Urban Economy Forum 2020 echoes the global call for affordable housing for all. With over 1.8 billion people living in slums and informal settlements globally, the question remains, when will we be ab...
by Alex Venuto | On 07 Nov 2020 Bangladesh might overtake India this year by per capita income in nominal dollars, but it is not yet close to becoming South Asia's economic powerhouse anytime soon.
by T.N. Ninan | On 17 Oct 2020 India has existed as a cultural entity from pre-historic times, but most people are not conversant with how and when the nation-state took shape.
by T.N. Ninan | On 28 Jun 2020 It's all good to be tactical - keep China out of strategic markets; hit back in the same coin if it looks to keep India's key sectors out - but don't shoot yourself in the foot.
by T.N. Ninan | On 21 Jun 2020 • The development of an effective treatment and vaccine for COVID-19 is key to ending the pandemic and resuming social and economic activity. An international research effort to this end is underway.
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by | On 02 Jun 2020 Unless militant actions are undertaken, workers will find more and more of their rights trampled in the name of fighting the Corona virus. Parties, trade unions, and social movement organisations and...
by Kunal Chattopadhyay | On 25 Apr 2020 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 The study finds that there has been a limited impact of trade liberalization on the volume of trade between the two countries. The shift from positive list to negative list has not resulted in any maj...
by Nisha Taneja | On 05 Feb 2019 This paper presents India’s trade in apparel products by sub-sectors and key markets, and analyses its trade competitiveness across different sub-sectors. It examines the impact of trade agreements an...
by Arpita Mukherjee | On 04 Feb 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 This paper analyzes the conditions under which an existing bilateral free trade area (FTA) prefers to expand in size and when it prefers consolidation through customs union (CU) formation when the exi...
by Sunandan Ghosh | On 31 Jan 2019 This study documents the frequency and characteristics of multi-product firms in Vietnamese manufacturing. The major findings are as follows. First, multi-product firms are larger, more capital-intens...
by Ha Thi Thanh Doan | On 29 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 In various Asian countries, international trade has raised productivity, lowered mark ups through import competition (while increasing them through cheaper inputs that can be imported), raised wages,...
by Devashish Mitra | On 22 Jan 2019 This paper uses a theory-based measure of productivity-based comparative advantage to examine the trade performance of developing Asian economies in manufacturing and services over the 1995–2011 perio...
by Ben Shepherd | On 20 Jan 2019 This paper classifies the arguments around data localisation into three broad categories - the civil liberties perspective; the government functions perspective and the economic perspective. It examin...
by Rishab Bailey | On 12 Jan 2019 This paper uses a structural gravity model to show the effects of services policies on manufacturing exports. Whereas the previous literature has focused on indirect effects of policies—flowing throug...
by Ben Shepherd | On 28 Dec 2018 This paper analyzes the effects of the current trade conflict on developing Asia using the Asian Development Bank’s Multiregional Input–Output Table (MRIOT), allowing us to calculate the impact on ind...
by Abdul Abiad | On 21 Dec 2018 This paper analyzes the evolution of the labor share of income in Asia, a region where countries have experienced steep declines and increases as well as stable labor income shares in the quarter-cent...
by Mitali Das | On 13 Dec 2018 This paper employs a multidimensional approach to gauge the degree of regional integration and analyze impact on growth, inequality, and poverty. It constructs a multidimensional regional integration...
by Cyn-Young Park | On 26 Oct 2018 National regulatory agencies (NRAs) are the gatekeepers of the supply chain of medical products such as pharmaceuticals and medical devices. It is through registration with an NRA that a manufacturer...
by Susann Roth | On 09 Oct 2018 This Policy Note assesses the extent to which the products of the Philippines and Taiwan compete with or complement each other using the Balassa revealed comparative advantage (RCA) index and other tr...
by Ritchelle J. Alburo | On 03 Oct 2018 Risk management is a systematic approach to determine which goods and passengers need
to be examined in detail when entering a country. It involves (i) collecting, storing, and
analyzing data to und...
by Asian Development Bank | On 19 Sep 2018 Private–public partnership (PPP) methods are considered to be an effective way to narrow the gap between demand and supply of social infrastructure. If successfully pursued, PPP can deliver benefits t...
by Jungwook Kim | On 19 Sep 2018 Aging can be harmful to an economy over the long run, as an increase in the share of the elderly population reduces both the labor force and output per adult, and increases the social security burden....
by Hiroko Uchimura-Shiroshi | On 10 Sep 2018 The paper investigates the claim that national labor markets have become more globally interconnected in recent decades. It is done so by deriving estimates over time of three different notions of int...
by Liming Chen | On 10 Sep 2018 Education and training for productive employment play a crucial role in the social and economic plans of a developing country like the Philippines. Technical and vocational education and training (TVE...
by Madeline Dumaua-Cabautan | On 30 Aug 2018 Education and training for productive employment play a crucial role in the social and economic plans of a developing country like the Philippines. Technical and vocational education and training (TVE...
by Madeline Dumaua-Cabautan | On 30 Aug 2018 Asia is a hot spot for emerging and reemerging infectious diseases, including those with pandemic potential. At the same time, the region is grappling with growing antimicrobial resistance and the hea...
by Megan Counahan | On 24 Aug 2018 The paper assesses the performance of India's managed float with respect to maintaining a real competitive exchange rate, its effect on trade, on stability of currency and financial markets, and on in...
by Ashima Goyal | On 24 Aug 2018 The cost of finance has a relatively high impact on the returns and viability of clean energy projects compared with fossil fuel-based energy projects, because the operating costs for renewable energy...
by Purkayastha Dhruba | On 13 Aug 2018 This paper develops a framework identifying channels through which economic gains can be derived from PPP arrangement. The framework helps derive an empirically tractable specification that examines h...
by Minsoo Lee | On 11 Aug 2018 The policy brief aims to mitigate the impact of natural disasters on food security, ASEAN established a rice reserve on 4 October 1979. The rice reserve was developed to alleviate poverty and to eradi...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 10 Aug 2018 SME development as a major domestic policy objective that is consistent and reinforced within APEC would not only engender inclusive growth, but also enable SMEs to become drivers of growth for the do...
by Erlinda M. Medalla | On 06 Jul 2018 The Aquino administration through the Human Development and Poverty Reduction Cluster (HDPRC) and Good Governance and Anti-Corruption Cluster (GGACC) launched the Bottom-up Budgeting (BUB) exercise in...
by Rosario G. Manasan | On 05 Jul 2018 This research reviews the global experience on initiatives to counter the discriminatory impact of LMW and related labor regulations. It also summarizes the analyses done to date for similar programs...
by Aniceto C. Orbeta Jr. | On 03 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 Pakistan-China relations date back to the Silk Route, but the formal ties began in 1950. Pakistan was the first Muslim country to recognize China as People's Republic and Pakistan International Airlin...
by Mahmood A. Khwaja | On 28 Jun 2018 This paper investigates the public participation (PP) process in environmental impact assessments (EIA) of three large-scale hydropower plants (HPs) in Nepal, with a view to improving the PP process t...
by Jon Munch-Petersen | On 27 Jun 2018 In recent years there has been an increased role for health insurance in Indian health care, through government funded health insurance programs and privately purchased health insurance. Our analysis...
by Shefali Malhotra | On 15 Jun 2018 The PILER 2016 report on the Status of Labour Rights, sixth in the series, based on the secondary research, aims to present an overview of the status of labour and the issues in the year impacting lab...
by Pakistan Institute of Labour Education & Research (PILER) | On 14 Jun 2018 This paper uses measures of international transport time, in median and standard deviation, based on shipment-level data from the Universal Postal Union, to analyze the effect of time on trade costs....
by Utsav Kumar | On 14 Jun 2018 In many developing countries, the average firm is small, does not grow and has low productivity. Lack of market integration and limited information on non-local products often leave consumers unaware...
by Robert T. Jensen | On 12 Jun 2018 Recent progress in artificial intelligence (AI) – a general purpose technology affecting many industries - has been focused on advances in machine learning, which recast as a quality adjusted drop in...
by Ajay K. Agrawal | On 12 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 discusses the status of financial inclusion, education, and literacy in Azerbaijan as well as measures to foster the development of SMEs, which currently have inadequate access to financial...
by Gubad Ibadoghlu | On 07 Jun 2018 By employing a sample of 20,956 observations of non-financial SMEs headquartered in the Euro area, between 2009 and 2015, the paper tests whether young businesses are more likely to face credit reject...
by Danilo V. Mascia | On 06 Jun 2018 This paper proposes a panel approach in the construction of the Asia-Pacific Regional Cooperation and Integration Index (ARCII) to strengthen the index’s ability to track the progress of economic inte...
by Cyn-Young Park | On 06 Jun 2018 Review of
'The Indian Ocean in World History' by Edward A. Alpers, Oxford World History Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. 172 pp. Illustrations, maps. $19.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-5337...
by | On 06 Jun 2018 This paper is to studies how manufacturing plants in India adjusted to trade liberalization during the period 1998–99 to 2007–08. It estimates how the labor share changed due to tariff reduction. The...
by Prachi Gupta | On 05 Jun 2018 First published in 1999, this video interview of Mythili Sivraman, who was vice president All India Democratic Women's Association, with Gnani, Tamil journalist with English subtitles.Mythily speaks a...
by Gnani Gnani | On 04 Jun 2018 This paper investigates and tests the role of regional exposures in financial contagion from advanced to emerging market economies through the global banking network using data on cross-border bilater...
by Cyn Young Park | On 31 May 2018 This paper first considers the challenges of urban mobility faced by developing cities, before
exploring the role for policy in improving connectivity. In Section 2, this paper looks at
options for...
by Paul Collier | On 30 May 2018 This paper
attempts to
analyze the determinants of inter
-
firm differences in R&D intensity at
the five digit level of industries belonging to the Electronics Goods Sector in In
dia. Empirica...
by Narayanan K | On 14 May 2018 Developing countries, including India, are increasing relying on foreign direct
investments (FDI) for raising finance for infrastructure development and other
projects. Consequently, coun...
by Tanu M Goyal | On 09 May 2018 How do import tariffs and R&D subsidies help domestic firms compete globally? How do these policies affect aggregate growth and economic welfare? To answer these questions, the paper builds a dynamic...
by Ufuk Akcigit | On 02 May 2018 An important segment of labour regulations concerns the protection aspects of social security. These regulations provide safety nets or fall back mechanisms to enable workers to cope with crises that...
by Anwarul Hoda | On 30 Apr 2018 In this paper, we undertake an evaluation of the laws governing wages in India, identify their
shortcomings and offer suggestions for improvement. In doing so, we analyze the provisions
in the rel...
by | On 30 Apr 2018 Services are a major component of global gross domestic product and employment, and a
rising component of global trade and investment flows. This
is the largest sector of the Indian
...
by Avantika Kapoor | On 25 Apr 2018 Between March 15 2017 and June 15 2017, 207 projects that violated the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) Notification applied for an environmental clearance. These applications have come as a result...
by Krithika Dinesh | On 13 Apr 2018 Previous studies have shown how analyses of publicly available fisheries trade datasets – whether the analysis of a single dataset or comparative analysis between two or more datasets – can support th...
by Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) | On 10 Apr 2018 This briefing provides an overview of the key factors that have influenced the European Commission’s carding decisions to date.
by Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) | On 06 Apr 2018 The paper builds a novel stochastic dynamic regional integrated assessment model (IAM) of the climate and economic system including a number of important climate science elements that are missing in m...
by Yongyang Cai | On 04 Apr 2018 To what extent do the World Health Organization, the World Trade Organization, and
the World Bank remain central today and how much influence do they still wield in shaping
the global agenda? While...
by | On 30 Mar 2018 This study based on the firm level data for eleven industries for the period ranging from
1998 through 2010 makes an attempt to capture the effect of R&D on employment in the
backdrop of the debate...
by | On 29 Mar 2018 Nepal, a landlocked country, relies on transit access from neighbouring countries to
participate in international trade. For Nepal, the nearest sea-port is that of Kolkata in India
and the transit a...
by Isha Dayal | On 28 Mar 2018 Trade facilitation measures improve the trading environment by reducing transaction costs
and thereby increasing the gains from trade. Although the use of trade facilitation measures
for tackling tr...
by Sanjana Joshi | On 28 Mar 2018 Electronic commerce (e-commerce) is an integral part of business activities, and various
models of e-commerce have emerged with liberalisation and technological developments.
Global e-commerce trade...
by | On 28 Mar 2018 This study says that for a long time, textile and clothing have played an important role in the
economic development of the country.
by Afia Malik | On 26 Mar 2018 The present study was undertaken to review the pilot implementation of the programme and its uptake by beneficiaries, in order to provide data to the DWCD, before scaling up the programme to all distr...
by Centre for Budget and Policy Studies CBPS | On 23 Mar 2018 The issue of land and water for crops. It examines the
kinds of production responses needed to meet demand. It also assesses the potential
of the world’s land and water resources to support these de...
by Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO] | On 22 Mar 2018 This paper is based on the presentation given by the author at the Fifth WIEF roundtable on climate change held in Dhaka, organized by the WIEF secretariat on 20 March 2012. The paper will introduce t...
by | On 21 Mar 2018 In contrast with historical precedent, urbanization across the Global South is associated with increasing levels
of urban poverty. These trends engender unique challenges for practitioners and schola...
by Emily Rains | On 21 Mar 2018 The PILER 2015 Report on the Status of Labour Rights, fifth in the series, based on secondary research, aims to present an overview of the status of labour and the issues in the year impacting labour...
by Pakistan Institute of Labour Education & Research (PILER) | On 21 Mar 2018 This report assesses the state of economic research into those areas, with a
particular focus on empirical methodologies and their adequacy for an assessment of general-equilibrium outcomes. While di...
by Marc-Andreas Muendler | On 20 Mar 2018 The paper says that the exchange rate is a vital macroeconomic variable and backbone of trade.
by M. Ali Kemal | On 19 Mar 2018 Online reviews are a powerful means of propagating the reputations of products, services, and even employers. However, existing research suggests that online reviews often suffer from selection bias—p...
by Ioana Marinescu | On 07 Mar 2018 The paper critically examines the outcomes of the Bali Ministerial of the WTO, held in December 2013, from
the lens of issues of interest and concern to the least developed countries (LDCs). In this...
by | On 06 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 study is conducted in the context of the decline in the number of young people in the college going age group as a result of the decrease in birth rate in the state as also in the context of the p...
by George Zachariah | On 06 Mar 2018 The paper evaluates the impact of the credit conditions facing corporations on their emissions of toxic air pollutants. Exploiting cross-county, cross-time shale discoveries that generated liquidity w...
by Ross Levine | On 05 Mar 2018 Macroeconomic models often invoke consumption “habits” to explain the substantial persistence of aggregate consumption growth. But a large literature has found no evidence of habits in microeconomic d...
by Christopher D. Carroll | On 05 Mar 2018 The paper develops a trade model in which productivity—the result of a country’s ability to adopt global technologies—presents an arbitrary pattern of spatial correlation. The model generates the full...
by Nelson Lind | On 05 Mar 2018 The paper examines the recent shifts in Kerala’s education system from an inclusive one to an exclusive one.
by N. Ajith Kumar | On 01 Mar 2018 Liberalization and globalization of Newly Industrialized Economies have
contributed to increased integration of capital markets. This study tests
whether convergence of macroeconomic variables and e...
by | On 27 Feb 2018 The paper attempts to understand the significance of the Green Solow
Model, in the context of a developing country such as India. It gives
particular importance to the role of population density, in...
by | On 27 Feb 2018 This paper evaluates the current status of the Indian Rupee as an international currency using the Chinn and Frankel (2008) framework, and explores the possibility of future Indian Rupee international...
by Shekhar Hari Kumar | On 27 Feb 2018 Budget speech by Finance Minister of Malaysia.
by Minister of Finance Malaysia | On 09 Feb 2018 The report presents a comprehensive analysis of the budgetary provisions for important social sectors and the vulnerable
sections of the population. It also presents an overview of the fiscal indicat...
by Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability CBGA | On 05 Feb 2018 Budget Speech by Municipal Commissioner
by Ajoy Mehta | On 05 Feb 2018 The paper also suggests that our index can serve as an alternative measure of the industrial linkages.
by Yoon Joon | On 01 Feb 2018 India’s external sector continued to be resilient and strong in 2017-18 so far, with the Balance of
Payments situation continuing to be comfortable with the Current Account Deficit at 1.8 percent of
...
by Arun Jaitley | On 31 Jan 2018 This paper also investigated whether an anti-dumping duty is terminated in the case that the injury would not be likely to continue or recur if the duty were removed.
by | On 31 Jan 2018 The paper find technical changes and the degree of inefficiency are related with the magnitude of multipliers, but we leave a fundamental identification problem to future research.
by Kim Gui | On 30 Jan 2018 Data on the international exports of states (the first in India’s history) suggests a strong
correlation between export performance and states’ standard of living. India’s exports are unusual
in tha...
by Arun Jaitley | On 30 Jan 2018 The paper says that the bilateral trade barriers between Korea and its important trading partners are universally tightening.
by Lee Sooyoung | On 29 Jan 2018 This paper analyzes 2015-TPA voting patterns in the Congress in the context of the trade negotiating objectives.
by Yoon Joon | On 24 Jan 2018 The digital economy has been growing by leaps and bounds in recent years, mostly as a result of new
digital technologies that are promoting a global transformation to industry 4.0. The resulting expa...
by Padmashree Gehl Sampath | On 23 Jan 2018 This guide is for government officials in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) who will be preparing reports and communications on their country’s climate change circumstances and actions under the UN Fra...
by | On 23 Jan 2018 The brief narrates that the twenty-first century marked paradigm shifts in the changing world order.
by W.Lawrence S.Prabhakar | On 22 Jan 2018 The brief says that invention of nuclear weapons, the ultimate among the three weapons of mass destruction, has given rise to completely novel conditions that have fundamentally affected the concept o...
by Animesh Roul | On 22 Jan 2018 An "Impact Assessment Study of the Digital Saksharta Abhiyan under National Digital
Literacy Mission” was initiated in November 2016 by Centre for Innovations in Public
Systems (CIPS), Hyderabad, Te...
by Centre for Innovations in Public System | On 16 Jan 2018 A selective survey of recent papers in the area of technological change, automation and employment is presented. The objective is to convey analytical ideas and the empirical evidence that have inform...
by K. V. Ramaswamy | On 16 Jan 2018 This paper examines dimensions of inequality including labour market inequalities and discusses public policies needed for reduction in inequalities. It discusses both inequality of outcomes and inequ...
by S.Mahendra Dev | On 16 Jan 2018 This paper introduces a new, publicly available database for tracking merchandise trade in the global value chains for apparel/textile/footwear, motor vehicles and parts, and electronics, developed or...
by Michael Ferrantino | On 16 Jan 2018 The papers says that the informal sector in developing countries seems not only to be growing but also contributing to economic growth and linked with the formal sector of the economy.
by Khawar Mumtaz | On 04 Jan 2018 This paper provides an overview of the state of the environmental services sector in Asia, by focusing on the most significant segments of infrastructural services namely, water, sanitation and munici...
by Aparna Sawhney | On 01 Jan 2018 This study seeks to examine how locking-in of our unilateral liberalisation at the WTO and further
liberalisation of services trade would affect Pakistan’s competitiveness.
by Abid Burki | On 28 Dec 2017 This paper explores the policy measures that will best lead to the most positive outcomes as standards diffuse through global value chains.
by Raphael Kaplinsky | On 26 Dec 2017 The purpose of this paper is to propose specific ways in which developing countries can best fuel trade in the digital era.
by Kati Suominen | On 21 Dec 2017 In recent years, South Asia has received growing attention as a region that is integrating successfully into the global economy. To maximize the benefits in terms of faster growth and poverty reductio...
by Prabir De | On 19 Dec 2017 The report says that Manitoba is a province rich in agricultural lands, where the agriculture sector is a cornerstone for the economy.
by International Centre and Sustainable Development | On 18 Dec 2017 This paper explores the co-evolution of entrepreneurship and cities. First, it provides a stylized model of development wherein the rise of cities (urbanisation) is the outcome of the activities of en...
by Wim Naudé | On 15 Dec 2017 Tens of thousands of refugees attempt to meet their basic needs and make a meaningful life for themselves in Delhi, despite India not having a domestic or international legal framework codifying their...
by | On 14 Dec 2017 This paper aims to promote competitive access for telecommunications providers.
by Krystal Uy | On 14 Dec 2017 The paper discusses the changes in the new 2011-12 base year series of the Index of Industrial Production (IIP) to ask, whether the new series has improved our under-standing of the growth in the manu...
by Radhika Pandey | On 12 Dec 2017 The study says that the policymakers should see merit in examining whether federalism can indeed
address the sociopolitical and economic problems that hamper the country’s growth.
by PIDS Information Staff | On 11 Dec 2017 Public equity markets have increasingly become accessible to small and medium firms with the introduction of dedicated exchange that lower listing criteria to allow such firms to list their equity. Th...
by | On 11 Dec 2017 The report outlines and critically assesses trends in urban planning education across the globe, specifically in countries of the global South, and the extent to which curricula address issues of incl...
by Vanessa Watson | On 07 Dec 2017 This paper aims to inform academia and policymakers about ways and means to first increase trade with Afghanistan, and second, to discuss trade-related procedures and processes that could be streamlin...
by Vaqar Ahmed | On 04 Dec 2017 An important segment of labour regulations concerns the protection aspects of social security.
These regulations provide safety nets or fall back mechanisms to enable workers to cope with crises that...
by | On 30 Nov 2017 Services are a major component of global gross domestic product and employment, and a rising component of global trade and investment flows. This is the largest sector of the Indian economy contributi...
by | On 30 Nov 2017 This paper proposes a way forward whereby the commerce ministries of India
and Pakistan can address the concerns of Pakistan’s auto sector and create a win-win milieu.
by Vaqar Ahmed | On 29 Nov 2017 The study says that the pharmaceutical sector is crucial to health issues in developing economies and would be an ideal segment to focus on in improving trade relations between the two countries.
by Manoj Pant | On 29 Nov 2017 Most empirical studies on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) use cross-sectional data or case studies, making causality hard to establish. The paper overcomes this limitation by using panel data on...
by Shuangqi Wu | On 23 Nov 2017 Developing countries have seen a rapid rise in population urbanization in the past decades. At the same time, they have participated actively in the process of globalization. However, possible interli...
by | On 20 Nov 2017 Since the early 1990s, India has embarked on economic reforms that have
progressively opened up the country to international trade. This paper
analyzes the effects of reform on India’s trading struc...
by Michele Alessandrini | On 17 Nov 2017 Connectivity is the key building block of convergence and cohesion in any regional integration initiative. Development of connectivity across any region—especially of transportation linkages, energy p...
by | On 16 Nov 2017 A look into the effect of an e-Governance initiative in Bangladesh is on efficiency in the
public sector. The electronic Filing (e-Filing) system was introduced to all the Deputy Commissioners'
(DC)...
by Wahid Abdallah | On 15 Nov 2017 We examine the effects of trade and services liberalization on wage inequality in India. We find that labor reallocations and wage shifts attributable to liberalization account for at most 29% of the...
by | On 14 Nov 2017 The paper undertakes an evaluation of the laws governing wages in India, identify their shortcomings and offer suggestions for improvement. In doing so, it analyzes the provisions in the relevant ILO...
by Anwarul Hoda | On 01 Nov 2017 The report says that there are well known explanations in contemporary economic
literature which explain this counterproductive impact of depreciation.
by . Atiq-ur-Rehman | On 26 Oct 2017 This study analyzes the India–Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement (FTA) over the past decade. It is noted that bilateral trade between the countries has increased steadily and India became the most favored...
by Kavita Iyengar | On 13 Oct 2017 The existing studies on trade misinvoicing have focussed on the discrepancy in reported trade statistics between developing and developed countries. The estimates based on such methods rely on the ass...
by Suranjali Tandon | On 10 Oct 2017 This paper identifies the increasingly dominant role of intra-industry trade (IIT) in India’s total merchandise trade at different disaggregated levels of data during the post liberalization era (1990...
by | On 09 Oct 2017 One of the most important ways in which several of the common
developmental challenges in South Asia could be addressed is by focusing on manufacturing. In the new context, manufacturing becomes key...
by Ram Upendra Das | On 04 Oct 2017 The benefits of improved tax enforcement in Pakistan through simulations
of a model of the Pakistani economy is studied. We begin by documenting that the effective
tax rate facing firms is increasin...
by Ethan Ilzetzki | On 04 Oct 2017 The present study has first examined whether ICT development can be an
important determinant of Financial Inclusion by using a fixed effect panel
data model. The results show that ICT is indeed an i...
by Amrita Chatterjee | On 25 Sep 2017 In recent days, the process of federalization within the Indian Union has become more debatable due to the unequal federal development at various levels. In this context, the issues of state formation...
by Susant Kumar Naik | On 14 Sep 2017 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 Urban expansion in India over the last few decades has placed cities in a challenging situation with limited infrastructure facilities affecting the quality of life of people who live in low income se...
by Manasi S | On 13 Sep 2017 This paper analyses the effect of economic globalization on income inequality in both cross-country and country-specific framework using panel data techniques and policy simulations. The sample compri...
by Sovna Mohanty | On 07 Sep 2017 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 This article focuses on the production and mass circulation of locally produced videos in and across socially marginalized areas of Bengal. It emerges from the research conducted on the video industry...
by Madhuja Mukherjee | On 31 Aug 2017 Regional integration (RI) is a process by which countries enter into an agreement to upgrade cooperation through common institutions and rules. The objectives of the agreement could range from economi...
by Research and Information System for Developing Countries | On 24 Aug 2017 The report says that the manufacturing sector has significant fiscal policy implications.
by M. Singhi | On 24 Aug 2017 The study is about estimating the extent to which domestic prices of major Indian agriculture commodities deviate from their corresponding free trade reference prices. The free trade reference prices...
by Shweta Saini | On 23 Aug 2017 With one of the Middle East’s largest economies, a growing population,
and rising incomes, Iran contributes significantly to the region’s agricultural commodity consumption. Iran’s rising food demand...
by Mesbah Motamed | On 18 Aug 2017 The report provides a detailed analysis of the latest developments in world trade.
by World Trade Organisation WTO | On 17 Aug 2017 This paper describes the process of displacement of tribals from the hills to resettlement in the plains.
by Arjun Patel | On 17 Aug 2017 This report focused on agriculture, buildings, industries, transport, and power supply – sectors
that account for all the state’s energy requirement and over 70% of its Greenhouse Gas (GHG)
emission...
by Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy CSTEP | On 14 Aug 2017 The present study is an attempt to examine the impact of international trade on manufacturing productivity in India. The literature on international trade suggests that the productivity of domestic ma...
by R Rijesh | On 09 Aug 2017 South Asia faces a wide array of social, political, and economic issues that already threaten security in the region. The region has a history of border disputes, sectarian violence, and government co...
by David Antos | On 09 Aug 2017 Forest and conservation policy in Southeast Asia is now at yet another crossroads. Despite decades of efforts, the challenges ahead remain formidable. These challenges include: (i) continued deforesta...
by Gary Bull | On 08 Aug 2017 This paper undertakes an evaluation of the Labour and Environment chapters of the TPP Agreement, with a view to determining India’s stand if the same or similar provisions are proposed in multilateral...
by Anwarul Hoda | On 08 Aug 2017 The study attempts to investigate the factors affecting a firm’s decision to hire contract workers. The information from a specially commissioned survey of manufacturing firms undertaken in 2014 by IC...
by Jaivir Singh | On 08 Aug 2017 This paper reports results of a ?eld experiment designed to test how the timing of wage payments a?ects consumption and ?nancial behaviors. Salaried employees in a large manufacturing ?rm were paid a...
by Emily Breza | On 07 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 This paper examines the emerging strength of BRICS in hightechnology
trade. We reviewed trends in high-technology trade primarily in
BICS (excluding Russia). Given that China and India are leading e...
by | On 03 Aug 2017 This paper based on both desk research and interactions with stakeholders makes a
comparative analysis of trade of world, India and its trading partners; examines the
various dimensions of India’s t...
by H.A.C. Prasad | On 03 Aug 2017 This paper considers arguments about Islam and women’s welfare, and, at greater length, how legal systems with Islamic elements treat women, with a focus on how women fare in Islamic family courts. Ke...
by John R. Bowen | On 02 Aug 2017 The Comprehensive Economic Cooperation
Agreement (CECA) between India and
Singapore came into effect on 1st August
2005. It was the first such comprehensive
FTA signed by India with any country
c...
by V. S. Seshadri | On 02 Aug 2017 The case stories show clear results of how aid for trade programmes are helping
developing countries to build human, institutional and infrastructure capacity to integrate into regional and global ma...
by World Trade Organisation WTO | On 02 Aug 2017 The publication includes the Agriculture Agreement as well as the decisions taken on agriculture at the 2013 Bali Ministerial Conference and the 2015 Nairobi Ministerial Conference.
by World Trade Organisation WTO | On 02 Aug 2017 One of the key components in achieving a substantial reduction in tobacco use and associated disease, economic and ecologic burden in India is to strengthen the governance for tobacco control. In the...
by Dr. Upendra Bhojani | On 01 Aug 2017 The OECD or ‘standard’ model of electricity sector reforms has been widely adopted in non-OECD Asian countries since the 1990s. However, despite two decades of attempts at reforms, no notable progress...
by Tooraj Jamasb | On 31 Jul 2017 The study explores ground-level realities linked with initiatives on tax administration, construction permits, transparency, compliance with environmental and labour laws and regulations, and inspecti...
by Research National Council of Applied Economic | On 31 Jul 2017 RCEP member countries cover half the world population, 30 per
cent of world GDP and a quarter of world trade. The regional grouping has
several countries including China whose economies are among th...
by V Seshadri | On 31 Jul 2017 This paper focuses on the rationale for state-based market interventions to support smallholder production along with some case studies that follow the evolution and impact of what we call ‘institutio...
by Ryan Nehring | On 28 Jul 2017 Labour provisions have become more commonplace in trade agreements and increasingly comprehensive in their scope. The Handbook provides practical information in a format geared towards non-specialist...
by International Organisation | On 28 Jul 2017 This document provides a list of sanitation tools; organisation of the same based on their specific
features; and factsheets corresponding to every tool, which cover the objectives, descriptions,
ad...
by Shramana Dey | On 27 Jul 2017 The current policy climate in India is rightly addressing the challenges of electric buses, providing an
environment to accelerate their adoption and implementation.
by Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy CSTEP | On 27 Jul 2017 This paper aims at providing an early assessment of the response by firms to this Act. It examines the extent to which the CSR Act has led firms to comply and increase the share of profits being spent...
by Sangeeta Bansal | 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 Renewable energy is a challenge, but also an opportunity for new industries, employment, and new ways to reduce dependency on fuel imports, provide electricity to poor remote areas, reduce air polluti...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 18 Jul 2017 This report takes stock of how AfT has contributed to these trends and considers some constructive ways to move forward, to continue to address trade costs in Asia and the Pacific.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 17 Jul 2017 This study also describes trade facilitation projects that promote development through deepening regional cooperation and integration.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 14 Jul 2017 This report highlights emerging trends in AfT in the context of evolving trade performance in Asia and the Pacific.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 13 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 The report says that the ASEAN+3 Multi-Currency Bond Issuance Framework (AMBIF) is a policy initiative under the Asian Bond Markets Initiative (ABMI) to help facilitate intraregional transactions thro...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 11 Jul 2017 This publication is complemented by critical analyses to determine key issues, challenges, and opportunities for innovative strategies toward global competitiveness, increased productivity, and inclus...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 10 Jul 2017 The results of this study can be used to strengthen the institutional and statistical capacities of Georgia to routinely collect, compile, analyze, and disseminate internationally comparable financial...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 07 Jul 2017 This report will help improve the quality of the workforce; enhance employability, productivity, and remuneration, leading to higher economic growth.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 30 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 The report is an annual review of Asia’s regional economic cooperation and integration. It covers the 48 regional members of the Asian Development Bank. This issue includes Special Chapter: How Can Sp...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 23 Jun 2017 The report narrates that the related technical assistance has focused on infrastructure management, financial and private sector development, preparations for regional economic integration, and region...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 23 Jun 2017 The problem of balanced regional development received much greater attention in the Third Five Year Plan. The Plan took a more positive view of the possibility of reaching regional balance. It stated...
by MC Singhi | On 22 Jun 2017 This report, a joint effort of the Asian Development Bank and the International Labour Organization, seeks to foster a deeper understanding of the context, constraints, and opportunities for increasin...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 21 Jun 2017 This report measures the size of associated subsidies on these fossil fuels including direct transfers, tax exemptions, subsidized credit, and losses of state enterprises in India, Indonesia, and Thai...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 14 Jun 2017 This report examines the current use of DFS in the Pacific, analyzes the issues that need to be addressed, and provides recommendations for increasing financial inclusion in the region.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 14 Jun 2017 This report reviews trade and transport procedures in Bangladesh, highlights the importance of monitoring trade and transport facilitation, and lays a foundation for future studies and establishment o...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 12 Jun 2017 This report summarizes the investments in clean energy made by ADB in 2015, condensing information from project databases and formal reports in an easy-to-reference format. This report was prepared by...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 08 Jun 2017 The rapid growth of urban areas has often resulted in the siting of poorly designed infrastructure and assets in hazard-prone areas, increasing disaster risk.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 05 Jun 2017 In this fourth round of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Corporate Governance initiative of the Asian Development Bank and the ASEAN Capital Markets Forum, over 500 top publicly list...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 05 Jun 2017 Myanmar's transport sector institutions are currently ill adapted to the new situation. Although government reform attempts have been in the right direction, more is needed to shape a strong basis for...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 02 Jun 2017 This publication examines the constraints in developing inland waterway transport (IWT) based on a study in the PRC’s Hunan province. Six major challenges threatening the viability of IWT and its inte...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 30 May 2017 An important reason for this dichotomy between agriculture and non agricultural sectors is that the former is a state subject under the Indian Constitution placing the burden of implementation of refo...
by Ramesh Chand | On 18 May 2017 This paper analyzes interdependencies between optimal trade policy and 'preferred' liability doctrine to assess infringement damages, when intellectual property rights are probabilistic, in a model of...
by Apurva Dey | On 16 May 2017 According to data published on AsianBondsOnline, total LCY bonds outstanding in Malaysia barely moved in the third quarter of 2015 compared with the previous quarter, standing at MYR1,076 billion at t...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 16 May 2017 The report say that the Singapore bond market has become one of the most developed open capital markets in Asia with over US$221 billion in total local currency bonds outstanding with an additional US...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 May 2017 The objective of this report is to help governments and multilateral institutions assess and integrate ID systems into their development activities. The intended audience includes government policy ma...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 May 2017 The report says that the Government of the Philippines was engaged in delivery of
subsidized credit programs. Since these programs were largely unsuccessful in meeting the objective of
providing sus...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 08 May 2017 This paper introduces that the landscape approach has provided a platform for a wide-ranging
discussion about these issues, but has simultaneously opened up the opportunity for a discussion
about su...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 08 May 2017 This paper examines Karnataka's pioneering agricultural output marketing reforms with the twin goals of assessing the state and challenges of implementation and to glean lessons from Karnataka's
expe...
by Nidhi Aggarwal | On 02 May 2017 The paper analyse data from two recent NSSO surveys to provide estimates of expenditure on higher education and loans availed for higher education. The average share of expenditure on higher educatio...
by S. Chandrasekhar | On 02 May 2017 South Asia continues to be one of the most important crisis regions in the 21st century. It is characterized by an interlocking web of old and new security risks. There are unresolved territorial disp...
by | On 17 Apr 2017 This paper uses simultaneous equations error component three-stage least squares
(EC3SLS) panel data technique to find out both the direct as well as the indirect impact of
trade, industrial dissimi...
by Pronab Sen | On 17 Apr 2017 In national accounts, government expenditures are used to measure the value of public
spending. These expenditures grossly overestimate the value of services received by
Indian households because th...
by Anders Kjelsrud | On 01 Mar 2017 The first
part is the Agriculture Budget, which not only covers the
outlay and programmes relating to Agriculture and allied
activities, but also presents the macro-economic outlook
as well as the...
by Pradip Kumar Amat | On 01 Mar 2017 The problems of water, energy, climate change, and urbanisation, are all intertwined; they are, also, all 'wicked'. There is little consensus on how to effectively navigate these problems, let alone,...
by | On 02 Feb 2017 This year has been marked by several historic economic policy developments. On
the domestic side, a constitutional amendment paved the way for the long-awaited and transformational goods and services...
by Arun Jaitley | On 31 Jan 2017 This paper estimates the cost of effluent discharge regulations for firms
located in the lower Kelani River catchment in Sri Lanka. The river provides
water for many economic purposes including drin...
by Asha Gunawardena | On 23 Dec 2016 The paper examines consumption, income, regional, social and gender inequalities in India. Income
inequalities are much higher that of consumption. It also looks at inequalities in opportunities like...
by S.Mahendra Dev | On 19 Dec 2016 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 Despite increases in women’s employment, significant gender disparity exists in the time men and women spend on household and care work. Understanding how social expectations govern gender roles and c...
by Greg Seymour | On 15 Dec 2016 Drawing attention to a high dropout rate in upper primary schools, Singapore Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam today said schools are facing the “biggest crisis” in India.
