How far the govt will go towards establishing its control depends on the effectiveness of domestic institutional resistance and on how much it wants to risk international censure.
by T.N. Ninan | On 08 Mar 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 The pandemic has inevitably prompted a spike in the coverage of science, in the form of medical research and health sciences. Will this lead to better attention to science in the media? Will it promp...
by Padma Prakash | On 30 Jun 2020 One of the distressingly overwhelming scenes which followed the sudden announcement of lockdown was mass reverse migration of lakhs of migrant workers from more industrialized and urbanized states and...
by | On 02 Jun 2020 New Keynesian Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) models with various specifications of technology, markup and interest rate shocks are estimated with Indian data using Kalman filter based p...
by Ashima Goyal | On 25 Apr 2019 Previous studies find mixed results about how a fee on high order-to-trade (OTR) ratios impacts market quality. Using a natural experiment where such a fee was introduced twice for different reasons,...
by Nidhi Aggarwal | On 25 Apr 2019 This paper identifies five factors that can capture 95% of the variance across 39 US dollar exchange rates based on the principal component method. A time-varying parameter factor-augmented vector aut...
by Hongyi Chen | On 01 Apr 2019 Over 2017-18 there was a sharp rise in Indian government securities (G-Secs) interest rates unrelated to fundamentals. Examining each of the standard explanatory variables shows them to be inadequate...
by Ashima Goyal | On 29 Mar 2019 Reverse mortgages provide an alternative source of retirement funding by allowing older homeowners to borrow against their home. However, a recent pilot program of reserve mortgage products in several...
by Katja Hanewald | On 03 Feb 2019 There were intensive efforts at monetary cooperation in the interwar years to overcome the imbalances accumulated during the war years to reduce the rate of inflation, reduce the rate of unemployment...
by Manmohan Agarwal | On 01 Feb 2019 This paper tries to understand the trends and the pattern of Outward Foreign Direct Investment (OFDI) by Indian firms and the factors that determine OFDI from India through Cross-Border Mergers and Ac...
by P.L. Beena | On 31 Jan 2019 The paper explored deep analytical issues such as the nature of the objective function to be optimized, planning horizon, choice of the discount rates, etc. No wonder, his book “Capital and Developmen...
by Vijay Kelkar | On 30 Jan 2019 This study analyses the time varying correlation of money and output using the DCC GARCH model for the Euro, India, Poland, the UK and the US. Apart from simple sum money, this model uses Divisia mone...
by Taniya Ghosh | On 30 Jan 2019 This paper investigates the effects of the Basel II capital requirement implementation in Viet Nam on the bank lending rate and national output. The paper provides a theoretical framework as well as e...
by Nguyet Thi Minh Phi | On 28 Jan 2019 This study investigates the macroeconomic effects of public debt in India using a Structural Vector Auto regression (SVAR) framework for the period from 1980 to 2017. The objective of this study is to...
by Ranjan Kumar Mohanty | On 23 Jan 2019 In recent years, many emerging economies including India have adopted inflation targeting framework. Post the global financial crisis, there is a growing debate on whether monetary policy should targe...
by Ila Patnaik | On 23 Jan 2019 This paper assesses the accuracy of Asian Development Outlook growth and inflation forecasts for 43 Asian economies from 2007 to 2016, against the benchmark of World Economic Outlook projections by th...
by Benno Ferrarini | On 22 Jan 2019 This paper analyses competition in a two sided market with congestion. The existing literature’s pricing mechanisms of two-sided markets has concluded that pricing mechanism depends on the following t...
by Swapnil Sharma | On 27 Dec 2018 The paper examines behavioral constraints in policy-making and in achieving coordination across policies. First it applies psychological concepts to understand policy inadequacies, and next examines h...
by Ashima Goyal | On 29 Oct 2018 This paper develops an environmental dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (E-DSGE) model with heterogeneous production sectors. In particular, the model comprises some low-carbon emission firms that...
by Maria Teresa Punzi | On 19 Oct 2018 This paper takes a New Keynesian model with non-separable money in utility to Indian data using maximum likelihood. The identification problem in isolating the effect of money on output and inflation...
by Ashima Goyal | On 21 Sep 2018 The paper assesses the performance of India's managed float with respect to maintaining a real competitive exchange rate, its effect on trade, on stability of currency and financial markets, and on in...
by Ashima Goyal | On 24 Aug 2018 This paper examines the advantages and disadvantages of different financial schemes for introducing PV facilities in terms of the suitability of funding vehicles and investment mechanisms. Given the p...
by Ranaporn Tantiwechwuttikul | On 13 Aug 2018 This short paper has two main sections. The first section presents a more detailed picture and overview of the macroeconomic performance of the Philippines behind the Philippines’ remarkable growth. T...
by Maureen Ane D. Rosellon | On 06 Jul 2018 This study focuses on the implications of RA7581 during disaster events, and answer issues on the effects of price control on consumer protection and local economic recovery as well as provides discou...
by Sonny N. Domingo | On 05 Jul 2018 This paper finds that transparency and efficiency in collection should be improved through automation and accurate recording. Project identification and investment programming must also adhere to the...
by Sheilah G. Napalang | On 29 Jun 2018 This paper reviews the existing framework for infrastructure development and the associated standards in India, and identifies areas for concern. Rather than deeply analysing any one standard, this pa...
by Sanhita Sapatnekar | On 15 Jun 2018 This paper provides an analysis of financial inclusion, literacy, and education issues in the Republic of Tajikistan. It discusses the recent progress in financial inclusion and the sector’s response...
by Roman Mogilevskii | On 11 Jun 2018 This paper assesses the effects of the most recent monetary policy behavior of the Bank of Japan (BOJ) (in particular, zero interest rate policy and negative interest rate policy) and Japanese tax pol...
by Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary | On 09 Jun 2018 The paper identifies key features of International Monetary Fund (IMF)–supported programs following the 2008 global financial crisis. The statistical analysis of a large sample of countries that borro...
by Carlos De Resende | On 09 Jun 2018 This paper studies the relationship between rural wage growth and inflation in
India to assess the risk of a wage
-
price spiral to the inflation trajectory.
The
results...
by Sujata Kundu | On 14 May 2018 The paper assesses the power of forward guidance—promises about future interest rates—as a monetary tool in a liquidity trap using a quantitative incomplete-markets model. The results suggest the effe...
by Marcus Hagedorn | On 24 Apr 2018 The study comes at a crucial time when key actors as well as the general
public would like to know more about how effective is the implementation of the main law protecting
children from sexual abus...
by Bharti Ali | On 24 Apr 2018 This paper seeks to examine how the objectives of monetary policy have changed over the years from one of supporting public investment to one of inflation control and still later to inflation targetin...
by | On 15 Mar 2018 The paper makes an analysis of cash holdings in India and attempts to test its association with tax effort and government spending. The finding arrived is that the ratio of Cash holding to Nominal GDP...
by R. Mohan | On 14 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 This paper seeks to draw lessons for developing countries based on a survey of the recent literature on financial globalization. First, while capital account openness holds promises (by potentially lo...
by Shang-Jin Wei | 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 examines a measure of self-reported evaluative wellbeing, the Cantril Ladder, and use data from Gallup to examine wellbeing over the life-cycle. It assesses the validity of the measure, and...
by Angus Deaton | 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 In view of the need for an appropriate institutional architecture to address the food security concerns in South
Asia, issues of proper operationalisation of the SAARC Food Bank (SFB) have assumed cr...
by | On 06 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 Delhi is one of the most polluted cities in the world, especially in the winter months from October - January. These months coincide with the religious festival of Diwali. It is argued that air qualit...
by Dhananjay Ghei | On 27 Feb 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 The paper presents a variety of indicators to show that demand constrained output during the period of growth slowdown 2011-17. It also draws on research to show the macroeconomic structure of the eco...
by Ashima Goyal | On 22 Feb 2018 The paper talks about the unequal power relations, discrimination and misogyny in patriarchal
societies are exacerbated by the promotion of aggression and violence during war.
by E.J. Wood | On 21 Feb 2018 This systematic paper aimed to canvas the extent and impact of initiatives to reduce incidence, risk and harm from sexual violence in conflict, post-conflict and other humanitarian crises, in low and...
by Jo Spangaro | On 20 Feb 2018 The current dynamic within the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) has driven the
Council in certain cases to function more closely in accordance with normative standards,
as well as with the reality on t...
by | On 12 Feb 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 During 2017-18 (till January), monetary policy remained steady with only one policy rate cut
in August. As the Y-o-Y effect of demonetisation wore off, the growth rate of both Currency in
Circulatio...
by Arun Jaitley | On 31 Jan 2018 This guide is for government officials in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) who will be preparing reports and communications on their country’s climate change circumstances and actions under the UN Fra...
by | On 23 Jan 2018 A selective survey of recent papers in the area of technological change, automation and employment is presented. The objective is to convey analytical ideas and the empirical evidence that have inform...
by K. V. Ramaswamy | On 16 Jan 2018 This paper examines dimensions of inequality including labour market inequalities and discusses public policies needed for reduction in inequalities. It discusses both inequality of outcomes and inequ...
by S.Mahendra Dev | On 16 Jan 2018 One of the biggest challenges faced by the Indian education system in the last several decades since Independence has been expansion without a simultaneous assurance of equity in educational opportuni...
by Centre for Budget and Policy Studies CBPS | On 01 Jan 2018 The paper discusses the changes in the new 2011-12 base year series of the Index of Industrial Production (IIP) to ask, whether the new series has improved our under-standing of the growth in the manu...
by Radhika Pandey | On 12 Dec 2017 Fifty years ago, Milton Friedman articulated the natural rate hypothesis. It was composed of two sub-hypotheses: First, the natural rate of unemployment is independent of monetary policy. Second, ther...
by | On 08 Dec 2017 This paper disaggregates informal employment into different forms, with particular focus on the growing informalisation of the labour force by formal enterprises. The analysis of the determinants of f...
by Rosa Abraham | On 05 Dec 2017 Impact of changes in policy rate of interest on demand for bank credit is examined for seven emerging market economies including India for the period 2002 to 2010. Panel data techniques are used after...
by | On 01 Dec 2017 The study adopts a qualitative approach to understand the power dynamics and draws out conclusions from a wide variety of stakeholders regarding the issues at hand.
by Sadaf Liaquat | On 23 Nov 2017 This report attempts to map the history of global responses to eradicate child marriage. However, child marriage is not an isolated issue, as it often encompasses early and forced marriages, though th...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 21 Nov 2017 India has undertaken extensive reforms in its manufacturing sector in the
last two decades. However, an acceleration of growth in manufacturing, and a concomitant increase in employment, has eluded I...
by Poonam Gupta | On 17 Nov 2017 This study is part of a global research effort entitled Consultations with the Poor, designed to inform the World Development Report 2000/1 on Poverty and Development.
The research involved poor peop...
by | On 07 Nov 2017 Using the random assignment of illiterate women to an adult literacy and numeracy program – Tara Akshar – in Uttar Pradesh in north India, the attempt is made to gauge the effect of adult education on...
by Ashwini Deshpande | On 03 Nov 2017 This paper constructs a dynamic macro model with new monetary policy rule to examine the implications of international reserve accumulation for macroeconomic outcomes such as economic growth and infla...
by Prakash Shrestha | On 18 Oct 2017 The report narrates that the Government of India has announced an ambitious solar power target of 100 GW by 2022.
by Bhupesh Verma | On 12 Oct 2017 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 paper says that it will contribute to make monetary policy more effective and thus enhance its impact.
by Sarthak Karki | On 06 Oct 2017 The analysis showed that the relationship of financial literacy of small borrowers was significant with their financial attitude and behavior.
by Ramesh Chaulagain | On 06 Oct 2017 This paper estimates the optimal inflation rate in Nepal based on the data of the period 1978–2016.
by Nepal Rastra Bank Research Department NRB | On 28 Sep 2017 The paper investigate the predictive power of Divisia monetary aggregates in explaining exchange rate variations for India, Israel, Poland, UK and the US, in the years leading up to and following the...
by Taniya Ghosh | On 18 Sep 2017 The Laspeyres-type consumer price index (CPI) is traditionally used to measure the changes in cost-of-living over time. Studies indicate this CPI suffers from a plutocratic bias, attaching greater wei...
by Dilip M. Nachane | 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 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 The contribution of fisheries sector to Indian merchandise trade and to world fishery trade is substantial. The items traded have gained reputation over the years which will help to keep the momentum...
by Veena Renjini K K | On 13 Sep 2017 This paper examines the nature, changes and factors responsible for issues and problems faced by the sugarcane growers and sugar mills in India. This paper is based on the latest available secondary d...
by Abnave Vikas B. | On 12 Sep 2017 The objective of the study is to understand the ‘actual’ consumption patterns of fruits and vegetables in India and compare this to the World Health Organization (WHO) ‘recommended’ quantity for an ad...
by Arpita Mukherjee | On 31 Aug 2017 The paper argues that as bankers consider deposits a means for security, easy and attractive deposit schemes should be introduced in rural areas.
by Gagan Bihari Sahu | On 23 Aug 2017 Social partners, sensibilisation, monitor, training, employees’, employment, trade unionists, problem, evaluation, transparency.
by Szilvia Borbély | On 21 Aug 2017 This paper quantifies the magnitude of gender-based disparities that women face in the organized sector of the Indian Labour Market.
by Biju Varkkey | On 21 Aug 2017 The paper argues, in line with other recent studies that time has come to rethink concepts and practices used to promote local governance in African countries.
by Göran Hydén | On 10 Aug 2017 The present study assesses the public procurement system and recent reform initiatives in India and outlines the need for changes in the institutional frameworks.
by Bhabesh Hazarika | On 09 Aug 2017 The report narrates the recent global financial crisis demonstrated the shortcomings of the frameworks to handle the failure of large and systemically important financial institutions, also known as “...
by Reserve Bank of India RBI | On 08 Aug 2017 The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) released an audit report on the Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) programme under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) on July 21, 2017. The Re...
by PRS Legislative Research | On 07 Aug 2017 The Comptroller and Auditor General of India submitted a report on the electrification projects in Indian Railways (between 2013-14 and 2015-16) on July 21, 2017. Trains on Indian Railways are hauled...
by PRS Legislative Research | On 07 Aug 2017 In the Indian context, the present literature on estimation of potential output - the level of output that an economy can produce sustainably over the medium term is based on an understanding that sus...
by Deba Prasad Rath | On 04 Aug 2017 This paper provides a comparative assessment of CPI and WPI in terms of its key characteristics, particularly on the method of compilation, distributional properties and measures of underlying inflat...
by Praggya Das | On 04 Aug 2017 The report says that the BoP, thus, includes all transactions showing: (a) transactions in goods, services and income between an economy and the rest of the world, (b) changes of ownership and other c...
by Reserve Bank of India RBI | On 03 Aug 2017 The study focuses on various drivers of overnight inter-bank rate spread under
the new liquidity management framework during July 2013 to December 2016.
Applying OLS with Newey-West estimator and va...
by Sunil Kumar | On 03 Aug 2017 This paper revisits the issue of determinants of inflation in India in a Phillips curve framework and makes two key contributions in relation to existing studies. First, in the context of the Reserve...
by Harendra Behera | On 03 Aug 2017 The subject of this study is the relationship between the delivery of services, social protection and livelihoods assistance, and state legitimacy (measured here using perceptions of government perfor...
by Babar Shahbaz | On 01 Aug 2017 This paper examines the implications of the establishment of the
New Development Bank (NDB) and the Contingent Reserve Arrangement
(CRA) for the international financial system and for the BRICS coun...
by Manmohan Agarwal | On 31 Jul 2017 An analysis of the impact of government borrowing from the scheduled banks on the credit to private
sector in Pakistan, using monthly data from 1998:M6 to 2015:M12. We find that a one percentage
poi...
by Sajjad Zaheer | On 31 Jul 2017 The seventh goal of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is dedicated to ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all by 2030. While energy was implicit in the Mi...
by Hannah Goozee | On 28 Jul 2017 The present paper is an attempt to conduct a valuation of the three most important exhaustible natural resources, viz., natural gas, coal and hard rock, via
the System of Environmental-Economic Accou...
by Mahfuz Kabir | On 27 Jul 2017 This paper also highlights the need for a coordinated approach to
SDG implementation by demonstrating the case of gender
equality and urban planning.
by Shrimoyee Bhattacharya | On 26 Jul 2017 Book review of Reporting Pakistan By Meena Menon; Penguin Random House, Pp. 340, Rs 599.
by Amrit B L S | On 24 Jul 2017 Inflation expectations are an important marker for the conduct of monetary policy. Using a Bayesian structural VAR-X model that includes the inflation expectations of general public based on the Infla...
by Taniya Ghosh | On 21 Jul 2017 Greater gains in energy savings are possible from improved energy efficiency and conservation measures, both as a smart business investment, and an imperative for the global community.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 18 Jul 2017 Renewable energy is a challenge, but also an opportunity for new industries, employment, and new ways to reduce dependency on fuel imports, provide electricity to poor remote areas, reduce air polluti...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 18 Jul 2017 The report says that the bond investors typically have a long position in local currency bond markets. To manage their foreign exchange risk, they may want to hedge that exposure for a period of time.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 12 Jul 2017 This report is an outcome of Phase 3 discussions under the ASEAN+3 Bond Market Forum Sub-Forum 2, which have focused on making bond market infrastructures in the region more inter-operable through the...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 11 Jul 2017 The results of this study can be used to strengthen the institutional and statistical capacities of Georgia to routinely collect, compile, analyze, and disseminate internationally comparable financial...
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 The publication reviews recent developments in East Asian local currency bond markets along with the outlook, risks, and policy options. This issue includes a special section on Sukuk (Islamic bonds)...
