farm chemicals suc...
by Ratna Kumar Jha | On 09 Feb 2010 The manufacturing sector in India is crucial for two main reasons: It has significant potential to provide modern
employment to a growing labour force, especially that of less skilled type and second...
by Arvind Virmani | On 09 Feb 2010 Climate change impact studies on agriculture can be broadly divided into those that employ
agro-economic approaches and those that employ the Ricardian approach. This study uses the
Ricardian approa...
by K S Kavi Kumar | On 05 Feb 2010 Capital account openness and exchange rate flexibility in 11 Asian countries are examined. Asia has made slow progress on de jure capital account openness,
but has made much more progress on de facto...
by Ila Patnaik | On 04 Feb 2010 This study generates some evidence on the costs and
benefits of a particular indoor air pollution control initiative. The study is based on a survey of 400 households in Rasuwa district, Nepal,
by Min Bikram Malla Thakuri | On 02 Feb 2010 Physical energy intensity indicators for Indian manufacturing sector is developed and analyzed.
Energy consumption in five industrial sub-sectors, namely, iron and steel, aluminium, textiles,
paper...
by Binay Kumar Ray | On 02 Feb 2010 The objective of this study is to examine empirically the impact of monetary policy on exchange market pressure (EMP) in Bangladesh. EMP is measured as the sum of percentage change of international re...
by Sayera Younus | On 29 Jan 2010 This paper examines national-level explanations for poverty decline in Bangladesh in micro-level
detail, in order to better understand the nature of the causalities at work and why some
households h...
by Naila Kabeer | On 28 Jan 2010 Most standard indicators suggest that India’s reserve stock is more than adequate. The rapid stockpiling of foreign exchange reserves implies that the RBI has been leaning-against-the-wind to keep dow...
by Ramkishen S. Rajan | On 25 Jan 2010 A concise overview of the energy related aspects of sustainable development programmes and declarations, followed by a short summary of events and documents explicitly devoted to energy matters are gi...
by International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA | On 25 Jan 2010 This paper examines the effectiveness of damage control mechanisms to reduce crop losses
from agricultural pests. It uses data from a sample of Cole crop (Cauliflower and Cabbage)
growing households...
by Ratna Kumar Jha | On 22 Jan 2010 In this paper, we seek to make a twofold contribution. On outcomes, we focus on manufacturing exports as well as on manufacturing output both in the aggregate and in selected sectors. On policy, the i...
by Aaditya Mattoo | On 19 Jan 2010 The paper first gives a brief history and comparison of Japanese foreign direct investment
into India and other Asian countries, highlighting the fact that Japanese investment into India
is quite lo...
by Srabani Roy Choudhury | On 19 Jan 2010 This note seeks to show that the debate on ‘Pro-Poor Growth’ is sterile and largely
academic with few policy insights.
by Suryanarayana M H | On 15 Jan 2010 The Indian media has wrongly compared Bihar's (that is, 11.03per cent) average annual growth during the period 2004-05 to 2008-09 with that of Gujarat (that is, 11.05per cent). While the media has quo...
by Shambhu Ghatak | On 14 Jan 2010 The paper is a analysis of the rainwater harvesting system in context of Delhi which is suffering from acute water problems.
by Arjun Bhattacharya | On 22 Dec 2009 Climate change is one of the most important issues of the next
decades and has the potential to severely impact societies,
economies and human wellbeing.
by Caio Koch-Weser | On 16 Dec 2009 This brief seeks to address questions on how the funds are collected, dsitributes at the international level, mechanisms to ensure that the recipient countries are managing the funds in a transparent...
by Athena Ballesteros | On 15 Dec 2009 Declaration made at the end of two days national seminar on Food security and Sustainability in India held on November 7-8, 2009 organized by GAD Institute of Development Studies, PO Naushera, Amritsa...
by Gursharan Singh Kainth | On 14 Dec 2009 This paper reports findings from the survey of India’s textiles and clothing exporters. The survey method has been used to identify and assess the impact of Non-Tariff Measures (NTMs) and the Cost of...
by Gordhan K Saini | On 11 Dec 2009 This paper uses firm level panel data to investigate empirically the effects of
direct foreign investment (DFI) on the productivity performance of domestic firms in
three emerging economies of Centr...
by Jozef Konings | On 11 Dec 2009 This paper focuses on poverty dynamics and their determinants, using panel survey data for
rural Sindh, Pakistan. Households interviewed by the International Food Policy Research
Institute (IFPRI) d...
by Hari Ram Lohano | On 10 Dec 2009 Using a model of O-ring production function, the paper demonstrates
how certain communities can get caught in a low-literacy trap in which each
individual finds it not worthwhile investing in higher...
by Vidya Atal | On 01 Dec 2009 The paper examines the genesis of Climate Change which has been referred to as the defining human development issue of our generation. Also studied is the impact of this problem in the global as well...
by H A C Prasad | On 01 Dec 2009 China and India have both attempted distorting the exchange rate in order to foster exports-led growth. This is described as the Bretton Woods II framework, where developing countries buy bonds in the...
by Ila Patnaik | On 30 Nov 2009 A detailed historical review of the research to date spanning more than 50 years, and includes a perspective on the impact of climate change on the glaciers. The Ministry invites comments on the Paper...