Delivering the f...
by Tharman Shanmugaratnam | On 08 Dec 2016 Global Burden of Diseases is an annual effort to measure the health of populations at regional, country, and selected subnational levels. GBD produces estimates of mortality and morbidity by cause, a...
by | On 29 Nov 2016 The impact of trade policy on poverty, food security and inequality in developing countries is at the centre of a crowded international debate on the role of international trade in development. Develo...
by United Nations Environment Programme UNEP | On 24 Nov 2016 This Report on the World Social Situation seeks to contribute to rethinking poverty and its eradication. It affirms the urgent need for a strategic shift away from the market fundamentalist thinking,...
by United Nations (UN) | On 17 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 This paper exploits a quasi-natural experiment the U.S. Granting of Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) to China after China’s accession to the World Trade Organization – to examine whether t...
by Liqiu Zhao | On 03 Nov 2016 Bidis, the most common smoking tobacco product in India, remain largely untaxed and are subject to very few regulations to discourage their use. A major argument against tax increases is the large pot...
by | On 03 Nov 2016 Urbanization has both benefits and costs. In a market economy, the trade-off between
benefits and costs determines the level, speed, and place of urbanization. This paper
summarizes research finding...
by Kala Seetharam Sridhar | On 28 Oct 2016 MGNREGS, the premier centrally-sponsored national rural
livelihood scheme, is one of the most elaborately designed and
implemented public workfare programmes in India. While a large number
of studi...
by Vinoj Abraham | On 10 Oct 2016 This is the third annual report for the MenEngage Alliance’s Global Strategic Plan 2012-2016, in which the main activities and achievements of 2015, based on the four strategic objectives are reported...
by MenEngage Global Alliance | On 07 Oct 2016 This research explores the effects of culture on technological diffusion and economic development.
It shows that culture’s direct effects on development and barrier effects to
technological diffusio...
by Ani Harutyunyan | On 07 Oct 2016 In this study the hypotheses that the choice between OFDI and export decision of the
firms depends on the firm level productivity is tested. Here, the productivity levels of OFDI
firms vis a vis exp...
by Ronny Thomas | On 03 Oct 2016 The paper begins with a discussion of Indian labour law and the increasing use of ‘contract labour’ in Indian formal manufacturing. It questions the widespread perception that employment of contract l...
by Jaivir Singh | On 30 Sep 2016 The concern of this paper is limited to the approaches to rural women's development and an
understanding of their work roles in the planning strategies. [CWDS Working paper].
by Kumud Sharma | On 30 Sep 2016 This research evaluates the performance of free trade agreements by
analyzing the determinants of trade flows of Asian economies for a panel
of thirty-one countries during 2007-2014 using a Gravity...
by Sunder Ramaswamy | On 29 Sep 2016 Formal trade between India and Pakistan due to tariff barriers and quota problems is not
significant; significance is diminishing year after year.The reason for diminishing India-Pakistan
bilateral...
by PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry PHD Chamber | On 29 Sep 2016 The productivity spillovers of industry-level FDI on both, the sector of manufacturing and
the sector of services, in seventeen South and East Asian economies. Using a dynamic panel
GMM methodology,...
by Nadia Doytch | On 29 Sep 2016 This study involves the determination of outsourcing based on the market
structure technology imports and technical efficiency for the automotive
sector in India. An important characteristic of this...
by Santhosh K. Sahu | On 26 Sep 2016 India can substantially increase her production and yield in
pulses with a strategic emphasis on research in public and private sector, expanding irrigation
infrastructure, provision of MSP to pulse...
by Satish Y Deodhar | On 23 Sep 2016 Among U.S. publicly traded firms, the average firm's capital share has declined, even though the aggregate capital share has increased. This paper attributes the secular increase taken together capita...
by Barney Glaser | On 22 Sep 2016 Rivers are life line of the human being. Indian rivers are worshiped as a mother, because she cares the humanity and makes the ways easy for the people and living organism. Without the water no one ca...
by | On 20 Sep 2016 Supply-demand imbalance at a given time is the main problem in India. Not much can be done with demand, as increase and shifting patterns in demand are normal with economic growth and urbanisation. St...
by C S C Sekhar | On 20 Sep 2016 Cauvery has been a source of dispute from two centuries back itself. The Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal (CWDT) was constituted by the government of India in 1990 to adjudicate the inter-state river w...
by Aakriti Singh | On 15 Sep 2016 The objective
of the present study is to examine the effect of ICT investments on the sales growth of SMEs
from the food processing industry in India. Secondary data is collected from the Prowess
d...
by Navyashree G. R. | On 08 Sep 2016 The 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 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 This paper analyses the trends, nature and extent of out-migration from South Asia and its neighbouring countries like Afghanistan and Iran and examines the economic implications in both sending and r...
by | On 06 Sep 2016 This article is about India's role in reducing food price volatility in the world. India has come a long way from a ‘ship to mouth existence’ to a country that is ready to confer legal right to food t...
by M. S. Swaminathan | On 02 Sep 2016 India is one of the world’s largest producers as well as consumer of food products, with the sector playing an important role in contributing to the development of the economy. Considering the critica...
by FICCI Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Indu | On 01 Sep 2016 Using a global computable general equilibrium model, the paper analyzes the potential effects of Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) on the Philippine economy. The analysis involves an...
by | On 30 Aug 2016 China and India have successfully integrated into the world economy. Once specialised in textiles, they have developed new export-oriented sectors linked to the information and communication technolog...
by | On 24 Aug 2016 Efforts to promote food security must distinguish between short-term and medium-term measures, but also between countries with agricultural potential and without such potential, argues this paper. Fur...
by | On 24 Aug 2016 Domestic strife and civil war frequently produce large population dislocations and refugee flows across national boundaries. Mass refugee flows often entail negative consequences for receiving states,...
by | On 23 Aug 2016 ASEAN assumed different roles in responding to humanitarian crises in Cambodia (in the 1970s) and Myanmar (Cyclone Nargis in 2008). For the Cambodia situation, ASEAN was playing the role of ‘antagonis...
by | On 19 Aug 2016 The lead agency in India’s assistance strategy is the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA). The MEA is directly responsible for assistance to Bhutan, Nepal and Afghanistan, and advises the Department of...
by | On 19 Aug 2016 The United Nations General Assembly declared 2004 the International Year of the Rice (IYR). The IYR is a venue to promote improved production and development of sustainable rice-based systems that wil...
by Philippine Institute for Development Studies | On 16 Aug 2016 We study the evolution of trade liberalization’s effects on local labor markets, following
Brazil’s early 1990s trade liberalization. Regions that initially specialized in industries facing
larger t...
by Rafael Dix-Carneiro | On 16 Aug 2016 Hourly plant-level wind and solar generation output and real-time price data for one year from the California ISO control area is used to estimate the vector of means and the contemporaneous covarianc...
by | On 12 Aug 2016 In the last decade, the resource-rich Philippines has bet heavily on the mining industry as a development strategy,
an approach that has come under growing scrutiny. With 47 large-scale mines in oper...
by Cecilia Olivet | On 10 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 The time is opportune to ensure the causes and consequences of this urgent issue are better addressed. Policy makers are pushing for concerted progress across humanitarian and sustainable development...
by | On 01 Aug 2016 Khadi sector is an over-regulated one in India, where the entire production process, sales, distribution, and marketing is fully regulated by the government. The paper examines the growth of Khadi sec...
by Lekshmi R Nair | On 25 Jul 2016 By adopting a historical comparative perspective,this paper assesses the role of state (both national and subnational) in industrialisation through the growth and policy experience of an ‘achieving’ s...
by Keshab Das | On 20 Jul 2016 This paper examines whether “Make in India” policies are constrained by over-regulation or under-regulation in the Indian labour market. Specific labour law provisions and the scope of circumventing t...
by Ajeet Mathur | On 18 Jul 2016 This study aims to examine the effect of addition and deletion of items on coefficient alpha. In addition, necessary assumptions for appropriate interpretation of coefficient alpha are examined. This...
by Dheeraj Sharma | On 18 Jul 2016 By exploring the role of SEZs in China’s integration with the world economy, we also investigate the underlining challenges faced by the economy. The analysis brings forth the indisputable fact that S...
by | On 14 Jul 2016 This study (i) identifies factors determining informal trade, (ii) prepares estimates of India's informal trade with Pakistan (iii) examines the modalities of informal trade (iv) analyzes the transact...
by Nisha Taneja | On 13 Jul 2016 This paper analyzes the absence of correlation between China-ASEAN economic interdependence and dispute settlement in the South China Sea, against liberals’ prediction. It argues that there are a few...
by | On 13 Jul 2016 The South China Sea disputes involve the interests of the United States, particularly with regard to freedom of navigation, international norms and law, relations with important partners and allies, a...
by | On 13 Jul 2016 The paper shows that the female entrepreneurs in Pakistan are very important to economic and social development but they are facing serious troubles. Women’s entrepreneurship, properly exploited, has...
by Salman Khalid | On 12 Jul 2016 Labour regulation in India has engaged the attention of not only policy makers but also social actors, researchers and practioners. Policy measures have started rolling out from the state governments...
by Shyam Sundar | On 11 Jul 2016 This study analyses the reasons for low levels of trade, the nature of trade in this sector and the intra-industry trade between the countries. The study also throws light on the informal trade in tex...
by Nisha Taneja | On 11 Jul 2016 This paper broadly deals with the concerns of the multinationals in the area of taxation environment. Section two of this paper deals with the genesis of the recent crisis in this area and issues invo...
by R Singh | On 07 Jul 2016 Crude oil and other petroleum products play an important role in India’s energy security and in sustaining its high growth rate. Against that background, this document empirically analyses petroleum d...
by Pradeep Agrawal | On 07 Jul 2016 Facing scarcity of a production factor, a firm can develop technologies to either substitute the scarce factor
(price effect) or complement the more abundant factors (market size effect). Whether th...
by zhibo Tan | On 06 Jul 2016 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 This paper estimates the monetary value of cutting PM2.5, a dominant source of air pollution in China. By matching hedonic happiness in a nationally representative survey with daily air quality data a...
by Xin Zhang | On 30 Jun 2016 Many art crimes exist in Asia, where looting and trafficking of regional artefacts have developed extensively in contemporary times. The sophisticated methods of looters and middlemen, the highly effi...
by Stefan Gruber | On 30 Jun 2016 Human society has witnessed adventure with knowledge
resulting in scientific understanding of the secrets of nature
and converting them into technological innovations resulting
in metamorphosis of...
by Prabuddha Ganguli | On 30 Jun 2016 Current paper aims to understand how the governments in different
parts of the world have leveraged upon the private sector to achieve specific
educational goals. The idea here is not to recommend o...
by Centre for Civil Society CCS | On 29 Jun 2016 The Finance Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Mr. Haseeb A. Drabu, presented the Budget for Jammu and Kashmir
for financial year 2016-17 on May 30, 2016.
by Hasseeb A. Drabu | On 13 Jun 2016 This paper argues that contrary to popular belief, in the bygone era, there was not one but two Silk Roads in Asia – the Northern and the less well-known South-western Silk Road (SSR). The SSR connect...
by | On 10 Jun 2016 A number of initiatives have been taken by the government as well as the private sector to address the challenge of energy access in India. In this context, WWF-India conducted a study to measure/asse...
by | On 09 Jun 2016 Technology and the Internet have triggered important changes to how creative works are created, accessed and how creators and copyright-based industries generate their revenues. In this chapter, the e...
by Sacha Wunsch-Vincent | On 08 Jun 2016 The objective of this report is to catalyse thinking about the ways in which agriculture – which has a vital role in global food security, development and natural resources use – can and must be fully...
by Aziz Elbehri | On 06 Jun 2016 Global commodity prices surge of 2007-08 sent an inflationary shock across the countries. 2014 global prices descend
resulted in significant disinflation in many countries and...
by Muhammad Nadim Hanif | On 06 Jun 2016 The paper deals with the above issues by analyzing the scenario
in NEI, as to how the region with its present status fits into the
LEP regime. In this regard, the contemporary ma...
by Gorky Chakraborty | On 06 Jun 2016 Rising emission of greenhouse gasses (GHGs) and growing economic
inequalities have emerged as key challenges for policymakers over the
past two decades and the problems are likely to intensify in th...
by Unmesh Patnaik | On 03 Jun 2016 Wind energy is a very important contributor in the global power sector, today, contributing nearly 4% of overall electricity generation. The main drivers include energy security, climate change and en...
by Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy CSTEP | On 01 Jun 2016 Today, more than half of international trade is regulated through preferential trade agreements (PTAs). While in the past, these agreements served as tools to eliminate further tariffs between the pa...
by | On 01 Jun 2016 With growing populations and demand for food, farmers in ASEAN member states (except Singapore) are required to produce more and more food from land that continues to decline due to population growth,...
by | On 31 May 2016 This paper discusses the underlying common concept of the rule of law as it bolsters courts, giving them their institutional status and enabling them to move toward a redesigned judiciary from diverse...
by Aung Htoo | On 31 May 2016 UNICEF’s Strategic Plan 2014-2017 is a road map for the realization of the rights of every child. The equity strategy, emphasizing the most disadvantaged and excluded children and families, translates...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 31 May 2016 The present handbook is designed to provide United Nations country teams and national and international stakeholders with guidance on the definitions, rationale, concepts and sources of the data for t...
by United Nations (UN) | On 27 May 2016 Charcoal is the main cooking energy source for people living in Maputo city. It is also a crucial source of income for rural producers in Mabalane district, a key supplier of Maputo’s charcoal. But Ma...
by Sophia Baumert | On 25 May 2016 This Act shall apply to Domestic arbitration and international commercial arbitration and negotiated settlements conducted within the Kingdom of Bhutan; Recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards...
by National Assembly of Bhutan | On 25 May 2016 Governments in South Asia are progressively acknowledging that child stunting is both a marker and a maker of poor development. UNICEF regional and country offices in South Asia work with regional
bo...
by United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF | On 24 May 2016 The present report on nutritional intake in India is based on data collected through the 61st round of NSS (July 2004-June 2005). It mainly focuses on intake of nutrients by households in terms of pro...
by Ministry of Statistics and Prog Implementation (MOSPI) | On 20 May 2016 SIPP is envisaged to facilitate protection of patents, trademarks and design of innovative and interested startups.
by Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion DIPP | On 20 May 2016 This paper aims to sensitize the
stakeholders, concerned organization and citizens towards need and importance of regulating
SEPs as well as facilitating their availability at Fair, Reasonable and N...
by Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion DIPP | On 19 May 2016 An Act to provide for conservation of biological diversity, sustainable use of its components and fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising out of the use of biological resources, knowledge a...
by Ministry of Law and Justice GOI | On 18 May 2016 The present publication reinforces the importance of biodiversity, particularly in the context of sustainable development. It attempts to give an overview of the issue, by analysing the main thematic...
by | On 18 May 2016 Ten countries from the Pacific have gathered in Nadi, Fiji, for a regional consultation on the region’s biodiversity for food and agriculture. The consultation, on the State of Biodiversity for Food a...
by Nadi Fiji | On 17 May 2016 Water rights in India in a formal, legal manner are still under formulation. Rights based on centuries old customs and conventions currently prevail. In recent years, reforms have sought to introduce...
by | On 12 May 2016 Mumbai has the potential to become one of the world’s ideal cities in terms of sustainable water management. With abundant natural and perennial water sources around it, the megacity is currently one...
by Dhaval D Desai | On 10 May 2016 Indian trademark law statutorily protects trademarks as per the Trademark Act, 1999 and also under the common law remedy of passing off. Statutory protection of trademark is administered by the Contro...
by Ministry of Commerce and Industry GOI | On 09 May 2016 Using original data collected about growers, traders, processors, markets, and village communities, the situation in four states – Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Orissa is compared. The w...
by Marcel Fafchamps | On 06 May 2016 The aim of the Department of Health Research (DHR) is to bring modern health technologies to the people
through research and innovations related to diagnosis, treatment methods and
vaccines for prev...
by Rajya Sabha Secretariat | On 05 May 2016 Measurement of achievement or progress towards the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) should be suggestive of the issues involved
in intertemporal comparison. Commonly, we observe that the
measure...
by Udaya S. Mishra | On 03 May 2016 This paper revisits the welfare ranking of tariff revenue maximizing export tariff and welfare maximizing export tariff in an imperfectly substitutable network goods oligopoly. The results are often s...
by Anomita Ghosh | On 02 May 2016 This report has been prepared by the West Bengal Chamber of Commerce. It includes data on various sectors including but not limited to: Employment, Industry, Agriculture, Power and Trade.
by Chamber of Commerce | On 27 Apr 2016 The provisions aim at providing a clear legal framework for trademark owners who wish to use their marks on the Internet and to participate in the development of electronic commerce. They are intended...
by WIPO WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION. | On 26 Apr 2016 India's Design Act, 2000 was enacted to consolidate and amend the law relating to protection of design and to comply with the articles 25 and 26 of TRIPS agreement. The new act, (earlier Patent and De...
by Ministry of Commerce and Industry GOI | On 26 Apr 2016 The 2030 Policy Framework confirms the EU's firm commitment to lead by example in tackling climate change. It sets out a binding, economy-wide domestic reduction target of at least 40% greenhouse gas...
by European union | On 26 Apr 2016 India's trade infrastructure is in a bad shape. India's imports are very high than its exports. The government has promised some investments and policies in this sector.
by T.N. Ninan | On 16 Apr 2016 Worldwide it is recognized that copyright piracy is a serious crime which not only adversely affects the creative potential of the society by denying the creators their legitimate dues, it also causes...
by Ministry of Human Resource Development, GOI | On 12 Apr 2016 A gradual moderation in growth is currently underway in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). This is the result of a combination of factors, including a shrinking working-age population, the natural...
by | On 06 Apr 2016 India and Pakistan, the two large countries in South Asia, must work for the region’s collective good rather than moving closer to the United States and China, respectively, and promoting the interest...
by Shahid Javed Burki | On 28 Mar 2016 India’s principal trade partners are countries/economies in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) region, and over the last decade the share of APEC in India’s trade has been growing. Specifica...
by Deeparghya Mukherjee | On 28 Mar 2016 As an important global and regional economic power, the PRC’s growth slowdown may cause large spillover effects to its neighboring economies. Using a multi-sectoral global computable general equilibri...
by Fan Zhai | On 22 Mar 2016 The economic structure and rates of growth across the states in India are markedly different, with significant disparities in income per capita growth as well as sector-specific performance. The high-...
by Alokesh Barua | On 21 Mar 2016 Part II of the Budget speech of the finance minister.
by Pradip Kumar Amat | On 21 Mar 2016 The end of World War II marked the advent of Ethnic disputes in the world. The explicit wars for territory converted into implicit wars for identity and recognition; perhaps, because a part of the pop...
by Kalpana Jha | On 21 Mar 2016 This paper outlines the place of Hindustani art music in the metropolis of Bombay/Mumbai, and its role in the fashioning of public spaces from the late 19th century to the 1960s. This music began to t...
by Tejaswini Niranjana | On 21 Mar 2016 India-Bangladesh relations are advancing rapidly in recent times. There are of course some impediments such as non-tariff barriers (NTBs) in trade, and the Teesta water-sharing dispute that need to be...
by Chandrani Sarma | On 21 Mar 2016 In 2010, Cambodia outlined a plan aimed at developing its rice sector into a major rice exporting country. The rice sector was chosen due to comparative advantages in land, perceptions of significant...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 18 Mar 2016 This review and compendium of our country’s environmental laws, policies, and regulations aims to enhance the accessibility to information by judges, lawyers, government officials, and stakeholders in...
by Antonia Gawel | On 18 Mar 2016 Aid for Trade (AfT) flows have increased each year since 2006 in the region. And while regional aggregate trade costs continue to fall, many subregions continue to struggle with trade costs that are s...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 17 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 Environmental quality is often a credence good and consumers are unable to distinguish between green and brown products. The paper aims to investigate the role of certification in providing informatio...
by Charu Grover | On 15 Mar 2016 This paper empirically examines human capital’s contribution to economy-wide technological progress and also on technical efficiency gain depending on its distance to frontier in a panel of 75 countri...
by Sujata Basu | On 15 Mar 2016 This paper is intended to contribute in the analysis of the movements of real wages of skilled and unskilled labour in Indian manufacturing over the last two decades and thereby trying to provide plau...
by Alokesh Barua | On 15 Mar 2016 This report is the outcome of the regional technical assistance on Strengthening Institutional Capacity to Compile and Analyze Financial Soundness Indicators for Investment Climate Assessment (RETA 77...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 Mar 2016 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 The education systems in Asia, including technical and vocational education and training (TVET), were well suited at the time to allow Asia to become the world’s assembly line. In simple terms, formal...
by Sungsup Ra | On 15 Mar 2016 Improving the quality of skills among its labor force will help further economic growth in Bangladesh. Thus, there is an urgent need to provide better access to TVET to help increase productivity and...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 Mar 2016 The study considers key trends, in terms of disaster incidence, sources of vulnerability, and social and economic impacts. This is followed by discussions of some of the major issues: compound disaste...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 Mar 2016 The United States and North Korea resumed talks in Beijing on February 23–24, 2012, after a delay following the death of Kim Jong Il two months ago. Present at the talks were a delegation of the DPRK...
by Sangsoo Lee | On 14 Mar 2016 State concerns about crime and security issues have strongly affected conceptions of economic action outside the law, a traditional field of research in sociology. This increasing encroachment by poli...
by Matías Dewey | On 14 Mar 2016 Inclusive business (IB) is a private sector approach to providing goods, services, and livelihoods on a commercially viable basis, either at scale or scalable, to people at the base of the pyramid by...
by Roehlano M. Briones | On 14 Mar 2016 The role of the National System of Technical Vocational Education and Training (NSTVET) is critical in skill upgrading and development. The rapidly changing technology highlights this need even more....
by Aniceto C. Orbeta, Jr. | On 14 Mar 2016 Arsenic contamination in water supplies continues to increase in many countries, especially in developing nations, thereby creating both environmental and health hazard. Its sources and effects are mu...
by Zareena Begum Irfan | On 13 Mar 2016 This study attempts to capture the impact of vertical and horizontal R and D spillovers across the supply chain. Empirical studies have captured vertical spillovers while finding the role of horizonta...
by Madhuri Saripalle | On 13 Mar 2016 In spite of competing claims over the Spratly and Paracel Archipelagoes and maritime areas in the South China Sea, China and Vietnam have sought, with some degree of success, to manage their tensions...
by Ramses Amer | On 12 Mar 2016 ASEAN plays a proactive role in regard to dispute management in the South China Sea. In spite of this, it is argued here that the Association must overcome problems of internal cohesion to find a unif...
by Ramses Amer | On 12 Mar 2016 China is unique among developing countries in achieving sustained economic and social success. So, policymakers in South Asia will do well to factor a robust Chinese economic future into their thinkin...
by Shahid Javed Burki | On 11 Mar 2016 As China seeks to bolster its claims over the Spratly archipelago in the South China Sea, incidents between navies have the potential to spiral into more dangerous escalations. To avert crisis, argues...
by | On 10 Mar 2016 The specific question to be explored in this study is: whether or not trade liberalisation (tariff reduction) policies improve income distribution and reduce poverty in Pakistan?
by Rizwana Siddiqui | On 10 Mar 2016 Following up on recent debates about sectoral systems of innovation and production, the paper introduces a heuristic framework for analyzing and explaining distinct patterns of technology-based sector...
by | On 09 Mar 2016 This paper shows that a more accurate depiction of the development of China’s private sector is gained by considering the complex interaction between bottom-up and top- down processes. First, the pape...
by | On 09 Mar 2016 The paper investigates the political aspects of the coorperation between China, South Korea and Japan to address transboundary pollution in Northeast Asia. Investigating the motivations, modalities an...
by Reinhard Drifte | On 09 Mar 2016 The findings of this study show that urban local governments in India continue to remain plagued by numerous problems, which affect their performance in the efficient discharge of their duties. These...
by Rumi Aijaz | On 09 Mar 2016 This article intends to bring to light the energy security concept in the region, while analyzing how this multilateral cooperative energy scheme can contribute to building a new regional economic sec...
by Se Hyun Ahn | On 09 Mar 2016 In order to examine specific cases of high trade margins, the high-level committee lists out recommendations to address the issue. In this regard, the recommendations aim to significantly bring down p...
by Pharmaceuticals Department of | On 09 Mar 2016 While piracy in Southeast Asia has been addressed better over time, maritime predations continue to occur in the region. These predations, on small traders and maritime communities, afflict these grou...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 05 Mar 2016 The discourse on Cyber Security, a relatively new field in non-traditional security studies, has been dominated by the need to protect information infrastructure from both state and non-state actors....
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 05 Mar 2016 The United Nations, in its new report The Globalization of Crime, underscored the urgency of combating organised crime. The report examines major trafficking flows of drugs, firearms, counterfeit pro...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 04 Mar 2016 Fighting resumed along the disputed Thai-Cambodian border, covering Thailand’s Si SaKet province and Cambodia’s PreahVihear province, following the start of gunfire and artillery duels on 4 February 2...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 03 Mar 2016 The Thai-Cambodian border once again became the site of violent clashes between the countries’ militaries in April. Following bloody clashes at the disputed site adjacent to the PreahVihear temple on...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 03 Mar 2016 The Jakarta Post recently reported experts as saying that ‘[e]xtreme weather caused by climate change has given people another reason to migrate’. The comment was made in reference to a soon-to-be rel...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 03 Mar 2016 The diversification of Bhutan’s relations began with its entry into the United Nations in 1971, and while external relations continued to be largely confined to India, the establishment of its relatio...
by | On 02 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 Despite having laws and regulations to protect health of workers in industries in India, little has been effective in ensuring and protecting health and safety especially in case of small and medium f...
by Amrita Ghatak | On 01 Mar 2016 This paper analyses the various legal, political, military and economic circumstances of the two territorial disputes in the ECS, and it evaluates the approaches by both sides to turn the ECS from a `...
by Reinhard Drifte | On 01 Mar 2016 Should tax reforms be guided by rules of thumb suggested by the IMF, or directions or reform based on analytical approaches, such as optimal tax theory? In many cases, the applications of the directio...
by Ehtisham Ahmad | On 01 Mar 2016 This paper joins the growing scholarship on the ontological security needs of states in international relations (IR) literature and explores its relevance to India-China relations. Ontological securit...
by | On 01 Mar 2016 The analysis of the paper begins in the next section by setting out broad economic changes in India as key context for change in Palanpur, with a particular focus on the three drivers set out above; s...
by Himanshu Prof | On 29 Feb 2016 How large are the benefits of transportation infrastructure projects, and what explains these benefits? To shed new light on these questions, I collect archival data from colonial India and use it to...
by Dave Donaldson | On 29 Feb 2016 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 India's policy on agriculture in the context of climate change, is foregrounded by the need to produce enough grain to meet the food requirements of the country. To promote sustainable agriculture, po...
by | On 29 Feb 2016 Issues or problems associated with land have become more multi-layered in the 21st century. In the Philippines, a number of “pro-poor” land laws were enacted after the Marcos dictatorship. These laws...
by Focus on the Global South FGS | On 29 Feb 2016 This paper undertakes econometric analysis of innovation, learning, and exporting in automobiles and electronics firms in the PRC using a large-scale dataset to identify the most appropriate innovatio...
by Ganeshan Wignaraja | On 29 Feb 2016 Empirical evidence suggests that the emergence of international production networks in East Asia results from market-driven forces such as vertical specialization and higher production costs in the ho...
by Kornkarun Cheewatrakoolpong | On 29 Feb 2016 This paper explores the “black box” of innovation in the electronics production network in East Asia through a mapping exercise of technological capabilities and an econometric analysis of exporting i...
by Ganeshan Wignaraja | On 29 Feb 2016 This paper focuses on the pricing behavior of Japanese and United States firms selling their identical products in New York City, Chicago, Osaka, and Tokyo. The authors utilize some simple models of i...
by K.C. Fung | On 29 Feb 2016 The Report assesses the development impacts of migrants in the countries of the Asia-Pacific region and provides guidance on the steps countries, regional organizations, civil society actors and other...
by United Nations Economic and Social Commission (UNESCAP) | On 29 Feb 2016 This paper serves as background for a South Asian regional workshop that will bring together adaptation information users and producers to inform likely new investments in the information base for cli...
by Ayesha Dinshaw | On 29 Feb 2016 In this paper, a review of the literature on the global efficiency consequences of migration and assess a new strand of that literature. This is the new economic case for migration restrictions, which...
by Michael Clemens | On 27 Feb 2016 The intensity of the recent haze came as a shock to many in Singapore, as the pollutant standards index (PSI) went beyond the level considered hazardous. The economic and health impacts from this ep...
by Sofiah Jamil | 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 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 This paper offers a macro understanding of the dispute resolution methods existing in India. The emerging trend of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) will be the focus of the next section of the pap...
by Jasmine Joseph | On 27 Feb 2016 As a central effort in the Global Challenge Initiative on Economic Growth and Social Inclusion, this is a “how to guide” for companies to create social and business value. Drawn from a series of works...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 26 Feb 2016 Under the World Trade Organization, the Philippines has maintained special treatment for rice, which expires on July 2017. Tariffication will involve greater competition from imports and the decline o...
by Roehlano M. Briones | On 25 Feb 2016 The implementation of the "Higher Education Modernization Act of 1997", CHED Memorandum Order No. 20, and "Public Higher Education Reform Framework" granted state universities and colleges (SUCs) the...
by Rosario G. Manasan | On 25 Feb 2016 The principle of non-discrimination which comprises national treatment and most-favored-nation (MFN) treatment is an important pillar of the multilateral trading system. The World Trade Organization (...
by Sherzod Shadikhodjaev | 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 There is a growing emphasis on the role of trade in health services (telehealth, health tourism and retirement, investments and deployment of medical professionals) in easing fiscal constraints, gener...
by Maria Cherry Rodolfo | 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 It is now widely agreed that the World Trade Organization (WTO) is in trouble, struggling to deliver the national rewards available from liberalising through multilateral negotiations. Prime Minister...
by Bill Carmichael | On 25 Feb 2016 The last decade has witnessed significant influx of direct foreign investment in developing countries. The increased flow of foreign investment has contributed to the ability of developing countries t...
by Syed Ali | On 25 Feb 2016 This paper focuses on Indonesia’s trade policies after the economic crisis. It examines the trend towards protection and addresses the issues of competitiveness. The concluding part briefly discusses...
by M. Basri | On 25 Feb 2016 Due to a long history of strained political relations between India and Pakistan, trade possibilities between the two neighbouring countries have rarely been studied [Nabi and Nasim (2001), Mukherji (...
by Abid Burki | On 24 Feb 2016 The 1990s saw East Asia becoming more integrated as trade barriers fell, trade intensity and intra-industry trade increased, and production networks formed. This greater integration has resulted in ch...
by Yose Damuri | On 24 Feb 2016 Despite some recovery in recent years, Central Asian Republics (CARs) remain in difficult economic situation and they present a serious challenge to Asia. It is in the mutual interest of both CARs and...
by Ramgopal Agarwala | On 24 Feb 2016 Who would have thought thirty years ago China could become one of the world’s most influential trading nations? At that time the Chinese government was reluctant to open up its door for foreigners and...
by Alice Wang | On 24 Feb 2016 The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), established in 1993, is a civil society initiative to promote an ongoing dialogue between the principal partners in the decision-making and implementing process....
by Uttam Kumar Deb | On 24 Feb 2016 The devastation and catastrophe wrought by Typhoon Kestana on the Philippines’ capital Manila reflect a huge gap between rising vulnerabilities and preparedness at the national and regional levels. As...
by | On 24 Feb 2016 Many commentators assume that China will become the next world superpower. This may be a premature assessment. As Judo players know, size can be a weakness rather than a strength. It is the spirit of...
by | On 24 Feb 2016 Efforts to improve the business climate in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) Province are still facing significant obstacles. Moreover, a healthy business climate is needed to create conditions conducive to ha...