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 study measures the size of fossil fuel subsidies such as underpricing of petroleum products and electricity, tax exemptions, and subsidized credit; examines the potential economic, energy, and en...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 04 Jul 2017 This study measures the size of fossil fuel subsidies such as tax breaks for diesel and natural gas, market price support for natural gas for vehicles, and free electricity for low-income consumers as...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 04 Jul 2017 The report says that yields for 10-year local currency (LCY) government bonds in emerging East Asia were mostly down between 1 September and 31 October. Investor confidence was buoyed as financial mar...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 29 Jun 2017 The report says Fiji’s economy has seen 5 years of positive growth since 2010 - one of its few episodes of sustained growth since 1970. Growth averaged 3.3% a year during 2010-2014, which is nearly fo...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 27 Jun 2017 The report says Asia’s developing economies remain on track to post growth of 5.8% in 2015 and 6.0% in 2016, as the region’s economies remain resilient to continued economic weakness in industrialized...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 26 Jun 2017 This issue of the Asia Bond Monitor includes two special discussion boxes. Box 1 discusses the risks to emerging Asia’s financial stability under tightening global liquidity conditions. Box 2 discusse...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 23 Jun 2017 The paper says that preparing and implementing a K–12 transition absorbs considerable financial and human resources. It follows that the reasons for restructuring must be compelling.
by Jouko Sarvi | On 21 Jun 2017 The report herein provide in-depth analysis of the state of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) and higher education in Nepal.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 19 Jun 2017 This report examines the challenges ASEAN member states face in achieving the goal of greater mobility for the highly skilled, including hurdles in recognizing professional qualifications, opening up...
by Demetrios G. Papademetriou | On 16 Jun 2017 The report narrates that the yields of local currency bonds in most emerging East Asian markets remained on a downward trajectory in the first month and a half of 2016, pressured by worries over globa...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 Jun 2017 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 The report says that the global economic environment also affects the region’s bond yields, emphasizing the importance of domestic macroeconomic stability and bond market resilience in the face of glo...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 06 Jun 2017 Growth in Central Asia is weaker than predicted, while expansion in the Pacific is now expected to be a touch higher. Forecasts are unchanged for East, South, and Southeast Asia. While the Brexit vote...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 02 Jun 2017 The report narrates that in 2015, there were about five lakh road accidents in India, which killed about 1.5 lakh people and injured about five lakh people. India, as a signatory to the Brasilia decla...
by Prachee Mishra | On 30 May 2017 The paper argue that the judicial statistics that are currently collected are inadequate for understanding and solving the problem of judicial delay. It propose a new approach to collecting data, whic...
by Prasanth Regy | On 25 May 2017 This study argues that some of the policies that allowed Bangladesh to prosper in the last few years will become less effective, and the economy will need to “switch gears” to consolidate the growth m...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 23 May 2017 The report notes that yields for 2-year and 10-year local currency government bonds in emerging East Asia were mostly lower between 1 June and 15 August and stock markets in the region recorded gains...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 23 May 2017 The analysis and practical guidance provided in this report are based on surveys of revenue bodies conducted in 2014 and 2015, along with accompanying research of revenue bodies’ corporate documents,...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 22 May 2017 This paper narrates that elections impact everyone in the entire country – citizens, businesses, administrative machinery, constitutional institutions, political parties, leaders and so on. Eventual i...
by Bibek Debroy | On 18 May 2017 This Update retains the projections previously published in Asian Development Outlook 2016 (ADO 2016) in March. Gross domestic product (GDP) in the region is expected to grow at 5.7% in 2016 and 2017,...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 16 May 2017 The paper narrates that the Government of Japan raises significant amounts from domestic capital markets to finance government expenditures, mainly through the issuance of Japanese Government Bonds (J...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 16 May 2017 The paper says that the government has continued to issue bonds since then with the primary objectives being to finance the annual budget deficit, support social and economic development, and restruct...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 16 May 2017 The report narrates that the SDGs are integrated and indivisible with a clear focus on equity, including equity focused monitoring and evaluation (M&E), to ensure not only that the targets are being m...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 May 2017 This paper draws on the background research by Saumya Mitra. PSDI thanks Erik Aelbers for preparing Appendix 2: Credit Guarantee Schemes in the Pacific, and Melissa Dayrit and Amanda Lucas-Frith for h...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 11 May 2017 The study recognized the need for consideration of numerous issues when developing ecocompensation regulations. These include (i) provision of guidance for determining the ecocompensation rate; (ii) e...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 11 May 2017 The outlook for developing Asia remains broadly as forecast in Asian Development Outlook 2016 Update. Despite an extraordinary and temporary growth dip affecting one of the region’s largest economies,...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 10 May 2017 The paper says that the government has already initiated reforms to strengthen the institutional framework for managing contingent liabilities arising from PPP projects. Among these reforms are (i) es...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 10 May 2017 The report says although these MRAs share nearly identical objectives, they diverge significantly in terms of institutional structures, requirements, and procedures. Not all MRAs are created equal. Gl...
by Dovelyn Rannveig Mendoza | On 09 May 2017 This paper provides background information on the applied methodology and the underlying data of the Asian Water Development Outlook 2016 (AWDO 2016). The purpose is to document the methodology and th...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 09 May 2017 This study contributes to a growing body of research demonstrating that adoption of
internationally available and well-proven energy efficiency measures can improve the
effectiveness, sustainability...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 04 May 2017 This paper analyzes optimal monetary policy under zero lower bound in the
presence of cost channel. Cost channel introduces trade-o¤ between output and
inflation when economy is out of ZLB. As a res...
by Taniya Ghosh | On 04 May 2017 This paper analyzes two notions of compliance, 'compliance in letter' and 'compliance in spirit', using
data on Board and Audit Committee meetings from India under its Clause 49 corporate governance
...
by Subrata Sarkar | On 03 May 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 The analysis in this paper
suggests that demonetisation has impacted various sectors of the economy in varying
degrees; however, in the affected sectors, the adverse impact was transient and felt ma...
by Reserve Bank of India RBI | On 21 Mar 2017 Demonetisation announced on November 8, 2016 was aimed at addressing corruption, black money, counterfeit currency and terror financing. Although demonetisation holds huge potential benefits in the me...
by Reserve Bank of India RBI | On 15 Mar 2017 The ability to punish free-riders can increase the provision of public goods. However, sometimes the benefit of increased public good provision is outweighed by the costs of punishments. One reason a...
by | On 21 Feb 2017 The paper examines the medium-term fiscal policy (MTFP) and a more conventional medium-term expenditure framework (MTEF) adopted in India under the provisions of the fiscal rules. The MTFP and the MTE...
by Pratap Ranjan Jena | On 10 Jan 2017 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 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 Pulses in India have recently become a topic of concern among policymakers. Members of the Opposition, for instance, have pointed to the 'exceptionally high' cost of certain pulses as an indication of...
by | On 15 Dec 2016 The study attempted to investigate the determinants of inflation in case of
Pakistan and to check the validity of monetarist stance that inflation is always
and everywhere a monetary phenomenon by i...
by Mehak Moazam | On 07 Dec 2016 In collaboration with the Government of Bihar, India, a large-scale experiment is conducted to evaluate whether transparency in fiscal transfer systems can increase
accountability and reduce corrupt...
by Abhijit Banerjee | On 02 Dec 2016 According to the Paper, black money is a serious issue because it has a ‘debilitating effect’ on governance and public policy and this affects the poor disproportionately. [PRS Report Summary].
by Vishnu Padmanabhan | On 17 Nov 2016 This study examines whether skewness of cross sectional distribution of
relative price shocks has asymmetric impact on aggregate inflation. The
empirical evidence from various countries suggests tha...
by Sartaj Rather | On 16 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 The rape followed by the death of a New Delhi university student in December 2012 shamed India and her cultural ethos while sparking nationwide debate over the need to make laws more stringent if not...
by | On 02 Nov 2016 The aim of this study
is to value, in monetary units, coastal and marine ecosystem services in India. The
reasons for doing so are two–fold: i) the destruction and degradation of coastal
ecosystems...
by K. S. Kavi Kumar | On 25 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 objectives of monetary policy have always been a topic of intensive debate. This debate has
resurfaced during the past few years. In India too monetary policy-making appears to have
undergone si...
by Lokendra Kumawat | On 10 Oct 2016 Even almost eight years since resorting to the extraordinary monetary and
fiscal measures to counter the after-effects of the Global Financial Crisis, authorities are still
left wondering about rela...
by S.S. Mundra | On 10 Oct 2016 Economic and political processes differ widely across states in India. Some states have seen rapid economic growth and development while others are facing economic stagnation. The differences in outco...
by | On 07 Oct 2016 the role of institutional innovations
and subsidy policy interventions in the diffusion of micro-irrigation across
the state in the recent years. While the first part makes a comprehensive
review o...
by Chandra Sekhar Bahinipati | On 26 Sep 2016 The National Reports received to date were considered during the development of the Regional Report and examples from National Reports have been incorporated into the Regional Report as appropriate T...
by United Nations (UN) | On 07 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 In this paper a textual analysis is performed of monetary policy statements issued during the past ten
years by State Bank of Pakistan and compare them with policy reviews of seven selected central
...
by Asif Mahmood | On 07 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 During the recent episode of persistently high food inflation in India, the role of rent seeking activities of food suppliers emerged as the centre of debate in the country. The rent seeking activitie...
by Rudrani Bhattacharya | On 29 Aug 2016 This paper argues that differences in the cost structure across sectors play an important role in the decision of firms to adjust their prices. It develops a menu-cost model of pricing in which retail...
by Craig Benedict | On 18 Aug 2016 Infrequent but turbulent episodes of outright sovereign default on domestic creditors are considered a “forgotten history” in Macroeconomics. This paper proposes a heterogeneous-agents model in which...
by Pablo D'Erasmo | 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 Countries rarely hit the zero-lower bound on interest rates, but when they do, these episodes tend to be very long-lived. These two features are difficult to jointly incorporate into macroeconomic mod...
by Marc Carreras | On 16 Aug 2016 Private equity funds hold assets that are hard to value. Managers may have an incentive to distort reported valuations if these are used by investors to decide on commitments to subsequent funds manag...
by Gregory Brown | On 12 Aug 2016 There has to be evidence in the policy dialogue. Some may believe that all it takes to convince the body politic of the necessity to choose one policy over another is to present the evidence, complete...
by Raghuram G. Rajan | On 03 Aug 2016 This paper outlines the history of the FDA’s recent attempts to regulate cigarettes and other tobacco products and how they have valued foregone consumer surplus in cost-benefit analyses. It discusses...
by Helen Levy | On 03 Aug 2016 This paper reports on an experimental test of a new market design that is attractive in theory but makes the common and potentially unrealistic assumption that “agents report their type”; that is, tha...
by Eric Budish | On 27 Jul 2016 At the 16th session of Conference of Parties (COP) to the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the COP adopted
decisions in which it decided to establish a Green Climate F...
by Prodipto Ghosh | On 26 Jul 2016 This paper analyzes the optimal discretionary monetary policy under Zero Lower Bound (ZLB) for varying degree of interest rate pass-through. This paper finds that (i) exit date from ZLB becomes endoge...
by Siddhartha Chattopadhyay | On 13 Jul 2016 The paper investigates the dynamic relationship between movements in oil prices and exchange rates with macroeconomic variables like price, output, interest rate and money by using structural vector a...
by Taniya Ghosh | On 12 Jul 2016 This paper aims to present an overview and analysis of the current investment landscape in Cambodia, as well as its impacts on people and the environment. It is hoped that the information ...
by Mark Grimsditch | On 01 Jul 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 This paper discusses the relevance of recent research on the economics of human development to the work of the Human Development and Capability Association. The recent economics of human development b...
by James J. Heckman | On 28 Jun 2016 In this paper investigates the success of banking reforms in India where significant banking reforms have been introduced since 1990s. Using the argument that well functioning credit markets would ref...
by Sumon Kumar Bhaumik | On 27 Jun 2016 In this paper, it is contended that ESoPs will not work as a good governance or mitigation mechanism in all types of firms. ESoPs can be an effective mitigation mechanism for a firm with dispersed own...
by | On 25 Jun 2016 There are efforts to control inflation. A new governor and the committee should try to bring low inflation future for India which has got many benefits.
by Raghuram G. Rajan | On 21 Jun 2016 This document covers the initiatives and contributions of Government of India, Science and Technology
Institutions and Civil Society Organisations in addressing the issues of desertification, land de...
by Ministry of Environment and Forests GOI | On 17 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 In order to encourage prosecution of sexual offences, mandatory reporting was introduced by the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (“POCSO Act”), and in 2013 the Criminal Law was am...
by | On 15 Jun 2016 Few challenges facing the global community today match the scale of malnutrition, a condition that directly affects one in three people. Malnutrition manifests itself in many different ways: as poor c...
by International Food Policy Research Institute | On 14 Jun 2016 The working paper outlines the significance of debt market in general and its role in accelerating the development of economic growth in particular. It reviews various regulatory and non-regulatory de...
by Anubhuti Sahay | 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 Honor and stigma play a role in environmental protection. Environmental honors are bestowed on
people and firms who go out of their way to do right by the environment. Similarly, environmental
stigm...
by Prasenjit Banerjee | On 03 Jun 2016 The study directs the attention to the role of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in overcoming these structural rigidities and ushering-in structural transformation in an economy. To explore the iss...
by Mausumi Das | On 26 May 2016 The policy guidelines were developed as part of the pilot project 'Incorporating Needs and Roles of Women in Water and Energy Management in Rural Areas in South Asia-Capacity Building in Rural Areas o...
by | On 18 May 2016 This paper evaluates housing policy in the Republic of Korea over the past several decades, describes new challenges arising from the changing environment, and draws lessons for other countries. The m...
by Kyung-Hwan Kim | On 18 May 2016 The Budget Session was originally planned to be held in two parts: from February 23 to March
16 and April 25 to May 13. However, at the end of March, the government decided to convert
these into two...
by Kusum Malik | On 17 May 2016 Now in its 11th edition, The Global Risks Report 2016 draws attention to ways that global risks could evolve and interact in the next decade. The year 2016 marks a forceful departure from past finding...
by [WEF] World Economic Forum | On 11 May 2016 The report of a high level committee led by Vijay Kelkar to promote balanced development in Maharashtra has several important recommendations. But will it all come to nought because of its failure to...
by | 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 The episode of volatility starting on May 22, 2013, when Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke first spoke of the possibility of the US central bank “tapering” its security purchases, had a sharp nega...
by Shekhar Shah | On 09 May 2016 This paper assesses the fiscal space and cyclicality of total Indian Central Government expenditure and its
major components
by Ashima Goyal | On 02 May 2016 This paper motivates the need for a personal bankruptcy law, and study the
existing Indian legal framework in the form of the Presidency Towns Insolvency Act, 1909 (PTIA) for Calcutta, Bombay and Mad...
by Siva Raman | On 02 May 2016 This paper examines what the empirical evidence has to say about the strength of monetary transmission in India, using the structural vector autoregression (SVAR) methods that have been applied broadl...
by | On 02 May 2016 The paper argues that context is important in discussions of financial stability. It explores weaknesses in domestic and international reforms and ways of overcoming them, based on mitigating the fund...
by Ashima Goyal | On 02 May 2016 This paper shows that the institutional changes such as Inflation Targeting (IT) helps lower inflation without depending upon the level of Central Bank Independence (CBI) in a country as is suggested...
by | On 02 May 2016 This paper evaluates the case for greater exchange rate coordination in South Asia. With inter-regional integration in South Asia progressing at a faster pace than the region's integration with the wo...
by Rajeswari Sengupta | On 02 May 2016 This paper revisits the Dornbusch exchange rate overshooting in a different model setting.
by Taniya Ghosh | On 02 May 2016 Global competitiveness has redefined business strategies worldwide and the focus has certainly shifted to examining how our knowledge resources can reposition our stand in the world market. It means t...
by Sachin Mangal | On 28 Apr 2016 This is a 2011 Census report on Population, Size and Decadal Change in Kerala
by Census India | On 27 Apr 2016 Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) is an annual, nationwide survey of children's ability to read simple text and do basic arithmetic that would engage ordinary citizens in finding out whether th...
by ASER Centre | 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 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 study of Adolescent Boys and Young Men highlights the importance of engaging adolescent boys and young men in sexual and reproductive health and rights (srhr) and gender equality. not only is thi...
by United Nations Population Fund UNFPA | On 29 Mar 2016 The Global Energy Architecture Performance Index Report 2016 ranks 126 countries on their ability to deliver secure, affordable and sustainable energy. The results of the global Energy Architecture Pe...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 22 Mar 2016 Part II of the Budget speech of the finance minister.
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 The paper attempts to develop a project life-cycle approach to gain insights into the complexities of water reallocation. The paper is
able to show that water reallocation and the resultant phenomeno...
by Subodh Wagle | On 21 Mar 2016 Optimality of pro-cyclical monetary policy in the presence of informal sector and firm level
constraint is analysed. The findings suggest that in case of export demand shock pro-cyclical monetary pol...
by Waqas Ahmed | On 21 Mar 2016 In this paper we have made an attempt to explain the observed rising inequality between unskilled and skilled wages, or, fall in relative wages of unskilled labour within a general equilibrium framewo...
by Alokesh Barua | On 16 Mar 2016 The Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) is poised to continue developing at a significant pace. The subregion is well placed to benefit from the emerging Association of Southeast Asian Nations Economic Com...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 Mar 2016 ABMI aims to develop efficient and liquid bond markets in Asia, which would enable better utilization of Asian savings for Asian investments. ABMI can also contribute to the mitigation of currency and...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 Mar 2016 Do global spillovers clog transmission channels of monetary policy through domestic financial markets? Drawing on stylised facts and using a dynamic factor model to develop an indicator of global spil...
by Michael Debabrata Patra | On 14 Mar 2016 The global economy is finding it hard to restore pre-Great Recession growth rates – every report of the IMF seemingly downgrades its previous growth forecasts. Why has the recovery been so slow? When
...
by Raghuram G. Rajan | On 14 Mar 2016 There are few areas of robust growth around the world, with the IMF repeatedly reducing its
growth forecasts in recent quarters. This period of slow growth is particularly dangerous
because both ind...
by Raghuram G. Rajan | On 14 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 Uruguay’s ratification of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights marked an important milestone in its protection in international law. The Optional...
by | On 12 Mar 2016 While Russia and China are heralding a new “strategic partnership,” this policy brief explores how competition between the two countries may increasingly emerge in regard to Central Asia—a region wher...
by | On 11 Mar 2016 When it comes to measuring inflation persistence, a common practice in empirical research is to estimate univariate autoregressive moving average (ARMA) time series models and measure persistence as t...
by Naveen Srinivasan | 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 Economic aid has failed to induce North Korea to denuclearize. Instead, reducing tensions and addressing mutual security concerns is the only way to break the stalemate in denuclearization negotiation...
by | On 10 Mar 2016 Unlike earlier literature that documented positive association between inflation and the dispersion of relative prices over time, the empirical evidence from this study suggests that the relative pric...
by Sartaj Rather | On 10 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 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 This paper intends to explore functional and households personal income distribution across four different income groups in both the urban and rural areas. Using Social Accounting framework, Siddiqui...
by A. R. Kemal | On 10 Mar 2016 Three major objectives of this study are: (i) to understand China’s success against poverty, particularly the mechanism through which, the economic reforms led to poverty reduction; (ii) to give a his...
by G. M. Arif | On 10 Mar 2016 While the existence of transnational communities is increasingly recognized in globalization studies, very little is yet known about their impact on global governance. Studies investigating the role o...
by Sigrid Quack | 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 The provide a Keynesian growth theory in which pessimistic expectations can lead to very persistent, or even permanent, slumps characterized by unemployment and weak growth. We refer to these episodes...
by Gianluca Benigno | On 09 Mar 2016 Organizational identity is a mechanism that mediates between external pressures and internal demands on continuity. The concept of organizational identity is considered to be central to solving the re...
by | On 08 Mar 2016 The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali in December 2007 was a landmark meeting which culminated in the creation of the Bali Action Plan – a roadmap for a two-year process of formal negot...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 06 Mar 2016 The year 2009 marks a new era of change. One would immediately associate it with the Obama administration and its promises for change, such as the US policies in addressing climate change. A shift has...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 06 Mar 2016 The International AIDS Conference 2010 was held in Vienna, Austria from 18 to 23 July to gather those working in the field of HIV such as policymakers, scientists and researchers, those living with HI...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 04 Mar 2016 In the first issue of this month’s NTS Alert, the importance of a robust human rights framework to complement international humanitarian law, and address its shortcomings in protecting civilians caugh...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 03 Mar 2016 The Fourth Bali Regional Ministerial Conference on People Smuggling, Trafficking in Persons and Related Transnational Crimes – otherwise known as the Bali Process – was held in Nusa Dua, Bali, on 29-3...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 03 Mar 2016 After three decades of double-digit growth, China is slowing as it is rebalancing its economy from export-driven to less-volatile domestic consumption driven economy. The paper looks at the impact of...
by Geetima Das Krishna | On 02 Mar 2016 This paper examines the fiscal instruments available to different levels of government and their interactions to enhance the effectiveness of public policies for the poorest and hungry groups. Address...
by Ehtisham Ahmad | On 01 Mar 2016 This paper considers the issue of migration of the Rohingyas from the lens of international law. It evaluates the responses of the countries that have been the destination of these migration flows – n...
by Ramandeep Kaur | On 01 Mar 2016 This paper discusses the economies and financial systems of Southeast Asia (SEA) and focuses on challenges and developments in the region. Despite the diversity of SEA economies and some important exc...
by Toshiyuki Shimada | On 29 Feb 2016 In Southeast Asia, the rise in agricultural investments takes place against the backdrop of a fast-evolving regional context. In this ‘Asian Century’, trade and investment flows are flourishing across...
by Shalmali Guttal | On 29 Feb 2016 The government recognizes the urgency and importance of the actions that need to be taken collectively to meet the ultimate objective of the Convention i.e. stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations i...
by Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Chang GOI | On 29 Feb 2016 WRI is keen to track its on-ground impact to serve as a feedback mechanism to Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission (KERC) and as a learning for other state regulators who may be looking for sol...
by Deepak Sriram Krishnan | On 29 Feb 2016 A recent cover of the Economist magazine asked: ‘Has the Arab Spring failed?’ More questions along this line will certainly come as the international community follows closely the political developm...
