Surprisingly, even though the government had been presented with the recommendations of gender economists and the Feminist Policy Collective for moving towards Transformative Financing for Women and G...
by Vibhuti Patel | On 18 Feb 2023 From scientific upheavals in the Early Modern to world wars in the twentieth century, Humanities has responded to the crisis and also reinvented itself in terms of methodologies and fields of inquiry....
by Pramod K. Nayar | On 15 Nov 2021 This study intends to understand the magnitude and nature of indebtedness among rural
poor households in Kerala. The study d analyses
the role played by various sources in meeting the credit requir...
by Aswathi Rebecca Asok | On 08 Mar 2021 The me-first policy on vaccine sharing will bring losses of $203 billion to $5 trillion to rich countries, while the returns are the highest if they support global universal vaccination.
by Prabir Purkayastha | On 02 Feb 2021 The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has become a major global crisis that requires country, regional, and global intervention, as well as collaboration to mitigate damage to economies and peop...
by Asian Development Bank | On 25 Jan 2021 Understanding science is the only way to understand the microbe—SARS-CoV-2—and what it does to our bodies. Fighting a pandemic requires a well-functioning public health system. The crisis created by...
by | On 20 Jul 2020 This paper looks into diverse databases to gauge if economic growth in India creates adequate volume of jobs since the year 2000. In our exercise, we use a popular index called employment elasticity....
by G.D Bino Paul | On 26 Jun 2020 • 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 This article explores the psychological, social, and neuroscientific effects of COVID-19 and set out the immediate priorities and longer-term strategies for mental health science research. These prior...
by | On 21 May 2020 Policymakers across the developing world are facing the need to make rapid decisions on their COVID-19
response with little available data or guidance. Policies that help deal with the economic cri...
by Jonathan Leape | On 18 May 2020 The macroeconomic policy responses to COVID-19 pandemic and the
impact of the pandemic on economic growth, and the level of consumption are analysed. The COVID-19 crisis is a dual crisis - public hea...
by Divy Rangan | On 06 May 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 The current global health crisis is unlike any in the 75-year history of the United Nations — one that is killing people, spreading human suffering, and upending people’s lives. But this is much more...
by United Nations (UN) | On 24 Apr 2020 The chapter examines progress as well as continuing concerns in G-20 led financial reforms, with particular emphasis on emerging markets (EMs). Although risks remain they are of a lower order of magni...
by Ashima Goyal | On 25 Apr 2019 This paper analyzes the conduct and effects of macroprudential policy in 11 Asian economies. Of these, India, the People’s Republic of China, and the Republic of Korea frequently used loan-to-value ra...
by Soyoung Kim | On 23 Apr 2019 Over 2017-18 there was a sharp rise in Indian government securities (G-Secs) interest rates unrelated to fundamentals. Examining each of the standard explanatory variables shows them to be inadequate...
by Ashima Goyal | On 29 Mar 2019 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 investigates the macroeconomic effects of public debt in India using a Structural Vector Auto regression (SVAR) framework for the period from 1980 to 2017. The objective of this study is to...
by Ranjan Kumar Mohanty | On 23 Jan 2019 In recent years, many emerging economies including India have adopted inflation targeting framework. Post the global financial crisis, there is a growing debate on whether monetary policy should targe...
by Ila Patnaik | On 23 Jan 2019 The Government of India launched the Ujwal DISCOM Assurance Yojana (UDAY), in November 2015, with an objective of “Power for All”. Under the UDAY scheme, selected States agreed to convert 75 per cent...
by Amandeep Kaur | On 11 Jan 2019 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 exploits the recent molecular genetics evidence on the genetic basis of arsenic excretion and unique information on family links among respondents living in different environments from a la...
by Mark M. Pitt | On 22 Nov 2018 The current global warming trends are extremely likely to be the result of human social and economic activity since the middle of the 20th century (NASA 2018). Evidence of rapid climate change varies...
by Kunmin Kim | On 21 Nov 2018 The paper examines behavioral constraints in policy-making and in achieving coordination across policies. First it applies psychological concepts to understand policy inadequacies, and next examines h...
by Ashima Goyal | On 29 Oct 2018 This paper empirically tests conventional wisdom on the stabilizing effect of LCBMs. To do so, it analyses and compare the financial vulnerability of developing countries during two episodes of financ...
by Donghyun Park | On 26 Oct 2018 A large empirical literature finds that financial development is beneficial for economic growth, although some recent evidence suggests otherwise. The paper contributes to the finance–growth literatur...
by Gemma Estrada | On 19 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 A debt trap occurs when someone takes on a high-interest rate loan and is barely able to pay back the interest, and thus perpetually finds themselves in debt (often by re-financing). Studying such pra...
by Dean Karlan | On 04 Oct 2018 The paper investigates the changing network of financial markets for six periods from 1995–2016, constructing a network that captures the concepts of the direction of links between markets, the signif...
by Biplob Chowdhury | On 21 Sep 2018 This paper attempts to determine the challenges and enablers of connecting small and medium businesses to global value chains. It uses data from a survey of SMEs in Metro Manila and a set of key infor...
by Jamil Paolo Francisco | On 30 Aug 2018 Technological breakthroughs and the interplay of a number of fields, including advanced robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), nanotechnology, neurotech, data analytics, blockchain, cloud technology,...
by Elmer P. Dadios | On 29 Aug 2018 The paper presents a granular understanding of the associated challenges of mobilizing such finances, drawing from the Indian perspective. It contributes to the present understanding by identifying th...
by Gopal K. Sarangi | On 24 Aug 2018 In this first public lecture under the P M Bhargava Memorial Lecture Series instituted by Sambhavna Trust. Apoorvanand raises the issue that evey society has the germ of an Aushwitz hidden somewhere...
by Apoorvanand Apoorvanand | On 08 Aug 2018 Gross capital inflows and outflows to and from emerging market economies (EMEs) have witnessed a significant increase since early 2000s. This rapid increase in these flows accompanied by sharp rise in...
by Ashima Goyal | On 25 Jul 2018 This paper first shows that the Domar condition is obtained only from the government budget constraint (namely the supply of government bonds) and does not take into account the demand for government...
by Naoyuki Yoshino | On 19 Jul 2018 This report sets out to establish how well social enterprise really does address gender inequality and women's empowerment in Pakistan. It is part of a series of reports commissioned by the British Co...
by Mark Richardson | On 28 Jun 2018 This paper discusses the significance of considering climate change responsiveness in the Union
Budget and what are the existing practices and gaps in documenting climate change financing in India.
...
by Jyotsna Goel | On 21 Jun 2018 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 The paper identifies key features of International Monetary Fund (IMF)–supported programs following the 2008 global financial crisis. The statistical analysis of a large sample of countries that borro...
by Carlos De Resende | On 09 Jun 2018 This paper examines the developments of cross-border portfolio assets and liabilities in the Asia and Pacific region over the periods of 2001–2017. Rapid increases in both portfolio foreign assets and...
by Sayuri Shirai | 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 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 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 The paper theoretically and empirically show that dismissal laws and laws that impose hurdles on firing of employees - spur innovation and thereby economic growth. Theoretically, dismissal laws make i...
by Krishnamurthy V. Subramanian | On 29 May 2018 The impact assessment of macroeconomic policies on public health
expenditure is very relevant in Indian economy because of tax reform, fiscal consoli-
dation, and expenditure policy reform. These h...
by | On 11 May 2018 The Union Budget takes the long needed step of allocating funds specifically for addressing the nutritional concerns of TB patients, taking note of the considerable evidence of the association between...
by | On 30 Apr 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 Ujwal DISCOM Assurance Yojana (UDAY) required number of State governments to take over debt of power distribution companies in their books of accounts. Though this one time intervention made both debt...
by Pinaki Chakraborty | On 19 Mar 2018 Stephen William Hawking, physicist, born January 8, 1942, died on March 14, 2018, aged 76. By the time he was 21 he was diagnosed to be suffering from an unspecified incurable disease, later identifie...
by S. Srinivasan | On 19 Mar 2018 Ensuring Women’s their participation in the economy requires access to skills, technology and finance. India and Japan have supported such initiatives in Asia and Africa in the past, but a joint effor...
