Current global inequality measures assume that national-mean income does not matter to
economic
welfare at given household income, as measured in surveys. The paper questions... Category: Development Studies
by Mada Ranjith | On 01 Dec 2017 |
We analyse the evolution of the Indian economy over the past six
decades, particularly identifying structural breaks. We find that usually
there has been a gradual change in the indicators of the ec... Category: Development Studies
by Lindsey Jones | On 01 Nov 2015 |
This paper develops a growth framework of a typical developing and democratic setting with
formal and informal sectors, which faces trade-off of redistribution through either direct
subsidy or strat... Category: Development Studies
by Dibyendu Maiti | On 01 Mar 2018 |
The anxiety that technology will displace jobs on a large scale in
the near future is flooding both academic and public debates, primarily
in the developed world. The recent publication of a study b... Category: Development Studies
by Sunil Mani | On 01 Dec 2017 |
A basic premise of representative democracy is that all those subject to
policy should have a voice in its making. However, policies enacted by electorally accountable governments often fail to refle... Category: Development Studies
by thiruppathi P | On 01 Apr 2003 |
History matters, and it matters in important and interesting ways for policy
today. But it is not just actual events in the past. It is how they are recorded, interpreted,
and the interpretation... Category: Development Studies
by Ravi Kanbur | On 22 Jul 2008 |
This paper queries the rightness of the current mainstream thinking on development and technological change; expresses the apprehension that the much-feared climate change seems to have begun, and con... Category: Development Studies
by Ramaswamy R. Iyer | On 20 Mar 2006 |
If one were to look at the process of economic development as one where individuals experience improvements in the scope of the choices that they can meaningfully exercise and are reasonably free to... Category: Development Studies
by Neeraj Hatekar | On 12 Apr 2007 |
This essay examines the evolution of thinking on development and development policy, with a special focus on economic issues, in the last fifty years. In particular, it explores the interaction betwee... Category: Development Studies
by Ravi Kanbur | On 13 Apr 2007 |