by Widjajanti Suharyo | On 24 Feb 2016 In 1997, ASEAN leaders envisaged Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) as the technology that would foster the region’s economic integration and has since commissioned numerous projects and...
by | On 24 Feb 2016 Abstract: The development of China-ASEAN trade and economic relations within the recent 15 years has of great significance not only for both sides but also for the whole East-Asia region. This paper i...
by Zhao Jianglin | On 24 Feb 2016 This study looks at Indonesia’s commitments to multilateral trade agreements, and assesses policies adopted by the government to meet the criteria set by those agreements. Particularly, three sectors...
by Titik Anas | On 24 Feb 2016 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 Efforts to understand the connection between climate change and national, regional and international security have fuelled something of a climate security industry, evidenced in a range of reports fro...
by Lorraine Elliot | On 24 Feb 2016 Southeast Asia as a region has a unique history, and the evolving relationships between its communities, states, regional organisations and the international community reflect this. Given this context...
by Alistair Cook | On 24 Feb 2016 The World Bank has been requested by the government of India to undertake a study, “Strategies for Low Carbon Growth.” The study considers different options for low-carbon growth trajectories to fisca...
by Ministry of Environment and Forests GOI | On 24 Feb 2016 India’s performance in the early carbon market are analysed, and proposes a series of actions to be undertaken by both the Government of India, and the private sector, if India is to take full advanta...
by World Bank | On 24 Feb 2016 Transparency has been put in processes, changed many rules for protection of environment and we have started taking decisions that are based on policies. The cases that fall within the policy framewor...
by Ministry of Environment and Forests | On 24 Feb 2016 This paper documents two different models that can be adopted by tribal villages for forest-based bamboo trade under the ambit of the FRA, 2006.
by Centre for Civil Society CCS | 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 This policy brief provides the main findings of the Food Security Expert Group Meeting which was convened by the RSIS Centre for Non-Traditional Security (NTS) Studies in Singapore on 4-5 August 2010....
by | On 23 Feb 2016 The paper examines the changing size, shape and range of financial markets in the region indicates the extent to which regional markets have become more efficient and have improved in quality since th...
by Jenny Corbett | On 23 Feb 2016 The rapid economic growth achieved after globalization by most of the developing countries, has imposed considerable social costs and has become a major threat to sustainable development. However it i...
by Prakash Nelliyat | On 23 Feb 2016 Since the elasticity of substitution between capital and labor is not always one, and since technical progress is not always Harrod-neutral, it is desirable to have an endogenous growth model that adm...
by Hing-Man Leung | On 23 Feb 2016 Much of the attention on institutional development within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has focused on the progress in establishing the ASEAN Political-Security Community (APSC)....
by | On 23 Feb 2016 Contract growing has been defined as an agreement between farmers and processing and/or marketing firms under forward agreements, usually at predetermined prices for the production and supply of agric...
by Larry Digal | On 23 Feb 2016 The prospective entry of generic dominated Indian pharmaceutical sector in the ambit of new technologies is likely to give filip to emergence of strong biopharmaceutical sector.It is pertinent in this...
by Sachin Chaturvedi | On 23 Feb 2016 Growing food demands and escalating environmental stresses create a series of challenges throughout Southeast Asia. Projected population and consumption patterns strongly suggest that food production...
by J. Ewing | On 22 Feb 2016 The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), established in 1993, is a civil society initiative to promote an ongoing dialogue between the principal partners in the decision-making and implementing process....
by Debapriya Bhattacharya | On 22 Feb 2016 In this paper we attempt to explain the China Puzzle: coexistence of accelerating economic growth and worsening growth outlook. The root cause lies in China’s unique liberalization approach, i.e., the...
by Huang Yiping | On 22 Feb 2016 A key lesson of the 2007–2009 global financial crisis (GFC) was the importance of containing systemic financial risk and the need for a “macroprudential” approach to surveillance and regulation that c...
by Masahiro Kawai | On 22 Feb 2016 India’s chances of becoming a member of the APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) forum brightened considerably after the United States welcomed its interest in early 2015. But till now, there has...
by Amitendu Palit | On 22 Feb 2016 India and Pakistan must learn that Pathankot and Peshawar were mindless acts of terror, to prevent whose recurrence, there is the need to enhance cooperation, not diminish it. Pakistan must continue t...
by Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury | On 22 Feb 2016 This paper discusses the financial landscape of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), a region engaged in building an economic community (a “single market and production base”) by 2015....
by Choong Lee | On 21 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 This paper examines the economic case for the South Asia Free Trade Area (SAFTA) Agreement signed on January 6 th, 2004 by India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, and the Maldives. It s...
by Tercan Baysan | On 21 Feb 2016 The trade performance of countries in South Asia over the past two decades has been poor relative to other regions. Exports from South Asia have doubled over the past 20 years to approximately USD 100...
by John Wilson | On 21 Feb 2016 South Asian countries, facing challenges in efficiently meeting growing electricity demand, can benefit from increased cross-border electricity cooperation and trade by harnessing complementarities in...
by Anoop Singh | On 21 Feb 2016 The South Asia region is lagging behind many regions in the world in regional electricity cooperation and trading, despite the huge anticipated benefits. This study uses an electricity planning model...
by Govinda Timilsina | On 21 Feb 2016 This paper discusses the relevance of Basel III to Asian emerging markets. It reviews some of the proposed regulations of Basel III in order to evaluate their likely implications for, and their abilit...
by Tarisa Watanagase | 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 This paper is an excerpt from a FY 2008 survey for the promotion of oil and natural development and utilization as commissioned by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. Since 2008, the global L...
by Yoshikazu Kobayashi | On 21 Feb 2016 The world's oil consumption has been increasing for more than a century with a few exceptions. This paper examines the impact of the decrease in oil production on major economies using a computable ge...
by Naohiko Yahaba | On 21 Feb 2016 In seeking to ensure its own food security Singapore, may be transforming itself from a passive food importer to an active contributor to the regional and global food system – through research and dev...
by | On 20 Feb 2016 As the floods in Thailand and Cambodia continue, the state of regional cooperation is proving critical in addressing the difficulties faced by affected countries. Disaster preparedness is increasingly...
by | On 20 Feb 2016 The world’s biggest summit on environment and development in 20 years will take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June this year. What are the opportunities and challenges for this global multilater...
by | On 20 Feb 2016 The availability of rice has long been considered a key indicator of food security in Southeast Asia. However, for largely strategic reasons, there is a paucity of information in the public domain on...
by Sally Trethewie | On 20 Feb 2016 This study attempts to assess the impact of two shocks-trade liberalization and a deline in remittances from abroad-on poverty in Pakistan using a CGE framework.
by Rizwana Siddiqui | On 19 Feb 2016 The implications of the estimated 30-50 per cent global food wastage for energy, soil, water and human resources are substantial. Recognising the need to pay greater attention to this issue, the RSIS...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 19 Feb 2016 The Urban Planning and Design focus area of UN-Habitat aims to support cities, regional and national authorities in adopting improved policies, plans and designs for more compact, socially inclusive,...
by Rafael Tuts | On 19 Feb 2016 Services have been a key driver of overall economic growth in South Asia since the 1990s. This paper examines how the growth of services output, trade and investment have affected service sector emplo...
by Rupa Chanda | On 19 Feb 2016 The present study has examined the changes in the employment scenario of Bangladesh following the pursuance of the trade liberalisation strategy and the possible effects of further trade liberalisatio...
by Wasel Shadat | On 19 Feb 2016 The author calls for renewed focus on the idea of ‘soft borders’ between India and Pakistan, with particular reference to Jammu and Kashmir, in the light of a theory of ‘enlightened sovereignty’ that...
by | On 19 Feb 2016 This article provides a quantitative analysis of the effects of Pakistan government domestic wheat procurement, sales, and trade policies on wheat supply, demand, prices, and overall inflation. Analys...
by Paul Dorosh | On 18 Feb 2016 It is a pleasure to introduce this book, the major output of the second phase of the Sustainable Mekong Research Network (SUMERNET). Since its start in 2005, the SUMERNET program has aimed to strength...
by Institute Stockholm Environment | On 18 Feb 2016 Most countries depend on three “food taps” – imports, self-production, reserve stocks – to make food available. All countries import some amount of food to meet their increasingly diverse dietary dema...
by | On 17 Feb 2016 Food security encompasses multiple, inter-connected dimensions, from production-related concerns, to market and price dynamics, environmental trends and policy approaches. Given this, ‘robustness’, th...
by | On 17 Feb 2016 It is investigated whether differences in quality of firm-level corporate governance can explain the firm-level performance in a cross-section of companies listed at Karachi Stock Exchange. Therefore,...
by Attiya Y. Javid | On 17 Feb 2016 This paper empirically investigates the impact of trade and financial liberalisation on economic growth in Pakistan using annual observations over the period 1961-2005. The analysis is based on the bo...
by Muhammad Arshad Khan | On 16 Feb 2016 As some Southeast Asian countries consider using nuclear energy, the region should now be preparing a regional nuclear emergency response, incorporating technological and nuclear emergencies into its...
by | On 16 Feb 2016 Transboundary haze pollution is posing significant multiple risks to the well-being and security of people in ASEAN. Beyond looking at it as an environmental issue, it is a severe threat to human secu...
by | On 16 Feb 2016 This paper examines the efficiency of the large scale manufacturing sector of Pakistan using the stochastic production frontier approach. A stochastic production frontier is estimated for two periods—...
by Tariq Mahmood | On 16 Feb 2016 The World Bank and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) face three sets of challenges: those that are common to others in the official development finance community; those that are common to the World Ban...
by Vikram Nehru | On 16 Feb 2016 This paper considers emerging commercial policy challenges facing the Asia-Pacific region in light of the impasse reached at the Eighth World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Meeting in December 2...
by Michael Plummer | 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 Pressure has been building for the conclusion of the 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations. Getting the deal done is important, but the TPP is not just another free trade agreement (...
by Deborah Elms | On 16 Feb 2016 This paper evaluates the prospects for the renminbi’s role as an international currency and the implications for global financial markets. Although the People’s Republic of China (PRC) does not have e...
by Eswar Prasad | On 16 Feb 2016 This paper develops a multilateral currency system where national currencies are used for trade settlement in East Asia, comprising the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member countries,...
by ll Houng Lee | On 16 Feb 2016 This paper studies how East Asia’s trade composition and orientation have changed over the past decade and analyzes the implications for the region and beyond. Over the last 2 decades we have witnesse...
by Matthias Helble | On 16 Feb 2016 This paper examines the road and railway links in Myanmar connecting northeast India on the one side with the rest of Southeast Asia on the other. It also discusses the importance of new deep-sea port...
by Hector Florento | On 16 Feb 2016 This paper makes the case for the need to “upgrade” current analytical tools used for trade policy analysis and complement them with more detailed firm-level data. Such an upgrade should be based on t...
by Lucian Cernat | On 16 Feb 2016 Thailand’s increasing importance as a regional co-production base and as an intra-regional trade and border trade hub is due mainly to recent changes in its economic structure, namely, the lack of ope...
by Suthiphand Chirathivat | On 16 Feb 2016 This paper studies dynamic effects of agriculture trade in the context of domestic and global liberalisation. Being the largest sector of the economy, the agriculture sector contributes substantially...
by Rizwana Siddiqui | On 15 Feb 2016 The main objective of this study report is to find out the impact(s) of the refinance scheme of Bangladesh Bank (BB) through comparing the economic well-being of the target group people who have taken...
by Md. Julhas Uddin | On 15 Feb 2016 The current thinking on the subject of the central bank communication policy centres squarely on the transparency with which the bank conveys its beliefs on the evolving pattern of macroeconomic funda...
by Bangladesh Bank BB | 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 Emergence of the global market has heightened the role of trade in world economy and made industrialization as an integral system of global trade and production. Bangladesh economy at present is more...
by Md. Nehal Ahmed | On 15 Feb 2016 This policy note attempts to introduce the concept and size of tax expenditures in the context of Bangladesh with special references to experiences of India and Pakistan. It shows that the amount of t...
by M. Golam Mortaza | On 15 Feb 2016 When money corrupts campaigns and candidates, political finance can undermine the same democratic values and good governance that it also supports. To prevent and address the problem, transparency and...
by Transparency International TI | 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 National Integrity System encompasses the key institutions, sectors or specific activities (the ‘pillars’) that contribute to integrity, transparency and accountability in a society. When it funct...
by Transparency International TI | On 14 Feb 2016 Political finance regulations have been introduced in a majority of democracies to promote fair political competition, but all too often political party and campaign finance laws are breached with imp...
by Transparency International TI | On 14 Feb 2016 The characteristics of the area of the Middle East and North Africa known as the MENA region tend to fuel corruption and result in low levels of transparency. Yet anti-corruption strategies have prima...
by Transparency International TI | On 14 Feb 2016 The hostility between India and Pakistan lies at the heart of the current war in Afghanistan. Most observers in the West view the Afghanistan conflict as a battle between the U.S. and the NATO-led Int...
by William Dalrymple | 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 Earlier studies that investigated the J-Curve phenomenon for Pakistan employed aggregate trade data. These studies suffered from the “aggregation bias” problem. In order to overcome this constraint, t...
by Zehra Aftab | On 14 Feb 2016 Corporate integrity is often perceived to be the product of ethical leadership, strong compliance and effective regulations that prevent and sanction wrong-doing. While these elements are essential, e...
by Transparency International TI | On 13 Feb 2016 The purpose of this paper is to document the emergence and growth of FDI in health services, and to discuss its drivers, potential benefits and risks associated with this FDI, as well as policy issues...
by Zbigniew Zimny | On 13 Feb 2016 There is great regional variation on utilization of maternal health care services across India. While regional differences have long been established, why women in some states are more likely to utili...
by Sonalde Desai | On 12 Feb 2016 Accountability, transparency and the fight against corruption have been high on the policy agenda in the Middle East and North Africa. Transparency International, as part of a shared endeavour by civi...
by Transparency International TI | On 12 Feb 2016 The 2010 Corruption Perceptions Index draws on different assessments and business opinion surveys carried out by independent and reputable institutions. It captures information about the administrativ...
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 This report highlights that free trade can benefit the poor of Asia-Pacific if countries adopt bold new policies that harness trade and economic growth to promote people’s well-being. It also highligh...
by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) | On 12 Feb 2016 In an environment of increasing importance of South–South bilateral trade partnerships, we assess the potential for improving bilateral trade between India and five Central Asian countries in this pap...
by Pradeep Agrawal | On 11 Feb 2016 Foreign direct investment (FDI) is a powerful instrument for growth and development, and is key to enhancing prosperity worldwide and boosting the global economy. Building on its previous work on the...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 11 Feb 2016 The Global Gender Gap Index seeks to measure one important aspect of gender equality: the relative gaps between women and men, across a large set of countries and across the four key areas of health,...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | 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 This report looks at what a new energy architecture might look like and how best-in-class enabling environments have already helped some high-ranking countries begin their transitions to more efficien...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 11 Feb 2016 The global economy is growing at an unprecedented pace, bringing large swathe’s of the world’s population out of poverty. But this is not without its challenges. New Growth Models takes a closer look...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 11 Feb 2016 This report was commissioned to examine a range of economic, political and developmental issues connected with the use and expansion of computer software in countries of the South. In particular, it e...
by | On 10 Feb 2016 The possibility for developing WTO Members to suspend concessions in the field of trade-related intellectual property rights (TRIPS) to redress an injury suffered with respect to trade in goods or ser...
by | On 10 Feb 2016 This paper finds that PTAs are clearly drivers of significant IP reform in developing countries and that the implementation challenge for these countries is real and complex. The challenge does not on...
by | On 10 Feb 2016 Shared and widely distributed traditional knowledge, among communities and across national borders is often the norm rather than the exception. However, it remains an area for which policy and legal s...
by | On 10 Feb 2016 This is a report from Incomes Data Services (IDS) for the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) on the gender perspective of the ‘Decent Work’ agenda. Decent Work, Decent Life for Women is th...
by | On 10 Feb 2016 WageIndicator living wage introduces a concept that allows users and stakeholders through web interface to share and compare living wages across countries and regions using a methodology that accounts...
by | On 10 Feb 2016 An emerging sea power is usually considered as a critical variable to international power politics. China’s growing sea power in the 21st century is such an example. It has become increasingly importa...
by | On 09 Feb 2016 This paper addresses the question of whether it is possible to balance the need for a free flow of information across borders with legitimate government concerns related to public order, consumer priv...
by | On 08 Feb 2016 This paper assesses whether current trade regulatory frameworks, in particular WTO agreements, adequately support innovation as a policy objective in the context of the knowledge economy and the digit...
by | On 08 Feb 2016 This paper aims to provide a framework for those making and influencing policies to better understand and analyse how key trade policy issues and tools in fisheries relate to and impact on their susta...
by International Centre and Sustainable Development | On 08 Feb 2016 This issue paper – published in the context of the ICTSD project on Fisheries, International Trade and Sustainable Development – aims to contribute to debates to develop fisheries and trade policies a...
by | On 08 Feb 2016 This publication aims to provide a wide range of perspectives from various stakeholders on how trade policies and processes could contribute to advancing the objectives of sustainable land management...
by International Centre and Sustainable Development | On 08 Feb 2016 The purpose of this issue paper is to support public understanding of the possible environmental, trade and developmental implications of the WTO negotiations on Environmental Goods (EGs), in particul...
by | On 08 Feb 2016 FAO’s best-selling 2011 publication, Save and Grow, proposed a new paradigm of agriculture, one that is both highly productive and environmentally sustainable. This new book looks at the application o...
by Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO] | On 08 Feb 2016 Do leader networks promote efficient intergovernmental contracts? We examine a groundbreaking policy in China where subprovincial governments freely traded land conversion quotas and investigate the r...
by Nancy H. Chau | On 07 Feb 2016 This paper estimates the effect of local labor market conditions on crime in a developing country with high crime rates. Contrary to the previous literature, which has focused exclusively on developed...
by Rafael Dix-Carneiro | On 07 Feb 2016 The Promoting Revenue Transparency: 2011 Report on Oil and Gas Companies, published by Transparency International in partnership with Revenue Watch, rates 44 companies on their levels of transparency....
by Transparency International TI | On 07 Feb 2016 Employing the Annual Trade Policy issued each year by the Ministry of Commerce as a simplified case study, this paper examines the reasons for the ineffectiveness of this policy instrument and the inh...
by Mirza Qamar Baig | On 07 Feb 2016 Natural resources can bring considerable amounts of wealth to a country. But transparency must be present for these riches to benefit citizens. Strong disclosure policies on the part of companies help...
by Transparency International TI | On 07 Feb 2016 In this study the relationship between corporate governance and corporate valuation, ownership structure and need of external financing for the Karachi Stock Market is examined for the period 2003 to...
by Attiya Y. Javid | On 06 Feb 2016 While aid flows topped US$ 128 billion in 2010, they have not always been good at achieving results due to corruption and mismanagement that arise from low levels of transparency, accountability and i...
by Transparency International TI | On 06 Feb 2016 The objectives of climate change mitigation projects are undermined when they do not meet sustainable development criteria and transparency standards. In such cases, international mitigation mechanism...
by Transparency International TI | On 06 Feb 2016 This study analyses the transparency of corporate reporting on a range of anticorruption measures among the 105 largest publicly listed multinational companies. Together these companies are worth more...
by Transparency International TI | On 06 Feb 2016 The year 2015 signals the end date for development commitments that global leaders first made at the United Nations (UN) in 2000: the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). As the world looks beyond 201...
by Transparency International TI | On 06 Feb 2016 The study investigates the impact of changes in terms of trade in Pakistan on its income and consumption potentials, by employing two measures of terms of trade, namely, barter terms of trade and inco...
by Nishat Fatima | On 06 Feb 2016 This exercise is envisaged to provide a brief account of the research studies on inter-relationship between remittance inflows from abroad and the poverty levels obtained in the country. This is discu...
by Mohammad Irfan | On 06 Feb 2016 This research report tracks various aspects of poverty in Nepal across geographical areas and evaluates the rise of squatter settlements. It also looks at various dimensions of poverty, resilience for...
by Shivit Bakrania | On 05 Feb 2016 Transparency International conducted research into the public reporting practices of 100 emerging markets companies comprising a list of Global Challengers 2011. Based on the methodology of previous T...
by Transparency International TI | On 05 Feb 2016 Protecting Climate Finance: An Anti-corruption Assessment of the Climate Investment Funds is the second in a series of reports by Transparency International aimed at analysing the policies and practic...
by Transparency International TI | On 05 Feb 2016 Protecting Climate Finance: An Anti-corruption Assessment of the Global Environment Facility’s Least Developed Countries Fund and Special Climate Change Fund is the third in a series of reports by Tra...
by Transparency International TI | On 05 Feb 2016 The 2014 Cambodia NIS assessment reveals that overall Cambodia has a weak integrity system. It is not strong enough to uphold the rule of law, ensure sustainable development and a good quality of life...
by Transparency International TI | On 05 Feb 2016 The relationship between these groups needs to be defined in order for the organization to move forward. The need for this is evident from the standoff in the Doha Round negotiations, where China, Bra...
by | On 05 Feb 2016 This think piece discusses the role of standards in the WTO context, including their impact on innovation. It argues that the WTO concept of standards as captured in the Technical Barriers to Trade (T...
by | On 05 Feb 2016 The growing body of WTO jurisprudence can help facilitate rules-based negotiations as a way of avoiding formal litigation more than ever before, and developing countries are now in a position to reap...
by | On 05 Feb 2016 This piece explores how trade and trade policies have evolved over the last decade and considers the possible implications for the multilateral trading system. Since the Doha Round was launched, the i...
by | On 05 Feb 2016 This Transparency International report, Transparency in Corporate Reporting: Assessing the World’s Largest Companies, evaluates the transparency of corporate reporting by the world’s 124 largest publi...
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 Transparency International’s 2015 Progress Report is an independent assessment of the enforcement of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD’s) Anti-Bribery Convention. The...
by Transparency International | On 05 Feb 2016 The assessment of Bhutan's Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) represents the first time Transparency International has conducted an independent assessment of this sort. The tool will be applied to other...
by Transparency International | On 03 Feb 2016 This paper is an attempt to analyze the age-old phenomenon of leaks - the deliberate disclosure of secret information - and its relationship with the principle of transparency in a democracy. Secrets...
by | On 03 Feb 2016 Contrary to the assumption that the leaks of the diplomatic cables represented a heavy and unexpected pressure on American diplomacy - through their exposition of a mode of operation based on hypocris...
by Hichem Al-Karoui | On 03 Feb 2016 This study begins with an assessment of the years of US occupation in Iraq, focusing on its repercussions, explicating its outcomes, and exploring the horizons of political evolution in this country a...
by | 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 paper analyses country-specific and industry-specific determinants of intra-industry trade (IIT) between Pakistan and other SAARC countries using panel data techniques. This paper also disentangl...
by Adnan Akram | On 03 Feb 2016 This paper focuses on the Indian pre-crisis strategy of liberalization and integration into the world economy and its impact on labour market trends. It then examines the specific ways in which the cr...
by International Centre for Sustainable Trade and Development | On 03 Feb 2016 Attempts to explain why ending hunger has been so hard, so here the focus is on four main themes: the complex role of markets, the importance of government policies, the historical process of structur...
by C. Peter Timmer | On 03 Feb 2016 Syrian-Turkish relations represent a regional and international phenomenon that has attracted a considerable amount of political and media attention; however, research on the dynamics and wagers invol...
by Aqil Mahfoudh | On 02 Feb 2016 Based on expert opinion from around the world, the Corruption Perceptions Index measures the perceived levels of public sector corruption worldwide. Not one of the 168 countries assessed in the 2015 i...
by | On 02 Feb 2016 ‘Armed conflict’ is defined in this report as the use of armed violence to resolve local, national and/or international disputes between individuals and groups that have a political, economic, cultura...
by | On 02 Feb 2016 India’s engagement with Africa through trade, investment, aid and technological collaboration can support growth and structural transformation in African economies. This paper, which is part of a majo...
by Environmental Management & Policy Research Institute | On 02 Feb 2016 Investment incentives rank among the most important policy instruments governments employ to influence the locational decisions of multinational firms. In the wake of the recent increase in locational...
by International Centre for Sustainable Trade and Development | On 02 Feb 2016 This study presents industry-level evidence regarding the connection between
trade policy reforms and manufacturing performance. It contributes to the existing literature in several respects. The stu...
by Deb Kusum Das | On 02 Feb 2016 There is a renewed consensus on the need to re-regulate international capital movements. But there is a collective action problem, which puts developing countries at a particular disadvantage. Countri...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 It has become an article of faith in international trade negotiations that farmers in developing countries have much to gain from agricultural trade liberalization. This paper assesses the evidence fo...
by Timothy A. Wise | On 31 Jan 2016 The climate-smart agriculture (CSA) concept reflects the ambition to improve the integration of agriculture development and climate responsiveness. CSA aims to achieve food security and broader develo...
by World Bank [WB] | On 30 Jan 2016 caling-up renewable energy as a means to address climate change will require addressing impediments to the global diffusion of sustainable energy goods and services. Trade policy can contribute in thi...
by | On 30 Jan 2016 This paper focuses on liberalizing environmental goods (EGs) in the transport sector. The reduction or removal of trade restrictions affecting transport-related EGs supports the deployment of cl...
by | On 30 Jan 2016 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 Trade barriers are often opaque and difficult to compare. All too often, an exporter faces costs well in excess of a simple tariff when seeking entry to a market. However, to date, there exist few too...
by | On 30 Jan 2016 In the last decade, the commodity issues have re-emerged as central to development initiatives and poverty alleviation strategies. The objective of this Issue Paper by Charles Mather is to contribute...
by | On 30 Jan 2016 Early studies on the potential impacts of climate change indicated that agriculture was not likely to be severely affected, as carbon fertilization and trade flows were thought to be able to compensat...
by | On 30 Jan 2016 This paper assesses the likely implications for exporting and importing countries from a trade deal in cotton. The study estimates the price, production and trade effects of reforming cotton subsidies...
by | On 30 Jan 2016 Agricultural prices, along with the prices of primary commodities in general, have been both high and volatile over 2006-11. These developments impact the poor and other vulnerable non-farm households...
by | On 30 Jan 2016 Mutually agreeable solutions have yet to be found for moving the WTO’s stalled Doha Round forward. This collection of short essays aims to help in the search for consensus by providing brief but thoro...
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 Previous agricultural trade negotiations were conducted when global prices were lower. They focused on policies that artificially expanded supply in some countries, or reduced demand in other countrie...
by | On 30 Jan 2016 An increasing concentration of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the atmosphere is believed to be contributing to global warming. Agriculture is a significant contributor to GHG emissions through crop and an...
by | On 30 Jan 2016 This paper looks into the key issues concerning trade facilitation and SMEs, particularly how information technology related measures have influenced SMEs. India undertook focused and dedicated trade...
by Sachin Chaturvedi | On 30 Jan 2016 This paper dwells upon some of the conceptual issues pertaining to regional economic cooperation in general and specific to the South Asian region. It also documents the progress made in SAARC, the SA...
by Ram Upendra Das | On 30 Jan 2016 The paper looks into the recent experience in exports and imports of drugs and pharmaceutical products. It is found that there is a tremendous growth in the exports. The paper suggests the removal of...
by Reji K Joseph | On 30 Jan 2016 This paper discusses the emerging scenario in regional infrastructure development in South Asia, identifies the infrastructure challenges for the future, and provides some policy options in order to b...
by Prabir De | On 30 Jan 2016 The paper highlights the trend in bilateral trade between the two countries. It notes that barring setbacks in certain years, the bilateral trade between the two countries has been growing briskly. It...
by Indra Nath Mukherji | On 30 Jan 2016 It is argued in this paper that both the negotiations and the analytical literature pertaining to Rules of origin (ROO) display a lack of sound understanding of the implications of rules of origin. De...
by Ram Upendra Das | On 30 Jan 2016 The primary objective of this paper is to find whether or not the governance and institutions matter for enhancing Asia’s trade. In this study, we have performed a comprehensive empirical analysis of...
by Prabir De | On 30 Jan 2016 Trade liberalization and financial deepening have assumed greater significance for a country’s economic growth performance in recent times. This paper finds that trade openness and financial developme...
by Ram Upendra Das | On 30 Jan 2016 The paper tries to understand precisely how the food safety regulations applied by the industrialized countries have an effect on India’s export of processed food to these markets. It also examines th...
by Rajesh Mehta | On 30 Jan 2016 This study analyses the linkages between India’s services trade flow and its probable barriers. The results of the analysis show that the linkages between services export and services trade barriers a...
by Prabir De | On 30 Jan 2016 The ‘De-notified Tribes’ are those communities which were notified under the several versions of the Criminal Tribes Act (CTA) enforced during colonial rule in India between 1871 to 1947. After a sev...
by Praveenkumar Katarki | On 30 Jan 2016 Owing to a dearth of government data and research studies on the urban existence of Pardhis, one of the principal aims of this study was to render visibility to the issue.
by Paankhi Agrawal | On 30 Jan 2016 The present paper titled Public Expenditure, Employment and Poverty in Bangladesh An Empirical Analysis has been prepared under the CPD-UNDP collaboration programme on Pro-Poor Macroeconomic Policies...
by Centre for Policy Dialogue CPD | On 29 Jan 2016 The present paper titled Poverty-Environment Nexus: An Investigation of Linkage and Policy Implications has been prepared under the CPD-UNDP collaboration programme on Pro-Poor Macroeconomic Policies...
by Centre for Policy Dialogue CPD | On 29 Jan 2016 South Asia has attracted global attention because it has experienced rapid GDP growth over the last two decades. What is not so well known is that South Asia is the least integrated region in the worl...
by Ejaz Ghani | On 29 Jan 2016 Lower-middle-income countries (LMICs) are heterogeneous countries with various economic experiences. Many underwent different types of structural transformation from agriculture to manufacturing and s...
by | On 29 Jan 2016 Recent research suggests that trade and investment are closely linked as two-way economic complements. Trade liberalization facilitates investment, but even complete trade openness will not overcome a...
by | On 29 Jan 2016 One of the main aims of trade is to enable consumers to choose from a wider variety of goods at lower prices and firms to grow and create more jobs by becoming more productive and accessing larger mar...
by | On 29 Jan 2016 The use of subsidy instruments, broadly defined to include fiscal measures and investment incentives, has been a constant feature of government policy in both high-income and emerging economies. This...
by | On 29 Jan 2016 Trade ministers in Bali agreed an interim solution to the problem of food security and WTO domestic support disciplines, but also committed to begin discussions on a "permanent solution" once the mini...
by Alan Matthews | On 28 Jan 2016 Mountain communities in the developing world are often marginalised from political influence and economic opportunities and generally face high levels of poverty. The ecosystems they dwell in are amon...
by Mirjam Macchi | On 28 Jan 2016 The major trading nations have been busy with trade agreements—free, preferential, and bilateral—incorporating Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS)-plus and World Intellectual...
by | On 28 Jan 2016 The establishment of the WTO Agreement on TRIPS (Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) and the proliferation of plurilateral, bilateral and regional agreements have significantly cont...
by | On 28 Jan 2016 In the light of growing globalization and the significant increase in the number of investor-state disputes that has taken place over recent years, this paper proposes that it is time to establish an...
by | On 28 Jan 2016 Trade friction today is largely due to regulatory diversity as contemporary markets are chiefly segmented through non-tariff barriers. The purpose of the paper is to enquire into regulatory cooperatio...
by | On 28 Jan 2016 Available literature on regional trade integration in South Asia points to a variety of economic and non-economic factors that have slowed the integration process. The major non-economic factors inclu...
by South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics & Environment SAWTEE | On 28 Jan 2016 Over the past two decades, regional trade agreements (RTAs) have proliferated alongside the WTO system, involving a wide variety of agreements. In the absence of significant progress on the multilater...
by | On 28 Jan 2016 International investment needs are tremendous. This requires that the international investment regime constitutes a framework for increased flows of sustainable foreign direct investment for sustainab...
by | On 28 Jan 2016 This paper draws recommendations for transboundary and participatory biodiversity conservation from ICIMOD’s pioneering Kangchenjunga Conservation Landscape Initiative. The Kangchenjunga landscape, sh...
by Karma Phuntsho | On 28 Jan 2016 The last decade has witnessed remarkable developments in the digital economy, creating new opportunities for cross-border trade and investment and the ongoing emergence of novel and disruptive busines...
by | On 28 Jan 2016 Both academic and political debates over the minimum wage generally
focus on the minimum wage rate. However, the minimum wage is a
complex institution composed of a wide variety of parameters. In t...
by Vinish Kathuria | On 28 Jan 2016 Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) brings in uniformity in the standards of intellectual property rights among the member countries of the WTO irrespective of their developmental statu...
by N. Lalitha | On 28 Jan 2016 This paper attempts at critically examining various theoretical approaches concerning uneven development and regionalism. Major theories propounded by the neo-classical regional school, institutionali...
by Sudarshan Iyengar | On 28 Jan 2016 The central focus of this paper is to underscore emerging patterns and issues in the availability of and access to physical infrastructure in major Indian states during the two decades since the 1980s...
by Keshab Das | On 28 Jan 2016 Recent attention to Millennium Development Goals by the international development community has led to the formation of targets to measure country-level achievements, including achievements on health...
by Abdo Yazbeck | On 28 Jan 2016 This paper reviews the agricultural policy environment in Myanmar up until 2014 with an eye towards identifying policies that can help to accelerate productivity and profitability in the agricultural...
by Ulrike Nischan | On 28 Jan 2016 Standards and regulations have externalities for other governments, citizens, and economic actors. The vector for those externalities is international trade, which is the reason that trade agreements...
by | On 27 Jan 2016 A new generation of 'mega-regional' trade deals have the potential to reshape the landscape of global agricultural trade, by establishing new commitments on market access as well as new regulatory nor...
by | On 27 Jan 2016 The way the world trades has changed since the World Trade Organization (WTO) was established. Fewer goods and services originate from any one supplier or country. Components and intermediate services...
by | On 27 Jan 2016 Important synergies or complementarities exist between trade liberalization initiatives and the application of measures to suppress anti-competitive practices or arrangements. In fact, both anti-compe...
by | On 27 Jan 2016 With the challenges of access to energy, energy security, and the imperative of climate change becoming more pronounced in recent years, interest in clean energy has surged. Mitigation efforts to limi...
by | On 27 Jan 2016 The research study highlights the financial inclusion needs of cycle rickshaw pullers in India. These include access to service sectors; improvement of asset base; employment of their women; increase...
by | On 27 Jan 2016 New challenges are facing the global food and agriculture trading system in the 21st century. The present paper identifies options for how policies and international trade rules can respond to this ne...
