In an entrepreneurial university where quantification, evaluation and interdisciplinarity are insisted upon, we need several issues sorted out before embracing the idea.
by Pramod K. Nayar | On 07 Mar 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 Institutional repositories(IRs), if established in various universities, would help bring out the contributions by Indian researchers on the world map, especially in the field of Arts, Humanities, and...
by Shubhada Nagarkar | On 19 Feb 2021 This paper looks into diverse databases to gauge if economic growth in India creates adequate volume of jobs since the year 2000. In our exercise, we use a popular index called employment elasticity....
by G.D Bino Paul | On 26 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 Developing methods for anticipating the emergence or reemergence of infectious diseases is both important and timely; however, traditional model-based approaches are stymied by uncertainty surrounding...
by | On 28 May 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 remains a significant issue for global health,
economics and society. A wealth of data has been generated since its emergence in December 2019
and it is v...
by | On 27 May 2020 The messy, digital data-rich universe that is emerging rapidly is being nurtured and bolstered by powerful tech companies. Whatever the potential benefits for human welfare, the development is posing...
by Anurag Mehra | On 24 May 2020 Quality of data released by Government having high COVID 19 numbers was analyzed.
Parameters considered are timeliness of the publication of daily reports, accessibility of reports,
sufficiency of t...
by Viraj Mahesh Vibhute | On 13 May 2020 Peer-to-peer lending (P2PL) FinTech is growing rapidly in Indonesia. With its flexibility and simplicity, P2PL reduces the gap in financing that cannot be fulfilled by banks. However, the rapid develo...
by Nika Pranata | On 23 Apr 2019 This paper empirically examines the “defensive innovation” hypothesis that firms with higher exposure to low-wage economy import competition intensively undertake more innovative activity by using a h...
by Nobuaki Yamashita | On 01 Apr 2019 Using a decomposition approach on data collected by the Asian Productivity Organization (APO) as well as World Input-Output data, it shows that in most Asian economies the services sector makes the la...
by Matthias Helble | On 12 Mar 2019 This study provides an evaluation of five different methodologies of estimation commonly used in the labor share literature and propose a new measurement. Theglobal dataset of the labor income share a...
by Marta Guerriero | On 20 Feb 2019 This paper utilizes a large cross-section of data sets such as the ILOSTAT, NSSO Quinquennial Employment and Unemployment Survey, Labour Bureau Annual Employment and Unemployment Survey, National Fami...
by Surbhi Ghai | On 03 Feb 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 analysed the trends and pattern of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) expenditure of manufacturing firms in India in both voluntary and mandatory period. For the analysis, this study use...
by P. Kavitha | On 01 Feb 2019 This paper is a preliminary attempt to understand globalisation and social transformation in the rural Kerala. It addresses the socioeconomic changes in a village in the mid-land region of Kerala name...
by Mijo Luke | On 31 Jan 2019 This paper constructs a better proxy: expected work experience—the sum of the annual probabilities that an individual worked in the past. This measure can be generated using commonly available data on...
by Joseph E. Zveglich, Jr | On 28 Jan 2019 In various Asian countries, international trade has raised productivity, lowered mark ups through import competition (while increasing them through cheaper inputs that can be imported), raised wages,...
by Devashish Mitra | On 22 Jan 2019 This paper uses a theory-based measure of productivity-based comparative advantage to examine the trade performance of developing Asian economies in manufacturing and services over the 1995–2011 perio...
by Ben Shepherd | On 20 Jan 2019 This paper classifies the arguments around data localisation into three broad categories - the civil liberties perspective; the government functions perspective and the economic perspective. It examin...
by Rishab Bailey | On 12 Jan 2019 In this paper the positive correlation between firm productivity and export status is well established. This correlation can arise from multiple alternative casual models. It has investigated these re...
by Apoorva Gupta | On 12 Jan 2019 Solar lanterns are promoted across rural sub-Saharan Africa to improve both lighting in homes and educational outcomes. It undertakes a randomized controlled trial in Zimba District, Zambia, to evalua...
by Ognen Stojanovski | On 03 Jan 2019 Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the backbone of the Asian economy. They make up more than 96% of all Asian businesses, providing two out of three private-sector jobs on the continent. Th...
by Naoyuki Yoshino | On 02 Jan 2019 This paper uses a structural gravity model to show the effects of services policies on manufacturing exports. Whereas the previous literature has focused on indirect effects of policies—flowing throug...
by Ben Shepherd | On 28 Dec 2018 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 Services are playing an increasingly important role in the global economy. Over the last few decades, the sector’s contribution to output, employment, and value-added trade has grown quite dramaticall...
by Valerie Mercer-Blackman | On 21 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 This brief report documents facts of financial innovation in Asia and the Pacific that include: • Fintech redefines a specific sector at the intersection of financial services and technology sectors....
by Asian Bank | On 09 Oct 2018 This paper overcomes the constraint and provides some preliminary outcomes from a novel dataset that the authors compile at the sectoral level (10 sectors) for 53 countries, including 20 developing co...
by Yoko Oishi | On 01 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 This study provides an in-depth analysis of main causes of Vietnam’s low competitiveness from the country’s perspective. These are structural problems due to its factor-based growth model, expansionar...
by LE Quoc Phuong | On 11 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 This Policy Note revisits the country’s efforts to achieve gender equality focusing on the rural and agriculture sector. It likewise recommends measures to enrich the policy narratives on women in the...
by Connie Bayudan-Dacuycuy | On 30 Aug 2018 Technological breakthroughs and the interplay of a number of fields, including advanced robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), nanotechnology, neurotech, data analytics, blockchain, cloud technology,...
by Elmer P. Dadios | On 29 Aug 2018 Innovation is the synergistic use of resources, technology, capital, and information to achieve growth at different levels of the economy. Many studies abroad have already supported the hypothesis tha...
by Connie Bayudan-Dacuycuy | On 27 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 This paper verifies the impact of bank account information, such as information on deposits and withdrawals, that is not necessarily fully accounted for in conventional internal ratings and that can a...
by Naoko Nemoto | On 10 Aug 2018 . This paper applies survival time hazard analysis to estimate how project-related, macroeconomic, and institutional factors affect the hazard rate of the projects. Empirical results show that governm...
by Minsoo Lee | On 25 Jul 2018 Ensuring the realization of the full potential of the incumbent DRRM policy requires appropriate sectoral and institutional translation of its espoused principles; reflecting more refined institutiona...
by Sonny N. Domingo | On 06 Jul 2018 The main objective of this paper is to review the status and performance of the Philippine livestock sector. This review provides discourse on the livestock subsector’s performance over the years, and...
by Sonny N. Domingo | On 05 Jul 2018 This paper seeks to address this gap in the literature by examining migration intentions of individuals from a high-emigration rural village in the Philippines. The results provide evidence of a cultu...
by Aubrey D. Tabuga | On 29 Jun 2018 This study seeks to examine the structure of migration networks in a migrant-sending in the Philippines and to relate this to the diffusion of migration behavior in the village over time. Such socio-h...
by Aubrey D. Tabuga | 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 studies the impact of fraud revelation on trading behaviour of investors. It ask, if investors with direct exposure to stock market fraud (treated investors) are more likely to cash out of...
by Renuka Sane | On 20 Jun 2018 This strategy document is premised on the proposition that India, given its strengths and characteristics,
has the potential to position itself among leaders on the global AI map – with a unique bran...
by Niti Aayog GOI | On 19 Jun 2018 This paper tests economic convergence across States in India by incorporating federal fiscal asymmetries and differentials in gross fixed capital formation at the state level. Using dynamic panel mode...
by Lekha Chakraborty | On 15 Jun 2018 This paper uses measures of international transport time, in median and standard deviation, based on shipment-level data from the Universal Postal Union, to analyze the effect of time on trade costs....
by Utsav Kumar | 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 Financial inclusion has significantly advanced in Armenia during the last decade. Rural and urban areas, however, have benefited unevenly. The high cost of providing financial services, the lack of ph...
by Armen Nurbekyan | On 07 Jun 2018 This paper proposes a panel approach in the construction of the Asia-Pacific Regional Cooperation and Integration Index (ARCII) to strengthen the index’s ability to track the progress of economic inte...
by Cyn-Young Park | On 06 Jun 2018 This paper studies the effects of firms’ investments in information and communication technologies (ICT) on their demand for female and skilled workers. Using the gradual liberalization of the broadba...
by Natalie Chun | On 31 May 2018 The absence of reliable data on employment was well known in India.
For ensuring that the sample sizes for its estimates from its annual
employment and unemployment sur...
by T.N. Srinivasan | On 31 May 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 Digital technologies are increasingly underpinning almost all aspects of daily life, including health care. But there is not yet sufficient awareness of the issues to be considered when investing in d...
by Peter Drury | On 29 May 2018 In this paper aggregate labour quality and the first order quality indices of education, age and
gender have been estimated using the JGF (1987) methodology for
the Indian economy, its broad secto...
by K L Krishna | On 29 May 2018 Skill development is an important driver to address pov
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erty reduction by improving employability, productivity
and helping sustainable enterprise development and in
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clusive growth. It facil...
by A Srija | On 28 May 2018 Dr. Arpita Mukherjee is a Professor at Indian Council for Research on International
Economic Relations (ICRIER). She has several years of experience in policy-oriented
research, working closely with...
by Arpita Mukherjee | On 25 May 2018 Jayshree Sengupta is a Senior Fellow (Associate) working with Observer Research
Foundation’s Economy and Development Programme. Her work focuses on the Indian
economy and development, regional coope...
by Jayshree Sengupta | On 25 May 2018 This study explores the relationship over an extended period of time
between an increase in per capita public health expenditure and
per capita
state’s domestic product (per capita inc...
by Deepak Kumar Behera | On 16 May 2018 The paper have attempted to understand the dynamics of MSMEs –that is to say,how much the number of units is increasing and how much is the contribution
of MSME’s in the economy? We have also expl...
by | On 30 Apr 2018 Venkat Iyer was living a fast-paced life in the IT world in Mumbai when he decided to stop
and take a long, hard look at where he was headed. Disheartened by his stressful existence
in the city, h...
by | On 25 Apr 2018 Using
unit level data for informal manufacturing sector, drawn from the Government of
India’s
National Sample Survey Organization
, this paper addresses the impact of broad...
by Kausik Chaudhuri | On 25 Apr 2018 Nithya D J is a Nutritionist at MSSRF with a doctorate degree in Food Science and Nutrition from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University. She has worked as Research Associate at the Indian Institute of Cro...
by Nithya D J | On 24 Apr 2018 Book Review of Sociology of Well-Being: Lession from India.
by Steve Derne Sage India,
2017, Rs.850 INR, (Harcover) Pp.xv+327, ISBN: 9789385985720
by Kishor Podh | On 24 Apr 2018 The Global Findex database is the world’s most comprehensive data set on how adults save, borrow, make payments, and manage risk. Launched with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the da...
by World Bank [WB] | On 21 Apr 2018 The paper investigated the productivity enhancing e
ffects of FDI in Indian manufacturing firms,
with a particular focus on the differences in FDI i
mpact according to the county of origin of FDI....
by Bishwanath Goldar | On 19 Apr 2018 This study proposes the use of partial least squares to determine the key parameters of the perpetual inventory method model of capital stock as a new approach to calculate research and development (R...
by Alejandro Nin Pratt | On 13 Apr 2018 This report examines the current state of Myanmar’s industrial sector, draws comparisons to
its neighboring countries, and discusses the potential impacts of SEZ policy on the economy. A key
finding...
by Amit K. Khandelwal | On 12 Apr 2018 Previous studies have shown how analyses of publicly available fisheries trade datasets – whether the analysis of a single dataset or comparative analysis between two or more datasets – can support th...
by Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) | On 10 Apr 2018 This paper empirically examines the impact of differences in contract attributes on project outcomes. The hypothesis is to test whether better incentive structure and stricter administrative controls...
by Chandan Kumar | On 05 Apr 2018 This paper analyses the Indian PPP framework, including its bidding process and the standard concession agreement. The paper argues that the existing bidding method (i.e. premium/grant based method) c...
by Chandan Kumar | On 05 Apr 2018 This paper is about measurement and analysis of underemployment
of labour. Here an index of underemployment is
defined for a person who belongs to the labour force in usual
status but may be employ...
by Subrata Mukherjee | On 04 Apr 2018 This paper analyses the way households in rural China use rural-urban migration and
off-farm work as a response to negative productivity shocks in agriculture. I employ
various waves of a longitudin...
by Luigi Minale | On 04 Apr 2018 The issue of global labour standards has been at the forefront of both regional and
multilateral trade negotiations over the past two decades, and will likely remain high on the
agenda of future tra...
by | On 28 Mar 2018 There have been very few works focusing on the determinants and
barriers of financial inclusion. The objective of this study is two folded.
Firstly, to measure a efficient composite multi-dimensiona...
by | On 27 Mar 2018 This study will focus on the natural hill forests found in the northern region of Pakistan, particularly the North Western Frontier Province (NWFP).
by Lubna Hasan | On 26 Mar 2018 We examine the importance of total factor productivity (TFP) growth in middle-income countries based
on cross-country panel data for the period 1975–2014. We find that TFP growth contributed signific...
by | On 23 Mar 2018 The study examines the use of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)
for the estimation of the well being from drinking water using
‘commodities and capabilities’ approach. DEA uses the general purpose
li...
by | On 22 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 paper examines the factors influencing the gender wage gap by using an unbalanced crosscountry
aggregated panel data set for a sample covering 53 economies for the period 1995–2010.
Using robus...
by | On 20 Mar 2018 The paper is based on a study that uses primary data collected from students of two private and
two public universities located in the NCR. The survey was conducted during July-August, 2015.
The Inf...
by Shampa Paul | On 19 Mar 2018 Budget speech of the Finance Minister of Maharashtra.
by Sudhir Mungamtiwar | On 12 Mar 2018 In October 2010, the state government of Andhra Pradesh, India issued an emergency ordinance, bringing microfinance activities in the state to a complete halt and causing a nation-wide shock to the li...
by Emily Breza | On 10 Mar 2018 The paper examines how Kerala, a demographically and socially well advanced state in India, responded to the high population pressure during the 30 year period from 1975-76 to 2005-06.
by N. Ajith Kumar | On 07 Mar 2018 The paper studies a dynamic model of the decision to continue or abandon a research project. Researchers improve their ideas over time and also learn whether those ideas will be adopted by the scienti...
by | On 07 Mar 2018 The paper studies a dynamic model of the decision to continue or abandon a research project. Researchers improve their ideas over time and also learn whether those ideas will be adopted by the scienti...
by Bernhard Ganglmair | On 06 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 Macroeconomic models often invoke consumption “habits” to explain the substantial persistence of aggregate consumption growth. But a large literature has found no evidence of habits in microeconomic d...
by Christopher D. Carroll | On 05 Mar 2018 This paper makes an attempt to assess whether this instrument has succeeded in bringing about the desired changes. A unique database is constructed on the basis of these country positions. Using this...
by Suranjali Tandon | On 03 Mar 2018 The paper examines how endogenous social preferences could affect economic incentive design to encourage biodiversity protection on private land. A 'green' farmer may enjoy esteem from leading by exam...
by Rupayan Pal | On 22 Feb 2018 This paper has introduced instability in the budgets and has added to the burden of public debt.
by K.K. George | On 15 Feb 2018 Using unit level data for informal manufacturing sector, drawn from the Government of
India’s National Sample Survey Organization, this paper addresses the impact of broadband
adoption on firm perfo...
by | On 13 Feb 2018 In the recent past researchers have observed paradigm shifts in the location and nature of
R&D activities undertaken by multinationals in host countries. India is one of the host
countries for the R...
by Savita Bhat | On 13 Feb 2018 The exercise, which is the first of its kind attempted by the Union Government was conducted over a period
of eighteen months. In addition to the technical expertise of the World Bank, experts in pub...
by Niti Aayog GOI | On 09 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 Speech of Arun Jaitley, Minister of Finance on February 1, 2018
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 Inflation in the country continued to moderate during 2017-18. CPI based headline inflation
averaged 3.3 per cent during April-December 2017-18, the lowest in the last six financial
years. The signi...
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 Long-run institutional development co-evolves with fiscal accountability involving, perhaps
requiring, a low and declining dependence on devolved resources and a high and rising share of
direct taxe...
by Arun Jaitley | On 31 Jan 2018 The paper find technical changes and the degree of inefficiency are related with the magnitude of multipliers, but we leave a fundamental identification problem to future research.
by Kim Gui | On 30 Jan 2018 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 l...
by S.Mahendra Dev | On 29 Jan 2018 The paper says that the productivity growth of the service sector would foster economy-wide productivity and it can be achieved by the mitigation of misallocation of resources in service sectors.
by Choi Hyelin | On 26 Jan 2018 Budget analysis entails analysis and assessment of budget from the lens of marginalised sections
of population with the objective of prioritisation of public
expenditures and collection of revenues...
by Happy Pant | On 17 Jan 2018 An "Impact Assessment Study of the Digital Saksharta Abhiyan under National Digital
Literacy Mission” was initiated in November 2016 by Centre for Innovations in Public
Systems (CIPS), Hyderabad, Te...
by Centre for Innovations in Public System | On 16 Jan 2018 This paper identifies and estimates the impact of firm entry and exit on plant-level productivity in Ethiopia as part of a selection mechanism that might be driving aggregate productivity growth in ci...
by Patricia Jones | On 16 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 A Bill further to amend the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development Act, 1981. Be it enacted by Parliament in the Sixty-eighth Year of the Republic of India as follows:
This Act may be ca...
by Lok Sabha Secretariat | On 09 Jan 2018 The papers says that the informal sector in developing countries seems not only to be growing but also contributing to economic growth and linked with the formal sector of the economy.
by Khawar Mumtaz | On 04 Jan 2018 This paper explores trends in urban employment in India, with a focus on urban informal employment (defined as informal wage employment and self-employment in informal enterprises, as well as informal...
by Martha Alter Chen | On 02 Jan 2018 The case studies undertaken mainly from India revealed that a large number of local and village communities and also from backward communities are involved in the production of the GIs products.
by N. Gopalakrishnan | On 28 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 Financial literacy is gaining increasing importance as a policy objective in many countries. However, internationally comparable information on financial literacy is still scarce. Recently, the Bank o...
by Naoyuki Yoshino | On 21 Dec 2017 This study constructs a new dependency ratio measure by taking into account the consumption needs of the young and elderly people, and the productivity of middle-aged people. Different from the way th...
by Xuehui Han | On 21 Dec 2017 The Survey of Parent Contributions to Basic Education was required as a deliverable of ACDP 6, Free Basic Education Strategy. Its draft methodology and instruments were approved as a part of the proje...
by | On 19 Dec 2017 This study provides growth projections for the Philippine agriculture based on growth in productivity differentiated by basic sector, using a computable general equilibrium model.
by Roehlano M. Briones | On 14 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 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 This study analyzes the socio-economic factors that force children into child labour. In order to find out the key factors of child labour, the techniques of univariate analysis and bivariate analysis...
by Syed Kazm | On 01 Dec 2017 Employment data in India is far from adequate if policy responses have to be more effective and timely. Most employment surveys suffer from drawbacks such as limited data coverage, infrequent data col...
by Radhicka Kapoor | 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 The absence of reliable data on employment was well known in India.
For ensuring that the sample sizes for its estimates from its annual
employment and unemployment survey (EUS) were adequate, the
...
by | On 24 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 The paper uses 1995, 2002 and 2013 CHIP data to investigate the urban household consumption expenditure inequality. The overall inequality of urban household consumption expenditure measured by Gini c...
by Qingjie Xia | On 20 Nov 2017 Since the early 1990s, India has embarked on economic reforms that have
progressively opened up the country to international trade. This paper
analyzes the effects of reform on India’s trading struc...
by Michele Alessandrini | 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 The service sector is the largest and fastest growing sector in India and has the highest labor productivity, but employment has not kept pace with the share of the sector in gross domestic product an...
by | On 10 Nov 2017 This paper highlights the role of initial wealth inequality in determining the technology adoption decision of firms, which in turn impacts upon the overall productivity in an economy. Wealth inequali...
by Surbhi Badhwar | On 08 Nov 2017 The study attempts to assess the key determinants of the decision to adopt soil conservation. The study area is Teesta River Watershed, in Darjeeling District in the Eastern Himalayas. In the watershe...
by Chandan Singha | On 07 Nov 2017 With the onset of wide-ranging economic reforms in India in 1991, agents have been exposed to increased price risk in commodity markets. Futures markets are one important instrument for reducing price...
by Raushan Kumar | On 07 Nov 2017 This paper attempts to address the impact of the MGNREGA on the rural agricultural sector, focusing on cropping patterns, irrigated area, crop yields, wages and rural employment. The analysis is based...
by Deepak Varshney | On 06 Nov 2017 An "Impact Assessment Study of the Digital Saksharta Abhiyan under National Digital Literacy Mission” was initiated in November 2016 by Centre for Innovations in Public Systems (CIPS), Hyderabad, Tela...
by | On 03 Nov 2017 This report aims to serve as the foundation upon which the nations can create data eco-systems to serve developmental aims.
by Aritra Chakrabarty | 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 This study examines farmers’ enthusiasm towards one of such technologies in four southwestern districts of Pakistan.
by Junaid Memon | On 25 Oct 2017 The report narrates that the COBRA is the web-based system for the WageIndicator Labour Law database.
by Kea Tijdens | On 23 Oct 2017 Even though the firm internationalization through exports or foreign direct investment (FDI) has increased in recent years, there is only limited evidence on the effect of financing constraints on fir...
by | On 10 Oct 2017 This paper discusses the properties of time series data, compares common data analysis methods and presents a methodological framework for time series data analysis
by Dr. Min Shrestha | On 09 Oct 2017 The prime objective of the paper is to construct a robust macroeconomic performance (MEP) index of India using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach. Six major macro indicators, namely, economic gr...
by Ranjan Kumar Mohanty | On 05 Oct 2017 The benefits of improved tax enforcement in Pakistan through simulations
of a model of the Pakistani economy is studied. We begin by documenting that the effective
tax rate facing firms is increasin...
by Ethan Ilzetzki | On 04 Oct 2017 This paper analyses the performance of India’s Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) using measures of labour and overall efficiency and productivity indicators as opposed to financial returns. Using meth...
by Ajay Chhibber | On 03 Oct 2017 A chapter dedicated to migration in the Economic Survey 2016-17 signals the willingness on the part of Indian policymakers to address the linkages between migration, labour markets and economic develo...
by S. Chandrasekhar | On 03 Oct 2017 Japan, an isolated, backward country in the 1860s, industrialized rapidly to become a major industrial power by the 1930s. South Korea, among the world’s poorest countries in the 1960s,joined the rank...
by Randall Morck | On 25 Sep 2017 The present study has first examined whether ICT development can be an
important determinant of Financial Inclusion by using a fixed effect panel
data model. The results show that ICT is indeed an i...
by Amrita Chatterjee | On 25 Sep 2017 The reports discuss the methodological challenges of gathering data on missing migrants.
by Frank Laczko | On 25 Sep 2017 This paper introduces a new dataset of orders passed by the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) in the insolvency cases under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code or IBC. It builds this dataset to atte...
by Sreyan Chatterjee | 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 This paper studies the revisions in the annual estimates of India's GDP data. The objective of the analysis is to understand the revision policy adopted by the Central Statistical Organisation (CSO) a...
by Amey Sapre | On 15 Sep 2017 The paper examines the strength and efficacy of transmission from the policy rate and liquidity provision to market rates in India, using event window regression analysis. The paper finds the interest...
by Ashima Goyal | On 15 Sep 2017 This paper analyses the effect of economic globalization indicators on economic growth through the channels of Total Factor Productivity (TFP) by using panel data approach and conducting policy simula...
by Sovna Mohanty | On 13 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 aims to study the trend and pattern of electricity consumption in Karnataka, to investigate the direction of causality between electricity consumption and economic growth, and to forecast th...
by Laxmi Rajkumari | 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 analyses the effect of economic globalization on income inequality in both cross-country and country-specific framework using panel data techniques and policy simulations. The sample compri...
by Sovna Mohanty | On 07 Sep 2017 This paper finds that deviation of rainfall from its normal values and other key variables such as education, employment, assets, and armed conflict affect chronic food poverty.
by Connie Bayudan-Dacuycuy | On 05 Sep 2017 This paper attempts to outline a number of points, which would help to develop a more superior external intelligence infrastructure.
by Shantanu Bansal | On 28 Aug 2017 As this paper has observed that the macro fundamentals were indeed pointing to this slowdown, notwithstanding the smart recovery in two years of 2009-2011, immediately after the global economic meltdo...