by Mely Caballero-Anthony | On 27 Feb 2016 In light of the recent violence that shook Zamboanga city in Mindanao in the southern Philippines, Indonesia’s offer to act as a peace broker between Manila and the Misuari¬led Moro National Liberat...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 27 Feb 2016 2015 marks the end of the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) 10-year Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA), an international disaster risk reduction plan that aimed to en...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 27 Feb 2016 Major disasters that typically hit Southeast Asia illustrate the immensity of the tasks involved in undertaking disaster relief operations. With the establishment of the ASEAN Community by the end of...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 27 Feb 2016 This paper aims to first build a deeper understanding of the emergence of Basel banking norms (Basel I), and the transition to each of the subsequent regulations (Basel II and Basel III). The primary...
by Akshay Uday Shenoy | 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 The dynamics of the monetary system is undergoing significant changes in India. The entire concept and flow of money; narrow, broad or base, is being influenced by measures related to financial inclus...
by Charan Singh | On 27 Feb 2016 The vulnerability of banks to macroeconomic and financial shocks is an area of growing interest to policymakers, especially in emerging markets. Strong adverse aggregate shocks contribute heavily to l...
by Rohit Gupta | On 27 Feb 2016 This paper problematizes the basis for international policies and regulations towards adaptation, mitigation and adjustment for ‘climate change’. Specific aspects of Fourth Assessment Report of IPCC h...
by Nandan Nawn | On 27 Feb 2016 From the Subregional Workshop on Energy Security and Non-Traditional Security Singapore 27 – 29 August 2008, Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel. The workshop on Energy and Non-Traditional Security (NTS)...
by | On 26 Feb 2016 The issue of managing sub-national liabilities is not only an issue in the EU, but is also being a major concern in South Asia, China and Brazil as much of the public investment needed for sustainable...
by Ehtisham Ahmad | 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 As governments gear up to meet in Copenhagen later this year to formulate a post-Kyoto Protocol framework on climate change, governments have been slow in translating scientific knowledge into policy...
by | On 25 Feb 2016 The nuclear power states have not resolved the issue of permanent storage of nuclear spent fuel. Countries with existing nuclear facilities also face challenges to the temporary storage of their spent...
by | On 25 Feb 2016 As the current global economic crisis deepens, labour migrants have begun to experience the consequences of both political and economic insecurity. How effective are legal frameworks in protecting the...
by | On 25 Feb 2016 In India, NCDs have surpassed communicable diseases as the most common causes of morbidity and premature mortality in the country. The indicators and targets are used to track progress of actions desi...
by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare H & FW | On 25 Feb 2016 On December 24, 1998 the Government of Pakistan (GOP) received a Call Notice from the US Government for consultation regarding the establishment of quantitative restraints on Pakistani exports of Comb...
by S. M. Hussain | On 25 Feb 2016 The growing development in and possibly greater diffusion of biotechnology products have further accentuated the intensity of trade restrictions on the entry of these goods in countries like EU, Japan...
by Sachin Chaturvedi | On 25 Feb 2016 This paper reports on an Internet-based survey designed to collect information on the state of workplace practices from labor experts and practitioners around the world -- the 2004 Global Labor Survey...
by Richard B. Freeman | On 24 Feb 2016 Five years have passed since the signing of the 2005 World Summit Outcome Document, when United Nations (UN) member states agreed to the Responsibility to Protect (RtoP). Contained in paragraph 138 of...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | 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 This is a preliminary report for the World Bank regarding emissions of greenhouse gases from hydropower reservoirs in India. The objective of the work, according to the terms-of reference, is, inter a...
by World Bank | On 24 Feb 2016 The inordinate delays in the indigenous production of India’s Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) have taken a considerable toll of human lives, caused by the malfunctioning of the ‘stop-gap’ foreign flying m...
by | On 24 Feb 2016 Japan’s small farming represents a puzzle. Currently nearly three-quarters of farmland is operated by farmers whose farm size is well under optimal size. Being too small is the main reason for the hig...
by Yoshihisa Godo | On 24 Feb 2016 Existing work on energy security tends to over-emphasise the prospect of competition and conflict over resources while under-exploring the promise of cooperation. This policy brief provides a framewor...
by | On 22 Feb 2016 This paper reviews some of the current debates on the reform of the international monetary system. Despite its deficiencies, the United States (US) dollar will remain the dominant currency and Special...
by Yung Chul Park | On 22 Feb 2016 Indonesia’s position as a regional champion of democracy and human rights has become prominent in international forums since the resignation of President Suharto in 1998 and the subsequent period of i...
by Alistair D.B. Cook | On 22 Feb 2016 The Fifth Assessment Report of Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC AR5 WGII), on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, was released in March 2014. In providing the...
by Clare Stott | On 21 Feb 2016 The rise of regional monetary arrangements poses a challenge for the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s global surveillance efforts. This paper reviews how the IMF has responded to earlier regional i...
by Barry Eichengreen | On 21 Feb 2016 Financial safety nets in Asia have come a long way since the Asian Financial Crisis (AFC) of 1997–98. Not wanting to rely solely on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) again, the Chiang Mai Initiati...
by Hal Hill | On 21 Feb 2016 This paper discusses Japan’s strategy for Asian monetary integration. It argues that Japan faces three major policy challenges when promoting intraregional exchange rate stability. First, there must b...
by Masahiro Kawai | On 21 Feb 2016 The present report summarises major results that seeks to trace the supply chains of a group of essential commodities and, in view of their future supply (domestic production and import) prospect, att...
by Centre for Policy Dialogue CPD | On 21 Feb 2016 This article analyses the motivation and impact of the 2009 intervention of the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) in benchmark price negotiations. The impact of the transition from benchmark pri...
by Luke Hurst | On 21 Feb 2016 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 There is a widespread belief that rice futures are not necessary for the Asian rice markets because these markets are not “broken.” In any case, it is not clear to many why a rice farmer would benefit...
by | On 20 Feb 2016 The militaries of developing countries have often gone beyond the mission of external defence, to perform unconventional roles ranging from disaster relief and economic management to law enforcement a...
by | On 20 Feb 2016 This study attempts to assess the impact of two shocks-trade liberalization and a deline in remittances from abroad-on poverty in Pakistan using a CGE framework.
by Rizwana Siddiqui | On 19 Feb 2016 The May 2012 NTS Alert entitled ‘Back to the future: Is Rio+20 a 1992 redux or is there cause for optimism?’ explored the prospects for the June 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20),...
by | On 19 Feb 2016 This NTS Issues Brief outlines themes highlighted at the roundtable workshop on Managing Cross-Border Movements of People in Southeast Asia: Promoting Capacity and Response for Irregular Migration hel...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 19 Feb 2016 The City Prosperity Initiative” presents UN-Habitat’s new global initiative that aims to reinforce local capacities for cities to improve well being and prosperity through a new monitoring tool (city...
by | On 19 Feb 2016 Informal builders provide the bulk of affordable housing and define large areas of our cities. Originally created for those long considered as poor and unable to house themselves, over time the result...
by Dr. Reinhard Goethert | 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 This paper uses a strategic framework developed by Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government to assess whether Australia’s foreign investment regime is sufficiently delivering on its four main objectives...
by Alan Fels | On 19 Feb 2016 China’s first attempt to establish a multilateral financial institution was met with some suspicion and caution in the west. According to one interpretation, China is frustrated with the United States...
by Mike Callaghan | On 19 Feb 2016 The paper looks at the trends in nominal and real salaries of the Federal Government employees over the period 1990-2006. It examines the structural defects in the existing salary structure and the an...
by Faiz Bilquees | On 18 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 In the past two decades through a process called “Enumeration” through which the members collect at city level data about slums, Slum Dwellers International have created a mechanism which serves to cr...
by | On 18 Feb 2016 This study extends the analysis of causality by Husain and Rashid (2006) by taking care of the shift in the variables due to the price hikes in the early 1970s. Casual relation between real income and...
by Fazal Husain | On 17 Feb 2016 Rise in the underground economy creates problems for the policy-makers to formulate economic policies, especially the monetary and fiscal policies. It is found that if there was no tax evasion, budget...
by M. Ali Kemal | On 17 Feb 2016 The increasing variability of seasonal climate and increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events that are expected to accompany climate change will impact agricultural production and fo...
by Ruby Policarpio | On 17 Feb 2016 As some Southeast Asian countries consider using nuclear energy, the region should now be preparing a regional nuclear emergency response, incorporating technological and nuclear emergencies into its...
by | On 16 Feb 2016 In its founding documents, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) seeks the stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere to “ensure[s] that food production is not t...
by Meryl Richards | On 16 Feb 2016 The study employs Girton and Roper (1977) measure of exchange market pressure—sum of exchange rate depreciation and foreign reserves outflow, to examine the interaction between exchange market pressur...
by M. Idrees Khawaja | On 16 Feb 2016 The purpose of this paper is to emphasize the importance of Europe’s structural problems and governance as the cause of the current euro area crisis. The euro may have led to bubbles, but member econo...
by Sahoko Kaji | On 16 Feb 2016 Driven by the increasingly important role of supply chains in global production, this paper studies empirical association between global credit-market shocks and firm behavior towards liquidity needs...
by Yothin Jinjarak | On 16 Feb 2016 Japan has reached the limits of conventional macroeconomic policy. In order to overcome deflation and achieve sustainable economic growth, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) recently set an inflation target of 2...
by Naoyuki Yoshino | On 16 Feb 2016 A widely agreed proposition in modern economics is that policy rules have greater advantage over discretion in improving economic performance. Simple monetary policy instrument rules are feasible opti...
by Wasim Shahid Malik | On 15 Feb 2016 The Taylor rule (1993) focuses only on two objectives: output and inflation. In practice, the central bank’s loss function (especially in developing countries) contains objectives other than these two...
by Wasim Shahid Malik | On 15 Feb 2016 Like other developing countries, Bangladesh initiated financial sector reform program during 1990’s. The main objectives of the financial sector reform programs were: i) Gradual B 3 | P a g e eliminat...
by Sayera Younus | On 15 Feb 2016 This document is designed to present a brief but comprehensive view of the real and monetary developments during the immediate past quarters and project the expected developments in the immediate futu...
by Bangladesh Bank BB | On 15 Feb 2016 This paper examines whether monetary policy transmits through bank assets or liabilities or both. This is an important policy issue since in order to know the effectiveness of monetary policy it is ne...
by Sayera Younus | On 15 Feb 2016 Identifying core inflation has become a very important issue for the Central Banks of the world for last few years. It has also become a practice to monitor the core inflation along side the headline...
by Md. Shahiduzzaman | On 15 Feb 2016 Lower spread is a vital indicator of the efficiency and competition in the financial system and conducive to higher economic growth of a country via investment spending. In Bangladesh, the spread in t...
by Shamim Ahmed | On 15 Feb 2016 This policy note is an exploratory attempt to verify the popular argument that cost side factors are no less contributory than demand side factors in stimulating inflation in the Bangladesh economy. T...
by Md. Alauddin Majumder | On 15 Feb 2016 This paper tries to investigate the pattern of volatility in the overnight money market rate (call money rate) in Bangladesh using subjective judgment as well as econometric techniques during the peri...
by Md. Shahiduzzaman | On 15 Feb 2016 Bangladesh Bank (BB) adjusted its monetary policy stance during 2005 in order to contain inflationary pressures and facilitate stability in the foreign exchange market. At the end of 2005, interest ra...
by Shubhasish Barua | On 15 Feb 2016 The corporate governance mechanisms are market, institution and legal settings that protect outside investors from opportunistic behavior of managers or controlling shareholders. In the absence of suc...
by M. Bakhtear Uddin Talukdar | On 15 Feb 2016 In this paper two measures of the monetary policy stance are constructed. The stance of monetary policy, regarded as a quantitative measure of whether the policy is too tight, neutral, or too loose re...
by Farooq Pasha | On 14 Feb 2016 As with any governance framework, participation, transparency and accountability form the guiding principles needed for ensuring policies and decisions on water are responsive to citizens. When these...
by Transparency International TI | On 14 Feb 2016 The Toolkit o#ers a step-by-step guide for integrating Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation into the coastal and marine ecosystem management that will be quite useful for the "eld pra...
by Sriyanie Miththapala | On 14 Feb 2016 This paper analyses monetary policy transparency of the central bank (SBP) using the Eijffinger and Geraats (2006) index. The results show that the SBP scores 4.5 out of 15, which is lower than any of...
by Wasim Shahid Malik | On 14 Feb 2016 The Prohibition of Child Marriages Act (PCMA), 2006 came into effect on 1 November, 2007 replacing the Child Marriage Restraint Act of 1929. PCMA is a social re-engineering mechanism which mandates St...
by Trupti Jhaveri Panchal | On 14 Feb 2016 Budget is the major economic policy document of the government for a particular year and perhaps beyond. Therefore, it is imperative to study the processes, institutional mechanisms, and decision-maki...
by Muttukrishna Sarvananthan | On 13 Feb 2016 A comprehensive regulatory framework for the private sector is a prerequisite for a transparent, honest and just society: where regulation is weak, corruption risks grow strong. As the primary rule ma...
by Transparency International TI | On 12 Feb 2016 The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) build on previous international development promises and represent an unprecedented, comprehensive framework for combating poverty, reaching universal education...
by Transparency International TI | On 12 Feb 2016 Public procurement impacts people’s lives and accounts for a big share government budgets. The large monetary transactions involved make the risk of abuse high and the need for anti-corruption safegua...
by Transparency International TI | On 12 Feb 2016 This Report focuses on the productive abilities of the regions, households and
individuals. The report also reinforces the fact that there are inequalities between and within regions, as well as soci...
by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) | On 12 Feb 2016 In Davos 2012, business leaders reviewed the output of The Future of Manufacturing project, which asked How are global value chains evolving? The Manufacturing for Growth initiative asks What should b...
by | On 11 Feb 2016 This report from the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Measuring Sustainability calls for more robust and operational approaches to addressing the challenges of climate change. Called D...
by | On 11 Feb 2016 After demonstrating in Maximizing Healthy Life Years that health can have a positive return on investment, the 2016 report How to Realize Returns on Healthshows how to tackle the silent NCD pandemic:...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 11 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 The aim of this paper is to analyze the February 13 Agreement’s implementation along with the prospects for the denuclearization of North Korea. The paper starts with an overview of North Korea’s comp...
by | On 09 Feb 2016 On January 11, 2007, a state of emergency was declared in Bangladesh. A new caretaker government which condoned greater military involvement in the governing of Bangladesh was installed. This is the t...
by | On 09 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 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 Organizational identity is a mechanism that mediates between external pressures and internal demands on continuity. The concept of organizational identity is considered to be central to solving the re...
by | On 08 Feb 2016 This leads the present paper to reflect on the need for additional coordination mechanisms to address the challenges of an increasingly globalized and networked economy. In recognition of the fundamen...
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 With 37% of fish harvest exported as food for human consumption or in non-edible forms, trade policies and measures constitute an essential part of the overall policy framework needed to support susta...
by | On 08 Feb 2016 Volunteer supply is widespread, yet without a price inefficiencies occur due to suppliers’ inability to coordinate with each other and with demand. For these contexts, we propose a market clearinghous...
by Robert Slonim | On 07 Feb 2016 We use data from two rounds of the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) to study the determinants of subjective well-being in China over the period 2005-2010 during which self-reported happiness score...
by M. Niaz Asadullah | On 07 Feb 2016 The objectives of climate change mitigation projects are undermined when they do not meet sustainable development criteria and transparency standards. In such cases, international mitigation mechanism...
by Transparency International TI | On 06 Feb 2016 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 One way to do a reality check on the official numbers will be to develop a desi version of what came to be called the Li index in China.
by T.N. Ninan | On 06 Feb 2016 Given the importance of Consumer Price Index (CPI), there has been long debate on its measurement issues. It is the best and most well-known indicator of inflation, which is further used for evaluatin...
by Mahmood Khalid | On 06 Feb 2016 In this study, an investigation of the effects of capital inflows on domestic price level, monetary expansion and exchange rate volatility. To proceed with this, linear and nonlinear cointegration and...
by Abdul Rashid | On 06 Feb 2016 Since the introduction of rational expectations in the literature, most of the research focus in the area of macroeconomics has been investigating micro foundations of macroeconomic theory and transmi...
by Wasim Shahid Malik | On 06 Feb 2016 Monetary policy has changed in a number of ways during the last two decades. Along with the other characteristics, modern monetary policy is forward-looking, and the central banks respond contemporane...
by Muhammad Nasir | 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 Violence against women at the workplace is a major problem, though the statistical evidence is not well developed for many countries. This report aims at gaining a better insight into the extent to wh...
by Kea Tijdens | On 05 Feb 2016 The Business Principles for Countering Bribery provide a framework for companies to develop comprehensive anti-bribery programmes. Whilst many large companies have no-bribes policies all too few imple...
by Transparency International TI | On 05 Feb 2016 Each ASEAN member state has taken some steps to addressing corruption at the national level, such as ratifying the United Nations Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC), but much more is urgently neede...
by Transparency International TI | On 05 Feb 2016 UNCAC Article 13 explicitly recognises the role that civil society can play in tackling corruption. That said, since the establishment of the UNCAC Review Mechanism, there has been debate amongst Stat...
by Transparency International | On 03 Feb 2016 This study is part of a broader study being undertaken by PIDE on remittances and their impact on the Pakistan economy including explaining its over ten-fold increase between 2001–2012 from around US$...
by Rashid Amjad | On 03 Feb 2016 This study tries to investigate the inter-linkage between foreign trade and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in case of Pakistan. Annual data for the period 1985–2010 have been considered for eight maj...
by Unbreen Qayyum | On 03 Feb 2016 This study explains the underpricing phenomenon through the relationship of underpricing (initial returns), ownership structure and aftermarket liquidity empirically by using cross-sectional data of 5...
by Malik Muhammad Shehr Yar | On 03 Feb 2016 This paper analyzes the relative performance of inflation and price-level targeting regimes in an AS-IS-LM framework under alternative policy instruments used by the central bank.
by Haider Ali | On 03 Feb 2016 The present study aims at empirically testing the status of gold as a potential hedge against inflation. The study whirls around analysing the nature of the relationship of expected and actual inflati...
by Nadeem Ul Haque | On 02 Feb 2016 There is a growing awareness that action is urgently needed to seriously address the climate change problem. The multilateral process that began with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 The danger to global economic recovery posed by the European debt turmoil throws a spotlight on a key missing international institution critical to global finance a sovereign debt resolution mechanism...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 Official development assistance declined in real terms in 2011 as a result, in part, of fiscal austerity in many donor countries. Traditional forms of funding have fallen well short of needs to financ...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 This study provides trade negotiators, policy-makers and other stakeholders with a clear, practical comparative analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of the various safeguard clauses included i...
by | On 30 Jan 2016 Transparency is essential to the smooth functioning of a trade system. Improved transparency in agricultural policies and markets will allow trade to play a full role in achieving global food security...
by | On 30 Jan 2016 The evolving food security agenda offers governments a chance to address some urgent concerns and strengthen the multilateral trade system. The Doha Agenda has been overtaken by time and events. Many...
by | 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 Many authors have described and modelled Keynesian effects in a Babysitting Cooperative (BSC), which has the underlying structure of a single good barter economy. A simple model of the BSC economy is...
by Asad Zaman | On 30 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 Substantial literature has emerged in the past two decades on the meaning of “soft law”, its purposes, and its consequences for effective international cooperation. This paper argues that the distinct...
by | On 28 Jan 2016 The adoption of the ambitious post-2015 agenda centring on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the United Nations (UN) in New York in September marks an opportune moment to suggest development...
by | On 28 Jan 2016 This paper enquires into the implications of the technological paradigm
shift for small enterprises. Those who would not consider conforming to the regulatory framework (specifically enlisted under...
by Keshab Das | On 28 Jan 2016 The global economic downturn is impacting on unemployment. One young person in eight across the world is looking for work. Youth populations are large and growing. The wellbeing and prosperity of youn...
by United Nations Economic, Scientific and Cultural Organization | On 28 Jan 2016 This policy paper presents the past efforts of regulating the Microfinance sector, analyses the merits and demerits of various attempts beginning from the report of the Task Force1 in 1999 and present...