by | On 27 Jan 2016 We estimate the effects of trade facilitation on the extensive margins of trade. Using OECD Trade Facilitation Indicators – which closely reflect the Trade Facilitation Agreement negotiated at the Bal...
by Robert Teh | 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 A growing literature suggests that high-income countries export high-quality goods. Two hypotheses may explain such specialization, with different implications for welfare, inequality, and trade polic...
by Roberta Piermartini | On 26 Jan 2016 To date, government procurement has been effectively carved out of the main multilateral rules of the WTO system. This paper examines the systemic and other ramifications of this exclusion, from both...
by Robert Anderson | On 26 Jan 2016 The paper, nonetheless, acknowledges that delivering these benefits would involve significant practical and political challenges. It concludes that if the challenges can be overcome and the mutual ben...
by Kodjo Osei-Lah | On 26 Jan 2016 The system of global agricultural and food trade is undergoing rapid processes of change, with important implications for economic development. In this paper we document and discuss these changes; inc...
by Johan Swinnen | On 26 Jan 2016 This paper analyses the role of services in international trade through the lens of global value chains (GVCs). Services account for more than 70% of world GDP but only for around 20% of world trade i...
by Rainer Lanz | On 26 Jan 2016 The WTO’s plurilateral Information Technology Agreement (ITA) reduced tariffs to zero on many IT products. This paper presents a comprehensive study of its trade impacts by incorporating recent insigh...
by Christian Henn | On 26 Jan 2016 While conditions in trade finance markets returned to normality in the main routes of trade, the structural difficulties of poor countries in accessing trade finance have not disappeared – and might h...
by Marc Auboin | On 26 Jan 2016 This paper studies the effects of trade policy uncertainty on the extensive and the intensive margins of trade for a sample of 149 exporters at the HS6 digit level. We measure trade policy uncertainty...
by Nadia Rocha | On 26 Jan 2016 While greater focus has been cast on analysis of policy changes affecting trade in goods in the aftermath of the financial crisis, little is known about the direction of policies affecting trade in se...
by Martin Roy | On 26 Jan 2016 This paper investigates whether TBT provisions included in RTAs differ from those under the WTO TBT Agreement, and, if they do, whether they entail broader commitments. Our analysis covers 238 RTAs, o...
by Vira Khoroshavina | On 26 Jan 2016 This paper examines empirically whether Aid for Trade (AfT) programmes and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows affect export upgrading and, if so, whether their effects are complementary or substi...
by Sèna Gnangnon | On 26 Jan 2016 This paper attempts to make contribution by providing an overview of services classification and highlighting its relevance to both trade negotiations and WTO dispute settlement. It consists of four s...
by Ruosi Zhang | On 26 Jan 2016 Harmonisation of intellectual property rights among the members of WTO has in the recent years seen informed debates on access to medicines. While the developing countries are lured to such agreements...
by Samira Guennif | On 26 Jan 2016 India's Sri Lanka policy since 1991 is one example of how India's foreign policy imperatives, redefined by the end of the Cold War and the introduction of liberal economic reforms, have impacted relat...
by | On 25 Jan 2016 The Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) between India and the Republic of Korea is the first such free trade agreement signed by India with an OECD country. It was signed in August 200...
by | On 25 Jan 2016 A thriving and open Internet provides the foundation for the fourth industrial revolution. There has been growing concern that the Internet may be in danger of splintering into a series of bordered cy...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 25 Jan 2016 Siddha system of medicine (SSM) focuses on addressing the root cause of the disease rather than treating the disease symptoms, and combinations of herbs, medicinal plants, animal and marine resources...
by N. Lalitha | On 25 Jan 2016 This paper uses the Malmquist Productivity Index (MPI) to estimate change in total factor productivity (TFP) and its constituent components for software companies in India during 1999–2008. On average...
by Nira Ramachandran | On 24 Jan 2016 This 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 paper states that the sheaf of trade- and investment-agreements that India and Bangladesh have now signed will open up opportunities for New Delhi to look at, and beyond, its near-East neighbour...
by | On 23 Jan 2016 Rice, a major staple crop for India and Bangladesh is important not only for ensuring food security, but also the livelihood security of large number of small and marginal farmers engaged in rice cult...
by Neha Jain | On 23 Jan 2016 The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) will have multiple impacts on India and South Asia, ranging from a short-term effect, such as the loss of preferential access for exports, to the longer-term impact...
by | On 23 Jan 2016 This Briefing Paper examines the linkages between climate change, food security and trade in South Asia. Studies suggest that in Asia the heat stress due to climate change will reduce crop yields in t...
by Ram Jha | On 23 Jan 2016 The paper examines the output elasticity of infrastructure for four South Asian countries viz., India,Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka using Pedroni’s panel cointegration technique for the period 19...
by Ranjan Kumar Dash | On 23 Jan 2016 In the backdrop of rise in Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) in developing countries, particularly after the global financial and economic crisis, Bangladesh is still ambivalent in setting its strategies r...
by Khondaker Moazzem | On 23 Jan 2016 A number of studies have indicated that trade liberalisation did not have any significant impact on poverty reduction although the impact on employment generation had been positive (e.g. Raihan 2007)....
by Mehruna Chowdhury | On 23 Jan 2016 The jute manufacturing sector of Bangladesh has recently started to revitalise with the rise in global demand for jute goods, thanks to the environment-friendly nature of jute, and the price hike of p...
by Khondaker Moazzem | 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 Information and communications technology (ICT)-based reforms are increasingly being used to improve the delivery of public services. The main question which the research reported here addressed is th...
by Anuradha Joshi | On 23 Jan 2016 Rising powers such as Brazil, India and China have been criticised for being obstructive in the negotiations on the post-2015 development agenda. The start of the United Nations (UN) negotiations saw...
by Institute of Development Studies IDS | On 23 Jan 2016 An econometric analysis of the impact of import liberalization on price-cost margins in Indian industries in the post-reform period is carried out using firm-level data for eight manufacturing industr...
by Bishwanath Goldar | On 22 Jan 2016 Consolidates information on fisheries and aquaculture using a regional lens and analytical tools. Cover the Coral Triangle countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Island...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 22 Jan 2016 While Indonesia's rank in overall ease of doing business improved in 2015 according to World Bank's worldwide competitiveness ranking, overall ease of doing business still ranks unfavorably compared t...
by | On 22 Jan 2016 The paper focuses to reduce hunger and increase food and income security of resource poor farm families in South Asia through the development and inclusive adoption of new cereal varieties, sustainabl...
by | On 22 Jan 2016 World trade has experienced a significant slowdown since the 2008 financial crisis. Over this period, the global ratio of trade expansion to income growth has halved. An effective global trade and inv...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 22 Jan 2016 The paper analyzes strategic trade policy for differentiated network goods oligopolies under alternative scenarios, when there is export-rivalry between two countries. We show that, under price compet...
by Anomita Ghosh | On 22 Jan 2016 In the fiscal year 2011–12, under-recoveries1 incurred by Indian oil-marketing companies for diesel rose to an all-time high of INR81,192 crore (US$15 billion) (Government of India, 2012a). Diesel con...
by Gayatri Khedkar | On 21 Jan 2016 The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement was signed on 5 October 2015 by the US and 11 countries in the Asia- Pacific. The writers of the TPP expect the agreement to result in the dynamic evoluti...
by Geethanjali Nataraj | On 21 Jan 2016 This Study surveys the progress that APEC has made towards promoting regional economic cooperation and integration. It examines the desirability of India joining APEC and looks at possible benefits an...
by V. S. Seshadri | On 21 Jan 2016 Very recent years India has witnessed wide-ranging economic reforms in her policies governing international trade and FDI flows. As per the findings of the paper, some of the important determinants of...
by Ram Upendra Das | On 21 Jan 2016 The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) has emerged as a major regional initiative for trade and investment liberalisation and towards enhancing competitiveness of the twelve participant countries drawn f...
by V. S. Seshadri | On 21 Jan 2016 The paper highlights the economics of IIT in the context of FTAs in a manner not explored before, by building on the new trade theories. The paper demonstrates both theoretically and empirically, with...
by Ram Upendra Das | On 21 Jan 2016 Accepting that virtually any policy can have some impact on the movement of people, one can also recognize that a series of policies exist that have been developed specifically to deal with migration...
by | On 20 Jan 2016 This book collects the findings of a group of scientists and economists who have taken stock of climate change impacts on food and agriculture at global and regional levels over the past two decades....
by Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO] | On 20 Jan 2016 The Standing Committee on Human Resource Development is currently examining the subject 'Role
of Private Sector in Higher Education'. In this context, an analysis of the role of the
private sector...
by Apoorva Shankar | On 20 Jan 2016 This collaborative working paper, and the shorter technical briefing note derived from it, discuss hidden dimensions of urban poverty, and the different ways in which they impact men and women. This g...
by | On 19 Jan 2016 This paper reviews current impact assessment methods and builds on Amartya Sen’s framework of comprehensive and culmination outcomes to identify elements of a comprehensive framework that enables a sy...
by | On 19 Jan 2016 The recent success of India and Bangladesh in settling the complicated issue of political enclaves in each other’s territories could be traced to the spirit displayed by the leaders of the two countri...
by | On 18 Jan 2016 This paper identifies the ingredients for what it calls “light-handed” industrial policy to address these obstacles. To a certain extent, emerging market hosts can carry out the policy interventions r...
by Theodore H Moran | On 15 Jan 2016 Regional integration efforts have intensified at varying levels over the years to implement the regional integration initiatives of ASEAN, ASEAN+3 and ASEAN+6. Current efforts are still not enough to...
by OECD Development Centre | On 13 Jan 2016 Discrimination against women and girls carries a high development cost. This third edition of the SIGI captures and measures gender-based discrimination in social institutions- social norms, practices...
by OECD Development Centre | 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 conclusion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations has major implications for India, which is aspiring for a larger role in the regional architecture of the Asia-Pacific. India will ha...
by Amitendu Palit | On 10 Jan 2016 The Least Developed Countries Report 2004 assesses the relationship between international trade and poverty within the LDCs, and identifies national and international policies that can make trade a mo...
by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNCTAD | On 09 Jan 2016 The Trade and Development Report 2007, subtitled "Regional cooperation for development", recommends that developing countries should strengthen regional cooperation with other developing countries, bu...
by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNCTAD | On 09 Jan 2016 The least developed countries (LDCs) are a group of countries that have been classified by the United Nations as least developed in terms of their low gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, weak hum...
by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNCTAD | On 09 Jan 2016 The latest ruling by the Supreme Court of India against the government’s project of the National Judicial Appointments Commission has further stirred a public discourse on the best means to have the b...
by Vinod Rai | On 09 Jan 2016 The Trade and Development Report 2010 focuses on the need to make employment creation a priority in economic policy. Unemployment is the most pressing social and economic problem of our time, not leas...
by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNCTAD | On 09 Jan 2016 The paper explains the indignities and deeply-held attitudes that stigmatize those who deal with waste, garbage and human excreta in India. It outlines how such attitudes make the goals of the ‘Swachh...
by | On 09 Jan 2016 The Trade and Development Report (TDR) 2012 reviews recent trends in the global economy and explores the links between income distribution, growth and development. Global output growth is slowing down...
by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNCTAD | On 09 Jan 2016 Five years after the onset of the global financial crisis the world economy remains in a state of disarray, with global output growing at around 2 per cent and global trade growth virtually grounding...
by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNCTAD | On 09 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 The Trade and Development Report 2014: Global Governance and Policy Space for Development examines recent trends in the global economy, with a focus on growth, trade and commodity prices.The Report hi...
by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNCTAD | On 09 Jan 2016 The paper analyses the select Communiqués and Declarations pertaining to social sectors issued from time to time. In this context, it evaluates the status and performance of social development in each...
by | On 09 Jan 2016 India’s current trade negotiations have three agreements as top priorities. Two of these the India ASEAN services agreement and the bilateral trade and investment agreement with the European Union (EU...
by Laldinkima Sailo | On 09 Jan 2016 India and China, viewing themselves as key players within the BRICS which they see in a worldwide perspective, had in fact made two different global commitments on the eve of this Brisbane G20 summit....
by P S Suryanarayana | On 09 Jan 2016 The paper focuses on India’s approach to collaboration on Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief with major powers and within various regional initiatives. This paper begins with a brief review o...
by C. Raja Mohan | On 09 Jan 2016 The South China Sea (SCS) disputes are regarded as one of the most difficult regional conflicts in the Asia-Pacific, in an ‘arena of escalating contention. This paper looks at India’s interests and st...
by Rajeev Ranjan Chaturvedy | On 09 Jan 2016 This paper looks at the ‘BCIM Regional Cooperation’ and the related proposal to revive the ‘Southern Silk Route’ connecting China and India through Bangladesh and Myanmar. The aim is to understand the...
by | On 09 Jan 2016 This paper discusses revival of the Maritime Silk Road. It begins with a narration of the historical background of MSR, its origin and development, followed by an analysis of latest announcements by t...
by | On 09 Jan 2016 This work examines the influence of reforms in the 1990s regarding the agricultural development in India. Many studies have analysed the impact of these reforms but most of them focused on foreign tra...
by Marion Künzler | On 08 Jan 2016 The general objective of this study is to analyse the urban poverty issue from the livelihood and vulnerability perspective in Jagritinagar squatter settlement of Kathmandu Metropolitan City. The spec...
by Rajip Adhikari | On 08 Jan 2016 Understanding the demographic changes that are likely to unfold over the coming years, as well as the challenges and opportunities that they present for achieving sustainable development, is important...
by United Nations (UN) | On 08 Jan 2016 The formation of regional production networks in East Asia has occurred mainly through market forces, without much help from regional institutions in promoting the creation of a single Asian market. W...
by Masahiro Kawai | On 07 Jan 2016 Trade integration and free trade agreement (FTA)-led cooperation between Asia and Latin America has increased since the early 2000s. Using new criteria, this paper examines whether Asia-Latin America...
by Ganeshan Wignaraja | On 07 Jan 2016 Cross-border production networks have been playing an increasingly important role in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries’ trade in recent years, but micro-level studies are ra...
by Ganeshan Wignaraja | On 07 Jan 2016 International trade is redefined today in terms of trade in value added and global value chains. Most countries trade both in finished goods as well as intermediates. India, a less talked about countr...
by | On 07 Jan 2016 Infrastructure connectivity in Northeast Asia — comprising the northeastern People’s Republic of China, Japan, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the Republic of Korea, Mongolia, and the Russi...
by Masahiro Kawai | On 07 Jan 2016 This paper investigates and analyzes the present status, potential, and prospects of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) free trade agreements (FTAs). The move towards the ASEAN Economic Co...
by Suthiphand Chirathivat | On 07 Jan 2016 As cross-border movements of goods, capital, and labor are intensifying, it is likely that goods markets in East Asia will become increasingly integrated. This study investigates the current state of...
by Woosik Moon | On 07 Jan 2016 The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement seems to have reached a crossroads: it could either be a building block toward achieving economic integration in Asia and the Pacific, or trigger the form...
by Inkyo Cheong | On 07 Jan 2016 Motivated by the proliferation of free trade agreements (FTAs) in Asia over the last decade, this paper studies the challenges faced by the Asian “noodle bowl” — overlapping, multiple trade rules, reg...
by Richard Baldwin | On 07 Jan 2016 This paper analyzes the current status of fisheries and aquaculture in Southeast Asia and international trade. Analysis concludes that a policy of sustainable management for both capture fisheries and...
by Masayuki Komatsu | On 07 Jan 2016 The paper looks at some issue-based plurilateral agreements — such as the Information Technology Agreement (ITA), the Financial Services and Basic Telecommunication Services Agreements, and the Anti-C...
by Michitaka Nakatomi | On 07 Jan 2016 This paper undertakes a comparative and firm-level analysis of the impact of regional trade agreements (RTAs) in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. It finds that firm-heterogeneity matters in RT...
by Ganeshan Wignaraja | On 07 Jan 2016 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 covers threes issues: first, defining and measuring inclusive growth; second, the relationship between international trade and inequality; and third, the links between infrastructure and in...
by Juzhong Zhuang | On 07 Jan 2016 The evidence that antibiotic use in agriculture creates a pool of resistant bacteria in farm animals is not in dispute. The key questions relate to the magnitude of the risk to human health, and the p...
by | On 06 Jan 2016 Water samples were collected from groundwater sources used by the communities residing in several settlements around the UCIL factory. These sources included handpumps, tubewells and one open well. A...
by | On 06 Jan 2016 This paper explores the long-term challenges for trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The region has emerged as an important production base...
by Masahiro Kawai | On 06 Jan 2016 As the program on Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC) continues to grow, through this comprehensive study, IDCR analyzes the evolution of ITEC, and its impact on India’s bilateral relatio...
by Centre for Policy Research (CPR) | On 05 Jan 2016 The processes of informal or soft regionalism driving China’s engagement with the regional and global economy are resulting in nuanced understandings of state, security and the conduct of internationa...
by Nimmi Kurian | On 05 Jan 2016 In order to understand the current state of land dispute conciliation in Vietnam and to attempt to identify routes for improvement, The Asia Foundation, in partnership with the Australian Department o...
by The Asia Foundation | On 02 Jan 2016 One of the most important ways in which several of the common developmental challenges in South Asia could be addressed is by focusing on manufacturing. This paper highlights insights from the status...
by Ram Das | On 02 Jan 2016 This study examines the overall trade pattern of Nepal by using pooled ordinary least square (OLS) along with theone-year lag gross domestic product (GDP). It has also attempted to find the structural...
by | On 01 Jan 2016 In the field of international trade, an economy is assumed to be reeling under the 'BLACK HOLE EFFECT' of another economy, if all the major variables of international trade, irrespective of in which c...
by | On 01 Jan 2016 Global capital flows into emerging markets, including those in Asia, continue to be volatile, generating both benefits and costs. The latter are associated with episodes of currency and banking crises...
by Ramón López | On 01 Jan 2016 This paper examines the economic and trade effects of infrastructure in Asia. Infrastructure plays a key role in facilitating trade, especially since recent trade liberalization in Asia has resulted i...
by Jamilah Mahyideen | On 01 Jan 2016 With many environmental assets, and industrial pressure only beginning to develop, Myanmar could effectively form policies and regulations that ensure sustainable growth and conservation of key natura...
by Sakiko Tanaka | On 01 Jan 2016 This paper explores how inflows of low-skilled immigrants impact the tradeoffs women face when making joint fertility and labor supply decisions. I find increases in fertility and decreases in labor f...
by Delia Furtado | On 30 Dec 2015 This paper argues that calls for a New Bretton Woods system in the aftermath of the global economic crisis — similar to the remarkable 1944 Bretton Woods conference that led to the establishment of va...
by Pradumna Rana | On 30 Dec 2015 Infrastructure plays a key role in facilitating trade, especially since recent trade liberalization in Asia has resulted in significant tariff reductions. This study quantifies the impacts of both har...
by Jamilah Mahyideen | On 29 Dec 2015 The present report presents an overview of some recent trends and future challenges regarding the deepening of the social dimensions of regional integration, in light of the Recommendations of the Rep...
by | On 29 Dec 2015 In Bangladesh, pourashavas are an alternative destination to large cities. With the influx of urban residents within the next decades, governments and development partners must lead pourashavas toward...
by Norio Saito | On 29 Dec 2015 This paper aims to provide a non-technical explanation of the concept of trade in value added, with particular reference to East Asia. The trade in value added approach allows us to redefine the relat...
by Satoshi Inomata | On 29 Dec 2015 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 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 The India–Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement has been in operation for more than a decade. The paper provides the Sri Lankan perspective of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) highlighting both the positive ou...
by Saman Kelegama | On 29 Dec 2015 Improving physical connectivity between South and Southeast Asia has long been recognized as a key element in promoting greater trade and investment linkages within the region. As an island economy, S...
by Dushni Weerakoon | On 29 Dec 2015 This paper discusses trade facilitation in the context of enhancing trading links between South and Southeast Asia, in a manner understandable to the non-specialist. Presently, these two Asian regions...
by Anthony Bayley | On 29 Dec 2015 The paper estimates the potential gains to be large, particularly for South Asia, assuming that the policy- and infrastructure-related variables that increase trade costs are reduced via economic coop...
by Fan Zhai | On 29 Dec 2015 With closer regional integration there is increasing interest within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and on the part of ASEAN's dialogue partners in the potential gains of closer co...
by Termsak Chalermpalanupap | On 29 Dec 2015 During 2012-2013, the UN Women Independent Evaluation Office undertook a corporate thematic evaluation of the UN Women contribution to preventing violence against women (VAW) and expanding access to r...
by UN Women | On 28 Dec 2015 Findings from The Asia Foundation's eighth survey in Afghanistan - the broadest public opinion poll in the country of 6,290 Afghan citizens across all 34 provinces.
by Palwasha Kakar | On 26 Dec 2015 This study examines the relationship between firm characteristics and borrowing from commercial banks by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the People's Republic of China (PRC) and five Sout...
by Ganeshan Wignaraja | On 24 Dec 2015 This paper examines the gains for South Asian economies from integratingwith East Asia and India’s role in this process. Evidence of increased pan-Asian integration exists but the process is uneven. B...
by Ganeshan Wignaraja | On 24 Dec 2015 Economic integration is being inhibited by the poor state of transport connectivity between Bangladesh, and South Asia and Southeast Asia. This study reviews connectivity initiatives of Bangladesh and...
by Mustafizur Rahman | On 23 Dec 2015 Right to Information Assessment and Advocacy Group (RaaG) came into existence, in 2008 when a group of RTI activists, researchers and academics got together to create a group dedicated to the ongoing...
by | On 23 Dec 2015 New powers, such as China, India and Brazil, are challenging the traditional dominance of the US in the governance of the global economy. It is generally taken for granted that the rise of new powers...
by Kristen Hopewell | On 23 Dec 2015 The objective of this report is to share a market level overview of the early stage progress of MFS in Bangladesh up through the first quarter of 2012. With this goal in mind Bangladesh...
by Bangladesh Bank | On 22 Dec 2015 It has become clear that as governments pursue trade facilitation, those that take a “horizontal” approach achieve the most success. This approach involves identifying industries with the highest pote...
by | On 22 Dec 2015 It is recognized that there are close links between sport and politics, and in particular between sport and national consciousness. The Olympic Games and the football, rugby and cricket World Cups hav...
by | On 22 Dec 2015 The imperatives for Thailand’s investment in the Northeast have come from two important considerations, reflecting longterm strategic objectives of the Look West Policy of Thailand. First, India’s nor...
by | On 22 Dec 2015 This paper first describes Mizoram’s Burmese population and its integration in Mizo society. It then examines border trade and its implications, with a particular focus on Aizawl’s central market, Bar...
by Julien Levesque | On 22 Dec 2015 This report takes a novel approach to enhance the understanding of natural resource availability over a 20-year time frame. It combines an analysis of the important factors of supply and demand at a g...
by | On 21 Dec 2015 The focus is on South Asia and the starting point of inquiry is on 33 projects that illustrate the roles and forms of NGO and CBO engagement in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. The rep...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 21 Dec 2015 The World Trade Organization (WTO) is in trouble. Its negotiating mechanism has mostly seized up, as reflected in the failure to conclude the long-running Doha Round. No obvious solution to this conun...
by | On 21 Dec 2015 The Global Information Technology Report provides a comprehensive assessment of networked readiness, or how prepared an economy is to apply the benefits of information and communications technologies...
by | On 21 Dec 2015 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 project will study and document these barriers in a carefully chosen sample. Privately-managed higher education institutions have been chosen for the study. This will include a study of the three...
by Parth Shah | On 18 Dec 2015 This note focus on some aspects relating to China’s currency. The paper discusses the twin surpluses which have been continuing in China’s external payments, especially in relation to trade which went...
by Sunanda Sen | On 18 Dec 2015 The paper focuses on eight selected major manufactured export sectors for undertaking detailed study, six of which are also India's largest manufactured import sectors. After analysing India's current...
by Smitha Francis | On 18 Dec 2015 India's Sri Lanka policy has built upon economic engagement to cooperate on initiatives of strategic importance. The lesson one can learn from this is the potential of economic linkages to overcome a...
by | On 18 Dec 2015 The paper tries to explain the imposition of sanctions by the UNSC on Iran and North Korea and the absence of UNSC sanctions on India and Pakistan. Although there are aspects in the sanctions on Iran...
by | On 17 Dec 2015 The mushrooms of Himachal Pradesh should be established 'As a
quality produce of India' in foreign markets to exploit present declining
trend of mushroom production in many producing countries. In a...
by Ministry of Agriculture GOI | On 17 Dec 2015 In recent years, domestic revenue mobilisation in developing countries gained increasing prominence in the policy debate. Several factors explain this, including the potential benefits of taxation for...
by Mick Moore | On 16 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 This paper assesses the achievements and challenges of the World Trade Organization- (WTO) led Aid for Trade Initiative. After listing the achievements, the paper asks what the emphasis of the Initiat...
by | On 16 Dec 2015 This paper places the bio-genetic industry within the larger political economic framework of globalisation and privatisation, thus employing a framework that is often omitted from discussions on ARTs,...
by Sarojini Nadimpally | On 16 Dec 2015 Worldwide, food safety incidents can have a significant impact on public health, economies, agrifood trade, food security, and public confidence in the food supply. The prevention, mitigation, and man...
by | On 15 Dec 2015 There are a wide range of agriculture-based practices and technologies that have the potential to increase food production and the adaptive capacity of the food production system, as well as reduce em...
by | On 09 Dec 2015 We use a natural experiment in Indonesia to provide causal evidence on the role of location-specific human capital and skill transferability in shaping the spatial distribution of productivity. From 1...
by Samuel Bazzi | On 08 Dec 2015 This paper analyses the trends and patterns of economic inequality across Indian states since the early 1990s. The inter-state inequality in per capita income and consumption expenditure show a clear...
by | On 04 Dec 2015 This paper is a literature review that emphasizes institutional analyses of trade law, and explores some of the linkages with the development literature. The paper contends that the development of tra...
by | On 02 Dec 2015 This paper surveys the voluminous literature on migration affecting trade and the somewhat less developed literature linking aid flows to migration. It aims to guide the reader through the two literat...
by | On 27 Nov 2015 LPG and Superior Kerosene Oil (SKO), are not only important sources of fuel, but also commodities whose price is subsidized to benefit the people of Bhutan. Therefore, it is important to ensure smooth...
by National Council Economic Affairs Committee | On 27 Nov 2015 While a good deal has been written and said about the threat posed by terrorism in Southeast Asia, there has been little work analyzing the impact of terrorism and the war on terror on Asian regional...
by Amitav Acharya | On 22 Nov 2015 Tracking the the Indian Railways is as much an exercise in history as it is an excursion into the political and social debates of the period that determined the fate of a nation.
This is the first i...
by Anuradha Kumar | On 21 Nov 2015 A Bill further to amend the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 and the National Green Tribunal Act, 2010. This Act may be called the Environment Law (Amendment) Act, 2015. It is a draft of the propose...
by Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Chang GOI | On 20 Nov 2015 This paper makes the case that the growth trajectory of the Indian economy in the post-1991 liberalization period is characterised by an inherent source of instability in manufacturing and industrial...
by | On 20 Nov 2015 This study aims to examine how ‘open’ Indian states are with respect to international trade and uses the index of regional openness thus constructed to reflect on several aspects that affect the level...
by | On 19 Nov 2015 The paper argues for a regular public reporting of key performance indicators by the WatSan utilities in India. It elaborates on how the policy behind these reforms could be operationalized.
by Premila Nazareth Satyanand | On 18 Nov 2015 This Population Bulletin updates a previous Bulletin from 2006, India's Population Reality: Reconciling Change and Tradition. India's population (currently at 1.3 billion) will exceed China's before 2...
by O.P. Sharma | On 18 Nov 2015 This report attempts to compare the latest medium-term projections for wheat, rice, coarse grains, oilseeds, vegetable oils and sugar made by four international institutions (OECD/FAO, USDA, FAPRI, an...
by National Council of Applied Economic Research | On 18 Nov 2015 The report maps the workforce participation and aspirations of young women and girls from low income groups in and around four metropolitan cities of India and determines the barriers they face in rea...
by | On 13 Nov 2015 The objective of this paper is to examine the nature and magnitude of the effects of infrastructure provision on regional economic performance. The empirical evidence of the analysis is based on diffe...
by Naoyuki Yoshino | On 13 Nov 2015 The aim of this review is to assess the ways in which Decent Work Country Programmes (DWCPs) address the issue of internal migration, and to evaluate the extent to which this discussion is related to...
by | On 06 Nov 2015 This paper primarily aims to capture the changing patterns of consumption expenditure of three broad classes, namely, the ‘upper’ ‘middle’ and ‘bottom’ classes in the rural and urban India. In contras...
by | On 05 Nov 2015 This paper examines evidence on the advantages and limitations of participatory governance. The study compares theoretical predictions with the experience of South Africa, where policy-making fora ope...
by | On 04 Nov 2015 Current status of the urban co-operative banking in India, how it reached there, what recent initiatives the Reserve Bank has taken to strengthen the
sector and what is the way forward. [Speech deliv...
by R. Gandhi | On 04 Nov 2015 Given the importance of securing women’s rights to land as India grows and develops and recognizing the dearth of available data to guide the design of gender-sensitive interventions, this study provi...
by | On 04 Nov 2015 Water, sanitation and hygiene services are central to addressing poverty, livelihoods and health. They are also critical in addressing the needs of poor communities and in achieving the Millennium Dev...
by M.V. Ramachandrudu | On 29 Oct 2015 It is evident that the poor, especially women and children are highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change because of their limited adaptive capacity. In such circumstances, BRAC Disaster, Envi...
by Tahera Akter | On 26 Oct 2015 This paper documents the pervasiveness of women’s lack of income security in old age across a large number of countries, but also points to a number of important policy measures that can be taken to a...
by | On 20 Oct 2015 This paper analyses the potential implications of mandated CSR under the recently enacted Companies Act, 2013 in India on firm incentives, likely responses of corporates that come under the ambit of t...
by Jayati Sarkar | On 19 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 Narendra Modi is the first PM after Indira Gandhi with the power and possibly the intention to change the Indian system.
by T.N. Ninan | On 16 Oct 2015 Globalized production networks, or global value chains, provide an opportunity for small and medium enterprises to upscale their business models and to grow across borders, though with global opportun...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 16 Oct 2015 As the Indian Ocean region increasingly becomes a more important geopolitical space, global powers and smaller states are laying down their stakes. This paper examines the military build-up of major I...
by | On 15 Oct 2015 This paper formulates an analytical framework to assess the impacts of India's Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) on commodity value chains. This paper views such methodology as reductionist, and instead of...
by | On 15 Oct 2015 Indian governments follow highly interventionist policies on food grains, especially rice and wheat. These policies include import and export controls which insulate the domestic market from world mar...
by Garry Pursell | On 14 Oct 2015 A bill to provide for adequate protection of the interests of consumers and for prevention of unfair trade practices and for the said purposes to make provisions for establishment of the Consumer Prot...
by Lok Sabha Secretariat | On 13 Oct 2015 This paper deals with issues related to employment and income (decent work) that arise through the integration of Indian production into global value chains. The sectors looked into are labour-intensi...
by | On 12 Oct 2015 Based on a newly-developed data set combining information on industrial relations and labour law, various dimensions of globalization, and controls for demand and supply of skilled labour, this paper...
by | On 12 Oct 2015 The term “East-West divide” as a way of describing regional disparity in Bangladesh has emerged in the policy discourse only in the 2000s. The administrative divisions belonging to the western part of...
by | On 08 Oct 2015 This report presents the Hunger And Nutrition Commitment Index (HANCI) 2014. It seeks to: 1. Rank governments on their political commitment to tackling hunger and undernutrition; 2. Measure what gover...
by | On 01 Oct 2015 The paper discusses India’s rapid services-led growth has always seemed rather fortuitous and unsustainable. For, both historical experience and economic reasoning lead us to expect growth at India’s...
by | On 01 Oct 2015 This report presents the Hunger And Nutrition Commitment Index (HANCI) 2014. It seeks to: Rank governments on their political commitment to tackling hunger and undernutrition; Measure what governments...
by Rajith Lakshman | On 30 Sep 2015 This paper examines the relationship between gender inequality and food security, with a particular focus on women as food producers, consumers, and family food managers. The discussion is set against...
by Bina Agarwal | On 29 Sep 2015 This study uses panel data for 39 years and 13 districts to estimate the yield sensitivity of major food crops to climate change in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It first estimated the margina...
by V. Saravanakumar | On 25 Sep 2015 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 Planning and Design for Sustainable Urban Mobility argues that the development of sustainable urban transport systems requires a conceptual leap. The purpose 'transportation' and 'mobility' is to gain...
by UN-HABITAT | On 25 Sep 2015 This paper discusses the manner in which the rural poor in one of India’s most impoverished regions engage with and in politics by analyzing the way in which a landless Yadav couple tries to forestall...
by Indrajit Roy | On 24 Sep 2015 This paper, seeks to understand why firms in the garment and textile sector choose to comply with or ignore Pakistan’s environmental regulations and effluent standards. Based on survey of 60 firms, it...
by Ghulam Samad | On 23 Sep 2015 The report provides a comprehensive review of all existing trade agreements that include social provisions and discusses impacts for enterprises and workers.It also helps assess the challenges for ari...
by International Labour Organiztion [ILO] | On 23 Sep 2015 The Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act 2005, an inheritance law that covers 83.6% of the population of India, corrected some of fundamental inequalities in the law bringing the women in equal status to...
by Sohini Pal | On 23 Sep 2015 Is democracy in Bangladesh on a reverse course? Is there a culture of intolerance being engendered by deliberate design? Will creeping extremisms create an inevitable schism within the nation? The pap...
by | On 23 Sep 2015 Much has been said about the opportunities for economic and employment growth arising from India’s demographic dividend, with Modi’s “Make In India” programme taking centre stage in the discussion. Ho...
by Rahul Advani | On 23 Sep 2015 This report from the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Geo-economics maps out the challenges that current geo-economic trends pose for globalisation. Findings show that the rise in strat...
by | On 22 Sep 2015 The growing frequency of urban disasters and the lessons learned from mega-events such as the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti have spurred the development of human rights gu...
by Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre | On 22 Sep 2015 Although India’s plans for market reforms and opening up agriculture with earnest optimism and anticipation, every step on the way was laced with caution and deliberation and every action was weighed...
by Nilabja Ghosh | On 21 Sep 2015 This planning commission report on Food Security deals with the changing consumption pattern for food in India and reviews some studies on demand and supply projections for cereals in India. It also e...
by Planning Commission | On 21 Sep 2015 This paper discusses the different agreements and
decisions reached in the Bali Ministerial Conference and the potential implications for the post-Bali work
program. The results of the Bali Minister...