by V K Raina | On 30 Nov 2009 The Government has launched a reform-linked urban investment programme, JNNURM. The paper has analysed urban trends, projected population, service delivery, institutional arrangements, municipal finan...
by Chetan Vaidya | On 26 Nov 2009 This conference is one of the most important and most complex in the history of climate policy negotiations. The objective is to form a treaty as a successor for the Kyoto Protocol. To enable a breakt...
by Eric Heymann | On 26 Nov 2009 Health data, poverty, and inequality exist in a complex global co-dependency, therefore making meaningful comparisons of health across widely different settings challenging. Less data exist on the hea...
by Peter Byass | On 24 Nov 2009 This manual is provided as a reference tool to assist Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (hereafter referred to as the Convention) (Annex I Parties) in the implementa...
by UN Framwork Convention on Climate Change UNFCCC | On 20 Nov 2009 This report summarises findings from the USAID-sponsored project on models of financing for slum upgrading in India, undertaken on behalf of SPARC,a Mumbai-based NGO involved in slum upgrading and th...
by Sally Merrill | On 19 Nov 2009 This paper aims at discussing some of the important issues relating to sustainable urban form that would lead to sustainable urban development with possible references to India. The paper is based on...
by Basudha Chattopadhyay | On 17 Nov 2009 INHP adopted a multiple volunteer per village model, with one volunteer serving the immediate neighborhood of about 20-30 households to rationalize volunteer workloads and to ensure cultural compatibi...
by CARE India | On 09 Nov 2009 This paper presents some such case studies for co-and tri-generating various cold and hot utilities using innovative designs of Matrix and Tube-Tube Heat Exchangers and Multi-Utility Heat Pumps develo...
by Rane M V | On 27 Oct 2009 China’s economy is booming at the expense of its environment. The country’s resource efficiency is nowhere near the level of western nations. Per unit of gross domestic product China consumes more tha...
by Eric Heymann | On 22 Oct 2009 The paper discusses the impacts of climate change to the environment of China and most especially to the livelihood of Chinese people there. It analyzed the Chinese government’s position and enumerate...
by Dale Jiajun Wen | On 16 Oct 2009 Did you know that there has been no warming of the globe over the past decade?
by T.N. Ninan | On 16 Oct 2009 Simultaneous relationship between telecommunications and the economic growth,
using data for developing countries are examined. Using 3SLS, a system
of equations that endogenize economic growth and...
by Kala Seetharam Sridhar | On 15 Oct 2009 The paper argues that economism and, in particular, the individual drive to maximize utility and amass profit are not enough to ensure the efficient functioning of an economy; and that even for elemen...
by Kaushik Basu | On 09 Oct 2009 Assesses India's export potential of fruits and vegetables in fresh form. Schemes from horticulture boards in different states have been reported. [NABARD OC Paper No. 6].
by M Dattatreyulu | On 08 Oct 2009 There is a growing recognition that global warming is a problem, but little attention
has been paid to the likely impact at the country level, especially in the developing
world. The stakes for worl...
by William R Cline | On 23 Sep 2009 There were many challenges involved in the conduct of the elections. For example,
the people had to cast votes among 16 presidential candidates (2 candidates withdrew two days before the elections) i...
by Manabu Fujimura | On 17 Sep 2009 The paper reviews the trends over three decades in the consumption of cereals, calories and micronutrients and nutritional status based on anthropometric measures using the data sets of NSS, NNMB and...
by Radhakrishna R | On 15 Sep 2009 Options for monetary policy arising from interactions
between it and Indian foreign exchange (FX) markets. A brief survey covers
recent rapid changes providing a snapshot of current microstructure,
...
by Ashima Goyal | On 14 Sep 2009 This paper assesses the condition and outlook of the financial sectors—in particular, the banking sector—in the East Asia region in the aftermath of the current global financial crisis. The risks in t...
by Michael Pomerleano | On 07 Sep 2009 There is an incessant flow of technical innovations for newer and newer consumer goods and gadgets in our contemporary times. Even though technology has benefitted modern civilization through major sc...
by Arup Maharatna | On 10 Aug 2009 The production of machine tools has long been associated with industrialisation
besides a formidable factor of technical change and international competitiveness.
This potent role of machine tool in...
by Vinish Kathuria | On 06 Aug 2009 This paper formulates a model of exchange rate determination that
describes the market processes by which the foreign exchange markets
are cleared and international receipts of countries are brought...
by Rajas Parchure | On 06 Aug 2009 The spent fuel and radioactive waste management strategy sets out the
means for achieving the goals and requirements set out in the national policy. It
is normally established by the relevant waste...
by International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA | On 04 Aug 2009 The paper attempts to appraise the extent of the constraint of credit relations on agricultural production and its differential impact across peasant classes. Additionally, the analysis of the structu...
by Arindam Banerjee | On 04 Aug 2009 This paper articulates a model of industrial production in which
technologies are of continuous-input continuous output-type. It is
shown that the model nevertheless has all the essential properties...
by Rajas Parchure | On 31 Jul 2009 This study examines household behaviour related to fuelwood collection and use. The focus is on
identifying the behavioral transition of fuelwood-using households from collection to purchase.