by | On 27 Jan 2016 The paper assembles detailed information about the IP provisions contained in active RTAs notified to the WTO. The goal was to expand beyond the more commonly studied RTAs, to review the full array of...
by Maegan McCann | On 27 Jan 2016 Understanding and managing urbanisation in developing countries is one of the major global policy challenges for the first half of the 21st century. Rapidly growing towns and cities are increasingly r...
by | On 26 Jan 2016 The status of child undernutrition in India continues as an area of concern. There are significant opportunities within health system to address this issue. Allocating clear tasks to workers while bui...
by Rajani R. Ved | On 26 Jan 2016 This publication summarises CDKN’s partnership work with Bangladesh to date, highlighting key achievements and signposting further information. We are involved at many levels, by investing in policy-r...
by Climate and Development Outlook CDO | On 23 Jan 2016 This study examines the relationship if any among economic growth (output), private sector credit and inflation in Bangladesh. In many developed and developing countries, private sector credit has pla...
by Sayera Younus | On 23 Jan 2016 This paper uses three alternative forecasting techniques, namely, Box-Jenkins’s Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) model, unrestricted Vector Autoregression (UVAR) model and Hsiao’s Fina...
by Md. Habibur Rahman | On 23 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 note provides estimates of the contribution of food prices to inflation in Bangladesh. The results suggest that the current inflation takes a bigger toll on the poor because they spend more of th...
by M. Golam Mortaza | On 23 Jan 2016 This note provides estimates of inflation rate of import-concentrated commodities and their contribution to overall inflation in Bangladesh. The results suggest that the Bangladesh economy has been ex...
by M. G. Mortaza | On 23 Jan 2016 The statutory liquidity requirement (SLR), as a monetary policy instrument, has experienced infrequent changes in Bangladesh. Past evidence shows that reduction in SLR produced positive impact on bank...
by Sayera Younus | 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 India and its partners – Brazil, China, Russia and South Africa – in the BRICS forum have launched the New Development Bank. With the leaders of these countries, who recently met at Ufa in Russia, dis...
by | On 23 Jan 2016 It may be time to look at the market forecasts that pundits had made earlier.
by T.N. Ninan | On 23 Jan 2016 The study concludes that existing legal and policy frameworks provide a limited scope to assess and address both the current and potential future risk of loss and damage associated with the adverse im...
by Abdullah Faruque | On 23 Jan 2016 Over the years, the Bangladesh Bank (BB) has been using changes in consumer price index (CPI) inflation as the operational guide to measuring price stability in Bangladesh. In recent years, it has how...
by Bangladesh Bank | On 23 Jan 2016 In the backdrop of recent global developments, this note examines some of the characteristics of inflation in Bangladesh including the contribution of major commodity groups to overall inflation in ru...
by Bangladesh Bank | On 23 Jan 2016 This note examines recent movements in net domestic asset (NDA) and net foreign asset (NFA) of BB vis-à-vis the proposed monetary program for FY09 and brings out possible policy implications and manag...
by Bangladesh Bank | On 23 Jan 2016 India now needs to strengthen and harmonise its institutional mechanisms for development cooperation through clear policy statements. In addition to national foreign policy and economic interests, acc...
by Institute of Development Studies IDS | On 23 Jan 2016 The 2011 EFA Global Monitoring Report exposed the hidden crisis of education in conflict-affected countries. Two years later, to mark the birthday of Malala, the Pakistani schoolgirl shot by the Talib...
by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultura UNESCO | On 23 Jan 2016 The welfare of the poor turns in large measure not only on technocratic development “policies”, but the effective delivery of key public services, core elements of which require thousands of face-to-f...
by | On 22 Jan 2016 This document outlines one component of India’s INDC submission to the UNFCCC focussing on the renewable energy contribution to its future electricity mix. So far, the Government of India has articula...
by Sudatta Ray | On 22 Jan 2016 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 India Health Report: Nutrition 2015 surveys the trends in maternal and child undernutrition in India. It looks at trends and disparities in these outcomes across geographical regions, socio-econom...
by | On 22 Jan 2016 This paper presents a detailed overview of the innovation policy framework in India in order to assess its role in innovations and enterprise development in the Indian industry. This paper notes that...
by Biswajit Dhar | On 21 Jan 2016 This paper attempts to locate ‘migration’ within a social protection framework both theoretically and empirically. We add to the dominant theoretical discourse around social protection by introducing...
by | On 20 Jan 2016 The issue of land rights and that of gender equality are strongly affected by the prevalent economic and social policy regimes, at both national and global levels. The dominant policy regimes decide t...
by | On 19 Jan 2016 The recent uproar about the toxic levels of pollution in the country’s national capital region has once again brought to fore the failure of the regulatory and legal mechanisms in India to control air...
by | On 19 Jan 2016 Poor implementation of social welfare programs is a chronic challenge in developing countries such as India. Yet, despite the large number of people affected and the serious consequences of implementa...
by Nicholas Robinson | On 18 Jan 2016 There are five areas where the categories of ‘communal’ and ‘ethnic’ fall short: in their historical precision, in their scale, in their partial conceptualization of agency, in their ability to engage...
by | On 18 Jan 2016 The liquidity framework of Basel III assumes added significance for banks in India and many banks have been approaching us to comprehend the finer points of the liquidity regulations, as also with req...
by Reserve Bank of India RBI | On 18 Jan 2016 The Global Risks Report 2016 features perspectives from nearly 750 experts on the perceived impact and likelihood of 29 prevalent global risks over a 10-year timeframe. The risks are divided into five...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 18 Jan 2016 This Overview Report on Gender and Migration takes a broad approach to migration – it looks at the gender dynamics of both international and the lesser-researched internal migration and the interconne...
by | On 13 Jan 2016 This paper assesses the effectiveness of non-tariff special and differential treatment (SDT) offered exclusively to the least developed countries by WTO agreements. SDTs are inefficient in at least fo...
by | On 11 Jan 2016 The paper discusses the progress of Indian economy and its policies since the broadbased structural reforms initiated in 1991 with a special focus on the recent downturn following the global financial...
by | On 11 Jan 2016 This paper presents the empirical results of the volatility transmission of money market overnight
repo rate along the yield curve in Pakistan. The results indicate that the transmission of volatilit...
by Asif Mahmood | On 11 Jan 2016 The paper presents the theoretical canvass emphasising the need to adopt an integrated approach towards trade in goods, trade in services and investment in a regional framework. In this context, rules...
by Ram Upendra Das | On 09 Jan 2016 In the 1970s, the oil-producing and exporting countries of the Middle East delivered a shock to the global economic system that had many unexpected consequences. The then-quadrupling of the price of o...
by Shahid Javed Burki | On 09 Jan 2016 This paper tries to explain the main characteristics of the Indian government and corporate bond markets and what has contributed to the poor development of the latter. It goes on to show that an oppo...
by Chandrani Sarma | On 09 Jan 2016 Migration is an important social and historical reality in South Asia. In the past decade, migration from one country to another and internal migration (i.e. migration within a particular country) hav...
by Sanjay Barbora | On 08 Jan 2016 This paper discusses mechanisms to prevent and resolve foreign exchange crises in East Asia. Policies and mechanisms at the country level as well as regional and global levels are discussed. Policies...
by Andrew Cooper | On 07 Jan 2016 The authors develop a new set of indexes of exchange rate stability, monetary policy independence, and financial market openness as the metrics for the trilemma hypothesis. In their exploration, they...
by Masahiro Kawai | On 07 Jan 2016 Most projections envision continued rapid growth in the members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the People’s Republic of China (PRC), and India (collectively, ACI) over the next...
by Fan Zhai | 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 In 2013, through massive quantitative easing by the Bank of Japan (BOJ), the yen depreciated about 25% against the US dollar, stoking fears of Japan bashing by the US. However, this sharp depreciation...
by Ronald McKinnon | On 07 Jan 2016 The Asian financial crisis (1997-1998) and the global financial crisis (2007-2009) highlighted the potential value of financial regionalism, i.e., regional-level cooperation in financial policy. This...
by Masahiro Kawai | On 07 Jan 2016 This paper presents results and findings from a survey aimed at understanding perceptions among Bhutan’s unemployed youth. It also provides analysis of the results and concludes with an eight point pl...
by | On 06 Jan 2016 Japan has suffered from sluggish economic growth and recession since the 1990s, a phenomenon dubbed “Japan’s Lost Decade.” The People’s Republic of China, many countries in the eurozone, and the Unite...
by Naoyuki Yoshino | On 06 Jan 2016 Report on domestic work provides detailed information on current data regarding the estimated number of child domestic workers worldwide. It also explores the hazards and risks of this type of work, a...
by International Labour Organization [ILO] | On 04 Jan 2016 This is a perception survey of business owners and operators in four districts of Nepal. The survey provides a snapshot of prevailing state of business environment in Nepal and identifies most critica...
by Bal Khadka | On 02 Jan 2016 This report reflects efforts to capture the trends in labour migration from Nepal, identify the structural gaps and suggests ways to move forward for the Government and stakeholders. Although various...
by The Asia Foundation | On 02 Jan 2016 The report summarizes recommendations from a national consultation on the post-2015 development framework and includes reports from a range of national convenors including the Government of India, tra...
by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) | 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 This paper focuses on the relevance to emerging economies of three major financial reforms following the global financial crisis of 2007–2009: the improved capital requirements intended to reduce the...
by Duncan Alford | On 30 Dec 2015 The purpose of this study is to better understand the likely impact on Asian economies and financial institutions of various recent global financial reforms, including Basel III capital adequacy and l...
by Peter Morgan | On 29 Dec 2015 This paper reviews the history of East Asian monetary policy frameworks since 1990; describes current monetary policy frameworks, including issue of price versus financial stability for a central bank...
by Peter Morgan | On 29 Dec 2015 The ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) was set up in 2003 with the objectives of creating a single market and production base, enhancing equitable economic development as well as facilitating the integrat...
by Siowyue Chia | On 29 Dec 2015 “Abenomics” refers to the economic policies advocated by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe who became prime minister of Japan for a second time when his party, the Liberal Democratic Party, won an overwhelmin...
by Farhad Hesary | On 29 Dec 2015 We estimate the response of Asian stock market prices to exogenous monetary policy shocks using a vector error correction model. In our paper, monetary policy transmits to stock market price through t...
by Farzana Sehrin | On 29 Dec 2015 This report presents lessons and results of specific relevance to shaping the post-2015 development framework derived from 20 Joint Programmes supported by the MDGF. These studies contain lessons to e...
by UN Women | On 28 Dec 2015 Women’s access to, use of and control over land and other productive resources are essential to ensuring their right to equality and to an adequate standard of living. Throughout the world, gender ine...
by UN Women | On 28 Dec 2015 Are we worse off at the end of 2015 than at the start?
by T.N. Ninan | On 25 Dec 2015 This joint ODI-UNDP paper looks at whether development aid will remain important in the post-2015 era, and asks how the old aid model should change in response to a dramatically new world and new sust...
by GAIL HURLEY | On 24 Dec 2015 The goal of this paper is to examine the impact of crude oil price movements on two macro variables, the gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate and the consumer price index (CPI) inflation rate, in...
by Naoyuki Yoshino | On 23 Dec 2015 Development-caused forced displacement and resettlement (DFDR) is frequently characterized by the resulting impoverishment of those displaced. The lack of appropriate valuation of and compensation for...
by | On 23 Dec 2015 The objective of this study is to explore the inflation-economic growth linkage, if any, in Bangladesh. With this view, various tables and charts, correlation matrices, pair-wise Granger Causality tes...
by Sayera Younus | On 22 Dec 2015 The intention of this study is to analyze lending rate behavior in Bangladesh and also to determine the factors that mostly affect the lending rates. For this purpose, a set of macro and bank specific...
by Shahana Nasrin | On 22 Dec 2015 World over, there is an awakening, post the great financial crisis of 2008, about the existence, contribution, magnitude, significance and risks of non-banking financial sector. The business model of...
by R Gandhi | On 22 Dec 2015 India occupies an intriguing dual position in global climate politics – a poor and developing economy with low levels of historical and per capita emissions, and a large and rapidly growing economy wi...
by Navroz Dubash | On 21 Dec 2015 The Indian education ecosystem today consists of the government, private sector, and nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) that have helped provide education to millions of children. The enactment of t...
by Meril Antony | On 21 Dec 2015 The paper reports on existing incentive structures in a sample of government and private schools in Delhi and elicits teachers’ perspectives on factors which motivate them. It is found that performanc...
by | On 21 Dec 2015 Drawing from existing domestic experiences and the first results of the international debate, this paper tries to identify some high-level recommendations on how the payments system should be regulate...
by Maria Malaguti | On 19 Dec 2015 The intention of this paper is to examine whether Real Exchange Rate (RER)depreciation has any impact on export, import and trade balance of Bangladesh.
Real exchange rate is calculated using Tk./do...
by Maidul Chowdhury | On 19 Dec 2015 This study places special attention on evaluating constitutional provisions that affect IDPs, on legislation pertaining to displacement, and the National Legal Framework for Relief, Rehabilitation, an...
by | On 18 Dec 2015 This paper draws on secondary data to map out a proliferating set of international nutrition commitment initiatives, and assesses how these employ accountability mechanisms to support the delivery of...
by Dolf J.H. te Lintelo | On 17 Dec 2015 This policy brief recommends that these include commitments to: ending extreme poverty and inequality, with a special focus on gender equity and women’s rights; aligning with environmental and social...
by Oxfam International | On 17 Dec 2015 This article talks about some of the important concerns regarding commercialisation in surrogacy arrangements and issues that are left unaddressed in the guidelines on ART issued by government.
by Ashok Vaidya | On 16 Dec 2015 The article presents the inconsistencies in the revised Draft ART Bill of 2010, particularly with regard to provisions about surrogacy and citizenship of the babies born from a surrogate mother.
by Aastha Sharma | On 16 Dec 2015 Back in 2004, when I ran the Chinadesk at the International Monetary Fund, my team some written questions to Beijing ahead of our meetings with Chinese officials. China’s central bank had claimed that...
by Eswar Prasad | On 16 Dec 2015 The objective of this study is to examine the characteristics of the stock market bubble burst in Bangladesh and policy response for the sample period from 2004:7-2013:2. This paper also discusses the...
by Dr. Sayera Younus | 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 This paper examines the historical attributes of energy transition and finds various critical factors that determine the success of such shift: appropriate IPR regimes; local innovation; economic feas...
by | On 11 Dec 2015 This paper considers the challenge of establishing a robust follow-up and review mechanism to support such implementation. The paper underscores the importance of the follow-up and review process taki...
by | On 04 Dec 2015 An important element of the socio-economic impact of HIV is
how it disproportionately affects women and girls, in terms of
their vulnerability to infection, constrained access to services
and the a...
by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) | On 01 Dec 2015 The Report brings out the different aspects of the insolvency laws which has a two-fold purpose- (i) to give relief to the debtor from the harassment of his creditors whose claims he is unable to meet...
by Ministry of Law and Justice GOI | On 25 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 Post-7th Pay Commission recommendations, the pay being offered now should not be a disincentive for public-spirited people with ability. Can the government afford this hike?
by T.N. Ninan | On 21 Nov 2015 The paper examines the effect of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), one of the largest workfare programs in the world, on human capital investment. Since NREGS increases labor...
by | On 16 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 Statistics have been the most important criteria for the Central Government in changing the juvenile justice law and introducing treatment of 16-18 year old juveniles committing such offences as adult...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 13 Nov 2015 Many methodologies exist for dividing a population into those who are classified as eligible for social transfers and those who are ineligible. Popular targeting mechanisms include means testing, prox...
by | On 29 Oct 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 The achievement of substantive equality is understood as having four dimensions: redressing disadvantage; countering stigma, prejudice, humiliation and violence; transforming social and institutional...
by | On 20 Oct 2015 In this paper the aim is to investigate the different nuances of India's capital account management through empirical analyses as well as descriptive discussions. In particular the study the evolution...
by Rajeswari Sengupta | On 19 Oct 2015 Using a theoretical framework that
combines the essence of Ramsay’s growth model and the New-Keynesian macrodynamics,
and applying the Kalman filter estimation technique, this paper finds that
Indi...
by Harendra Behera | On 16 Oct 2015 This report looks in depth at the factors within each country that will support or impede implementation. A set of Dialogues has been exploring these factors and are still capturing ideas around these...
by | On 15 Oct 2015 The 2015-16 Global Monitoring Report, produced jointly by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, details the progress the world has made towards global development goals and examines the impa...
by International Monetary Fund [IMF] | On 09 Oct 2015 India is home to over 1.1 billion people. With about one in every sixth person in the world living in India, housing perforce assumes significant importance. Successive Indian governments have regarde...
by UN-HABITAT | On 25 Sep 2015 The Global Nutrition Report 2015 is a report card on the world’s nutrition globally, regionally, and country by country and on efforts to improve it. It assesses countries’ progress in meeting global...
by International Food Policy Research Institute | On 24 Sep 2015 Using the 2004-05 India Human Development Survey data, The paper aims to estimate and decompose the earnings of household businesses owned by historically marginalized social groups known as Scheduled...
by Ashwini Deshpande | On 24 Sep 2015 This Handbook is mainly for human rights practitioners who want to familiarise themselves with the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) and use the human rights fram...
by | On 23 Sep 2015 This Report draws on all of this experience, to make sharp recommendations for the place of education in the future global sustainable development agenda. The lessons are clear. New education targets...
by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultura [UNESCO] | On 22 Sep 2015 This paper analyses the legal framework and policy innovations undertaken towards achieving the stated objectives of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act. This paper seeks to cri...
by | On 15 Sep 2015 This report – “Assessment of State Implementation of Business Reforms” is a scorecard to take stock of what reforms have happened, and to identify the way forward for States. The report highlights the...
by World Bank | On 15 Sep 2015 The purpose of the national consultation was to bring together initiatives from across the country to share experience and challenges. This report is the final draft of the discussions and a common ag...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 14 Sep 2015 This study uses P-star model to examine the role of money in explaining inflation in India. In particular, we compare the performance of traditional Phillips curve approach against P-star model in for...
by Sunil Paul | On 14 Sep 2015 This study examines whether skewness of the cross sectional distribution of relative price changes is positively associated with aggregate inflation as predicted by the Menu cost model of Ball and Man...
by Sartaj Rather | On 14 Sep 2015 The report reveal the magnitude of the challenge that the world still faces in the quest for gender equality. This report promotes the cause of inclusion of women by informing research and policy disc...
by World Bank | On 11 Sep 2015 This report details the vision for 12th Five Year Plan on Nutrition which is to move towards Nutrition Security- especially the more vulnerable infants and young children, adolescent, girls and women,...
by Planning Commission | On 10 Sep 2015 The broad objective of the survey is to assess the availability of schooling facility for primary, upper-primary, secondary and higher secondary stages within the habitations (including SC/ST) in diff...
by National Council of Educational Research &Training NCERT | On 10 Sep 2015 This paper provides a descriptive summary of India’s experience with school feeding programmes (SFPs), focussing mainly on the period since 1995, the year that saw the launch of a national initiative...
by M S Swaminathan Research Foundation India | On 08 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 In India, Basel III capital regulation has been implemented from April 1, 2013 in phases and it will be fully implemented as on March 31, 2019. Do we need Basel III for a country like India? What are...
by N.S. Viswanathan | On 08 Sep 2015 This brief provides an overview of civil society in Sri Lanka. With a view to strengthening ADB cooperation with civil society organizations, the NGO and Civil Society Center periodically prepares rep...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 07 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 This CSTEP study describes the UN’s four guidance principles and defines a Smart City Reference Framework that should provide the overarching principles and guidance to smart city programmes. The rep...
by | On 02 Sep 2015 The Global Wage Report 2014/15 presents both the latest trends in average wages and an analysis of the role of wages in income inequality. The first part of the report shows that global wage growth in...
by International Labour Organisation ILO | On 26 Aug 2015 The aim of the paper is to review trends in developments of bilateral agreements (BAs) and MOUs focussing on low-skilled migration based on a global mapping exercise and and highlight agreements which...