by Renana Jhabvala | On 15 Mar 2018 This report attempts to examine the role of Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) and technological
efforts in determining the export competitiveness of firms belonging to Indian Pharmaceutical
Industry. M...
by Vidhisha Vyas | On 13 Mar 2018 The present report begins with a background on child labour, with a discussion on different terms associated with ‘child labour’, followed by child labour policies and legislation implemented by the g...
by Ellina Samantroy | On 12 Mar 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 The paper takes a look at the past record of vertical transfers viz., transfers from the Centre to the States as a whole.
by K.K. George | On 16 Feb 2018 This paper has introduced instability in the budgets and has added to the burden of public debt.
by K.K. George | On 15 Feb 2018 Finance Minister, Dr. Amit Mitra presented the West Bengal budget on 31st January, 2018.
by Amit Mitra FM, WB | On 05 Feb 2018 Budget speech of Finance Minister of Kerala.
by T.M. Thomas Issac | On 05 Feb 2018 This chapter draws on cross-country experience
to study the pattern of investment and saving slowdowns as well as recoveries in order to obtain
policy lessons for India. One finding is that investme...
by Arun Jaitley | On 31 Jan 2018 We show that even when the exchange rate cannot be devalued, a small set of
conventional fiscal instruments can robustly replicate the real allocations attained under
a nominal exchange rate devalua...
by | On 25 Jan 2018 The paper says that although the Maoist leaders sense that there is little option to unification of the two Maoist parties, there are major challenges ahead, mainly for Dahal who will have to leave th...
by Akanshya Shah | On 18 Jan 2018 This article summarises a case study conducted by the author based on a long period of research on the behaviour of firms in technology transfer and local capacity building in that country.
by Linsu Kim | On 27 Dec 2017 Self-reliance is, by definition, about individualised responsibility for social wellbeing and economic security. This idea drives urban refugee livelihood programmes, in India and beyond, as aid organ...
by | On 22 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 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 Financing of infrastructure is vital for the creation and maintenance of adequate infrastructure. The present paper has attempted to analyse various infra financing methods practised in India, namely,...
by | On 04 Dec 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 This paper examines the effects of the 2008–09 global economic crisis on people’s pro-environmental behaviour and willingness to pay for climate change mitigation. The paper hypothesise that the crisi...
by Artjoms Ivlevs | On 28 Nov 2017 In this context, a government that is in doubt regarding re-election will give a popular or election-oriented budget and go on a spending spree.
by Dr. Abid Suleri | On 20 Nov 2017 The study focus on the existing social assistance schemes targeted towards the extreme poor.
by Rabia Tabassum | On 16 Nov 2017 With the revival of global economy, the issues of “exit policies” and rebalancing global growth have taken center stage in policy discussions. Since many emerging Asian economies presently have large...
by | On 14 Nov 2017 This study evaluates the impact of various socio economic and environmental variables on the incidence of diseases in district Bhimber of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK).
by Salma Kousar | On 27 Oct 2017 The report says that there are well known explanations in contemporary economic
literature which explain this counterproductive impact of depreciation.
by . Atiq-ur-Rehman | On 26 Oct 2017 India no longer lives in villages. At the dawn of the new millennium,
300 million Indians lived in its nearly 3700 towns and cities, in sharp
contrast to only 60 million in 1947 when the country bec...
by | On 03 Oct 2017 Growing non-performing assets is a recurrent problem in the Indian banking sector. Over the past two decades, there have been two such episodes when the banking sector was severely impaired by balance...
by Rajeswari Sengupta | On 18 Sep 2017 This paper tests the bank lending channel against the aggregate demand channel as an explanation for slow credit growth by estimating the determinants of credit and of non- performing assets (NPAs) us...
by Ashima Goyal | On 15 Sep 2017 The World Health Organization considered that its mission demanded it
should play a part in this debate, with the objective of illuminating how intellectual property rights might affect public health...
by World Health Organisation (WHO) | On 14 Sep 2017 The report says that the global financial meltdown contributed to slowing down of global solar deployment, and allowed Indian developers to squeeze their costs further, demanding preferential rates an...
by Mohd. Ali | On 29 Aug 2017 To meet the challenges of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, agricultural and food systems requires fundamental changes. The FAO, the IFAD and the WFP (2015) estimate that around 60% of the...
by Marie-Hélène Schwoob | On 23 Aug 2017 This mobilization is more advanced in Germany than in France, but even there NGOs are increasingly aware of the SDGs and have started to take dedicated action. However, it is fair to say that the mobi...
by Elisabeth Hege | On 23 Aug 2017 Social partners, sensibilisation, monitor, training, employees’, employment, trade unionists, problem, evaluation, transparency.
by Szilvia Borbély | On 21 Aug 2017 This paper details the approaches of other countries when their banking sectors were burdened with unsustainable levels of impaired assets. The paper examines the bad debt situation in India, the circ...
by Jaimini Bhagwati | On 11 Aug 2017 The report narrates the recent global financial crisis demonstrated the shortcomings of the frameworks to handle the failure of large and systemically important financial institutions, also known as “...
by Reserve Bank of India RBI | On 08 Aug 2017 Has the global financial crisis changed the pivotal determinants of corporate
leverage in EMEs? This paper attempts to address this issue using a panel-GMM
framework and quantile-analysis for 10 maj...
by Snehal S. Herwadkar | On 04 Aug 2017 Over the last ten years or so it have begun to see public lobbying over moral and cultural issues such as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual (LGBT) rights, Sanctity of Life issues including aborti...
by Johannis Bin Abdul Aziz | On 02 Aug 2017 The article reviews the recent evaluation evidence on financial services and training
interventions designed to increase the productivity and income of the poor; it includes the
subset of evaluation...
by Mayra Buvinic | On 28 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 The nature and scale of humanitarian crises are changing. The world is becoming increasingly urbanised – currently, 54 per cent of the world’s population lives in urban environments, which will rise t...
by | On 27 Jul 2017 The report narrates that the local currency bond market in emerging East Asia continued to expand in 1Q15 to reach US$8.3 trillion at end-March.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 24 Jul 2017 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 The People’s Republic of China (PRC) implemented a Fuel Tax Reform in 2009 that made significant changes to the way the country funds and delivers its ‘ordinary road’ program.
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 17 Jul 2017 A list of six broad principles issued by the Saudi-led group may initiate the resolution of the GCC crisis.
by | On 11 Jul 2017 The results of this study can be used to strengthen the institutional and statistical capacities of Georgia to routinely collect, compile, analyze, and disseminate internationally comparable financial...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 07 Jul 2017 The results of this study can be used to strengthen the institutional and statistical capacities of Viet Nam to routinely collect, compile, analyze, and disseminate internationally comparable FSIs tha...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 07 Jul 2017 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 paper narrates that the bond market in Hong Kong, China has for some time been a significant market place for issuers and investors in both domestic and foreign currencies. The range of product of...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 11 May 2017 This new ILO Global Wage Report – the fifth in a series that now spans over a decade – contributes to this agenda by making comparative data and information on recent wage trends available to governme...
by International Labour Organization [ILO] | On 14 Apr 2017 Budget 2017-18 was presented at the time when the global situation is inhospitable, marked with
protectionism and domestic environment is constrained by the twin balance sheet crisis. The investment
...
by M Govinda Rao | On 10 Mar 2017 The report captures the importance of shaping macro-economic policies so they support inclusive growth, and ensuring that women entrepreneurs have access to technology and finance. It also highlights...
by | On 21 Feb 2017 We test the hypothesis, based on popular and theoretical perspectives, that entrepreneurs are more action-oriented than other occupational groups. We compare their playing strategies in an optimal sto...
by | On 21 Feb 2017 The Finance Minister of Assam , MrHimanta Biswa Sarma presented the Budget for Assam for financial year 2017-18 on February 7, 2017.
by Government of Assam | On 09 Feb 2017 Budget 2017-18 is placed at an important juncture when there has been a thrust by the government
for a digitised and a consequent cashless economy with the demonetisation of high value currency
note...
by Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability CBGA | On 03 Feb 2017 As Asia finds itself in the limelight, whether in terms of major power relations, rising insecurity and potential for conflict, or economic governance, it is worth asking, even before broaching the re...
by | On 02 Feb 2017 While there has been a a big jump in allocations to health overall, there is no indication that it will be sustained and will mark a trend.
by Ravi Duggal | On 01 Feb 2017 These are the latest union budget highlights. Gear up to enjoy subsidies, pay newer taxes and enjoy greater freedom, as that covers a major part of the Union Budget 2017.
by | On 01 Feb 2017 The Union Budget for 2017-18 will be presented on February 1, 2017. In this context, we present data regarding the state of
the Indian economy in 2016-17, across indicators such as gross domestic pro...
by Tanvi Deshpande | On 01 Feb 2017 The presentation shows the methods through which non-cash payments can be made, the constraints to it, efforts needed for proposed actions from key stakeholders, policies needed to promote digital pa...
by Nara Chandrababu Naidu | On 25 Jan 2017 The core emphasis of rules-based fiscal legislation at the subnational level in India is to
achieve debt sustainability through a numerical ceiling on borrowing and the use of borrowed
resources for...
by Pinaki Chakraborty | On 23 Jan 2017 Goods and Services Tax (GST) is a harmonized tax regime and it can curb black money through practicing clean "invoices" to redeem input credit. In the Union Budget 2017, central government may announc...
by Lekha Chakraborty | On 23 Jan 2017 Much empirical research has shown that individuals’ decisions to adopt a new technology are the result of learning–both through personal experimentation through observing the experimentation of others...
by Jared Gars | On 03 Jan 2017 Demonetisation of INR 500 and INR 1,000 notes in India on November 8, 2016 is different from
many other countries’ scrapping of high value notes in two respects – the withdrawal of their
legal tende...
by Ashok K. Lahiri | On 02 Jan 2017 The rampant use of plastic bags in Nepal has led to growing concern in recent years regarding
the impact of discarded plastic bags on the environment. Though a number of different
control measures a...
by Bishal Bharadwaj | On 29 Dec 2016 The paper attempts to formulate a model to predict corporate financial distress of
non-government non-financial public limited companies and estimate distressed
bank debt due to the sample companies...
by Manjusha Senapathi | On 27 Dec 2016 India is a major source of migrants, especially of highly-skilled and well-trained workers. This paper attempts to show that even with a high number of Indian talents abroad, India – as well as destin...
by | On 19 Dec 2016 The Second National Workshop on Informalisation of Employment in the Health Sector organized by the Public Services International (PSI), Jan Swasthya Abhiyan (JSA) and United Nurses Union (UNA) took p...
by Kavita Bhatia | On 15 Dec 2016 A health system should be responsive, resilient, self-regulating. It should be able to respond to health emergencies and changing development scenarios. Governments all over the world should see to it...
by Rajeev B.R. | On 14 Dec 2016 With the farm sector continuing with unimpressive performance in terms
of the growth of value of output, agricultural infrastructure and also sustained
massive rise in the landless agricultural labo...
by Keshab Das | On 28 Nov 2016 This paper represents a holistic study of the multifaceted notion of stranded migrants, which gained renewed attention by international actors in the past decade, and especially in relation to the 201...
by | On 28 Nov 2016 Finances of states have been changing due to (i) increased devolution of central taxes, (ii) rationalisation of the Centrally Sponsored Schemes, (iii) the introduction of the UDAY scheme, and (iv) the...
by Arvind Gayam | On 09 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 A foreign exchange crisis in 1991 induced India to abandon decades of inward-looking socialism and adopt economic reforms that have converted the once-lumbering elephant into the latest Asian tiger. I...
by | On 28 Oct 2016 Against the backdrop of the global financial and economic crisis, policy makers around the world took steps in the past year to make it easier for local firms to start up and operate. This is importan...
by World Bank [WB} | On 27 Oct 2016 Can countries with binding budget constraints increase the benefits of school transfers
through better program design? A cost-neutral change is used in the design of India’s
school meal program to s...
by Farzana Afridi | On 20 Oct 2016 The Global Crisis demonstrated to the world that Ratings Agencies had misled the public about the stability of financial institutions. The Finance literature had decided that it was impossible to have...
by | On 18 Oct 2016 The right to food is about freedom from hunger. The narrow meaning at hunger may be understood as the right to have two square meals a day, while in its broader meaning would include under nutrition....
by Johani Xaxa | On 17 Oct 2016 This brief outlines a particular iteration of a compact approach that incorporates critical components—such as shared outcomes for refugees, host country ownership and focus on longer-term transition,...
by Cindy Huang | On 10 Oct 2016 Even almost eight years since resorting to the extraordinary monetary and
fiscal measures to counter the after-effects of the Global Financial Crisis, authorities are still
left wondering about rela...
by S.S. Mundra | On 10 Oct 2016 If the production and transmission of new knowledge is to have a genuine innovative edge, it must be recognised that this is intrinsically a political act: inherently critical and subversive. There mu...
by Raghav Rajagopalan | On 06 Oct 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 Engaging is a major concern. Utilising the leisure time of the youth and harnessing their exuberance and raw energy for creative activities is essential. Simultaneously, but more substantially there i...
by United Nations (UN) | On 21 Sep 2016 The continuing inflow of hundreds of thousands of refugees into many European countries has ignited much political controversy and raised questions that require a fuller understanding of the determina...
by George Borjas | On 20 Sep 2016 Financing problems, new global goals, and provision of good quality care are some of the key
challenges facing the next era of improving maternal health.
by The Lancet Maternal Health Series | On 20 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 This paper explores the normative and empirical consequences of the MDG hunger target (1C), to halve the proportion of people who are undernourished, measured by the proportion of children under 5 who...
by | On 06 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 Macroeconomic analytical frameworks change with events they are unable to explain. The process is
closer to abductive reasoning that is based on both events and analysis, unlike induction which is
d...
by Ashima Goyal | On 31 Aug 2016 There are many states in India which have high number of women entrepreneurs. There are states which have many policies to encourage women entrepreneurs.
by Lakshmi Priya | On 30 Aug 2016 According to MSME Ministry’s Annual Report for 2015-16, MSME sector in India today is
a network of 51 million enterprises providing employment to 117.1 million persons and
contributing 37.5 per cent...
by S.S. Mundra | On 29 Aug 2016 China and India have successfully integrated into the world economy. Once specialised in textiles, they have developed new export-oriented sectors linked to the information and communication technolog...
by | On 24 Aug 2016 Environmental crisis in the rural areas of developing countries is increasingly becoming an important cause of cross-border migration of population and South Asia is no exception to this phenomenon. S...
by | On 22 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 China’s environmental regulators have sought to reduce the Yangtze River’s water pollution. This paper documents that this regulatory effort has had two unintended consequences. First, the regulation’...
by Zhao Chen | On 18 Aug 2016 Infrequent but turbulent episodes of outright sovereign default on domestic creditors are considered a “forgotten history” in Macroeconomics. This paper proposes a heterogeneous-agents model in which...
by Pablo D'Erasmo | On 17 Aug 2016 The Ministry of Human Resource Development released a draft National Education Policy in July 2016. In this context,
some data on education indicators such as enrolment of students, drop-out rates, a...
by Roopal Suhag | On 16 Aug 2016 This paper overviews the research opportunities made possible by a NIA-funded program project, Early Indicators, Intergenerational Processes, and Aging. Data collection began almost three decades ago...
by Dora Costa | On 09 Aug 2016 The extent of market integration and transmission of food price shocks is a major determinant of price
stability and overall food security, particularly in developing countries. Few studies have exam...
by Jarilkasin Ilyasov | On 08 Aug 2016 If the Value Added Tax (VAT) is considered to be a major improvement over the pre-existing Central excise duty at the national level and the sales tax system at the State level, then the Goods and Ser...
by Government of India | On 05 Aug 2016 The working paper attempts to describe the correlation between migration and child labour by reviewing secondary data of migrant children with or without their families, and children left-behind by th...