The st...
by ARABINDA MISHRA | On 29 Jul 2009 Access to clean water should be declared a basic human right for three reasons. First, access to clean water can substantially reduce the global burden of disease caused by water-borne infections. Sec...
by PLoS Medicine | On 09 Jul 2009 This paper provides an overview of the background, objectives, interventions and impact hypotheses of Integrated Nutrition and Health Project (INHP-II) and Chayan rural, the implementation approaches...
by Rachna Program | On 07 Jul 2009 Groundwater has rapidly emerged to occupy a dominant place in India’s agriculture and food security in the recent years. It has become the main source of growth in irrigated area over the past 3 decad...
by Vasant P Gandhi | On 23 Jun 2009 The study uses co-integration and vector auto-regression (VAR) techniques to identify the determinants of income velocity of money (VM) in Bangladesh, covering both narrow and broad money. The study o...
by Md. Akhtaruzzaman | On 15 Jun 2009 Although economic growth has improved in recent years in Bangladesh, the better economic performance has not translated into satisfactory poverty reduction. The type of growth that matters Bangladesh...
by Mustafa. K. Mujeri | On 15 Jun 2009 There has been an increase in the demand for infrastructure services and opening up of the infrastructure sector for private investment. As a result, a large number of financial intermediaries and pri...
by Mustafa. K. Mujeri | On 15 Jun 2009 Can young people help to increase awareness about climate change and its impacts working through local bodies? A perceptive and informative presentation by the UN-HABITAT Youth Advisory Board Member a...
by John Anugraha | On 15 Jun 2009 The article focuses on understanding of the economics of the exchange control liberalisation in macroeconomic perspectives and, therefore, the article does not attempt to interpret or explore the lega...
by P Samarasiri | On 12 Jun 2009 This paper examines how unhedged currency exposure of firms varies with changes in currency exibility. A sequence of four time-periods with alternating high and low currency volatility in India prov...
by Ila Patnaik | On 11 Jun 2009 The article provides information pertaining to the recent outbreak of "swine flu", which has spread beyond Mexico and the US. The present study shows that the outbreak has lot to do with industrial fa...
by Shambhu Ghatak | On 09 Jun 2009 This monograph looks at how Indian exporters of goods and services have used e-commerce to promote exports. The second section comes up with explanations for the failure of the Indian garment export...
by Dipankar Sengupta | On 29 May 2009 During the global financial turmoil of 2007 and 2008, no major derivative clearing house in the world encountered distress while many banks were pushed to the brink and beyond. An important reason for...
by Jayanth R Varma | On 26 May 2009 This paper is an attempt to examine the policy initiatives as well as experience of promoting organic farming in India and Canada where the need for promoting sustainable agriculture has been recogniz...
by Puttaswamaiah S | On 22 May 2009 This paper reports the European experience with a basket currency, the ECU. The ECU was initially introduced as a reference unit and later became the anchor of the European Monetary System. Public pol...
by Girardin Eric | On 22 May 2009 Papers and Proceedings of The Third Annual Himalayan Policy Research ConferenceSession Chairs and Discussants
Session 1A: Conflict Resolution and Democratic Transitions
Chair: Christopher Can...
by Vijaya R. Sharma | On 19 May 2009 The production, transportation and consumption of energy resources, especially of fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas, generate negative environmental externalities including air pollution....
by Deepa Menon Choudhary | On 18 May 2009 In 2008, three global crises converged to threaten development in the Asia-Pacific
region, bringing to the fore particularly testing challenges for policymakers – a Great
Recession in developed coun...
by Economic and Social Commission for Asia Pacific ESCAP | On 16 May 2009 The Indian states have been the standard unit of analysis for research on India that uses official data sources. For many empirical questions, states are a natural starting point because state governm...
by Hemanshu Kumar | On 15 May 2009 Capitalizing on the most recent worldwide estimates of the impacts of climate change on agricultural production, this paper assesses the economic effects of climate change for Southeast Asian countrie...
by Fan Zhai | On 14 May 2009 The focus of this paper is on food miles issues associated with the import of products from developing countries. As the concept of food miles has been an issue in organic agriculture since before the...
by Els Wynen | On 14 May 2009 The growth of ethical consumerism in developed countries has led to increased imports of environmentally and socially certified products produced by the poor in developing countries, which could poten...
by Sununtar Setboonsarng | On 13 May 2009 A lively debate is taking place over the impact of free trade agreements (FTAs) on East Asia's business between those who view the agreements as a harmful Asian "noodle bowl"—i.e., overlapping regiona...
by Masahiro Kawai | On 13 May 2009 This inaugural piece addresses a fundamental problem of communication – how to effectively talk about an issue. It’s not as simple as it seems. Its always known that people did not always “hear” what...
by Joseph Grady | On 05 May 2009 Agriculture sector, world over, has experienced a phenomenal growth since the mid-twentieth century. The growth, driven by Green Revolution technology, has made a significant dent on aggregate supply...
by Amita Shah | On 02 May 2009 Capitalizing on the most recent worldwide estimates of the impacts of climate change on agriculture production, this paper assesses the economic effects of climate change for Southeast Asian countries...
by Fan Zhai | On 01 May 2009 This paper on the CBDR deals with these
issues of equity, development and climate change in a holistic way to address the problem from the global south perspective keeping the South Asian requirement...
by Sanjay Vashist | On 24 Apr 2009 The
paper’s focus is on successful Chinese policies that can be emulated by other countries to an extent (within certain bounds) which mentined in the article. The author is not trying to draw lesson...