by Piyasiri Wickramasekara | On 26 Aug 2015 Against the backdrop of the new monetary policy framework, this paper analyses the determinants of inflation in the deregulated financial regime. The paper upfront has been kept free from adherence to...
by Lekha Chakraborty | On 25 Aug 2015 How is the RBI helping the government to create the conditions for a sustainable growth? Structural reforms will help
strengthen this growth – two weeks ago, the Government announced Indradhanush, la...
by Raghuram G. Rajan | On 25 Aug 2015 Conference Theme: Sovereignty, Citizenship and Gender. This report is arranged in three parts: the plenaries; the sub themes and workshops, and finally the text of the resolutions passed in the Genera...
by Indian Association of Women’s Studies IAWS | On 24 Aug 2015 This paper analyses an overview of china human development in Time and Space. The paper covers themes like regional inequality in China Since 1952 and Urban-Rural Inequality, 1980-2000. The paper is a...
by | On 21 Aug 2015 This report tries to address youth employment challenges, and suggests measures that countries will need an integrated approach involving different levels of government and linking with overall develo...
by | On 20 Aug 2015 This Working Group report aims to study the advocacy programme in ICDS that would enable widespread and sustained community participation as result of a better understanding and appreciation amongst t...
by Government of India Ministry of Women and Child Development | On 19 Aug 2015 Enhancing bank competition, among other measures, could adequately strengthen interest rate transmission; but the danger is in overreaching and losing leverage.
by Ramkishen S. Rajan | On 16 Aug 2015 This report of the steering committee on rapid poverty reduction and local area development for the Eleventh Five Year Plan (2007-2012). The first section attempts to examine the data on the poor, the...
by Planning Commission, India | On 14 Aug 2015 This study focuses on the marketable
domestic public debt of the Government of India (GoI) in terms of size, magnitude, policy and approach followed and also discusses issues and challenges on debt m...
by Lakshmanan L | On 13 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 This paper considers the implications of an imperfect monetary transmission mechanism for optimal monetary policy choices in an open economy. The asset market channel is restricted in this paper as so...
by | On 11 Aug 2015 The MDG Report 2015 found that the 15-year effort to achieve the eight aspirational goals set out in the Millennium Declaration in 2000 was largely successful across the globe, while acknowledging sho...
by United Nations UN | On 05 Aug 2015 This paper examines the concept of monetary policy credibility from both the theoretical and practical viewpoints. It also discusses the advantages of high credibility and explains measures that can b...
by Naveen Srinivasan | On 31 Jul 2015 For a sample of 42 high and middle income countries analyzed over a period
of 30 years ranging from 1982 till 2011, this paper shows that while an efficient trilemma policy choice
can help lower inf...
by | On 31 Jul 2015 This document compiles the explicit references to girls’
and women’s right to education in national reports and
is intended to serve as a practical tool for both advocacy
and monitoring. The factsh...
by UNESCO UNESCO | On 22 Jul 2015 Average food inflation in India during the period 2006-2013 was one of the
highest among emerging market economies, and nearly double the inflation
witnessed in India during the previous decade. In...
by Rudrani Bhattacharya | On 20 Jul 2015 The Alternative Report has been prepared by Save the Children UK (Pakistan office) and the Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (SPARC). It reflects the views of a large number of civ...
by ECHO Save the Children (U.K) | On 17 Jul 2015 The adoption of inflation targeting in India has been a much debated topic which also becomes a challenge for the emerging economy. Though inflation targeting has already been adopted in many emerging...
by Charan Singh | On 17 Jul 2015 Amidst calls for reform of international financial institutions and failure of existing development banks to satisfy the development financing needs of developing countries in general, and BRICS in pa...
by | On 16 Jul 2015 Mapping mortality impacts of the projected climate in urban areas of developing countries will play a crucial role in instituting planned adaptation measures to protect public health. A comprehensive...
by Hem H Dholakia | On 14 Jul 2015 This paper considers the implications of an imperfect monetary transmission mechanism for optimal monetary policy choices in an open economy. The asset market channel is restricted in this paper as so...
by | On 09 Jul 2015 The data and analysis presented in this report prove that, with targeted interventions, sound strategies, adequate resources and political will,
even the poorest countries can make dramatic and unpre...
by United Nations UN | On 08 Jul 2015 This working paper examines the migration drivers into the two low-paid and insecure occupations of domestic work and construction work from rural areas in Indonesia. While the ideas of migration exis...
by Khoo Choon Yen | On 06 Jul 2015 The paper aims to explore few aspects of academic entrepreneurship. Besides dwelling upon the conceptual definition, there is an attempt to understand the processes and stages of academic entrepreneur...
by Deepthi Shanker | On 30 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 presents an empirical model for minimising selection failure by tax departments in selecting cases for scrutiny assessment. This model also provides a new methodology for estimating tax gap...
by Sudhanshu Kumar | On 23 Jun 2015 The audit report on ICDS has revealed that the policy of universalization of ICDS Scheme remained unattained and the Scheme could not achieve the desired goals. Hence, controller and auditor general d...
by Lok Sabha Secretariat | On 22 Jun 2015 The Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 was enacted to give effect to the
Proclamation on the Full Participation and Equality of the...
by Lok Sabha Secretariat | On 22 Jun 2015 The statement discusses the need of development of a competent and accountable public service by attracting, developing, engaging and managing an efficient and innovative organizational, functional an...
by Ministry of Finance Bangladesh | On 18 Jun 2015 The adoption of inflation targeting in India has been a much debated topic which also becomes a challenge for the emerging economy. Though inflation targeting has already been adopted in many emerging...
by Charan Singh | On 18 Jun 2015 Statement aims to establish good governance by coordinating activities of different ministries & divisions and supervising activities of field administration in pursuing government policy and strategy...
by Ministry of Finance Bangladesh | On 17 Jun 2015 The statement aims to build a knowledge-based and digital Bangladesh and to advance the socio-economic conditions of all sections of the nation, through the establishment of good governance in the all...
by Ministry of Finance Bangladesh | On 17 Jun 2015 The data generated by the Budgeting Information System has been used to prepare this report which put forward the following major findings- Up to April FY11, 80.2% of the Revenue target of the budget...
by Ministry of Finance Bangladesh | On 17 Jun 2015 This Pre Budget Report incorporates the Medium-Term Budget Framework (MTBF). The MTBF links the spending plans of budgetary units to overall government policy objectives.The purpose of the Report is t...
by Ministry of Finance Afghanistan | On 16 Jun 2015 This edition of the Afghanistan bulletin provides a snapshot of the actual domestic revenues collection and core budget execution during the quarter. An attempt has been made to provide analytical ana...
by Ministry of Finance Afghanistan | On 16 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 This article utilises state-level data for 1961–2012 to examine the interlinkage between informal finance and monetary policy. The analysis suggests that in response to a monetary contraction, borrowi...
by Saibal Ghosh | On 15 Jun 2015 Budgetary speech presents an outline of the the Budget Implementation Progress report for FY 2010-11. The speech discuss briefly budget framework of bangladesh government and also analyse macroeconomi...
by Ministry of Finance Bangladesh | 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 second volume of the ILO World Report on Child Labour series highlights the close linkages between child labour and good youth employment outcomes, and the consequent need for common policy approa...
by | On 12 Jun 2015 The Himachal Pradesh HDR attempts to assess and explain the status of human development in the State and articulate policy implications. In the light of the definition of human development itself, iss...
by Himachal Pradesh Government of India | On 09 Jun 2015 These reports provide a critical analysis of how governments address the issues of poverty and whether aid and development cooperation policies are put into practice. This 2014 Reality of Aid Report b...
by The Reality of Aid Network | On 09 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 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 The transmission mechanism of policy-induced changes are is analysed in the discount rate and required reserves in Pakistan. The results suggest that the pass through to the lending rate is complete f...
by Muhammed Omar | On 05 Jun 2015 On the basis of an assessment of the current and evolving macroeconomic situation the statement suggest that the global recovery is still slow and getting increasingly differentiated across regions.
by Raghuram G. Rajan | On 03 Jun 2015 The framework provides guidance to Member States on taking country-level action across sectors for improving health and health equity. Such action includes the support of the health sector to other se...
by World Health Organisation (WHO) | On 02 Jun 2015 This report attempts to address some of the issues and challenges facing major crop insurance schemes being operated in India. Many of the issues and problems highlighted when the Committee interacted...
by Department of Agriculture & Cooperation GOI | On 01 Jun 2015 The primary objective of the Act is augmenting wage employment. In this regard, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 provides for the enhancement of livelihood security of the...
by Committee on Empowerment of Women GOI | On 01 Jun 2015 The comprehensive mental health action plan 2013–2020 was adopted by the Sixty-sixth World Health Assembly in May 2013. The present report summarizes progress made in implementing the action plan. The...
by World Health Organisation (WHO) | On 01 Jun 2015 This provides guidance on the draft action plan for better health to disable people. There are more than 1000 million people with disability worldwide, about 15% of the global population. The prevalen...
by World Health Organisation (WHO) | On 01 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 The Twelfth Five Year Plan takes the view that health would entail a ‘continuum of care’ across sectors. Accordingly, the health policy & programmes will encourage a multi-sectoral approach to health....
by Planning Commission | On 28 May 2015 This report describes progress in carrying out the comprehensive implementation plan on maternal, infant and young child nutrition, endorsed by the Health Assembly the global strategy for infant and y...
by World Health Organisation (WHO) | On 28 May 2015 The Health Assembly adopted resolution on viral hepatitis, in which, inter alia, it urged Member States to support or enable an integrated and cost-effective approach to the prevention, control and ma...
by World Health Organisation (WHO) | 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 With the increasing emphasis on need for development, coupled with increasing urbanization, it is becoming apparent that the natural resources are to be used judiciously and sustainably. This report h...
by Ministry of Environment and Forests GOI | On 27 May 2015 The core concerns highlighted in this report of working group on child rights includes ensuring the right of all children to life, survival (especially in the context of gender-based sex selection) an...
by Government of India Ministry of Women and Child Development | On 27 May 2015 The report recommends some strategic changes to the existing health programmes and schemes, such that they work in conjunction with each other and collectively contribute to building a comprehensive h...
by World Health Organisation (WHO) | On 27 May 2015 Recalling resolutions on malaria control, and accelerating efforts to control and eliminate malaria in developing countries, particularly in Africa, by 2015. Acknowledging the progress made towards th...
by World Health Organisation (WHO) | On 27 May 2015 In May 2012, the Sixty-fifth World Health Assembly endorsed the global vaccine action plan in resolution and requested the Director-General to monitor progress and report annually, through the Executi...
by World Health Organisation (WHO) | 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 The document has been prepared with the basic surmise that Wildlife Management, Ecotourism and Animal Welfare are to be treated as a Priority Sector during the 12th Plan as the conservation of our nat...
by Ministry of Environment and Forests GOI | On 26 May 2015 The Working Group aims to deliberate on the existing labour laws and the need for review of these laws in order to protect the interest of workers more effectively while at the same time promoting gro...
by Ministry of Labour and Employment GoI | On 26 May 2015 The mandate of AYUSH Department encompasses seven key areas of activity and intervention, namely AYUSH services, Medicinal Plants, Research & Development, Human Resource Development, International Col...
by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare H & FW | On 26 May 2015 At the Sixty-sixth World Health Assembly the executive board drafted a global strategy targets for tuberculosis prevention, with a aim to accelerate the global expansion of tuberculosis care and contr...
by World Health Organisation (WHO) | On 26 May 2015 An external review, commissioned by the Programme, Budget and Administration Committee of the Executive Board, was prepared in May 2013, providing detailed analysis of WHO’s administrative and managem...
by World Health Organisation (WHO) | On 26 May 2015 At the Sixty-sixth World Health Assembly in May 2013, Member States requested the Director-General to propose, for consideration by the Sixty-seventh World Health Assembly, in consultation with Member...
by World Health Organisation (WHO) | 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 The present report is an attempt to focus on how our national policies and programmes can be better appreciated and reflected in the country’s obligations and commitments to the various international...
by Planning Commission | On 25 May 2015 The mismatch between the supply and demand of skills requires special focus on employment sector. Growth in employment opportunities are the critical indicators of the process of development in any ec...
by Ministry of Labour and Employment GoI | On 25 May 2015 The paper aims to review the status of on-going National AIDS Control Programme with reference to objectives, strategies, plan initiatives, targets and outlays during 11th Five Year Plan and achieveme...
by National AIDS Control Programme NACP | On 25 May 2015 At its 134th session, in the provisional agenda the Executive Board have requested the Director-General to develop a framework of engagement with non-State actors and separate policies on the engageme...
by World Health Organisation (WHO) | On 25 May 2015 At its 134th session, in the provisional agenda the Executive Board considered two reports by the Secretariat on options for improved decision-making by the governing bodies, which included four recom...
by World Health Organisation (WHO) | On 25 May 2015 Working Group on Forestry and Sustainable Natural Resource Management has the mandate to identify thrust areas for an enabling environment for forestry sector and to make recommendations for policy in...
by | On 22 May 2015 The Working Group, in its meeting held to discuss the terms of reference to review the existing social security measures for organized workers. It is a basic human right, and its fulfillment will con...
by Ministry of Labour and Employment MoL&E | On 22 May 2015 The Executive Board held its 133rd session on 29 and 30 May 2013 and its 134th session from 20 to 25 January 2014. This report summarizes the main outcomes.
by World Health Organisation (WHO) | On 22 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 Policy prescriptions for strengthening convergence of forestry, agriculture, watershed development programmes with pastures and grazing land management in forests, nonconventional forest areas, villag...
by Planning Commission | On 21 May 2015 Strengthening of Drugs Regulatory Mechanisms is one of the major public health interventions. This ensures that safe, efficacious and quality drugs are made available to the people. Keeping in view th...
by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare H & FW | 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 The sub-group on NTFP under the Planning Commission Working Group on Natural Resource Management discussed the issues, challenges, potential, and scope in developing the NTFP sector in the country and...
by Ministry of Environment and Forests | On 20 May 2015 The report is a document of action-focussed legislative and pragmatic interventions to transform the existing state of Occupational Safety and Health in the country both in the formal and informal sec...
by Ministry of Labour and Employment GoI | On 20 May 2015 The Committee is mandated to prepare a position paper on the present socioeconomic, health and educational status of Schedule Tribes, and is expected to suggest policy initiatives as well as effective...
by Ministry of Tribal Affairs GOI | On 20 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 paper discusses the notion of accountability, followed by an introduction to the Downsian theory of electoral competition. This serves as a point for classifying different sources of accountabilit...
by Dilip Mookherjee | 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 report of the Standing Committee on Energy deals with the action taken by the Government on the Observations/Recommendations contained in their Sixteenth Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on ‘Small an...
by Lok Sabha Secretariat | On 13 May 2015 The Odisha State Youth Policy 2013 aims to give a strategic direction and make timely interventions to enable the youth to get the best out of the changing scenario in the state and the country due to...
by Environmental Management & Policy Research Institute | On 12 May 2015 The purpose of the study is to extend the period of analysis of the impact of new seed fertiliser technology from 1990-93 to 2003-06. A special significance to economic reforms in India in 1991 is giv...
by Gurmail Singh | On 12 May 2015 The Committee are of the view that the disabled group in our country still remains an invisible group in the mind of policy makers.
A vast number of the disabled are excluded from the existing servic...
by Lok Sabha Secretariat | On 11 May 2015 This Report of the Standing Committee on Water Resources deals with the action taken by the Government on the recommendations / observations contained in their Eleventh Report on Water Resources (2008...
by Lok Sabha Secretariat | On 11 May 2015 The Policy aims to holistically address the issues of vehicular emissions, vehicular technologies and auto fuel quality in a cost efficient manner, while ensuring the security of fuel supply.
by Lok Sabha Secretariat | On 07 May 2015 This Report of the Committee on the Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes deals with the action taken by the Government on the
recommendations contained in their Twenty-sixth Report (Fifte...
by Lok Sabha Secretariat | On 05 May 2015 The primary objective of the Act is augmenting wage employment. In this regard, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 provides for the enhancement of livelihood security of the...
by Committee on Empowerment of Women GOI | On 28 Apr 2015 The World Malaria Report 2014 summarizes information received from malaria-endemic countries and other sources, and updates the analyses presented in the 2013 report. It assesses global and regional m...
by World Health Organisation (WHO) | On 24 Apr 2015 The objective of this Consultation Paper (CP) is to analyse the implications of the growth of OTTs and consider whether or not changes
are required in the current regulatory framework. To understand...
by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) | On 13 Apr 2015 This report presents an overview of both legal frameworks that have institutionalised discrimination and fuelled religious intolerance and violence against women and a dysfunctional criminal justice s...
by International Crisis Group | On 13 Apr 2015 An ongoing debate on the shape of the Indian aggregate supply curve (AS) raises interesting econometric and policy issues. Systematic steps were taken to improve the estimation. On adding better vari...
by Ashima Goyal | On 02 Apr 2015 The January 2015 issue of IMI Konnect (Volume 4, Issue 1) contains the following articles - Does Monetary Policy Limit Lending Behaviour of Banks? by Samaresh Bardhan; Entrepreneurship Education in In...
by IMI Konnect | On 24 Mar 2015 The World Social Science Report captures a world undergoing deep change, rocked by multiple crises, including in the environment. This World Social Science Report examines the social dynamics of the...
by UNESCO Publishing | On 18 Mar 2015 This working paper reflects Indis's domestic production on exports and imports. The paper also highlights upon India’s two policy instruments, namely price controls and reserving market segment for sm...
by | On 18 Mar 2015 The World Water Development Report is produced by the World Water Assessment Programme, a programme of UN-Water hosted by UNESCO, and is the result of the joint efforts of the UN agencies and entities...
by Environmental Management & Policy Research Institute | On 13 Mar 2015 Conditions for stability in an open economy dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model adapted to a
dualistic labor market (SOEME) are the same as for a mature economy. But the introduction of
mon...
by Ashima Goyal | On 11 Mar 2015 Violence against women by an intimate partner is a major contributor to the ill-health of women. This study analyses data from 10 countries and sheds new light on the prevalence of violence against wo...
by World Health Organisation (WHO) | On 11 Mar 2015 In the recent decade, India has made significant strides in the financial sector. Some of the important developments are strengthening of banks, de-regulation of interest rates and sector competition...
by Ministry of Finance | On 19 Feb 2015 India is a large user of financial services, by virtue of a large and growing GDP and a high rate of investment and savings. At present, India is con- suming financial services produced onshore as wel...
by Ministry of Finance | On 19 Feb 2015 An outcome report of IMF-World Bank meetings held in October 2014, this report highlights the stark inequalities in human development in South Asia. Based on parameters such as monetary indicators, he...
by Martin Rama | On 17 Feb 2015 Development economists have considered physical infrastructure to be a precondition for industrialization and economic development. Yet, two issues remain to be addressed in the literature. First, whi...
by Yasuyuki Sawada | On 16 Feb 2015 This paper is an overview of the issues surrounding India’s water scarcity, and also comparison of clean water standards between developing and developed nations. Water security is emerging as an incr...
by | On 06 Feb 2015 Government of India (GoI) set up a High Level Committee (HLC) to suggest restructuring or unbundling of FCI with a view to improve its operational efficiency and financial management. GoI also asked H...
by Food Corporation of India | On 04 Feb 2015 This paper aim to provide an account of growth in India based on its internal dynamics. This helps to place the relative roles of policy, shocks, and internal dynamics. The paper leads us to conclude...
by Pulapre Balakrishnan | On 21 Jan 2015 The paper examines the policies of the central as well as state governments with respect to the agricultural market, specifically in rice and wheat markets, analyses their shortcomings and argues for...
by Anandi Subramanian | On 16 Jan 2015 This paper examines the price movements in rice and wheat, following structuralist principles emphasizing the necessity of long term solutions in combination with short and medium term management. How...
by K U Gopakumar | On 17 Dec 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 This book originates from a conference of the Association of Asian Social Science Research Councils and contains writings and research reports on Youth in Transition in the Asia and Pacific region. Th...
by UNESCO UNESCO | On 16 Oct 2014 India has the dubious distinction of having the highest burden of malnutrition in
the world – higher than Sub-Saharan Africa. Nearly 50 per cent of our children
are underweight and stunted and 70...