by | On 04 Aug 2016 Remittances to Asia plunged during the 1997 Asian financial crisis, but the drop was temporary as the flows were increasing once again after just 1 year. The current crisis, however, is fundamentally...
by | On 29 Jul 2016 This paper studies whether potential entrepreneurs remain in wage employment because of the danger that they will face worse job opportunities should their entrepreneurial ventures fail? Using a Canad...
by Ting Xu | On 28 Jul 2016 This paper reports existing and fresh evidence on some of the direct and indirect linkages between trust and subjective well-being. This paper first uses data from three large international surveys –...
by John Helliwell | On 26 Jul 2016 This is the second in IOM´s series of global reports on missing migrants. The first report was published in 2014 – Fatal Journeys: Tracking Lives Lost during Migration. This second report has two main...
by | On 25 Jul 2016 The United Nations estimates that the number of people worldwide who suffer from chronic
food shortages might now exceed one billion. That skyrocketing prices of food in general,
and...
by Randall Arnst | On 22 Jul 2016 Reports of raids in factories and workshops and rescue of children from different cities of the country appear with unfailing regularity. Children from disparate geographical regions: West Bengal, Bih...
by Enakshi Ganguly Thukral | On 20 Jul 2016 The paper examines vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by international migration and remittances, using a formal, practical, and ea...
by Ira N. Gang | On 19 Jul 2016 This paper analyses what is possible as a low carbon scenario for India using India Energy Security Scenarios-2047 tool developed by the erstwhile Planning Commission and later refined by its successo...
by Montek Ahluwalia | On 19 Jul 2016 China’s rejection of the Permanent Court of Arbitration ruling on its expansive claim to the South China Sea has set itself up for confrontation with maritime states in Southeast Asia. It will also he...
by | On 18 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 The recent commodity boom has seriously affected South Asia, particularly due to higher food prices and their impact on the welfare of poor and vulnerable populations. This paper describes the food cr...
by S.Mahendra Dev | On 12 Jul 2016 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 In this paper, the evolution of the corporate insolvency resolution framework, with the objective of linking it back to the policy directive of the time is described. It is concluded that when policy...
by Rajeswari Sengupta | On 09 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 The paper attempts to answer the question namely the management-principal or the principal-principal is given more significance by the debt holders in the Indian context. It also examines the relation...
by Sakina Kachwala | On 29 Jun 2016 The slowdown in credit growth has been largely because of stress in the public sector banking and not because of high interest rates. As such, what is required is a clean-up of the balance sheets of p...
by Raghuram G. Rajan | On 29 Jun 2016 In this paper investigates the success of banking reforms in India where significant banking reforms have been introduced since 1990s. Using the argument that well functioning credit markets would ref...
by Sumon Kumar Bhaumik | On 27 Jun 2016 The water crisis already looming large will therefore quite probably trigger significant shortfalls in cereal production and, as a result, a massive global food crisis. But before that the dearth of p...
by | On 24 Jun 2016 This study has explored the implementation of talent management process in pharmaceutical industry in India through a case study approach. Data was collected from top management and senior managers in...
by Kirti Sharda | On 24 Jun 2016 Over the last decade, trans-national and local advocacy networks have been projecting the low-cost unregulated schools market in India as a cost-efficient, high-quality and equitable solution for educ...
by | On 22 Jun 2016 Land degradation and desertification pose an ever - increasing
global environmental threat. Human activities such as over cultivation,
overgrazing, deforestation and poor irrigation practices, along...
by Indian Space Research Organisation ISRO | On 17 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 Throughout the conference it became clear that there are two emerging trends in humanitarian action across the Asia–Pacific. The first is the increasing activity of selected Asia-Pacific states engage...
by | On 09 Jun 2016 The working paper outlines the significance of debt market in general and its role in accelerating the development of economic growth in particular. It reviews various regulatory and non-regulatory de...
by Anubhuti Sahay | On 06 Jun 2016 This report highlights both the progress and results that the ECP programme has achieved in the field of environmental peacebuilding from 2008 to 2015. The report also shares some of the key lessons l...
by United Nations Environment Programme UNEP | On 02 Jun 2016 The study directs the attention to the role of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in overcoming these structural rigidities and ushering-in structural transformation in an economy. To explore the iss...
by Mausumi Das | On 26 May 2016 This report assesses the status of women in present-day Afghanistan, including the gains achieved with international support after the U.S.-led intervention in 2001. It examines gaps and challenges to...
by International Crisis Group | On 26 May 2016 Political repression is reaching new highs in Bangladesh. The government’s abuse of rule of law institutions for political ends has created an atmosphere of injustice that is increasingly exploited by...
by International Crisis Group | On 26 May 2016 A
primary survey of older adults was conducted in seven
rapidly ageing states including Odisha, West Bengal,
Maharashtra, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Tamil
Nadu, and Kerala (Alam et al. 2012). This...
by Moneer Alam | On 25 May 2016 Now in its 11th edition, The Global Risks Report 2016 draws attention to ways that global risks could evolve and interact in the next decade. The year 2016 marks a forceful departure from past finding...
by [WEF] World Economic Forum | On 11 May 2016 This paper motivates the need for a personal bankruptcy law, and study the
existing Indian legal framework in the form of the Presidency Towns Insolvency Act, 1909 (PTIA) for Calcutta, Bombay and Mad...
by Siva Raman | On 02 May 2016 This paper analyses 45 cases of insolvency and bankruptcy resolution in order to measure the efficiency
and problems of the present laws for firm bankruptcy in India.
by | On 02 May 2016 The paper examines the role payment systems can play in greater South Asian integration, including intra regional
trade facilitation. As payment systems become more sophisticated and thei...
by | On 02 May 2016 This study shows how 13 important stock markets in Asia namely, India, Bangladesh, Philippines, China, Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Pakistan, South Korea and Thailand...
by | On 02 May 2016 The paper is a case study of Vadinar refinery in Gujarat. It examines the costs and benefits associated with one of the world's mega refinery projects highlighting the welfare impacts on society. The...
by Sumana Chaudhuri | On 02 May 2016 This study investigates the effects of the 2008 global financial crisis on the performance of different
microfinance ownership types. The analysis in this study relies on a novel methodological frame...
by Mahinda Wijesiri | On 02 May 2016 This paper rediscovers the efficacy of K&R contemporaneous restriction (customized for the Indian economy
which is a developing G20 nation unlike advanced G6 nations that K&R worked wi...
by | On 02 May 2016 The objective of this report is to identify which of the 375 items on the 2013 Model List of Essential Medicines (MLEM) of the World Health Organization (WHO) (18th edition) are patented and where. Gi...
by | On 26 Apr 2016 The Communication sets out the EU's vision for a transparent and dynamic, legally binding United Nations climate change agreement that sets the world on a pathway to prevent global warming from reachi...
by European union | On 26 Apr 2016 Since the 1980s, public debt, both in the Third World countries and in the
industrialised nations, has been systematically used to impose austerity policies in the name of structural adjustment. Acc...
by Eric Toussaint | On 22 Apr 2016 Aggressive monetary policy actions by one country can lead to significant adverse cross-border spillovers on others, especially as countries contend with the zero lower bound. If countries do not inte...
by Prachi Mishra | On 31 Mar 2016 Public finance systems in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) have evolved substantially over the last three decades. The evolution is continuing, with wide-ranging reforms in budget and debt managem...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 18 Mar 2016 India’s stances in global Internet governance debates have often been noted, and criticised, for their strong preference for multilateral models of engagement, as different from the multistakeholder a...
by Saikat Datta | On 17 Mar 2016 The Union Budget has failed to allocate substantiate funds. With less gender mainstreaming and with lack of assurance of safety to women the budget fails to make an impact in this regard.
by Vibhuti Patel | On 17 Mar 2016 In this paper, we empirically investigate the episodes of currency market stress/crisis in India during the period 1992 – 2012 with the help of a monthly EMP index for India constructed for this perio...