by Eugenio Díaz Bonilla | On 16 Sep 2015 This 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 Steel is a basic input for the entire engineering industry (cars, household goods, machinery of all kinds), and for the infrastructure sector (roads, railways, power, real estate, etc). Raise the cost...
by T.N. Ninan | On 12 Sep 2015 The possibility of developing regional production networks in specific sectors
between nations of South Asia has been explored in this paper. The case
of the leather and leather goods cluster in T...
by Keshab Das | On 11 Sep 2015 The benefits of strengthening physical connectivity in a geographically contiguous region are increasingly being recognised. These links are expected to increase economic activity and people-to-people...
by Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury | On 07 Sep 2015 This paper provides an analysis of financial development and inclusion in developing Asia using data from a wide array of sources. In terms of aggregate measures of financial development, the region a...
by | On 07 Sep 2015 The study tries to evaluate the impact of recent crisis episodes viz. the global recession of 2008-09 and the Eurozone debt crisis of 2010-122
on the Emerging Market Economies (EMEs) of China and Ind...
by Pami Dua | On 03 Sep 2015 This paper explores the dynamics of economic growth, poverty, inequality and migration in Thailand, and evaluates the relevance of Lewis model to Thailand’s long-term development. Thai economy seems t...
by Somchai Jitsuchon | On 03 Sep 2015 This report highlights deficiencies in the Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) undertaken by Vedanta Resources Plc for its proposed bauxite mine in Niyamgiri, Orissa, its alumina refinery in Lanji...
by Amnesty International AI, | On 31 Aug 2015 The Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 (GBD 2013) aims to bring together all available epidemiological data using a coherent measurement framework, standardised estimation methods, and transparent da...
by | On 29 Aug 2015 Social scientists theorize that the inverse relationship between socio-economic status and family size represents a trade-off between the quality and quantity of children. Evaluating this hypothesis e...
by Susan Averett | On 26 Aug 2015 Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Central Asia has witnessed repeated efforts to strengthen regional integration through cooperation with the establishment of a number of regional organizations...
by Johannes F. Linn | On 25 Aug 2015 the paper provides an overview of the growth and status of Indian tea plantation sector delineating the trends
in economic performance in the global context in a historic perspective. It then examine...
by Viswanathan P K | On 25 Aug 2015 The paper highlights that performance assessments should account for non-linear dynamics of progress, whereby an improvement at a higher level represents greater achievement than an equal improvement...
by William Joe | On 21 Aug 2015 This study aims to help identify how a future multilateral agreement on agricultural trade can provide a secure framework within which developing countries can pursue effective policies to ensure thei...
by Stephen Devereux | On 21 Aug 2015 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 paper provides an assessment of the state of scholarly and policy debates on migrant entrepreneurs in development. They are often described as super-entrepreneurs who contribute to development th...
by | On 20 Aug 2015 This paper examines the role of national and sub-national institutions in managing carbon sequestration and trade in Nepal. It first asks whether it is feasible and advantageous to implement REDD+ in...
by Bishnu Prasad Sharma | On 20 Aug 2015 The paper analyses the potential opportunities between Bangladesh and Myanmar stemming from sub-regional cooperation. The paper examines Myanmar’s integration into the regional and global economy toge...
by Debapriya Bhattacharya | On 18 Aug 2015 This publication attempts to study major concepts of WTO and present some perspectives on Nepal’s membership in this rule based global trading organization. The chapters presents an introduction with...
by Nepal Rastra Bank NRB | On 17 Aug 2015 A review is done to understand if criminalising cheque bounce cases has been an effective remedy. The penalties imposed in other countries against cheque bounce offenders is studied and an analysis of...
by Centre for Civil Society CCS | On 14 Aug 2015 Against the post-New Industrial Policy (1991) growth witnessed in large-scale industries, a corresponding boom in the small and mid-sized domestic industry has been conspicuously absent. The paper see...
by Amit Chandra | On 13 Aug 2015 This paper advocates for the use of one such alternative: the measurement of ‘subjective’ resilience at the household level. The concept of subjective resilience stems from the premise that people hav...
by Thomas Tanner | On 12 Aug 2015 There may not be a single standard approach to developing the ICT-BPO sector, the successful experiences of developing countries can provide useful insights and practical lessons for countries contemp...
by Fatima Lourdes E. Del Prado | On 12 Aug 2015 Through a case study of Mumbai city and LC resettlement colony, this paper highlights the tribulations of the poor in urban space. The experiences of recurring and multiple marginalities and vulnerabi...
by Manish K Jha | On 11 Aug 2015 This working paper embodies the results of trade and transport facilitation audit which was carried out in the Bangladesh context, as part of a South Asian regional study.The study documents the major...
by Naimul Saif | On 11 Aug 2015 This paper forms part of a comparative research project that has the objective of demonstrating that gender equality and social dialogue are mutually beneficial fundamental values and crosscutting iss...
by R Madhav | On 11 Aug 2015 IMF in its World Economic Outlook (WEO) released in April 2015 has projected global growth for 2015 and 2016 to be at 3.5% and 3.8% respectively, a 0.1% increase for 2016 projection from the January 2...
by Ministry of Commerce and Industry Government of India | On 10 Aug 2015 Asian Societies with linguistic diversity have faced serious problems of loss or decline of vernacular and indigenous languages in modern times. Globalisation and urbanisation have brought a sea chang...
by P. Ishwara Bhat | On 10 Aug 2015 This project aims to assess the impact of IPR rules on economic growth (including investment), environmental protection (including biodiversity) and social goals (including rural development). There w...
by IPDEV . | On 06 Aug 2015 Recognizing the need to formulate policy strategies for the changes it faces, Myanmar started a multifaceted reform process in 2011. But speeding up development requires a multipronged but more cohere...
by | On 04 Aug 2015 Education is a basic human right and considered by many as a key tool for national development. However, this tenet has been challenged by several economists, especially Pritchett (1996). His empirica...
by Gazi Mahabubul Alam | On 03 Aug 2015 The report looks beyond the proclamations and communiqués to assess what has really changed since the crisis erupted. While not exhaustive, the report looks at: Overseas Development Assistance, both i...
by | On 30 Jul 2015 This paper aims to provide APEC members with evidence-based guidance on the implementation of the APEC mandate. Theoretically, this approach addresses the free-rider problem. Free riders are countries...
by | On 28 Jul 2015 This paper captures the policy processes leading to the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (RFCTLARR) Ordinance, 2014. It maps the role an...
by G. Raghuram | On 28 Jul 2015 China and India have approached trade negotiations very differently: the former with confidence, the latter in a defensive crouch.
by T.N. Ninan | On 25 Jul 2015 During the last two decades international trade in healthcare services has expanded under the GATS. Increasingly it has acquired new dimensions with application of advanced information and communicati...
by T.P. Bhat | On 23 Jul 2015 An Ordinance further to amend the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013. This ordinance, 2015 incorporates the amendments made by t...
by Ministry of Law and Justice GOI | On 21 Jul 2015 This Bill amends the principal Act passed in 2013. The Bill enables the government to exempt five categories of projects from the requirements of social impact assessment, restrictions on acquisition...
by Ministry of Law and Justice GOI | On 21 Jul 2015 This is a Bill to further amend the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013. The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land...
by Ministry of Law and Justice GOI | On 21 Jul 2015 Financial sector’s primary role is intermediation between ultimate savers and ultimate investors. Initially, it was banks which were the intermediaries. As the financial sector evolved, other types of...
by R. Gandhi | On 21 Jul 2015 The Philippines has been more cautious in its policy toward free trade agreements (FTAs) than other ASEAN member-states, having signed, so far, only one bilateral agreement with Japan in addition to t...
by Rafaelita M. Aldaba | On 20 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 After following inward oriented economic policies for nearly four decades, India opened up to international trade in the early 1990s. Since then, the trade integration of the Indian economy in general...
by Pankaj Vashisht | On 16 Jul 2015 This paper seeks to examine this Act and its implication for manufacturing employment in India. While empirical evidence seems to indicate the presence of large number of ‘contract’ workers in the Ind...
by Deb Kusum Das | On 13 Jul 2015 The processes followed in estimating and adjudicating damage in arriving at the recent settlement in the five-year old BP oil well disaster are an object lesson in what should have happened in the cas...
by Sathinath Sarangi | On 12 Jul 2015 In an era where development issues concerning human security, health, and the environment transcend national boundaries, international cooperation has become more crucial than ever. This issue of the...
by Atty. Raphael Lotilla | On 10 Jul 2015 The Government of Nepal officially launched a Post-Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA) to determine the impacts of the devastating earthquake on April 25, 2015 and a series of aftershocks since, includin...
by National planning commission Government of Nepal | On 07 Jul 2015 Increasing women`s economic participation is not yet universally accepted despite three decades of global advocacy; and women empowerment and gender equality are still a work in progress. A mechanism...
by Lucita Lazo | On 26 Jun 2015 In the context of increasing contribution of developing countries in world trade, an important question is whether trade can be used as an instrument to stimulate higher participation of women in the...
by Purna Banerjee | On 25 Jun 2015 This paper attempts to capture how India embraced the world
economy against the backdrop of the evolving domestic and international economic policy environment. It began with a brief overview of the...
by | 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 present Report offers suggestions for the consideration of the Government of India, based on the UN Millennium Goals for Poverty Eradication, as well as on the principle that trade should strength...
by | On 17 Jun 2015 Will those who promote ayurvedic products that have iron as a standard ingredient, get the same treatment as Maggi noodles, or benefit from benign neglect?
by T.N. Ninan | On 15 Jun 2015 This economic outlook by NCAER, analyses expected growth, inflation, balance of payments, fiscal balances, savings and investment trends, and covers the state of important sectors of the economy, inc...
by National Council of Applied Economic Research | On 15 Jun 2015 Indigestible noodle soup.
by S Srinivasan | On 15 Jun 2015 Attempts have been made to arrive at a comprehensive settlement of the land boundary between India and Bangladesh (the erstwhile East Pakistan) since 1947. The Nehru-Noon agreement of 1958 and the agr...
by Ministry of External Affairs, GoI MEA | On 07 Jun 2015 The draft Land Acquisition and Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, which was introduced in the Lok Sabha on September 7, 2011 is one of the most important legislations waiting for Parliamentary appr...
by Niranjan Sahoo | On 05 Jun 2015 The Maggie noodles episode makes a case for fine-tuning food-related regulations
by Padma Prakash | On 05 Jun 2015 The recent developments in the area of payment systems in India is highlighted. There are some issues and challenges that are likely to assume importance in the foreseeable future and the way forwar...
by S.S. Mundra | On 04 Jun 2015 Like hazardous waste, the problem of e-waste has become an immediate and long term concern as its unregulated accumulation and recycling can lead to major environmental problems endangering human heal...
by Rajya Sabha | On 04 Jun 2015 An extended Nominal Rate of Assistance (NRA) methodology is used to disentangle the welfare impacts of policies for various interest groups along the value chain (to disaggregate effects within the “p...
by Elena Briones Alonso | On 02 Jun 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 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 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 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 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 This Bill is further amendment to the constitution on levy and collection of goods and service tax and trade in India. It provides the parliament with exclusive powers to make laws with respect to goo...
by Ministry of Finance | On 19 May 2015 This paper reviews the replacement of the state sales taxes by the Value Added Tax in 2005 marked a significant step forward in the reform of domestic trade taxes in India. Implemented under the leade...
by | On 19 May 2015 Standing Committee on Coal and Steel present this Thirty-Seventh Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on "The Coal Mines (Conservation & Development) Amendment Bill, 2012" relating to the Ministry of Coal. Th...
by Lok Sabha Secretariat | On 14 May 2015 The Act provides for amendments in Trade Union Act, 1926. The amendments relate to payment of a minimum subscription by members, employment and conditions of unorganised workers.
by Ministry of Labour and Employment GoI | On 13 May 2015 This year the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will formally establish the ASEAN Community, which is set to enhance regional community building among its member states. Ramses Amer makes...
by | On 13 May 2015 This study has taken up two seemingly different but connected aspects of Indian agriculture, the first part dealing with the analysis of agricultural instability at the national and state levels and t...
by Ramesh Chand | On 13 May 2015 The purpose of the study is to extend the period of analysis of the impact of new seed fertiliser technology from 1990-93 to 2003-06. A special significance to economic reforms in India in 1991 is giv...
by Gurmail Singh | On 12 May 2015 Standing Committee on Labour (2014-15) present this Third Report on `The Factories (Amendment) Bill, 2014’ relating to the Ministry of Labour and Employment. The Factories Act enables labour administr...
by Lok Sabha Secretariat | On 11 May 2015 This report of government details on challenges in agriculture sector. There is a need to address these issues as India faces a greater challenge, since with only 2.3% share in world’s total land area...
by Ministry of Agriculture GOI | On 07 May 2015 Despite armed internal conflict and the global financial crisis, Sri Lanka has made remarkable progress in recent years, enjoying healthy economic growth and substantially reducing poverty. Moreover,...
by Halil Dundar | On 07 May 2015 This paper is divided into two broad sections. The first section deals with the Brahmaputra Valley in Assam (north east India) and its transformation into a frontier in the nineteenth century. The sec...
by Manjeet Baruah | On 05 May 2015 This report presents the information on nutritional intake by the Indian population. Among the different nutrients only three nutrients – viz, calorie, protein and fat – are discussed in this report....
by National Sample Survey Office NSSO | On 05 May 2015 It has been a decade since the outbreak of one of Asia’s most serious insurgencies, the conflict between Malay Muslims and the Thai state in Southern Thailand. Often ignored and unremarked upon by the...
by Duncan McCargo | On 30 Apr 2015 Displacement is by no means a new phenomenon in South Asia.
As they emerged as independent states, at least half of the South
Asian countries experienced mass displacement. In Bangladesh it
is esti...
by | On 28 Apr 2015 This reports reflects development in the fields of population, Human development index, labour and houses, employment, prices, agriculture, industry.
by Environmental Management & Policy Research Institute | On 24 Apr 2015 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 This paper discusses the problems with the much revised and much delayed Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, and how they may be addressed. A democratization of the land acquisitio...
by Prasenjit Bose | On 24 Apr 2015 This is an an ordinance further to amend the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013.
by Ministry of Law and Justice GOI | On 17 Apr 2015 This policy review looks at four types of Internet traffic management policies across the globe: legal regulation, transparency, non-neutrality, and government control. Each of these has been employed...
by Christine Stover | On 16 Apr 2015 This article details three key policy issues that have a profound effect on the future of the World Wide Web and Internet-based communications: net neutrality, corporate data mining, and government su...
by Heidi A. McKee | On 15 Apr 2015 The new five year foreign trade policy, 2015-2020 provides a framework for increasing exports of goods and services as well as generation of employment and increasing value addition in the country. Th...
by Ministry of Commerce and Industry GOI | On 02 Apr 2015 The paper empirically maps the annual distribution commitment (61.43 MMTs) of the government with the procurement pattern of rice and wheat, for each quarter, to estimate the quarterly operational sto...
by Shweta Saini | On 01 Apr 2015 A comprehensive overview of a few empirical studies is presented that have explored the issue of Trilemma in the Indian context. Based on these studies an analysis is done on how have Indian policy ma...
by Satish Y Deodhar | On 30 Mar 2015 An ordinance to amend the right to fair compensation and transparency in land acquisition, rehabilitation and resettlement (amendment) ordinance, 2014.
by Ministry of Law and Justice GOI | On 26 Mar 2015 This document studies the Trade Policies and Institutions of BRICS, India and BRICS: issues of trade and technology; and examines the scope for deepening cooperation in services among BRICS members. T...
by | On 24 Mar 2015 The study attempted to analyse the long-term effects of the FTA on India. It is argued that after full trade liberalization, India’s allocative efficiency will increase, but the terms of trade effect...
by | On 23 Mar 2015 The present study examines the issues and propositions outlined above by analyzing the growth and structure of manufacturing industry in different states of India, in a comparative framework. It attem...
by T.S. Papola | On 19 Mar 2015 The present policy initiative by the Government of India may be seen in the light of IP concerns and complaints have been hurled at India by
key intellectual property exporters, given pro-consumer ve...
by | 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 publication captures the core of ADB's operations in India and showcases select ADB interventions that are helping the government achieve its development goals.
ADB supports the Government of I...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 17 Mar 2015 The paper provides the Sri Lankan perspective of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) highlighting both the positive outcomes and the negative aspects. The paper shows that the FTA has worked in favor of Sr...
by Saman Kelegama | On 16 Mar 2015 This FAQ is intended to be a ready reckoner for trade and industry including their associations and bodies; students of international trade, academicians, trade researchers etc for understanding the s...
by | On 16 Mar 2015 This paper argues that that per capita income in all states in India increased in the past four decades but in fact no sign of convergence could be visible as it was expected in the context of liberal...
by | On 13 Mar 2015 This report covers the judicial use of the death penalty for the period January to December 2012. Amnesty International records figures on the use of the death penalty based on the best available info...
by Amnesty International AI, | On 13 Mar 2015 Territorial disputes between China and Japan over the
Senkaku/Diaoyu islands in the East China Sea and between Japan and
South Korea over the Takeshima/Dokdo islands in the Sea of Japan have,
parti...
by | On 12 Mar 2015 Research findings point to the need for focusing on gender equality in education and the need for a multi-level approach addressing barriers
at the individual, community, school and policy levels if...
by | On 11 Mar 2015 The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement
(Amendment) Bill, 2015 was introduced in Lok Sabha on February 24, 2015 to replace an Ordinance. T...
by PRS Legislative Research | On 11 Mar 2015 The purpose of this primer is to assist newly elected Rajya Sabha MPs in navigating the Rules of Procedure of the Rajya Sabha. It has been organised in a manner that highlights the opportunities for p...
by | On 10 Mar 2015 The Act aims to ensure a humane, participative, informed and transparent process for Land acquisition, industrialisation, development of essential infrastructural facilities and urbanisation with leas...
by | On 09 Mar 2015 State of the Economy - an overview
Public Finance
monetary management and financial intermediation
External Sector
Price, Agriculture and Food Management
Industrial, Corporate and Infrastructur...
by Ministry of Finance | On 28 Feb 2015 This paper explores the need for a Pre-Budget Statement, sub-national transparency and civil society participation to make the budgetary process in India more transparent, accountable and participator...
by Ravi Duggal | On 20 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 Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services levels remain stubbornly low in rural India despite high levels of public expenditure during recent decades. In many areas, this is a result of service le...
by V Ratna Reddy | On 18 Feb 2015 The report reviews existing agricultural marketing system. It deals with improving efficiency and reducing transaction cost in Agricultural Marketing by strengthening the physical markets, encouraging...
by Planning Commission | On 11 Feb 2015 This working paper explores key issues in the new Land Acquisition Rehabilitation and Resettlement (LARR) Bill’s attempt at ‘balance’ within the larger political context of land acquisition in India....
by Amlanjyoti Goswami | On 09 Feb 2015 A preliminary analysis of the spatial determinants of firms’ export activities by Indian states has been undertaken in this study. Thus, the present study attempts to fill the gap by focusing on issue...
by Jaya Prakash Pradhan | On 06 Feb 2015 Rural Electronic Government (e-government) projects are aimed at providing government services and information to rural public. The e-government initiatives have not been very successful in developing...
by | On 04 Feb 2015 This report outlines the wide-ranging risks investors and companies face from water scarcity and how global climate change will heighten those risks in many parts of the world. The report makes clear...
by | On 04 Feb 2015 Developing countries do not come with a clear plan or proactive position to climate change negotiations, whereas industrialised nations do - to erase their contribution to the emissions already presen...
by Sunita Narain | On 22 Jan 2015 This paper discusses the impact of WTO commitments on changes in MFN applied tariffs, isolating pure trade policy changes from any other change in the level of protection due to market conditions by f...
by Valeria Groppo | On 22 Jan 2015 The lecture focuses on the continuing relevance of the founding principles of the School, viz., academic freedom, academic excellence, social commitment with technical competence.
by C.H. Hanumantha Rao | On 21 Jan 2015 This paper attempts to study the factors holding back the growth of output and employment in this manufacturing sector. The creation of a large number of industrial jobs made possible by the rapid gro...
by Radhicka Kapoor | On 15 Jan 2015 The report argues the recent setback in global economy and ways to strengthen the growth in developing countries. with a view to undertake growth and recovery in high-income countries, there is need t...
by World Bank | On 14 Jan 2015 This paper attempts to assess the impact of trade liberalization on growth, poverty, and food security in India with the help of a national level computable general equilibrium (CGE) model. It shows t...
by | On 29 Dec 2014 This paper attempts to evaluate the possible gains and losses arising from the gradual opening up of pharmaceutical trade between India and Pakistan. The comparative advantages of both countries at a...
by Vaqar Ahmed | On 22 Dec 2014 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 The President of India signed a revised set of labour laws from Rajasthan into state law. The Rajasthan government has revised the Factories Act, the Industrial Disputes Act and the Contract Labour Ac...
by K.R. Shyam Sundar | On 02 Dec 2014 The exploitation of one human being by another is the basest crime. And yet trafficking in persons remains all too common, with all too few consequences for the perpetrators. Trafficking happens every...
by United Nations Drugs and Crime | On 26 Nov 2014 This is the second edition of the Global Slavery Index (‘the Index’) which provides estimates the number of people in modern slavery in 167 countries. The Index estimates there are 35.8 million people...
by Walk Free Foundation | On 18 Nov 2014 This paper uses the data envelopment analysis (DEA) based Malmquist productivity index to estimate total factor productivity growth (TFPG), technical change, and efficiency change for a panel of firms...
by Saon Ray | On 18 Nov 2014 In the post-reform period no opportunity has been missed out by the employers, the critics of labour regulation and the government in describing the labour laws in denouncing manner, viz. archaic, num...
by K.R. Shyam Sundar | On 28 Oct 2014 This paper furnishes robust evidence that the WTO has had a strong positive impact on trade, amounting to about 120% of additional world trade (or US$ 8 trillion in 2000 alone). The impact has, howeve...
by Arvind Subramanian | On 22 Oct 2014 Two aspects of global imbalances - undervalued exchange rates and sovereign wealth funds - require a multilateral response. This paper proposes new rules in the World Trade Organization to discipline...
by Prachi Mishra | On 22 Oct 2014 The World Trade Report 2014 looks at how four recent major economic trends have changed how developing countries can use trade to facilitate their development. These trends are the economic rise of de...
by World Trade Organisation WTO | On 21 Oct 2014 In this book, Arvind Subramanian presents the following possibilities: What if, contrary to common belief, China's economic dominance is a present-day reality rather than a faraway possibility? What i...
by Arvind Subramanian | On 20 Oct 2014 International negotiations on climate change have been dogged by mutual accusations between industrialized and developing countries, shrinking global carbon budget and change in power relations as a r...
by Aaditya Mattoo | On 20 Oct 2014 The tension between trade and climate change has arisen in part because of the assumption that climate change action (e.g., carbon price increases) can be taken as a given. The question that many pape...
by Aaditya Mattoo | On 20 Oct 2014 Implications of industrial deregulations, trade liberalisation and labour regulations on workers' bargaining power and firms' markup in Indian manufacturing industries is examined, using state-wise th...
by Rupayan Pal | On 29 Sep 2014 Using the case study of Indonesian women migrating as domestic workers to Singapore, this paper draws on a quantitative survey and qualitative in-depth interviews to examine the migration trajectories...
by Maria Platt | On 24 Sep 2014 Environmentalists are rightly alarmed that the NDA government is busy dismantling the environmental regulatory system in the country. Over the past two months, the media has reported that clearances f...
by Sunita Narain | On 22 Sep 2014 Accountability is broadly defined as the obligation of those holding power to take responsibility for their behaviour and actions. Essentially the term encapsulates three main elements; answerability...
by Gayatri Sahgal | On 16 Sep 2014 Inter-state diversity has been a perennial feature of Indian agriculture. The study probes if per capita income in Indian agriculture has converged across states in the last four and a half decades. I...
by Tirtha Chaterjee | On 06 Sep 2014 South and Southeast Asian economic integration via increased trade flows has been increasing significantly over the past 2 decades, but the level of trade continues to be relatively low. This under pe...
by Ganeshan Wignaraja | On 22 Aug 2014 Science has traditionally been a male preserve. Socio-religious prejudices kept science education out of bounds for vast majority of women in India. Even today underrepresentation of women in science...
by Paromita Ghosh | On 29 Jul 2014 The objectives, content, pedagogy and assessment of science education at various stages are examined.
by National Council of Educational Research &Training NCERT | On 25 Jul 2014 Given the commonalities in terms of history, culture, languages and trade complementarity in many cases, the Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar (BCIM) Corridor is a win-win arrangement. The linkages of tr...
by Pravakar Sahoo | On 15 Jul 2014 This report covers education from primary through upper secondary school.
Given its importance for school readiness, this report also reviews early childhood
development even though that is outside...
by Halil Dundar | On 11 Jul 2014 Governments’ budgets are fundamentally about people’s human rights. Budgets are the central means by which governments can help realize their people’s access to quality education, decent health care s...
by International Budget Partnership IBP | On 10 Jul 2014 Since the 1970s in particular, the countries of Western Asia and those of the Asia-Pacific region have been closely linked to each other through highly extensive movements of people. Opportunities cre...
by United Nations Economic and Social Commission (UNESCAP) | On 17 Jun 2014 To study the various definitions of a child as highlighted under the Constitution as well as under various other legislations and compare the various objectives which led to the differential criteria...
by Mubashshir Sarshar | On 09 Jun 2014 Incidence of child labour is a disturbing feature of an emerging market econ¬omy. In the present article, the authors try to explore whether globalization policies, namely, agricultural trade liberali...
by Rakhi Banerjee | On 09 Jun 2014 Most of the trade between South Asia and Southeast Asia is by sea. However, with improved infrastructure and easier border crossing procedures, land traffic could grow to boost trade in goods, service...
by Jean-Francois Gautrin Gautrin | On 02 Jun 2014 This paper examines how prices, markups and marginal costs respond to trade liberalization. Multi-product firms are used in the study. [BREAD WP No. 418].
by Jan De Loecker | On 02 Jun 2014 This issue of Global Employment Trends for Youth provides an update on youth labour markets around the world, focusing both on the continuing labour market crisis and on structural issues in youth lab...
by International Labour Organisation ILO | On 30 May 2014 With an urbanization level of 31.16 percent in 2011, India is the least urbanized country among the top
10 economies of the world. In addition, unlike other countries, the transition of workforce out...
by Ajay Sharma | On 26 May 2014 This paper highlights the trends of industrial unrest in India, and their frequency in the post-liberalisation period. It plots a chart of the instances of union unrests and links it to the various in...
by All India Employers | On 23 May 2014 This paper examines the role of organised labour in India in a structural and historical context. It attempts to trace the economic, political and social effects of the trade union movement and its st...
by Debashish Bhattacharjee | On 23 May 2014 The dynamics of the market post liberalization of the Indian economy in the 1990s have permeated both, the urban middle class and rural households, setting a trend of negotiation with the ‘exotic fore...
by Shweta Ghosh | On 13 May 2014 This report, Market Survey of Reusable and Recycled e-products looks at how e-Waste is a source of raw material which can and should be put back into manufacturing. More so, the life of components /eq...
by Environmental Management & Policy Research Institute | On 12 May 2014 During the last six decades or so Indian agriculture has made remarkable progress with food grain production growing five fold from about 50 MMT in 1950 to more than 250 MMT in 2012. Despite the incre...
by Anwarul Hoda | On 29 Apr 2014 Political parties and elections lie at the center of modern democratic politics. Elections function as the chief means of holding leaders accountable for their actions in democratic societies. Politic...
by Erik Kuhonta | On 28 Apr 2014 The recent global food crisis can be seen as a wake-up call which can be turned into an opportunity by developing countries and the international community to revitalize global agriculture producti...
by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development | On 22 Apr 2014 This report highlights the way in which poverty and a?uence intersect with age-old divisions of regional inequalities, gender, caste, and religion that have long structured human development in India....
by Sonalde Desai | On 17 Apr 2014 The study seeks to understand women’s land rights by documenting how women acquire land, their feelings about tenure security to that land, exploring their knowledge of their land rights, and the exte...
by UN Women | On 14 Mar 2014 Liberalisation of trade in environmental goods and services (EGS) has become a key issue at the complex and rapidly developing trade and environment interface. The World Trade Organisation (WTO) at it...
by Vijaya Katti | On 12 Mar 2014 This paper makes an attempt to quantify the trade barriers operating in Indian industry in order to understand whether protection levels actually decrease following trade liberalization. In particular...
by DEB DAS | On 11 Mar 2014 The informal manufacturing sector (IMS) in India has been a major part of the economy. Whether its growth is due to entry of people in distress, or whether it is a vibrant and growth oriented sector i...
by Dipa Mukherjee | On 10 Mar 2014 This paper compares alternative ways of measuring participation of a country in Global Value Chains (GVCs) and estimates distribution of gains between countries in terms of Countries' shares in total...
by Rashmi Banga | On 10 Mar 2014 Global trade in goods and services, which today amounts to more than $20 trillion, includes a significant amount of double counting. Raw material extracted in one country may be exported first to a se...
by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development | On 10 Mar 2014 This study discusses in depth the youth unemployment "problem" in India and the reasons behind it. Despite its demographic dividend and increased literacy levels, India faces youth unemployment as a...
by Pravin Sinha | On 08 Feb 2014 This paper attempts to shift the focus from ‘women’ to the significance of the
gender equation by assessing the intensity of gender disparity across geographic space,
and enquiring into the reasons...
by Nira Ramachandran | On 04 Feb 2014 This paper investigates the determinants of spatial concentration and entry within manufacturing
across states in India. Using an unbalanced panel of 180 industries spread across 16 major Indian
sta...
by Ana M. Fernandes | On 30 Jan 2014 This report first briefly delves into the historical context within which India's development cooperation must be seen and the role, objectives and the functioning of the DPA is explained. The report...
by Vivan Sharan | On 21 Jan 2014 In many ways, India is kindred with its two neighbors, Bangladesh and Nepal. Whether it is in geography I or demographics, infrastructure or economic issues, or poverty and human development, these th...
by Jayshree Sengupta | On 21 Jan 2014 We analyze the relationship between food security and trade, focusing on food importers’ exposure to sudden market failures from relying on a narrow range of
international suppliers. We compute a bil...
by Douglas H. Brooks | On 20 Jan 2014 We conduct an empirical analysis on the impact of the United States (US) antidumping actions against the People’s Republic of China (PRC) on the bilateral trade and US imports from other trade partner...
by Minsoo Lee | On 20 Jan 2014 This article systematically compares maritime territorial disputes in the East and South China Seas. It draws on the bargaining model of war and hegemonic stability theory to track the record of confl...
by Andy Yee | On 02 Jan 2014 This policy note offers a preliminary assessment of the compatibility between the WTO and efforts to protect the human right to adequate food as part of the post-crisis food security agenda. Existing...
by Olivier Schutter | On 02 Dec 2013 This study examines time use data for 1244 children in the age-group 6-12 years in 274
villages in eight states in rural north India to understand the tradeoffs between time spent
in school, time sp...
by Sudha Narayanan | On 02 Dec 2013 ASEAN, for China, is the focal point for Chinese diplomacy with Southeast Asian countries. Beyond ASEAN, China’s overall relations with Russia, Central Asia and most South Asian countries are relative...
by Chaobing Qiu | On 29 Nov 2013 The paper addresses the migration-development debate by developing a framework for understanding
who are the migrants, what they are sending back, and how these transfers are being utilised in the lo...
by Puja Guha | On 28 Nov 2013 The existing literature on Indian growth finds no evidence of convergence across
states. This represents a puzzle given the relatively free flows of capital, labor and
commodities across state borde...
by Samarjit Das | On 27 Nov 2013 This working paper provides an overview of migration policy analysis in academic and policy (‘grey’) literature for Southeast Asia, as well as a brief outline of the current migration policy environme...
by Maureen Hickey | On 27 Nov 2013 Global risks would meet with global responses in an ideal world, but the reality is that countries and their communities are on the frontline when it comes to systemic shocks and catastrophic events....
by World Economic Forum WEF | On 22 Nov 2013 The continued difficulties of the World Trade Organization to achieve further multilateral trade liberalization in the Doha Round negotiations have raised questions about its continued relevance. This...
by Biswajit Dhar | On 19 Nov 2013 Ganges is one of the important rivers of South Asia. It is a trans-boundary river between India and Bangladesh. Some rivers, originating in the Tibetan Autonomous region of the People's Republic of Ch...
by Dwarika Dhungel | On 15 Nov 2013 The paper calls the attention of policymakers to address critical constraints affecting the effective utilization of free trade agreements, growth, trade facilitation and customs administration, servi...
by Gilberto M. Llanto | On 15 Nov 2013 Countries in Southeast Asia face a fresh challenge to their food security as food consumption patterns change, and reliance on imports increases to meet such shifts. Consequently, they may be left wit...
by Belinda Chng | On 01 Nov 2013 This paper introduces habit formation into an otherwise standard model of international
trade. The liberalization of internal agriculture trade in India will generate short-run caloric losses unless...
by David Atkin | On 23 Oct 2013 A study middleman margins, trading mechanisms and the role of asymmetric information about prices between potato farmers and local trade intermediaries, in West Bengal,
India is conducted. Farmers in...
by Sandip Mitra | On 23 Oct 2013 This study is an attempt to examine the decentralized production of supplementary nutrition which has been instituted for the Integrated Child Development Services in
urban Maharashtra, specifically,...
by Natasha S. K. | On 04 Oct 2013 This study examines the differences between two major Mid-day Meal implementation models: the decentralized model where food is cooked and served within the schools premises, and the centralized model...
by Shankar Priya | On 01 Oct 2013 A large-scale randomized experiment was conducted in the Philippines testing the impact of unilaterally facilitating international labor migration. [BREAD Working Paper No. 396].
by Emily Beam | On 03 Sep 2013 The focus of this document is to explain basic hospital ,police and justice systems procedures so that individuals providing support and care are aware of the rights of survivors vis a vis law enfo...
by ... CEHAT | On 31 Aug 2013 This paper considers the welfare and distributional
consequences of higher relative food prices in rural India
through the lens of a specific-factors, general equilibrium, trade model applied at the...
by Hanan G Jacoby | On 22 Aug 2013 Obituary: Veena Mazumdar (1927-2013)
by Vibhuti Patel | On 31 Jul 2013 The international trade in Afghan drugs is one of the most significant transnational threats emanating from Central Asia.