by National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, India | On 16 Oct 2014 Food inflation in India has remained stubborn in recent years. A number of proximate
factors such as increasing demand particularly arising from higher rural wages, rising
agricultural cost of produ...
by Thangzason Sonna | On 14 Oct 2014 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 The inaugural budget of the NDA led government has been a cause of some surprise and disappointment amongst those who were eagerly expecting a new radical dose of neo-liberal reforms. It appeared that...
by Surajit Mazumdar | On 22 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 Many national poverty reduction strategies overlook the needs of young people. Even where national strategies do have a youth focus, the analysis of their situation is limited because little or no ref...
by United Nations Population Fund UNFPA | On 18 Sep 2014 A picture about the macroeconomy that is, the world economy and the domestic economy is given. The two recent regulatory measures are given here. [FICCI/IBA Annual Banking Conference].
by Raghuram G. Rajan | On 18 Sep 2014 The 2013/4 Education for All Global Monitoring Report shows why education is pivotal for development in a rapidly changing world. It explains how investing wisely in teachers, and other reforms aimed...
by UNESCO UNESCO | On 25 Aug 2014 The 2014 Report highlights the need for both promoting people's choices and protecting human development achievements. It takes the view that vulnerability threatens human development, and unless it i...
by United Nations Development Programme UNDP | On 20 Aug 2014 From 2003, the Indian economy enjoyed a boom in growth coupled with moderate inflation for five years. The economy grew at a rate close to 9 percent per year, until it was punctured by the global fina...
by Pankaj Kumar | On 19 Aug 2014 THE WORLD YOUTH REPORT explores the situation of young migrants from the perspective of young migrants themselves. The report highlights some of the concerns, challenges and successes experienced by y...
by UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs UNDESA | On 12 Aug 2014 The World Youth Report 2011 explores the transition of young people from schools and training institutions into the labour market, a phase marking a critical period in the life cycle. The current empl...
by UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs UNDESA | On 12 Aug 2014 The World Youth Report focus on youth and climate change, and is intended to highlight the important role young people play in addressing climate change, and to offer suggestions on how young people m...
by UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs UNDESA | On 12 Aug 2014 The FRBM Act was reflective of the shared commitment across political parties towards fiscal conservatism. A decade later, the picture, as reflected in the Union Budget, is yet to change for the bette...
by Surajit Mazumdar | On 07 Aug 2014 The Europe Commission (EC) initiated a number of studies to determine the reasons for the decline in the study of science and science literacy among European students. The Science Education for Divers...
by Ng Swee Chin | On 28 Jul 2014 The paper reviews the calculation of Indian wholesale and consumer price indices and suggests improvements in the light of past experience and international best practices. It confirms that food infla...
by Kirti Gupta | On 22 Jul 2014 The article examines the restructuring of expenditure in the first budget of the new government, and its
feasibility. It compares the increase in budget allocations for key macroeconomic aggregates a...
by Ashima Goyal | On 21 Jul 2014 In 2014-15, the Indian economy is poised to overcome the sub-5 per cent growth of gross domestic product (GDP) witnessed over the last two years. The growth slowdown in the last two years was broad ba...
by Planning Commission | On 10 Jul 2014 The 77-page report documents discrimination by school authorities in four Indian states against Dalit, tribal, and Muslim children. The discrimination creates an unwelcome atmosphere that can lead to...
by Human Rights Watch | On 17 Jun 2014 In southern Nepal, rice straw burning in open fields is common practice. This is problematic because biomass burning contributes to smoke, black carbon and greenhouse gases. While some studies have ex...
by Krishna Prasad Pant | On 02 Jun 2014 The Report highlights the unique aspects of youth development in various regions but emphasizes that young people the world over are ultimately constrained in their efforts to contribute to their own...
by United Nations UN | On 16 May 2014 This Report surveys critical aspects of human development, from political freedoms and empowerment to sustainability and human security, and outlines a broader agenda for research and policies to resp...
by Jeni Klugman | On 06 May 2014 The Human Development Report 2011 explores the integral links between environmental sustainability and equity and shows that these are critical to expanding human freedoms for people today and in gene...
by Jeni Klugman | On 06 May 2014 The 2013 Human Development Report, The Rise of the South: Human Progress in a Diverse World looks at the evolving geopolitics of our times, examining emerging issues and trends and also the new actors...
by Khalid Malik | On 06 May 2014 This paper reviews the key aspects of general strikes and analyses the economic cost of
such strikes in Nepal. Data analysis shows that average direct cost of general strikes
stood at NRs. 1.8 billi...
by Min Bahadur Shrestha | On 11 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 Budget speech by 2014-15.
by P Chidambaram | On 17 Feb 2014 This paper propounds a contract-theoretic model where dowry acts as a screening device to
differentiate grooms of varying qualities. In 'arranged' marriage settings that are characterized by
incompl...
by Soumyanetra Munshi | On 31 Jan 2014 This paper studies the productivity impact of a contract change. The setting is a tea plantation in
India. The activity in question is tea-plucking, the output from which is measurable and contractib...
by Rajshri Jayaraman | On 24 Jan 2014 The fate and future of Pakistan has been an issue of considerable concern and anxiety not only inside Pakistan but in the world at large and South Asia in particular. The Fund for Peace project on the...
by S.D. Muni | On 22 Jan 2014 The issue of child mortality in India has been under the scanner in several research publications in recent times. All the reviews acknowledge that India will not achieve the required reductions of un...
by Shambhu Ghatak | On 28 Oct 2013 High food inflation, which has averaged 10% during FY 2008-09 to December 2012, has been a major concern for policy makers in India. This is all the more important as an average household in India sti...
by Ashok Gulati | On 21 Oct 2013 Delhi Master Plan 2021 introduced the "In-situ rehabilitation" approach to slum redevelopment, in which slum residents transit to temporary housing while the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) reconstr...
by Anubhab Pattanayak | On 10 Oct 2013 This paper discusses and comments on the legal and policy dimension and the obstacles it poses to a sustainable and effective response to HIV/AIDS as many do not come forward to obtain medical servic...
by Bhavani Fonseka | On 14 Sep 2013 Statement by Dr. Raghuram Rajan on taking office on September 4, 2013. [RBI Press release].
by Sabeeta Badkar | On 05 Sep 2013 Main issues of concern looking to the future include ongoing maintenance of capacity and infrastructure given government funding cuts, and the training and mentoring of junior staff needed to replace...
by Kathleen Flaherty | On 04 Sep 2013 This Tenth Nani A. Palkhivala Memorial lecture lecture centres around the role and responsibility of a central bank in a democratic structure. Central banks make macroeconomic policy that influences t...
by Duvvuri Subbarao | On 30 Aug 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 Inflation in general and food price inflation in particular has been a persistent problem in
India over the past few years. Price stability is crucial for sustainable growth as persistent
inflation...
by Pradeep Agrawal | On 16 Apr 2013 This study explores how involvement of the audience with cognitive/affective program
influence their processing of advertisements aired in between the program because of
varying involvement within p...
by Mayank Jyotsna Soni | On 12 Apr 2013 Share of Dudget for Children in the Union Budget. [HAQCRC]. URL:[http://www.haqcrc.org/sites/default/files/BfC%20Analysis%202013-14-1.pdf]
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 01 Mar 2013 Budget Speech by Chidambaram.
by P Chidambaram | On 28 Feb 2013 Is the Finance Minister going to do a salvage operation? [BS week end ruminations].
by T.N. Ninan | On 27 Feb 2013 In spite of several programmes in the country to reduce undernutrition, India continues to have a large number malnourished women and children. In the coming Budget the government has to make some eff...
by Rudra Narayan Mishra | On 26 Feb 2013 Son preference is widespread in a number of developing countries. Anecdotal evidence
suggests that women may contribute to the persistence of this phenomenon because they
derive substantial long-run...
by Laura Zimmermann | On 19 Nov 2012 Home-based work has a much wider scope of activity than the singular task of an individual working from
his/her home. This essential service is tied in with a larger chain of forward and backward lin...
by Indira Gartenberg | On 16 Oct 2012 During the current year so far, inflation at the retail level in oils and fats has been higher than at the wholesale level. While this phenomenon can be attributed to a number of factors, improvement...
by Harun R Khan | On 27 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 Improving maternal and newborn health in low-income settings requires both health service and community
action. Previous community initiatives have been predominantly rural, but India is urbanizing....
by Neena Shah More | On 17 Aug 2012 Estimates suggest that Indian aggregate supply is elastic but subject to upward shocks. If supply shocks
make a high persistent contribution to inflation, it implies second round pass through is occu...
by Ashima Goyal | On 16 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 This paper discusses the evolution of Model Concession Agreement for National Highways, the vital framework on which the success of Public Private Partnership lies. The key learnings of this study wou...
by Ramakrishnan T S | On 18 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 This study estimates degree of intrinsic inflation persistence in Pakistan using aggregate price index, group level price indices, and individual commodity prices. Monthly data from 1959 to 2011 is us...
by Muhammad Nadim Hanif | On 09 Jul 2012 A comprehense documentation - using
both annual and quarterly data - an exhaustive set of stylized facts for the
Indian business cycle in the pre and post reform period, the data is used to
report...
by Chetan Ghate | On 19 Jun 2012 The 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 The aim of this paper
is to examine the driving forces behind China’s military modernization efforts
followed by an assessment of the goals and foci of China’s military modernization
at present and...
by Jiao Liang | On 08 May 2012 This study analyses India’s inflation using the Phillips curve theory. To estimate an open-economy Phillips curve, we need three variables: (1) inflation (2) the output gap and (3) the real effective...
by Karan Singh | On 26 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 This paper examines transactions costs in buying versus selling using a large database
of snapshots of the limit order book. On the equity spot market, there is clear evidence
of asymmetry in liquid...
by Rajat Tayal | On 19 Apr 2012 Th is study, which is supported by the ministries of fi nance and
the central banks of the BRICS, focuses on synergies and complementarities
between the economies, highlighting their role as growth
...
by Ministry of Finance | On 18 Apr 2012 The Financial Crisis of 2007-2008 and the Great Recession of 2007-2009 are now in the past. Again there was the debt crisis of 2010-11. During the worst of the recent financial crisis/Great Recession...
by Michael D Bordo | On 13 Apr 2012 Distance-to-default (DtD) from the Merton model has been used
in the credit risk literature, most successfully as an input into reduced
form models for forecasting default. [WP-2012-010]. URL:[http:...
by Nidhi Aggarwal | On 10 Apr 2012 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 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 Budget Speech by Shri Prafulla Chandra Ghadai. [Government of Odisha]. URL:[http://www.orissa.gov.in/finance/Budgets/2012-13/BUDGET%20SPEECH%20ENGLISH.pdf].
by Government of Orissa | On 27 Mar 2012 Budget for the year 2012-13. [Government of Maharashtra]. URL:[http://maharashtra.gov.in/pdf/english_speech_part_I.pdf].
by Maharashtra Government | On 27 Mar 2012 Budget presented to Municipal Commissioner. . [BMC Annual Reports]. URL:[http://www.mcgm.gov.in/irj/go/km/docs/documents/MCGM%20Department%20List/Chief%20Accountant%20(Finance)/Budget/Complete%20Engli...
by Municipal Commissioner BMC | On 22 Mar 2012 Rapid demographic ageing is a growing public health issue in many low- and middle-income countries
(LAMICs). Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a construct frequently used to define groups of people...
by Ana Luisa Sosa | On 19 Mar 2012 What the Budget of India, 2012-13 has got for children? [HAQCRC]. URL:[http://www.haqcrc.org/sites/default/files/BfC%202012-13_0.pdf].
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 19 Mar 2012 This paper analyses the impact of transmission of international oil prices and domestic oil price pass-through policy on major macroeconomic variables in India with the help of a macroeconomic policy...
by N R Bhanumurthy | On 16 Mar 2012 BUDGET SPEECH 2011-2012 by
DR. ABDUL HAFEEZ SHAIKH, Minister for Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and
Planning & Development.
by Minister of Finance Pakistan | On 12 Mar 2012 Time is an important economic resource that can be spent in a variety of
ways. Diverse demands on a person’s time may reach a point where the
individual may be categorized as time poor. Time poverty...
by Najam us Saqib | On 09 Mar 2012 The increasing occurrence of national, regional, and global financial crises, together with their rising costs and complexity, have increased calls for greater regional and global monetary cooperation...
by Mario Lamberte | On 21 Feb 2012 Standard errors (S.Es.) of month on month and year on year inflation in Pakistan are estimated
based on data for the period of July 2001 to June 2010 using stochastic approach as well as
extended s...
by Javed Iqbal | On 15 Feb 2012 A stated objective of Myanmar is to become a modern developed nation that
will stand shoulder to shoulder – proud, dignified and tall – with the countries
of the world. How far has Myanmar come in a...
by U Myint | On 15 Feb 2012 The sovereign debt problems in the peripheral economies of the euro zone has started to pose a serious threat to the main economies of the Europe and perhaps to the future of the 'euro‘ itself. Such a...
by M R Anand | On 06 Feb 2012 What is the role of financial regulation in the field of micro- finance?
This paper identifi es two features of micro- finance which call for unique
treatment in policy considerations as compared...
by M Sahoo | On 03 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 essay examines the trajectory of India?s fiscal policy with a focus on historical trends, fiscal discipline frameworks, fiscal responses to the global financial crisis and subsequent return to a...
by Supriyo De | On 31 Jan 2012 The paper discusses the pros and cons of
the already proposed international cooperative mechanisms toward climate change
mitigation and highlights the problem of information revelation, particularly...
by Meeta Keswani Mehra | On 27 Jan 2012 This policy review is set in the
context of a highly uncertain global
environment and a delicately poised
domestic balance between growth
and inflation. It should be read and
understood together...
by Duvvuri Subbarao | On 25 Jan 2012 The Growth outlook has weakened as
a result of adverse global and domestic factors
that have been mentioned above. Business
and consumer confidence has been impacted.
Professional forecasters now...
by Reserve Bank of India RBI | On 25 Jan 2012 This paper explores the relationship between inflation and relative price variability (RPV) by using disaggregated CPI data for Pakistan. Three methods have been used to assess the functional form and...
by Muhammad Akmal | On 25 Jan 2012 The paper has the objective of viewing the condition of women in terms of freedom of choice, freedom and expression and right of privacy. Also it views violence against women.
by Asian Centre for Human Rights ACHR | On 20 Jan 2012 This paper assesses the sources of risk for Indian banks in the context of their history, structure, level of development, and policy environment and draws out implications for global and domestic pol...
by Ashima Goyal | On 18 Jan 2012 The current global financial crisis has reopened an old debate on the international monetary system by baring weaknesses and flaws that have long been known. The debate is centred on both stability an...
by Alok Sheel | On 10 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 analysis seeks to look at inflation as a political economic phenomenon, based on a framework devised by Jonathan Nitzan and christened differential accumulation. The theory of differential accumul...
by Syed Ozair Ali | On 05 Jan 2012 This note lists the legislative business planned by Parliament and compares it with the actual
performance during the Winter Session. [PRS Note]. URL:[http://www.prsindia.org/administrator/uploads/ge...
by Kusum Malik | On 30 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 One of the methods of measuring the effectiveness of monetary policies is via inspection of
monetary neutrality in the economy. It is a concept from classical economics and it suggests that
changes...
by Mukesh Khanal | On 16 Dec 2011 Review of the book 'Debt and Death in Rural India: The Punjab Story' by
Aman Sidhu and Inderjit Singh Jaijee
Sage Publications India, New Delhi,
2011, Rs 750/-, pp 360.
by Gursharan Singh Kainth | On 13 Dec 2011 Scientific authors who pay to publish
their articles in an open-access publication
should be congratulated for doing so. They
also should be aware that they may not be
getting full open access fro...
by Michael W Carroll | On 13 Dec 2011 Inflation data for the past few years (August 2007 to October 2011 of Nepal and August 2007 to
July 2011 of India for the analysis of monthly annual variation) have been taken into consideration for...
by Nepal Rastra Bank Research Department NRB | On 12 Dec 2011 Review of the book 'Social Income and Insecurity: A Study in Gujarat' by
Guy Standing, Jeemol Unni, Renana Jhabvala, and Uma Rani
Routledge India, 2010 216 pages.
by N. Vijayamohanan Pillai | On 12 Dec 2011 How does informality in emerging economies affect the conduct of monetary and
fiscal policy? To answer this question two-sector, formal-informal new
Keynesian closed-economy is constructed. The inf...
by Nicoletta Batini | On 02 Dec 2011 The objective of this policy is to ensure safe, affordable, quick, comfortable, reliable
and sustainable access for the growing number of city residents to jobs, education, recreation
and such other...
by Ministry of Urban Development GOI | On 30 Nov 2011 A closed model DSGE model of the Indian economy is developed and it is estimated
by Bayesian Maximum Likelihood methods using Dynare. A model is build up in stages to
with a number of features impo...
by Vasco Gabriel | On 28 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 With deep crisis weakening potential output growth, the need for an
explicit growth policy is emerging most starkly in Japan, the EU and
the US. If properly shaped, this will help to consolidate bud...
by Klaus Deutsch | On 21 Nov 2011 This report presents the results of the deliberations of the
Task Force. Section one provides
the
background.
Section
two
presents
the
status
of
the
implementation
of
March
2010
recomme...
by Ministry of Labour and Employment MoL&E | On 18 Nov 2011 A
bill
to provide for the establishment of an Authority to promote old age income security by
establishing, developing and regulating pension funds, to protect the interests of
subscribers to sche...
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 17 Nov 2011 The Impossible Trinity doctrine still holds a powerful sway over policymakers, advisors
(particularly the International Monetary Fund [IMF]) and academia. In East Asia over the past
decade, however,...
by Stephen Grenville | On 15 Nov 2011 As markets deepen and interest elasticities increase it is optimal for emerging markets to shift towards
an interest rate instrument since continuing monetization of the economy implies money demand...
by Ashima Goyal | On 04 Nov 2011 Goa is celebrating the Golden Jubilee Year of its Liberation. The recent economic achievements of the state are highlighted. The economic and financial structure of the state as well as the various fi...
by Deepak Mohanty | On 04 Nov 2011 In support of the financial-accelerator theory, evidence is found on countercyclical price-cost
banking margins possibly explaining the amplifications of business cycles in Pakistan. [WP 41]. URL:[ht...
by Shah Hussein | On 03 Nov 2011 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 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 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 Over the last decade, the profile of central banks has gone up. First, we had the Great Moderation - a period of extraordinary benign macroeconomic environment globally, characterized by steady growth...
by Duvvuri Subbarao | On 27 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 This paper maps out a strategy for banking sector reforms over the next decade. It is formulated by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) and is centered on reforms involving the SBP. But the Banking Secto...
by State Bank of Pakistan SBP | On 15 Sep 2011 With a view to increasing the coverage of banking services amongst local communities, it was proposed in the Annual Policy Statement for the year 2010-11 to set up a Committee comprising of all stakeh...
by Reserve Bank of India RBI | On 15 Sep 2011 Stock futures offer leveraged positions and are expected to attract informed traders. Many
researchers have found that the information share of the stock futures is surprisingly small; the equity
sp...
by Jeffrey Vincent | On 24 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 In this study the analytical framework for identifying and benchmarking systemically important financial institutions is discussed. First, the main concepts underlying the SIFI definition are laid out...
by Christian Weistroffer | On 12 Aug 2011 The draft Bill puts in place a new institutional mechanism to ensure that the Rehabilition and Resettlement (R&R) provisions are implemented effectively as an integral part of land acquisition.
by Ministry of Rural Development GOI | On 10 Aug 2011 TRAI has initiated this consultation paper suo-motu focusing on future looking regulatory framework for provisioning of Mobile Value Added Services. URL:[http://www.trai.gov.in/WriteReadData/trai/uplo...
by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) | On 26 Jul 2011 This paper analyses the impact of domestic and external shocks on the Indian economy.