by Arvind Virmani | On 22 Apr 2009 The handbook is prepared to create an informed public debate on Genetic Engineering in agriculture and this Introductory Manual is a contribution to this debate – a debate not just on GE in agricultur...
by Kavitha Kuruganti | On 21 Apr 2009 India’s opportunities and constraints to trade in
energy services within the GATS framework are examined. The study found that India has the capability of
exporting high-skilled manpower at competit...
by Arpita Mukherjee | On 25 Feb 2009 Budget speech by finance minister Dr. Thomas Issac
by Government of Kerala Govt | On 23 Feb 2009 The speech tries to underline some lessones that be drawn from the financial crisis relevant to regulation, financial markets and the market infrastructure and to reflect on these. [Annual Conference...
by Shyamala Gopinath | On 15 Jan 2009 The report discusses for the first time the linkages between climate change and dam-building in the Himalayas, and comprehensively analyzes the impacts of the dam building spree on the region's people...
by Shripad Dharmadhikary | On 26 Dec 2008 The paper provides an analytical structure to endogenize the optimal gestational
surrogacy contract in terms of a simple moral hazard framework. The study shows that altruistic
surrogacy is optimal...
by Swapnendu Banerjee | On 23 Dec 2008 The paper starts by recapitulating the basic arguments provided by economic theory to explain the existence of the patent system. The paper then concentrates on the three important ICT industries viz....
by C Niranjan Rao | On 30 Oct 2008 The paper reviews India’s macroeconomic performance and policies since 2000. The first section briefly summarizes key macroeconomic developments regarding
economic growth, inflation, external balance...
by Shankar Acharya | On 29 Oct 2008 This study tries to understand the main causes of tank degradation and the complex interrelationships among poverty, private coping mechanisms and community coping mechanisms that affect tank performa...
by Balasubramanian R | On 17 Oct 2008 It is attempted to understand the implications of equality in water distribution on social welfare with a simple abstract analysis using Leontief-type fixed production function.
by Sashi Sivramakrishna | On 16 Oct 2008 At the Bangkok Climate Change dialogue held between March 31st, - April 4th , 2008, the parties arrived at a consensus on two major points for a work programme on long term climate policy. First, the...
by Centre for Trade and Development CENTAD | On 09 Oct 2008 Specific policy issues linked to renewable energy development with recommendations for future strategies and measures have been discussed in the article. [CSH WP no. 3]
by Debyani Ghosh | On 07 Oct 2008 Demographic transition is a global phenomenon; population growth is inevitable in the initial phases of the transition. For India the current phase of the demographic transition is both a challenge an...
by Prema Ramachandran | On 26 Sep 2008 In India, year-on-year percentage changes of price indexes are widely used as the measure of inflation. In terms of monthly data, each observation of a one-year change in inflation is the sum of twelv...
by Rudrani Bhattacharya | On 25 Sep 2008 This paper is an account of the main streams discussed in an international conference, held in New York in April 2008,
organized by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and
Global Policy Forum, which cons...
by James A. Paul | On 24 Sep 2008 India, the largest economy of South Asia, has recently announced its National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC). This is of special significance given the mounting pressure on fast growing economi...
by Centre for Trade and Development CENTAD | On 22 Sep 2008 Budget in Brief is designed to summarize the detailed information into an
overview comprising essential information about expenditure and receipt and the
resulting budget balance.
by Ministry of Finance, Government of Pakistan, | On 22 Sep 2008 This study assesses the Five Year Plans and relevant government policies adopted to garner India's climate change goals and priorities. It attempts to highlight key climate change concerns from a brie...
by Centre for Trade and Development CENTAD | On 17 Sep 2008 Within the past decade, national levels of labour productivity in CEECs have converged significantly towards the levels predominant in the EU. Yet, levels are still significantly lower, large gaps are...
by Dr Johannes Stephan | On 16 Sep 2008 Funds generated through community forestry offer crucial and significant resources for rural in Nepal. This study examines forestry funds in 100 communities in three districts to assess how large they...
by Ridish K. Pokharel | On 11 Sep 2008 Much existing literature champions renewables implementation on India’s Sagar Island as an unqualified rural electrification success story. Photovoltaic (PV) and wind systems put in place by the West...
by Sam Shrank | On 25 Aug 2008 The Reserve Bank released the document “Macroeconomic and Monetary
Developments: First Quarter Review 2008-09” to serve as a backdrop to the First Quarter Review of Annual Policy Statement for 2008-0...
by Reserve Bank of India | On 28 Jul 2008 The aim of this paper is to examine the effects climate change will have on Bangladesh and also gives some possible solutions for tackling climate change.
by Centre for Trade and Development CENTAD | On 24 Jul 2008 In this paper, a model of North-South trade is developed to analyze the impact of a label certifying the absence of child labour in the export production of the South. [WP no 144].
by Jean Marie Baland | On 19 Jul 2008 The paper examines teh current energy demand of India and the implications of future levels and patterns of energy use in India.