by Anuradha Guru | On 16 Mar 2016 The 1997 Asian financial crisis and the 2008 global financial and economic crisis further demonstrated the importance of financial stability. Both crises showed how balance sheets of financial institu...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 Mar 2016 Despite the initiatives of the Finance Commission of India, fiscal performance has been deteriorating and increasingly diverging across Indian states. Given that the state governments are endowed with...
by Panchanan Das | On 14 Mar 2016 There are few areas of robust growth around the world, with the IMF repeatedly reducing its
growth forecasts in recent quarters. This period of slow growth is particularly dangerous
because both ind...
by Raghuram G. Rajan | On 14 Mar 2016 As South Korea this month takes up the rotating presidency of the United Nations Security Council, concerns over North Korea’s nuclear program grow. Pyongyang’s recent rocket tests, its anticipated th...
by Sangsoo Lee | On 12 Mar 2016 After conditions of crisis reigning on the Korean Peninsula in the first half of the year, the reopening of the Kaesong Industrial Complex, among other recent developments, heralds renewed hope for be...
by | On 12 Mar 2016 Family reunions between North and South Korea may be an encouraging sign of a thaw in tensions on the Korean Peninsula, which could lead to further trust-building activities and economic cooperation....
by | On 12 Mar 2016 Mergers and acquisitions (M and A) are common strategies of firms to increase its performance. Although, the motives of M and A are different however, the determinants are discreet. This study tries t...
by Nikita Agarwal | On 11 Mar 2016 The objective in this study is to examine the issues and constraints faced by the power sector in Pakistan. The paper will try to evaluate the reasons behind the current energy crisis despite present...
by Afia Malik | On 10 Mar 2016 Building on the results of a participant observation in a Chinese IT-sector company located in the northern part of China, this paper aims to clarify the nature of deception in markets. Contrary to th...
by | 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 Why is unprecedented financialization failing to provoke a strong political backlash? The role of financial markets, motives, actors, and institutions has expanded continuously in recent decades, but...
by | On 08 Mar 2016 Rising public debt has been widespread in democratic-capitalist political economies since the 1970s, generally accompanied among other things by weak economic growth, rising unemployment, increasing i...
by | On 08 Mar 2016 While there had been agreements that the current global financial crisis which originated from the United States (US) would not be akin to the Asian Financial Crisis back in 1997- 1998, the resultant...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 06 Mar 2016 The economic crisis has had heavy exposure in international news, but its range of victims has extended beyond the subprime debtors and financial analysts of the developed world. Ignored by most devel...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 06 Mar 2016 Notwithstanding the global financial crisis, energy security remains one of the top priorities for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The need to reduce reliance on fossil fuels in th...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 05 Mar 2016 Since the end of January 2011, the state of food security in North Korea has been in question. External factors, particularly the recent spike in global food prices and the suspension of food aid supp...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 04 Mar 2016 What started off as a peaceful protest has descended into a full-scale armed insurrection, pitching opposition forces in the east against loyalist forces (estimated at 8,000 and 40,000 respectively)....
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 04 Mar 2016 The 2010 Corruption Perceptions Index reveals that nearly three quarters of the 178 countries in the index have a score of below five, on a scale of 10 (highly clean) to 0 (highly corrupt). Denmark, N...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 03 Mar 2016 The problems caused by Japan’s recent nuclear power plant crisis have revived the debate on the future of nuclear energy. Discussions appear to be centred around the dilemma of whether or not to rely...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 03 Mar 2016 Diversification of rural women from traditional crop based agriculture to high valued agricultural, allied and processing activities with emerging prospect merit considerable attention in context of w...
by Nilabja Ghosh | On 02 Mar 2016 The past decade has seen economic links between the Gulf Arab region and Southeast Asia increase considerably – from just USD20 billion in 2002 to about USD100 billion in 2010. Notable factors driving...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 01 Mar 2016 The Union Budget has failed to deliver on the needs of the marginalised section of population. The spending has been much lower than what was budgeted.
by Paul Divakar | On 01 Mar 2016 In the main, this study uses the large sample National Sample Surveys (NSS) for the years 1983, 1993/94, 1999/2000, and 2004/5. There are two surveys that the NSS conducts in each of the large sample...
by Surjit S. Bhalla | On 01 Mar 2016 Trends regarding the central government’s sources of financing including tax revenue, disinvestments, and its revenue and capital expenditure, including subsidies. Estimates are presented in the 2016-...
by Mandira Kala | On 01 Mar 2016 The share of children in the Union Budget 2016-17 goes up to 3.32% showing a slight increase from 3.26% in the last years Budget 2015.
by HAQ Centre for Child Rights HAQCRC | On 01 Mar 2016 A history of Pakistan’s relations with the IMF (and the Bretton Woods Institutions in general) 2 cannot be told without reference to the complex and changing role played by the United States, es...
by Ehtisham Ahmad | On 29 Feb 2016 Government of India constituted the National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector (NCEUS) in September 2004 as an advisory body and a watchdog for the informal sector to bring about im...
by National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorgan NCEUS | On 29 Feb 2016 Has Narendra Modi re-set his political sights? What's there in the Budget?
by T.N. Ninan | On 29 Feb 2016 This paper presents an overview of the corporate debt market in India. A study of the structure and the status of the corporate debt market along with the current policies initiated by Securities and...
by M. T. Raju | On 28 Feb 2016 From the ‘migrant crisis’ to transboundary haze pollution and the Avian Influenza virus, Asian countries continue to face multiple new security threats which require international cooperation. These n...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 27 Feb 2016 The Fertile Crescent in the Near East is one of the independent origins of the Neolithic, the source from which farming and pottery-making spread across Europe from 9,000 to 6,000 years ago at an aver...
by Kavita Gangal | On 27 Feb 2016 In India, agriculture is inherently a risky venture due to uncertainty in production and volatility in price, and more so in the context of increased climatic aberrations and globalisation. Therefore,...
by Dr Mamata Swain | On 26 Feb 2016 While property taxation has existed since ancient times, and the taxation of land has been a mainstay of public finances through the Middle Ages, in both Europe and Asia, it has all but ceased to be a...
by Ehtisham Ahmad | On 26 Feb 2016 The present Status Paper for 2015-16 is fifth in this series and reinforces the Government’s commitment to keep the level of public debt within sustainable limits and follow prudent debt management pr...
by Ministry of Finance GOI | On 25 Feb 2016 South Korea is facing rapid ageing. Major repercussions are anticipated. Innovative approaches and a new mindset will help to defuse this impending demographic crisis.
by Lee Sang Ok | 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 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 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 Typhoon Ketsana in the Philippines has exposed both the weaknesses of government-led disaster preparations and the strengths of civil society in responding to the crisis. Clearly planning for disaster...
by | On 24 Feb 2016 Japanese corporations and American and European corporations take different approaches when it comes to business in China in general: (i) American corporations are concentrated in the music, motion pi...
by Yoshio Iteya | On 24 Feb 2016 South Asian organizations in countries like Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka are trying to professionalize management practices in recent years. Inspite of such efforts, employees indiscipli...
by Zafar Qureshi | On 24 Feb 2016 India has a staggering variety of flora and fauna, including some of the rarest species in existence on the planet. There is so far a paucity of information for the general public on the status, biolo...
by Ministry of Environment and Forests | On 24 Feb 2016 National Hazardous Waste management Strategy has now been formulated to complement and strengthen the regulatory regime. This is based on the understanding and experience of diverse issues connected w...
by Ministry of Environment and Forest | On 24 Feb 2016 The Asian financial crisis of 1997 involved significant economic and social costs for the affected economies, but also highlighted fundamental weaknesses in the structure and operations of their finan...
by Kevin Davis | On 24 Feb 2016 The food crisis at the end of the last decade and the resulting food riots that occurred in cities all over the world exposed the vulnerability and fragility of the current global food system and high...