A macro-modelling framework is developed that evaluates the impact of two
domestic shocks (rainfall shortfall an...
by B B Bhattacharya | On 15 Jul 2011 This paper estimates the short-run aggregate supply curve for the Indian economy over the period 1950-51 to 2008-09. Methodological improvements in this paper include the technique of estimating adapt...
by Ravindra H Dholakia | On 14 Jul 2011 Why do many households remain exposed to large exogenous sources of non-systematic
income risk? Why don’t financial markets develop to pool these risks? This paper uses a
series of randomized field...
by Shawn Cole | On 06 Jul 2011 The Fisher's equation has become a foundation stone of
modern macroeconomic, monetary and financial theories. Here it is shown that despite the estabilished status of Fisher's equation, it stands on...
by Rajas Parchure | On 04 Jul 2011 Managing capital flows is the key policy challenge for emerging economies like India in the aftermath of the crisis. In contrast to other emerging markets who are levying capital controls, India‘s mac...
by R. Kohli | On 04 Jul 2011 The
importance of non-financial reporting in the overall assessment of a company's
performance, its risk-return trade off is steadily gaining ground, both globally and in
India. [Address by Dr K. C...
by Chakrabarty K C | On 10 Jun 2011 The objective of this study is to estimate potential output vis-à-vis output gap for Pakistan’s economy. This paper reviews six commonly used techniques to estimate potential output and from that the...
by S. Adnan H. A. S. Bukhari | On 09 Jun 2011 In a new CGD report, U.S. and Pakistani development experts urge a substantial revamp of the U.S. approach to Pakistan, saying that U.S. efforts to build prosperity in the nuclear-armed nation with a...
by Nancy Birdsall | On 02 Jun 2011 The Bill lays down the definition of sexual harassment and seeks to provide a mechanism for redressing complaints.
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 01 Jun 2011 Impact of changes in policy rate of interest on demand for bank credit is examined for seven emerging market economies including India for the period 2002 to 2010. Panel data techniques are used after...
by B L Pandit | On 24 May 2011 This report documents the crisis situation facing Kashmir in the 90s and the role of PUCL delegates in its intervention. URL: [http://www.pucl.org/major_reports/Kashmir_A_Report_To_The_Nation_part-1.p...
by Rajinder Sachar | On 23 May 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 The limited supply of government securities in some industrial countries has important ramifications for the operating techniques used by central banks to implement monetary policy, provide credit to...
by Mark Zelmer | On 16 May 2011 In March 2009, the Fund established a new Framework Administered Account to
administer external financial resources for selected Fund Activities (the “SFA Instrument”). The financing of activities u...
by International Monetary Fund | On 12 May 2011 In this paper the authors first develop a two-bloc model of an emerging open economy interacting with
the rest of the world calibrated using Indian and US data. The model features a
fina...
by Nicoletta Batini | On 11 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 In a week when the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has said that combating inflation is now its primary focus, it is important to ask: is RBI fighting yesterday’s war, instead of peering into the future t...
by T.N. Ninan | On 08 May 2011 All across the board growth forecasts for this year are being revised downwards. What has changed in the last few months?
http://www.indicus.net
by Sumita Kale | On 08 May 2011 What is the best inflation measure in India? What inflation measure is most relevant for monetary policy making in India? Questions
of timeliness, weights in the price index, accuracy of food price m...
by Ila Patnaik | On 06 May 2011 This Statement sets out the Reserve Bank’s assessment of the current macroeconomic situation and projections. URL:[http://rbidocs.rbi.org.in/rdocs/notification/PDFs/APS030511F.pdf].
by Duvvuri Subbarao | On 03 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 The paper is an attempt to deal with pros and cons of deregulating savings deposit interest rate and take on board the suggestions of various stakeholders for either maintaining the status quo or dere...
by Reserve Bank of India RBI | On 02 May 2011 The world’s biggest carbon offset market, the Clean Development Mechanism, is a global shell game that is
increasing greenhouse gas emissions behind the guise of promoting sustainable development. It...
by International Rivers Network IRN | On 28 Apr 2011 Budget speech of Finance Minister.
by Government of Tripura | On 27 Apr 2011 GDP growth likely to average 8.2 per cent over 11th Plan: short of the 9% target, but remarkable given the global crisis and drought. Basic objective : Faster, More Inclusive, and Sustainable Growth
...
by Planning Commission | On 25 Apr 2011 In 2010 and 2011, there has been a fresh wave of interest in cap-
ital controls. India is one of the few large countries with a complex
system of capital controls, and hence others an opportunity to...
by Ila Patnaik | On 21 Apr 2011 Budget Speech of the Finance Minister. URL: [http://admis.hp.nic.in/budget/Aspx/Anonymous/pdf/FS_Eng_2011.pdf]
by Himachal Pradesh Government of India | On 20 Apr 2011 There have been significant developments in the global economy since we met in the fall of 2010. The IMF too has moved on several fronts under its mandate which has strengthened its position in a chan...
by Duvvuri Subbarao | On 20 Apr 2011 Maharashtra Budget Part II
by Maharashtra Government | On 18 Apr 2011 Some option series in the market are far less liquid than others. Market illiquidity can reduce the
informativeness of option prices. In this paper, an alternative schemes are proposed to estimate im...
by Rohini Grover | On 09 Apr 2011 This report analyzes the key education-related issues raised in these interviews
as well as available studies on the needs of ethnic minority communities, press
reports, government reports and edu...
by Kelley Loper | On 01 Apr 2011 Budget 2011-12 presented by the Finance Minister.
by Government of Meghalaya Govt | On 28 Mar 2011 This
paper aims to review the main considerations around food price
movements. It includes a discussion on the impact of speculation. URL:[https://www.dbresearch.com/PROD/DBR_INTERNET_EN-PROD/PROD00...
by Claire Schaffnit Chatterjee | On 16 Mar 2011 The State of the World's Children 2011 examines the global state of adolescents; outlines the challenges they face in health, education, protection and participation; and explores the risks and vulner...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 14 Mar 2011 The
budgetary policy of the Government has a major
role to play in achieving objectives of gender
equality and growth through content and
direction of Fiscal and Monetary Policies,
measures for r...
by Government of India Ministry of Women and Child Development | On 08 Mar 2011 Recent evidence on the impact of information provision on service delivery has been mixed, with overall outcomes even worsening in certain cases. We examine the market-wide impact of an experimental i...
by Tahir Andrabi | On 07 Mar 2011 Japan experienced sharp appreciations of the yen twice after World War II,
the first followed by hyperinflation and the second by the “economic bubble”
in the late 1980s. The country then underwent...
by Toshiki Kanamori | On 07 Mar 2011 Budget speech 2011-2012 by Pranab Mukherjee.
by Pranab Mukherjee | On 01 Mar 2011 State of the Economy and prospects. URL:[http://www.indiabudget.nic.in/es2010-11/echap-01.pdf].
by Ministry of Finance | On 28 Feb 2011 Private investors respond to risk return tradeoffs. The policy
environment and regulatory framework significantly influence risk as
well as return in the power sector. Power sector reform and policy...
by Anoop Singh | On 22 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 study attempts to develop a dynamic factor model (DFM) to
forecast industrial production and price level in India. For this purpose, domestic as well as
external economic indicators, that appea...
by Sanjib Bordoloi | On 21 Feb 2011 Nine preliminary lessons from the Great Recession for monetary and financial policies are presented. [3rd P. R. Brahmananda Memorial Lecture].
by Stanley Fischer | On 18 Feb 2011 Recent health policy debates in both developed and developing countries have been strongly
influenced by a trend towards ‘marketisation’, involving the selective introduction of a range of
market me...
by Anne Mills | On 18 Feb 2011 This paper is an attempt to gauge the relationship between the long run paths of consumer
price index and wholesale price index of Pakistan. For the empirical analysis the Johansen cointegration
tec...
by Nasir Hamid Rao | On 07 Feb 2011 The focus of the analysis is on the post-colonial period after India attained
independence in 1947. This paper covers the period from 1950-51 onwards for which
consistent data series are available....
by Arvind Virmani | On 03 Feb 2011 The simultaneous occurrence of high food inflation and large foodgrain stocks in our granaries
has been a matter of widespread concern in India. The aim of this paper is to understand the
fundamenta...
by Kaushik Basu | On 03 Feb 2011 Since a crisis is a shock impinging on a system, the response can be used to deduce aspects of the
system’s structure. Analysis of the crisis and recovery suggests aggregate supply in India is elasti...
by Ashima Goyal | On 01 Feb 2011 This statement sets out the Reserve Bank’s assessment of the current
macroeconomic situation and forward projections.
by D Subbarao | On 31 Jan 2011 The exchange rate-based monetary policy followed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is outlined. Possible theoretical frameworks, including a reaction function is outlined. The way the MAS h...
by Partha Sen | On 31 Jan 2011 The World Health Report (WHR) for 2012 will be on the theme of ‘‘No Health
without Research’’. The WHR 2012 aims to provide impetus for a change to the problematic state of affairs of health researc...
by Tikki Pang | On 27 Jan 2011 The paper analyzes the changing INR trends over the reform period, in the context of fundamental
determinants of exchange rates. [WP-2010-024].
by Ashima Goyal | On 13 Jan 2011 The paper examines various aspects of development of minority in Vietnam.
by Bob Baulch | On 07 Jan 2011 In 2002, BRAC launched a targeted and comprehensive development programme called
Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction: Targeting the Ultra Poor (CFPR/TUP)
aimed at the poorest of the poor,...
by Vivek A. Prakash | On 07 Jan 2011 The use of monetary policy in India has been constrained by a loose fiscal policy and capital flows. Capital inflows have the potential to cause a Dutch Disease-type situation. The RBI has carried out...
by Partha Sen | On 06 Jan 2011 They develop a framework for assessing community-level development programmes, building upon five related elements that are centrally important: confidence, cohesion, capacity, connections and cash (t...
by Anirudh Krishna | On 22 Dec 2010 On 9th June 2010 the mandate of the UN human rights field
mission to Nepal, the Office of the High Commissioner for
Human Rights Nepal (OHCHR-Nepal), expires. The Prime
Minister MK Nepal has said t...
by Asian Centre for Human Rights ACHR | On 22 Dec 2010 Economic stability can be seen as an essential component of any strategy for inclusive development. To the extent that central banks play a role in providing that stability, the experience of the cris...
by Subir Gokarn | On 21 Dec 2010 In 2010, many questions have come up regarding the actual practices of different donors—
those
over which they have
control and those that are likely to affect their long-run effectiveness
in term...
by Nancy Birdsall | On 26 Nov 2010 Structural Adjustment is aimed at altering the Incentive framework for private enterprise so as
to bring it to the centre stage of domestic economic activity. The prime mover for investment
and grow...
by D. Narayana | On 08 Nov 2010 Monetary policy frameworks in the Asia and Pacific region have performed well in the past decade as judged by inflation outcomes. We argue that this is due to three principal factors: (i) central bank...
by Andrew Filardo | On 08 Nov 2010 This paper sets up a canonical new Keynesian small open economy model with nominal price rigidities to explore the impact of habit persistence and exchange rate pass-through on the welfare ranking of...
by Yongseung Jung | On 01 Nov 2010 This paper empirically explores the present relationship between inflation and economic growth in the context of Bangladesh. Using annual data set on real GDP and CPI for the period of 1980 to 2005, a...
by Shamim Ahmed | On 14 Oct 2010 The paper improves upon the original Sargent-Wallace (SW) version which had to resort to numerical simulations to prove this point It is also shown that incorporating the Mundeil-Tobin and Darby-Tanzi...
by M J Manohar Rao | On 13 Oct 2010 This paper discusses the role of state intervention for prevention, containment, and resolution of financial crises based mainly on the Korean experience during the 1997 Asian financial crisis. Crises...
by Yoon Je Cho | On 12 Oct 2010 The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has emerged as a major player in the global economy and considers free trade agreements (FTAs) an important part of its global trading strategy. The PRC’s export i...
by Yunling Zhang | On 12 Oct 2010 The paper examines the recent European crisis management programs of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to see how the lessons of Asia were applied. Compared to the Asian programs of 1997, the Euro...
by Shinji Takagi | On 11 Oct 2010 The Japanese government’s response to the financial crisis in the 1990s was late, unprepared and insufficient; it failed to recognize the severity of the crisis, which developed slowly; faced no major...
by Mariko Fujii | On 08 Oct 2010 The global economic and financial landscape has been transformed over the past decade by the growing economic size and financial power of emerging economies. The new G20 summit process, which includes...
by Masahiro Kawai | On 05 Oct 2010 Poverty remains to be the most important development issue facing India with an estimated 301.72 million Indians (27.5 percent) living below the poverty line in 2004-2005. In 1975, Ralegan Siddhi was...
by Aasha Kapur Mehta | On 04 Oct 2010 Considerations of credit mechanism as a suitable mode of appropriation of
surplus, compared to rent, explains to a great extent the motivation, behind state
intervention in the money market in pea...
by T.T. Sreekumar | On 04 Oct 2010 This paper looks into the proliferation of privately-formulated environmental product standards and analyses whether Indian industry has a legal recourse under the WTO dispute settlement mechanism if...
by Samir R. Gandhi | On 30 Sep 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 It is being acknowledged that a macro prudential perspective is critical in designing and pursuing micro prudential regulation of institutions and markets. Two distinct but highly inter-related constr...
by Shyamala Gopinath | On 28 Sep 2010 India's colonial legacy and linguistic diversity give English an important role in its economy, and this role has expanded due to globalization in recent decades. It is widely believed that there are...
by Mehtabul Azam | On 26 Sep 2010 In spite of continued growth, millions of Ugandans remain in long-term, extreme poverty. They are also likely to continue being by-passed by the opportunities that economic growth offers, mostly to th...
by John De Coninck | On 24 Sep 2010 Development within the framework of economic reforms is often equated to growth
rates which are highlighted as the only solution to all problems – be it poverty,
unemployment or inequalities based...
by Neetha N | On 21 Sep 2010 The objective of this paper is twofold. Firstly, to propose a conceptual and institutional framework for the first step of the Kyoto procedure. This framework is formally expressed in a non-cooperativ...
by Sudhir A. Shah | On 09 Sep 2010 In India, there is a large divergence between CPI and WPI inflation trends in
the past, wide dispersion in inflation across commodity groups within WPI,
and significant volatility in headline WPI in...
by Nadhanael G V | On 08 Sep 2010 This paper identifies and focuses on a specific type of environmental development
called discontinuity. Discontinuities in the forms of rapid technological innovations,
regulatory reforms, instituti...
by M. R. Dixit | On 24 Aug 2010 This paper attempts to examine the relationship between health and economic growth. The rate of growth is measured using gross national income (GNI) and health status is measured using infant mortalit...
by Garima Malik | On 04 Aug 2010 The infeasibility of a monetary union for East Asia in the near future, as
well as the limitations of other forms of super fixes, appears to leave a flexible
regime as the only viable policy option....
by Tony Cavoli | On 30 Jul 2010 The depth and breadth of the East Asian financial crisis has
added a sense of acute urgency for some concrete and credible
measures by policy-makers to revitalise the Japanese economy.
While steps...
by Ramkishen Rajan | On 23 Jul 2010 Two features of East Asia’s recovery from the financial turmoil of 1997-
98 appear to be rather paradoxical. First, the regional economies (except
Hong Kong, China and Malaysia) have allowed a relat...
by Ramkishen S. Rajan | On 20 Jul 2010 To make Asia more economically sustainable and resilient against external shocks, regional economies need to be rebalanced toward regional demand- and trade-driven growth through increased regional co...
by Biswa N Bhattacharyay | On 09 Jul 2010 As a consequence of the flexibility mechanisms incorporated in the Kyoto Protocol (KP), incentive-based policies
such as emissions trading and the clean development mechanism (CDM) are being widely d...
by Shreekant Gupta | On 07 Jul 2010 In this paper an
analytical critique of the law and restrictions as also of the framework of urban
planning and a justification for why major change is required in the approach
to land markets, lan...
by Sebastian Morris | On 29 Jun 2010 Prior to the Asian financial crisis, most Asian exchange rates were de facto pegged
to the US Dollar. In the crisis, many economies experienced a brief period of extreme flexibility. A `fear of float...
by Ila Patnaik | On 18 Jun 2010 The objective of this paper is to study the health seeking behaviour in patients reporting with
cough of 3 weeks or more to Tuberculosis Units & Microscopy Centres in East District of
Sikkim and to...
by Karma Jigme Tobgay | On 11 Jun 2010 The paper is based on study of policies, research reports and experience of
working in the area of maternal health over last several years. The paper
describes how policies restrict basic doctors*fr...
by Dileep V. Mavalankar | On 07 Jun 2010 The paper tracks spatial inequality in social progress in Bangladesh as evidenced from the district level
data. It uses a multivariate framework to explore the differential pace of social progress at...
by Binayak Sen | On 04 Jun 2010 This paper is a study on Access, Participation, and Performance of Girls in Science and Technology in Nepal. This study was undertaken essentially to achieve four objectives, viz. to review curricular...
by Dr. Vidya Nath Koirala | On 03 Jun 2010 How does the Reserve Bank of India implement monetary policy? The objectives and framework of monetary policy, as they have evolved, the operational aspects of monetary policy have been discussed. Th...
by Deepak Mohanty | On 08 Apr 2010 In this paper, an attempt is made to enquire into the politics of the government and
business relation and how it affects the industrial development in general and expansion
of manufacturing sector...
by Alivelu G | On 02 Mar 2010 Capital account openness and exchange rate flexibility in 11 Asian countries are examined. Asia has made slow progress on de jure capital account openness,
but has made much more progress on de facto...
by Ila Patnaik | On 04 Feb 2010 The objective of this study is to examine empirically the impact of monetary policy on exchange market pressure (EMP) in Bangladesh. EMP is measured as the sum of percentage change of international re...
by Sayera Younus | On 29 Jan 2010 The Reserve Bank has pursued an accommodative monetary policy beginning mid-September 2008 in order to mitigate the adverse impact of the global financial crisis on the Indian economy. The measures ta...
by D Subbarao | On 29 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 China and India have both attempted distorting the exchange rate in order to foster exports-led growth. This is described as the Bretton Woods II framework, where developing countries buy bonds in the...
by Ila Patnaik | On 30 Nov 2009 Evolution of the financial sector regulation in India, particularly focusing on the elements of the policy framework which have contributed to the broader stability in the financial sector is depicted...
by Shyamala Gopinath | On 05 Nov 2009 The repo rate has been kept unchanged at 4.75%. The reverse repo rate left steady at 3.25%. The bank rate has been retained unchanged at 6.0%. The cash reserve ratio (CRR) of scheduled banks has been...
by D Subbarao | On 27 Oct 2009 Simultaneous relationship between telecommunications and the economic growth,
using data for developing countries are examined. Using 3SLS, a system
of equations that endogenize economic growth and...
by Kala Seetharam Sridhar | On 15 Oct 2009 From the perspective of Emerging Market Economies (EMEs) and particularly for that of India, five concerns are expressed. These are: first, timing of exit from the accommodative monetary policy in the...
by D Subbarao | On 15 Oct 2009 Can ‘participatory’ approaches to development constitute a viable strategy for promoting
citizenship? This paper addresses this question by scrutinising the equivocal reaction of a
peasant community...
by Katsuhiko Masaki | On 13 Oct 2009 Rising food prices cause considerable policy dilemmas for developing country
governments. Letting domestic prices adjust to reflect the full change in international prices generates inflationary pres...
by Nora Lustig | On 09 Oct 2009 Options for monetary policy arising from interactions
between it and Indian foreign exchange (FX) markets. A brief survey covers
recent rapid changes providing a snapshot of current microstructure,
...
by Ashima Goyal | On 14 Sep 2009 This paper assesses the condition and outlook of the financial sectors—in particular, the banking sector—in the East Asia region in the aftermath of the current global financial crisis. The risks in t...
by Michael Pomerleano | On 07 Sep 2009 The consumption patterns, socio-economic distribution and the household
choice of a variety of tobacco products across rural and urban India are analyzed. Using a Multinomial Logit Model, the choice...
by Rijo M John | 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 The focus should be to simplify the technology which can operate on any platform. The technology solution to the business needs should be user-friendly without much third-party or IT vendor interventi...
by Chakrabarty K C | On 11 Aug 2009 This study examines household behaviour related to fuelwood collection and use. The focus is on
identifying the behavioral transition of fuelwood-using households from collection to purchase.