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 study finds that among the many steps taken by the state, three interventions played the most important role in the state’s impressive performance in agriculture. They are irrigation facilities, a...
by Ashok Gulati | On 23 Aug 2017 The study is about estimating the extent to which domestic prices of major Indian agriculture commodities deviate from their corresponding free trade reference prices. The free trade reference prices...
by Shweta Saini | On 23 Aug 2017 To meet the challenges of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, agricultural and food systems requires fundamental changes. The FAO, the IFAD and the WFP (2015) estimate that around 60% of the...
by Marie-Hélène Schwoob | On 23 Aug 2017 The report says that the urban poor constitutes nearly one-fourth of India’s urban population and is growing at three times of the national population growth rate.
by Akash Acharya | On 22 Aug 2017 The paper presents a case for a phased rolling out of direct benefits transfer (DBT) for Food in India. By studying all states and Union Territories on three broad parameters: demographics, performanc...
by Shweta Saini | On 21 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 paper study the composition, sources and drivers of agricultural growth in Madhya Pradesh to identify the factors that have contributed to robust agricultural growth in the state and discuss the...
by Ashok Gulati | On 11 Aug 2017 The study attempts to investigate the factors affecting a firm’s decision to hire contract workers. The information from a specially commissioned survey of manufacturing firms undertaken in 2014 by IC...
by Jaivir Singh | On 08 Aug 2017 Has the global financial crisis changed the pivotal determinants of corporate
leverage in EMEs? This paper attempts to address this issue using a panel-GMM
framework and quantile-analysis for 10 maj...
by Snehal S. Herwadkar | On 04 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 Asia and the Pacific region has the largest number of family farms in the world. It is home to 60 per cent of the world’s population and to 74 per cent of the world’s family farmers, with China al...
by Jingzhong Ye | On 30 Jul 2017 Shifting cultivation is one of the main causes of deforestation and forest degradation in Sri Lanka. This study uses household data and satellite images to investigate the determinants of shifting cul...
by Prabath Nishantha Edirisinghe | On 28 Jul 2017 Previous studies have examined how demographic characteristics, education, culture, and labor policy suppress Indian women’s labor supply. However, not enough attention has been paid to the role of po...
by Lei Lei | On 27 Jul 2017 WHO SEARO has sought to fulfill its vision of building a national level biomedical R&D and innovation observatory. In this report we have focused on the feasibility of establishing a national observat...
by | On 27 Jul 2017 In this paper, we compare the performance of different models, on two data frequencies, in terms of
matching the business cycle moments of Pakistani economy. Out of the four models, two are simple
r...
by M. Ali Choudhary | On 26 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 People’s Republic of China (PRC) implemented a Fuel Tax Reform in 2009 that made significant changes to the way the country funds and delivers its ‘ordinary road’ program.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 17 Jul 2017 This publication reviews various country aspects of SME finance covering the banking sector, nonbank sector, and capital markets. It is expected to support evidence-based policy making and regulations...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 11 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 The results of this study can be used to strengthen the institutional and statistical capacities of Viet Nam to routinely collect, compile, analyze, and disseminate internationally comparable FSIs tha...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 07 Jul 2017 This report presents country-case studies for Bangladesh, Georgia, and Viet Nam focusing on growing evidences in the development of financial soundness indicators to effectively monitor the financial...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 06 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 case study looks at the gender dimensions of two projects that focus on the community development component that advocated community participation, social inclusion, and gender equality in commun...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 05 Jul 2017 The report says that Cambodia’s growth in the last 20 years has been remarkable and the lives of its people have improved substantially. But low-cost labor advantages on a narrow economic base have dr...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 30 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 This paper presents a summary of a technical assistance project on the development of disaster risk financing solutions for the cities of Can Tho and Hue and, by extension, for other cities in Viet Na...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 26 Jun 2017 While women constitute up to 37 per cent of the agricultural workforce, their status is not recognised. Statistics do not collect suicides of women farmers as land is seldom registered in their names....
by | On 16 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 presents a preliminary economic analysis of road user costs and fees, partly drawing from the World Bank’s Road User Charge (RUC) model and analysis framework, and a review of the tolling...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 01 Jun 2017 The objective of the paper is to highlight the reforms needed in the tax system to improve the
revenue productivity of the tax system to conform to the vision of accelerating economic growth and
dev...
by M. Govinda Rao | On 26 May 2017 Building on the early work of Mitchell and Burns (1938,1946), the automatic leading indicator (ALI) approach has been developed over the last few decades by Geweke (1977), Sargent and Sims (1977), Sto...
by Parma Chakravartti | On 26 May 2017 Growing demand for public expenditures, limitations in expanding fiscal space and limited scope to deviate from common harmonized tax system under the proposed Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime may...
by Sacchidananda Mukherjee | On 25 May 2017 This study of state-owned enterprises performance in the Pacific emphasizes political commitment to reform as a key driver for commercial results.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 23 May 2017 This paper introduces that the landscape approach has provided a platform for a wide-ranging
discussion about these issues, but has simultaneously opened up the opportunity for a discussion
about su...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 08 May 2017 This paper argues that the recent policy rhetoric towards cities in India has been shaped by
their increasing economic importance in national output generation, as well as a series of
prominent glob...
by Indian Institute for Human Settlements | On 05 May 2017 Conditional cash transfers are increasingly being used by policymakers as a strategy to postpone the marriage of adolescent girls in developing countries. While this approach has met with success in t...
by | On 27 Apr 2017 This new ILO Global Wage Report – the fifth in a series that now spans over a decade – contributes to this agenda by making comparative data and information on recent wage trends available to governme...
by International Labour Organization [ILO] | On 14 Apr 2017 In this paper, we examine labor market favoritism in a unique laboratory experiment design that can shed light on both the private benefits and spillover costs of employer favoritism (or discriminatio...
by | On 30 Mar 2017 Maharashtra Budget speech by the Honorable Finance Minister.
by Sudhir Mungamtiwar | On 20 Mar 2017 Haryana Budget presented by Hon'ble Minister Capt. Abhimanyu.
by Haryana Government | On 07 Mar 2017 We provide evidence that promotion incentives influence the effort of public employees by studying China’s system of promotions for teachers. Predictions from a tournament model of promotion are teste...
by | On 06 Mar 2017 Kerala budget presented by Hon.Finance Minister Thomas Issac.
by T.M. Thomas Issac | On 06 Mar 2017 Agriculture sector as a whole has developed and emerged immensely with the infusion of science and
technology. But this latest emergence is not capable of plummeting the ignorance of women labour as...
by Mun Mun Ghosh | On 01 Mar 2017 We derive a non-standard unit root serial correlation formulation for intertemporal adjustments in the labor force participation rate. This leads to a tractable three-error component model, which in c...
by | On 01 Mar 2017 Replication studies are considered a hallmark of good scientific practice. Yet they are treated among researchers as an ideal to be professed but not practiced. To provide incentives and favorable bou...
by | On 01 Mar 2017 The first
part is the Agriculture Budget, which not only covers the
outlay and programmes relating to Agriculture and allied
activities, but also presents the macro-economic outlook
as well as the...
by Pradip Kumar Amat | On 01 Mar 2017 Every year, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) undertakes a survey of Indian companies operating in the United States to discern their growing presence. Previous studies over the last three ye...
by | On 21 Feb 2017 Children all over the world are being exploited, prevented from going to school, or pushed into work that endangers their health and normal development. In many regions, child labour is found mainly i...
by International Labour Orgnaization [ILO] | On 14 Feb 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 India is increasingly vulnerable to cyber attacks that range from intrusions that affect the integrity of data to large-scale attacks aimed at bringing down critical infrastructure. This vulnerability...
by | On 03 Feb 2017 Encrypting communications enhances privacy and the security of information services. This, in turn, incentivises innovation in the ICT sector and contributes significantly to the growth of the interne...
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 The 2017 Budget would be special in two ways – first, it would be presented by Finance Minister on 1st February, 2017. Usually, it was presented in the last week of February each year. It will give...
by Amarnath Tripathi | On 25 Jan 2017 The presentation shows the methods through which non-cash payments can be made, the constraints to it, efforts needed for proposed actions from key stakeholders, policies needed to promote digital pa...
by Nara Chandrababu Naidu | On 25 Jan 2017 It is anticipated that this health index will assist in State level monitoring of performance, serve as an
input for providing performance based incentives and improvement in health outcomes, thereby...
by Niti Aayog GOI | On 18 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 Data from two recent NSSO surveys are analysed to provide estimates of expenditure on higher education
and loans availed for higher education. The average share of expenditure on higher education out...
by S. Chandrasekhar | On 03 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 Air pollution has been one of the most pernicious consequences of China’s last three decades of economic transformation and growth. Although Chinese governments—federal, provincial, and municipal—have...
by | On 23 Dec 2016 The authorities have responded to this challenge, and there has been clear progress in some areas of pollution control. As a result of these actions, and concurrent changes in economic policies and th...
by | On 23 Dec 2016 This paper analyses the trends and pattern of women’s employment in rural India using unit data from two types of large scale surveys. It shows that while rural women’s employment has grown over the d...
by | On 20 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 How persistent are traditional socioeconomic hierarchies in the face of marketization, significant structural shifts in the economy, and increased political representation of lower-ranked groups, and...
by Ashwini Deshpande | On 15 Dec 2016 Beyond the issue of unaccounted monies lying overseas, however, is the issue of unaccounted monies lying in India and what is perceived to be the parallel economy. There is, of course, this issue of w...
by FICCI Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Indu | On 09 Nov 2016 The study focuses on four industries, which were identified by the Government as the growth poles of Mauritius’ economy: sugar agriculture, textiles, tourism (hotels) and financial services.3 The empl...
by International Labour Organization [ILO] | On 08 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 Urbanization has both benefits and costs. In a market economy, the trade-off between
benefits and costs determines the level, speed, and place of urbanization. This paper
summarizes research finding...
by Kala Seetharam Sridhar | On 28 Oct 2016 This study examines the savings and investment pattern of select college going students (Age: 17-25 years) in the city of Mumbai who has just begun to earn. The study also looks into the basic financi...
by | On 25 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 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 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 This paper examines how a reduction in the financial resources available to lone parents affects repartnering. We exploit natural experiment that reduced the financial resources available to a subset...
by | On 18 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 Demographic transition due to population aging is an emerging trend throughout the developing world,
and it is especially acute in China, which has undergone demographic transition more rapidly than...
by Xinxin Wang | On 10 Oct 2016 The rapid rise of service sector in India, as in its developing counterparts in Asia, follows the pattern of skipped
industrialization and raises concern for sustaining economic growth in India. Whil...
by K L Krishna | On 10 Oct 2016 In this study the hypotheses that the choice between OFDI and export decision of the
firms depends on the firm level productivity is tested. Here, the productivity levels of OFDI
firms vis a vis exp...
by Ronny Thomas | On 03 Oct 2016 Social Cost Benefit Analysis has long been used as a useful tool to appraise the value of a range of investment projects. Various aspects of this method have been subject to scrutiny over the decade...
by Shovan Ray | On 30 Sep 2016 The paper begins with a discussion of Indian labour law and the increasing use of ‘contract labour’ in Indian formal manufacturing. It questions the widespread perception that employment of contract l...
by Jaivir Singh | On 30 Sep 2016 It is conventional wisdom in the
economic development literature that there is a significant underinvestment in agricultural R&D in
developing countries. Evidence supporting this belief is provided,...
by Alejandro Nin Pratt | On 30 Sep 2016 This research evaluates the performance of free trade agreements by
analyzing the determinants of trade flows of Asian economies for a panel
of thirty-one countries during 2007-2014 using a Gravity...
by Sunder Ramaswamy | On 29 Sep 2016 The productivity spillovers of industry-level FDI on both, the sector of manufacturing and
the sector of services, in seventeen South and East Asian economies. Using a dynamic panel
GMM methodology,...
by Nadia Doytch | On 29 Sep 2016 Supply-demand imbalance at a given time is the main problem in India. Not much can be done with demand, as increase and shifting patterns in demand are normal with economic growth and urbanisation. St...
by C S C Sekhar | On 20 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 Rising prices and declining consumption of pulses cause concern in terms of both nutrition and food
inflation in India. This paper outlines policy strategies to increase the availability of pulses at...
by P.K. Joshi | On 16 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 Globally, 165 million children under the age of 5 suffer from chronic malnutrition, or stunting, and more than half (85 million) of these children live in Asia. Increasing access to nutritious diets b...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 12 Sep 2016 FDI productivity and technology spill over theories were developed during a period when manufacturing sector dominated FDI flows, and European and the US MNEs enjoyed higher productivity levels compar...
by N S Siddharthan | On 11 Sep 2016 This brief focuses on the pathway from agricultural income to better diets, health, and nutrition, illustrated in blue in the figure below. However, all of the pathways are interrelated. Agricultural...
by | On 09 Sep 2016 The objective
of the present study is to examine the effect of ICT investments on the sales growth of SMEs
from the food processing industry in India. Secondary data is collected from the Prowess
d...
by Navyashree G. R. | On 08 Sep 2016 The question here is, whether it’s the responsibility of the Government or the Central Bank to ensure price stability in an economy? For instance, what was the role of the RBI when the prices of pulse...
by Deepthi Mary Mathew | On 07 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 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 Macroeconomic analytical frameworks change with events they are unable to explain. The process is
closer to abductive reasoning that is based on both events and analysis, unlike induction which is
d...
by Ashima Goyal | On 31 Aug 2016 Using a large-scale novel panel dataset (2005–14) on schools from the Indian state of Assam, we test for the impact of violent conflict on female students’ enrollment rates. We find that a doubling of...
by | On 30 Aug 2016 The primary purpose of this policy brief is to expose the dangerous aspects of the Bill before Parliamentarians who must consider the potential harms to be caused by this Bill to our food and farming...
by Shubhi Sharma | On 30 Aug 2016 Migration as an engine of development has been accepted by economists across the world and a clear understanding of its details are very essential in order to reap the best benefits of it. The paper e...
by | On 29 Aug 2016 Drawing on interviews with Indian and Brazilian farmers’ rights activists, lawyers, agronomists and plant breeders, this article aims at better understanding how farmers’ rights are protected on paper...
by | On 25 Aug 2016 The big challenge of the new century is the reduction of poverty. Virtually all countries and donors agree on the importance of reducing poverty and its attendant problems of inequity, lack of respect...
by Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO] | On 24 Aug 2016 Efforts to promote food security must distinguish between short-term and medium-term measures, but also between countries with agricultural potential and without such potential, argues this paper. Fur...
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 The Monsoon Session of Parliament concluded on August 12, 2016. The session had 20 sittings, during which various
Bills were passed, including a Constitutional Amendment Bill enabling the levy of a G...
by Kusum Malik | On 16 Aug 2016 The United Nations General Assembly declared 2004 the International Year of the Rice (IYR). The IYR is a venue to promote improved production and development of sustainable rice-based systems that wil...
by Philippine Institute for Development Studies | On 16 Aug 2016 This edition of The State of Food and Agriculture 2015 reviews the effectiveness of social protection interventions in reducing poverty, raising food consumption, relieving household food insecurity a...
by Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO] | On 16 Aug 2016 Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healt...
by Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO] | On 16 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 present study is an effort towards the effective implementation of
this welfare piece of legislation for women and deals with employer’s
perspective on sexual harassment, existing mechanism for...
by Shashi Bala | On 10 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 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 study models the optimum use of production inputs and analyse the
behaviour of input demand functions of agricultural production through
restricted transcendental logarithm profit function for...
by Shrabani Mukherjee | 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 How can agriculture play a more effective role in improving nutrition in countries with a high burden of hidden hunger and where an increasing proportion of the poor sources its food from the market?...
by | On 27 Jul 2016 India’s latest crop insurance scheme, announced by the Narendra Modi Government earlier this year, is designed to overcome the many problems encountered in the implementation of previous programmes. T...
by Vinod Rai | On 21 Jul 2016 Reports of raids in factories and workshops and rescue of children from different cities of the country appear with unfailing regularity. Children from disparate geographical regions: West Bengal, Bih...
by Enakshi Ganguly Thukral | On 20 Jul 2016 A number of data initiatives exist that assemble and make available public expenditure data on
agriculture, in addition to other variables. Several of these data initiatives overlap in terms of which...
by Richard Anson | On 20 Jul 2016 The rapid growth and high levels of internationalization by Chinese firms, raise a natural interest in the study of the factors which have led the notable international presence of Chinese firms. In t...
by Zhao Chen | On 19 Jul 2016 The social sector is usually defined as dealing with social and economic activities carried out for the purposes of benefiting society, and in the main nonprofit, not-for-profit, philanthropic and mis...
by Padmaja Mishra | On 19 Jul 2016 As of July 7, 2016, rainfall in the country in the 2016 monsoon season is estimated to be 1% above normal rainfall. However, due to deficient rainfall in the country resulting in drought conditions ov...
by Tanvi Deshpande | On 18 Jul 2016 Given the importance of agriculture in any sizable country to feed its people, most countries have subsidised agriculture in the past. Fertiliser subsidy in India has succeeded in achieving its object...
by Ashok Gulati | On 15 Jul 2016 The recent commodity boom has seriously affected South Asia, particularly due to higher food prices and their impact on the welfare of poor and vulnerable populations. This paper describes the food cr...
by S.Mahendra Dev | On 12 Jul 2016 A wholesome policy framework for the benefit of the farmers of the State is in place since 2008 with a focus more on the economic well-being of the farmers, rather than just on production and growth....
by Government of Odisha | On 11 Jul 2016 The third phase of the Agriculture Census comprises the Input Survey. This survey provides valuable information on the pattern of usage of agricultural inputs such as chemical fertilizers, organic man...
by Department of Agriculture & Cooperation GOI | On 07 Jul 2016 Weather Based Crop Insurance Scheme (WBCIS) aims to mitigate the hardship of the insured farmers against the likelihood of financial loss on account of anticipated crop loss resulting from adverse wea...
by Department of Agriculture & Cooperation GOI | On 07 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 India’s water crisis is often perceived to have been perpetuated by the widening gap between the utilizable water resources and the aggregate demand for water in agriculture and other sectors in certa...
by | On 04 Jul 2016 The paper investigates the effect of pollution on worker productivity in the service sector by focusing on two call centers in China. Using precise measures of each worker’s daily output linked to dai...
by Tom Chang | 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 To understand whether and how inverse relationship between farm size and productivity changes when labor market performance improves, we use large national farm panel from India covering a quarter-cen...
by IFPRI International Food Policy Research Institute | On 29 Jun 2016 This Handbook contains special provisions and
package of assistance which women farmers can claim
under various on-going Missions/ Submissions/ Schemes
of DAC & FW, Ministry of Agriculture & Farmer...
by Ministry of Agriculture GOI | On 29 Jun 2016 The paper finds a systematic and economically sizeable relationship between income levels and life expectancy in a panel dataset of 197 countries over 213 years. By itself, GDP/capita explains more th...
by Michael Jetter | On 28 Jun 2016 The existence of an inverse relationship between farm size and output per unit of land is well documented. However, little research focuses on if and how an inverse relationship between farm size and...
by Klaus Deininger | On 27 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 Small land holders dominate Indian agriculture, and need off-farm income for survival. Analysis shows that for sufficient off-farm income
opportunities, growth in agriculture, manufacturing, or touri...
by Brajesh Jha | On 22 Jun 2016 The meta-analysis, by combining and synthesizing research of past two decades, attempts to identify key constructs that explain the details of online retail performance in a more coherent manner. The...
by Dheeraj Sharma | On 22 Jun 2016 This paper is an attempt to provide a simplified approach to this practical problem of evaluating model performance taking account of the decision context. Two scenarios are discussed; a) a classifica...
by Arindam Banerjee | On 21 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 India’s expanding partnership with Afghanistan has grown into multi-sectoral activities in all parts of Afghanistan. India’s reconstruction and developmental programmes in Afghanistan follow prioritie...
by Ministry of External Affairs, GoI MEA | On 21 Jun 2016 Agriculture is central to food security and economic growth in developing countries and provides the main source of livelihood for three out of four of the world’s poor. But food production requires s...
by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNCTAD | On 20 Jun 2016 The present study has been conducted in the rural and urban areas of 9 districts of 9 commissionaries
in Bihar. A random sample of 375 families is drawn from different socio-economic backgrounds. The...
by CARE India | On 20 Jun 2016 South Asian women and their status is being assessed here to highlight the similarities in the conditions faced by women despite the diversities stemming from class, religion, culture and locality. Th...
by Preeti Rustagi | On 20 Jun 2016 This technical note describes the data and methodology
used to calculate BWS-China, building on the
methodology described in previous Aqueduct publications
(Shiklomanov and Rodda 2014; Gassert et a...
by Jiao Wang | On 20 Jun 2016 Agriculture and nutrition are linked in many ways. People have long recognized the most obvious connection—food security is one of the three pillars of good nutrition, along with good care and good he...
by Lawrence Haddad | On 17 Jun 2016 This paper assesses the proclivity towards refugee-related violence in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, using an original dataset. I show that the host’s attitude towards refugees depend on local fact...
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 West Bengal witnessed the highest growth in non-agricultural
employment between 2004-05 and 2009-10 amongst all the states
in India. The state also witnessed the highest growth in
manufacturing emp...
by Subhanil Chowdhury | On 16 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 The paper analyses income mobility across different social groups in India using data from the
Indian Human Development Survey (IHDS) collected in 2004–05 and 2011–12. Indices
signifying different n...
by Thiagu Ranganathan | On 16 Jun 2016 This paper provides a novel justification for a declining time profile of unemployment benefits that does not rely on moral hazard or consumption-smoothing considerations. It considers a simple search...
by Tomer Blumkin | On 15 Jun 2016 This paper contains the annual report 2010 of Ministry of Finance and Planning, Government of Sri Lanka.
by Ministry of Finance and Planning, Govt of Sri Lanka | On 15 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 Today’s food and farming systems have succeeded in supplying large volumes of foods to global markets, but are generating negative outcomes on multiple fronts: widespread degradation of land, water an...
by | On 10 Jun 2016 The chapter tries to identify three dimensions of land rights – the type of ownership, tenants’ rights, and the right to transfer – to categorise the diversity of land tenures in colonial India. Also,...
by Anand Swamy | On 08 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 Government of India is promoting integrated nutrient management (INM) balanced and
judicious use of chemical fertilizers, bio-fertilizers and locally available organic manures like
farmyard manure,...
by Ministry of Agriculture GOI | On 08 Jun 2016 This Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) water report presents an economic framework for the assessment of the use of reclaimed water in agriculture, as part of a comprehensive planning process in...
by Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO] | 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 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...
by Muhammad Nadim Hanif | On 06 Jun 2016 This working document provides an overview of some basic facts and societal challenges related to water. The emphasis in this initial document is on water availability and people’s use of water for ag...
by | On 06 Jun 2016 While land reforms are typically pursued in order to raise productivity and reduce inequality across households, an unintended consequence may be increased within-household gender inequality. We analy...
by | On 03 Jun 2016 This paper analyzes aspects of supply and demand for labour in India using National Sample Survey data for the years 1983, 1993-94, 1999-2000 and 2004-05. With the possibility of a ‘demographic divide...
by Jayan Jose Thomas | 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 We study how attendance rates of primary school children respond to cost neutral changes in the design of India’s school meal program. Municipal schools in the capital region of Delhi switched from pa...
by | On 02 Jun 2016 The social sciences are currently going through a reflexive phase, one marked by the
appearance of a wave of studies which approach their disciplines’ own methods and
research practices as their emp...
by Michael Mair | On 01 Jun 2016 The environmental impacts generated by agricultural activity could be global or regional or national or local. However, they are site-specific and tend to vary with farming systems, technologies used...
by | On 01 Jun 2016 This paper evaluates the relative importance of these
mechanisms that potentially underly the link between adult stature and labor market productivity. Drawing on twelve waves of longitudinal survey...
by Daniel LaFave | On 31 May 2016 The Unified Package Insurance Scheme will be implemented in 45 selected districts on Pilot basis from Kharif 2016 season. A farmer (both Loanee and Non- Loanee) can access to Banks whereas nonloanee f...
by Department of Agriculture & Cooperation GOI | On 30 May 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 This study focuses on the manufacturing sector in the Indian context. Though both components – organized and unorganized – have been looked into, the emphasis is on the employment aspect of the organi...
by | 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 Despite its declining contribution to the GDP of ASEAN economies, agriculture remains a major source of employment for rural populations and provides much value add for agrifood industries. The ASEAN...
by | On 27 May 2016 The report is on a pilot project in the ready-made garment sector in Pakistan. The pilot had two objectives. The first objective was to develop a methodology for benchmarking productivity in the garme...
by | On 26 May 2016 In modern society, the possession of a personal official identification (ID) is critical to an individual’s access to government services, and social and economic programs. From voting to receipt of s...
by Michael Stahl | On 26 May 2016 Domestic food supply in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) will need to triple in the next 35 years. But SSA countries have also committed to reducing or halting deforestation. The tripling of food supply canno...
by Xiaoting Jones | On 25 May 2016 This research report outlines the journey of the cocoa bean on its way to becoming chocolate, showing how sustainability requires all actors to play their role in greening of the whole supply chain –...
by | On 25 May 2016 This edition of the World Employment and Social Outlook (WESO) examines the relationship between decent work and poverty reduction. It starts by documenting trends in poverty around the world while pa...
by International Labour Organisation ILO | On 19 May 2016 This study investigates the economic growth and catch-up of the Republic of Korea over the
past half-century. The gap of output per worker between the Republic of Korea and United
States has decreas...
by Jong-Wha Lee | On 19 May 2016 The NBAP draws from the principle that National Enviroment Policy (NEP) that human beings are at the centre of concerns for sustainable development and they are entitled to a healthy and productive li...
by Ministry of Environment and Forests GOI | 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 Some politicians argue for the splitting and combining of states to increase government productivity, but there is a dearth of empirical evidence on the optimal size of a state. Using data from Indian...
by Cornelis Haasnoot | On 18 May 2016 There is longstanding debate in population policy about the relationship between modern contraception and abortion. Although theory predicts that they should be substitutes, the existing body of empi...
by Grant Miller | On 18 May 2016 An Act to provide for conservation of biological diversity, sustainable use of its components and fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising out of the use of biological resources, knowledge a...
by Ministry of Law and Justice GOI | On 18 May 2016 Ten countries from the Pacific have gathered in Nadi, Fiji, for a regional consultation on the region’s biodiversity for food and agriculture. The consultation, on the State of Biodiversity for Food a...
by Nadi Fiji | On 17 May 2016 The Budget Session 2016 was scheduled from February 23 to March 16, and from April 25 to May 13, 2016. However, during
the recess period, Parliament was prorogued to allow the government to issue an...
by Kusum Malik | On 17 May 2016 This study is a result of initiatives taken by the Planning Commission, Government of India, to investigate the multiple impact of drought in one of the India’s drought-prone states i.e. Gujarat. Drou...
by Anil Kumar Roy | On 11 May 2016 Accordingly, the agricultural outlook and situation analysis undertaken in this study refers to the main crop based food items: cereals (specifically rice, wheat, jowar, bajra, maize and overall coars...
by Rajesh Chadha | On 09 May 2016 An analysis of electoral data in local elections shows that rural local bodies have had higher turnouts than their urban counterparts in almost all states of India. Data from 2009-13 of city corporati...
by Bhanu Joshi | On 09 May 2016 The adoption of modern technologies in agriculture is crucial for improving productivity of
poor farmers and poverty reduction. However, the adoption of modern technology has been
disappointing. The...
by Johan Swinnen | On 02 May 2016 The paper is a case study of Vadinar refinery in Gujarat. It examines the costs and benefits associated with one of the world's mega refinery projects highlighting the welfare impacts on society. The...
by Sumana Chaudhuri | 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 With 53 percent of India's labour force still engaged in agriculture it is apparent that India has not witnessed a reduction in the share of population working in agriculture, primarily due to a dear...
by | On 02 May 2016 The latest edition of the Economic Review is brought out with the objective of
providing valuable and comprehensive information about Kerala’s economic
performance in the last year of the 12th Five...
by Government of Kerala Govt | On 29 Apr 2016 Since the mid-1990s, migration of workforces from rural to urban areas has accelerated in south India accompanied by remarkable urban-based economic development. To investigate the nature of such rura...
by Keiko Sato | 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 Social media is the primary resource for the information retrieval. Using the text mining field; huge amount of unstructured textual data collected by social media can be converted and displayled as u...
by Nilesh Alone | On 28 Apr 2016 This report has been prepared by the West Bengal Chamber of Commerce. It includes data on various sectors including but not limited to: Employment, Industry, Agriculture, Power and Trade.
by Chamber of Commerce | On 27 Apr 2016 The Census of India is a very large administrative exercise, possibly the largest such operation in the entire world. In addition to bringing out the population figures, it is the most credible source...
by Census India | On 27 Apr 2016 The Indian Patents Act, 1970 provides patent protection in India. The same is in accordance with the provisions of the TRIPS Agreement. The recent conferment of “product patent” along with the “proces...
by Ministry of Commerce and Industry GOI | On 27 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 This Global Nutrition Policy Review is based on a questionnaire survey conducted during 2009–2010, in which 119 WHO Member States and 4 territories participated. Selected case studies illustrate the...
by World Health Organisation (WHO) | On 22 Apr 2016 This report develops around the conceptual framework to address food security under conditions of water scarcity is part of this programme. The purpose of this report is to assess the options and scop...
by Pasquale Steduto | On 13 Apr 2016 Agriculture in Andhra Pradesh is in an advanced stage of crisis. While this is a generalised rural crisis, the burden has fallen disproportionately on small and marginal farmers, tenant farmers and ru...
by Government Andhra Pradesh | On 12 Apr 2016 The Gender and Land Rights Database (GLRD) is an on-line platform that was launched by FAO in February 2010 with the objective of highlighting the major political, legal and cultural factors that infl...
by Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO] | On 12 Apr 2016 The 2016 Budget reaffirms the belief that no one should be left behind as
the country progresses.
by Strategic Communication Unit Philippines | On 11 Apr 2016 Budget speech by Finance Minister of Malaysia.