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 trend of rising food prices has made this basic human need inaccessible to an increasing number of people. The impact on vulnerable groups, especially the poor, is immense. Food price rise has imp...
by | 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 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 The World Bank (2005) reported that from 1985 to 2003, per capita gross domestic product increased only by about 0.7% per year, well below the 3.7% average of neighboring countries (Indonesia, Malaysi...
by Eduardo Gonzalez | On 23 Feb 2016 The paper studies the post-Asian crisis investment performance of crisis affected countries in ASEAN. The empirical evidence clearly indicates that the ASEAN and East Asian countries are emerging from...
by Aekapol Chongvilaivan | On 23 Feb 2016 This paper reviews and highlights lessons from the stabilisation and reform programme that Thailand, Malaysia and Korea implemented in response to the 1997 crisis. The three countries’ rapid recovery...
by Kanit Sangsubhan | On 23 Feb 2016 The Budget Session of Parliament will be held between February 23, 2016 and May 13, 2016.
The session will have a recess from March 17 to April 24, when the Standing Committees will
examine the Dema...
by Kusum Malik | On 23 Feb 2016 The nuclear crisis in Japan has received heightened attention in the wake of the tsunami. Will it result in a catastrophic meltdown, as experienced in Chernobyl more than two decades ago, and trigger...
by | On 22 Feb 2016 The global food crisis of 2007 to 2008 drew attention to the importance of food security as a regional challenge for the Asia-Pacific. Regional strategies to achieve food security have recognised the...
by Lorraine Elliot | On 22 Feb 2016 The global food crisis of 2007 to 2008 – which was characterised by both volatility in food prices and shortages of food – and the uneven but almost certainly largely negative impacts of climate chang...
by Lorraine Elliot | On 22 Feb 2016 This paper reviews some of the current debates on the reform of the international monetary system. Despite its deficiencies, the United States (US) dollar will remain the dominant currency and Special...
by Yung Chul Park | On 22 Feb 2016 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 This paper presents a basic assessment of the financial performance of infrastructure service operators in developing countries. It relies on a new database of 120 companies put together to track the...
by Maria Pinglo | On 21 Feb 2016 This paper studies the credit market implications and real effects of one the largest borrower bailout programs in history, enacted by the government of India against the backdrop of the 2008–2009 fin...
by Xavier Giné | On 21 Feb 2016 The rise of regional monetary arrangements poses a challenge for the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s global surveillance efforts. This paper reviews how the IMF has responded to earlier regional i...
by Barry Eichengreen | On 21 Feb 2016 Financial safety nets in Asia have come a long way since the Asian Financial Crisis (AFC) of 1997–98. Not wanting to rely solely on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) again, the Chiang Mai Initiati...
by Hal Hill | On 21 Feb 2016 This paper 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 As the crisis in Syria edges towards civil war, the international community is locked in a stalemate over whether and how to intervene to stop the carnage. There is an urgent need for a middle ground...
by | On 20 Feb 2016 Euthanasia has always been in limelight as a subject matter of debate in the field of medicine and law. The euthanasia debate, being a value debate, seems to have no concrete solution, at least in the...
by Sandeepa Bhat B | On 20 Feb 2016 One important aspect of recent developments is that a significant portion of the additional electricity generation has come from liquid fuel based power plants which has raised the total contribution...
by Mustafa K. Mujeri | On 20 Feb 2016 Southeast Asia is witnessing a revival of interest in civil nuclear energy development in the region. Behind this shift are factors such as political transition in Japan, the lure of economic benefits...
by | On 19 Feb 2016 The employment shock of late 2008 in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) may have been a product of three different events: (i) the contractionary macroeconomic policies introduced by the government...
by Xin Meng | On 19 Feb 2016 Based on a survey of 1,268 firms in 12 Chinese cities, this paper empirically studies the effects of unions on three aspects of workers’ welfare, namely, hourly wages, monthly working hours, and pensi...
by Ninghua Zhong | On 19 Feb 2016 The Government has to not only focus on the Indian Economic scenario but also at the World Economic scenario. The Budget will have to focus on both the long term and short term development plans and h...
by Kiron Nanda | On 18 Feb 2016 Food security at the national level is now recognised to be dependent on a complex set of factors which interact and collectively influence the availability of food, its supply chains, its affordabili...
by | On 17 Feb 2016 This paper seeks to understand the changing financial landscape in East Asia that resulted from ongoing regional financial cooperation among ASEAN+3 countries. It examines the development of the Chian...
by | On 17 Feb 2016 In his 1987 entry on ‘Perfect Competition’ in The New Palgrave, the author reviewed the question of the perfectness of perfect competition, and gave four alternative formalisations rooted in the so-ca...
by M. Ali Khan | On 17 Feb 2016 Agriculture is important sector for Indian economy. The agricultural growth output and rural income has to increase, only then can we think of an all-inclusive development of the economy. The problems...
by Environmental Management & Policy Research Institute | On 17 Feb 2016 This paper exploits responses on the stated preferences for public sector jobs among a sample of unemployed in Pakistan to inform on the existence of public sector job queues.
by Asma Hyder | On 16 Feb 2016 In Pakistan innovation and risk taking is severely inhibited by the intrusive role of government in the marketplace. From the early days of planning when protection and subsidy policies determined win...
by Nadeem Ul Haque | 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 Many reforms have taken place in Indonesia following the Asian financial crisis of 1997– 1998. The government has embarked upon institutional transformation, making the country one of the region’s mos...
by Georg Inderst | On 16 Feb 2016 Bangladesh Bank, the central bank of Bangladesh is contributing significantly to commercial banks to promote women entrepreneurship in Bangladesh. Various helpful policies are initiated to promote
w...
by Bangladesh Bank BB | On 15 Feb 2016 The major concern for the banking sector of Bangladesh is that implementation of Basel II will cause banks to raise capital appreciably and thus undermine their existing capital position. In such a si...
by Md. Kabir Ahmed | On 15 Feb 2016 In this paper two measures of the monetary policy stance are constructed. The stance of monetary policy, regarded as a quantitative measure of whether the policy is too tight, neutral, or too loose re...
by Farooq Pasha | On 14 Feb 2016 The water crisis, exacerbated by corruption, is exacting a high human toll on the lives of the poor and vulnerable. Corruption makes water undrinkable, inaccessible and unaffordable. In developing cou...
by Transparency International TI | On 14 Feb 2016 The objective of this study is to achieve contextual understanding of pharmaceutical policymaking in Hong Kong by describing its processes and explaining how policymaking works. There are two stages i...
by Benjamin Chan | On 13 Feb 2016 The Global Competitiveness Report 2013-2014 features a record number of 148 economies, and thus continues to be the most comprehensive assessment of its kind. It contains a detailed profile for each o...
by | 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 It has been six years since the start of the global financial crisis and job creation remains weak in many G20 countries, preventing a significant decline in the often record-high levels of unemployme...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 11 Feb 2016 This Report produced by the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Employment analyses the need for the global economy to grow in order to create jobs, and the need for jobs in order to susta...
by World Economic Forum [WEF] | On 11 Feb 2016 The Union Budget falls on February 29- this being a leap year. An online opinion poll on a leading media website reads: “Should Arun Jaitley prefer growth or fiscal deficit?” As India emerges as the...
by Tulsi Jayakumar | On 11 Feb 2016 With growing urbanization what is required is the ease of transportation. It is now high time that Government Budgets need to have a substantial allocation for this. After all transportation is lifeli...
by Sudakshina Gupta | On 11 Feb 2016 The forthcoming union budget 2016-17 faces several fiscal challenges and it will be tough task for the government to provide positive signals to revive the private investment while pursuing the fiscal...
by Pratap Jena | On 11 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 As the world enters a new millennium, Northeast Asia has been witnessing the rising risk of nuclear weapons proliferation. This paper examines each of the specific risks that Northeast Asia is confron...
by | On 09 Feb 2016 We examine the effect of joining the European Union on individual life satisfaction in Bulgaria and Romania in the context of the 2007 EU enlargement. Although EU membership is among the most importan...
by Milena Nikolova | On 07 Feb 2016 In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, many different cases of malfeasance and corruption at banks have been exposed. To date, settlements worth more than US$ 230 billion have been agreed be...
by Transparency International | On 05 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 The present study empirically examines the short term under and overreaction effect in the Karachi Stock Exchange, Pakistan, in the context of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis considering the period f...
by Asiya Sohail | On 03 Feb 2016 This contribution addresses the political and legal aspects of European and Asian membership and practice in the UNSC. First, it highlights the difficulties of the European Union (EU) becoming a fully...