[FES Briefing Paper 14 ]
by Leena Srivastava | On 06 Jun 2008 The paper is an analysis of food aid, rising food prices and its implications.
by Laurrie Garrett | On 31 May 2008 The principles of the ‘bottom-up’ approach to adaptation are followed. It believes that one of the starting points for adaptation to climate change should be the present. The focus should not just be...
by Lucy Scott | On 13 Apr 2008 Speech of Prof. K. Anbazhagan, Minister for Finance, Government of Tamil Nadu, presenting the Budget for 2008-2009 to the Legislative Assembly on 20th March,
2008.
by Tamil Nadu Government | On 25 Mar 2008 Last fall, the United Kingdom issued a major government report on global climate change directed by Sir Nicholas Stern, a top-flight economist. The Stern Review Report on the Economics of Climate Chan...
by Kenneth J. Arrow | On 24 Mar 2008 The paper starts with a brief review of some criticisms of the Peer Review system – labelled ex-ante top-down PR system – for the evaluation of academic works. The critiques are grouped into efficienc...
by Grazia Ietto-Gillies | On 24 Mar 2008 The discipline of economics tends to gloss over the central role of power and violence in the creation of wealth, the distribution of opportunity and the fact that suffering and well-being are tightl...
by Marcellus Andrews | On 24 Mar 2008 The Stern Review (2006) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assert that the greenhouse problem can be solved at a negligible cost. this articls details the argument that both th...
by Ted Trainer | On 17 Mar 2008 Critics of the Stern Review do not think serious action to limit CO2 emissions is justified, because there remains substantial uncertainty about the extent of the costs of global climate change, and b...
by Kenneth J. Arrow | On 17 Mar 2008 Contents Page
Risk, inequality and the economics of disaster
Marcellus Andrews
A XXI-century alternative to XX-century peer review
Grazia Ietto-Gillies
Trade and inequality: The role of econ...
by Post Autistic Economic Review PAE Review | On 17 Mar 2008 Speech describes India’s experiences on ‘Inclusive Growth’ - a topic which is both current and close to the hearts of public policymakers and central bankers of emerging economies. [Independence Comme...
by Usha Thorat | On 14 Mar 2008 The Finance Minister Shri Raghavji presented the budget for the year 2008-09, with a budgetary deficit of Rs 91.43 crore.
by Madhya Pradesh Government | On 13 Mar 2008 D.R. Gadgil, wrote at length about the need for a long-term sugar policy and its efficient implementation is needed in India. What is the current relevance of his ideas?
by Aparna Mitheel Jaikar | On 13 Mar 2008 This paper focuses on the policy direction required to achieve socio-economic growth in developing countries while addressing air pollution concerns at both local and global levels. While greenhouse g...
by Deepa Menon Choudhary | On 25 Feb 2008 An analysis of the various parameters of manufacturing competitiveness of the Indian economy is provided. The paper notes that India is one of the leading producers and exporters of a number of commod...
by Lakshmanan L | On 19 Feb 2008 The various dimensions of livelihood risk as informed by a in-depth case study of an agrarian village namely, Cherumad in Kerala is examined. [WP no. 394].
by K.N. Nair | On 06 Feb 2008 The work of the IPCC has helped the world to learn more on all aspects of climate change, and the Nobel Peace Prize Committee has acknowledged this fact. [Speech delivered in Oslo]
by Pachauri R K | On 04 Feb 2008 Review consists of three sections:
I. Assessment of Macroeconomic and Monetary Developments;
II. Stance of Monetary Policy; and
III. Monetary Measures.
An analytical profile of macroeconomic a...
by Y V Reddy | On 30 Jan 2008 This study, entitled “Municipal Finance in India – An Assessment”, undertaken for the Development Research Group (DRG), Reserve Bank of India examines the performance of Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) in I...
by P K Mohanty | On 29 Jan 2008 Review of The Social and the Symbolic edited by Edited by Bernard Bel, Jan Brouwer, Biswajit Das, Vibodh Parthasarathi, Guy Poitevin; Sage, New Delhi; 2007, pp 481, Rs 895.
by Ratnawali Sinha | On 22 Jan 2008 An estimation of the real equilibrium exchange rate for India for the period in the latter half of the 1990s using fundamental economic variables by decomposing a structural VAR vested with appropriat...
by Himanshu Joshi | On 18 Jan 2008 The report of the Expert Committee provides a broad overarching framework for guiding the policies governing the production and use of different forms of energy from various sources. It makes specific...
by Planning Commission, India | On 10 Jan 2008 Despite the stark warning contained in the recently released report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), endorsed even by governments the world over, that GHG concentrations in the...
by D. Raghunandan | On 07 Jan 2008 Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global avera...
by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC | On 07 Jan 2008 KIA proposes to bring a paradigm shift in Indian Agriculture in terms of human resource development, research, technology generation, technology dissemination and commercialization. In the short run,...
by Ramanjaneyulu G V | On 05 Jan 2008 The outline of an action agenda to address issues regarding barriers to creating an equitable society that we urgently need to take up. [at XXXI ISSC at SNDT women's University].
by Datye K R | On 28 Dec 2007 The impact of climate changes will become key economic and political questions in South Asia. Indian cities will be affected the most by these. Policies will have to be adopted in such a way that the...
by Aromar Revi | On 27 Dec 2007 With the 19th century drain, no one was certain if the benefit exceeded
the cost and since the rulers were foreign the suspicion was that any investment they made was not beneficial. But the lesson f...