by Minister of Finance Malaysia | On 06 Apr 2016 Review of Citizenship and Identity in the Age of Surveillance. Pramod Nayar, Cambridge University Press, 2015.
by Bhushan Arekar | On 06 Apr 2016 The study compiled information from academic papers, government and non-government reports on the subject of domestic migration, with a specific emphasis on their political inclusion. In order to cond...
by | On 05 Apr 2016 This paper analyzes the changes in employment and earnings of paid workers in rural India from
2004/05 to 2011/12. While the employment rate of adults remained stable at 51 percent during this
perio...
by Shantanu Khanna | On 04 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 The term ‘biosociality’ was coined in 1996 to describe social identities and sociality founded on genomic diagnosis, but may be extended to include social relationships based on a sharing of knowledge...
by Pramod K. Nayar | On 01 Apr 2016 Aggressive monetary policy actions by one country can lead to significant adverse cross-border spillovers on others, especially as countries contend with the zero lower bound. If countries do not inte...
by Prachi Mishra | On 31 Mar 2016 This paper focuses on this agriculture-nutrition link in Nepal in the
context of the country’s decade-long civil conflict. Using panel household data from the Nepal Living Standards Survey (NLSS), co...
by Elizabeth Bageant | On 30 Mar 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 Kerala Migration Survey (KMS) 2014 is the sixth in the series of
studies on international and internal migration from Kerala undertaken
by the Centre for Development Studies as an ongoing project si...
by K.C. Zachariah | On 28 Mar 2016 The aim of the study is to do a comparative analysis of the states that have notified minimum wages for domestic workers with a view to draw lessons from their experiences. The experiences of various...
by Neetha N | On 23 Mar 2016 This study shows how important the construction sector has been over the last decade as an employment provider in countries at different levels of development. The analysis also revealed decreasing tr...
by Christoph Ernst | On 23 Mar 2016 As developing countries increasingly open their economies to foreign direct investment (FDI) one of their principal objective has been to achieve technology transfer from foreign firms to host country...
by | On 22 Mar 2016 Budget Speech by Pradip Kumar Amat.
by Pradip Kumar Amat | On 21 Mar 2016 The paper is based on a review of the available official data and the existing literature on the Missions. It is divided into three broad sections. The first analyzes data available from the official...
by Lalitha Kamath | On 21 Mar 2016 This working paper outlines a set of indicators at the outcome and impact level for the agriculture and rural development sector. It does not focus on implementation (e.g. output level indicators such...
by European union | On 20 Mar 2016 Rural-urban linkages are both a cause and a consequence of socio-economic development. Though there is a vast volume of literature on this subject, there are quite a few gaps in our knowledge about th...
by RS Pundir | On 20 Mar 2016 Foreign banks in developing countries are often found to indulge in cream skimming, a lending strategy that targets only wealthy segments of the credit market and exclude small and marginal borrowers...
by Mandira Sarma | On 16 Mar 2016 This paper examines the impact of strengthening Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) on within-country income inequality for a cross-section of 65 developed and developing countries for the time period...
by Swati Saini | On 16 Mar 2016 In this paper we attempt to explore the process of structural transformation in the North Eastern States of India, positing it in the paradigm of agriculture led development. The paper tries to examin...
by Alwin D’souza | On 16 Mar 2016 Budget Speech of Yanamala Ramakrishnudu Minister of Finance.
by Yanamala Ramakrishnudu | On 16 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 Recent studies have analyzed the adoption of Bt cotton in the light of government seed price interventions. According to one view, reduction in seed prices enabled the farmers to buy seeds at lower pr...
by | 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 Cambodia has made great strides toward sustained rapid and inclusive economic growth since its political environment stabilized in 1999. Its 7.8% average annual growth since then has dramatically brou...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 Mar 2016 Asia has been continuously growing, and this growth has alleviated poverty and increased the number of middle income countries in the region. However, the recent regional and global economic slowdown...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 Mar 2016 Improving the quality of skills among its labor force will help further economic growth in Bangladesh. Thus, there is an urgent need to provide better access to TVET to help increase productivity and...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | 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 On one hand product market competition acts as an ultimate solution to align interests of managers and shareholders, and on the other hand, competition alone may not be sufficient because it may not p...
by Ekta Selarka | On 13 Mar 2016 Random effects panel data analysis is applied to identify financial parameters that influence banks in India in complying with Basel I. The private sector and foreign banks are affected by credit risk...
by Sreejata Banerjee | On 13 Mar 2016 Forward-looking RE models such as the popular New Keynesian (NK) model do not provide a unique prediction about how the model economy behaves. We need some mechanism that ensures determinacy. McCallum...
by Patrick Minford | On 13 Mar 2016 We test the effect of excess money growth on inflation using Threshold Regression technique developed by Hansen (2000). The empirical test is conducted using annual data from India for the period from...
by Saumitra N Bhaduri | On 13 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 Related Party Transactions disclosures in Annual Reports have recently gained more attention of the Indian policymakers. This paper aims at finding out the effect of related party transactions disclos...
by Subhra Choudhury | On 10 Mar 2016 This paper applies a program evaluation technique to assess the causal effect of adoption of agricultural related technologies on consumption expenditure and poverty measured by different indices. The...
by Santosh K. Sahu | On 10 Mar 2016 Financial inclusion is considered as cause as well as outcome of inclusive growth. This study tries to construct a comprehensive measure of financial inclusion and evaluate the extent of financial inc...
by Shrabani Mukherjee | On 10 Mar 2016 Infant and child mortality rates in India have fallen by almost half from the time of adoption of millennium development goals to 2012 but there has not been a concurrent decrease in morbidity and und...
by Sowmya Dhanaraj | 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 The present analysis is based on the Pakistan Socio-Economic Survey (PSES) data. The survey was conducted nationwide between April and July, 1999 and collected data on household information, incidence...
by Syed Mubashir Ali | 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 This study has three objectives: first, to construct a health poverty index (HPI) for Pakistan using household data from Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement (PSLM) survey 2012-13; second,...
by Nasir Iqbal | On 10 Mar 2016 This paper empirically tests the role of search frictions in driving qualification mismatches in the labor market. Using new data from several low-income economies in urban Asia we find that overeduca...
by Kenn Chua | On 10 Mar 2016 This paper advances research on institutional work in market constitution processes. I show how purposive, coordinated action is organized under conditions of uncertainty through practices of renderin...
by | 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 This paper analyses whether in developing countries mass education is more growth enhancing than to have a minority well educated elite. Using the Indian census data as a benchmark and enrollment rate...
by Amparo Castelló-Climent | On 09 Mar 2016 The growth story of Gujarat’s agriculture has received significant recognition (with around 10 percent growth rate in recent years) and is often being hailed as a role model for other states to follow...
by Itishree Patnaik | On 09 Mar 2016 The United Nations, in its new report The Globalization of Crime, underscored the urgency of combating organised crime. The report examines major trafficking flows of drugs, firearms, counterfeit pro...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 04 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 This paper calculates a Women’s
Disempowerment Index to examine women’s control over production, resources, income, household
decisions, and time burden. The index is based on a slightly modified me...
by Nuzhat Ahmad | On 04 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 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 Harmful non-indigenous species (NIS) impose great economic and environmental impacts globally, but little is known about
their impacts in Southeast Asia. Lack of knowledge of the magnitude of the pro...
by Le T. P Nghiem | On 03 Mar 2016 Diversification of rural women from traditional crop based agriculture to high valued agricultural, allied and processing activities with emerging prospect merit considerable attention in context of w...
by Nilabja Ghosh | On 02 Mar 2016 This paper overviews governance issues in Indonesia and Korea from a comparative perspective. To do so, the WGI (World Governance Index) developed by the World Bank is employed for a more objective an...
by Prof. Yunwon Hwang | 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 the main, this study uses the large sample National Sample Surveys (NSS) for the years 1983, 1993/94, 1999/2000, and 2004/5. There are two surveys that the NSS conducts in each of the large sample...
by Surjit S. Bhalla | 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 This paper studies the evolution of the rural non-farm sector in India and its contribution to the decline of poverty. It scrutinizes evidence from a series of nationally representative sample surveys...
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 How large are the benefits of transportation infrastructure projects, and what explains these benefits? To shed new light on these questions, I collect archival data from colonial India and use it to...
by Dave Donaldson | On 29 Feb 2016 In this paper we examine incentives to cheat in the Mexican tax system and argue that these are affected by interactions between taxes. We use variation in tax status between Mexican firms and variati...
by Ehtisham Ahmad | On 29 Feb 2016 The increasingly worsening state of small farmers in an 'agriculture-predominant' India is most tragic and a matter of grave injustice. This state of affairs is tragic also from the larger perspective...
by Vijay Negi | On 29 Feb 2016 This paper undertakes econometric analysis of innovation, learning, and exporting in automobiles and electronics firms in the PRC using a large-scale dataset to identify the most appropriate innovatio...
by Ganeshan Wignaraja | 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 The Productivity Commission program of studies on the productivity of different sectors — to date, Mining, Electricity, gas and water, and Manufacturing — provide some insight into what lies behind th...
by Jenny Gordon | 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 Government of India constituted the National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector (NCEUS) in September 2004 as an advisory body and a watchdog for the informal sector to bring about im...
by National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorgan NCEUS | On 29 Feb 2016 There is growing recognition of the importance of identification for sustainable development. Its role is recognized formally in target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals, which calls for provi...
by Alan Gelb | On 28 Feb 2016 This paper reviews empirical evidence on the micro-level consequences of family planning programs in middle- and low-income countries. In doing so, it focuses on fertility outcomes (the number and tim...
by Grant Miller | On 27 Feb 2016 In this paper, a review of the literature on the global efficiency consequences of migration and assess a new strand of that literature. This is the new economic case for migration restrictions, which...
by Michael Clemens | On 27 Feb 2016 Effectance motivation -- a will for certainty and a feeling of being able to know and predict -- was proposed in the 1960s as the mechanism underlying the well-known attitude similarity effects on att...
by Ramadhar Singh | On 27 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 latest GDP numbers project 7.6% growth for its economy in 2015-16. But there continues to be confusion over the quality of India’s economic performance as the statistically robust GDP estimate...
by Amitendu Palit | 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 It is well-known that maximum likelihood (ML) estimation of the autoregressive parameter of a dynamic panel data model with Öxed e§ects is inconsistent under Öxed time series sample size (T) and large...
by Christian Gourieroux | On 25 Feb 2016 The paper conceptualizes chronic poverty by using the spaces of income and nutrition and estimates its incidence among states and social groups. It also aims to improve our understanding of the determ...
by C.H. Hanumantha Rao | On 25 Feb 2016 An established method for identifying the different components of a discipline is author cocitation analysis (ACA). ACA is a bibiometric technique that enables a map of the discipline, over a finite t...
by Peter Warning | On 25 Feb 2016 The study reviewed and assessed nongovernment reforestation in the Philippines vis-a-vis government and total reforestation using primary and secondary data. The end purpose was to identify issues and...
by Danilo C. Israel | On 25 Feb 2016 Speech of Shri Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu introducing the Railway
Budget for 2016-17.
by Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu | 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 There has been some public discussion on the issue of labour migrants and its supposed impact on the productivity of the national labour force. How true is this? Or is this simply another episode in t...
by | On 24 Feb 2016 The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), established in 1993, is a civil society initiative to promote an ongoing dialogue between the principal partners in the decision-making and implementing process....
by Uttam Kumar Deb | On 24 Feb 2016 This study looks at Indonesia’s commitments to multilateral trade agreements, and assesses policies adopted by the government to meet the criteria set by those agreements. Particularly, three sectors...
by Titik Anas | On 24 Feb 2016 South Asian organizations in countries like Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka are trying to professionalize management practices in recent years. Inspite of such efforts, employees indiscipli...
by Zafar Qureshi | On 24 Feb 2016 This paper describes the methodology, data and key assumptions used for the power sector supply-side module of the India Low Carbon Growth study and presents preliminary results. The module is used to...
by World Bank | 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 The loss of ecosystem services due to industrial pollution in the Noyyal River Basin was estimated through physical research studies of water and soil quality and bio-mapping followed by economic valu...
by Paul Appasamy | On 23 Feb 2016 This paper begins by arguing that an analysis of social vulnerability seeking to enhance social resilience must take into account the social construction of vulnerability, namely, the economic, instit...
by | On 23 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 Japan's ageing population also has a sort of depth. By “depth,” I mean that within the older population itself the proportion of very old people aged 75 years old and over is increasing particularly r...
by Atsushi Seike | On 21 Feb 2016 In developing countries like Bangladesh rural-urban migration affects development in both urban and rural areas. As such, this study focuses on establishing the major causes and consequences of the mo...
by Research Institute of Social Welfare and | On 21 Feb 2016 This paper studies the credit market implications and real effects of one the largest borrower bailout programs in history, enacted by the government of India against the backdrop of the 2008–2009 fin...
by Xavier Giné | On 21 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 The policymaking in modern states is highly complex and requires a high degree of expertise and knowledge, which was not the case even 10, let alone 25 years ago. Partly in view of limited capacity in...
by Nurul Islam | 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 Based on the recent publication ‘Implementing Value Capture in Latin America’ the Director of the Latin American Program at Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, MartimSmolka, explains the mechanism of va...
by Martim Smolka | 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 We estimate intergenerational poverty persistence in Indonesia using a panel dataset. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first such study looking at the issue in the Indonesian context. Differe...
by Yus Pakpahan | On 19 Feb 2016 MarijkHuysman bases her lecture on the importance of accessible and effective urban waste collection services for public health, environmental conditions, productivity and aesthetics of cities. Yet ev...
by | On 19 Feb 2016 Based on a survey of 1,268 firms in 12 Chinese cities, this paper empirically studies the effects of unions on three aspects of workers’ welfare, namely, hourly wages, monthly working hours, and pensi...
by Ninghua Zhong | On 19 Feb 2016 China is the only country in the world with two sovereign investment vehicles dedicated to managing excess foreign reserves for return, not just safety and liquidity. As the investment profile and beh...
by Angela Cummine | On 19 Feb 2016 If China’s economy is an example of ‘state-capitalism’, then its large, state-owned enterprises (SOEs) could be expected to monopolise key sectors. But previous estimates of industrial concentration u...
by Paul Hubbard | On 19 Feb 2016 This article provides a quantitative analysis of the effects of Pakistan government domestic wheat procurement, sales, and trade policies on wheat supply, demand, prices, and overall inflation. Analys...
by Paul Dorosh | 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 In the upland areas of Southeast Asia, most smallholder farmers keep animals. Buffalo provide a traditional source of draught power for land preparation or transport, and animal manure is often used t...
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 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 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 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 Educational outcomes of children are highly dependent on household and school-level inputs. In poor countries remittances from migrants can provide additional funds for the education of the left behin...
by Lisa Höckel | On 17 Feb 2016 Low emissions development strategies (LEDS) are national economic and social development plans that promote sustainable development while reducing GHG emissions. While LEDS programs have helped to mai...
by Sonja Vermeulen | 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 This paper examines the magnitude of public/private wage differentials in Pakistan using data drawn from the 2001-02 Labour Force Survey. Pakistan Labour Force Survey is a nationwide survey containing...
by Asma Hyder | On 16 Feb 2016 This paper exploits responses on the stated preferences for public sector jobs among a sample of unemployed in Pakistan to inform on the existence of public sector job queues.
by Asma Hyder | On 16 Feb 2016 This study examines the determinants of interest spread in Pakistan using panel data of 29 banks. The results show that inelasticity of deposit supply is a major determinant of interest spread whereas...
by M. Idrees Khawaja | On 16 Feb 2016 This study aims at empirical investigation of the x-efficiency, scale economies, and technological progress of commercial banks operating in Pakistan using balance panel data for 29 banks.
by Abdul Qayyum | On 16 Feb 2016 This paper makes the case for the need to “upgrade” current analytical tools used for trade policy analysis and complement them with more detailed firm-level data. Such an upgrade should be based on t...
by Lucian Cernat | On 16 Feb 2016 This paper studies dynamic effects of agriculture trade in the context of domestic and global liberalisation. Being the largest sector of the economy, the agriculture sector contributes substantially...
by Rizwana Siddiqui | On 15 Feb 2016 This paper focuses on the impact of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on the sectoral (agriculture, industry and service) growth pattern of Bangladesh economy over the last 11 years, 1995-2005. The rese...
by Iftekhar Ahmed Robin | On 15 Feb 2016 Using micro-level household data for rural and urban Pakistan, this study estimates Engel equations for 22 commodity groups with quadratic spline specification, in which the number and locations of kn...
by Eatzaz Ahmad | On 14 Feb 2016 This study explores closed cases filed under section 498A of the IPC, which pertains to cruelty to a married woman by her marital family. It draws from two datasets of both primary and secondary data,...
by Anjali Dave | On 14 Feb 2016 The purpose of this paper is to document the emergence and growth of FDI in health services, and to discuss its drivers, potential benefits and risks associated with this FDI, as well as policy issues...
by Zbigniew Zimny | On 13 Feb 2016 The objective of this study is to achieve contextual understanding of pharmaceutical policymaking in Hong Kong by describing its processes and explaining how policymaking works. There are two stages i...
by Benjamin Chan | On 13 Feb 2016 The paper attempts to analyze the role of public policy adjustments in facilitating the medical tourism sector in Asian countries in response to recent global economic events. While falling incomes ma...
by Vinay Singh | On 13 Feb 2016 This paper investigates young people’s and their caregivers’ experiences of food insecurity, diet and eating practices in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. It also provides original child-focused evidence...
by Elisabetta Aurino | On 13 Feb 2016 This paper investigates the effect of the differential pecuniary costs of sons and daughters on fertility decisions. The focus is on dowries in India, which increase the economic returns to sons and d...
by Marco Alfano | On 11 Feb 2016 The term segregation has a strong connotation with residential neighbourhoods, and most studies investigating ethnic segregation focus on the urban mosaic of ethnic concentrations in residential neigh...
by | 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 Occupation is key in socioeconomic research. As in other survey modes, most web surveys use an open-ended question for occupation, though the absence of interviewers elicits unidentifiable or aggregat...
by | On 10 Feb 2016 Turnover in the health workforce is a concern as it is costly and detrimental to organizational performance and quality of care. Most studies have focused on the influence of individual and organizati...
by | On 10 Feb 2016 Bonus continues to be an important component of the pay mix of employees. This practice is followed by most of the organizations to keep employees committed, motivated and dedicated towards their orga...
by | On 10 Feb 2016 In this quantitative study, 367 patients who had been hospitalised in the six months prior to the study were identified through Mitanins (Community Health Workers - CHWs) and interviewed using a struc...
by | On 09 Feb 2016 India has 8,928 urban areas or towns as per the Census 2011, 53 are cities or metros having more than 1 million population. Till date, we had taken for granted that several health indicators were wors...
by Dhruv Mankad | On 09 Feb 2016 China’s increased openness, accelerating economic development, and the emergence of new security challenges and relationships in the post-Cold War world have cast the Chinese military and its role in...
by | On 08 Feb 2016 This paper outlines an integrative framework for the analysis of market constitution and explores its application to solar power technology markets. These markets are currently still in the making and...
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 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 FAO’s best-selling 2011 publication, Save and Grow, proposed a new paradigm of agriculture, one that is both highly productive and environmentally sustainable. This new book looks at the application o...
by Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO] | On 08 Feb 2016 Based on administrative data, we analyze empirically the effects of stricter conditionality for social assistance receipt on welfare dependency and high school completion rates among Norwegian youths....
by Øystein Hernæs | On 07 Feb 2016 This edition of Nature &Faune journal will be a special Issue to mark the International Year of Soils. It is planned to be issued during the Conference of the African Soil Society taking place in Ouag...
by Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO] | On 07 Feb 2016 We examine the effect of joining the European Union on individual life satisfaction in Bulgaria and Romania in the context of the 2007 EU enlargement. Although EU membership is among the most importan...
by Milena Nikolova | On 07 Feb 2016 Employing the Annual Trade Policy issued each year by the Ministry of Commerce as a simplified case study, this paper examines the reasons for the ineffectiveness of this policy instrument and the inh...
by Mirza Qamar Baig | On 07 Feb 2016 This is the second edition of the TI Defence and Security Programme's Handbook, Building Integrity and Reducing Corruption in Defence and Security: 20 Practical Reforms. This Handbook has a simple pur...
by Transparency International TI | On 06 Feb 2016 India is perceived to be one of the most attractive Non-Annex I countries for CDM project development. There are more than 350 projects in the CDM pipeline, largely in the areas of renewable energy, e...
by Smita Sirohi | On 05 Feb 2016 This paper discusses methodological issues arising from the use of online job vacancy data and voluntary web-based surveys to analyse the labour market. It highlights the advantages and possible disad...
by | On 05 Feb 2016 Sport is a global phenomenon engaging billions of people and generating annual revenues of more than US$ 145 billion. But corruption and challenges to governance threaten to undermine all the good tha...
by Transparency International TI | On 05 Feb 2016 The assessment of Bhutan's Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) represents the first time Transparency International has conducted an independent assessment of this sort. The tool will be applied to other...
by Transparency International | On 03 Feb 2016 The referendum on the secession of South Sudan was conducted with the exclusion of the Sudanese in the North and as such the people of the South thus expressed their opinion and decided on secession,...
by | On 03 Feb 2016 The empirical growth literature gives no clear indication as to how democracy impacts growth; there is evidence of both positive and negative effects and also of no direct link in democracy and growth...
by Madeeha Gohar Qureshi | On 03 Feb 2016 This study empirically explores the growth effects of rent seeking activity (RSA) for a group of 52 developing/transitional countries, using a dynamic panel data approach. The modelling framework is a...
by Nasir Iqbal | On 03 Feb 2016 This study empirically investigates the impact of foreign capital and governance on the economic growth by employing country level data from 1984 to 2010 for Asian developing countries. Governance; fo...
by Unbreen Qayyum | 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 Public property common pool resources in many developing countries are manage them in a sustainable manner. While this explanation may have some merit, it is certainly inadequate. Instead, we argue th...
by Junaid Memon | On 03 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 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 Investment incentives rank among the most important policy instruments governments employ to influence the locational decisions of multinational firms. In the wake of the recent increase in locational...
by International Centre for Sustainable Trade and Development | On 02 Feb 2016 The compromise effect refers to individuals’ tendency to choose intermediate options. Its existence has been demonstrated in a large number of hypothetical choice experiments. This paper uses field da...
by | On 02 Feb 2016 Governments in Asia must prioritise technologies that improve fishery productivity to meet the growing local and international demand for fish. This increased productivity must be sustainable, however...
by The WorldFish Center TWC | On 01 Feb 2016 This study combines rigorous analysis with clear, easy-to-understand presentation of empirical results. It does not advocate any particular kind of pension system or type of reform. The goal is to inf...
by OECD Development Centre | On 01 Feb 2016 Girls and boys in developing countries are enrolling in secondary school in greater numbers than ever before, giving them knowledge and skills for healthy, productive lives. While this is good news, m...
by | On 01 Feb 2016 This study combines rigorous analysis with clear, easy-to-understand presentation of empirical results. It does not advocate any particular kind of pension system or type of reform. The goal is to inf...
by OECD Development Centre | 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 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 discusses some of the economic implications of demographic transition in Sri Lanka, focusing n employment and productivity related issues on one side; and performance of cash transfer prog...
by World Bank [WB] | 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 China has emerged as one of the important factors in India-Sri Lanka relations. It is important to contextualise this intervening variable, before going into various aspects of China’s footprints in S...
by N Manoharan | On 31 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 Eugenio Diaz Bonilla and Juan Francisco Ron work up from the household level to connect international trade rules to the national strategies needed to achieve food security. Their paper surveys the po...
by | On 30 Jan 2016 This paper critically examines the recent global initiatives to improve various elements of the international governance of food security and the institutional context of policymaking on trade and foo...
by | On 30 Jan 2016 China's fast-growing farm subsidies have generated new interest in whether these programmes can help achieve public policy goals, without distorting trade and production. This study, by NI Hongxing, f...
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 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 Authors Jim Levinson and Yarlini Balarajan of UNICEF New York and Alessandra Marini of the World Bank present three major case studies from Peru, Brazil and Bangladesh, but also a historical review of...
by Jim Levinson | On 30 Jan 2016 New technology in the seed sector has brought in new actors and new requirements for regulation. It is important to discuss how far India is working on new opportunities and policy options for effecti...
by Sachin Chaturvedi | On 30 Jan 2016 This study attempts to investigate the empirical relationship between debt and productivity and debt and investment for the Developing Asian Countries over the period of 1984-2007. The study uses two...
by Hasan Shahzad | On 30 Jan 2016 Owing to a dearth of government data and research studies on the urban existence of Pardhis, one of the principal aims of this study was to render visibility to the issue.
by Paankhi Agrawal | On 30 Jan 2016 This study first reviews current thinking on the underlying causes of conflicts and disasters, identifying poverty as a major driver of both. Poverty breeds frustration, compelling the poor to turn to...
by Surendra Varma | 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 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 Phobjikha Valley, a wetland situated on the western slopes of Jigme Singye Wangchuck National Park, is an important wintering habitat for the vulnerable Black-necked crane (Grus nigricollis). One of t...
by International Centre for Integrated Mountain Devel ICIMOD | On 28 Jan 2016 In order to understand the importance of reducing air pollution and its likely trans-boundary effects, it is important to first review the socioeconomic situation of the South Asian member states. Sou...
by Mahmood Khwaja | 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 Conventionally, shifting cultivation (also known as Swidden) has been interpreted as inefficient (economically), destructive (ecologically) and an inflexible static form (institutionally) of agricultu...
by Amalendu Jyotishi | On 28 Jan 2016 This paper reviews the agricultural policy environment in Myanmar up until 2014 with an eye towards identifying policies that can help to accelerate productivity and profitability in the agricultural...
by Ulrike Nischan | On 28 Jan 2016 This publication incorporates all the discussions on marginal and small farmers such as micro financing for agricultural value chains, MahilaKisanSashaktikaranPariyojna, MF for small farmers through e...
by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) | On 27 Jan 2016 This publication incorporates all the knowledge products on MGNREGA including innovative mechanisms for payment of wages. In all, 12 consolidated replies are included in the document. The document is...
by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) | On 27 Jan 2016 New challenges are facing the global food and agriculture trading system in the 21st century. The present paper identifies options for how policies and international trade rules can respond to this ne...
by | On 27 Jan 2016 In most countries international migration has received more attention than internal agriculture labour migration. Even though internal agriculture labour migration has become an important livelihood...
by | On 27 Jan 2016 The objective of this working paper is to critically test the assertion that pro-poor "green" tourism is one of the best development options for the majority of least developed countries (LDCs) -- a c...
by Shoaib Akhtar | On 27 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 This paper focuses on a particular aspect of such rural-urban difference, namely nutritional status of children. Over the years it is found that under nutrition among children in India; have declining...
by Rudra Narayan Mishra | On 26 Jan 2016 India should comprehensively address its challenge of undernutrition. This includes, pursuing agricultural policies to strengthen agriculture-nutrition linkages. This note suggests that agricultural p...
by S. Mahendra Dev | On 26 Jan 2016 This policy notes highlights the importance of nutrition, it provides an overview of nutrition situation in India, its variation across socio-economic groups and states. further using the undernutriti...
by Ashi Kohli Kathuria | On 26 Jan 2016 Persistent inter-state disparity in terms of economic and agricultural growth has emerged as a key issue in recent discussions of development policy. he present paper examines the factors that influen...
by Itishree Patnaik | 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 Extrapolating from past trends, and taking to account emerging conditions, many countries of developing Asia will be expected to move on to the next phase of agricultural development; however even in...
by Roehlano M. Briones | On 25 Jan 2016 A thriving and open Internet provides the foundation for the fourth industrial revolution. There has been growing concern that the Internet may be in danger of splintering into a series of bordered cy...