by Jan Wouters | On 03 Feb 2016 In recent years, Central Asia has increasingly come under the focus of the European Union (EU). This development occurred not least due to a series of interruptions in the supply of Russian natural ga...
by Sijbren Jong | On 03 Feb 2016 This research paper aims at studying the elements determining the Turkish position towards the Syrian crisis, especially in the period ranging from the start of the protests in mid-March 2011 to the b...
by Ali Bakir | On 02 Feb 2016 Remittances – money sent home by migrants – can help families survive conflicts or natural disasters. However, humanitarian agencies often fail to consider remittances when planning interventions. Thi...
by Paul Harvey | On 01 Feb 2016 Global progress towards reducing undernutrition has been made through enlightened public policies, targeted development assistance, private sector actions and commitments from civil society. Yet every...
by Nicholas Alipui | On 01 Feb 2016 This report presents snapshots of the financial crisis as seen by 21 thinkers, academics and policymakers in 14 developing countries. IDS invited them to present their views on the likely impacts and...
by Neil McCulloch | On 01 Feb 2016 Industrial countries are still struggling, with a few exceptions, to grow. Our fellow BRICS all have deep problems, with confidence about China waxing and waning. India appears to be better in this l...
by Raghuram G. Rajan | On 01 Feb 2016 In emerging economies like India, banking sector is very important. But banking sector is at 'crossroads'. There are many issues which this sector is facing and research which would generate fresh i...
by S.S. Mundra | On 01 Feb 2016 A gender analysis of the human rights situation is therefore necessary in order to understand the impact of the crisis on women and their livelihoods. In South Asia, there is an urgent need for engagi...
by Programme on Women’s Economic, Social and Cultural PWESCR | On 31 Jan 2016 The rapidly unfolding global financial and economic crisis will severely disrupt economic growth worldwide, affect the livelihoods of billions around the world and endanger progress toward the poverty...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 Are we heading towards a hard landing of the United States dollar? In recent months, the value of the dollar approached another historic low vis-à-vis other major currencies. This contrasts with the i...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 The danger to global economic recovery posed by the European debt turmoil throws a spotlight on a key missing international institution critical to global finance a sovereign debt resolution mechanism...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 Responding to the economic and financial crisis, a large number of countries introduced fiscal stimulus packages to support aggregate demand. These have been critical in avoiding the recession becomin...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 Jan 2016 The world economy is teetering on the brink of another major downturn. As in 2008, economic woes in the major developed economies are weakening economic prospects around the world. Th ere are multiple...
by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs | On 31 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 Parliamentary oversight is one of the cornerstones of democracy. John Stuart Mill asserted that the most appropriate tasks of a representative body are to : oversee and clarify the government actions,...
by BRAC University | On 30 Jan 2016 The paper looks into the recent experience in exports and imports of drugs and pharmaceutical products. It is found that there is a tremendous growth in the exports. The paper suggests the removal of...
by Reji K Joseph | On 30 Jan 2016 The magnitude of the food crisis demands urgent action on the part of governments, multilateral agencies and all those who cherish the vision of a hunger-free world. A correct identification of the ca...
by Arindam Banerjee | On 30 Jan 2016 This study attempts to investigate the empirical relationship between debt and productivity and debt and investment for the Developing Asian Countries over the period of 1984-2007. The study uses two...
by Hasan Shahzad | On 30 Jan 2016 Many authors have described and modelled Keynesian effects in a Babysitting Cooperative (BSC), which has the underlying structure of a single good barter economy. A simple model of the BSC economy is...
by Asad Zaman | On 30 Jan 2016 This paper enquires into the implications of the technological paradigm
shift for small enterprises. Those who would not consider conforming to the regulatory framework (specifically enlisted under...
by Keshab Das | On 28 Jan 2016 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 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 attempts to provide a comprehensive view of the status of the Pharmaceutical industry in France. As a background to the discussion, the paper first elaborates on the demographic features of...
by N. Lalitha | On 26 Jan 2016 The paper addresses the apprehensions relating to state bifurcation among people of different regions in the state and the country. The paper argues that a new state can not be a threat either to the...
by Madhusudan Bandi | On 26 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 The understanding of livelihoods in an economy dominated by informality can benefit considerably from correlations between macro data on employment and detailed studies of ‘work’ and ‘non work’ in sel...
by Devesh Vijay | On 24 Jan 2016 After the global financial crisis, India was exposed to many external shocks from commodity prices and foreign capital flows. Although capital flow fluctuations were largely due to global risk-on risk...
by Ashima Goyal | On 24 Jan 2016 This policy note reviews the trend in debt composition and sources of debt financing and analyzes debt sustainability of Bangladesh. Along with historical data on level of debt and sources of financin...
by Md. Ezazul Islam | On 23 Jan 2016 The briefing paper primarily focuses on violations of women’s and girls’ reproductive rights and right to be free from sexual violence arising from child marriage in six South Asian countries—Afghanis...
by Center for Reproductive Rights CRR | 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 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 intention of this study is to get an indication of the trends and uses of private sector commercial borrowing from external sources in Bangladesh. In this paper, an overall picture of the private...
by Sayera Younus | On 23 Jan 2016 The present global financial crisis shows that there is no substitute of prudent government intervention and careful regulation even when market determined incentive structures operate. The pursuit of...
by Bangladesh Bank | On 23 Jan 2016 The 2011 EFA Global Monitoring Report exposed the hidden crisis of education in conflict-affected countries. Two years later, to mark the birthday of Malala, the Pakistani schoolgirl shot by the Talib...
by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultura UNESCO | On 23 Jan 2016 India’s pharmaceutical industry of more than 10,000 manufacturing sites is estimated to generate US$ 22 billion in revenue , half of which is exported to more than 150 countries across the globe. Expo...
by Empower School of Health ESH | On 22 Jan 2016 There continues to be widespread criticism of the extension of patent rights on pharmaceuticals in the developing world as required by World Trade Organization membership. This paper examines argument...
by | 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 This is the second collective effort from the Center for Euro-Atlantic Studies to address global issues that are largely unfamiliar to the Greek international affairs community. Last year we dealt wit...
by Stamatis Zachariadis | On 21 Jan 2016 This discussion paper provides an analysis of the impact of these reforms on pharmaceutical R&D in India. It looks into the context in which the reforms were introduced, the nature and trends of R&D e...
by Reji K Joseph | On 21 Jan 2016 This paper analyses shifts in economic power over the last almost five decades. Developing countries and regions have increased their share of incremental world income and incremental world exports ov...
by Manmohan Agarwal | On 21 Jan 2016 In 2009, the European Union (EU) proposed to use border carbon measures, which could take the form of a direct or indirect “carbon tax”, against imports from its partner countries that were not follow...
by Biswajit Dhar | On 21 Jan 2016 Following from the Global Economic Crisis of 2008, the paper comprises four substantive sections. The first offers the briefest of descriptions of the economic crisis. It is followed by a discussion o...
by | On 20 Jan 2016 Migration flows exhibit both long-term shifts and short-term fluctuations in terms of volume and pattern. The root causes of these shifts and fluctuations can most generally be linked to the term ‘dev...
by Ronald Skeldon | On 19 Jan 2016 Using 2005 firm level data for 26 ECA countries, this paper estimates performance gaps between male- and female-owned businesses, while controlling for their location by industry and country. We find...
by Shwetlena Sabarwal | On 19 Jan 2016 The liquidity framework of Basel III assumes added significance for banks in India and many banks have been approaching us to comprehend the finer points of the liquidity regulations, as also with req...
by Reserve Bank of India RBI | On 18 Jan 2016 This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia’s immigration policy, introduced in the mid-1990s, on migrants’ probability of becoming entrepreneurs. The policy change consists of stricter en...
by Stéphane Mahuteau | On 15 Jan 2016 This article consists in three parts. The first part deals with theory. We evaluate the pros and cons of government involvement in urban housing and of renting versus ownership. In the second part, we...