Exacerbated by weak border management, corruption, and lack of income-generat...
by Lars-Erik Lundin | On 26 Jul 2013 Labour regulations like employment protection legislation in India are size-dependent rules and
therefore constitute a basis for threshold effects. Firms could use non-permanent workers to stay below...
by K.V. Ramaswamy | On 23 Jul 2013 The performance of Indian States are analyzed across three critical sectors –
health, education and infrastructure are analyzed. An index is constructed for each using the Principal Component
Analys...
by Pranjul Bhandari | On 10 Jun 2013 Addressing gender gaps is a major development objective anywhere in the world. This paper aims to illustrate that this is far more critical in the presence of another social layer –disability. Among p...
by Christian Mina | On 24 May 2013 This brief explores circular migration in India and the policy response, and impact of this
policy response, on the welfare of migrants and more broadly, on regional inequality. [ODI Policy Brief No....
by Kate Bird | On 24 Apr 2013 Land acquisition, which refers to the process of a government forcibly acquiring private property for public purpose, has been the cause of over a third of the legal conflicts in India in the past dec...
by iGovernment. in | On 19 Apr 2013 This paper presents two approaches that use publicly available data to estimate the loss to investors
from mis-selling of insurance products. The first approach uses the number of lapsed policies fro...
by Monika Halan | On 12 Apr 2013 Budget speech by Minister of Finance. [Ministry of Finance]. URL:[http://www.finance.gov.pk/budget/budget_Speech_12_13.pdf].
by Minister of Finance Pakistan | On 22 Mar 2013 Asset quality of banks has come under increasing pressure with rising NPAs and Restructured loans. The Gross NPA ratio for the banking system, which was 2.4% in March 2011, increased to 3.6 per cent b...
by Chakrabarty K C | On 07 Mar 2013 New Delhi launched its SEZ revolution in April 2000 to secure the country a
two digit growth rate, copying from China what during the previous two decades proved
to be an excellent strategy, this pa...
by Claudia Astarita | On 21 Feb 2013 India's Open Budget score is 68 out of 100. India's budget documents have been found to be informative and as providing substantial relevant information to people.
by MINISTRY OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FOOD AND PUBLIC DIST GOI | On 15 Feb 2013 reveals that the national budgets of 77 of the 100 countries assessed – these 77 countries are home to half the world’s population – fail to meet basic standards of budget transparency; the average sc...
by International Budget Partnership IBP | On 14 Feb 2013 This paper analyses the property tax system in India, examines the reasons for its low revenue productivity, reviews the recent reform initiatives and identifies further reform areas. [NIPFP Working P...
by M. Govinda Rao | On 06 Feb 2013 This study was conducted in three South Asian countries viz: India, Bangladesh and Nepal. The study examines the opinions of patients, hospitals owners and doctors involved in this service trade. A to...
by Arindam Banik | On 22 Jan 2013 An attempt has been made to understand the paradoxes of Kerala's development like the state's per capita consumer expenditure is more than
the per capita state domestic product. But the nutritional i...
by K.K. George | On 18 Dec 2012 This paper provides a
detailed analysis of trade flows between the two emerging economies and investigates on
which type of products and in which sectors the Indian government applies antidumping
m...
by Hylke Vandenbussche | On 23 Nov 2012 This paper develops a super game model of collusion between price-setting oligopolists located in different markets separated by trade costs. The firms produce a homogenous good and sustain collusion...
by Aditya Bhattacharjea | On 05 Nov 2012 This paper considers two major issues that need to be treated as matters of urgency. First, internal (within country) migrations in the Asian (ACI) region are mostly undocumented and large. It is show...
by E J Wilson | On 05 Nov 2012 This paper identifies the important economic activities that use diesel and discusses the contribution of those sectors in GDP. Other important petroleum products and, their limited substitution possi...
by Mukesh Kumar Anand | On 17 Oct 2012 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 This paper examines the potential gender impacts of the trade
reforms in plantation agriculture in the emerging context of the two
prominent FTAs, viz. the Indo-ASEAN and the proposed EU-India FTA....
by Viswanathan P K | On 14 Sep 2012 Spot fire disputes have sparked across Asia, with the winds of nationalism spurring them on. If one
flares up it could ignite a region. Escalating tensions should have mediators vigilant and with pai...
by Elliot Brennan | On 24 Aug 2012 What degree the financial crisis and the resulting developments have impacted and will impact long-term, capital market bank funding. [DB research] URL:[http://www.dbresearch.com/PROD/DBR_INTERNET_EN-...
by Meta Zähres | On 23 Aug 2012 A bill to provide protection against sexual harassment of women at workplace and for the
prevention and redressal of complaints of sexual harassment and for
matters connected therewith or incidental...
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 17 Aug 2012 Government owned Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) raised the price of petrol on 23rd May 2012. After the
inclusion of local taxes, this amounted to a hike of Rs 7.54 per litre in Delhi. A snapshot of t...
by Karan Malik | On 24 Jul 2012 Obituary: Mrinal Gore (1928-2012)
by Vibhuti Patel | On 23 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 A
bill
to promote autonomy of higher educational institutions and universities for free pursuit
of knowledge and innovation and to provide for comprehensive and integrated
growth of higher educati...
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 12 Jul 2012 The food and beverages industry has not yet established strong and vibrant
linkages with the local communities to develop value added products and
share the benefits. The paper lists seven models fo...
by Anil K Gupta | On 11 Jul 2012 The Association of Southeast Asian Nations
(ASEAN) small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are under scrutiny for their engagement in production networks following recent emphasis on increasing intra-reg...
by Ganeshan Wignaraja | On 06 Jul 2012 This paper examines the roles and challenges of small holding agriculture in India. It covers trends in agricultural growth, cultivation patterns, participation of small holding agriculture, productiv...
by S. Mahendra Dev | On 06 Jul 2012 The paper reviews the economic growth and productivity dynamics of Philippine economy in the past fifty years. The paper also provides an estimation of determinants of total factor productivity and la...
by Gilberto M Llanto | On 29 May 2012 This paper provides an empirical basis for the perceived link between rural infrastructure
and agricultural productivity. It validates the hypothesis that deficiencies in rural infrastructure
e.g.,...
by Gilberto M Llanto | On 24 May 2012 The objective of this paper is to place in the public domain various facets and dimensions of black money
and its complex relationship with the policy and administrative regime in the country. The pa...
by Ministry of Finance | On 22 May 2012 In the run-up to Rio+20, this Asia-Pacific Human Development Report takes a bold look at climate change and what can be done about it.
Tackling head-on the issue of poverty reduction and human deve...
by United Nations Development Programme UNDP | On 21 May 2012 Governments across the world use estimates of people’s willingness
to pay for a reduction in the probability of death and injury to develop
a wide range of environmental, industrial and developmenta...
by South Asian Network for Development SANDEE | On 21 May 2012 Regional governance systems and national frameworks to address climate change and accelerate green growth in Asia are reviewed and tools to address climate change are outlined. Options for regional le...
by Heinrich-Wilhelm Wyes | On 11 May 2012 The paper undertakes an examination of the experience of developing countries with dispute settlement vis-à-vis developed countries during the 17 years since the entry into force of the WTO Agreement....
by Anwarul Hoda | On 08 May 2012 The PRC’s leading position in high-tech exports is a myth created by outdated trade statistics which are inconsistent with trade based on global supply chains. It is argued that a value-added-based ap...
by Yuqing Xing | On 27 Apr 2012 Enrolments in engineering in Kerala increased from about 2800 in 1991 to about 28,000 in 2008. The study analyses whether this increase in potential supply of engineers has resulted in actual supply o...
by Sunil Mani | On 25 Apr 2012 The audiovisual sector is a significant component of the economy in terms of wealth creation and employment and audiovisual industries also play an important cultural role. This study reviews the main...
by Gillian Doyle | On 20 Apr 2012 This paper reviews economic development and the regulatory environment of audiovisual services in the Republic of Korea (hereafter, Korea). The paper specifically examines motion pictures and broadcas...
by Yeongkwan Song | 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 India started exporting a small amount of honey in 1991-1992 and has now established itself as an important honey exporter to the world market. The quantity exported has increased substantially, and t...
by Harish K Sharma | On 02 Apr 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 The effect of export subsidies on the under-invoicing of exports in Bangladesh is analyzed. In a framework that allows for unobserved heterogeneity among importing countries and product specificities,...
by Pranav Kumar Gupta | On 16 Mar 2012 Economic Survey-Chapter1. [Economic Survey]. URL:[http://indiabudget.nic.in/survey.asp]
by Pranab Mukherjee | On 15 Mar 2012 To greatly develop trade in services and realize the transition from a big trade country to a strong trade country, the 12th Five Year Plan is formulated based on Outline of the 12th Five Year Plan f...
by Ministry of Commerce China | On 15 Mar 2012 There is in urgent need for modernization and generational
Change need to be done in the Indian railways to assure safety, improve productivity, take advantage of advanced technology, respond to ever...
by Ministry of Railways | On 14 Mar 2012 The purpose of this report is twofold. First, a compendium of relevant data is presented on the state of the services sector in the ACI (ASEAN, PRC and India) countries, focusing on its contribution t...
by Ben Shepherd | On 12 Mar 2012 The changing nature of tax policy in developing countries over the last 30 years is reviewed and studied the factors determining the level and structure of tax revenues in such countries and how such...
by Roy Bahl | On 07 Mar 2012 The developing economies of Asia are confronted by serious environmental problems that threaten to undermine future growth, food security, and regional stability. This study considers four major envir...
by Stephen Howes | On 06 Mar 2012 Budget speech by Nepal Finance Minister. URL:[http://www.mof.gov.np/publication/speech/2011/pdf/budgetspeech_english.pdf].
by Ministry of Finance, Government of Nepal | On 06 Mar 2012 In the last ten years, economic issues related to currency policy have become the major ongoing
dispute between China and the U.S. Especially the U.S. Congress is stridently demanding
a tougher poli...
by Nicola Nymalm | On 01 Mar 2012 Livestock sector is an integral part of India’s agriculture and an important part of the whole economy with reference to employment, income and earning of foreign exchange for the country. The growth...
by Ministry of Agriculture GOI | On 01 Mar 2012 A
bill
to regulate public procurement with the objectives of ensuring transparency, fair and equitable treatment of bidders, promoting competition, enhancing efficiency and economy and safeguarding...
by Ministry of Finance | On 24 Feb 2012 This paper explores the key reasons behind the movements in the terms of trade and the real net
gain and loss from trade in the long run. Like some selected Asian countries (Vietnam, China and
South...
by Mohammad Masuduzzaman | On 23 Feb 2012 The effect of electoral rules and forms of government on public policy outcomes using a new dataset on agriculture and food policies from 74 countries over the 1960-2005 period is investigated. Using...
by Alessandro Olper | On 22 Feb 2012 What Mumbai needs as a starting point is a city administration that is accountable to the city's residents, and a directly elected mayor, as in all great cities of the world. [BS Weekend Ruminations]....
by T.N. Ninan | On 22 Feb 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 Empirical evidence on the beneficial effects of fiscal transparency ranges from improved budgetary outcomes, to lower sovereign borrowing costs and decreased corruption. Despite this, hardly any effor...
by Joachim Wehner | On 19 Feb 2012 Since 1999 the Chinese government implemented budget reform measures to streamline administrative processes. The government made considerable technical and process advances in just a few years, includ...
by Julian Wu | On 19 Feb 2012 Radio is the most widespread mass-medium in the developing world. It is affordable, easy to use and ubiquitous. This article shows how radio is an invaluable tool for reaching and involving the poor...
by Mary Myers | On 19 Feb 2012 This paper argues that the collective action in Asia by its regional organizations has historically
suffered from a “capability–legitimacy gap”: a disjuncture between the capability (in terms of
mat...
by Amitav Acharya | On 17 Feb 2012 The aim of this paper is to compare the technical efficiency of Indian Banks operating
abroad and foreign banks operating in India and to investigate the effect of openness of the
country, ownership...
by Vivek Kumar | On 08 Feb 2012 Using the Pakistan Social and Living Measurement Survey (PSLM), conducted in
2007-08, the paper measures the magnitude of the middle class (definition given by Thurow (1987); Birdsall, Graham and
Pe...
by Durr-e- Nayab | On 06 Feb 2012 This paper analyses the energy use in the manufacture of cement in India during 1992–2005. Cement
manufacturing requires large amounts of various energy inputs. The most common types of energy
carri...
by Binay Kumar Ray | On 30 Jan 2012 This paper explains the gaps between official objectives and the actual accomplishments of the Aquino government, with an emphasis on the implementation record of agricultural-based strategies. Summar...
by V. Bruce J Tolentino | On 30 Jan 2012 Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, independent entrepreneurial migrants
from China have been increasingly flocking to Africa in search of “greener pastures.” This
paper scrutinizes the...
by Laurence Marfaing | On 25 Jan 2012 This report identifies some of the factors complicating the debate on role of the company in society. It focuses particularly on the changing models of ownership and differing time horizons and on how...
by Gillian Lee | On 23 Jan 2012 This paper focuses on two issues: the problems with the compulsory acquisition of land, and the regulatory and institutional impediments that obstruct voluntary land transactions. It is argued that an...
by Ram Singh | On 19 Jan 2012 The aim of this paper is to explore the relationship between the quality of the budget process and human development outcomes. It looks in particular at at the relationship between the OBI and human d...
by Sakiko Fukuda-Parr | On 17 Jan 2012 In Nepal an innovative form of forestry management, known as the
Leasehold Forestry (LHF) Programme, is being introduced to protect forest
land and help it regenerate. A new SANDEE study analyzes th...
by South Asian Network for Development SANDEE | On 10 Jan 2012 The Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill (LARR) is considered to be a flawed piece of legislation. An alternative method based on auction based pricing mechanism is suggested here.
by Maitreesh Ghatak | On 05 Jan 2012 A simple method is applied to study the relative quality of Chinese versus European products
exported in the clothing sector after the end of the Multi-Fiber Arrangement. Based on the
model of Foste...
by Hylke Vandenbussche | On 03 Jan 2012 The services sector has provided steady support to Pakistan’s economic
growth. It share in GDP now stands a more than 50 percent. The paper analyses
its continuation in the growth of the economy in...
by Ayaz Ahmed | On 29 Dec 2011 This paper develops an index for measuring the economic power of governments viewed as entities in themselves. The basic idea is to encapsulate the economic representative power of a nation’s governme...
by Kaushik Basu | On 27 Dec 2011 A commentary on final report of the task force on domestic workers
by G.D Bino Paul | On 26 Dec 2011 Both secondary and primary sources of information and data have been used. In
order to provide the context of the study, data relating to the labour market indicators and
employment of some categori...
by K.R. Shyam Sundar | On 22 Dec 2011 Pre-harvest lean seasons are widespread in the agrarian areas of Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Every year, these seasonal famines force millions of people to succumb to poverty and hunger. An incentive...
by Gharad Bryan | On 20 Dec 2011 Until recently, the World Trade Organization (WTO) has been an effective framework for
cooperation because it has continually adapted to changing economic realities. The current Doha
Agenda is an ab...
by Aaditya Mattoo | On 13 Dec 2011 Possible scenarios for China and the world economy until
2015 is looked at. In all of them, China will continue to accumulate FX reserves, so that
reserve assets will remain the largest component of...
by Catherine Shu Ling Tan | On 08 Dec 2011 The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Commerce examined the subject of Foreign and Domestic Investment in the Retail sector beginning April 5, 2007 under the chairmanship of Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi....
by Anirudh Burman | On 05 Dec 2011 This paper analyses the impact of the retail FDI policy on Indian consumers and make policy recommendations for the Indian government. Based on a primary survey of Indian consumers, the paper examines...
by Arpita Mukherjee | On 28 Nov 2011 Construction is a $1.7 trillion industry worldwide, much of which is linked to publicly financed
projects. Outcomes from this financing are frequently suboptimal. Cost and time escalation, as
well a...
by Charles Kenny | On 25 Nov 2011 The struggle of workers at Maruti Suzuki’s Manesar plant has exposed the blatant complicity of the state in facilitating capital to extract huge profit margins by abuse of contract labour laws, relent...
by New Trade Union Initiative NTUI | On 23 Nov 2011 The study tries to better understand three fields which seems
to be essential with respect to the problem of a facilitated
access to medicines :
1. the ambiguous position of intellectual property...
by Bastein Briand | On 17 Nov 2011 Spending on consumption items is examined which have signaling value in social
interactions across groups with distinctive social identities in India, where social identities are
defined by caste an...
by Melanie Khamis | On 10 Nov 2011 The paper scrutinizes the functioning of the G20 and its role in increasing coordination. and cooperation between Asian countries. It highlights divergent
agendas amongst the A6 as regards the future...
by Hugo Dobson | On 09 Nov 2011 The rapid export growth of China's township-village enterprises (TVEs)
has not been well understood and explained. Using a simple analytical model
and exploring a unique dataset on China's TVEs the...
by Changqi Wu | On 08 Nov 2011 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 The Drug Policy, 1994 needed to be revised to
meet the challenges brought about by the competitive international pharmaceutical industry in a globalised economic environment, as muc...
by Pharmaceuticals Department of | On 02 Nov 2011 The Task Force was constituted to explore options other than price control for achieving the objective of making available
life-saving drugs at reasonable prices. The Task Force recommends that pr...
by Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals | On 02 Nov 2011 Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) have been engaged in discussions on the future of the climate change regime. While the principle of “common but differenti...
by Anuradha R. V. | On 01 Nov 2011 This paper examines three software and/or information technology enabled services (ITES) industries—two in the early stages of development (in the People’s Republic of China [PRC] and the Philippines)...
by F Ted Tschang | On 25 Oct 2011 The production and marketing scenario of coconut in the country has witnessed a
phenomenal development, particularly in the field of production such as development of
improved high yielding dwarf va...
by Ministry of Agriculture GOI | On 21 Oct 2011 This study contributes to the literature by estimating discount rate for
environmental health benefits and value of statistical life of workers in
India. The discount rate is imputed from wage-risk...
by K. R. Shanmugam | On 19 Oct 2011 A bill to provide for development of sports in India, coordination of
national teams for participation in international events, fair
and transparent functioning of autonomous sports bodies and
welf...
by Ministry of Youth and Sports Affairs YAS | On 17 Oct 2011 In this study, a comparative analysis of the role of knowledge flows in capability formation among firms in the Indian Information Technology sector (IT sector) across cluster and non-cluster location...
by Rakesh Basant | On 13 Oct 2011 This research is about multinational enterprises (MNEs) and their subsidiaries abroad.
The specific focus of the research is on the foreign subsidiaries? local embeddedness, global
integration and m...
by Filip De Beule | On 10 Oct 2011 This paper starts by examining some of the variables that have been considered important
determinants of openness and how views of these have changed over the last twenty
years. It then considers th...
by Kenneth E Jackson | On 29 Sep 2011 The growth of East Asia’s intra-regional trade is driven largely by increased component
trade within global electronics production networks. Data on both electronics trade and
production elucidate a...
by Byron Gangnes | On 29 Sep 2011 This study examines how business entities and individuals in Jammu and Kashmir view trade
transactions with the other side and perceptions about the economic viability of Cross-LoC trade. More
speci...
by Altaf Hussain Kira | On 28 Sep 2011 This paper is undertaken to examine various aspects of farm level adoption of Bt cotton in Gujarat as well as explore issues relating to environment and non-tariff barriers affecting the cotton trade...
by N. Lalitha | On 27 Sep 2011 Income originating within geographical boundaries of urban and rural areas of Gujarat is estimated
for three benchmark years – 1993-94, 1999-00 and 2004-05 - at current prices following the broad
me...
by Ravindra H Dholakia | On 26 Sep 2011 The paper examines the farm level performance of System of Rice Intensification (SRI) method of paddy cultivation as against the traditional method. The role of NGOs in raising awareness among farmers...
by Jharna Pathak | On 22 Sep 2011 This paper, examines the possibility of adopting Oil- to- Cash scheme in Iraq. Here, a new opportunity is identified which aims for direct distribution of Iraqi oil rents in the planned production exp...
by Johnny West | On 19 Sep 2011 This paper examines the competitiveness of the Indian garments industry vis-à-vis the other
South Asian countries Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Under the SAFTA agreement, many of the
garment i...
by Saon Ray | On 16 Sep 2011 The new Bill on land acquisition recently tabled in Parliament is well intentioned but seriously flawed. Its principal defect is that it attaches an arbitrary mark-up to the historical market price to...
by Maitreesh Ghatak | On 12 Sep 2011 A
bill
to ensure a humane, participatory, informed consultative and transparent process for land
acquisition for industrialisation, development of essential infrastructural facilities
and urbanisa...
by Parliamentary Research Service PRS | On 08 Sep 2011 This paper assesses the global economic implications of the proposed strict documentation requirements on traded shipments of potentially genetically modified (GM) commodities under the Cartagena Prot...
by Antoine Bouët | On 31 Aug 2011 The global Reality of Aid Network has been working in preparation for Busan alongside CSO colleagues
from women’s rights organizations, trade unions, farmers’ organizations, faith-based organizations...
by Brian Tomlinson | On 30 Aug 2011 The study initially reviews the infrastructure facilities for the 33 districts of Maharashtra for one year i.e.1999-2000. Using this, the extent of disparities between these regions is found. Further...
by A M Swaminathan | On 29 Aug 2011 Trade policy reforms which lead to changes in world prices of agricultural commodities or
domestic policies aimed at affecting agricultural prices are often seen as causing a policy
dilemma: a fall...
by Sandra Polaski | On 26 Aug 2011 Some services directly produce outputs that are important for human development, such as basic human services. Many other services are important inputs into the production and distribution of goods th...
by Ben Shepherd | On 24 Aug 2011 Poor returns to cultivation and absence of non-farm opportunities are indicative of the larger
socio-economic malaise in rural India. This is accentuated by the multiple risks that the
farmer faces...
by Srijit Mishra | On 23 Aug 2011 In this paper, the potential impacts of trade and investment-related policy reforms on India’s agro-processing sector is explored. The direct effects of policy reforms within the processing sector, an...
by A. Ganesh-Kumar | On 22 Aug 2011 This paper analyses key aspects of the changing economic relationship between the European Union (EU) and Asia, and explored the potential economic ramifications of deeper EU-Asian economic cooperatio...
by Michael Plummer | On 22 Aug 2011 On the basis of a survey conducted in three cities viz., Delhi,
Mumbai and Amritsar the paper examines the characteristics of firms engaged in Indo-
Pakistan trade. It also estimates the transaction...
by Nisha Taneja | On 11 Aug 2011 Poverty and well-being are multidimensional. Nobody questions that deprivations and achievements
go beyond income. There is, however, sharp disagreement on whether the various dimensions of
poverty...
by Nora Lustig | On 11 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 Food quality has become an important determinant of success in global food trade and growers for international markets have to continuously adjust to buyers’ requirements. It is however not clear to w...
by Anneleen Vandeplas | On 03 Aug 2011 The study makes specific recommendations for decisionmakers
in industry, society and politics on how to handle new
network technologies. URL:[http://www.dbresearch.com/PROD/DBR_INTERNET_EN-PROD/PROD...
by Thomas F Dapp | On 02 Aug 2011 The ever-growing number of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) is a prominent feature of international trade. The World Trade Report 2011 describes the historical development of PTAs and the current...
by World Trade Organisation WTO | On 22 Jul 2011 This study investigates the impact of global crisis shocks on India’s trade and industry. Both panel data modeling and vector autoregression techniques are used to understand the dynamic effects of gl...
by Prabir De | On 22 Jul 2011 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 Using the most comprehensive data file ever compiled on air pollution, water pollution,
environmental regulations, and infant mortality from a developing country, the paper examines
the effectivenes...
by Michael Greenstone | On 11 Jul 2011 This study was not alone in demonstrating that a deal on the Doha Round
could be of huge benefit to the global economy. Assuming plausible
enhancements in the course of further negotiations, the big...
by Klaus Deutsch | On 06 Jul 2011 This paper considers how exchange rates affect East Asian trade. The evidence indicates that exports produced within regional production networks depend on exchange rates throughout the region while l...
by Willem Thorbecke | On 01 Jul 2011 Polls show that many Americans increasingly see the country’s
trade openness asmore of a threat than an opportunity, and the
bipartisan political consensus in favor of openmarkets is badly
frayed....
by Kimberly Ann Elliot | On 01 Jul 2011 Pegging in a coordinated way to a regional basket currency is considered by many as optimal for east-Asian countries. By contrast, according to existing empirical studies, these countries have most of...
by Eric Girardin | On 29 Jun 2011 While bringing positive impacts and benefits, cross-border infrastructure projects face additional challenges relative to national projects. Moreover, such projects involve a variety of technical, reg...
by ZhongXiang Zhang | On 27 Jun 2011 Mathematical formulations of Frank D. Graham’s theory of multicountry
multicommodity trade have not provided numerical methods for finding the
world trade equilibrium. Graham was in possession of su...
by Rajas Parchure | On 27 Jun 2011 This paper examines the effect of trade facilitated R&D spillovers
on the productivity of manufacturing firms in India. Though developing
countries are considered as the major beneficiaries of trade...
by M. Parameswaran | On 24 Jun 2011 This paper investigates the conditions for the desirability of exclusive intellectual property rights for innovators,
as opposed to weak rights allowing for some degree of imitation and ex-post compe...
by Vincenzo Denicolòyand Luigi A. Franzoni | On 23 Jun 2011 The Japan Satoyama Satoumi Assessment
(JSSA) is a study of the interaction
between humans and terrestrial–aquatic
ecosystems (satoyama) and marine–
coastal ecosystems (satoumi) in Japan.
The stud...
by Anantha Kumar Duraiappah | On 17 Jun 2011 One of the little understood, but most powerful and disruptive tensions in established aid agencies
lies in the clash between the compliance side of aid programs—the counter-bureaucracy—and the
tech...
by Andrew Natsios | On 17 Jun 2011 After a longer-than expected settling in period, the Obama administration is finally moving on trade policy. What is unclear - and the early signs are troubling - is whether U.S. policy will also enco...
by Kimberly Ann Elliott | On 16 Jun 2011 The UNU-WIDER project on 'Spatial Disparities in Human Development' has collected and analysed evidence on the extent of spatial inequalities within developing countries. The studies find that spatial...
by Ravi Kanbur | On 15 Jun 2011 Suicidal Behaviour: Assessment of People-At-Risk, Edited by Updesh Kumar, Manas K Mandal,Sage, Publications 2010, 392 pages.
by Bindu Anand | On 14 Jun 2011 Adopting a micro-level framework of impact of FDI in an industry, this study empirically
examines the following three issues in the context of Indian machinery industry (IMI) -
division 28 of Nation...
by Pradeep Kumar Keshari | On 14 Jun 2011 The Peace Corps is 50 years old in 2011. The agency still holds to its founding goals, laid out
by John F. Kennedy, of providing technical assistance and promoting understanding. It runs
according t...
by Charles Kenny | On 13 Jun 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 On June 13, the GAVI Alliance will hold its first pledging conference, seeking to obtain commitments for US$ 3.7 billion for the 2011–15 period. Remarkably, in the midst of a historic global recession...
by Lisa Carty | On 09 Jun 2011 This policy brief reports the main findings of the study on changes in within-country income inequality over the last two decades and on the links between poverty, inequality, and growth. It focuses o...
by Giovanni Andrea Cornia | On 08 Jun 2011 Vietnam has been among the most successful East Asian economies, especially in
weathering the external shocks of recent globalization crises—the 1997-98 Asian
financial crisis and the 2008-09 great...
by Philip Abbott | On 02 Jun 2011 The movement of terms of trade would determine the real wins from trade given a historically chosen path of regional specialisation. Kerela economy specialises in a variety of export oriented commerci...
by Thomas Isaac | On 02 Jun 2011 This paper aims to identify the bilateral trade possibilities and non-tariff
barriers between India and Pakistan.
The study shows that there is a large untapped trade potential between the two
coun...
by Nisha Taneja | On 31 May 2011 As a country progressively engages in international trade, its factors of production
will increasingly enter into the export sector, where their return is higher, compared
to the import competing...
by Dibyendu Maiti | On 23 May 2011 The objective of this paper is to study the dynamics of the distribution of regional per
capita income of Indian states in the post reform period, in order to identify trends
towards convergence-c...
by Sabyasachi Kar | On 20 May 2011 This paper first shows that important economic arguments in favor of the Prebisch-
Singer hypothesis of falling terms of trade of developing countries have implicitly relied
on the role of multinat...
by Konstantin M. Wacker | On 20 May 2011 The broad objectives of this study refer to analysing the impact of introducing comprehensive
goods and services tax (GST) on economic growth and international trade; changes in rewards to
the fac...
by National Council of Applied Economic Research | On 19 May 2011 Vasant Gupte would have been 84 this May. These tributes, one by his family and the second by his comrades and colleagues, celebrate his life and life philosophy.
by Girija Gupte | On 16 May 2011 Today there is no credible alternative facility available to a grower to meet the risks of price movements and the art of price risk management is unknown to the small growers. (In this entire report,...
by Ministry of Commerce and Industry GOI | On 02 May 2011 The study suggests an approach to reduce India’s sensitive list under SAFTA. The concept of Revealed Comparative Advantage has been used to pair the RCAs for products on India’s sensitive list with th...
by Nisha Taneja | On 29 Apr 2011 The Task Force visited 45 villages across 17 states and held state and regional level consultations to understand from women and men farmers, bankers, civil society, academicians, planners, activists,...
by National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Devt NABARD | On 27 Apr 2011 Recent events in India have brought a fresh focus upon the problem
of regulation in the field of micro-finance. This paper delineates the
three distinct aspects where government needs to play a role...
by Renuka Sane | On 13 Apr 2011 Global
container throughput rose by at least 11% last year, after declining for the first time
ever in 2009 (-9%). The level of global container throughput was thus higher again
than before the cri...
by Eric Heymann | On 12 Apr 2011 This article is a research on the water services available in north eastern parts of Mumbai. It aims as highlighting the ability of communities to design and run functional systems to overcome the sho...
by Rémi de BERCEGOL | On 08 Apr 2011 A comprehensive assessment of the multiple benefits of mangrove ecosystems and their
restoration efforts in Gujarat is made. The study is important and contextual as there are very
limited empirical...
by P.K. Viswanathan | On 29 Mar 2011 With 11 large hydropower dams proposed to block the Lower Mekong River’s mainstream, the future of
the river lies at a crossroads. To inform decision-making, in October 2010, the Mekong River Commiss...
by International Rivers Network IRN | On 29 Mar 2011 Some services directly produce outputs that are important for human development, such as basic human services. Many other services are important inputs into the production and distribution of goods th...
by Ben Shepherd | On 21 Mar 2011 In this study, they attempt to quantify the effect of improved
population health on technical efficiency in agricultural production.
Using data for over 260 districts in 15 Indian states, they emplo...
by Atheendar S. Venkataramani | On 17 Mar 2011 The main objectives of the study were to analyze
the role of non-timber forest products in poverty
alleviation in Chhattisgarh; to examine the system of
governance, institutional framework and prog...
by R S Deshpande | On 17 Mar 2011 The Government of the Kingdom of Cambodia applied for accession
to the World Trade Organization in October 1994. At its meeting on
21 December 1994, the Preparatory Committee for the WTO
establishe...
by Sok Siphana | On 16 Mar 2011 PRC’s economic emergence over the last two decades, and in particular its
recent WTO accession initiative, portend a dramatically changed landscape
of East Asian trade. This has aroused concern arou...
by David Roland Holst | On 15 Mar 2011 This Policy Brief focuses on links between the developing countries of Brazil, India, China and South Africa and the global economy, with a special emphasis on the implications of China’s spectacular...
by Amelia U. Santos Paulino | On 11 Mar 2011 Many rich countries provide special market access for exports from least developed countries (LDCs), but the trade preferences are often inhibited by tough restrictions and do not extend to the produc...
by Kimberly Ann Elliott | On 10 Mar 2011 India and China are important players in an evolving process of
globalization of research and development (R&D). Focusing on
pharmaceuticals and biotechnology industries, this paper analyses the
ch...
by Jayan Jose Thomas | On 28 Feb 2011 The Budget process of India predates the independence. The Budget was first introduced on 7th April, 1860, two years after the transfer of Indian administration from East-India Company to British Crow...
by Ministry of Finance | On 22 Feb 2011 In the context of the low levels of regional cooperation among South Asian countries
when compared with the successful results from cooperation in East Asia (consisting of
South East and East Asian...
by Ramesh Chandra | On 18 Feb 2011 Many WTO (World Trade Organization) member countries, including India, are
defensive about opening up of the audiovisual sector in the Doha Round due to reasons of
cultural sensitivity. On the other...
by Arpita Mukherjee | On 17 Feb 2011 The Open Budget Survey is the only independent and comparative measure of government budget practices, with its rigorous approach receiving substantial praise from international public finance experts...
by Vivek Ramkumar | On 17 Feb 2011 The study analyzes the inter-district variations in levels of income and human development in Tamal Nadu in recent years. It also tries to analyze the causes of the relatively low levels of income of...
by R. J. Chelliah | On 15 Feb 2011 While there are many path-breaking elements in the Programme document, the stress is on a top down programme that leaves little room for accommodating regional needs. Nor is there much emphasis on enc...
by Syam Prasad | On 15 Feb 2011 This paper develops tools to examine selected major issues in the Indian economy. The study computes the potential growth rate of the economy and the agricultural sector, extends the analysis of fisca...
by Mathew Joseph | On 11 Feb 2011 Infrastructure services play a significant role in trade costs by
reducing distribution margins, lowering prices, and raising
consumer welfare. They also lower transaction costs, add value,
and inc...
by Douglas H. Brooks | On 11 Feb 2011 This policy brief examines hedge funds, private equity funds, and innovative financial products, particularly collateralized debt obligations and asset-backed securities, including their overall struc...
by Peter Morgan | On 08 Feb 2011 The Presidential address to parliament at its first session of the year pays tribute to the heroes and martyrs of the nation, elaborates on Bangaldesh's achievement in industry, agriculture, education...
by Zillur Rahman | On 08 Feb 2011 According to the GATT principle of most favoured nation (MFN) treatment, trade must be conducted on the basis of non-discrimination between Members of the WTO. 'Like Products' must be taxed the same w...
by Aradhna Aggarwal | On 07 Feb 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 As the conception of and debates on regional powers have been led by political science, this paper aims to contribute to the discussion from an economics perspective. Based on the discussion of differ...
by Robert KAppel | On 28 Jan 2011 The NEC Shillong has assigned the National Institute of Rural Development,
North Eastern Regional Centre (NIRD-NERC), Guwahati to prepare a report
on “Poverty Eradication in the North Eastern Region...
by Ministry for Development of the North East (DONER) | On 28 Jan 2011 How the telecom manufacturing value chain needs to be
altered to benefit the Indian telecom industry and the country and
what needs to be done to make India a telecom manufacturing
powerhouse.
by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India TRAI | On 27 Jan 2011 This paper probes the drivers, dimensions, achievements, and outcomes of technological
innovations carried out by SMEs in the auto components, electronics, and machine tool
sectors of Bangalore in...
by M. H. Bala Subrahmanya | On 25 Jan 2011 The impact assessment methodology was constructed on the basis of a set of hypotheses, and incorporated a set of key indicators of impact. The IAS hypothised that various non-RDP factors are likely to...
by Shams Mustafa | On 19 Jan 2011 This paper constructs and analyses a long-run time-series for regional inequality in
China from the Communist Revolution to the present. There have been three peaks of
inequality in the last fifty...
by Ravi Kanbur | On 17 Jan 2011 Information on vegetation is important for the planning of regional natural resources management carbon cycling studies, terrestrial primary productivity modeling of hydrology, energy and climate. In...
by Nepal C. Dey | On 17 Jan 2011 The feeble results of liberalization policies in Latin America are explained in terms of a multiple
steady state model including a dynamic human development trap, endogenous technological change,
...
by David Mayer- Foulkes | On 13 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 Vietnam’s development performance since the early 1990s has been one of the strongest
in the world, following the introduction of its doi moi (‘renovation’) economic reform
programme in 1986. The...
by John Thoburn | On 11 Jan 2011 The Char Development and Settlement Project (CDSP) was a joint initiative of the
Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Government of Bangladesh to
achieve sustainable livelihood developm...
by Wameq Raza | On 10 Jan 2011 This paper proposes a structural VAR model which extends the frameworks of
Hoffmaister and Roldós (2001) and Prasad (1999). The model is then used to analyse
the sources of China’s trade balance flu...
by Yin Zhang | On 07 Jan 2011 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 The objective here is to understand how the mobility of technical talent might be
changing the structural relationship between rich and poor countries. This paper
examines the under-researched relat...
by Anthony P. D'Costa | On 15 Dec 2010 The paper analyses credibility and reputation in the context of peace negotiations.