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 policy note reviews the trend in debt composition and sources of debt financing and analyzes debt sustainability of Bangladesh. Along with historical data on level of debt and sources of financin...
by Md. Ezazul Islam | On 23 Jan 2016 This paper investigates the sensitivity of money demand to interest rates on treasury bills in Bangladesh with quarterly data for the period 1997Q4-2006Q4. A standard demand for money function is spec...
by Akhand Akhtar Hossain | On 23 Jan 2016 The main purpose of the survey is to collect data on the extent of the mis-reporting of deposit interest rates, as accurate data is essential for effective financial and monetary policy.
by Md. Ezazul Islam | On 23 Jan 2016 A close analysis of India’s higher growth rate in the last financial year reveals some disturbing signs of emerging vulnerabilities on both the supply and demand sides of the macro-economy. Stagnant a...
by | 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 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 An econometric analysis of the impact of import liberalization on price-cost margins in Indian industries in the post-reform period is carried out using firm-level data for eight manufacturing industr...
by Bishwanath Goldar | On 22 Jan 2016 The Department for the Welfare of SC/ST/OBC/Minorities introduced the SC/ST tuition-fee reimbursement scheme in 2003-2004 for SC and ST students of Delhi enrolled in recognized unaided private schools...
by | On 22 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 Development Bank Institute | 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 This case study was undertaken to understand and document the experiences of the Valsad district. The researchers spent two weeks in Valsad collecting data. Interviews were conducted with functionarie...
by Climate Modelling Forum CMF | On 22 Jan 2016 Household surveys are an important source of information about education systems. International survey programs such as the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and the Multiple Indicator Clusters Sur...
by Education Policy and Data Center EPDC | On 21 Jan 2016 This guidance aims to assist official data producers (national statistical offices and line ministries) in defining and meeting their digital preservation requirements and obligations. The recommendat...
by Nancy McGovern | On 21 Jan 2016 Very recent years India has witnessed wide-ranging economic reforms in her policies governing international trade and FDI flows. As per the findings of the paper, some of the important determinants of...
by Ram Upendra Das | On 21 Jan 2016 This paper analyses shifts in economic power over the last almost five decades. Developing countries and regions have increased their share of incremental world income and incremental world exports ov...
by Manmohan Agarwal | 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 paper presents five versions of an international bilateral migration stock database for 226 by 226 countries. The first four versions each consist of two matrices, the first containing migrants d...
by | On 20 Jan 2016 The debate on the ‘brain drain’, or the emigration of skilled workers, is not new but it has taken on greater urgency in the context of a globalizing economy and ageing societies. Today, the developed...
by | On 20 Jan 2016 The report provides a comprehensive set of mortality estimates for the world’s countries. The objectives of the report are twofold. First, the results of the 2006 Revision of World Population Prospect...
by UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs UNDESA | On 20 Jan 2016 India also tops the charts globally in the prevalence of risk factors for several chronic diseases. Although Public Health Nutrition (PHN) - both as an academic field as well as a means to improved he...
by Shweta Khandelwal | On 19 Jan 2016 The World Population Ageing 2009 report, by DESA’s Population Division, which updates the 2007 edition, provides a description of global trends in population ageing and includes a series of indicators...
by United Nations (UN) | On 19 Jan 2016 The evidence on the link between agriculture and nutrition has so far been tenuous. On the one hand, undernutrition rates are severe and more widespread among those involved in agriculture. This evide...
by R V Bhavani | On 19 Jan 2016 This collaborative working paper, and the shorter technical briefing note derived from it, discuss hidden dimensions of urban poverty, and the different ways in which they impact men and women. This g...
by | 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 This paper was prepared as part of the preparatory phase for the UNRISD research project on Political and Social Economy of Care. The overall aim of the project is to examine the way in which care is...
by | On 19 Jan 2016 This paper investigates young people’s and their caregivers’ experiences of food insecurity, diet and eating practices in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. It also provides original child-focused evidence...
by Elisabetta Aurino | On 19 Jan 2016 During 12th Plan, the Mission shall focus on sustainable small farm agriculture, especially in rainfed areas, through integrated farming systems approach incorporating components of natural resource m...
by Ministry of Agriculture GOI | On 19 Jan 2016 This paper asks whether the increased openness and technological innovation in East Asia have contributed to an increased demand for skills in the region. We explore a unique firm level data set acros...
by Rita Almeida | On 19 Jan 2016 Human trafficking is one of the most widely spread and fastest growing crimes in the world. However, despite the scope of the problem, the important human rights issues at stake and the professed inte...
by Ngan Dinh | On 19 Jan 2016 Using 2005 firm level data for 26 ECA countries, this paper estimates performance gaps between male- and female-owned businesses, while controlling for their location by industry and country. We find...
by Shwetlena Sabarwal | On 19 Jan 2016 This paper examines how qualitative and quantitative research methods may best be integrated in the study of violence, providing and critiquing examples from previous work on different forms of violen...
by | On 18 Jan 2016 This paper analyses
the benefit incidence of public health spending on inpatient service delivery, categorised by
region, gender and economic class. Inpatient morbidity data among quintile-wise MPCE...
by Kausik K. Bhadra | On 18 Jan 2016 Two important policy shifts occurred with the period of
economic reforms: one, the sharp reduction in the controlled drug list leading to significant increase in
drug prices, and second, the introdu...
by Gita Sen | On 18 Jan 2016 The paper identifies five important aspects of agriculture that
need immediate attention to bring economic advantages to millions of farm families. First, output
per hectare, which is a common measu...
by Niti Aayog GOI | On 18 Jan 2016 This paper focuses on the question whether public infrastructure capital matters for labor productivity in China, both over time and across regions. It finds that public infrastructure is a significan...
by | On 15 Jan 2016 This paper summarizes the micro-level survey evidence from Central Asia generated and analyzed between 1991 and 2012. We provide an exhaustive overview over all accessible individual and household-lev...
by Tilman Brück | On 15 Jan 2016 Women who want to work often face many more hurdles than men. This is true in Tajikistan where there is a large gender gap in labour force participation. We highlight the role of two factors – interna...
by Myeong Su Yun | On 14 Jan 2016 Individual level census and household survey data are used to present a rich profile of the young developing migrants around the world. Youth are found to comprise a large share of all migrants, parti...
by David McKenzie | On 14 Jan 2016 Despite considerable research on differences in labour market outcomes between native born New Zealanders and immigrants, the extent of discrimination experienced by the foreign born in the workplace...
by Bridget Daldy | 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 Mental health is an important component of the total positive health and is interwoven closelywith the physical and physiological dynamics of the human body. Migrant population, being a non-native pop...
by Reshmi R S | 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 Demographic dynamics have strong repercussions for development and need to be addressed in the definition of the global development strategy for post 2015. Despite divergent trends across countries, i...
by | On 11 Jan 2016 The new role that middle-income countries (MICs) play in the global landscape obliges international community to review the configuration of the development cooperation system. On the one hand, MICs s...
by | On 11 Jan 2016 While the unpublished findings of the ‘Caste Census’ in India might not receive serious attention if ever made public, some of the socio-economic data, made available by the same Census, can set the m...
by Ronojoy Sen | On 10 Jan 2016 The paper reports the advantages of data-based planning for solid waste management in a major Indian city, which have been demonstrated through three steps undertaken as part of a pilot project in a C...
by | 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 The general objective of this study is to analyse the urban poverty issue from the livelihood and vulnerability perspective in Jagritinagar squatter settlement of Kathmandu Metropolitan City. The spec...
by Rajip Adhikari | 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 brief suggests that those seeking an in-depth understanding of the social and political world need to apply a feminist curiosity – that is, a curiosity about the roles gender plays at all levels...
by | On 07 Jan 2016 International trade is redefined today in terms of trade in value added and global value chains. Most countries trade both in finished goods as well as intermediates. India, a less talked about countr...
by | On 07 Jan 2016 Micronutrients are defined as substances in foods that are essential for human health and are required in small amounts. The goal of this paper is to identify deficiencies in the food system that lead...
by Ross M. Welcha | On 07 Jan 2016 Japan’s “two lost decades” perhaps represent an extreme example of a weak recovery from a financial crisis, and are now referred to as “Japanization.” More recently, widespread stagnation in advanced...
by Masahiro Kawai | On 07 Jan 2016 This paper undertakes a comparative and firm-level analysis of the impact of regional trade agreements (RTAs) in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. It finds that firm-heterogeneity matters in RT...
by Ganeshan Wignaraja | On 07 Jan 2016 There have been few empirical studies in the developing world and the agricultural sector, on the impact of negative health shocks on household well-being. Does the pervasive effect of a negative hous...
by | On 07 Jan 2016 Limited statistics on internal migration, international migration, and remittances worldwide prohibit understanding of migration’s role in the agricultural transformation process. Insights from the qu...
by | On 07 Jan 2016 The evidence that antibiotic use in agriculture creates a pool of resistant bacteria in farm animals is not in dispute. The key questions relate to the magnitude of the risk to human health, and the p...
by | 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 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 Economic growth averaging 5.8% since 2010 has helped to lift 3.3 million Indonesians out of poverty. Yet 28 million were still living below the government’s poverty line in March 2014. Indonesia’s nat...
by Priasto Aji Aji | On 01 Jan 2016 Indonesia has made significant progress in promoting gender equality. Gender gaps in the youth literacy rate have been eliminated. Near parity in enrollment rates in elementary up to tertiary levels h...
by Uzma Hoque | On 01 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 While official poverty in Indonesia is relatively low at 12%, an additional 27% of the population live just above the poverty line and small shocks can drive them back into poverty. Poor and vulnerabl...
by Kefei You | On 01 Jan 2016 This study examines the overall trade pattern of Nepal by using pooled ordinary least square (OLS) along with theone-year lag gross domestic product (GDP). It has also attempted to find the structural...
by | On 01 Jan 2016 In the field of international trade, an economy is assumed to be reeling under the 'BLACK HOLE EFFECT' of another economy, if all the major variables of international trade, irrespective of in which c...
by | On 01 Jan 2016 While official poverty in Indonesia is relatively low at 12%, an additional 27% of the population live just above the poverty line and small shocks can drive them back into poverty. Poor and vulnerabl...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 01 Jan 2016 In many developing countries, a significant portion of the wage distribution is found below the legal minimum wage. In order to fully understand the nature of this non-compliance, we need to compare t...
by Delia Furtado | On 01 Jan 2016 Recurrent episodes of civil unrest significantly reduce the potential for economic growth and poverty reduction. Yet the economics literature offers little understanding of what triggers civil unrest...
by Patricia Justino | On 30 Dec 2015 This paper assesses the usefulness of a new emerging body of work on the micro-level analysis of conflict and violence in advancing our current understanding of the relationship between violent confli...
by Patricia Justino | On 30 Dec 2015 This paper explores the impacts of more rapid growth in labor productivity in the service sector in Asia based on an empirical general equilibrium model. The model allows for input-output linkages and...
by Jong-Wha Lee | On 30 Dec 2015 Clearly, the monograph addresses a set of critical issues related to the forest rights and livelihood and makes a sincere effort to draw attention to the plight of forest dependent communities. Policy...
by Tapas Kumar Sarangi | On 30 Dec 2015 Meaningful participatory processes of natural resource management lead to enhanced productivity, equity, sustainability and self-reliance. This is evident from the experiments at Sukhomajri, Ralegan-S...
by People's Science Institute PSI | On 29 Dec 2015 This paper will address why the Japanese economy has been trapped in a prolonged slowdown and will provide some remedies for revitalizing the economy.
by Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary | On 29 Dec 2015 Self-employment constitutes a vital part of the economy since entrepreneurs can provide not only employment for themselves but also for others. The link between self-employment and immigration is, how...
by Ken Clark | On 29 Dec 2015 The paper updates debt sustainability analysis (DSA) for developing Asia, conducted in 2011. With the benefit of hindsight, the accuracy of the earlier debt ratio forecasts and underlying macroeconomi...
by Benno Ferrarini | On 29 Dec 2015 Myanmar’s agriculture sector offers substantial unexploited potential to underpin the country’s inclusive economic development. With extensive land, water, and labor resources, as well as proximity to...
by Jindra Samson | On 29 Dec 2015 This paper empirically investigates whether financial health shores up firm productivity. It presents productivity as another driving factor in translating financial development into real economic pro...
by Shandre Thangavelu | 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 The paper estimates the potential gains to be large, particularly for South Asia, assuming that the policy- and infrastructure-related variables that increase trade costs are reduced via economic coop...
by Fan Zhai | On 29 Dec 2015 This note presents data regarding Parliament’s productivity during Winter Session 2015.
by Kusum Malik | On 26 Dec 2015 Many developing countries use tax incentives to attract foreign direct investment, sacrificing immediate revenue from foreign capital, even though the effects of tax incentives on investment, growth,...
by Quan Li | On 23 Dec 2015 This paper examines whether an increase in women’s time in agriculture adversely affects maternal and child nutrition, and whether the lack of women’s time in reproductive work leads to poorer nutriti...
by SOPHIE THEIS | 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 The 2015 edition of Information Economy Report examines electronic commerce, and shows in detail how information and communications technologies can be harnessed to support economic growth and sustain...
by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UN | On 22 Dec 2015 Building productive capacities and promoting sustainable industrialization have an important role to play across the spectrum of the integrated 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Agenda reco...
by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UN | On 22 Dec 2015 According to present indications, most of the growth in the older age groups will take place in developing countries and over half of it will be in Asia, especially in the two major population giants...
by | 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 Global Information Technology Report provides a comprehensive assessment of networked readiness, or how prepared an economy is to apply the benefits of information and communications technologies...
by | On 21 Dec 2015 Although Nepal formulated an agricultural mechanization promotion policy in 2014, there is still much to learn about tailoring mechanization policies to different types of farm households. The Terai b...
by | 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 report presents global, regional and country-level estimates of trends in maternal mortality between 1990 and 2015. It describes in detail the methodology employed to generate the estimates and t...
by United Nations | On 17 Dec 2015 Compared with other demographic processes, remarkably little attention has been given to the way internal migration varies between countries around the world. We set out the rationale for such compari...
by Elin Charles-Edwards | 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 Many people are excited about data, particularly when those data are big. Big data, we are told, will be the fuel that drives the next industrial revolution, radically reshaping economic structures, e...
by | On 15 Dec 2015 Worldwide, food safety incidents can have a significant impact on public health, economies, agrifood trade, food security, and public confidence in the food supply. The prevention, mitigation, and man...
by | On 15 Dec 2015 From a human development perspective, work, rather than jobs oremployment is the relevant concept. A job is a narrow concept with a set of pre-determined time-bound assigned tasks or activities, in an...
by United Nations Development Programme [UNDP] | On 15 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 With a view to undertake the exercise the of health assessment of Ganga River River during Kumbh 2013 a water quality monitoring was done during Kumbh 2013. The present report is based on the socio-cu...
by People's Science Institute PSI | On 08 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 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 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 Policies that mandate public data archiving (PDA) successfully increase accessibility to data underlying scientific publications. However, is the data quality sufficient to allow reuse and reanalysis?
by Dominique G Roche | On 02 Dec 2015 To inform the formulation of policies and interventions to strengthen women’s land rights, this paper analyzes nationally representative data from Bangladesh,
Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, and Vietnam to...
by Kathryn Sproule | On 02 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 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 This paper examines youth vulnerabilities, with a particular emphasis on low- and middle-income countries. It touches on the challenges confronted by young people exposed to extreme, life threatening...
by | On 26 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 It is often emphasised that seigniorage financing of public sector deficits is technically a “free
lunch” if the economy has not attained the full employment levels. However, conservative
macroecono...
by Lekha S. Chakraborty | On 16 Nov 2015 This paper introduces a model for generating national estimates and projections of the distribution of the employed across five economic classes for 142 developing countries over the period 1991 to 20...
by | On 10 Nov 2015 Agriculture and food security should be viewed in the context of the broader economic transformation in Asia and the Pacific. In particular, the adoption of food security policies that address both im...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 10 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 In this paper provides an overview of the research on nonstandard work with a view to answering the following questions: (i) why do organizations use nonstandard workers, (ii) how has the practice of...
by | 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 The paper argues that central banks should play a broader role in helping developing countries meet their key challenges, such as generating productive employment, helping to allocate investment to pr...
by | On 28 Oct 2015 Employment of children amounts to denial of rights of future generation and depriving children of their opportunities to growth. Moreover, working at tender age in hazardous conditions exposes childre...
by Helen Sekhar | 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 This paper reviews the literature on migration in South Asia, Southeast Asia, Southern Africa, East Africa and West Africa in order to highlight the complexity of migration patterns and impacts. It is...
by Tasneem Siddiqui | On 19 Oct 2015 Bihar has lowest per capita income amongst the major states of India and high rate of persistent poverty with social structure fragmented based on caste lines. Therefore present study has been underta...
by | On 14 Oct 2015 This scheme was rolled-out in 2008-09 and at present is in its fourth phase. The objective includes a comparative analysis of the scheme with similar schemes of the government, an evaluation of select...
by Indian Council for Research on International Econo ICRIER | On 13 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 This paper focuses on the economic activity and the work status of men, women and children in rural Bihar. It uses data from surveys carried out in 36 villages under the research programme, Aiming at...
by | On 13 Oct 2015 Bihar clocked an economic growth rate of 9.92 per cent during financial year 2013-14, while its per capita Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) shot up to Rs 17,294 during this period from Rs 15,931 in...
by Government of Bihar | On 13 Oct 2015 This document presents a summary of the initial findings from a research
programme on inclusive growth in Bihar, carried out by the Institute
for Human Development, New Delhi. The study aims to unde...
by | On 12 Oct 2015 Based mainly on secondary data and partly on primary information obtained through field surveys in selected rural areas in Bihar in 2011, this paper firstly argues the critical importance of agricultu...
by | On 11 Oct 2015 This paper explores the role of social networks in the migration process in Bangladesh. Migration can be costly and can also involve considerable risks around finding adequate housing and employment....
by | On 08 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 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 This year’s annual State of Food Insecurity in the World report takes stock of progress made towards achieving the internationally established hunger targets and reflects on what needs to be done, as...
by Food and Agriculture Organization | On 07 Oct 2015 This ILO flagship report provides a global overview of the organization of social protection systems, their coverage and benefits, as well as public expenditures on social protection. The report follo...
by Internaional Labour Organization [ILO] | On 07 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 In this report, MGI explores the economic potential available if the global gender gap were
to be closed. The research finds that, in a full-potential scenario in which women play
an identical role...
by Jonathan Woetzel | On 30 Sep 2015 This paper examines the relationship between gender inequality and food security, with a particular focus on women as food producers, consumers, and family food managers. The discussion is set against...
by Bina Agarwal | 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 report is an effort to understand
the health status of Muslims in Maharashtra. The report is based on analysis of National Family Health Surveys (NFHS), District Level
Household Surveys (DLHS)...
by Sana Contractor | 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 The report provides a comprehensive review of all existing trade agreements that include social provisions and discusses impacts for enterprises and workers.It also helps assess the challenges for ari...
by International Labour Organiztion [ILO] | On 23 Sep 2015 Manufacturing has historically offered the fastest path out of poverty, but there is mounting evidence that this path may be all but closed to developing countries today. Some have suggested that ser...
by Amrit Amirapu | 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 This paper seeks to provide an overview of the complex and dynamic relationship between nutrition and growth, examine how different growth patterns lead to different nutritional outcomes, and identif...
by | 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 focuses on the nature and characteristics of unemployment using the five-yearly surveys of the NSSO. The dominant narrative in the literature has been that the rate of unemployment, whichev...
by | On 18 Sep 2015 The Global Innovation Index (GII) aims to capture the multi-dimensional facets of innovation and provide the tools that can assist in tailoring policies to promote long-term output growth, improved pr...
by | On 18 Sep 2015 The Services sector accounts over one half of India’s GDP. The examination of the Services sector at a reasonably disaggregated level is necessary because the services sector (tertiary sector) is very...
by | 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 The central objective of this paper is to enquire into the politics of the
government and business relation and how it affected the industrial development in Andhra Pradesh.
by Alivelu G | On 17 Sep 2015 The paper addresses the issue of growth and development by looking at evidence from six country case studies to assess how to enhance the employment impact of social protection programmes by improving...
by United Nations Development Programme UNDP | On 16 Sep 2015 Limited statistics on internal migration, international migration, and remittances worldwide prohibit understanding of migration’s role in the agricultural transformation process. Insights from the qu...
by Valerie Mueller | On 16 Sep 2015 This paper discusses the different agreements and
decisions reached in the Bali Ministerial Conference and the potential implications for the post-Bali work
program. The results of the Bali Minister...
by Eugenio Díaz Bonilla | 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 The issue of wages is perhaps the most vital issue for various categories of workers, especially those engaged in the informal and unorganized sector. This study points out that in spite of various d...
by | On 15 Sep 2015 This paper uses the microdata of the Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) Survey to assess the contribution of occupational concentration to wage inequality between establishments and its growth o...
by | On 09 Sep 2015 This report highlights the global nature of malnutrition and the successes and bottlenecks in addressing it. Malnutrition continues to affect the lives of millions of children and women worldwide. Eve...
by International Food Policy Research Institute | On 08 Sep 2015 This document presents data by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) on adult and youth literacy in 151 countries and territories from eight regions: Arab States, Central Asia, Central and Eastern...
by | 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 This paper summarizes the preliminary findings of Global Nutrition Report (GNR), which we shared at the GNR stakeholder roundtable in New Delhi. The primary recommendations suggested are a set of core...
by | On 04 Sep 2015 In India, research on human development has received considerable importance from both the academic and policy point of view. However, all the previous studies on human development mainly focused on t...
by Swati Dutta | On 04 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 This paper examines the links between gender equality and rural employment for poverty reduction by constructing a gender analytical framework to interpret differentiated patterns and conditions of wo...
by Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN UN | On 02 Sep 2015 This work is a contribution to the Employment Policy Department’s focus on employment and growth in G20 developing economies. Much discussion on employment and growth in developing economies analyses...
by | On 27 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 The recommendation to establish a Youth Guarantee was adopted by the Council in April 2013 in response to unprecedented levels of youth unemployment, which reached 23.5 per cent in Europe at the end o...
by | On 24 Aug 2015 This study aims to help identify how a future multilateral agreement on agricultural trade can provide a secure framework within which developing countries can pursue effective policies to ensure thei...
by Stephen Devereux | On 21 Aug 2015 Unemployment rates in countries across the world are typically positively correlated with GDP. China is an unusual outlier from the pattern, with abnormally low, and suspiciously stable, unemployment...
by Shuaizhang Feng | On 19 Aug 2015 How to achieve target of universal primary education in Pakistan and
how do we keep students that have enrolled to continue with schooling to higher levels are the most important policy questions whi...
by Madeeha Gohar Qureshi | On 18 Aug 2015 This ILO paper highlights the relationship between inadequate mechanisms of recruitment and forced labour in its third Global Report on Forced Labour in 2009, stating that “there is growing awareness...
by Peter Swiniarski | On 12 Aug 2015 Of all the markets in which politicians interfere with prices, the land market is probably the last that will be reformed.
by T.N. Ninan | On 08 Aug 2015 This paper takes on an older debate that the agriculture transformation in
the regional economy of Kerala has been mainly driven by ‘peasant
rationality’. It argues that the agrarian transformation...
by Viswanathan P K | 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 The discussion above suggests that a variety of inter-related factors can impact inequality and have potentially differential effects across countries and income groups. In this section, using a simpl...
by | On 30 Jul 2015 Contrary to fairness expected in modern world, people seem to treat in-group members (us)
better than out-group members (them). Do people then defend the in-group members as
politicians but prosecut...
by | On 27 Jul 2015 Constitutionally in India, the individual states have responsibility for water, forests, and agriculture. Major canal irrigation accounts for over 80 percent of India's irrigation. This paper observes...
by Zareena Begum Irfan | On 24 Jul 2015 Economic mobility is a significant consequence of income inequality and growth. In this paper, authors have used a unique ARIS/ REDS surveys data set for rural India spanning three decades to determin...
by Kailash Chandra Pradhan | On 21 Jul 2015 Given the growing emphasis on research productivity in management schools in India, composite indicator (CI) of research productivity is developed, using the directional benefit-of-doubt (D-BOD) model...
by Biresh K Sahoo | On 20 Jul 2015 Gender disparities appear to be decreasing in academia according to a number of metrics, such as grant funding, hiring, acceptance at scholarly journals, and productivity, and it might be tempting to...
by Jevin D. West | On 15 Jul 2015 Urbanisation and urban growth have accelerated in many developing countries in the past few years. While natural population growth has been the major contributor to urbanisation, rural-urban migration...
by Rachel Masika | On 10 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 This case study is about an intervention by MSSRF for the development of livelihoods, as well as food and nutritional security, to address the issues of poverty and malnutrition among the women and ch...
by Chandrika C S | On 30 Jun 2015 This study was carried out by Banking Development and Research Unit of Nepal Rastra Bank, Dhangadhi Office. The study aims at exploring the problems related to the procurement and use of agricultural...
by Nepal Rastra Bank NRB | On 26 Jun 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 In the two-dimensional model of interpersonal attraction, cognitively evaluated respect for capacity of
and trust in willingness to facilitate goals/needs of each other have been postulated to be nec...
by Ramadhar Singh | On 25 Jun 2015 This Report of the Committee on Agriculture deals with the action taken by the Government on the recommendations contained in the Sixtieth Report of the Committee on Agriculture (2013-14) on ‘Pricing...
by Lok Sabha Secretariat | On 24 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 The present Report offers suggestions for the consideration of the Government of India, based on the UN Millennium Goals for Poverty Eradication, as well as on the principle that trade should strength...
by | On 17 Jun 2015 The process of urbanization in terms of workforce patterns is largely considered to be unidirectional – increasing engagement of the workforce in non-agricultural occupational pursuits. Using a unique...
by | On 16 Jun 2015 Agriculture is the single sector making most use of child labour. This Handbook offers guidance and tools for assessing the impacts of agricultural and food security programmes and projects on child l...
by Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN UN | On 16 Jun 2015 The national budget is the primary tool for implementing the priorities and policies of the government as a whole. The 1390 budget maintains the Government’s major budgetary objective of allocating fi...
by Ministry of Finance Afghanistan | On 15 Jun 2015 This economic outlook by NCAER, analyses expected growth, inflation, balance of payments, fiscal balances, savings and investment trends, and covers the state of important sectors of the economy, inc...
by National Council of Applied Economic Research | On 15 Jun 2015 Agriculture sector covers largest segment of livelihood and plays a significant role in the overall socioeconomic fabric of the nation.Tamil Nadu, through the Second Green Revolution, has initiated ma...
by | On 12 Jun 2015 Budget FY11 contains Speech of the Bangladesh Finance Minister on the implementation status and macroeconomic analysis up to second quarter (July-December).
by | On 12 Jun 2015 The Government’s main budgetary objective is to allocate fiscal resources in line with Afghanistan National Development Strategy (ANDS). In this way, it will be assured that resources are allocated to...
by Ministry of Finance Afghanistan | On 11 Jun 2015 Faster economic growth of some of the backward states like Bihar, Uttarakhand and Chhattisgarh in the post 2004-05 compels us to think if it is any indicative of convergence among states of India. How...
by Anjali Masarguppi | On 10 Jun 2015 This report discusses the need to eradicate hunger and achieve food security across all its dimensions. The report also identifies key factors that have determined success to date in reaching the MDG ...
by Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN UN | On 10 Jun 2015 The report details the development in environment and Forests areas of Himachal Pradesh. There is a need to manage it properly and scientifically in order to fulfill ecological and environmental requi...
by Himachal Pradesh Government of India | On 08 Jun 2015 The paper attempts to analyze the trends in the organized sector employment of India for the period 1961 to 2010. It is found that the organized employment is in the state of decline, exhibiting a dow...
by G Burange | On 08 Jun 2015 This report of Gujarat Ecology Commission (GEC) provides information and other inputs which are needed to develop policy and provide the right approach for ecological conservation and sustainable deve...
by Gujarat Ecology Commission Government of Gujarat | On 08 Jun 2015 This paper examines changes in the gender wage gap in India between the years 1999-2000 and 2009-2010, and analyses its determinants. Results of the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition reveal that in the las...
by Nayni Gupta | On 05 Jun 2015 The present study discusses the trends and patterns in agricultural growth at the national and sub-national levels in India. Data on important variables like area, production, input use and value of o...
by Elumalai Kannan | On 04 Jun 2015 This report mainly focuses on agricultural research and education so as to make the system demand-driven, enhance technology flow to farmers and bring transformational changes in Indian agriculture. T...
by Planning Commission | On 28 May 2015 Objectives of the Working Group is to empower the farmers to get a higher realization for their produce and a better share of the consumers’ price; recommendations have been made to improve efficiency...
by Planning Commission | On 27 May 2015 During the 11th Plan, decentralised planning became an accepted stake for sustainable resource management, better production and accessing opportunities of livelihood for and by the people. Decentrali...
by B Chakravarty | On 26 May 2015 This Report of the Working Group on Horticulture & Plantation Crops will give renewed impetus to measures for sustained growth of India's Horticulture & Plantation Sector along with ...
by Planning Commission | On 25 May 2015 Eleventh Five Year Plan has focused on a model that encompass 4 per cent growth in agriculture. This was considered vital not only for improving food and nutrient security, but also for inclusive grow...
by Planning Commission | On 22 May 2015 This report sets out the evidence that, even when people
are counted, the counting is frequently not good enough.
