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- Thirty per cent of Indian workers live below the poverty line
- K. Sundaram; S.D. Tendulkar / Centre for Development Economics, Delhi School of Economics, India, 2004
- This paper presents all-India estimates of the number of poor people in the Indian labour force for 1993-94 and 1999-2000 and analyses the gender, activity and rural-urban composition of this group for the two points in time. It uses ...
- Defining poverty lines in India
- S. Rath / Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2003
- This paper examines in detail the premises used in the basic methodology of the Indian Planning Commission to define poverty lines in India. It examines the logistics of using available data with a view to estimating poverty tr...
- Trade liberalisation and the product-specific evolution of world trade
- J. Mayer / World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2003
- This paper undertakes a product-specific analysis of the evolution of world trade over the past two decades. It departs from the typical gravity model and uses statistical evidence to provide a first step towards a comprehensive produ...
- Problems in measurements of growth and inequality
- A. Deaton / United Nations [UN] Statistics Division, 2003
- This paper empirically explores the contradictions and inadequacies of measurements of growth and inequality between national accounts and surveys. It explores the reasons as to why there is divergence of results from national account...
- Impact of primary deficit, growth and interest rate
- C. Rangarajan; D. K. Srivastava / Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2003
- This paper states that debt arises out of differences between cumulated primary deficits and excessive growth over interest rates. The author argues that this had been caused by an increase in the interest rate over the growth rate wh...
- Statistics on childhood poverty in Andhra Pradesh
- S. Galab; M. Gopinath Reddy; P. Antony; A. McCoy; C. Ravi; D. Seerama Raju; K. Mayuri; P. Prudhivikar Reddy / Young Lives, 2003
- Young Lives: An International Study of Childhood Poverty aims at improving our understanding of the causes and consequences of childhood poverty in the developing world, and at informing policy to reduce it. In each of four developing...
- Insights into the dimensions and causes of poverty in Orissa, India
- A. de Haan; A. Dubey / Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2003
- This paper elaborates on the multi-dimensionality of poverty and processes that contribute to deprivation , arguing that social exclusion is a helpful concept to further our understanding of poverty, and proposes to apply the relative...
- Guide to using available data to undertake empirical economic research on trade and industry in India
- C. Veeramani / Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India, 2001
- This paper is intended to provide useful guidance for undertaking empirical research in the area of India’s international trade and industrial sector. It does so in the absence of a database covering information on trade flows, i...
- Legal tools to conserve biodiversity
- C. Lasen Diaz / United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2001
- This report is one of eight thematic reviews prepared for the Biodiversity Planning Support Programme (BPSP), a programme created to help countries strengthen national capacity to prepare and implement National Biodiversity Strategies...
- The stock market as a source of finance : a comparison of U.S. and Indian firms
- Cherian Samuel / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
- Internal finance is less important for Indian firms than U.S. firms, and external debt more --- but for neither is the stockmarket an important source. In seeking funding, a firm's main choice is between external and internal f...
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