by Lord Meghnad Desai | On 25 Dec 2007 Whether energy use drives economic growth or vice versa in the Indian context during the period 1970-71 to 2004-05 is examined. Utilizing the Granger causality test, the study suggests that it is the...
by Hrushikesh Mallick | On 17 Dec 2007 The important determinants that have influence on travellers to choosing a particular airline are analysed. Data from primary and secondary sources have been used for this paper. A field survey was co...
by Ershad Ali | On 12 Dec 2007 The growing importance of India and other emerging economies in the globalized world are given in this lecture. This group of economies is not easy to define. However, some reflections on the implicat...
by Jean-Claude Trichet | On 30 Nov 2007 The authors attempt to construct a monetary conditions index (MCI) for India in order to take both interest rate and exchange rate channels simultaneously into consideration while evaluating the stanc...
by Kannan R | On 08 Nov 2007 Recognising the growing activity in the non deliverable forward (NDF) market in the recent years, the paper attempts to present a detailed analysis of the NDF market with special focus on Indian rupee...
by Sangita Misra | On 22 Oct 2007 A monthly compilation by IRIS.
by IRIS India IRIS | On 22 Oct 2007 The social, environmental and economic impacts of dams are summarised and outlines better options for water management and energy supply. [IRN Brief].
by International Rivers Network IRN | On 18 Oct 2007 There are many reports of ghost writings and ghost management of medical journal articles. Such articles are “ghostly” because signs of their actual production are largely invisible—academic authors...
by Sergio Sismondo | On 17 Oct 2007 What is the position of the Prime Minister among his Cabinet colleagues after signing the nuclear deal with the US?
by T.N. Ninan | On 15 Oct 2007 The key elements of effective central banking that account for much of the improvement in monetary policy around the world today are outlined and explained. The past quarter of the century has been a...
by Marvin Goodfriend | On 09 Oct 2007 One of the more important concepts in open macroeconomics is the
“equilibrium real exchange rate” (ERER). Real exchange rate
misalignments are argued to have been the cause of loss of
competitivene...
by Reza Y. Siregar | On 20 Sep 2007 With the abolition of prohibition on forward trade in all the commodities at the beginning of 2003, the commodity derivativesmarket has been totally liberalized. The Ramamoorthy Committee set up by SE...
by Ministry for Consumer Affairs,Food and Public Dist MCAFP | On 26 Aug 2007 The recently concluded conclave of Indian corporate leaders in Palampur to discuss the scary situation of climate change in the world left the delegates more bewildered than clear on the strategies to...
by Manu N. Kulkarni | On 10 Aug 2007 Satisfuy China's Demand for Money by Hugo Restall
Monetary Policy: China’s Last Option: Let the Yuan Soar by Michael Pettis
Stop the Specter of a Rising Rupee by Vivek Moorthy
Hong Kong’s Arreste...
by FEER | On 04 Aug 2007 The report is a compilation of quantitative information with regard to external reserves, such as, level of foreign exchange reserves, sources of accretion to foreign exchange reserves, external liabi...
by Reserve Bank of India | On 26 Jul 2007 Despite the major uncertainties mentioned at the beginning that afflict both dimensions of climate change, this analysis has demonstrated a clear trend: the regulatory-market economy dimension of clim...
by Eric Heymann | On 13 Jul 2007 India has clearly achieved a large sustained level of remittances. Policy initiatives by the government and banking institutions have achieved two significant results. First, most remittances flow tho...
by Muzaffar Chisti | On 11 Jul 2007 Since 1993, India’s currency regime is said to be a managed float, a “market determined exchange rate” in the sense that there is a currency market and the exchange rate is not visibly administrativel...
by Ila Patnaik | On 10 Jul 2007 This study examines the consequences of a) a domestic carbon tax policy, and, b) participation in a global tradable emission permits regime on carbon emissions, Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and pover...
by Vijay Prakash Ojha | On 07 Jul 2007 The relationship between Indian macro-economic factors and economic growth has been analyzed by a number of empirical studies. This paper re-examines the sources of variability in the Indian economy f...
by Bharat Chadha | On 26 Jun 2007 The message from the IPCC Reports is simple: climate change must be tackled immediately in order to save the planet. And it will not cost the earth to do so. In the months to come all nations will be...
by D. Raghunandan | On 11 Jun 2007 Liberalisation initiatives have been taken by India with a view to improve the efficiency of manufacturing industries and achieving faster GDP growth. The present
paper investigates the influence of...
by C Veermani | On 01 Jun 2007 This article analyses the importance of international commercial service transactions relating to both trade and investment, which form an essential element of analyzing production fragmentation and e...
by Mukul Asher | On 17 Apr 2007 Economic growth in China and India is exponentially increasing the global
demand for skills. In turn, this will cause a severe talent shortage in
the world over the next few years. What does this...
by Sanjeev Sanyal | On 02 Apr 2007 The sensitivity, adaptive capacity, and vulnerability of natural and human systems to climate change, and the potential consequences of climate change are given in this report. Findings indicate that...
by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC | On 02 Apr 2007 Attention has been paid to the significance of the non-farm sector in the rural Indian economy since the early 1970s. The importance of earnings from secondary non-farm occupations is not well documen...
by Peter Lanjouw | On 23 Mar 2007 While new schemes like reverse mortgage on houses show a measure of some serious thought going into the structuring of programmes for the elderly, the Union Budget 2007-08 falls short of comprehensive...