What is assumed to be an empirical fact – a statistic – is too
often the result...
by | On 21 May 2015 New technologies are leading to an exponential increase in the volume and types of data available, creating unprecedented possibilities for informing and transforming society and protecting the enviro...
by Independent Extpert Advisory Group on a Data Revol (UN-IEAG) | On 21 May 2015 The working group is of the opinion that the credit strategy should be aligned to agriculture growth strategy which in turn has to address
broader macro economy concerns of supply management and issu...
by Planning Commission | On 21 May 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 document brings out the key results of Situation Assessment Survey of Agricultural Households of NSS 70th round within a year of completion of the field work for the use in decision support, poli...
by Ministry of Statistics and Prog Implementation (MOSPI) | On 18 May 2015 This report provides disaggregated information about operational holdings at the national level and for states/UT. The present report which is an outcome of the first phase of agriculture census 2010-...
by Agriculture Census Division GoI | On 14 May 2015 The report provides a strategy in the field of agriculture related issues on Dryland / Rainfed Farming System including Regeneration of Degraded / Waste Land, Watershed Development Programme.
by Ministry of Agriculture GOI | On 13 May 2015 This study has taken up two seemingly different but connected aspects of Indian agriculture, the first part dealing with the analysis of agricultural instability at the national and state levels and t...
by Ramesh Chand | On 13 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 This report of government details on challenges in agriculture sector. There is a need to address these issues as India faces a greater challenge, since with only 2.3% share in world’s total land area...
by Ministry of Agriculture GOI | On 07 May 2015 Despite armed internal conflict and the global financial crisis, Sri Lanka has made remarkable progress in recent years, enjoying healthy economic growth and substantially reducing poverty. Moreover,...
by Halil Dundar | On 07 May 2015 The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), 2005 which is a rights-based flagship scheme of the Government of India with effect from 2 February, 2006, guarantees at least 100...
by | On 06 May 2015 This Report is an update of the Rural Food Insecurity Atlas of 2001 released by the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) and the World Food Programme (WFP). Since then, numerous new programmes...
by V B Athreya | On 06 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 report by Ministry of Rural Development is an analytical anthology of all major research studies done on Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Act (MGNREGA) that were published in various acad...
by | On 29 Apr 2015 This paper examines the effects of urbanization on development and growth. It begins with a labor market perspective and emphasizes the importance of agglomeration economies, both static and dynamic....
by | On 24 Apr 2015 This reports reflects development in the fields of population, Human development index, labour and houses, employment, prices, agriculture, industry.
by Environmental Management & Policy Research Institute | On 24 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 This joint study of the Asian Development Bank and the International Labour Organization examines the impact of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) on labor. It highlights the challenges and opportunit...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 22 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 Pocket book on Agricultural Statistics 2013 is intended as a quick reference guide for essential data frequently used by the policy makers and officers of the Ministry of Agriculture and related a...
by Ministry of Agriculture GOI | On 20 Apr 2015 The National Food Security Act (NFSA) 2013 combines and expands the scope of some existing food-based welfare schemes. It will be distributing raw rations, meal(s) and/or cash. Approximately 81.35 cro...
by Shweta Saini | On 20 Apr 2015 This article details three key policy issues that have a profound effect on the future of the World Wide Web and Internet-based communications: net neutrality, corporate data mining, and government su...
by Heidi A. McKee | On 15 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 Academic research has been paying little attention to the net neutrality debate in developing countries, where large content providers such as Facebook, Google and Twitter have long been executing agr...
by | On 14 Apr 2015 Maharashra Government, State Economy, Population, State income, Prices & Public Distribution System, Public Finance, Institutional Finance
& Capital Market, Agriculture & Allied Activities, infrastru...
by Government of Maharashtra | On 09 Apr 2015 The paper empirically maps the annual distribution commitment (61.43 MMTs) of the government with the procurement pattern of rice and wheat, for each quarter, to estimate the quarterly operational sto...
by Shweta Saini | On 01 Apr 2015 This Situation Analysis shows that females in Pakistan face discrimination, exploitation and abuse at many levels, starting with girls who are prevented from exercising their basic right to education,...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 01 Apr 2015 The lack of access to formal credit at affordable cost (effective interest) is
the most critical constraint faced by the rural entrepreneurs to get
involved in productive profitable business activit...
by Shrabani Mukherjee | On 27 Mar 2015 Budget speech of Haryana Finance Minister
by Capt. Abhimanyu | On 24 Mar 2015 The study attempted to analyse the long-term effects of the FTA on India. It is argued that after full trade liberalization, India’s allocative efficiency will increase, but the terms of trade effect...
by | On 23 Mar 2015 Speech of Finance Minister of Maharashtra
by | On 23 Mar 2015 This publication highlights a range of pertinent issues primarily focusing on social sectors (such as education, health, drinking water and sanitation, food security etc.) and the responsiveness of th...
by Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability | On 02 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 Gujarat Budget 2015-16.
by Saurabh Patel | On 26 Feb 2015 The public distribution system (PDS) has been one of the main policy instruments of the Government of India (GoI) to provide food security to the people of this country, especially the vulnerable ones...
by Ashok Gulati | On 17 Feb 2015 The report reviews existing agricultural marketing system. It deals with improving efficiency and reducing transaction cost in Agricultural Marketing by strengthening the physical markets, encouraging...
by Planning Commission | On 11 Feb 2015 Indian Public Finance Statistics' is an annual publication prepared by the Economic Division of the Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance. This provides a comprehensive overview of the b...
by Ministry of Finance | On 10 Feb 2015 This paper outlines the trends and patterns of migrants . It also discusses the impact and socioeconomic characteristics of migration in Delhi.
by | On 05 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 This note presents an analysis of Parliament’s role of financial oversight and examines how to strengthen it. It highlights gaps and solutions to improve the existing structures affecting budgetary an...
by Apoorva Shankar | 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 This study examines the nature of the relationship between formal agricultural credit and agricultural GDP in India, specifically the role of the former in supporting agricultural growth, using state...
by Sudha Narayanan | On 23 Jan 2015 This paper provides a review of the national experiences of six emerging and developing economies, two from Latin America (Brazil and Mexico), three from Asia (China, India, and Malaysia), and one fro...
by Pooja Sharma | On 23 Jan 2015 In order to improve the survival and welfare of girls and to reverse the distorted sex ratio at birth, both the national and state governments have launched special financial incentive schemes for gir...
by T.V Sekher | On 23 Jan 2015 The objective of paper is to demonstrate feasibility of nutrition-sensitive agriculture. The proposed model is being tested in two select locations to demonstrate improvement in nutrition status throu...
by M S Swaminathan | On 21 Jan 2015 The purpose of this paper is Understanding Cyber crime and its phenomena, challenges and legal response to assist everyone in understanding the legal aspects of cyber security and to help harmonize le...
by Shilpa Yadav | On 13 Jan 2015 This paper examines norms about gender equality of the education of children and adults in Bangladesh using a recent household survey for two cohorts of married women. Education norms are found to dif...
by Niels-Hugo Blunch | On 29 Dec 2014 The purpose of this paper is to assess the availability of food to poor and nutritional situation of
national households. The growth of production of food grains is 2.12 per cent in 2000-01 to 2010-1...
by | On 26 Dec 2014 The literature review on agriculture-child nutrition linkage indicates that
the evidence base is weak and inconclusive (Kadiyala et al., 2013). This
paper explores the possible linkages between agri...
by | On 24 Dec 2014 This report is based on information collected during 2011-12 from 7469 villages and 5268 urban
blocks spread over the entire country. Two different schedules were used to collect information on
cons...
by National Sample Survey Office NSSO | On 23 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 This study analyzes the link between labor productivity of tea-plantation workers in Sri Lanka and their living conditions. The results indicate a significant negative relationship between Indoor Air...
by Ajantha Kalyanaratne | On 16 Dec 2014 Household air pollution remains a dominant health risk, particularly in South Asia. Increasing international attention has focused on improved cookstoves (ICS) as a vehicle for reducing household air...
by Somnath Hazra | On 16 Dec 2014 Migration from rural areas of India contributes to urbanisation and lifestyle change, and dietary changes may increase the risk of obesity and chronic diseases. It tests the hypothesis that rural-to-u...
by Shah Ebrahim | On 02 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 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 paper analyses poverty and calorific undernourishment in the Indian state of Gujarat, where high and market-led industrial growth has resulted in rapid economic improvement. The study is carried...
by Mely Caballero Anthony | On 21 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 India is home to 40 percent of the world’s malnourished children and 35 percent of the developing world’s
low-birth-weight infants; every year 2.5 million children die in India, accounting for one in...
by Marie Ruel | 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 Migration and urbanization are direct manifestations of the process of economic development in space, particularly in the contemporary phase of globalization. Understanding the causes and consequences...
by Amitabh Kundu | On 11 Nov 2014 Reliable data on mortality and morbidity among women of reproductive age group
are scarce in India. The present study is the Maharashtra component of a large multicentric task force study
on the c...
by Ragini Kulkarni | On 11 Nov 2014 Development of an economy goes hand in hand with a declining importance of agriculture in output and employment. Given the primarily rural population in developing countries and their concentration in...
by Amartya Lahiri | On 06 Nov 2014 Millions of farmers in remote rural areas of India struggle to feed themselves and their families, while the resources on which they depend are deteriorating daily. This book shows how sustainable agr...
by Sustainable Agriculture Information Network | On 06 Nov 2014 India contains the majority of the world’s malnourished children, yet malnutrition has declined only very slowly in recent years, despite rapid economic growth and apparent improvements in food securi...
by Suneetha Kadiyala | On 31 Oct 2014 Fertilizer, which is an important production input, holds a significant
share in total cost of production for some crops. Based on the available
fertilizer price data, it can be observed that pr...
by Ivory Myka R. Galang | On 30 Oct 2014 The paper begins with a detailed analysis of the various elements of food security, then it describes the various policy and programme restructurings and interventions to meet the challenges and const...
by R.B. Singh | On 29 Oct 2014 About 805 million people – one in
nine people worldwide – remain
chronically hungry. Ending
hunger and malnutrition requires
strong political commitment at
the highest level, effective
coo...
by Jomo Kwame Sundaram | On 28 Oct 2014 Despite witnessing a decade of rapid economic growth, an acceleration of growth in the organised manufacturing sector has eluded India. Using data from the Annual Survey of Industries, the factors hol...
by Radhicka Kapoor | On 27 Oct 2014 The tepid-to-torrid transformation in India’s economic growth since the early 1980s is one of
the big stories of recent times. Whereas “Midnight’s children” saw their standard of living
double ove...
by Arvind Subramanian | 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 This paper marks the first attempt at examining the growth performance across Indian states for the 2000s, a period also
marked by the global financial crisis. Four key finding emerge from the paper...
by Arvind Subramanian | On 21 Oct 2014 Most conventional accounts of India’s recent economic performance associate the pick-up in economic growth with the liberalisation of 1991. This paper demonstrates that the transition to high growth o...
by Dani Rodrik | On 21 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 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 A staggering 2 billion people get so little essential vitamins and minerals from the foods they eat that they remain undernourished, according to the 2014 Global Hunger Index (GHI) being released toda...
by International Food Policy Research Institute | On 14 Oct 2014 Despite economic growth, government latrine construction, and increasing recognition among policymakers that open defecation constitutes a health and human capital crisis, it remains stubbornly widesp...
by Diane Coffey | On 07 Oct 2014 These Notes are mainly about three interconnected themes; i) the international and Indian
‘take’ on control over land (and water); ii) the distinction between an agricultural crisis and
an agrarian...
by Sheila Bhalla | On 01 Oct 2014 RBI has taken several steps to improve the processing of data. Information system will also be enhanced very soon. [Remarks at Reserve Bank of India at the 8th Statistics
Day Conference, Mumbai].
by Deepak Mohanty | On 30 Sep 2014 Implications of industrial deregulations, trade liberalisation and labour regulations on workers' bargaining power and firms' markup in Indian manufacturing industries is examined, using state-wise th...
by Rupayan Pal | On 29 Sep 2014 Since the 2007-08 food crisis and hunger riots, the international policy agenda has shifted, clearly identifying that hunger and malnutrition are a poverty trap and potential source of political insta...
by Farming First | On 26 Sep 2014 The authors of this paper assert that under average conditions in Indian agriculture healthy, problem-focused and client oriented research and extension systems rely on strong socio-economic inputs an...
by D Jha | On 26 Sep 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 Agriculture is an intrinsically risky economic activity. Farmers face a multitude of risks, such as production risks, on account of weather variations, and price risks, associated with falling output...
by Thaigu Ranganathan | On 24 Sep 2014 This book offers a careful summary of the rights and practices of work in the Indian labour market. In specific, it deals with rights deficiency of workers in different sectors especially on agricultu...
by V.V. Giri Labour Institute | On 19 Sep 2014 This report presents the results and analysis of the Creative Productivity Index (CPI) for a select number of Asian economies. The CPI was built by The Economist Intelligence Unit. The Asian Developme...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | 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 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 Keeping in mind the significant number of labour engaged in informal sector of the economy, the report has probed into the characteristic of the informal labour force and the enterprises in which they...
by National Sample Survey Office NSSO | On 09 Sep 2014 Accordingly, the agricultural outlook and situation analysis undertaken in this study refers to the main crop based food items: cereals (specifically rice, wheat, jowar, bajra, maize and overall coars...
by National Council of Applied Economic Research | On 08 Sep 2014 Inter-state diversity has been a perennial feature of Indian agriculture. The study probes if per capita income in Indian agriculture has converged across states in the last four and a half decades. I...
by Tirtha Chaterjee | On 06 Sep 2014 Understanding how mortality and fertility are linked is essential to the study of population dynamics. The fertility response to an unanticipated mortality shock is investigated that resulted from the...
by Jenna Nobles | On 02 Sep 2014 The Union Budget remains significant for the agricultural sector in the country for at least the following two reasons. First, the budget comes in the background of an agrarian crisis in the country,...
by Arindam Banerjee | On 04 Aug 2014 Are ostensibly demand-driven public programs less susceptible to political clientelism even when private goods are allocated? This is examined using expenditure data at
the local level from India’s N...
by Megan Sheahan | On 01 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 A group of economists presented their views on what the Union Budget 2014-15 offered for India's agricultural sector and farmers, during a conference entitled Analyzing the Budget 2014 for Rural India...
by Shambhu Ghatak | On 23 Jul 2014 The Indian economy is witnessing a dichotomous trend- an increasing share of employment in industry with decline in Value Added to output. When compared to other Asian economies, we’re adding workers...
by Aritra Chakrabarty | On 10 Jul 2014 Fertilizer policy in the country has evolved from pervasive interventionism in the
1970s to today's market-oriented regime. Government has abandoned price policies and
subsidies, focusing rather on...
by Roehlano M. Briones | On 20 Jun 2014 The Indian labour market is characterised by abysmally low participation of women in the labour market, enormity of low wage informal employment, and scarcity of decent regular
wage employment. The c...
by IRIS Knowledge Foundation IKF | On 17 Jun 2014 To study the various definitions of a child as highlighted under the Constitution as well as under various other legislations and compare the various objectives which led to the differential criteria...
by Mubashshir Sarshar | On 09 Jun 2014 CEHAT is the first institution in India to have directly engaged with the public health sector to develop
a health-system based model to respond to sexual assault. This initiative, which began in 200...
by ... CEHAT | On 04 Jun 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 Census 2011 brings new dimension to ongoing debate on the decline in the growth of employment from the last two decade. The census 2011 result gives better picture when compared with NSSO estimation o...
by Suresh Veslawatha | On 23 May 2014 Employment in agriculture almost stagnates.In certain sub-sectors of agriculture like livestock, forestry and fishing employment has in fact, declined during the 1990s (1994-00). There are mixed trend...
by Brajesh Jha | On 23 May 2014 The present study analyses the labour market situation in India over the last two decades. Given the growth profile, which has been quite robust in recent years, one pertinent question is whether Indi...
by Arup Mitra | On 23 May 2014 Unlike migration, scant attention has been paid to the phenomenon of commuting by workers in
developing countries. This paper fills this gap by using a nationally representative data set from India t...
by Ajay Sharma | On 20 May 2014 This report presents data and analysis to better understand the factors driving the expansion in undergraduate and graduate education across Asia. By looking at the system as a whole, the authors eval...
by David W. Chapman | On 16 May 2014 The issues of concern around the UID scheme, are largely based on the issues of principles and practicalities. The issues of principles, are basically the rationale to carry out an identification sche...
by Prakash Chandra Sao | On 13 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 Gender equality is one of the six goals of the global Education for All campaign that UNESCO leads. This was launched in 2000, when the countries of the world agreed to “eliminate gender disparities i...
by Edward B. Fiske | On 12 May 2014 Growth in urban poverty, food insecurity, and malnutrition and a shift in their concentration from rural to urban areas will acompany urbanisation. This is a series of briefs covering various aspects...
by James L. Garrett | On 02 May 2014 This research report, which examines the effects of research and development on productivity in India, finds that India is still benefiting from these investments. The report shows that the public ben...
by Robert E Evenson | On 29 Apr 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, fruits...
by Pravesh Sharma | On 28 Apr 2014 This series of eSSays is an attempt to fill that gap and make social and economic research impacting policy available to enhance public debate in this time of change. We also hope that this will const...
by Shambhu Ghatak | On 21 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 The paper analyzes causes of movements in Indian wages for rural unskilled male laborers, and
assesses their impact on inflation. Theoretical priors derived from an analytical framework based on the
...
by Ashima Goyal | On 10 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 The paper examines two questions:
(i) do population trends impede agricultural
productivity? or
(ii) it promote agricultural productivity or
both? [BIDS}.
by Rafiqul Huda Chaudhury | On 04 Apr 2014 In India, over 70% of the population resides in rural areas with majority depending on land based activities for their livelihood. Studies have shown that owners of productive plots of land tend to be...
by Sita Devi | On 31 Mar 2014 The Eleventh Five Year Plan (2007-12) aimed at achieving a faster and more inclusive growth in order to generate income and employment opportunities needed for improving the living standards of the...
by Government of India GOI | On 18 Mar 2014 This paper makes an attempt to incorporate bene ts from unpaid public services into
consumption decisions to arrive at more accurate measures of poverty and inequality. The
analysis is based on prim...
by Anders Kjelsrud | On 14 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 The first of a series of eSSays dossiers on issues of public concern. Guest editor: M.H. Suryanarayana.
Contents:
Poverty Line: Pursuit of an Elusive Minimum by
M.H. Suryanarayana
Fixing Poverty...
by eSocialSciences eSS | On 08 Mar 2014 This article analyses the possible links between economic growth, poverty and health, using panel data for the Indian states. The findings indicate that, though growth tends to reduce poverty, signifi...
by Indrani Gupta | On 04 Mar 2014 This paper studies the problem of chronic hunger and malnutrition in India. The government of India introduced the Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) in 1997 replacing the Universal Public Dis...
by Madhura Swaminathan | On 03 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 This paper analysis the development paradox of India, relatively high economic growth rates in the past few years, but lower progress in areas of life expectancy, education and standard of living. Pov...
by Kiruba S Varadharajan | On 03 Mar 2014 Analysis of time series data on poverty in India has revealed a clearly discernable link between urban poverty decline and rural poverty decline. Previous analysis, focusing on the pre-reform period,...
by Peter Lanjouw | On 27 Feb 2014 The biggest challenge facing India's policy makers is the persisting high incidence of poverty. One of the reasons for the high incidence of poverty in India is its backward agriculture, whose produc...
by Ursula Grant | On 27 Feb 2014 If banks solve an inter-temporal problem under adverse selection and moral hazard, then bank specific
factors, regulatory and supervisory features, market structure, and macroeconomic factors affect
...
by Jugnu Ansari | On 21 Feb 2014 Secure land rights are a critical, but often overlooked, factor in achieving household food security and improved nutritional status in rural areas of developing countries. This study evaluates the im...
by Florence Santos | On 17 Feb 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 The performance of Agriculture in India is important as the sector not only contributes to overall
growth of the economy but also provides employment and food security to majority of the
population...
by S. Mahendra Dev | On 23 Jan 2014 Despite the high and relatively stable overall growth of the economy, India’s agriculture sector is underperforming and a vast section of the population remains undernourished. Indicators of the level...
by Ashok Gulati | On 22 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 We analyze the relationship between food security and trade, focusing on food importers’ exposure to sudden market failures from relying on a narrow range of
international suppliers. We compute a bil...
by Douglas H. Brooks | 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 India struggles with water scarcity, a problem that poses especially huge implications for the country’s food security and rural livelihoods.
While watershed development has been employed in communit...
by Erin Gray | On 09 Jan 2014 In 2000-01, almost Rs 10,000 crore was spent on rural development schemes. The central government has almost a dozen major schemes in operation. But how is the success or failure of these schemes to b...
by Arpita Bedekar | On 31 Dec 2013 This paper attempts to project the likely impact of robust monsoon rains of 2013 on the Agricultural Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth in India. The model hypothesizes that the performance of agricu...
by Ashok Gulati | On 17 Dec 2013 This piece analyzes the implications of the National Food Security Act for India's commitments
under the WTO Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) in the context of widespread concern that they might be
mu...
by Sudha Narayanan | On 10 Dec 2013 This policy note offers a preliminary assessment of the compatibility between the WTO and efforts to protect the human right to adequate food as part of the post-crisis food security agenda. Existing...
by Olivier Schutter | On 02 Dec 2013 This paper examines how left-behind children influence return migration in China. A simple illustrative model based on Dustmann (2003) is presented that incorporates economic
and non-economic motive...
by Sylvie Démurger | On 13 Nov 2013 This report reviews the medical tourism industry in the Philippines. It discusses the global market for
medical tourism, analyzes the demand and supply aspects of the local industry, and identifies...
by Oscar F Picazo | On 22 Oct 2013 The 2013 Global Hunger Index (GHI), which reflects data from the period 2008–2012, shows that global hunger has improved since 1990, falling by one-third. Despite the progress made the level of hunger...
by International Food Policy Research Institute | On 16 Oct 2013 The State of the Urban Youth India 2013: Employment, Livelihoods, Skills is an attempt to pull together a data and knowledge base on and of youth in urban India. The focus of the Report is youth emplo...
by IRIS Knowledge Foundation IKF | On 08 Oct 2013 Malnutrition in all its forms – under-nutrition, micronutrient deficiencies, and overweight and obesity – imposes unacceptably high economic and social costs on countries at all income levels. The St...
by Food and Agriculture Organization | On 07 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 Recruiting female teachers is frequently suggested as a policy option for improving girls' education outcomes in developing countries, but there is surprisingly little evidence on the effectiveness of...
by Karthik Muralidharan | On 06 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 The paper reviews the existing evidence on migration-poverty interface in the light of the macro and micro level studies in India. It also discusses the extent, patterns, and correlates of short term...
by Amita Shah | On 03 Sep 2013 Newly-available Indian panel data is used to estimate how the returns to planting-stage investments vary by rainfall realizations. [BREAD Working Paper No. 392]. URL:[http://ipl.econ.duke.edu/bread/pa...
by Mark Rosenzweig | On 16 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 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 The National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy (NDSAP) is designed so as to apply to all sharable non-sensitive data available either in digital or analog forms but generated using public funds by...
by Ministry of Science and Technology GOI | On 30 Jul 2013 This paper examines the hypothesis that the persistence of low spatial and marital mobility in rural India, despite increased growth rates and rising inequality in recent years, is due to the existenc...
by Kaivan Munshi | On 22 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 The innovation, efficiency and productivity responses to the stronger protection of intellectual property rights post-TRIPs, with reference to manufacturing industry in India is studied. The fact that...
by Sunil Kanwar | On 12 Jul 2013 This paper is an attempt to estimate the magnitudes of yield gaps, causative factors and constrains for attending greater farm potential in adsali, suru, preseasonal and ratoon sugarcane production in...
by Deokae Tai Balasaheb | On 10 Jul 2013 This paper analyses the complementarities between land productivity
and conservation investments in the context of river embankment
maintenance in the Indian Sundarbans.[SANDEE]. URL:[http://www.san...
by Prasenjit Sarkhel | On 06 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 Using appropriate measures of participation, this
paper explores if the role of socio-religious background and other factors has changed over a
period of time. This dynamics of participation in High...
by Rakesh Basant | On 05 Jun 2013 According to Food Agriculture Organization (FAO) “The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2012” report, there is a reduction of 34.9 percent in prevalence of undernourishment from 1990-1992 to 2010-...
by Anonymous | On 27 May 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 Motivated by the concern that the recent surge in inflation could retard growth, the paper revisits the nexus between inflation and growth from the perspective of an emerging economy, India. Examining...
by Saumitra N Bhaduri | On 23 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 Farm workers incur various occupational related risks. The question is whether they are adequately compensated for facing these risks? This paper attempts to measure the wage premiums that farm worker...