Where war provides economic gains to one side, peace is not incentive compatible, and
peace agreements will necess...
by Tony Addison | On 08 Dec 2010 Through its pioneering surveys in recent years, the Transparency International (TI) has tried to gauge the extent of corruption in different countries, identify Government departments where corruption...
by Prof. Subhash Bhatnagar | On 06 Dec 2010 Open regionalism and trade cooperation between the world’s two largest developing countries,
the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and India, can foster outward-oriented development and
intra-regio...
by Swapan K. Bhattacharya | On 06 Dec 2010 A proof of concept application using Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the dairy sector was developed by the Centre for Electronics Governance at the Indian Institute of Management, Ah...
by T.P. Rama Rao | On 03 Dec 2010 There has been much debate about how much poor people in developing countries gain
from trade openness, as one aspect of ‘globalization’. The paper views the issue through
both ‘macro’ and ‘micro’...
by Martin Ravallion | On 02 Dec 2010 This is a ready reference for organizations, youth policy practitioners and young people to the World Programme of Action for Youth (WPAY), its 15 priority areas and their corresponding proposals for...
by United Nations UN | On 29 Nov 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 Traditional explanations for trade misinvoicing -- high custom duties
and weak domestic economies — are less persuasive in a world of high
growth emerging markets who have low trade barriers. A 35-
...
by Ila Patnaik | On 22 Nov 2010 Assessments of the performance of Indian commercial banks are
not new in the literature. However, most of the earlier studies consider
relatively partial measures such as technical efficiency of the...
by Anup Kumar Bhandari | On 17 Nov 2010 In recent years, China has dramatically expanded its financing and foreign direct investment to Africa. This
expansion has served the political and economic interests of China while providing Africa...
by Benedicte Vibe Christensen | On 15 Nov 2010 A major drawback of the plethora of regional studies in India is that most of them tend to treat regional development as an autonomous process of regional productive forces and relations of production...
by T.M. Thomas Issac | On 15 Nov 2010 From neutral trade policy devices employed to identity country
of origin of commodities, the rules of origin are emerging as protectionist
tools. Nation-states, as they are increasingly denied of co...
by K N Harilal | On 09 Nov 2010 Using information on listed firms in each of the industry groups at
the two-digit level within Manufacturing this study investigates whether
the radical shift in trade policy in India in 1991 result...
by Pulapre Balakrishnan | On 09 Nov 2010 Based on a multi-sited based ethnography conducted during August 95 through February 96 in two inland tribal regions of Orissa the study tries to identify temporal and spatial specifications in terms...
by Srijit Mishra | On 08 Nov 2010 The importance of academia- industry linkages for development of an economy is well
recognized. With a view to make the higher technical education relevant, by forging and catalyzing functional linka...
by Jancy Ayyaswamy | On 03 Nov 2010 Production networks and the regional division of labor have been established in East Asia resulting in massive vertical intra-industry trade in parts and components within the region. This phenomenon...
by Hank Lim | On 02 Nov 2010 Although the overall economic performance of economies in South Asia in recent years has been impressive, there is concern that an aging and increasingly inadequate infrastructure may limit the potent...
by John Gilbert | On 01 Nov 2010 International trade has played an essential role in Asia’s remarkable growth, development,
and integration in recent decades. Infrastructure, both hard and soft, has played an integral
part in facil...
by Douglas H. Brooks | On 28 Oct 2010 This paper reviews the status of the external sector of the Indian economy. It is divided into 5 broad
sections. Section I gives the trends of imports and exports, as well as the composition and dire...
by Archana S Mathur | On 26 Oct 2010 Payment systems in Malaysia have been undergoing changes in recent years. Among the notable changes is the emergence of electronic-based payment systems. The central bank has been playing an active ro...
by Amir Akmar Basir | On 25 Oct 2010 The
perspective of global commodity chain or GCC framework and social
embeddedness are used to understand the organizational and social linkages in the
embellishment production network in garment i...
by Jeemol Unni | On 21 Oct 2010 There has been a recent resurgence of interest in the relationship between income
inequality and growth, manifested in a number of important publications. In parallel with
this, concern with the imp...
by Jennifer Mbabazi | On 19 Oct 2010 This paper attempts to analyse the economic implications of the rise of China, India,
Brazil and South Africa, for developing countries situated in the wider context of the
world economy. It exami...
by Deepak Nayyar | On 15 Oct 2010 Regional economic integration agreements are considered to be important policy
mechanisms to address regional developmental asymmetries. The Asian reality is
characterized by developmental asymmetri...
by Ram Upendra Das | On 15 Oct 2010 Supply chain management in Asia is a relatively new topic but is a key challenge for all Asia based
manufacturers and traders trying to integrate into the “global market.” The purpose of
this paper...
by Ruth Banomyong | On 14 Oct 2010 This paper makes an attempt
at understanding why inequalities continue to exist in the educational profile
of the population despite high literacy, universal enrollment in schools and
relatively be...
by Suma Scaria | On 12 Oct 2010 It is widely believed that the practice of securitization is one of the causes that led to the 2007–08 financial crisis. In this paper, I show that securitized products such as collateralized debt obl...
by Mariko Fujii | On 11 Oct 2010 An important requirement for the analysis of trade flows in relation
to domestic industrial structure is the availability of a database covering
information on trade flows, industry and firm charact...
by C. Veeramani | On 07 Oct 2010 Environmental issues began to be systematically addressed in the WTO following the Decision on Trade and Environment taken towards the end of the Uruguay Round at Marrakesh in 1994. The Committee on T...
by Aparna Sawhney | On 07 Oct 2010 Technical interoperability enables
subscriber to receive signals from any DTH service provider using same STB. In the
year 2008, TRAI had recommended that technical interoperability be part of the l...
by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India TRAI | On 06 Oct 2010 Right now, governments around the world are spending record amounts of money to kick-
start their economies in response to the financial crisis. Fortunately, a great opportunity
exists for this fis...
by Fukuya Lino | On 06 Oct 2010 This paper focuses on two aspects of India’s intra-industry trade
(IIT) in manufactured commodities under economic liberalization. First,
it examines the changes in the intensity of multilateral IIT...
by Veeramani C | On 05 Oct 2010 A major reform process in the Indian economic policy regime away from a four-
decade-long inward orientation has been under way since July 1991 in response to a serious
macro-economic crisis. The n...
by T.A. Bhavani | On 05 Oct 2010 East Asian countries were seriously affected by the 2008 global crisis through a steep fall in exports. This experience exposed the vulnerability of the East Asian growth model and emphasized the impo...
by Mahani Zainal Abidin | On 05 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 The role of the state in industrialisation is a much discussed topic these days. Specifically this role has witnessed itself in the form of direct intervention by the states through owning the means...
by Sunil Mani | On 01 Oct 2010 This paper 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 This report studies the ongoing resettlement for the middle route of the South-North Water
Transfer Project at Danjiangkou in Hubei Province, China. The Water Transfer Project is China’s
biggest wat...
by International Rivers Network IRN | 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 The paper highlights the dilemma faced by developing countries in balancing market access rights with the need to regulate service providers, in light of the ongoing negotiations under Article VI:4 of...
by Suparna Karmakar | On 24 Sep 2010 This paper contributes to two strands of literature on empirical models of trade flows and
trade policy. The first and the older strand is that of gravity models of bilateral trade
flows going back...
by T.N. Srinivasan | On 20 Sep 2010 This paper reviews the prevailing policy environment to evaluate its efficacy in ensuring that India is successfully able to address these challenges in the education sector. Given the well establishe...
by Sanat Kaul | On 17 Sep 2010
This paper reviews (critically and selectively) the literature on the link between
economic development, the environment and international trade (and capital
flows). In particular, how stricter...
by Partha Sen | On 16 Sep 2010 The quantitative and qualitative changes taking place in livestock population over the years would be due to the changes in demand for livestock products. The changes in lives...
by K. Narayanan Nair | On 16 Sep 2010 The importance of Total Factor Productivity (TFP) in explaining output changes is widely
accepted, yet its sources are not well understood. We use a proprietary data set on the floor-level operations...
by Sanghamitra Das | On 13 Sep 2010 This paper reviews the available literature that links regional food security to the
Mekong River’s wild capture fisheries, and argues for recognition of the existing
contribution that the fisheries...
by Brooke Peterson | On 08 Sep 2010 This volume contains summaries of 12 case studies for three categories of business
organisations defined by ownership, i.e. foreign, state and (local) private. The case
studies explore the history a...
by Anisha Sabhlok | On 06 Sep 2010 This study provides an in-depth assessment of Concentrating solar power (CSP) potential in China and
India using high-resolution spatial data for site selection and modeling of plant performance, ass...
by Kevin Ummel | On 03 Sep 2010 Review of 'Promoting Economic Cooperation in South Asia'; S. Ahmed, S. Kalegama and E. Ghani (Editors). Published by Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2010
by Sandhya S . Iyer | On 17 Aug 2010 Sports retail is a small but fast growing segment of modern retail in India. Recently, the
country has been hosting many international sports and this has given a boost to this
sector. Many foreign...
by Arpita Mukherjee | On 13 Aug 2010 This paper explores issues relating to informal trade in the SAARC region.
It spells out the reasons underpinning illegal trade in the South Asian
region. Further it focuses on the estimated size an...
by Nisha Taneja | On 10 Aug 2010 This article explores the question of why India cannot score greater success in manufacturing, especially the export of manufactured products. In conclusion it suggests enclave solution as the answer.
by T.N. Ninan | On 09 Aug 2010 In this paper an attempt is made to evaluate the most efficient approach to regional economic integration in Asia. Given that ASEAN is an existing regional bloc in Asia, alternative approaches to the...
by Amita Batra | On 04 Aug 2010 The paper is based on the 8 Input – Output (I-O) tables for the Indian economy
available over a period of 36 years from 1968-69 to 2003-04. The technical
progress (TP) in the context of the I-O tabl...
by Ravindra H Dholakia | On 22 Jul 2010 The slow progress and modest achievements of regional integration in South Asia
have generated a huge amount of skepticism about its role as an effective strategy of
growth. The present study, howev...
by Aradhna Aggarwal | On 22 Jul 2010 The turmoil that has characterised the global financial markets
since the 1990s, and particularly the crisis in East Asia, has generated
a great deal of support for proposals to add some frictions t...
by Ramkishen Rajan | On 21 Jul 2010 An important and vigorous policy debate ongoing in Asia concerns the impact of
the economic rise of the PRC on the rest of the region. This paper examines the relative
performances of the PRC, selec...
by Sadhana Srivastava | On 20 Jul 2010 The takeover of substantial number of shares, voting rights or control in a listed Indian
company attracts the provision of SEBI (Substantial Acquisition of Shares and Takeovers)
Regulations 1997. T...
by Sandeep Parekh | On 14 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 There has been tremendous progress over the last decade in the development of health products for neglected
diseases. These include drugs, vaccines, and diagnostics for malaria and tuberculosis, whi...
by Thomas J. Bollyky | On 08 Jul 2010 The Department of Environment is engaged in overall environmental assessment, monitoring,
protection and raising awareness among the people of Delhi. The Delhi Pollution Control Committee
(DPCC) is...
by Anupriya Singhal | On 07 Jul 2010 Enormous trade surpluses are problematic for the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the
rest of the world. They primarily stem from processing trade. This paper investigates how
exchange rate ch...
by Willem Thorbecke | On 30 Jun 2010 This paper analyzes the permanent (information effect) and temporary (liquidity effect) impact of
block trades transacted in the National Stock Exchange of India.[W.P. No. 2010-04-02]
by Sobhesh Kumar Agarwalla | On 29 Jun 2010 We show that the ‘skill-bias’ of a country’s tariff structure is
positively correlated with long-term per capita GDP growth. Testing for
causal mechanisms, we find evidence consistent with the exist...
by Nathan Nunn | On 28 Jun 2010 Little attention has been paid to the question of how to finance the costs of scaling
up MNCH care and the likely availability of funds.
Methods Past health expenditure (2000 – 2005) was analysed th...
by Giulia Greco | On 25 Jun 2010
Though Japan had been one of the top five investors in India for long, its share in
India’s total FDI inflows has been dwindling since 2000. Other countries have
surpassed Japan in terms of the...
by Geethanjali Nataraj | On 25 Jun 2010 This paper analyses one of the most contentious issues in ongoing negotiations on Non-Agricultural Market Access (NAMA) under the purview of the World Trade Organisation (WTO): the tariff reduction mo...
by Prabhash Ranjan | On 22 Jun 2010 This paper explores the modification of a discourse in the context of emergence of social movement from a single issue professional campaign through a framework of Habermasian communicative action the...
by Muhammad Anwar | On 22 Jun 2010 This paper looks at the possible impact of ongoing tariff negotiations on South Asian countries, namely Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, at an aggregate level or at the Multilateral T...
by Prabhash Ranjan | On 21 Jun 2010 The paper examines the programs for Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) and concludes that DDR is set to remain an important tool, and that it is most effective when used flexibly, app...
by Walt Kilroy | On 16 Jun 2010 Two of the countryʹs biggest grape-producing districts, Nasik and Sangli, are in Maharashtra; 20,000
hectares of vineyards here grow more than one lac tons of grapes a year. As much as 99 per ce...
by Sudipto Mitra | On 15 Jun 2010 They are providing systematic evidence that intermediaries play an important role in facilitating trade using a firm-level the census of China's exports. Intermediaries account for around 20% of China...
by Jaebin Ahn | On 14 Jun 2010 Agricultural development can contribute significantly to peace by raising incomes and
employment, thereby reducing the social frustrations that give rise to violence.
Agricultural growth also gene...
by Tony Addison | On 10 Jun 2010 This paper reports findings from the survey of India’s textiles and clothing exporters. The survey method
has been used to identify and assess the impact of Non-Tariff Measures (NTMs) and the Cost of...
by Gordhan K Saini | On 09 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 This paper concentrates on two of the most contentious Non Tariff Barriers facing India and developing countries: Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) measures and Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT). It ex...
by Parashar Kulkarni | On 07 Jun 2010 This paper analyzes the prospects for liberalizing financial services under the GATS, in view of
India’s interests and concerns in this sector. The paper consists of seven sections. Section 2 discuss...
by Rupa Chanda | On 03 Jun 2010 This article talks about the rampant trade unionism which is on the verge of fading with reference to the recent short lived strike by Air India employees and many such cases.
by T.N. Ninan | On 31 May 2010 In this
paper an argument is made that the concept of inclusive growth should go beyond the traditional emphasis on the poor
(and the rest) and take into account changes in the size and economic c...
by Nancy Birdsall | On 31 May 2010 This paper reviews the capacity of colleges and universities to serve poor and vulnerable populations during past and present economic shocks. The main argument is that the environment of the global r...
by Gerard Postiglione | On 27 May 2010 The present paper attempts to fill in
the gap that exists in the Indian Leather
industry, and makes some suggestions regarding the expansion of the by examining technical efficiency (TE) of individ...
by Anup Kumar Bhandari | On 26 May 2010 This paper studies the impact of services trade liberalization under the currently negotiated EU-India
FTA on women’s lives in India and tries to delineate the concern areas. Relevant sectors of int...
by Ranja Sengupta | On 25 May 2010 The paper seeks to
prove the point that the Indian OTC derivatives markets, unlike many other
jurisdictions, are well regulated. Only contracts where one party to the contract is an
RBI regulated e...
by Dayanand Arora | On 03 May 2010 This study attempts
to provide an analysis of the gender concerns of the proposed EU India FTA in the field of agriculture and
suggest policy changes both in the FTA text as well as in domestic poli...
by Roopam Singh | On 08 Apr 2010 This paper examines the basis upon which rural and urban areas are classified as such. It looks into various criteria for the above all over the world and re-iterates the Indian definition of an ‘urba...
by V.K. Dhar | On 22 Mar 2010 The attention of the media and planners has been focussed almost exclusively on rural and tribal malnutrition. However, malnutrition among urban children, particularly the economically vulnerable slum...
by Neeraj Hatekar | On 22 Mar 2010 The paper discuses the role played by institutional behavior in determining the policy outcomes of a state. Apart from secondary data the paper is also based on information collected from selected sta...
by Deepita Chakravarty | On 19 Mar 2010 This study attempts
to provide an analysis of the gender concerns of the proposed EU India FTA in the field of agriculture and
suggest policy changes both in the FTA text as well as in domestic poli...
by Roopam Singh | On 04 Mar 2010 The implications of sea-level rise and storm surges for 84 developing countries and 577 of their cyclone-vulnerable coastal cities with populations greater than 100,000 are explored. Combining the mos...
by Susmita Dasgupta | On 25 Feb 2010 India is currently negotiating a Free Trade Agreement with the European Union, which includes not
only liberalization of commodity trading, but also a wide range of chapters including deep services
...
by Ranja Sengupta | On 17 Feb 2010 Farmers, students , organic farmers, anti-GM activists thronged to the consultation on Bt-Brinjal held late last month in Gujarat with the government.
by Claude Alvares | On 05 Feb 2010 A detailed analysis of the stakes and dynamics at play in the public, civil and self-regulation of companies in India is offered.
With the rapid growth and modernization of the country as the backdro...
by Damien Krichewsky | On 02 Feb 2010 This collection of 19 new essays written by civil
society activists, trade unionists and other water
practitioners, presents examples of ongoing
struggles against water privatization and
commercia...
by Focus on the Global South FGS | On 22 Jan 2010 The present paper analyses trade and investment relations and explores future areas of potential co-operation between India and Korea. The study also suggests the areas where there is huge scope for i...
by Pravakar Sahoo | On 14 Jan 2010 This study explores the factors determining the dependence of local people on protected area of forest based on household analysis of a Protected Area from Kerala. [WP-2007-005].
by Shylajan C.S | On 21 Dec 2009 This brief seeks to address questions on how the funds are collected, dsitributes at the international level, mechanisms to ensure that the recipient countries are managing the funds in a transparent...
by Athena Ballesteros | On 15 Dec 2009 What is m-banking, Basic characteristics of m-commerce/e-commerce, Evolution of electronic financial services (e-banking/e-commerce/m-banking/m-commerce), Role of non-banks in Indian Payment Scenario....
by Chakrabarty K C | On 14 Dec 2009 Declaration made at the end of two days national seminar on Food security and Sustainability in India held on November 7-8, 2009 organized by GAD Institute of Development Studies, PO Naushera, Amritsa...
by Gursharan Singh Kainth | On 14 Dec 2009 This paper reports findings from the survey of India’s textiles and clothing exporters. The survey method has been used to identify and assess the impact of Non-Tariff Measures (NTMs) and the Cost of...
by Gordhan K Saini | On 11 Dec 2009 There is a strong feeling among especially the West that India is
becoming very innovative. The study will take the reader through the
empirical evidence on whether this is indeed the case since the...
by Sunil Mani | On 03 Dec 2009 The paper points out that some provisions of the framework will allow developed countries to maintain and, in some cases, even increase domestic farm support and still remain WTO-compliant. In most ca...
by Parthapratim Pal | On 25 Nov 2009 This paper mainly addresses the economic dimensions, concentrating on the importance of international trade to state-building and the need for global public goods in a global market economy. The focu...
by Tony Addison | On 23 Nov 2009 A variety of institutional forms of microfinance are being
introduced in Asia including by the ADB-and financial institutions pursue different
objectives, so it is difficult to assess how well micro...
by Richard L Meyer | On 13 Nov 2009 This brief summarizes a study evaluating the potential economic effects of introducing genetically modified (GM) food crops in India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and the Philippines in the presence of trad...
by Guillaume Gruère | On 11 Nov 2009 This paper distinguishes the Intellectual Property Rights relevant to agriculture and
explain these rights. The international intellectual property law for
these rights will be described. India's in...
by Jayashree Watal | On 03 Nov 2009 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 The paper discusses the impacts of climate change to the environment of China and most especially to the livelihood of Chinese people there. It analyzed the Chinese government’s position and enumerate...
by Dale Jiajun Wen | On 16 Oct 2009 The paper argues that economism and, in particular, the individual drive to maximize utility and amass profit are not enough to ensure the efficient functioning of an economy; and that even for elemen...
by Kaushik Basu | On 09 Oct 2009 The paper discusses the impacts of free-trade policy on the agricultural exports of Kerala.
by Ranjit Devraj | On 08 Oct 2009 The emergence of a large and dynamic middle class raises Asia’s profile as an attractive market destination for products ranging from consumer goods to financial services. There are even hopes that th...
by Steffen Dyck | On 06 Oct 2009 The study seeks to answer two very basic
questions in the Indian context: first, are there economies of scale and
scope in Indian banking? In other words, are bigger banks better for India?
And, se...
by Pradeep Srivastava | On 23 Sep 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 Lack of full regional connectivity is one of the major constraints hindering regional growth and integration in Asia, as well as with the rest of the world. One of the conclusions of this paper is tha...
by Biswa N Bhattacharyay | On 11 Aug 2009 There is an incessant flow of technical innovations for newer and newer consumer goods and gadgets in our contemporary times. Even though technology has benefitted modern civilization through major sc...
by Arup Maharatna | On 10 Aug 2009 The production of machine tools has long been associated with industrialisation
besides a formidable factor of technical change and international competitiveness.
This potent role of machine tool in...
by Vinish Kathuria | On 06 Aug 2009 The focus of this paper is India. In line with TRIPS India has introduced a product patent regime in pharmaceuticals from 1 January, 2005. WIll this lead increase in resources deveoted to R and D by I...
by Sudip Chaudhuri | On 31 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 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 This paper examines the decoupling hypothesis for India. This paper analyses business cycle synchronization between India and a set of industrial economies, particularly the United States, over the pe...
by Shruthi Jayaram | On 07 Jul 2009 Over the life of RACHNA, three sets of population based surveys were conducted: 1. Program wide baseline and endline surveys for INHP-II and Chayan to assess program performance; 2.Rapid Assessments S...
by Rachna Program | On 07 Jul 2009 INHP-II promoted a set of simple interventions to influence neonatal outcomes, including antenatal tetanus toxoid, clean delivery and core care, early and exclusive breastfeeding and thermal care, as...
by Rachna Program | On 07 Jul 2009 The configuration of the liquid wealth involved a reorganization of society and the financial system with on labour and trade union organization in Brazil. The changes involved the redefinition of the...
by Jose Ricrado Goncalves | On 06 Jul 2009 North-South free trade agreements (FTAs), bilateral investment treaties (BITs) and World Trade Organization (WTO) commitments often contain a number of provisions that can increase the likelihood of a...
by Third World Network | On 28 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 It is critical to emphasize that intergovernmental fiscal relations must be thought of as a system and that all the pieces in the system must fit together if decentralization is to work properly. Vari...
by Richard.M. Bird | On 16 Jun 2009 In this paper, in order to study the impact of offshoring on sectoral and economy wide rates of unemployment, we construct a two sector general equilibrium model in which unemployment is caused by sea...
by Devashish Mitra | On 16 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 Competition law is different from other branches of law. It is not about the fairness or morality to be instilled in the actions which mark societal behaviour. Instead the rules of competition reflect...
by Tarun Jain | On 14 Jun 2009 The paper contours of a feasible design of VAT in India. It also takes on board the various alternatives proposed. It looks at the issues that need resolution and the options available for resolving t...
by R.Kavita Rao | On 12 Jun 2009 This paper is an attempt to focus on the role of Science and Technology (S&T) on regional development of India by considering 21 Indian states. The Index approach using the Principal Component techniq...
by Rajesh Shukla | On 12 Jun 2009 Widespread discontent among the people has plagued the Indian polity for sometime now. It has often led to unrest, sometimes of a violent nature. Over the years, statutory enactments and institutional...
by Expert Group Planning Commission | On 06 Jun 2009 Health economics is increasingly recognized as a discipline that has much to offer developing countries in addressing these problems, but how can it help? What economic concepts and tools can be appli...
by Anne Mills | On 04 Jun 2009 End stage organ failure is very distressing condition. Initially, there was only palliativetreatment for end stage organ failure such as hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis. Later on, the advancement...
by Viroj Tangcharoensathien | On 04 Jun 2009 The 1994 Marrakesh Agreement establishing the World Trade Organization (the WTO Agreement), requires each WTO member to “ensure the conformity of its laws, regulations and administrative procedures wi...
by Chaisse Julien | On 04 Jun 2009 The study brings out several organizational, social, cultural and political constraints, which hinder effective implementation of regulations. Lack of human resources and skills, poor allocations, del...
by Nimal Attanayake | On 04 Jun 2009 China and India, Asia's two largest and most dynamic societies, have come to be important players in regional and global decision-making. Both countries have had their share of experience in colonial...
by Swaran Singh | On 03 Jun 2009 While in the era of globalization, millions of women got paid employment in labour-intensive industries in developing countries, they still face precarious working conditions. Women rights violations...
by Franziska Humbert | On 01 Jun 2009 In the context of the deepening global crisis that is pushing millions more women, children, and men into poverty in developing countries, development should be the centerpiece of reforming the global...
by Kevin P. Gallagher | On 29 May 2009 The task of the Sub-committee was to review the existing methodologies for estimating the contribution of unorganised/informal sector to GDP and suggest measures to facilitate direct estimation. The G...
by NCEUS NCEUS | On 28 May 2009 India’s patent reforms represent a shift in India’s policy from one of enormous opposition to revising patent laws according to the WTO, to one of compliance with many aspects of TRIPs (Trade Related...
by Anitha Ramanna | On 26 May 2009 Speech is about the role of IT in the Indian financial sector [Keynote address at the Banking Technology Awards 2008 of the Institute for Development & Research in Banking Technology, Hyderabad].
by D Subbarao | On 25 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 India’s foreign policy has had an anomalous quality since the time Jawaharlal Nehru resolutely attempted to steer clear of Cold War alliances. This continues to be so given India’s unique situation of...
by Sushil J Aaron | On 21 May 2009 Despite the rapid development of economic interaction between the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries, their trade and investment ties are still in their...
by Masahiro Kawai | On 20 May 2009 Papers and Proceedings of The Third Annual Himalayan Policy Research ConferenceSession Chairs and Discussants
Session 1A: Conflict Resolution and Democratic Transitions
Chair: Christopher Can...
by Vijaya R. Sharma | On 19 May 2009 This paper offers a review of the concepts and definitions used in the NSS Employment-Unemployment Surveys (EUS, for short) which have remained virtually unchanged since they were introduced in the NS...
by K. Sundaram | On 15 May 2009 Capitalizing on the most recent worldwide estimates of the impacts of climate change on agricultural production, this paper assesses the economic effects of climate change for Southeast Asian countrie...
by Fan Zhai | On 14 May 2009 The focus of this paper is on food miles issues associated with the import of products from developing countries. As the concept of food miles has been an issue in organic agriculture since before the...
by Els Wynen | On 14 May 2009 This paper reassesses the nature of the epidemiological evidence underpinning one of the Global Burden of Disease topics: the estimate for the global burden of depression. Specifically, we look at the...
by Petra Brhlikova | On 14 May 2009 The appropriate use of oxytocin, one of the drugs on which is the focus in the ‘Tracing Pharmaceuticals’ project, is directly linked to Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 (relating to child mortali...
by Patricia Jeffrey | On 14 May 2009 The growth of ethical consumerism in developed countries has led to increased imports of environmentally and socially certified products produced by the poor in developing countries, which could poten...
by Sununtar Setboonsarng | On 13 May 2009 A lively debate is taking place over the impact of free trade agreements (FTAs) on East Asia's business between those who view the agreements as a harmful Asian "noodle bowl"—i.e., overlapping regiona...
by Masahiro Kawai | On 13 May 2009 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 The
paper’s focus is on successful Chinese policies that can be emulated by other countries to an extent (within certain bounds) which mentined in the article. The author is not trying to draw lesson...
by Arvind Virmani | On 22 Apr 2009 Communal riots have become an annual feature
of Indian life, although their number varies from year to year. A situation has come to pacs where maddening communal
violence, arbitrary actions of exe...
by People's Union for Democratic Rights PUDR | On 16 Apr 2009 India’s opportunities and constraints to trade in
energy services within the GATS framework are examined. The study found that India has the capability of
exporting high-skilled manpower at competit...
by Arpita Mukherjee | On 25 Feb 2009 Telecom operators in India have initiated their move towards Next Generation Networks (NGN) by
implementing IP based core network. In order to identify & address various issues
related to Next Gen...
by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India TRAI | On 04 Feb 2009 This paper tries to analyze the interrelationship between possibilities of conflict
in cross border mergers and acquisitions and firm and market characteristics in a two
country three firm model. Th...
by Poonam Mehra | On 14 Jan 2009 This paper attempts a critical review of the performance and policy concerning the
micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in globalizing India since the early
1990s whence economic reforms were...
by Keshab Das | On 02 Jan 2009 This consultation paper attempts to solicit the views of stakeholders on the issues involving quality of service aspects of cable television service in non-CAS area. Additionally, some new quality of...
by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India TRAI | On 08 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 task of workforce development in India faces the changing realities of globalization and competitiveness, on one hand, and the need for inclusive growth on the other. This report focuses on the is...
by Shyamal Majumdar | On 30 Nov 2008 The competitiveness among the firms in Indian cement industry has also been
evaluated. For the year 2006-07, out of the sample of seventeen firms (90.21% of the total market share), about 47% have re...
by G Burange | On 19 Nov 2008 The paper provides an overview of the nature of trade in health services in the world economy. It oulines some of the general implications of trade in health services for national health systems for a...
by Rupa Chanda | On 13 Nov 2008 This paper aims at developing an explicit ‘vertical’ dimension to chronic poverty research that focuses on ‘adverse incorporation and social exclusion’ (AISE). an effort is made here to sensitise lite...
by Stefano Ponte | On 31 Oct 2008 The paper starts by recapitulating the basic arguments provided by economic theory to explain the existence of the patent system. The paper then concentrates on the three important ICT industries viz....
by C Niranjan Rao | On 30 Oct 2008 The wine market is a pretty paradoxical research object for the economical and marketing studies. In France alone, every year, hundreds of thousands of new brand differentiated products are marketed....
by Geneviève Teil | On 15 Oct 2008 This paper reviews India’s experience to understand how services sector
liberalisation can generate (welfare) gains for developing countries, in particular vis-à-vis its employment generation potenti...
by Suparna Karmakar | On 14 Oct 2008 Malaysia and Australia hope to conclude free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations by 2009, said International Trade and Industry Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin. [Bilaterals.org]
by Teh Eng Hock | On 08 Oct 2008 The study tries to focus on the violation of human rights that occur in prostitution. It holds that it is the responsibility of the state to protect these human rights and address the fundamental stru...
by Nina Srivastava | On 30 Sep 2008 This Centad working paper takes a critical look at the Hong Kong Ministerial text on agriculture and NAMA. On the basis of this analysis, the paper suggests specific and important negotiating points f...
by Prabhash Ranjan | On 30 Sep 2008 The paper discuses the effects free trade with United States of America will have on New Zealand, and its economy.
by Bill Rosenberg | On 29 Sep 2008 The lecture is about the payment system in India, which is an important element of the financial sector infrastructure. The lecture also shows the evolution and objectives of the Indian payment system...
by Leeladhar V | On 25 Sep 2008 The paper analyzes the impact of Colombia,s free trade with USA on the economies of US and Colombia. It also discuses the relationship between USA and Colombia.
by Nicole Lee | On 25 Sep 2008 This paper is an account of the main streams discussed in an international conference, held in New York in April 2008,
organized by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and
Global Policy Forum, which cons...
by James A. Paul | On 24 Sep 2008 The paper analyses the impact of the reach of communist parties, the degree of political activism, personal attributes of workers, and industrial characteristics on the individual decision to unionise...
by Rupayan Pal | On 22 Sep 2008 The study is taken up in the state of Andhra Pradesh with the following objectives:
1. To study the opportunities and challenges in processing of rice, fruits and
vegetables, oilseeds and livestock...
by S.Mahendra Dev | On 17 Sep 2008 This study assesses the Five Year Plans and relevant government policies adopted to garner India's climate change goals and priorities. It attempts to highlight key climate change concerns from a brie...
by Centre for Trade and Development CENTAD | On 17 Sep 2008 The comparison of the key features of trade integration processes and the economic outcomes in China and India reveals that while much has already been achieved in both these economies, the Chinese re...
by Przemyslaw Kowalski | On 09 Sep 2008 Despite more than a quarter century of intense research into the phenomenon of
intra-industry trade (the import and export of goods belonging to the same industry, hereafter abbreviated as IIT), se...
by Aditya Bhattacharjea | On 01 Sep 2008 The draft protocol provides practical guidelines to key stakeholders on crucial issues
relating to prevention, rescue, repatriation and rehabilitation of trafficked and
migrant child labour. Comment...