by Yves Zenou | On 14 Jan 2016 This Overview Report on Gender and Migration takes a broad approach to migration – it looks at the gender dynamics of both international and the lesser-researched internal migration and the interconne...
by | On 13 Jan 2016 The international community has advanced in reforming the international aid system. Such reform comes at a time when there is a renewed skepticism about aid effectiveness and when the crisis sheds new...
by José Alonso | On 11 Jan 2016 The paper discusses the progress of Indian economy and its policies since the broadbased structural reforms initiated in 1991 with a special focus on the recent downturn following the global financial...
by | On 11 Jan 2016 How can young people and their future education and employment be put at the forefront of the solution to the current crisis as they represent the future of the world? These are some of the issues tha...
by Emmanuel Akoto | On 11 Jan 2016 While the unpublished findings of the ‘Caste Census’ in India might not receive serious attention if ever made public, some of the socio-economic data, made available by the same Census, can set the m...
by Ronojoy Sen | On 10 Jan 2016 The 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 paper emphasises the fact that the fastest growth in India’s urban population is occurring in its smaller cities and towns. They have glaringly inadequate sewerage and public sanitation infrastruc...
by Shubhagato Dasgupta | 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 Trade and Development Report (TDR) 2015: Making the international financial architecture work for development reviews recent trends in the global economy and focuses on ways to reform the internat...
by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNCTAD | 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 In the 1970s, the oil-producing and exporting countries of the Middle East delivered a shock to the global economic system that had many unexpected consequences. The then-quadrupling of the price of o...
by Shahid Javed Burki | On 09 Jan 2016 Afghanistan has long been used as a battleground for strategic wars by larger external powers. This is in part due to its geographic position between the Middle East, Central Asia and South Asia. Acco...
by Riaz Hassan | On 09 Jan 2016 This paper tries to analyse the effects of TRIPS on public welfare in the context of the pharmaceutical sector. It takes a closer look at the policies of some developing countries and their usage of t...
by Deeparghya Mukherjee | 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 This paper discusses mechanisms to prevent and resolve foreign exchange crises in East Asia. Policies and mechanisms at the country level as well as regional and global levels are discussed. Policies...
by Andrew Cooper | On 07 Jan 2016 The formation of regional production networks in East Asia has occurred mainly through market forces, without much help from regional institutions in promoting the creation of a single Asian market. W...
by Masahiro Kawai | On 07 Jan 2016 Half of the world’s population — 3 billion people — lives below the poverty line, and Asia has the largest share. In pursuit of sustainable economic development and poverty alleviation, there is great...
by Anbumozhi Venkatachalam | On 07 Jan 2016 The global financial crisis and the recent growth slowdown in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) have led to questions about the sustainability of the PRC’s growth. The commonly used argument is tha...
by Yuqing Xing | On 07 Jan 2016 Japan’s “two lost decades” perhaps represent an extreme example of a weak recovery from a financial crisis, and are now referred to as “Japanization.” More recently, widespread stagnation in advanced...
by Masahiro Kawai | On 07 Jan 2016 In 2013, through massive quantitative easing by the Bank of Japan (BOJ), the yen depreciated about 25% against the US dollar, stoking fears of Japan bashing by the US. However, this sharp depreciation...
by Ronald McKinnon | On 07 Jan 2016 The 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 Japan has suffered from sluggish economic growth and recession since the 1990s, a phenomenon dubbed “Japan’s Lost Decade.” The People’s Republic of China, many countries in the eurozone, and the Unite...
by Naoyuki Yoshino | On 06 Jan 2016 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 Bhakra-Nangal multipurpose project is among the earliest water resource development projects undertaken by Independent India. Though the main objectives were stated as irrigation and power generat...
by Shripad Dharmadhikary | On 05 Jan 2016 This report presents some initial perspectives on the impact of theglobal financial crisis on the people of India, particularly the poor, and points to the need for policy actions to transform the sit...
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 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 This paper focuses on the relevance to emerging economies of three major financial reforms following the global financial crisis of 2007–2009: the improved capital requirements intended to reduce the...
by Duncan Alford | On 30 Dec 2015 The fall of socialism in Central and Eastern Europe restored ordinary citizens' rights and freedoms and ended their political and social isolation. While the freedom of movement was quickly embraced,...
by Milena Nikolova | On 29 Dec 2015 The objectives of this paper are to develop initiatives on how to measure the flexibility of the labour markets of transition countries and shed some light on the ongoing debate on the role of labour...
by | On 29 Dec 2015 Self-employment constitutes a vital part of the economy since entrepreneurs can provide not only employment for themselves but also for others. The link between self-employment and immigration is, how...
by Ken Clark | On 29 Dec 2015 The paper updates debt sustainability analysis (DSA) for developing Asia, conducted in 2011. With the benefit of hindsight, the accuracy of the earlier debt ratio forecasts and underlying macroeconomi...
by Benno Ferrarini | On 29 Dec 2015 This article on women and water discusses gender perspectives of a growing water crisis and the evolution of the international policy on water. It stresses the importance of integrating gender perspec...
by UN Women | 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 The Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) represents one of the world’s most diverse and dynamic regional communities. This report identifies some of the key trends and critical issues for the Indian Oc...
by UN Women | On 28 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 In this paper, income distributions for developing countries in Asia are modeled using beta-2 distributions, which are estimated by a method of moments procedure applied to grouped data. Estimated par...
by Duangkamon Chotikapanich | On 24 Dec 2015 The Doha Round negotiations at the World Trade Organization have come to a halt. The vast majority of analyses of the (at least temporary) demise of the Doha Round have focused on the lack of the Unit...
by Timothy Sturgeon | On 23 Dec 2015 An accepted approach of women’s empowerment and building livelihoods of the rural poor is to combine both aims in building strong women’s collectives from below, and organising livelihoods activities...
by Landesa Rural Development Institute | On 23 Dec 2015 Banana (Musa sapientum) is an important fruit crop in India. Bananas are grown in more than 150 countries, producing 105 million tonnes of fruit per year. The global production of banana is around 102...
by Agricultural Marketing | On 22 Dec 2015 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 How can we explain the exponential increase of the cesarean section in the U.S. in recent decades? Drawing from 130 in-depth interviews with women, obstetricians, midwives, and labor and delivery nurs...
by theresa morris | On 21 Dec 2015 The Indian education ecosystem today consists of the government, private sector, and nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) that have helped provide education to millions of children. The enactment of t...
by Meril Antony | On 21 Dec 2015 Public investment financed by the government's own or borrowed resources do not provide an adequate answer to the problem of relatively low investment.
by T.N. Ninan | On 18 Dec 2015 The question of what keeps people mired in poverty is one of great importance to policy-makers and economists alike. The world’s poor typically lack both capital and skills, and each of these two fact...
by Oriana Bandiera | On 18 Dec 2015 The world’s poorest people lack capital and skills and toil for others in occupations that others shun. Using a large-scale and long-term randomized control trial in Bangladesh this paper demonstrates...
by Munshi Sulaiman | On 18 Dec 2015 The paper provides evidence to India’s strategy towards FDI in the post-1991 period has been to attract large amount of FDI by offering it freedom of entry and operation. However, India failed to attr...
by Vipin Negi | On 18 Dec 2015 This paper reconsiders the link between welfare state provision, globalisation and competitiveness empirically. We challenge the conventional wisdom that welfare states, large-scale public provision o...
by Yu-Fu Chen | On 16 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 report marks the fifth anniversary of the UN Millennium Declaration and the tenth anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action. It argues that unless governments and policymakers pay more atten...
by Martha Chen | On 16 Dec 2015 The paper makes use of newly developped information on unemployment dynamics. On the basis of a matching model of the labour market the paper analyses the economic, institutional and policy determinan...
by Ekkehard Ernst | On 16 Dec 2015 This paper discusses the current status of financial inclusion, education, and regulation in the Philippines and measures to foster financial inclusion. The primary policy challenge faced by the gover...
by Gilberto M. Llanto | On 15 Dec 2015 This study explores the outcomes of food subsidies to the poor in the case of
India and the Philippines. Both countries operate in-kind food subsidy programs with similar mandates, commonalities in... |