by Indira Devi P | On 22 May 2013 The study takes a comparative approach by examining household livelihood mobility within two very different villages, in the same district administration of Madhya Pradesh (MP), India. [ODI Working Pa...
by Caroline Wilson | On 26 Apr 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 This brief explores circular migration in India and the policy response, and impact of this
policy response, on the welfare of migrants and more broadly, on regional inequality. [ODI Policy Brief No....
by Kate Bird | On 24 Apr 2013 This study measures the efficiency of Indian states in
raising health outcomes, using the stochastic frontier methodology for
panel data for the period 2000-2009. [MSE WORKING PAPER 70/2012]. URL: [...
by Prachitha J | On 16 Apr 2013 The Minister of Finance, K.M Mani , presented the General Budget 2013 to the State Assembly on March 15,
2013. In his address, he commented on the fiscal performance of the State in 2012-13 and laid...
by Vishnu Padmanabhan | On 09 Apr 2013 Unit-level data from the registered manufacturing segment of the Third and Fourth rounds of the Indian Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) census data for 2001-2 and 2006-7 is used to understan...
by Ashwini Deshpande | On 08 Apr 2013 This study examines options for managing rice residue and the factors that determine its management in the south-west region of Bangladesh. Study results indicate that while straw length, low-elevatio...
by Mohammed Ziaul Haider | On 29 Mar 2013 The experiment is designed to explore the effectiveness of such sanctions in
improving repayment incentives. Groups of 10 members are provided with joint-liability loans
for a specific investment pr...
by Jean Marie Baland | On 07 Mar 2013 Against the backdrop of evolution of rural credit system in India as well as its observed failure to be inclusive in character, this paper makes use of a fairly large data set of the Center for Manage...
by Saugandh Datta | On 07 Mar 2013 Budget presented by Shri Prasanna Acharya. The first part contains the Agriculture Budget.
by Orissa Government | On 25 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 The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of economic policies on Philippine agricultural incentives from 1960 up to 1992. Apart from economic policies affecting price incentives, cover publi...
by Cristina C. David | On 24 Jan 2013 This paper addresses the question of how farmers displaced by acquisition of agricultural land for the purpose of industrialization ought to be compensated. Prior to acquisition, the farmers are leasi...
by Maitreesh Ghatak | On 22 Jan 2013 This paper proposes a theory of the origins of India’s caste system by explicitly recognizing
the productivity of women in complementing their husbands’ skills. Its interesting to know the emergence...
by Chris Bidner | On 04 Jan 2013 An attempt has been made to understand the paradoxes of Kerala's development like the state's per capita consumer expenditure is more than
the per capita state domestic product. But the nutritional i...
by K.K. George | On 18 Dec 2012 This paper provides a
detailed analysis of trade flows between the two emerging economies and investigates on
which type of products and in which sectors the Indian government applies antidumping
m...
by Hylke Vandenbussche | On 23 Nov 2012 To reduce child under nutrition in India, convergence from various sectors are required. The framework notes that issues related to convergence must be resolved in relation to three major steps in the...
by Rajani Ved | On 16 Nov 2012 This report reviews the input and output policies for cereals implemented in Pakistan during the period 1996–2010. Pakistan has a long and varied history of intervening in farm input and output market...
by Abdul Salam | On 16 Nov 2012 This paper considers two major issues that need to be treated as matters of urgency. First, internal (within country) migrations in the Asian (ACI) region are mostly undocumented and large. It is show...
by E J Wilson | On 05 Nov 2012 In Ghate & Wright Journal of Development Economics, vol. 99 (2012) pp 58–67, it was
noted that there was considerable variation in the extent to which different Indian
states participated in the Gr...
by Chetan Ghate | On 02 Nov 2012 A historical narrative of Bihar is provided context to much of its current state, Focus is given on its contemporary economy in the past three decades to better understand the moribund state of its ec...
by Arnab Mukherji | On 28 Sep 2012 Skills and knowledge are the driving forces of economic growth and social development for any country. Countries with higher and better levels of skills adjust more effectively to the challenges and o...
by Ministry of Labour and Employment MoL&E | On 28 Sep 2012 This paper identifies key knowledge gaps on the issue of migration and commuting workers in India. [WP-2012-023]. URL:[http://www.igidr.ac.in/pdf/publication/WP-2012-023.pdf].
by S. Chandrasekhar | On 27 Sep 2012 This study examines the moral economy of firm-farmer contracts in contract farming schemes in India,
bringing together data from field surveys, conducted between 2007 and 2010, of 42 agribusinesses a...
by Sudha Narayanan | 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 Recognizing the critical role of agricultural sector in the overall growth as well as development performance, this study estimates total factor productivity (TFP) in Indian agriculture at state-level...
by Shilpa Chaudhary | On 13 Sep 2012 A brief outline of the economic and financial structure of the State and the various financial inclusion initiatives taken by the Reserve Bank is highlighted. But there are some policy challenges in s...
by Deepak Mohanty | On 03 Sep 2012 The devolution of environment and natural resource functions to local government units was a bold move in the history of environmental Management in the Philippines. However, the implementation of the...
by Senate Economic Planning Office SEPO | On 28 Aug 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 Agriculture’s share in GDP is less than 15 per cent but it still remains the direct domain of over half of the population whose economic prospects are linked to the performance of agriculture. There a...
by Duvvuri Subbarao | On 03 Aug 2012 Drawing on secondary data, insights and ideas from an all-India consultation meet
at NIAS, four regional / zonal consultations, data from a project in Chamarajanagar district (Karnataka),
and select...
by P Veerbhadranaika | On 01 Aug 2012 There is a huge crisis for water all around the world, certainly in India with groundwater table going down and drinking water selling almost at the rate of toned milk. That also shows that country ha...
by Anil K Gupta | On 20 Jul 2012 What are major factors behind underdevelopment of corporate bond market in India? One of the major bottlenecks to the development of this market lies in relatively larger costs of financing which diss...
by Sanjay Banerji | On 17 Jul 2012 The cross-country empirical literature on the finance-growth relationship has debated three
propositions: (i) financial deepening has a strong impact on the growth process; (ii) measures
of financia...
by Sabyasachi Kar | On 13 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 This paper examines the roles and challenges of small holding agriculture in India. It covers trends in agricultural growth, cultivation patterns, participation of small holding agriculture, productiv...
by S. Mahendra Dev | On 06 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 An outline of what would be ideally needed for a comprehensive set of national accounts is given.
National governments and international agencies ought ideally to go even beyond green national accoun...
by Partha Dasgupta | On 22 Jun 2012 This paper estimates the gender wage gap and its composition in China’s urban labor market
using the 2009 survey data from the Chinese Family Panel Studies. Several estimation and
decomposition meth...
by Biwei Su | On 01 Jun 2012 The paper reviews the economic growth and productivity dynamics of Philippine economy in the past fifty years. The paper also provides an estimation of determinants of total factor productivity and la...
by Gilberto M Llanto | On 29 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 paper provides an empirical basis for the perceived link between rural infrastructure
and agricultural productivity. It validates the hypothesis that deficiencies in rural infrastructure
e.g.,...
by Gilberto M Llanto | On 24 May 2012 The present paper is part of a larger study on agricultural
growth and rural incomes in the Philippines. This study examines
the farm-nonfarm linkages of agricultural growth and the mechanisms
by w...
by Arsenio M. Balisacan | 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 The wealth accumulation of Indian parliamentarians using public disclosures
required of all candidates since 2003 are studied. Annual asset growth of winners is on average 3 to 6 percentage points hi...
by Raymond Fisman | On 18 May 2012 Effective urban policy making and implementation in Pakistan is impeded by the problem of integrating data containing incompatible spatial references. There is great heterogeneity across spatial units...
by Sohaib Khan | On 16 May 2012 Adolescent fertility in low- and middle-income countries presents a severe impediment to development and
can lead to school dropout, lost productivity, and the intergenerational transmission of pover...
by Kate McQueston | On 15 May 2012 This paper focuses on the effects of domestic and international remittances on children’s
well-being. Using data from the 1992/93 and 1997/98 Vietnam Living Standards Surveys, an investigation of the...
by Michele Binci | 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 The estimation of capacity utilisation (CU) derives its significance from the fact that, if properly assessed, it may provide a reliable indication of incipient inflationary pressure in an economy. Me...
by Atri Mukherjee | On 09 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 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 The study focused on the factors and forces behind the participation of women in
Panchayat Structure specially after the seventy third Constitution Amendment Act. The
role performance, role awarenes...
by Dilip Kumar Sarkar | On 20 Apr 2012 The study examines the different aspects of labor in the rural household economy. It
identifies the factors that significantly determine the rural households' labor allocation decisions.
Moreover, i...
by Maria Teresa C Sanchez | On 18 Apr 2012 The type, volume, and mode of transfer of remittances in Uttarakhand is analysed.
The impact of remittances, in terms of both financial flows and transfer of new skills and the perceptions in
relat...
by Anmol Jain | On 18 Apr 2012 This paper provides a synthesis of the experiences of six countries (Brazil, China, India, Malaysia, Mexico, and Nigeria) in enhancing food security of their population. Approximately 46 per cent of t...
by Pooja Sharma | 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 Budget Speech by Minister of Finance. [Government of Gujarat]. URL:[http://financedepartment.gujarat.gov.in/budget12_13_pdf/FM_Speech_English_Part_A_Final.pdf].
by Ministry of Finance Government of Gujarat | On 12 Apr 2012 Using a case study of two districts in South India, farmers’ information needs and information search behavior, factors affecting their search behavior, and their willingness to pay for information a...
by Suresh Chandra Babu | On 10 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 Using data of non-financial listed firms over a period of 1999-2010, this paper investigates the effectiveness of balance sheet channel in monetary transmission mechanism in Pakistan. By classifying f...
by Safia Shabbir | On 09 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 budgetary data for 2011-12 indicates the commitment of States to carry forward fiscal correction,
as evident from the emergence of revenue surplus after a gap of two years and consequent reductio...
by Reserve Bank of India RBI | On 03 Apr 2012 Labour market insecurity, recognised as pervasive in rural India, is
multi-faceted. This study attempts to fill a gap in the research on
key dimensions of labour market insecurity by using the Natio...
by Padmini Desikachar | On 02 Apr 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 Statistics is used in our day to day life. Examples are there to show that statistics is misused in many. This can happen when people are information illiterate. [Address at DST-CIMS, BHU on Mar 20, 2...
by Chakrabarty K C | On 27 Mar 2012 The poverty line deviates from the reality. The government's redefinition is a good thing, but the danger is it won't go far enough. [BS Weekend ruminations]. URL:[http://www.business-standard.com/ind...
by T.N. Ninan | 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 This brief uses Government reported data to analyse Sarva Shiksha Ahiyan performance along the following parameters: a) Overall trends in allocation and expenditures, b) Expenditure performance across...
by Accountability Initiative | 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 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 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 Utilizing data from the power corporation of Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state,
the politics of electricity theft over a ten year period (2000–09) is studied. It is seen that electricity the...
by Miriam Golden | On 06 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 National Food Authority's (NFA) twin
mandate of price
stabilization and food
security has cost the
government billions of
pesos in losses over the
past few decades. As
such, there is a need to
...
by Senate Economic Planning Office SEPO | On 28 Feb 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 The main objective of the study is to investigate whether there is any evidence to support the
view that the disbursement of micro finance to women reduces the incidence of domestic
violence, and if...
by Institute of Social Studies Trust ISST | On 23 Feb 2012 The effect of electoral rules and forms of government on public policy outcomes using a new dataset on agriculture and food policies from 74 countries over the 1960-2005 period is investigated. Using...
by Alessandro Olper | On 22 Feb 2012 This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural
diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic
developm...
by Quamrul Ashraf | On 16 Feb 2012 In this paper the issue of high dropout rates in India is examined which has adverse implications for
human capital formation, and hence for the country’s long term growth potential. Using the 2004-0...
by Manisha Chakrabarty | 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 This paper looks at some key entry points for agriculture to influence nutrition and suggests policies for
nutrition-sensitive agricultural development, within the current policy framework. In additi...
by S.Mahendra Dev | On 07 Feb 2012 The study measures the contribution of MNCs to the generation of innovations from India.
The focus is on innovations that are carried out in foreign R&D Centres. After having
mapped out the size of...
by Rakesh Basant | On 06 Feb 2012 Stability results for an open economy DSGE adapted to an emerging market (SOEME) with a dualistic
structure have the same structure as in the original model, but those derived for the simulated versi...
by Ashima Goyal | On 02 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 This report investigates how more and
better jobs can be created in South
Asia. It does so for two reasons. First,
this region will contribute nearly 40 percent
of the growth in the world’s workin...
by Reema Nayar | On 30 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 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 Affirmative action, especially in the form of reservation policies, to address the issues of inclusion and equity has been in place in India for a long time. Through these policies higher participatio...
by Rakesh Basant | On 09 Jan 2012 This paper studies the leadlag
pattern in the interaction between credit and growth cycles of India at three
levels i.e. at the aggregate level for annual GDP growth, at the sectoral level
across a...
by Krittika Banerjee | On 06 Jan 2012 The Task Force has identified that there is a need to re-assess the ultimate irrigation potential in the country. The report identifies that there is a need to increase irrigation efficiency and has s...
by Planning Commission | On 06 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 This article focuses on the Open
Knowledge Definition and the Panton
Principles for Open Data in Science. Some of the tools the group has
developed to facilitate the generation and
use of open dat...
by Jennifer C Molloy | On 03 Jan 2012 This paper establishes an empirical relationship between industry -specific
foreign direct investment (FDI) and output under the framework of Granger
causality and panel cointegration for Pakistan o...
by Muhammad Arshad Khan | On 03 Jan 2012 The services sector has provided steady support to Pakistan’s economic
growth. It share in GDP now stands a more than 50 percent. The paper analyses
its continuation in the growth of the economy in...
by Ayaz Ahmed | On 29 Dec 2011 Major differences between the Lok Pal Bill 2011 and the Lok Pal and Lokayuktas Bill, 2011.URL: [http://www.prsindia.org/uploads/media/Lok%20Pal%20Bill%202011/Major%20differences%20between%20the%20Lok%...
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 28 Dec 2011 The report is a rich source with qualitative and quantitative data on the status of children in India from authentic and established sources. [HAQCRC report]. URL:[http://www.haqcrc.org/sites/default/...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | 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 Delivering the third Business Standard lecture on Thursday night, Raghuram Rajan provided an interesting insight into the reason for high inflation in India. The professor of finance at Chicago, who i...
by T.N. Ninan | On 23 Dec 2011 Both secondary and primary sources of information and data have been used. In
order to provide the context of the study, data relating to the labour market indicators and
employment of some categori...
by K.R. Shyam Sundar | On 22 Dec 2011 Pre-harvest lean seasons are widespread in the agrarian areas of Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Every year, these seasonal famines force millions of people to succumb to poverty and hunger. An incentive...
by Gharad Bryan | On 20 Dec 2011 The paper reports the results of an empirical study on the profitability
of rice cultivation in the East Calcutta Wetlands region where untreated
sewage water from the city of Calcutta, India, is us...
by Vivekananda Mukherjee | On 13 Dec 2011 In view of the long-standing issues and concerns that beset the Philippine system of higher education, the study attempts to evaluate the performance of state universities and colleges (SUCs) in the p...
by Janet S Cuenca | On 01 Dec 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 The policy brief explores the evolving discourse on water issues in Pakistan where the process of political articulation, securitization and mobilization which often links water to Kashmir is studied....
by Medha Bisht | On 24 Nov 2011 The trends in food
inflation over the past 60 years are given. Having thus set the context, the factors
driving structural food inflation, which should give us a perspective of the
underlying dynam...
by Duvvuri Subbarao | On 24 Nov 2011 The Eleventh Plan,
which had attempted to reverse deceleration of agricultural growth during the Ninth and Tenth
Plan, had some success in as foodgrains production has touched a new peak of 241.56 m...
by Vijay Paul Sharma | On 17 Nov 2011 The Program CEA extends to the study to an impact analysis of the Radio programs to assess
whether the expenditure being made for this intervention is helping the students in improving
their learnin...
by Shubhashansha Bakshi | On 16 Nov 2011 This paper evaluates the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) as a framework for measuring development and, subject to qualifications arising from that evaluation, assesses how India is doing in terms o...
by Sudipto Mundle | On 11 Nov 2011 This article outlines the potential mechanisms through which ICT could
facilitate agricultural adoption and the provision of extension services in developing countries. It
then reviews existing prog...
by Jenny C Aker | On 07 Nov 2011 This brief presents a review of the potential opportunities
and challenges of using nanotech applications for agriculture, food, and
water in developing countries. [IFPRI Policy Brief 19]. URL:[http...
by Guillaume Gruère | On 01 Nov 2011 With the exception Brander and Drazen (2008), who use a comprehensive cross-country
database consisting of both developed and developing countries, the hypothesis that rapid
growth helps incumbents...
by Poonam Gupta | On 31 Oct 2011 In an earlier paper (Alagh, Munish, 2011) it was shown that macro economics matters in
agriculture. The relevance of understanding the impact of macro-economic policy on
agriculture was outlined. A...
by Munish Alagh | On 24 Oct 2011 The efficiency of urban water supply in 27 Indian cities are analyzed using data
envelopment analysis (DEA). Cities are grouped by the management structure of
their water utilities. Utilities with g...
by Shreekant Gupta | On 24 Oct 2011 There has been a growing concern on the official estimates of poverty released by the Planning
commission. The official poverty estimates have been severely criticised on various counts. In view
of...
by Planning Commission | On 21 Oct 2011 This paper investigates the relationship between returns to cultivation per hectare and size-class of land cultivated in India, using unit level data from the 59th round National Sample Survey, 2003....
by Sarthak Gaurav | 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 Women workers In India constitute one third of the total workforce. Majority of these
women are engaged in the un-organized sectors such as agriculture, construction,
domestic services etc. The over...
by Bharat Jyoti BJ | On 18 Oct 2011 The Indian national program of agriclinics and agribusiness centers, started in 2002, aims to provide farmers with a reliable alternative to the private input dealer by subsidizing technically trained...
by Claire J Glendenning | On 14 Oct 2011 The Indian economy has shown considerable resilience to the global economic crisis by maintaining one of the highest growth rates in the world. The services sector accounted for around 88 per cent of...
by Abhijit Das | On 13 Oct 2011 NTP-2011 has the vision Broadband on Demand and envisages leveraging telecom infrastructure to enable all citizens and businesses, both in rural and urban landscape, to participate in the Internet and...
by Ministry of Communication & Information Technology GOI | On 13 Oct 2011 This study analyses the behaviour of monetary and fiscal policies
interaction in India using quarterly data for 2000Q2 to 2010Q1. It finds that,
even after the elimination of automatic monetisation...
by Janak Raj | On 11 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 It is argued that methodological challenges in monitoring the safety of prescription medications should not mean that drug safety be considered less important a topic of study than efficacy. It is als...
by PLoS Medicine Editors | On 04 Oct 2011 This study assesses the effectiveness and drawbacks of maximum loan-to-value (LTV)
ratios as a macroprudential tool based on Hong Kong’s experience and econometric
analyses of panel data from 13 eco...
by Eric Wong | On 03 Oct 2011 This study examines how business entities and individuals in Jammu and Kashmir view trade
transactions with the other side and perceptions about the economic viability of Cross-LoC trade. More
speci...
by Altaf Hussain Kira | On 28 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 The study explores different aspects of employment and labour market prevalent in large in UAs, in particular global cities. To
capture the role of labour market in urban agglomeration, particularly...
by G.D Bino Paul | On 27 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 An SIIO paradigm, based on structure and ideas that become engraved in institutions and affect
outcomes, is developed to examine and assesses monetary policy in India after independence. Narrative
h...
by Ashima Goyal | On 16 Sep 2011 Certain trends in agricultural productivity, agricultural finance are outlined. Recommendations for improving agricultural productivity are given here. [Address at The National Seminar on Productivity...
by Chakrabarty K C | On 12 Sep 2011 This paper investigates the effects of plants' dynamics on productivity growth in the Indian pharmaceutical industry across five regions: north, north-west, west, south and the rest of India, during t...
by Atsuko Kamiike | On 06 Sep 2011 This paper focuses on macroeconomic linkages with agriculture. From an extensive
literature review the question that emerges is: is there a structural constraint in Indian
agriculture or does Indian...
by Munish Alagh | On 02 Sep 2011 The present study discusses factors responsible for agricultural diversification at
different levels: country (India), state (Haryana) and farms of Kurukshetra district in
Haryana. The study regress...
by Brajesh Jha | On 29 Aug 2011 In this paper agriculture’s role in the Indian enigma is reassessed by exploring two key pathways, an income–consumption pathway and an employment–time use pathway, linking agricultural conditions to...
by Derek Headey | On 29 Aug 2011 In this paper, the potential impacts of trade and investment-related policy reforms on India’s agro-processing sector is explored. The direct effects of policy reforms within the processing sector, an...
by A. Ganesh-Kumar | On 22 Aug 2011 This paper provides estimates of the costs of organic agriculture (OA) programs, and sets them in the context of the costs of attaining the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It anal...
by Anil Markandya | On 19 Aug 2011 The paper examines the urbanization pattern with context of India. The paper deals with various demographic aspects of urbanization. Also the paper focuses on characteristics and classes of cities, an...
by Arup Mitra | On 19 Aug 2011 This article looks into the role of land reform in comparison to concentric ef fort
to augment agricultural GDP. Redistribut ive land reform policy aims to improve
land endowments of poor, though va...
by Debdatta Pal | On 18 Aug 2011 The crowding-in phenomenon together with inter-sectoral linkages is used in this paper to examine the effect of higher public investment for agriculture on the stable growth of this sector as well as...
by Harish Mani | On 17 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 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 An attempt is made to identify the determinants of yield spreads between the
State and Central government securities in a panel data framework as has been used in
several cross-country studies. This...
by Dhritidyuti Bose | On 08 Aug 2011 Food quality has become an important determinant of success in global food trade and growers for international markets have to continuously adjust to buyers’ requirements. It is however not clear to w...
by Anneleen Vandeplas | On 03 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 structuralist perspective envisages poverty, especially in rural India, as a long duration phenomenon. Over time, most of the structural features of poverty have remained more or less intact. As a...
by Amita Shah | On 02 Aug 2011 The study covered 17 states and 48 districts. Two blocks from each
district were selected. Five schools from each block was selected. A village
where the sample school was located stood selected as...
by Planning Commission, India | On 02 Aug 2011 This paper compares different
approaches to the short term forecasting (nowcasting) of real GDP growth in India and
evaluates methods to optimally gauge the current state of the economy. Univariate
...
by Rudrani Bhattacharya | On 02 Aug 2011 This study investigates the impact of global crisis shocks on India’s trade and industry. Both panel data modeling and vector autoregression techniques are used to understand the dynamic effects of gl...
by Prabir De | On 22 Jul 2011 The general perception that dentistry is expensive keeps many people away from
seeking treatment from registered professionals and make them hostage to the
services of non-registered lay practitione...
by Syed Masud Ahmed | On 20 Jul 2011 In this paper the evolution of beer consumption is analyzed between countries and over time. Historically, there have been major changes in beer consumption in the world. In recent times, per
capita...
by Liesbeth Colen | On 18 Jul 2011 New studies are increasingly appearing based on historical data across the world that better socio-economic status is associated with taller men and women. This study based on a recent Indian data ana...
by Brinda Viswanathan | On 08 Jul 2011 Board interlocks and corporate elites are an engaging field of ongoing academic and policy research around the world, especially because of the concentration of economic power in few individuals or en...
by Bala N Balasubramanian | On 08 Jul 2011 This paper is an attempt to revisit the pioneering work of Riazuddin and Khan (2002). A complete
business cycle has been elapsed (2002-2010) since their study, so there is need to review the results
...
by Syed Kalim Hyder Bukhari | On 05 Jul 2011 The National Advisory Council recently released a draft ‘Prevention of Communal and Targeted Violence (Access to Justice and Reparations) Bill, 2011’. The Bill intends to create a framework for preven...
by Rohit Kumar | On 05 Jul 2011 Disparities in income and living standards across countries and between regions within countries (spatial inequality) have been the subject of much debate and research in recent years. Spatial inequal...
by Hari Nagarajan | On 01 Jul 2011 Some recent literature in the meta-analysis category where results from a range of studies are
brought together throws doubt on the ability of foreign aid to foster economic growth and
development....
by Tseday Jemaneh Mekasha | On 24 Jun 2011 This paper examines the effect of trade facilitated R&D spillovers
on the productivity of manufacturing firms in India. Though developing
countries are considered as the major beneficiaries of trade...
by M. Parameswaran | On 24 Jun 2011 The interface between environment and poverty is a complex phenomenon. Poverty reduction needs will be enabled if the poor are allowed access to natural capital, such as land, water, forest and minera...
by Amita Shah | On 23 Jun 2011 This paper briefly reviews the literature on economic growth and poverty and then examines whether economic growth influences poverty dynamics. The literature relating to the impact of economic growth...
by Shashanka Bhide | On 22 Jun 2011 China and India are definitely on a higher economic growth path,
although the contribution of technology to economic growth is still not
very clearly estimated. There is evidence to show that innova...
by Sunil Mani | On 21 Jun 2011 For the revival of rural
cooperative credit institutions, a Working Group was constituted by
NABARD to formulate and suggest comprehensive human resource
guidelines for the State Cooperative Bank (...
by National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Devt NABARD | On 15 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 Polarization in India is analysed roughly in the past two and half decades using consumption
expenditure data. It is seen that polarization has increased sharply since the 1990s, reversing the earlie...
by Sripad Motiram | On 13 Jun 2011 The paper explores the linkages between ‘Education’ and ‘Poverty’ and the possibility of poverty
reduction through better employment opportunities. The paper proceeds with the understanding that
pov...
by Rushidan Islam Rahman | On 13 Jun 2011 Farmers in Meerut many pesticides wich are banned in West due to their carcinogenic characteristics. PSI’s staff, accompanied by the staff of Janhit Foundation, collected soil and vegetable samples fr...
by People's Science Institute PSI | On 07 Jun 2011 This toolkit is designed to train individuals and civil society on how to conduct a child centered budget analysis to support their advocacy work and to hold state accoutable for the fulfilment of chi...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 02 Jun 2011 This paper contains the annual report and accounts of ministry of railways for the year 2009-10. URL: [http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/uploads/directorate/stat_econ/Stat_0910/Annual%20_R...
by Ministry of Railways | On 17 May 2011 This paper contains the annual report of Ministry of Finance and Planning, Government of Sri Lanka. URL: [http://www.treasury.gov.lk/FPPFM/fpd/pdfdocs/annualreports/annualreport2009-eng.pdf]
by Ministry of Finance and Planning, Govt of Sri Lanka | On 10 May 2011 National Budget of the country is the annual program of the Government's expenditure and income for a fiscal year. In a developing economy like Bangladesh, the national annual budgets reflect the gove...
by Atiur Rahman | On 03 May 2011 Today there is no credible alternative facility available to a grower to meet the risks of price movements and the art of price risk management is unknown to the small growers. (In this entire report,...
by Ministry of Commerce and Industry GOI | On 02 May 2011 The Task Force visited 45 villages across 17 states and held state and regional level consultations to understand from women and men farmers, bankers, civil society, academicians, planners, activists,...