by Lakshmi Priya | On 21 Mar 2007 This paper analyzes the institutions and markets that govern groundwater allocation in the sugarcane belt of Uttar Pradesh, India, using primary, plot-level data from a village which shares the typica...
by Banerji A | On 21 Mar 2007 By the end of 1999 World Trade Organization (WTO) will complete its five years of existence. At that time, re-negotiation on Agreement on Agriculture (AOA) will also begin. It is time to take a retros...
by Satish Y Deodhar | On 14 Mar 2007 In hot, arid regions, yields are low and unstable, growing season limited to one. Greenhouses can stabilize and improve yields and extend seasons. But their adoption is impeded by the requirement of l...
by Sharan G | On 08 Mar 2007 The Budget does not sufficiently recognize the need for re-balancing the role of the state and the market, and of the public and the private sectors for managing increasingly complex economic and stra...
by Mukul Asher | On 07 Mar 2007 An attempt has been made to analyse agricultural growth and the contribution of various components to the overall output growth of the Maharashtra State for the period from 1961-62 to 1997-98. It is o...
by Shrikant Kalamkar | On 02 Mar 2007 This paper explores the behaviour of the forward premia for US$ vis-à-vis INR
during the five-year period of September 2000 to September 2005. Indian forex market
experienced a peculiar phenomenon i...
by Anil Kumar Sharma | On 10 Jan 2007 The paper reports a study to investigate the structural changes in the manufacturing sector of India (possibly) brought about by liberalization and globalization of the economy. It assesses the struct...
by S.K. Mishra | On 09 Jan 2007 This study aims to investigate the impact of CFPR/TUP programme on the food and nutrient consumption. The report is presented in two parts- the first part is based on the comparison of food and energy...
by Farhana Haseen | On 19 Dec 2006 Recent interest on rural industries derives from recognition of the
limits of agriculture and organised manufacturing sector in employment
generation especially during the post-liberalisation period...
by Dibyendu S. Maiti | On 19 Dec 2006 This report documents the history of the systems of rice intensification (SRI, for short) in India in the last few years and presents some of the institutional changes and challenges that SRI throws u...
by C. Shambu Prasad | On 06 Dec 2006 How does growth actually trickle down to remove an individual’s poverty? Is it through increases in employment? What other avenues did the benefits of growth travel through before reaching and helpi...
by Anirudh Krishna | On 05 Dec 2006 The paper investigates the complex system of causes affecting tropical deforestation at a worldwide level. There is no generally accepted theory in the deforestation literature to indicate which varia...
by Silviu S. Scrieciu | On 27 Nov 2006 This study estimates the monetary benefits to individuals from health damages avoided as a result on reductions in air pollution in the urban industrial city of Kanpur in India. A notable feature of t...
by Usha Gupta | On 31 Oct 2006 To power national development, the government organized electricity
production and distribution as a state-owned vertically integrated utility, structured and operated under central planning. Electri...
by Chi Zang | On 25 Oct 2006 The nuclear deal probably will lead India to emit substantially less CO2 than it would if the country were not able to build such a large commercial nuclear fleet. The annual reductions by the year 20...
by David G. Victor | On 17 Oct 2006 Has leisure increased over the last century? Standard measures of hours worked suggest that it has. In this paper, we develop a comprehensive measure of non-leisure hours that includes market work, ho...
by Valerie Ramey | On 06 Jun 2006 Editorial: Samita Sen, Shamil Jeppie, Carlos Degregori
Articles:
Hlonipha Mokoena: The Making of a Kholwa Intellec-
tual: Introducing Magema Magwaza Fuze.
Iman Kumar Mitra:The Economics of Sex in...
by SEPHIS | On 23 May 2006 The question of matriarchate as female dominance, remains unresolved. While non materialist anthropologists dismissed it outright, socialist scholars accepted it as a stage in social evolution. If mat...
by Maithreyi Krishnaraj | On 09 May 2006 The dams debate is simple because behind the array of facts and figures, of economic statistics and engineering calculations, lie a number of basic and easily understood principles. If adhered to and...
by World Commission on Dams WCD | On 24 Apr 2006 Global outsourcing, technical change, and falling barriers to trade worldwide have
transformed the structure of production and global competition in the textile and apparel industry. This sector has...
by Meenu Tiwari | On 20 Apr 2006 Any intervention of the Left in the field of the dominant media must be guided by an adherence to politics and seek to fundamentally alter the relations of artistic production and make art more access...
by Arjun Ghosh | On 01 Apr 2006 Review of:
Communication Technology and Human Development: Recent Experiences in the Indian Social Sector by Avik Ghosh;
Sage Publications, New Delhi; 2006; Rs. 340.
by Devan Chandrasekher | On 23 Mar 2006 This paper queries the rightness of the current mainstream thinking on development and technological change; expresses the apprehension that the much-feared climate change seems to have begun, and con...
by Ramaswamy R. Iyer | On 20 Mar 2006 Policy makers are particularly concerned about the extent and speed of exchange rate pass-through into domestic prices. However, in recent times there seems to be a growing degree of disconnect betw...
by Amit Ghosh | On 14 Mar 2006 While there is much support for technology institutions in agriculture, little attention has been paid to raise agricultural productivity or prepare the ground for a coming technological change.