by Ministry of Labour and Employment MoL&E | On 30 Aug 2008 India represents a sharp contrast to China in the small size of its goods trade. Although India’s GDP is a third that of China, its global trade is only about 12 percent as large while its trade with...
by Barry Bosworth | On 22 Aug 2008 The current study seeks to understand the effectiveness of commercials that are basically nation-wide commercials dubbed in the regional languages, while not changing any part of the visual: thus they...
by Venkatesh P | On 16 Aug 2008 A broad overview of the achievements and progress made by the Indian
banking sector in the last two decades and the emerging frontiers of the Indian banking system, in the post-reform era. [Address d...
by Leeladhar V | On 11 Aug 2008 The industrial dispute act 1947, provides the basis for settling disputes that may arise between employers and employees. According to the act if concerned parties are unable to resolve the dispute, t...
by Jaivir Singh | On 08 Aug 2008 Eleventh Five Year Plan 2007-12
by Planning Commission, India | On 06 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 In this paper, a model of North-South trade is developed to analyze the impact of a label certifying the absence of child labour in the export production of the South. [WP no 144].
by Jean Marie Baland | On 19 Jul 2008 This article is an attempt to look at debates in the light of the Assemblies' tryst with panchayats. It should be noted that it is not an evaluation of what transpired in the state Assemblies. In view...
by Girish Kumar | On 03 Jul 2008 For most developed countries, "opening up" of the economy has meant the reduction
of non-prohibitive tariffs and the easing or abolition of quantitative restrictions. For manydeveloping countries and...
by Aditya Bhattacharjea | On 20 Jun 2008 The introduction of the Chairman to the Draft presented for discussion based upon the 2006 text and to move the negotiations forward by proposing specific outcomes, not rehearsing everyone’s position,...
by World Trade Organisation WTO | On 19 Jun 2008 Submitted to Trade Negotiations Committee in response to request of members for language of full modalities on non-agricultural market access (NAMA) negotiations. As a result of the failure of the neg...
by World Trade Organisation WTO | On 19 Jun 2008 The revised text is the product of his bilateral and plurilateral consultations of the February meeting and builds on the July 2006 text “Towards NAMA modalities”, and the Hong Kong Ministerial Declar...
by World Trade Organisation WTO | On 19 Jun 2008 The chair of the Non Agricultural Market Access (NAMA) negotiating group, ambassador Don Stephenson, released on 19 May 2008 the revised draft negotiating text to focus further discussions towards mod...
by World Trade Organisation WTO | On 19 Jun 2008 The paper undertakes a detailed mapping out of the sectoral system of innovation of India's pharmaceutical industry. The industry is one of the most innovative industries in the Indian manufacturing s...
by Sunil Mani | On 15 Jun 2008 The paper reviews the impact of Globalization on developing economies workers in informal economy and gender implications on the process. Globalization created some insecurity for the workers in infor...
by Jeemol Unni | On 05 Jun 2008 With the liberalization of trade Viet Nam became the 150th member of World Trade Organization in January 2007. The country became an example to the world on how trade can spur the economic and social...
by David Kinley | On 03 Jun 2008 The important elements of inclusive growth are: agricultural growth,
employment generation and poverty reduction, social sector (health and education) and
reduction in regional and other disparities...
by S.Mahendra Dev | On 31 May 2008 The purpose of creating an industrial tribunal was to introduce compulsory adjudication where voluntary negotiation fails and the ‘appropriate government’ believes that the matter is grave enough to b...
by Navjyoti Samanta | On 13 May 2008 The challenges for journalists and the media community in South Asia encompass a range of factors that indicate the level of press freedom in any country: Physical attacks, threats and questionable le...
by Sukumar Muralidharan | On 04 May 2008 The principles of the ‘bottom-up’ approach to adaptation are followed. It believes that one of the starting points for adaptation to climate change should be the present. The focus should not just be...
by Lucy Scott | On 13 Apr 2008 This report on the state of displaced persons in the North and East of Sri Lanka analyses the security condition and concerns of those who live in makeshifts and camps in conflict affected areas. It p...
by South Asians for Human Rights SAHR | On 11 Apr 2008 A monthly compilation by IRIS.
by IRIS India IRIS | On 09 Apr 2008 The role of economists in trade debates is especially pernicious because there is no area of economics in which economists have been less honest about what their models show. They have consistently ex...
by Dean Baker | On 17 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 A bill to provide for the rehabilitation and resettlement of persons affected by the acquisition of land for projects of public purpose or involuntary displacement due to any other reason, and for mat...
by Lok Sabha | On 07 Feb 2008 This paper highlights the status of the Indian biopharmaceutical industry and also makes a comparison with the global scenario. It also discusses the current situation regarding patenting biopharmaceu...
by Lalitha N | On 05 Feb 2008 This paper discusses the emerging contradictions that may have serious implications for the sustainable growth and performance of China’s rubber industry in the era of internal restructuring and globa...
by Viswanathan P K | On 30 Jan 2008 A monthly compilation by IRIS.
by IRIS India IRIS | On 11 Jan 2008 KIA proposes to bring a paradigm shift in Indian Agriculture in terms of human resource development, research, technology generation, technology dissemination and commercialization. In the short run,...
by Ramanjaneyulu G V | On 05 Jan 2008 Under certain conditions it is optimal for the noninnovating south to give patent protection for a longer time period than the innovating north. A cooperative patent agreement involves a larger protec...
by Swapnendu Banerjee | On 03 Jan 2008 The outline of an action agenda to address issues regarding barriers to creating an equitable society that we urgently need to take up. [at XXXI ISSC at SNDT women's University].
by Datye K R | On 28 Dec 2007 This thematic review focuses on the siting, construction and operation of large dam facilities (or their alternatives) as sources of significant conflict, and as opportunities to involve many interest...
by RESOLVE Inc et al | On 26 Dec 2007 The important determinants that have influence on travellers to choosing a particular airline are analysed. Data from primary and secondary sources have been used for this paper. A field survey was co...
by Ershad Ali | On 12 Dec 2007 The EFA Global Monitoring Report offers an authoritative reference for comparing
the experiences of countries, understanding the positive impact of specific policies
and recognizing that progress ha...
by UNESCO Publishing | On 05 Dec 2007 There is a large untapped trade potential between the two countries. Using the potential trade approach, the study finds that the export potential from India to Pakistan is to the tune of US$ 9.5 bill...
by Nisha Taneja | On 29 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 Reserve Bank, as the regulator of the banking sector, has been actively engaged, from the very beginning, in the review, examination and evaluation of customer service in the banks. It has been re...
by Leeladhar V | On 26 Oct 2007 In a globalising economy, regional or national benchmarks do not suffice any more. Be it technology or business method or practices, Indian small scale entrepreneurs will have to benchmark their curre...
by Anil K Gupta | On 10 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 This paper has the objective of analysing the determinants of FII investment in firms in high-tech corporate sectors like automobiles, drugs and pharmaceuticals, IT software and IT hardware for the pe...
by B.L. Pandit | On 08 Oct 2007 The Reserve Bank had constituted an internal working group to review the existing access criteria and suggest changes that may be adopted for access to Payment and Settlement Systems. The Group has pr...
by Reserve Bank of India | On 05 Oct 2007 This paper addresses the final steps to global free trade -- the political economy forces that might drive them, and the role the WTO might play in guiding them. Two facts form the departure point: 1)...
by Richard Baldwin | On 05 Oct 2007 This paper is intended to be a contribution towards the improvement of
transparency and efficiency of patentability examination for pharmaceuticals inventions, particularly in developing countries. I...
by Carlos Correa | On 23 Sep 2007 The price volatility of agricultural commodities assumes critical importance in the context of the ongoing debate regarding agricultural trade liberalisation in India. The arguments against agricultur...
by C S C Sekhar | On 12 Sep 2007 Need for SOPs (standard operating procedures) in many government departments can be seen form the maintenance of cities in India. Many unplanned decisions have caused difficulties to pedestrians. It h...
by T.N. Ninan | On 10 Sep 2007 This study has two closely related objectives: to evaluate post-Uruguay Round market access conditions and to contribute to a clarification of the stakes in the ongoing process of multilateral trade n...
by Marc Bacchetta. | On 27 Aug 2007 There are various conceivable links between services liberalization and poverty reduction, including the efficiency effects associated with increased competition in intermediate (infrastructural) serv...
by Rolf Adlung | On 27 Aug 2007 This paper takes a critical approach to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and
proposes a radical solution involving more direct involvement of civil society and the
private sector in WTO governing...
by Saif Al-Islam Alqadhafi | On 27 Aug 2007 With the abolition of prohibition on forward trade in all the commodities at the beginning of 2003, the commodity derivativesmarket has been totally liberalized. The Ramamoorthy Committee set up by SE...
by Ministry for Consumer Affairs,Food and Public Dist MCAFP | On 26 Aug 2007 The introduction or expansion of a nuclear power programme in a country and its successful execution is largely dependent on the network of national infrastructure, covering a wide range of activities...
by International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA | On 21 Aug 2007 The doctrine of precedent is getting established in WTO and seems to be there to stay however much it is argued otherwise. Neglect of this fact means that we are overlooking some of the problematic de...
by Sheela Rai | On 08 Aug 2007 This study aims to identify the trend and disparity in development in the education sector at the district level; examine the factors that led to this inter district variation in education sector deve...
by V. Nagarajan Naidu | On 03 Aug 2007 This report analyzes the ITRIPS agreement. It discuses the problems and stakes, and consequences of this agreement. The report also provides case studies related to the topic and finally gives a sugge...
by Andrea Onori | On 21 Jul 2007 The welfare of the producers are analysed with the main focus on small farmers. The analysis presented in the paper is an approximation of the general equilibrium analysis. The four parts of this appr...
by Surabhi Mittal | On 16 Jul 2007 This paper follows the new economic geography approach to model the relationships
between trade policy and spatial agglomeration of production in the context of a small open
developing economy. It c...
by Ayele Gelan | On 13 Jul 2007 The different arrangements and groupings involved between India and South- East Asia are presented. The multi-faceted relations between them is asked in institutional terms, but also in normative term...
by Laurence Henry | On 06 Jul 2007 Review of High-Tech Industries in China by Chien-Hsun Chen and Hui-
Tzu Shih. RBI Occasional Papers, Vol. 27, No. 1 and 2, Summer and Monsoon 2006.
by Brijesh Pazhayathodi | On 05 Jul 2007 The September 2007 annual summit of APEC to be hosted by Australia will witness the ending of the decade long moratorium on membership. A major anomaly of the APEC is that while the three largest econ...
by Mukul Asher | On 26 Jun 2007 Earlier this year, the Indian government’s High Powered Expert Committee (HPEC) put forward its recommendations on how Mumbai could be made into an International Financial Center. The HPEC’s report co...
by Sanjeev Sanyal | On 19 Jun 2007 The relationship between trade liberalization and industrial productivity in developing countries, drawing upon a large number of studies in Latin America, Africa and Asia is explored. Beginning with...
by Deb Kusum Das | On 18 Jun 2007 Do the short and medium term adjustment costs associated with trade liberalization influence schooling and child labor decisions? This question is examined in the context of India's 1991 tariff reform...
by Eric Edmonds | On 13 Jun 2007 The impact of liberalisation on labour markets is examined by the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI), trade and technology on wages and employment in Indian organised manufacturing industries...
by Rashmi Banga | On 01 Jun 2007 Analysis is made to the extent of barriers to entry in Indian manufacturing by empirically quantifying the height of these barriers. Econometric estimation of the height of the barriers for 1991 and 1...
by M Suresh Babu | On 28 May 2007 Stalemate in agricultural negotiations at the WTO has persisted with a continued lack of convergence on most important issues of trade-distorting domestic support, market access and related flex...
by Linu Mathew Philip | On 08 May 2007 This paper argues that IBSA( India, Brazil, South Africa) as opposed to IBSAC (with China) is a far more coherent group when it comes to WTO negotiations as its interests coincide given the agenda tha...
by Debashis Chakraborty | On 25 Apr 2007 The study is based on an extensive survey carried out in the Indian cities of Chennai, Trichy, Thiruvananthapuram, Tuticorin, Mumbai and Rameshwaram. Informal trade between India and Sri Lanka is larg...
by Nisha Taneja | On 19 Apr 2007 This article analyses the importance of international commercial service transactions relating to both trade and investment, which form an essential element of analyzing production fragmentation and e...
by Mukul Asher | On 17 Apr 2007 - What would post-autistic trade policy be?
Alan Goodacre (UK)
On the need for a heterodox health economics : Robert McMaster (University of Aberdeen, UK)
- True cost environment...
by PAER Post Autistic Economic Review | On 17 Apr 2007 This study examines the patterns and determinants of maternal health care use across different social setting in south India: in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. Data source for...
by Navaneetham K | On 10 Apr 2007 India and Sri Lanka are in the process of negotiating Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement. In this context, the study shows that since there has been an increase in services trade between the...
by Nisha Taneja | On 09 Apr 2007 This paper outlines the significance of services for South Asia and discusses the possible strategies to secure the region's trade and development interests through the GATS negotiations.
by Rupa Chanda | On 05 Apr 2007 This article traces the history of negotiations in the WTO on Trade Facilitation, the only Singapore issue that has survived beyond Doha and Cancun. Last ten years of sustained work by the negotiators...
by Shashank Priya | On 27 Mar 2007 The paper explores the factors that are pushing the development of ethical trade and also the potential constraints.
by Anne Tallontire | On 15 Mar 2007 By the end of 1999 World Trade Organization (WTO) will complete its five years of existence. At that time, re-negotiation on Agreement on Agriculture (AOA) will also begin. It is time to take a retros...
by Satish Y Deodhar | On 14 Mar 2007 Approaching maturity, Fair Trade faces challenges at both ends of the supply chain, reflecting the dual roles of Fair Trade as a business and development instrument. Who should supply the Fair Trade...
by Anne Tallontire | On 12 Mar 2007 The Budget is ‘exciting’ precisely because it has at least decided to pay a little more than lip service to the so-called social sector. And Finance Ministers then tend to increase allocations for the...
by S Srinivasan | On 08 Mar 2007 Ever since plantation agriculture initiated by European capital and enterprise became an important form of exploitation of resources in the colonies, small holdings and small holders in the plantation...
by Michael Tharakan | On 05 Mar 2007 While welcoming the move to withdraw the Report of the Technical Expert Group on Patent Law Issues AIDAN has issued a statement that the group must not be allowed to re-submit the report. The matter m...
by All India Drug Action Forum AIDAN | On 04 Mar 2007 The report intends to provide general and specific recommendations to both provider and recipient nations that they should take into consideration while undertaking any TA programme in a recipient nat...
by Rajesh Sagar | On 25 Feb 2007 the objective of this report is to analyse the existing and potential
links that can be established between current Geographical Indications (GIs) and regional sustainable development. A case study a...
by Mariano Riccheri, | On 24 Feb 2007 Contents:
Data Exclusivity: Another Self-Goal and a Trade Barrier S.Srinivasan.
Medico Friend Circle Letter to PM on DE.
DE in International Trade Agreements.
IDMA on DP and DE.
Safeguards if...
by Medico Friend Circle | On 01 Feb 2007 Productivity growth has long been associated with, among others, contestability of
markets which, in turn, is dependent on the ease with which potential competitors to the incumbent firms can enter t...
by Sumon Kumar Bhaumik | On 11 Jan 2007 This paper contends that the general understanding that precedent system does not apply in the WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism. The author argues that the drafters or the negotiators always wanted to...
by Sheela Rai | On 09 Jan 2007 The EU Commission argues that radical changes to he origin rules will both simplify processes and make them more development friendly. Will they? There are different opinions on what Rules of Origin s...
by Christopher Stevens | On 06 Jan 2007 In the context of the TRIPS agreement and the accompanying debate about the merits of the requirement to enforce product patents for pharmaceuticals, this paper provides a rigorously-derived estimate...
by Shubham Chaudhuri | On 27 Dec 2006 This paper examines the changing role of the government and market in regulating
the telecommunications sector since 1996 in Taiwan. It also explores changes in the institutional framework for regula...
by Kuo-Tai Cheng | On 22 Dec 2006 India’s negotiating position on services has undergone a paradigm shift since the Uruguay Round. From being a leading opponent of the GATS in the early stages, India has now emerged as one of the cham...
by Kasturi Das | On 16 Dec 2006 Taking into account the latest data of exports of textiles and clothing to the European Union from South Asia and China, a year-end assessment of the impact of the Generalised System of Preferences (...
by C. Satapathy | On 14 Dec 2006 This paper strongly suggests that India has been far more intricately integrated with the rest of Asia than has commonly been perceived or acknowledged. This is particularly the case if overall value...
by Mukul Asher | On 12 Dec 2006 The effect of globalization on knowledge exchange, which is mediated very largely through scientific journals being published in English, and having their origins in Europe and North America, has resu...
by Academy of South Africa | On 27 Nov 2006 This paper outlines a facilitative procedure for settlement of disputes in the area of trade facilitation when the party against which a complaint has been lodged in a dispute happens to be a developi...
by C. Satapathy | On 23 Nov 2006 The Committee’s present examination of ‘Availability and Price Management of Drugs and Pharmaceuticals’ is with the objective of making available quality medicines at affordable prices to the masses....
by Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers, Government | On 21 Nov 2006 The Indian society has been multicultural for many centuries. But the texture of this 'multicultural Indian identity' has changed drastically in the last decade or so. Earlier, when two cultures came...
by Makarand Sathe | On 20 Nov 2006 This overview of trends and issues concerning young people and the media is based on a broad review of existing print and electronic sources, interviews with child media experts from different regions...
by Susan Gigli | On 14 Nov 2006 Malaysia is finding it difficult to translate current favourable macro-economic environment, and the commodity boom into sustainable competitive advantage in manufacturing and services and to cope wit...
by Mukul Asher | On 03 Nov 2006 Data Exclusivity: Another Self-Goal and a Trade Barrier S.Srinivasan
Medico Friend Circle Letter to PM on DE
DE in International Trade Agreements
IDMA on DP and DE
Safeguards if Decision by Go...
by Medico Friend Circle | On 03 Nov 2006 A comprehensive inventory of bilateral FTAs on a global scale, with sections on Africa and the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific, and Latin America and the Caribbean. It highlights the key points of e...
by Bilaterals.org | On 03 Nov 2006 Given the divergence in economic and institutional structures in the region, any attempt to create a common currency absent macroeconomic policy coordination and mechanism for automatic intra-regional...
by Ramkishen S. Rajan | On 30 Oct 2006 Given the divergence in economic and institutional structures in the region, any attempt to create a common currency absent macroeconomic policy coordination and mechanism for automatic intra-regional...
by Ramkishen S. Rajan | On 30 Oct 2006 Globalization, or integration with the world economy via WTO membership, was expected to increase foriegn investment and benefit the labour intensive manufacturing sector in China. Yet, although forei...
by Anita Chan | On 26 Oct 2006 Investors in today’s India should not need to seek escape from poor infrastructure and irrational labour laws, in special zones; rather, the underlying problems should be tackled in the country as a w...
by T.N. Ninan | On 01 Oct 2006 The upward harmonization through TRIPS, the TRIPS Plus provision in
various bilateral and free trade agreements is resulting in the global
spread of the enclosure with nation states acting as guaran...
by Krishna Ravi Srinivas | On 29 Aug 2006 This article reflects on the effectiveness of trade liberalization, as
envisaged in the Information Technology Agreement (ITA) of the WTO,
for promoting ICT use and production in developing countrie...
by K.J. Joseph | On 29 Jul 2006 In the light of the observations of the Supreme Court in its order dated 17th
April 2006, the Prime Minister constituted the Sardar Sarovar Project Relief &
Rehabilitation Oversight Group. The manda...
by V.K. Shunglu | On 28 Jul 2006 In convening the third session of the World Urban Forum in Vancouver, the United Nations Human Settlements Program has asked us to focus our attention on the Sustainable City and consider critical cha...
by Patricia L. McCarney | On 13 Jul 2006 Do we aspire to be a ‘global’ city like Shanghai, with all the spit and polish to attract foreign investors by the drove? Or can we aim to be a city with a sustainable plan for its development – one t...
by Kalpana Sharma | On 13 Jul 2006 The argument in this paper is in four parts: First, the author suggests that we can no longer treat cities apart from the regions surrounding them with which they are
intensively entwined. Second, t...
by John Freidman | On 13 Jul 2006 Introducing data exclusivity would require intending generic manufacturers to conduct their own duplicate trials – a process guaranteed to add further costs. The immediate entry of competitors after e...
by S Srinivasan | On 11 Jul 2006 Introducing data exclusivity would require the intending generic manufacturers to conduct their own duplicate trials – a process guaranteed to add costs. The immediate entry of competitors after exclu...
by S Srinivasan | On 11 Jul 2006 Bt Brinjal is being developed in India by Mahyco [Maharashtra Hybrid Seeds Company] and the company wants to take up large scale field trials with the permission of the regulatory authority, GEAC. N...
by Centre for Sustainable Agriculture CSA | On 03 Jun 2006 The aim of this paper is to analyse India's anti dumping behaviour.
India has become a major user of anti dumping measures, initiating more
than 300 cases against many of its trading partners. After...
by Nandana Baruah | On 23 May 2006 The formulation of appropriate criteria for origin determination is crucial for any country or regional trading block interested in ensuring growth and economic. Perhaps this is the single most impor...
by C. Satapathy | On 19 May 2006 Any exercise in mapping the current status of any social science discipline is a mammoth task, as it involves the normative concerns as well as the personal perceptions of the sociologist who treads t...
by Paramjit S Judge | On 16 May 2006 Accounting for forest wealth is an important ingredient in creating a
framework for analysing policy trade-offs. This study describes forestry-related stocks and flows in terms of land area (under fo...
by Haripriya Gundimeda | On 15 May 2006 On November 28, 2003, roughly 300 grassroots activists, people affected by
large dams and representatives from NGOs gathered in a small village in Rasi
Salai district in Northeast Thailand. They met...
by Susanne Wong | On 25 Apr 2006 The dams debate is simple because behind the array of facts and figures, of economic statistics and engineering calculations, lie a number of basic and easily understood principles. If adhered to and...
by World Commission on Dams WCD | On 24 Apr 2006 This paper assesses the impact of India’s unilateral tariff reductions and lowering
of quantitative restrictions since 1991. It then evaluates the WTO commitments on nonagricultural market access in...
by Bishwanath Goldar | On 21 Apr 2006 Global outsourcing, technical change, and falling barriers to trade worldwide have
transformed the structure of production and global competition in the textile and apparel industry. This sector has...
by Meenu Tiwari | On 20 Apr 2006 A SWOT analysis of the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry (IPI) in the WTO regime
reveals that the much acclaimed IPI’s expertise in process development skills
were made possible by the amendments made...
by N. Lalitha | On 28 Mar 2006 It’s healthy for news organizations to be much more open about their decision making than they have been in the past. But in response to relentless pounding from bloggers and other critics, is the tra...
by Rachel Smolkin | On 26 Mar 2006 An analysis of regional differences in the flow of FDI in China and India is important as in both these countries a few regions account for the bulk of FDI inflows. There are very few studies on regi...
by N.S. Siddharthan | On 23 Mar 2006 Hans Wolfgang Singer, development economist, died on February 26 2006.
Singer's best known work relates to the declining terms of trade experienced by developing countries. First published in 1949,...
by Richard Jolly | On 22 Mar 2006 Technology: The Siren Song of Technonationalism by David Kang and Adam Segal
India’s Coming Eclipse of China by Hugo Restall
Trade: Social Justice and Global Trade by Joseph Stiglitz
Law: Chinese L...
by Far Eastern Economic Review | On 07 Mar 2006 Wishing away a Condition: Issues of Concern in the
Control and Treatment of Leprosy - Jan Swasthya Sahayog(JSS)
How to Count the Poor Correctly versus
Illogical Official Procedures - Utsa Patnaik...
by Medico Friend Circle | On 04 Mar 2006 The main objective of the paper is to explore the role of Japan in the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral and Technical Cooperation (BIMSTEC). The analysis suggests that BIMSTEC-Japan cooper...
by Mukul Asher | On 26 Feb 2006 Why has India has performed poorly in attracting export oriented foreign direct investment (EFDI) as compared to its peer groups such as China. The empirical literature on the location of EFDI indic...
by Jaya Prakash Pradhan | On 20 Feb 2006 Despite numerous empirical studies examining various facets of the topic, the degree of intraregional financial integration in East Asia remains a matter of vigorous debate. This paper offers a select...
by Tony Cavoli | On 07 Feb 2006 This paper deals with the challenges of fiscal federalism in
planned economies. Planned economies through their various policy instruments to
control the resource allocation introduce several source...
by M.Govinda Rao | On 06 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 A note on the long-awaited Draft National Pharmaceutical Policy 2006. The Policy appears to have taken into consideration consumer needs, paying respect to rational therapeutics. A closer examinati...
by All-India Drug Action Network (AIDAN) | On 28 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 This paper addresses two sets of questions related to IT development and lessons to be drawn for other regions both in and outside India. Firstly, based on original fieldwork an additional argument t...
by Florian A. Taube | On 19 Jan 2006 This paper distinguishes the contribution of information and communication technology (ICT) sector to economic development by manufacturing and service activities in Karnataka State. Using the availab...
by M.R. Narayana | On 19 Jan 2006 In 2002 the government had formulated a new Drug Policy,
but the same could not be implemented due to litigation involving
it. As a consequence, the policy of 1994 continues to be in force.The
pr...
by Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals | On 16 Jan 2006 Lecture at RIS, New Delhi December 2005
by Ramkishen S. Rajan | On 12 Jan 2006 It is puzzling how much the discourse of development has backed
away from the seemingly central question of rural poverty: land.
Elaborate rules concerning its distribution, rights, regulation, prot...
by Ronald Herring | On 12 Jan 2006 This paper examines the evidence on the constraints that farmers face in participating in a programme evolved by 'somebody else' viz, ‘the government’, .
The paper begins with a discussion on the typ...
by G.Ananda Vadivelu | On 09 Jan 2006 The paper examines corruption in the institutions of local government in
Karnataka, using a Logit model. One of the arguments in favour of
decentralisation in developing countries is that it provide...
by V. Vijayalakshmi | On 09 Jan 2006 There are strenuous difficulties in managing competing social groups,
segments and regions in the political landscape of Karnataka. These difficulties have been accentuated by touchy issues of status...
by Pamela Price | On 09 Jan 2006 How has the political leadership in Karnataka contributed to the state's economic developmet? In order to assess the role that the political leadership has played, the author examines the role of the...
by Gujjarappa Thimmaiah | On 09 Jan 2006 This paper examines changes that have (and have not) occurred – at the
village level in Karnataka where most or the state’s residents live, and at
higher levels when they impinge upon villages – sin...
by James Manor | On 09 Jan 2006 This paper analyses the opportunities in services trade that may arise out of the India-ASEAN Economic Cooperation to makes an assessment of the net gains that could arise from liberalisation of the c...
by Suparna Karmakar | On 24 Dec 2005 The next major boost to world trade is expected to come from greater trade in
services. And this is possible only when greater liberalization in services is achieved which in turn depends on the prog...
by Rajeev Ahuja | On 24 Dec 2005 The Task Force recommends that price regulation should be on the basis of ‘Essentiality’ of the drug and it should be applied only to formulations and not to upstream products, such as bulk drugs. No...
by Task Force on Pharmaceutical Pricing | On 22 Dec 2005 Revised Minsterial text adopted at the Hong Kong Ministerial Conference
by World Trade Organisation | On 20 Dec 2005 The Draft document circulated at the beginning of the Sixth WTO Ministerial Conference held in Hong Kong, China, 13–18 December 2005.
by World Trade Organisation | On 19 Dec 2005 This paper gives insights into the possible trade creating effects of service trade liberalization via Mode 4. In particular we expect that temporary movements of persons, like permanent movements, h...
by Marion Jansen | On 19 Dec 2005 This paper analyzes the risks of preference erosion arising from MFN trade liberalization in manufactured products. It focuses on developing countries that receive non-reciprocal preferences in the m...
by Patrick Low | On 19 Dec 2005 The Cotonou Agreement introduces new fundamental principles with respect to trade between the European Union and African, Caribbean and Pacific countries relative to the Lomé Convention: in particula...
by Alexander Keck | On 19 Dec 2005 The status of public services is one of the most hotly debated issues surrounding the GATS. There are two approaches to distinguish such services from any other services: an institutional approach t...
by Rolf Adlung | On 19 Dec 2005 This paper analyses the present state of play of WTO negotiations and evaluates how effective the current WTO provisions will be to reduce domestic subsidies in developed countries. The findings sugg...
by Parthaprathim Pal | On 12 Dec 2005 This paper looks at how the term ‘dumping’ is understood by the economists, trade and trade officials and multilateral bodies like the WTO and traces the origin and evolution of antidumping measures...
by C. Satapathy | On 12 Dec 2005 It has become increasingly clear that the services negotiations under the Doha Development Agenda will not produce significant improvements on current commitments unless major new impetus is provided....
by Rudolf Adhung | On 11 Dec 2005 As developing countries including those from South Asia, rally forces and evaluate options ahead of the Hong Kong Ministerial meeting in December 2005, Non Agricultural Market Access (NAMA) assumes im...
by Prabash Ranjan | On 29 Nov 2005 This paper looks at the effects of WTO/TRIPS and pharmaceuticals on women. The focus is on the poor and women. The first part of the paper tries to show the linkages between the idea of intellectual p...
by S Srinivasan | On 27 Nov 2005 There is a growing need to a more institutionalized economic arrangement in East
Asia. East Asia Economic Community might be an ideal form of such institution.
However, the road is still long and...
by A Damuri | On 23 Nov 2005 Inherenet weaknesses in AFTA and AEC and the need to counter regionalism in other parets of the world are some of the important reasons for evolving an East Asian Community. However, there are severa...
by Joseph Yap | On 23 Nov 2005
by ICRIER | On 22 Nov 2005 The Asian Age is coming and these are some of the factors aiding it. The reduction of the domestic market (decrease in population, development of service economy and increase in imports); Dissolution...
by Akira Yamasaki | On 22 Nov 2005 In order to advance regional integration in East Asia, there needs to be a rapid expansion of FTAs. The obstacles in promotion of FTAs need to be resolved. Some of the features in realising FTAs are:...
by Shujiro Urata | On 22 Nov 2005 An East Asian community(EAC) is an idea now being seriously pursued in spite of significant challenges. Proliferating bilateral deals in Asia could emerge as building blocks towards the EAC, provided...
by Rahul Sen | On 22 Nov 2005 To make the Customs Union in East Asia happen, what is needed the most now are political will and concerted efforts. FTAs should not be the end of economic cooperation in Asia. Instead, the onsolidati...
by Nipon Poapongsakorn | On 22 Nov 2005 The present paper examines contract farming and its situation in India on the basis of nature of contracts, nature of contract growers, practice and implementation of contract farming and techniques,...
by Sukhpal Singh | On 11 Nov 2005 Cost effective policies allow minimising the compliance costs associated to
reaching a desired environmental quality target. In this paper a conceptual model has been developed to examine the complia...
by Rita Pandey | On 11 Nov 2005 EU's response to the East Asian community has to take account of several dimensions including Issues and dynamics of East Asian regional cooperation and integration; Scenarios of regional Community-bu...
by Willem vd Geest | On 08 Nov 2005 There has been a significant decline in anti dumping initiations. This is a welcome trend as there is scant support in economic literature for anti-dumping action. The trend might well indicate the ef...
by C. Satapathy | On 04 Oct 2005 Although it is commonly believed that trade liberalization results in higher GDP, little is known about its effects on poverty and inequality. This paper uses the sharp trade liberalization in India i...
by Petia Topalova | On 29 Sep 2005 Spatial inequality is a dimension of overall inequality, but it has added significance when spatial and regional divisions align with political and ethnic tensions to undermine social and political st...
by Ravi Kanbur | On 17 Sep 2005 This paper attempts to assess the research done in the field of industrial sociology during the period 1987 and 2002. Only published work have been noted. The review does not cover unpublished M. Phil...
by Sharit Bhowmik | On 01 Sep 2005 THE DRUGS AND COSMETICS (AMENDMENT) BILL, 2005
A Bill further to amend the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940. Under examination with the Committee on Health and Family Welfare On adulterated and spurious...
by Anonymous | On 30 Aug 2005 Comments on Deolikar's paper:
Deolalikar’s paper provides the empirical basis for policy makers to trust
their knowledge and provide additional resources (mot merely in monetary terms) to the most v...
by Maitreyi Bordia Das | On 26 Aug 2005 Rising drug prices and misuse of drugs: Calling Attention
by Anonymous | On 19 Aug 2005 12th SAARC Summit Declaration Islamabad January 2004
by Anonymous | On 13 Aug 2005 An Additional Protocol to the SAARC Regional Convention on Suppression of Terrorism, has been prepared recognizing the importance of updating the Convention, in order to meet the obligations devolving...
by Anonymous | On 13 Aug 2005 Motivated by the commitment to strengthen intra-SAARC economic cooperation to maximise the realization of the region's potential for trade and development for the benefit of their people, in a spirit...
by Anonymous | On 13 Aug 2005 Re-affirms that the principal goal of SAARC is to promote the welfare of the peoples of South
Asia, to improve their quality of life, to accelerate economic growth, social progress and cultural
deve...
by Anonymous | On 13 Aug 2005 The entire project of SAARC is dependent on India’s capacity to bind the neighbouring states in multiple networks of ties to promote regional cooperation. India not only shares frontiers with all the...
by Rajen Harshe | On 13 Aug 2005 Pharmaceutical Policy of 2002 covering issues of pricing, ,marketing, size of market, quality, production, investment, regulatory authority, monitoring, ethical issues
by Anonymous | On 10 Aug 2005 Modifications to Drug Policy 1986
by Anonymous | On 10 Aug 2005 Drug Policy of 1986
by | On 10 Aug 2005 In economic literature, market failure is said to occur when inter alia under the following conditions. 1) When adequate competition does not exist. 2) Buyers and sellers are not well informed. Withou...
by S Srinivasan | On 10 Aug 2005 This paper attempts to discuss the implications of the European slave trade in the Indian Ocean from 15th century onwards; duplicity of the European policy of slave trade; the conflict of interests am...
by Aparajita Biswas | On 08 Aug 2005 U.S. Presidential Executive Order 13141 commits the United States to a "careful assessment and consideration of the environmental impacts of trade agreements." The most direct mechanism through which...
by Josh Ederington | On 06 Aug 2005 This paper is concerned with respect to asses the revenue and expenditure patterns in the various Urban Local Bodies(ULBs) in Maharashtra. The context for this is the finance commissions at the state...
by Abhay Pethe | On 05 Aug 2005 |