The st...
by ARABINDA MISHRA | On 29 Jul 2009 The primary objective of this report is to bring together the experiences and learnings of a range of actors affected by, and involved in the disaster response in order to identify factors that have i...
by Tata Institue of Social Sciences TISS | On 28 Jul 2009 The multi-dimensional role of RBI and how it reponded to the financial crisis is depicted in the presentation. [Presentation made at the 56th EXCOM Meeting and FinPower CEO Forum organised by APRACA a...
by Usha Thorat | On 15 Jul 2009 This paper addresses the issue of establishing a regulatory regime along the production, supply and value chains of multinational corporations in terms of setting labor standards and protecting worker...
by Fichter Michael | On 08 Jul 2009 The method used to measure Human Development are reviewed in order to measure Human Development Index for rural AP by considering indicators such as economic attainment, longevity and education. The e...
by Jatinder S Bedi | On 07 Jul 2009 Key features of budget presented by the Finance Minister
by Pranab Mukherjee | On 06 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 paper attempts to analyse the emerging contours of regulation of financial institutions with an emphasis on the emerging challenges and dynamics. [Paper prepared for Financial Stability Review of...
by Rakesh Mohan | On 29 Jun 2009 This note analyses the major characteristics of the current inflationary episode in the economy along with its probable impact on different population groups in Bangladesh. The note also draws some po...
by Mustafa. K. Mujeri | On 27 Jun 2009 The paper analyzes the effects of changes in consumption factor on the calculation of inflation calculation in Bangladesh. This is important as there might exist some volatile and non-trend components...
by Md. Habibour Rahman | On 27 Jun 2009 The paper estimates the P* model for Bangladesh economy and test its forecasting ability through generating recursive forecasts. The empirical result shows that the model performs relatively well and...
by Mustafa. K. Mujeri | On 27 Jun 2009 This paper investigates the relative importance of monetary and fiscal policies in altering real output of Bangladesh. An unrestricted vector auto regression (VAR) framework based on the St. Louis equ...
by Md. Habibur Rahman | On 27 Jun 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 The study examines the impact of changes in monetary policy in Bangladesh. Specifically, the study examines the impact of domestic and foreign monetary shocks on Bangladesh’s major economic aggregate...
by Sayera Younus | On 22 Jun 2009 The study uses co-integration and vector auto-regression (VAR) techniques to identify the determinants of income velocity of money (VM) in Bangladesh, covering both narrow and broad money. The study o...
by Md. Akhtaruzzaman | On 15 Jun 2009 Although economic growth has improved in recent years in Bangladesh, the better economic performance has not translated into satisfactory poverty reduction. The type of growth that matters Bangladesh...
by Mustafa. K. Mujeri | On 15 Jun 2009 The article focuses on understanding of the economics of the exchange control liberalisation in macroeconomic perspectives and, therefore, the article does not attempt to interpret or explore the lega...
by P Samarasiri | On 12 Jun 2009 This report is intended as a wake-up call to anyone who thinks the developing world debt crisis has been resolved. In fact, it assesses fears of a new debt crisis, more serious than before, spreading...
by Sarah Edwards | On 11 Jun 2009 The paper summarises the main ethical issues in social science and social care research. It outlines what is meant by research governance, especially as set out in the Department of Health Research Go...
by Jan Pahl | On 05 Jun 2009 This paper is mainly concerned about the approaches to rural women’s development and an understanding of their work roles in the planning strategies. Changes in the economic and social participation o...
by Kumud Sharma | On 03 Jun 2009 The chronic drought in Rajasthan affects everyone. But people are affected in different ways. This may be because of locality, form of livelihood, caste and class.This report carries the voices of gir...
by ECHO Save the Children (U.K) | On 31 May 2009 The paper analyzes the effect of health status on labour force participation for aged Indians. The potential endogeneity in health and labour force participation has been taken care of by using full i...
by Manoj K Pandey | On 27 May 2009 The paper examines the impact of recent inflation and financial shocks on the vulnerable, and explores policy design to reduce both future shocks and vulnerability to shocks. Inflation affects the typ...
by Ashima Goyal | On 22 May 2009 This paper investigates the determination of inflation in the framework of an open economy forward-looking as well as conventional backward-looking Phillips curve for eight Asian countries- Japan, Ho...
by Pami Dua | 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 Dr. Bimal Jalan, Governor gave a welcome remark to Prof. Charles Goodhart on his 11th C. D. Deshmukh Memorial Lecture on 'Whither Central Banking ?' This paper revolves around Dr. Jalan's summary and...
by Dr Bimal Jalan | On 21 May 2009 The production, transportation and consumption of energy resources, especially of fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas, generate negative environmental externalities including air pollution....
by Deepa Menon Choudhary | On 18 May 2009 Macroeconomic modelling is generally motivated by two objectives: forecasting and more significantly, policy analysis. In pursuit of both these objectives,
every model must ideally satisfy four crite...
by V. Pandit | On 16 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 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 This inaugural piece addresses a fundamental problem of communication – how to effectively talk about an issue. It’s not as simple as it seems. Its always known that people did not always “hear” what...
by Joseph Grady | On 05 May 2009 This paper presents a broad definition of social protection to include basic securities, such as income, food, health and shelter, and economic securities including having income generating productive...
by Jeemol Unni | On 01 May 2009 Presentation shows the global financial crisis, the difference between US, Europe and India, RBI’s policy response and impact, lessons from the crisis, medium-term issues and challenges. [Speech deliv...
by Rakesh Mohan | On 29 Apr 2009 This paper on the CBDR deals with these
issues of equity, development and climate change in a holistic way to address the problem from the global south perspective keeping the South Asian requirement...
by Sanjay Vashist | On 24 Apr 2009 This paper attempts to build an aggregative, structural,macroeconometric model for India. Investment and output in the model are disaggregated into four sectors namely(a) agriculture including forestr...
by K.N Murty | On 02 Mar 2009 Nouriel Roubini, professor of Economics at the Stern School of Business, New York University, christened Dr.Doom by the US business media, is not given to wearing rose coloured glasses. He does not se...
by Charles Krusen | On 24 Jan 2009 The speech tries to underline some lessones that be drawn from the financial crisis relevant to regulation, financial markets and the market infrastructure and to reflect on these. [Annual Conference...
by Shyamala Gopinath | On 15 Jan 2009 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 main objectives of this report are to identify and propose policies,
factors and conditions that could mitigate or avoid double mismatches. policies here means any course of action pursued and ad...
by Khee-Giap Tan | On 19 Dec 2008 Thomas Conroy, Jarice Hanson, eds. Constructing America's War Culture: Iraq, Media, and Images at Home. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2008. viii + 171 pp. $60.00 (cloth), $24.95 (paper).
by Fabian Virchow | On 06 Dec 2008 This handbook gives information about violence like domestic or family violence and youth violence. It also provides suggestions to public health departments on the ways to deal with such crimes. Addi...
by Jane Ellen Stevens | On 04 Dec 2008 Whether there should be transparency in political finance? Whether there should be a control over the money that the political parties are receiving?
by Marcin Walecki | On 04 Dec 2008 The report highlights the following aspects:
1. the inability of the legal system to recognise the unique unequal ,
2. position of women;
3. the perception of women as peripheral to economic develo...
by PUDR Peoples Union for Democratic Rights | On 01 Dec 2008 This paper focuses on the role of fiscal and monetary policies in the evolution of the Indian economy over the years, with particular attention being given to the reforms undertaken in these policies...
by Rakesh Mohan | On 28 Nov 2008 A broad overview, from the Indian perspective, of the factors underlying the credit market crisis in the west, the implications of the crisis for the financial sector,
lessons learnt from it, the var...
by Leeladhar V | On 25 Nov 2008 The paper reviews India’s macroeconomic performance and policies since 2000. The
first section briefly summarizes key macroeconomic developments regarding
economic growth, inflation, external bala...
by Shankar Acharya | On 02 Nov 2008 The paper reviews India’s macroeconomic performance and policies since 2000. The first section briefly summarizes key macroeconomic developments regarding
economic growth, inflation, external balance...
by Shankar Acharya | On 29 Oct 2008 The author points out that the general directions of change adopted by the financial authorities in countries around the world in response to the market turbulence of 1997 and 1998 are correct. But, e...
by Howard Davies | On 14 Oct 2008 Two agendas of the heterodox economics programme; the stock-flow consistent models pioneered by Wynne Godley, and the monetary circuit approach researched in France and Italy are discussed. The object...
by Romar Correa | On 10 Oct 2008 This paper applies theoretical pluralism to studies of poverty. However in order to be more specific it takes as a case study some competing studies of Indian rural tenancy relations. In the paper, sp...
by Wendy Olsen | On 25 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 An optimizing model of a small open emerging market economy (SOEME) with
dualistic labour markets and two types of consumers, is used to derive the natural
interest rate, terms of trade and potentia...
by Ashima Goyal | On 24 Sep 2008 A practitioner’s perspective of fiscal policy, and economic reforms.
by Y V Reddy | On 14 Aug 2008 The relationship between trading activity, volatility and transaction cost using a three-equation structural model for five top selected commodities namely Gold, Copper, Petroleum Crude, Soya Oil and...
by Pravakar Sahoo | On 07 Aug 2008 In this study an attempt is made to examine the equity aspect due to
reforms in the banking sector at sub-regional level in the state of Andhra Pradesh
covering the period 1985 to 2004. [CESS WP 68]...
by K S Reddy | On 04 Aug 2008 The Reserve Bank released the document “Macroeconomic and Monetary
Developments: First Quarter Review 2008-09” to serve as a backdrop to the First Quarter Review of Annual Policy Statement for 2008-0...
by Reserve Bank of India | On 28 Jul 2008 From the early 1990s, India embarked on easing capital controls. Liberalization
emphasised openness towards equity flows, both FDI and portfolio flows. In particular, there are few barriers in the fa...
by Ajay Shah | On 24 Jul 2008 Inflation impacts on the social and political life and it is the poor who bear the consequences most. There can be no room for tardiness in taking measures to control inflation.
[See synopses of par...
by Shambhu Ghatak | On 21 Apr 2008 The question today is whether all the issues that were neglected when things were going well, will now get due attention when we can see even more clearly what needs to get done.
by T.N. Ninan | On 19 Apr 2008 The financial sector has built capabilities such that, with appropriate policy changes, it can grow tremendously, both domestically and internationally. the report touches upon two reasons for financi...
by Raghuram G. Rajan | On 14 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 Social networking is about more than just friends reunited; it’s a framework for
understanding even the most basic of biological processes. Two papers in the month of March PLoS Medicine illustrate t...
by PLoS Medicine | On 26 Mar 2008 Budget and Annual Financial Statement for the year 2008-09.
by West Bengal Government | On 25 Mar 2008 Last fall, the United Kingdom issued a major government report on global climate change directed by Sir Nicholas Stern, a top-flight economist. The Stern Review Report on the Economics of Climate Chan...
by Kenneth J. Arrow | On 24 Mar 2008 Budget presented by the finance minister for the year 2008-09.
by Maharashtra Government | On 20 Mar 2008 The good times may be ending. There have been worries for years about the global imbalances caused by America’s huge overseas borrowing. America, in turn, said that the world should be thankful: by li...
by Joseph E. Stiglitz | On 17 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 for Children (BfC) is not a separate budget. It is merely an attempt to disaggregate from the overall budget, the allocations made specifically for programmes that benefit children. From 2000-0...
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 04 Mar 2008 Report of the committee of concerned citizens formed by the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), Gujarat to enquire into the facts related to the police firing on the Adivasis demonstration on t...
by Ghanshyam Shah | On 02 Mar 2008 The paper compares policy responses of China and India to the global requirements of trade and environment regimes as well as the domestic compulsions are compared.
by Sankar U | On 11 Feb 2008 Review consists of three sections:
I. Assessment of Macroeconomic and Monetary Developments;
II. Stance of Monetary Policy; and
III. Monetary Measures.
An analytical profile of macroeconomic a...
by Y V Reddy | On 30 Jan 2008 The paper lays out a consistent frame work for monetary management in the
context of excess capital inflows. There is an urgent need for developing
competitive, open and well regulated markets for (...
by Arvind Virmani | On 24 Jan 2008 Management of capital accounts in the global context and in the Indian context. [Inaugural address delivered by Dr. Y. V. Reddy, Governor, Reserve Bank of India at the Annual Conference of the Indian...
by Y V Reddy | On 08 Jan 2008 The process of development, in any society, should ideally be viewed and assessed in terms of what it does for an average individual.For any approach or development framework to be meaningful and effe...
by Planning Commission, India | On 28 Nov 2007 One of the burning issues at the moment relates to increasing the “voice” or representation of emerging-market economies in international financial institutions such as the IMF and World Bank. There a...
by Mboweni T.T. | On 13 Nov 2007 The authors attempt to construct a monetary conditions index (MCI) for India in order to take both interest rate and exchange rate channels simultaneously into consideration while evaluating the stanc...
by Kannan R | On 08 Nov 2007 The nature of the financial turbulence that happened recently in US and Europe, why it happened, where it happened, and the implications for central banks. Some of the forces that led up to and charac...
by Rakesh Mohan | On 12 Oct 2007 The key elements of effective central banking that account for much of the improvement in monetary policy around the world today are outlined and explained. The past quarter of the century has been a...
by Marvin Goodfriend | On 09 Oct 2007 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 A review of the recent developments in the Indian Economy. Review of the trends in monetary policy challenges globally and for emerging market economies (EMEs) in particular. The monetary policy frame...
by Y V Reddy | On 10 Sep 2007 An investigation of the demand and supply factors underlying the long-term behaviour of India’s disaggregated manufactured exports. An imperfect substitutes demand-supply model of export determination...
by Saikat Sinha Roy | On 20 Aug 2007 An overview of domestic and global macroeconomic developments [Valedictory address at the High Powered Macroeconomic Workshop organised by the State Bank of India].
by Rakesh Mohan | On 08 Aug 2007 A talk with Nobel economics laureate Robert Mundell on how Beijing can keep the yuan’s value fixed and still avoid inflation. China’s high balance of payments surplus and pressure on the yuan could be...
by Hugo Restall | On 04 Aug 2007 Satisfuy China's Demand for Money by Hugo Restall
Monetary Policy: China’s Last Option: Let the Yuan Soar by Michael Pettis
Stop the Specter of a Rising Rupee by Vivek Moorthy
Hong Kong’s Arreste...
by FEER | On 04 Aug 2007 *Bank Rate kept unchanged
*Cash Reserve Ratio to be increased by 50 basis points to 7.0 per cent with effect from
the fortnight beginning August 4, 2007
*GDP growth projection for 2007-08...
by Y V Reddy | On 31 Jul 2007 In emerging markets and economies with limited supplies of potable water, the current monetary policy governing water distribution has failed or will eventually fail. This paper offers an alternative...
by Michael P. Jackson | On 09 Jul 2007 The message from the IPCC Reports is simple: climate change must be tackled immediately in order to save the planet. And it will not cost the earth to do so. In the months to come all nations will be...
by D. Raghunandan | On 11 Jun 2007 Aa framework for the analytical treatment of terrorist problems is suggested and then brings out the importance of financial and socio-economic factors. The framework classifies the various causes of...
by Siddhartha Mitra | On 31 May 2007 In December 2004 three news stories in the popular press suggested that the side
effects of single-dose nevirapine, which has been proven to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV, had been cove...
by Gary Schwitzer | On 22 Mar 2007 While new schemes like reverse mortgage on houses show a measure of some serious thought going into the structuring of programmes for the elderly, the Union Budget 2007-08 falls short of comprehensive...
by Lakshmi Priya | On 21 Mar 2007 This paper investigates the relationship between capital account openness and
inflation since the 1980s. It argues that widespread capital account liberalization
during the last two decades appears...
by Abhijit Sen Gupta | On 23 Feb 2007 This mid-year review reports developments in the economy in the first half of 2006-
07, with a particular focus on Central Government finances, outlining the performances
in the real sector, economi...
by Ministry of Finance | On 06 Feb 2007 The present paper proposes certain statistical tests, both
conceptually simple and computationally easy, for analysing state-specific
prima facie probabilistic causality and error correction mechani...
by N. Vijayamohanan Pillai | On 19 Dec 2006 This paper, based on ‘capabilities’ approach, analyses the ‘development outcomes’ forf ‘tribals’ of rural south Gujarat and examines the relative roles of physical, human and social capital within a...
by Arti Nanavati | On 26 Nov 2006 Introduction: Regional integration in Asia editorial by Ramkishen S. Rajan
Production fragmentation and trade integration: East Asia in a global context by
Prema-chandra Athukorala and Nobuaki Yamas...
by The North American Journal of Economics and Finance | On 05 Nov 2006 * Repo Rate increased to 7.25 per cent from 7.0 per cent.
* The flexibility to conduct overnight repo or longer term repo including the right to accept or reject tender(s) under the LAF, wholl...
by Reserve Bank of India | On 31 Oct 2006 The Reserve Bank of India, in its Annual Policy Statement on April 28, 2005, for the year 2005-06, announced its intention to reorient government debt management
operations entailing functional separ...
by Charan Singh | On 14 Apr 2006 The recent judgments and orders from various levels of higher judiciary indicate a drastic shift in their outlook and approach. A close look reveals two trends developing within the judiciary. Firstly...
by M.B.Rajesh | On 31 Mar 2006 This paper claims that the roots and remedies of health inequalities reflected in the major academic debates that culminated with full force towards the turn of the last century, have done little to u...
by Vijay Kumar Yadavendu | On 30 Mar 2006 This paper tries to examine the sustainability aspect of the rate of growth (rog) in recent years, designated as ‘the second phase of liberalisation’. This paper is based on the Keynesian framework wh...
by Anamitra Roychowdhury | On 29 Mar 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 Mortality rates have fallen dramatically over time, starting in a few countries in the 18th century, and continuing to fall today. In just the past century, life expectancy has increased by over 30 ye...
by David M. Cutler | On 01 Feb 2006 There has been a very rapid rise since the early 1990s in foreign reserves held by developing countries. These reserves have climbed to almost 30 percent of developing countries' GDP and 8 months of i...
by Dani Rodrik | On 27 Jan 2006 When analyzing the appropriate response for monetary policy during a currency
crisis it is important to keep in mind two distinct channels: (a) the impact of raising
interest rates on exchange rates...
by Ramkishen S. Rajan | On 27 Jan 2006 Contents
I. The Real Economy -- 1
Agricultural Situation
Industrial Performance
Business Expectations Surveys
Services Sector
II. Fiscal Situation 14
Combined Government Fi...
by Reserve Bank of India | On 25 Jan 2006 Since the Asian crisis it has been recognized that exchange rate and monetary policy strategies must involve a “fairly high” element of flexibility rather than a single-minded defense of a particular...
by Ramkishen S. Rajan | On 19 Jan 2006 Lecture at RIS, New Delhi December 2005
by Ramkishen S. Rajan | On 12 Jan 2006 Weijian Shan, economist and avid private equity investor, exposes the shortcomings of China’s stock markets and examines the failed attempts by
the government to introduce meaningful stock-market ref...
by Far Eastern Economic Review | On 07 Jan 2006 Developments in the financial sector have led to an expansion in its ability to spread risks. The increase in the risk bearing capacity of economies, as well as in actual risk taking, has led to a ran...
by Raghuram G. Rajan | On 16 Nov 2005 In tribute, a brief note on the rich intellectual trajectory described by I. G. Patel
by Deena Khatkhate | On 28 Sep 2005 Editorial:Minimum Employment at Less than Minimum Wages
commentary: Dancing with the US Devil.
Nanavati Commission Report: Getting Away With Murder
EC Must Deter Criminals, and not Disenfranchise...
by CPI (ML) | On 03 Sep 2005 The IMF attempts to stabilize private capital flows to emerging markets by providing public monitoring and emergency finance. In analyzing its role we contrast cases where banks and bondholders do the...
by Barry Eichengreen | On 05 Aug 2005 |