by National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Devt NABARD | On 27 Apr 2011 The paper presents some empirical data from the Pradhan Tribe of Andhra
Pradesh which highlights the community's indigenous agricultural knowledge and the
changes over time. These custodians of indi...
by Anil Kumar K | On 25 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 This paper attempts to verify the widespread perception that general price level tends to rise
due to the month of Ramadan in Pakistan. For this purpose, the ARIMA methodology
(simple and extended f...
by Muhammad Akmal | On 19 Apr 2011 Part I of the Budget speech by Finance Minister
by Maharashtra Government | On 18 Apr 2011 Despite nearly a century of use, Bacille Calmette-Gue´rin
(BCG) remains controversial, with known
variations in BCG substrains, vaccine
efficacy, policies, and practices across the
world. Global i...
by Alice Zwerling | On 12 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 This paper presents the annual budget of the Goa Government containing the Annual Financial Statement. URL: [https://www.goa.gov.in/portalweb/login/budget_2011-12/speech.pdf]
by Goa Government | On 06 Apr 2011 The emphasis laid on 4% growth in Agriculture during the 11th Five Year Plan Period underscores the importance of Agriculture to the economy of the country. Agriculture is the mainstay of Orissa's eco...
by Orissa Government | 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 Budget 2011-12 presented by the Finance Minister.
by Government of Meghalaya Govt | On 28 Mar 2011 State income, public finances, agriculture and animal husbandry, education, health, population etc are given importance in the economic survey. URL: [http://mahades.maharashtra.gov.in/files/publicatio...
by Maharashtra Government | On 23 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 Knowledge Management (KM) envisages capturing, creating, sharing and managing knowledge.The implementation of any KM policy in Health sector will have essential ingredients and processes for improving...
by Department of Health Reserach DHR | On 15 Mar 2011 Given the importance of agriculture to the well being of a
large percentage of India’s population, it becomes important to
study how improvements can be made in the productivity of this
sector. Thi...
by K. R. Shanmugam | On 15 Mar 2011 India has been running large-scale interventions in the energy
sector over the last decades. Still, there is a dearth of reliable and
readily available price and income elasticities of demand to bas...
by Haripriya Gundimeda | On 14 Mar 2011 As per economic theory, digitalisation of the economy impacts economic growth in two ways:
one as an input in to production process and the other as an enhancer of productivity through
technological...
by Mr. R. Venkatesan | On 11 Mar 2011 The world economy has recently changed. A new world economy has emerged over the
last decade as two long-run broad trends, globalization and advances in information and
communication technology (I...
by Matthew Clarke | On 10 Mar 2011 This article argues that the extreme poor warrant specific analytical and policy focus. It
attempts to identify the extreme poor in rural Bangladesh by devising sensitive targeting
indicators that a...
by Binayak Sen | On 09 Mar 2011 While the Government of India has several schemes for augmenting agricultural production and ensuring adequate availability of food for different segments, a Bill to provide a statutory framework to e...
by Government of India GOI | On 04 Mar 2011 This Explanatory Note highlights the rationale and major considerations
that form the basis of the NAC proposals on food security. It supplements (i) the NAC
recommendations on food security relea...
by National Advisory Council NAC | On 04 Mar 2011 As agreed by the NAC at its meeting on July 14th, 2010, a Working Group of Members of the NAC was constituted on the National Food Security Bill. After due deliberations and wide ranging consultations...
by Harsh Mander | On 04 Mar 2011 Budget speech 2011-2012 by Pranab Mukherjee.
by Pranab Mukherjee | On 01 Mar 2011 Using government data, this brief reports on Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) performance along the following parameters: a) Overall trends in allocation and expenditures, b) Expenditure performance across...
by Avani Kapur | On 26 Feb 2011 The overall objective of the Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) risk factors survey was to improve the information available to the Government health services and care providers on a set of high-priority...
by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare H & FW | On 24 Feb 2011 The Economic Advisory Council in its review of the economy has predicted a continued high growth but has suggested steps to sustain this growth, chief among them:Containing inflation by focusing both...
by C. Rangarajan | On 21 Feb 2011 This report addresses the recent dynamics of poverty in rural Bangladesh with particular focus on two groups of the poorest - the chronically poor and the extreme poor - based on the 64-village census...
by Zulfiqar Ali | On 14 Feb 2011 A long standing question in social science is to what extent differences in management cause differences in firm performance. To investigate this we ran a management field experiment on large Indian t...
by Nicholas Bloom | On 14 Feb 2011 This paper describes the so-called technical relations in agriculture. [Working Paper No. 35] URL: [http://www.cds.edu/]
by Krishna Bharadwaj | On 11 Feb 2011 This paper examines the influence of the nature of mothers’ work on Nepali children’s
schooling outcomes. Using nationally representative cross-sectional data from the Nepal Living
Standards Survey...
by Ashish Bajracharya | On 10 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 The Presidential address to parliament at its first session of the year pays tribute to the heroes and martyrs of the nation, elaborates on Bangaldesh's achievement in industry, agriculture, education...
by Zillur Rahman | On 08 Feb 2011 The environment industry has witnessed rapid growth over the last two decades. Industry surveys in the mid- 1990s had estimated that the global environment industry revenue would increase from US$ 469...
by Aparna Sawhney | On 04 Feb 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 This paper presents a cost-benefit analysis of the first cohort (2002-03) of
selected ultra poor (SUP) households of BRAC’s CFPR. The analysis calculates
benefit of the programme using primary data...
by Sanjay Sinha | On 20 Jan 2011 In this paper they analyse the Granger causal relationships between foreign direct investment (FDI)
and GDP in a sample of 31 developing countries covering 31 years. Using estimators
for heteroge...
by Henrik Hansen | On 18 Jan 2011 Information on vegetation is important for the planning of regional natural resources management carbon cycling studies, terrestrial primary productivity modeling of hydrology, energy and climate. In...
by Nepal C. Dey | On 17 Jan 2011 There has been growing concern over conversion of coastal rice paddies to shrimp farms. This study estimates the external cost of shrimp-induced salinity on crop production by comparing two villages i...
by L. Umamaheswari | On 13 Jan 2011 This paper discusses the difficulties associated with measuring entrepreneurship in
developing countries. Three important dichotomies in the research on entrepreneurship
are discussed: formal-info...
by Sameeksha Desai | On 11 Jan 2011 The Diyawanna Oya wetland ecosystem has proven to be an important recreational site in the greater Colombo area in the face of the growing demand for urban recreational amenities. It provides a wide s...
by Thusita Dilhani Marawila | On 06 Jan 2011 This paper analyzes the effect of different types of cook-stoves on firewood demand at the
household level. Nationally representative household data from Nepal is used for the study. [SANDEE Working...
by Mani Nepal | On 05 Jan 2011 The financial intermediation–growth nexus is a widely studied topic in the literature of
development economics. Deepening financial intermediation may promote economic
growth by mobilizing more...
by Jun Zhang | On 03 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 paper attempts to provide a comprehensive analysis of interrelationships among the
determinants of the quality of life (QOL). They show that various measures of well-being
are highly sensitiv...
by Tauhidur Rahman | On 28 Dec 2010 The analysis focuses on immigrants and native-born individuals because employers are likely
to have less reliable signals of productivity for an immigrant than a native-born individual. Using
multip...
by Shing-Yi Wang | On 21 Dec 2010 An analysis of the
innovation in the Indian pharmaceutical industry is done. This section traces the
origins, the strengths and weaknesses of the innovation system in the pharmaceutical sector in In...
by Padmashree Gehl Sampath | On 17 Dec 2010 Using the non parametric approach of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) this paper examines
the input and output efficiencies of the Indian pharmaceutical firms for the period 1991 to 2005.
by Subhash C Ray | On 17 Dec 2010 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 linear expenditure system developed by Stone (1954) is an extremely useful tool of demand analysis. Its applicability appears to be restricted however by somewhat computations suggested so far in...
by N. Krishnaji | On 16 Dec 2010 Many countries remain stuck in conditions of low productivity that many call “poverty traps.” Economic growth
is only one aspect of development; another key dimension of development is the expansion...
by Lant Pritchett | On 15 Dec 2010 The paper is a study to examine the impact of Uzhavar Sandhai on farmers' standards of living. It also gives some insightful policy suggestions.
by Murali Kallummal | On 09 Dec 2010 This paper discusses the measurement of poverty and well-being. A historical overview
is given of the last fifty years. This is followed by discussion of three groupings of
indicators: those meas...
by Andrew Sumner | On 03 Dec 2010 Many studies simply demonstrate that there is paucity of
empirical data, research findings and literature on the status of
children dependent on prostitutes in Uttar Pradesh. Thus, it is
imperative...
by Government of India Ministry of Women and Child Development | On 02 Dec 2010 This paper documents the convergence of incomes across Indian states over the period
1965 to 1998. It departs from traditional analyses of convergence by tracking the
evolution of the entire income...
by Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay | On 22 Nov 2010 The aim of this paper is to take stock of the important
recent contributions to spectral analysis, especially as
they apply to non-stationary processes. Non-stationary
processes are particularly re...
by D M NACHANE | On 19 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 Trade liberalization, by aligning domestic prices with world prices, is envisaged to bring
welfare gains to a country. In the case of Indian agriculture, owing to the vastness and
diversity of the s...
by Nilabja Ghosh | On 11 Nov 2010 Using a unique panel data set on Indian firms, some basic but important and often neglected aspects of technology licensing agreements and their effect on the licenses have been analysed. [Working Pap...
by Robert E Evenson | On 11 Nov 2010 The paper aims to enhance the existing literature on the debt-growth nexus by analysing
the relationship in two separate country groups using the extreme bounds analysis for
sensitivity tests and th...
by Abdur R. Chowdhury | On 10 Nov 2010 This pager is an attempt to apply the technique of social cost-benefit analysis to the problem of choice of technology in building construction in Kerala. [Working Paper No. 030]
by K. P. Kannan | On 10 Nov 2010 Empirical studies on total factor productivity growth (TFPG) in developing countries highlight trade
openness, research and development and market structure as being the most important determinants...
by Vinish Kathuria | On 02 Nov 2010 This paper analyses the importance of human capital in determining the inter-state differences in
labour productivity and its growth in India. The paper also examines the impact of human capital
d...
by Savita Bhat | On 01 Nov 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 present paper compares the strategies, capacity building processes and outcomes/impacts of three projects during the period 2005-10. The project area covered by the study are located as follows:
...
by Neela 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 The relationship between large enterprises (LEs) and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Japan has undergone major changes during the long-term recession since 1991. While SMEs still play the impor...
by Shuji Uchikawa | On 23 Oct 2010 The importance of an 'agricultural surplus' for the structural transformation accompanying economic growth is often stressed in development literature. 'Agricultural surplus', defined as the physical...
by Ashoka Mody | On 21 Oct 2010 The paper identifies those elements in the configuration of fiscal parameters
confronting the country that give cause for concern, and examines whether the fiscal
reform measures taken address these...
by Indira Rajaraman | On 20 Oct 2010 The present paper seeks to cast scepticism on the validity and value of the results of all earlier studies in India on energy demand analysis and forecasting based on time series regression, on three...
by N. Vijayamohanan Pillai | On 05 Oct 2010 The present analysis sheds light on the setting up a regional rating agency in Asia in the
wake of recent financial crisis. We investigate the policy facing a financial regulator while
evaluat...
by Ying Yi Tsai | On 30 Sep 2010 Use of Macroeconometric models has by now assumed a measure of universality
as an unavoidable aid to forecasting and policy analysis; challenges and controversies
spread over more than two decades n...
by V. Pandit | On 29 Sep 2010 What distinguishes a GIS system from other information systems is the availability of spatial analysis functions. The application and use of GIS is increasingly important today for design and evaluat...
by Dipti Mukherji | On 23 Sep 2010 This paper focuses on comparisons of productivity, (unit) labor cost and industry-level competitiveness for the manufacturing sector of China and India. They first provide a comparison between India a...
by Bart Van Ark | On 20 Sep 2010 The notion that the backwardness of Indian Agriculture may be explained in terms of the institutional, and more particularly, the market structure within its functions, is not wholly novel one, elemen...
by Sumit Guha | On 20 Sep 2010 The objective of this research was to examine if the growth in health facilities within the cities have kept pace with growth of population. The methodology used was geographic information and mapping...
by Anandi Dantas | On 17 Sep 2010 The importance of Total Factor Productivity (TFP) in explaining output changes is widely
accepted, yet its sources are not well understood. We use a proprietary data set on the floor-level operations...
by Sanghamitra Das | On 13 Sep 2010 Labour income is often a major source of income not only for landless rural households but also for the 'small' farmers in Asian agriculture. Fluctuations in labour income can be quite marked, owing t...
by Sunil Kanwar | On 10 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 Extension of the wealth tax to agriculture, it will be
recalled, was opposed on the ground that it would hurt even the
small and medium-sized farmers. This argument was advanced...
by K. N. Raj | On 01 Sep 2010 This working paper discusses the rice economy of Kerala, with a disaggregate analysis of its performance. [Working Paper No. 231]
by P.S. George | On 31 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 In this paper, the author discuss the major knowledge gaps, stress the importance of peer learning
and building upon farmers’ own innovations and suggest new initiatives for transforming
extension s...
by Anil. K Gupta | On 25 Aug 2010 This paper tests the predictive value of subjective labour supply data for adjustments in
working hours over time. The idea is that if subjective labour supply data help to predict next
year’s wor...
by Rob Euwals | On 12 Aug 2010 This paper takes a detailed look at the SSM and analyzes its usefulness for developing
countries. It also explores how the concept of a special agricultural safeguard has evolved in
the present roun...
by Parthapratim Pal | On 11 Aug 2010 The National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) has recently released the report
containing key results of the NSS 55th
Round Employment-Unemployment Survey covering
the period July 1999 thru June 2...
by K. Sundaram | On 26 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 This paper analyzes differences in welfare utilization between immigrants and natives in
Sweden using a large panel data set, LINDA, for the years 1990 to 1996. Both welfare
expenditures and immigra...
by Jörgen Hansen | On 09 Jul 2010 This paper discusses in detail the vast and rich agricultural knowledge that India has developed since ancient times, and the entire agricultural community trying to find an alternative sustainable fa...
by D. Kumara Charyulu | On 08 Jul 2010 This working paper discusses the dependence of Indian agriculture on uncertain rains.
In addition the farmers experience other production risks as well as marketing risks
related to different crop e...
by Gurdev Singh | On 06 Jul 2010 In this paper the benefit incidence of public health care subsidies in eleven Asian territories, including India, Indonesia and two provinces of China is examined. The use of concentration indices and...
by Owen O’Donnell | On 01 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 Food security is an immediate and future priority for all countries worldwide. Since
the food crisis erupted in 2008, a large number of global and regional food security
initiatives have been launch...
by Farming First | On 21 Jun 2010 Since its emergence before the Cancun Ministerial in September 2003, the Group of 20 developing countries (which includes South Africa, India, China, Indonesia, Thailand and Pakistan) has become an im...
by Prabhash Ranjan | On 21 Jun 2010 Throughout human history, technology has proven its ability to contribute to higher
material living standards, yet the work of poverty alleviation is far from complete. We
believe that in the mode...
by Gregory Graff | On 17 Jun 2010 Agricultural markets in India have been regulated since 1928 with the inception of
the "Royal Commission of Agriculture." Policy intervention in agriculture was
virtually absent till the Bengal Fam...
by Mayank Wadhwa | On 16 Jun 2010 Agricultural development can contribute significantly to peace by raising incomes and
employment, thereby reducing the social frustrations that give rise to violence.
Agricultural growth also gene...
by Tony Addison | On 10 Jun 2010 Lately there has been a surge in the variety of approaches to assist the
adolescents, specially the girls, in building up their lives and livelihoods. With
financial assistance from Nike Foundation,...
by Rizwana Shahnaz | On 10 Jun 2010 The present study emphasizes on independent variable analysis in assessing gender development at the disaggregated district level to
account for problems such as the major contradiction facing this c...
by Preet Rustagi | On 03 Jun 2010 In this article TN Ninan looks at the how the 15 economic ministers have performed. He starts with the finance minister whose record seems very patchy as he has not been able to deal with inflation an...
by T.N. Ninan | On 27 May 2010 The objective in this paper is to shed some empirical light on a claim often made by critics of affirmative action policies: that increasing the representation of members of marginalized communities i...
by Ashwini Deshpande | On 26 May 2010 The present paper attempts to fill in
the gap that exists in the Indian Leather
industry, and makes some suggestions regarding the expansion of the by examining technical efficiency (TE) of individ...
by Anup Kumar Bhandari | On 26 May 2010 The present
paper focuses mainly on the issues like economics and efficiency of organic farming visà-
vis conventional farming in India. Four states namely Gujarat, Maharashtra, Punjab
and U.P were...
by D. Kumara Charyulu | On 25 May 2010 This study attempts
to provide an analysis of the gender concerns of the proposed EU India FTA in the field of agriculture and
suggest policy changes both in the FTA text as well as in domestic poli...
by Roopam Singh | On 08 Apr 2010 Budget speech by finance minister of Karnataka
by Government of Karnataka GoK | On 05 Mar 2010 This study attempts
to provide an analysis of the gender concerns of the proposed EU India FTA in the field of agriculture and
suggest policy changes both in the FTA text as well as in domestic poli...
by Roopam Singh | On 04 Mar 2010 This paper investigates a series of questions that explore this topic: What kind of
information do farmers value the most to improve agricultural productivity? Do
mobile phones and mobile-enabled ag...
by Surabhi Mittal | On 03 Mar 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 FDI by firms in developing countries is a recent phenomenon and demands a
study of relationship between firm productivity and different modes of globalisation
activities. This paper attempts to unde...
by Dilek Demirbas | On 16 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 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 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 This paper estimates
the storm protection benefits due to mangroves during the super cyclone of 1999 in Orissa.
By combining GIS data with census information, the paper examines the mangrove mediate...
by Saudamini Das | 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 A review of the various primary measures of inflation with a particular reference to the divergence between WPI and CPI. Focus is also given on different secondary (derived) measures of inflation, par...
by Deepak Mohanty | On 21 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 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 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 This paper is an attempt to explore the meaning and significance of political
participation within (a) the conceptual framework of democratic citizenship and
(b) debates surrounding representative d...
by Anupama Roy | On 10 Dec 2009 The most popular technique for estimating tax elasticities is the “Proportional
Adjustment” method. This paper shows that the standard methodology used will
almost invariably lead to biased elastici...
by Pronab Sen | On 04 Dec 2009 Composite Report on the Pilot Visit to Severely Affected Areas of
Mahbubnagar District of Andhra Pradesh
by Samrat Sinha | On 02 Dec 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 Introducing patent rights in developing country markets might stimulate greater R and D investment targeting their specific health needs – areas long neglected. This paper examines this argument using...
by Jean O Lanjouw | 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 In this paper the author analyzes the pros and cons of combining data from different sources to
revisit some explanatory problems. The problems discussed have risen from a
theoretical and analytic g...
by Sarah Irwin | On 18 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 A qualitative study was conducted in the six states of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and Haryana to understand the socio-economic, cultural and demographic features a...
by Indian Trust for Innovation and Social Change ITISC | On 12 Nov 2009 This brief summarizes a study evaluating the potential economic effects of introducing genetically modified (GM) food crops in India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and the Philippines in the presence of trad...
by Guillaume Gruère | On 11 Nov 2009 Gender-related Development Index (GDI) and Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) developed by UNDP need to be recast to realistically capture the gender gaps in development
and empowerment in the Third Wo...
by Government of India Ministry of Women and Child Development | On 10 Nov 2009 The paper begins with a review of national programmes and their performances. The next two sections highlight the record of domestic water supply programmes in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh with th...
by People's Science Institute PSI | On 10 Nov 2009 The government of India started offering widespread crop in insurance in 1985,
with the Comprehensive Crop Insurance Scheme. The CCIS has been replaced by
the National Agriculture Insurance Scheme....
by Jennifer Ifft | On 06 Nov 2009 This paper distinguishes the Intellectual Property Rights relevant to agriculture and
explain these rights. The international intellectual property law for
these rights will be described. India's in...
by Jayashree Watal | On 03 Nov 2009 This paper is about the financial lives of poor households. It
examines the different sources of income and expenditure of the poor
households residing in a coastal settlement in Kerala. The method...
by B. S. Suran | On 29 Oct 2009 The relatively lower reduction of poverty in Orissa, 0.2 percentage points per annum from 48.6 per cent in 1993-94 to 46.4 per cent in 2004-05, has been a matter of concern. The current exercise attem...
by Srijit Mishra | On 27 Oct 2009 The focus of this paper is to examine the ways in which regulatory framework affect the pharmaeutical innovations in developing countries using member countries of the Association of South-east Asian...
by Sauwakon Ratanawijitrasin | On 16 Oct 2009 The paper discusses the impacts of free-trade policy on the agricultural exports of Kerala.
by Ranjit Devraj | On 08 Oct 2009 A review of several decades of scholarship on civil war, focusing on the answers to key questions: Why do wars begin? Who fights? How are armed groups organized? How can we end and prevent internal wa...
by Christopher Blattman | On 05 Oct 2009 Fiscal policy measures are a key means by which governments can influence
distribution and poverty, but in fact the relationships between fiscal policy and poverty are not well understood. The most c...
by Andrew McKay | On 05 Oct 2009 In this paper, with empirical data, the Capabilities Approach to identify
'conversion factors' that are not typically addressed in the utility approach is used.
The two approaches are juxtaposed to...
by Jeemol Unni | On 01 Oct 2009 This paper analyzes the determinants of participation in nonfarm activities and of
nonfarm incomes across rural households. A unique data set collected in the Himalayan region of India allows us to...
by Maja Micevska | On 30 Sep 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 This paper is an attempt to apply the technique of social cost - benefit analysis to the problem of choice of technology in building construction in Kerala. [WP No. 30].
by K P Kannan | On 21 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 This paper estimates respective roles of private investments in irrigation and local
government programs (land reforms, extension services, and infrastructure investments)
in the growth of farm prod...
by Pranab Bardhan | On 14 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 is a “rough guide” for evaluation of programs, projects and policies in the environment and development arena. First, a general overview of the what, how, and why of program evaluation, wit...
by Subhrendu K Pattanayak | On 19 Aug 2009 RGNIYD planned to develop a workbook on Life Skills which would help adolescents to both understand the concepts of the ten core Life Skills and practice them. The workbook has been carefully designed...
by Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Developme RGNIYD | On 19 Aug 2009 This paper examines the levels, patterns, and determinants of
morbidity in Kerala. This study is based on a community survey
conducted in 2004, in three districts of the state namely
Thiruvananthap...
by Navaneetham K | On 14 Aug 2009 An attempt is made to compute the aggregate productivity growth using the Domar aggregation technique. Building up from the Total Factor Productivity Growth (TFPG) estimates for 3-digit industries, we...
by Deb Kusum Das | On 12 Aug 2009 This paper is written as a practical and accessible guide to some key issues in mixed methods research. It explores six broad strategies that can underpin the mixing of methods and linking of differen...
by Jennifer Mason | On 12 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 paper takes a closer look at an experiment of NREGA training mates (worksite supervisors) in Rajasthan to improve worksite management. It is based on a four-day field visit (11-14 February, 2008)...
by Reetika Khera | On 05 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 studies the role played by caste, education and other social and economic
attributes in arranged marriages among middle-class Indians. A unique data set on
individuals who placed matrimon...
by Abhijit Banerjee | On 28 Jul 2009 This paper attempts to compare the characteristics of South-South FDI versus North-South FDI in the context of India. The analysis is carried at two levels. First t the overall trends of FDI flows (bo...
by Subhasis Bera | On 28 Jul 2009 This paper attempts to identify and examine labor intensive industries in the organized manufacturing sector in India in order to understand their employment generation potential. Using the data from...
by Deb Kusum Das | On 13 Jul 2009 The paper is aimed at exploring as to how such co-operatives (i) function and deal with members while delivering micro finance; (ii) mobilise funds, and (iii) get shaped and reshape the contents of me...
by Gagan Bihari Sahu | On 09 Jul 2009 Budget 2009-2010 by Pranab Mukherjee
by Pranab Mukherjee | On 09 Jul 2009 Over the life of RACHNA, three sets of population based surveys were conducted: 1. Program wide baseline and endline surveys for INHP-II and Chayan to assess program performance; 2.Rapid Assessments S...
by Rachna Program | On 07 Jul 2009 Establishing a debt management office would consolidate all debt management functions in a single agency, and be the catalyst for wider institutional reform and transparency about public debt. It is i...
by Ministry of Finance | On 04 Jul 2009 The third Annual Statistics Day Conference of the Reserve Bank. It has now become a tradition for to mark the Statistics Day as a tribute to late Professor P.C. Mahalanobis and his colossal contributi...
by D Subbarao | On 02 Jul 2009 This paper investigates sources and determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) flows to developing Asia using bilateral FDI flows for the period 1990-2005. With regard to the determinants of FDI...
by Rabin Hattari | On 27 Jun 2009 Knowledge accumulation in the richer countries provides them with comparative advantages in higher productivity products. The countries that import the higher productivity intermediate products and ca...
by C Veermani | On 23 Jun 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 If recent survey data are to be believed, Indians are among the most optimistic people on earth.
by T.N. Ninan | On 23 Jun 2009 The present study has been an attempt to examine spatial distribution of various forms of crimes in Mumbai city (Municipal Corporation) and find out their correlates. More specifically the attempts ha...
by | On 23 Jun 2009 The introduction of the Target Free Approach (TFA) has been a major policy shift in
the health and family welfare programme of India. This study reviewed the process of
change in the implementation...
by B L Kumar | On 17 Jun 2009 At this moment, the world is undergoing the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression of 1930s. It is not clear exactly which factors instigated the crisis, but there are many candidates; the f...
by H. N. Thenuwara | On 15 Jun 2009 Medical research indicates that breastfeeding suppresses post-natal fertility. The implications for breastfeeding decisions are modelled and test has been done to predict model's predictions us-
ing...
by Seema Jayachandran | On 09 Jun 2009 China’s experience demonstrates the importance of technological development and public investment in improving agricultural productivity, farmer income, and food security in a nation with limited supp...
by Jikun Huang | On 07 Jun 2009 End stage organ failure is very distressing condition. Initially, there was only palliativetreatment for end stage organ failure such as hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis. Later on, the advancement...
by Viroj Tangcharoensathien | On 04 Jun 2009 The paper revolves around the necessity to rid the large tenant of the lease market in the interest of the poor peasant, who yearns to lease-in a piece of land. The notion that the petty peasant is o...
by C. S Murty | On 02 Jun 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 Knowledge accumulation in the richer countries provides them with comparative advantages in higher productivity products. The countries that import the higher productivity intermed...
by C Veermani | On 21 May 2009 This paper introduces the setting up of a Geographical Information System on Delhi for studies in the Social Sciences. Through an explaination of their methodological procedure and demonstration of t...
by Pierre Chapelet | On 20 May 2009 Despite the rapid development of economic interaction between the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries, their trade and investment ties are still in their...
by Masahiro Kawai | On 20 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 To understand how gender, women’s rights and citizenship intersect with innovation in SouthAsia, one must begin by considering some of the main features of life for South Asian women, about a half of...
by Sujata Byravan | On 06 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 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 Women in South Asia have a great balancing act to perform, what with the dual burden of
taking care of their homes and families and working outside the home or running a business.