by Yoginder Alagh | On 13 Mar 2006 This paper examines the degree of de facto exchange rate flexibility for India over the last two decades. While there is a diversity of methods that measure de facto exchange rate regimes, none indivi...
by Tony Cavoli | On 08 Mar 2006 External Sector
by Ministry of Finance | On 27 Feb 2006 Securities Markets
by Ministry of Finance | On 27 Feb 2006 This paper discusses the stylised problems relating to water and irrigation in India and argues tht most of the inefficeincies, misuse and environmental damage have their roots in the mispricing of wa...
by Sebastian Morris | On 24 Feb 2006 Russia’s Gazprom, the world’s largest gas company, has precipitated serious tensions among the post-Soviet countries by sharply hiking gas prices this winter. Gazprom has been supplying gas to these c...
by R.G. Gidadhubli | On 07 Feb 2006 The robust performance of the Indian economy continued during the second
quarter (July-September) of 2005-06. According to the Central Statistical
Organisation (CSO), the economy recorded a real GDP...
by Reserve Bank of India | On 02 Feb 2006 A new 18-country opinion survey sponsored by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) found that "while majorities of citizens generally support the continued use of existing nuclear reactors, mo...
by International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA | On 02 Feb 2006 There has been a very rapid rise since the early 1990s in foreign reserves held by developing countries. These reserves have climbed to almost 30 percent of developing countries' GDP and 8 months of i...
by Dani Rodrik | On 27 Jan 2006 When analyzing the appropriate response for monetary policy during a currency
crisis it is important to keep in mind two distinct channels: (a) the impact of raising
interest rates on exchange rates...
by Ramkishen S. Rajan | On 27 Jan 2006 Contents
I. The Real Economy -- 1
Agricultural Situation
Industrial Performance
Business Expectations Surveys
Services Sector
II. Fiscal Situation 14
Combined Government Fi...
by Reserve Bank of India | On 25 Jan 2006 Contents
Why we do not need to give Hepatitis B Vaccine for all newborns 1
Cost and Quality Issue in Hospital Care - Anant Phadke 4
Local Production of Oseltamivir (Tamiflu): Options - D. G. Shah 6...
by Medico Friend Circle | On 20 Jan 2006 Since the Asian crisis it has been recognized that exchange rate and monetary policy strategies must involve a “fairly high” element of flexibility rather than a single-minded defense of a particular...
by Ramkishen S. Rajan | On 19 Jan 2006 This paper deals with the impact of irrigation on agrarian change and local politics in the period, 1960 to 1996 in the irrigated region of South Telengana, Andhra Pradesh. The article is based on a p...
by V. Anil Kumar | On 17 Jan 2006 Power Point Presentation
Fertility decline can play a role in economic development if the period of
“demographic window of opportunity” is characterised by:
a) More workers producing more total out...
by R. Nagarajan | On 12 Jan 2006 This paper examines changes that have (and have not) occurred – at the
village level in Karnataka where most or the state’s residents live, and at
higher levels when they impinge upon villages – sin...
by James Manor | On 09 Jan 2006 This paper analyses the present state of play of WTO negotiations and evaluates how effective the current WTO provisions will be to reduce domestic subsidies in developed countries. The findings sugg...
by Parthaprathim Pal | On 12 Dec 2005 This paper outlines a proposal for a controlled approach to capital account
liberalization for economies experiencing large capital inflows. The proposal essentially involves securitizing a portion o...
by Eswar S. Prasad | On 09 Dec 2005 We explore the hypothesis that macroeconomic polices are influenced by political structure, through a systematic comparison of reform period macroeconomic policy choices and outcomes, in China and Ind...
by Ashima Goyal | On 23 Nov 2005 Large dollar reserves in Asian EMEs accompany large U.S. fiscal and current account deficits. Analysis of strategic sales by Asian EMEs suggests that an attack on the dollar is not certain but is poss...
by Ashima Goyal | On 21 Nov 2005 India was a major player in the world export market for textiles in the early 18th century, but by the middle of the 19th century it had lost all of its export market and much of its domestic market....
by David Clingingsmith | On 10 Nov 2005 A sleepy village has transformed itself by accepting the challenges of diversification to vegetable cultivation in order to cope with the uncertainty of coir cultivation and manufacture.
by M.K. Das | On 22 Oct 2005 This article builds upon the recognition that the declining child sex ratios are a result of an ongoing process of societal change. Looking at areas both in the north and in the south which have shown...
by Mattias Larsen | On 03 Sep 2005 There is growing evidence that demographic changes have played an important role in driving Asia’s economic transformation by generating high savings rates.In this report, the author argues that high...
by Sanjeev Sanyal | On 01 Sep 2005 The introduction of economic reforms often hurts entrenched vested interests, which had prospered under state-led evelopment. For the ruling political party that introduces reforms, alienating such in...
by Ajit Karnik | On 19 Aug 2005 Where do we stand physics research vis a vis interanational developments? As mentioned above, our input in terms of funding of physics research continues to be subcritical. Thus, while we have been ab...
by Sushanta Dattagupta | On 08 Aug 2005 Membership based organisations are an increasingly important institutional form, encountered both in the social theories we use and in the practices of people we study. An examination of these organis...
by Joseph Devine | On 31 Mar 2005 |