For them, mobili...
by Sujata Byravan | On 16 Apr 2009 In this paper, how social preferences overcome the commitment problems
implicit in vote-buying is examined. Data used for the study is a survey information on vote-buying experienced in a 2006 munici...
by Frederico Finan | On 03 Apr 2009 This paper introduces the setting up of a Geographical Information System on Delhi for studies in the Social Sciences.Through an explanation of their methodological
procedure and demonstration of the...
by Pierre Chapelet | On 27 Feb 2009 Speech of Sri K. Rosaiah
by Government Andhra Pradesh | On 23 Feb 2009 Budget speech by finance minister Dr. Thomas Issac
by Government of Kerala Govt | On 23 Feb 2009 Key features of Budget presented by Shri Pranab Mukherjee
by Ministry of Finance | On 16 Feb 2009 An analysis of the economic implication of judicial
activism of the apex court of India in the regulation of automotive air
pollution is analysed. It estimates the health damage cost of urban air po...
by Ramprasad Sengupta | On 16 Jan 2009 An attempt has been made to discuss various aspects of unpaid household work such as its treatment in the system of National Accounts, and the methodologies of its valuation. With the help relevant da...
by R N Pandey | On 09 Jan 2009 The present study assess association between physical violence during pregnancy and adverse pregnancy outcomes. A cross sectional study using McFarlane's Abuse Assessment Screen (AAS) was done. A syst...
by Dipty Jain | On 06 Jan 2009 In order to examine if the impact of oil price shocks depends on the structure of an economy, a vertical (VSC) and a horizontal (HSC) long-run supply curve identification are successively imposed on a...
by Ashima Goyal | On 05 Jan 2009 The 61st round of NSS shows that there is a turnaround
in employment growth in rural India after a phase of ‘jobless growth’.
Paradoxically, this employment growth occurred during a period of wide
...
by Vinoj Abraham | On 05 Jan 2009 Building upon a larger research project at four sites in the Western Ghats
of peninsular India, this study examines the link between stream flow, agricultural water use and
economic returns to agric...
by SHARACHCHANDRA LELE | On 02 Jan 2009 In this paper an overview of
India’s technological trajectory with a view to understanding the nuances of India’s
technological capability and the role it has played in the process of India’s econom...
by Amit Shovon Ray | On 26 Dec 2008 The study examines the impact of aggregate government
expenditure and its two broader components such as revenue expenditure
and capital expenditure on the growth rate of output in the Indian contex...
by Hrushikesh Mallick | On 22 Dec 2008 The aim of this study was to examine the association between visual impairment from cataract and poverty in adults in Kenya, Bangladesh, and the Philippines. A population-based case–control study was...
by Hannah Kuper | On 18 Dec 2008 This is a continuation of an earlier paper (2005) by the author which dealt with policy implications based on the work done by CPRC in India. There is no map of chronic poverty in India, but have an a...
by N C B Nath | On 16 Dec 2008 Politicians face high-powered electoral pressures while bureaucrats face longer-term, low powered incentives. Given constitutional constraints, what incentives do politicians employ to control bureauc...
by Lakshmi Iyer | On 02 Dec 2008 The task of workforce development in India faces the changing realities of globalization and competitiveness, on one hand, and the need for inclusive growth on the other. This report focuses on the is...
by Shyamal Majumdar | On 30 Nov 2008 The present paper tries to empirically examine the changing profile of distribution and ownership of livestock across different regions of India and specifically for Gujarat. Besides, primary data col...
by Amita Shah | On 21 Nov 2008 Gender Development Index and Gender Empowerment Measure are two gender-based
indicators provided by the United Nations Development Program. Population share of the
genders enter the formulation of t...
by Hippu Salk Kristle Nathan | On 18 Nov 2008 This paper is based on a qualitative analysis of three case studies, each belonging to one of three types of institutional structures: Self-initiated, NGO-promoted, and Government-sponsored JFM. The b...
by Rucha Ghate | On 14 Nov 2008 The current system of publication in biomedical research provides a distorted view of the reality of scientific data that are generated in the laboratory and clinic. This system can be studied by appl...
by Neal S Young | On 12 Nov 2008 The paper provides a comprehensive description of GZB (Ghaziabad) goods shed, including facilities, traffic flow, customer interface, processes, etc. In this context, the paper raises questions regard...
by G. Raghuram | On 12 Nov 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 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 This report is prepared on the basis of a 5-day visit to the flood affected parts of Bihar,
caused by the changing of the course of the river, Kosi, by a four-member team from the
Tata Institute of...
by Manish K Jha | On 06 Oct 2008 This Centad working paper takes a critical look at the Hong Kong Ministerial text on agriculture and NAMA. On the basis of this analysis, the paper suggests specific and important negotiating points f...
by Prabhash Ranjan | On 30 Sep 2008 India Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) 2006 and Global School Personnel
Survey (GSPS) 2006 were undertaken region-wise, namely, North, South, East, West, Central and North East, covering 99.7% of t...
by Dhirendra Narain SInha | On 29 Sep 2008 The environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis is revisited using 1987-1995 data for Chinese provinces.
by Catherine Yap Co | On 29 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 article is mainly based on repeated field inquires in Haryana, Andhra Pradesh and Orissa, at different stages of reform. In these States, the reform, far from precluding to analyse what are class...
by Joel Ruet | On 23 Sep 2008 The paper analyses the impact of the reach of communist parties, the degree of political activism, personal attributes of workers, and industrial characteristics on the individual decision to unionise...
by Rupayan Pal | On 22 Sep 2008 because their traditional ‘slash and burn’ agriculture is
becoming increasingly unsustainable. Farmers in these
communities have to farm more intensively and this is causing a whole host of environm...
by M. A. Monayem Miah | On 19 Sep 2008 Volume III Eleventh Five year plan
by Planning Commission, India | On 18 Aug 2008 This study is an inter-sectoral analysis of state domestic product data to
understand the determinants of the services sector growth in India during the
recent years. It is a demand side analysis wh...
by Deepita Chakravarty | On 11 Aug 2008 A broad overview of the achievements and progress made by the Indian
banking sector in the last two decades and the emerging frontiers of the Indian banking system, in the post-reform era. [Address d...
by Leeladhar V | On 11 Aug 2008 The factors and process underlying agrarian distress in Kerala by undertaking the case studies of three villages situated in Wayanad and Idukki districts namely, Cherumad, Kappikkunnu and Upputhara. T...
by K.N. Nair | On 31 Jul 2008 This study evaluates the economic feasibility of replacing shifting cultivation (Jhum) with settled agriculture and new soil conservation technology based on an assessment of the farmers’ risk and cor...
by M. A. Monayem Miah | On 29 Jul 2008 The objectives of the policy on organic farming, the strategies of the policy are explained here.
by Centre for Sustainable Agriculture CSA | On 26 Jul 2008 This paper investigates certain macro data on the Indian economy to draw inferences on the sustainability of the economic growth experienced over the last couple of decades. Interpreting sustainabilit...
by Purnamita Dasgupta | On 24 Jul 2008 The primary goal of this paper is to examine the impact of organic farming on economics of sugarcane cultivation in Maharashtra. The study is based on primary data collected from two districts coverin...
by Kshirsagar K G | On 14 Jul 2008 A large body of empirical literature highlights the need for stakeholder participation within the context of policy change and democratic governance. This makes intuitive sense and may appear to be a...
by Vinod Ahuja | On 19 Jun 2008 Table of Contents
Agriculture: More Pain Ahead for China’s Food Prices
Huang Jikun, Qiu Huanguan and Scott Rozelle, agricultural economists, show that expensive oil is driving China’s high food pric...
by FEER | On 18 Jun 2008 This paper looks at the effects on livestock of silvi-pasture development on common lands in relation to (a) ruminant systems and (b) livestock numbers and ownership patterns in Rajasthan, India. [SDC...
by Czech Conroy | On 14 May 2008 Narco-analysis was started almost seven years back in India, and was also accompanied by the increased use of lie-detection testing used on criminals. It was not taken up by human-rights organisations...
by Amar Jesani | On 14 May 2008 The Official Group would like to recommend a set of policy initiatives for the consideration of the Government of Karnataka. The recommendations of the Official Group are grouped under the following h...
by Government of Karnataka GoK | On 04 May 2008 While sections of the central ministry of agriculture might recognize that major developments in the sector can only come about now with drastic and comprehensive changes little is being done to revol...
by Prabhakar Tamboli | On 14 Apr 2008 Review of
Freud's Free Clinics: Psychoanalysis and Social Justice, 1918-1938 by Elizabeth Ann Danto. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005.
by Eric J. Engstrom | On 14 Apr 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 A brief overview is provided about India’s long-term growth performance. Then an attempt is made to set out the conditions for successful innovations. To assess the role of innovations in the Indian...
by Rakesh Mohan | On 03 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 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 An attempt is made at addressing the question about how has India fared in
terms of harnessing this technology for enhancing manufacturing productivity. issue by analyzing an unpublished data set on...
by K.J. Joseph | On 10 Mar 2008 This paper investigates a range of aspects including socio economic status,morality, morbidity requiring inpatient as well as outpatient care, health care-seeking behavior etc.
by Akash Acharya | On 10 Mar 2008 Budget presented by Finance Minister
by P Chidambaram | On 29 Feb 2008 The World Trade Organization being an international regulatory body remains a key organization that can exert a huge influence on international agricultural trade as well as on national trade policies...
by Upendra Bhojani | On 27 Feb 2008 Speech of Lalu Prasad
by Lalu Prasad | On 27 Feb 2008 The paper examines fertility differentials among the three religion groups, Hindu, Muslim and Christian, and trends in these based on data from the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-1). [WP No. 167]...
by Manoj Alagarajan | On 26 Feb 2008 This paper attempts to analyse the issues in agricultural credit in India. The analysis reveals that the credit delivery to the agriculture sector continues to be inadequate. It appears that the banki...
by Ramesh Golait | On 22 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 Recent behavioral and neuroimaging studies with humans and monkeys provide compelling evidence of shared numerical capacities across species. In this primer, it is explained why our understanding of t...
by Michael J. Beran | On 12 Feb 2008 Shows how the macro economic variables of Indian Economy are performing.
by P Chidambaram | On 11 Feb 2008 A bill to provide for the rehabilitation and resettlement of persons affected by the acquisition of land for projects of public purpose or involuntary displacement due to any other reason, and for mat...
by Lok Sabha | On 07 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 industry and firm-level patterns of anti-dumping (AD) use across 18 most active AD user countries are analysed. For the analysis, the study makes use of the newly available “Global Anti-dump...
by Aradhna Aggarwal | On 06 Feb 2008 The fertility differentials among caste groups in Andhra Pradesh are examined in the context of characteristics and interaction hypotheses, using the second National Family Health Survey data. Multiva...
by P Ramesh | On 21 Jan 2008 This study analyses the changes in prevalence of undernutrition between the 1980s and 1990s at the national and sub-national levels in India and focuses on the rural-urban comparisons. The study explo...
by Meenakshi J V | On 17 Jan 2008 This paper analyzes the situation of the Indo US Knowledge Initiative on Agriculture, by using the science studies approach.
by C. Shambu Prasad | On 16 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 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 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 To assess the effectiveness and draw lessons from the targeting strategy used in a new BRAC programme called Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction-Targeting the Ultra Poor (CFPR/TUP) that aim...
by Imran Matin | On 09 Oct 2007 This paper is an attempt to measure the extent of peri-urbanisation that has taken place in TamilNadu. Geographical data is used based on the 1991 census for TamilNadu and Pondicherry. A systematic e...
by Sébastien Oliveau | On 04 Oct 2007 The Expert Group constituted by the Planning commission to examine issues related to groundwater management and ownership has made extensive recommendations tha need to be taken seriously. Most impor...
by K.V. Raju | On 04 Oct 2007 The paper examines the prevailing situation of Bt cotton marketing in India. It tells a story of how aggressive and unethical marketing practices are adopted for luring faemers into the Bt cotton trap...
by Centre for Sustainable Agriculture CSA | On 04 Oct 2007 It is time India recognises its dependency on groundwater resources, which is only going to increase in the coming years, partly because of growing urbanisation and industrialisation. In view of the g...
by Kirit Parikh | On 03 Oct 2007 During the period 1972-73 to 2004-05 in rural India, the total number of workers expanded more in the non-farm sector than the farm sector with the rise in male workers being sharper than that of fema...
by Sharad Ranjan | On 30 Sep 2007 Hands-on training in qualitative research in the context of health, nutrition and development. The training included all major steps in qualitative research: deciding objectives, designing tools, data...
by Shubhada Kanani | On 28 Sep 2007 The empirical evidence on the relationship between preventive health care and labour productivity and corporate profitability is examined. Recommendations are offered for policymakers and corporate ma...
by Alka Chadha | On 18 Sep 2007 The price volatility of agricultural commodities assumes critical importance in the context of the ongoing debate regarding agricultural trade liberalisation in India. The arguments against agricultur...
by C S C Sekhar | On 12 Sep 2007 Agriculture as a source of growth was sorely neglected in the early development strategies of the currently developing countries. Realisation of this shortcoming prompted public policy in these countr...
by Sunil Kanwar | On 06 Sep 2007 Over the last decade there has been a major push within policy circles to strengthen community initiatives related to natural resources management. The success or failure of such projects is an import...
by Athula Senaratne | On 29 Aug 2007 Qualitative methods can be used to understand why some patients are not using certain types of health care services. Researchers should also use some quality control while analyzing data [Plos Medicin...
by PLoS Medicine | On 28 Aug 2007 This paper presents a systemic framework to look at the prospects for sustainability of Indian agriculture. The framework is based on trends, indicators and assessment by experts spanning three domain...
by V.M. Rao | On 27 Aug 2007 In spite of being one of the largest producers of fruits and vegetables in the world, the export competitiveness among the Indian producers remains low. But with new marketing initiatives, the post-ha...
by Surabhi Mittal | On 24 Aug 2007 A monthly compilation by IRIS.
by IRIS India IRIS | On 22 Aug 2007 The pesticide use in Kuttanad, India, an ecologically sensitive area often referred to as the rice bowl of Kerala is examined. Using primary data collected from pesticide applicators and farm labor, t...
by Indira Devi P | On 17 Aug 2007 This paper is principally focused on the changes in the size and structure of work force and the changes in labour productivity, wages and poverty in India in the first quinquennuim of the 21st centur...
by K. Sundaram | On 30 Jul 2007 Panel studies based on the same set of sample households or individuals at two points of time 5 or 10 years apart are time consuming and are relatively rare in social science research. Such a method,...
by Zachariah KC | On 23 Jul 2007 The present study was undertaken to examine the health and sustainability of RNFS units and the remedial measures required for the same. A sample of 47 borrowers included manufacturing (power looms, b...
by V Ramakrishna Rao | On 18 Jul 2007 The welfare of the producers are analysed with the main focus on small farmers. The analysis presented in the paper is an approximation of the general equilibrium analysis. The four parts of this appr...
by Surabhi Mittal | On 16 Jul 2007 Export growth and rate of increase in bank credit have slowed down, oil prices are very high, becasuse of the interest rate hike, housing demand has reduced. Even though Sensex has crossed 15000, GDP...
by T.N. Ninan | On 10 Jul 2007 This paper presents the case for investing more in young American children who grow up in disadvantaged environment. It is argued that, on productivity grounds, it makes sense to invest in young child...
by James J Heckman | On 22 Jun 2007 Indian agriculture today is under a large crisis. An average farmer- household’s returns from cultivation would be around one thousand rupees per month. The state of the vast majority of small and mar...
by Srijit Mishra | On 22 Jun 2007 The relationship between trade liberalization and industrial productivity in developing countries, drawing upon a large number of studies in Latin America, Africa and Asia is explored. Beginning with...
by Deb Kusum Das | On 18 Jun 2007 With the Multi Fibre Agreement (MFA) expiring on 1st January 2005, the competition in textile and clothing industry is likely to increase. The paper finds an inverse relationship between the unit cost...
by Danish A Hashim | On 15 Jun 2007 This paper measures environmental efficiency (EE) and environmental productivity (EP) and analyses differences in these across countries. It explores the macroeconomic factors that could explain these...
by Surender Kumar | On 14 Jun 2007 Relatively small proportion of literature has focused upon health behaviours and types of health services used by the poor in rural Bangladesh, particularly ultra poor households.This study aimed to e...
by Shahaduz Zaman | On 14 Jun 2007 It is argued that Indian agriculture is undergoing fundamental change wherein the technology and inputs are moving out of the hands of the farmers to external suppliers. This, over a period of time ma...
by M S Sriram | On 13 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 Stalemate in agricultural negotiations at the WTO has persisted with a continued lack of convergence on most important issues of trade-distorting domestic support, market access and related flex...
by Linu Mathew Philip | On 08 May 2007 It is argued that GM Potato with protein enrichment and that it can and should be introduced in India. It is a first-of-its-kind GE crop in many ways. The paper talks about how this potato was introdu...
by Kavitha Kuruganti | On 29 Mar 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 A crate of Himachal tomato was obtained from Azad Mandi, Delhi. It contained 252 fruits. Each fruit was weighed and its axial dimension measured. Data of all 252 fruits was then subjected to cluster a...
by Sharan G | On 20 Mar 2007 Supply response to price changes is likely to increase with the increasing liberalization of the agricultural sector. Past studies revealed weak supply response for Indian agriculture. There are no r...
by Mythili G | On 19 Mar 2007 The main objective of the study is to examine the long-run relationship between public investment and foodgrain productivity across the fifteen major states of India. The analysis is confined to the p...
by Shyjan D | On 19 Mar 2007 The gives an idea about the North-eastern region (NER) by giving area, population and desnity of population. The paper speaks about how important is the primary sector, dependency ratio, shifting cult...
by S.K. Mishra | On 16 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 Development of sustainable pest management strategies in agriculture has become
necessary in view of increasing non-viability of chemical based approach. Among
various approaches for the purpose, po...
by Anil K Gupta | On 13 Mar 2007 Growth in the agriculture sector may well be judged by the increase in agricultural production over time. In economic terms, relative changes in prices of different crops also may effect substitution....
by S.K. Mishra | On 12 Mar 2007 Approaching maturity, Fair Trade faces challenges at both ends of the supply chain, reflecting the dual roles of Fair Trade as a business and development instrument. Who should supply the Fair Trade...
by Anne Tallontire | On 12 Mar 2007 This paper explores the marketing strategies of Cafédirect, a company that pays a
guaranteed price for coffee to Latin American and African producers and sells it to UK consumers. Based on a visual a...
by Caroline Wright | On 12 Mar 2007 Most of 726 million rural populations in India is dependent on agriculture. Rice is the staple food of nearly 65% of the total population in India. The production of rough rice reached 135 million ton...
by Barah B.C. | On 09 Mar 2007 The world poultry-meat industry is growing the fastest among all the meat categories due to increasing concerns for health, safety, convenience and variety, and price-competitiveness. Issues related t...
by Subrata Mitra | On 08 Mar 2007 Indian agriculture is under policy reforms for some time now. One of the issues it faces is that of lack of viability of smallholdings and lack of international competitiveness of its produce. In this...
by Sukhpal Singh | On 07 Mar 2007 Multilateral agencies and economists with much influence have been urging laissez-faire in agriculture. While success with the rich countries has been minimal despite the commitments under the WTO, ma...
by Sebastian Morris | On 07 Mar 2007 Land Reforms Act in Kerala rendered tenancy invalid and prohibited the creation of future tenancies in the State, but tenancy very much exists. It is a consequence of the simultaneous increase in two...
by K.N. Nair | On 07 Mar 2007 The paper disuses and analyzes the condition of cotton farmers of Andra Pradesh and the reasons for their committing suicides.
by Reji K Joseph | On 05 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 It is unrealistic to expect all problems to be solved in one budget. But it is possible for one budget to do a great deal of damage.
by Vinod Vyasulu | On 27 Feb 2007 It is unrealistic to expect all problems to be solved in one budget. But it is possible for one budget to do a great deal of damage
by Vinod Vyasulu | On 27 Feb 2007 Freshwater community-based aquaculture was introduce to village irrigation tanks in
the dry zones of Sri Lanka in order to off-set the limited supply of animal protein
available to residents in inla...
by Athula Senaratne | On 17 Feb 2007 Contents:
Data Exclusivity: Another Self-Goal and a Trade Barrier S.Srinivasan.
Medico Friend Circle Letter to PM on DE.
DE in International Trade Agreements.
IDMA on DP and DE.
Safeguards if...
by Medico Friend Circle | On 01 Feb 2007 The changed survey methodology of the 55th round (and the consequent furore that has ensued) has demonstrated that there is indeed uncertainty surrounding estimates of poverty. The uncertainties conce...
by David Williams | On 30 Jan 2007 This keynote address of the conference on Natural Resource Conservation Use and Sustainability in Drylands, focuses mainly on some new concepts of resource assessments in dry areas, some recent debate...
by Yoginder Alagh | On 30 Jan 2007 Banking sector in India is currently passing through an exciting and challenging
phase. The reform measures have brought about sweeping changes in this vital sector
of the country's economy. This pa...
by Ramasastri A.S. | On 10 Jan 2007 In Tripura also, potato as a crop has been associated with agricultural
diversification and modernization. The area under cultivation of potato has increased
remarkably during the plan period. This...
by P. Nayak | On 09 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 It is often assumed that poverty reduction would lead to gender equality. Research however, points to the opposite, namely, that increasing prosperity can have perverse gender effects . It is therefor...
by Nitya Rao | On 26 Dec 2006 This paper examines core features of poor rural areas, the nature of coordination problems faced by different potential economic actors, the impacts of these problems on markets and economic developme...
by Jonathan Kydd | On 22 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 The role of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in the current stage of reform is crucial. The need for research and information collection not just at the national level but at the state-level has never...
by Vidya Pitre | 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 The effect of globalization on knowledge exchange, which is mediated very largely through scientific journals being published in English, and having their origins in Europe and North America, has resu...
by Academy of South Africa | On 27 Nov 2006 Data Exclusivity: Another Self-Goal and a Trade Barrier S.Srinivasan
Medico Friend Circle Letter to PM on DE
DE in International Trade Agreements
IDMA on DP and DE
Safeguards if Decision by Go...
by Medico Friend Circle | On 03 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 This paper synthesises the different explanations and presents an overview of the development and characteristics of the Chinese rural enterprises (REs). The rural industrialization history of the Chi...
by Justin Yifu Lin | On 18 Oct 2006 The Seeds Bill, 2004 aims to regulate the quality of seeds sold,
and replaces the Seeds Act, 1966. The proposed Act would replace the Seeds Act, 1966. The Bill seeks to update the existing Act in or...
by M. R. Madhavan | On 01 Oct 2006 The book is an account of the aims and motivations that led to the creation of early psychoanalytic out-patient clinics. The book's main focus is on the polyclinics in Vienna and Berlin, with some att...
by Eric J. Engstrom | On 01 Oct 2006 The upward harmonization through TRIPS, the TRIPS Plus provision in
various bilateral and free trade agreements is resulting in the global
spread of the enclosure with nation states acting as guaran...
by Krishna Ravi Srinivas | On 29 Aug 2006 This paper engages with the literature on intellectual property rights by adopting an evolutionary economist’s approach to the study of technologies.
by Dwijen Rangnekar | On 29 Aug 2006 Rather paradoxically the promotion of intellectual property rights, aimed at solving the incentive problem, might actually hinder innovation. This paper engages with this literature by adopting an evo...
by Dwijen Rangnekar | On 17 Aug 2006 Demographic research, has increasingly become field-based involving primary data collection and the nature of inquiry and its scope has widened a great deal in recent years. The ethical considerations...
by Leela Visaria | On 19 Jul 2006 Disagreements and confrontations are common among social scientists regarding conclusions obtained by two researchers on a similar premise. Such disagreements highlight two critical aspects of researc...
by Udaya S. Mishra | On 19 Jul 2006 Introducing data exclusivity would require intending generic manufacturers to conduct their own duplicate trials – a process guaranteed to add further costs. The immediate entry of competitors after e...
by S Srinivasan | On 11 Jul 2006 Introducing data exclusivity would require the intending generic manufacturers to conduct their own duplicate trials – a process guaranteed to add costs. The immediate entry of competitors after exclu...
by S Srinivasan | On 11 Jul 2006 The Indian software industry has grown very rapidly for more than a decade. In this study we report the results of a multivariate statistical analysis of the determinants of sales revenue growth and p...
by N.S. Siddharthan | On 03 Jun 2006 Bt Brinjal is being developed in India by Mahyco [Maharashtra Hybrid Seeds Company] and the company wants to take up large scale field trials with the permission of the regulatory authority, GEAC. N...
by Centre for Sustainable Agriculture CSA | On 03 Jun 2006 The main aim of this study is to develop an accounting framework that
reflects the real contribution of agricultural land and pastureland to
society. The more specific objectives are to: 1 estimate...
by Haripriya Gundimeda | On 23 May 2006 Based on field work in a village panchayat in Kerala, analyzing
the complex issues concerning the development and working of irrigation
institutions, the present study reveals that successful manage...
by Vineetha Menon | On 27 Apr 2006 A SWOT analysis of the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry (IPI) in the WTO regime
reveals that the much acclaimed IPI’s expertise in process development skills
were made possible by the amendments made...
by N. Lalitha | On 28 Mar 2006 Neo-liberal economic policies have threatened land security, security of employment opportunities and food security. In the background representatives of the peasantry have to transform themselves int...
by Vijoo Krishnan | On 26 Mar 2006 This paper deals with the agrarian distress experienced in parts of rural Kerala from the latter half of the 1990s, and the ways in which the distress affected the livelihoods of cultivating household...
by R. Ramakumar | On 26 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 The bulk of the resources must go to the UPA Government’s eight flagship programmes: Sarva Siksha Abhiyan, Mid-day Meal Scheme, Rajiv Gandhi Drinking Water Mission, Total Sanitation Campaign, National...
by Ministry of Finance | On 28 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 The increase in direct taxes has not been able to offset the decline that resulted from the reduction in customs tariff and decline in excise revenue. The task facing the policymakers now is to explor...
by Amaresh Bagchi | On 01 Feb 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 This study on agricultural wages shows that states like West Bengal and Gujarat have performed well in providing gender equal wages to men and women. Kerala’s performance in maintaining gender equal w...
by Shambhu Ghatak | On 11 Jan 2006 The concept of ‘agricultural biotechnology’ covers two main categories of activities, one of which is characterised by genetic modification using recombinant DNA techniques (GM-technology), while the...
by A. Indira | On 22 Nov 2005 The present paper examines contract farming and its situation in India on the basis of nature of contracts, nature of contract growers, practice and implementation of contract farming and techniques,...
by Sukhpal Singh | On 11 Nov 2005 The draft tribal policy (hereinafter referred as draft or DTP) prepared by the Ministry of Tribal affairs appears to be a mere reiteration of the existing policies and programmes. The paper suggests t...
by Naresh C. Saxena | On 12 Sep 2005 The research discussed in the report revisits the notion of access to health care in Koppal, an economically disadvantaged district in northern Karnataka. This issue is important to households experie...
by Aditi Iyer | On 08 Aug 2005 Maharashtra occupies a very significant position in the industrial economy of India. However, over the period of time Maharashtra’s share in India’s industrial sector has declined. The composition of...
by G Burange | On 05 Aug 2005 |