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    Does exchange rate intervention trigger volatility?

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2013
    As far as foreign exchange rate management is concerned, the prime objective of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has been to ensure realistic and credible external value of the rupee and foreign exchange reserves adequate for stable exchange rate.
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    Subnational-level fiscal health: stability and sustainability implications for Kerala, Punjab, and West Bengal

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2013
    The perilous fiscal health of subnational-level governments is a priority area of concern in the literature on public finance and in contemporary policy debate in India.
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    Total factor productivity of the software industry in India

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2013
    India has achieved remarkable global brand identity in the software sector. The success of this industry is best understood through its contribution to the services sector in the structural transformation of the Indian economy. The software sector contributed about 7.14 per cent to India’s GDP in 2011–12 (half the share of agriculture) and 0.6 per cent in 1997–98.
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    Elasticity of substitution between capital and labour in major sectors of the Indian economy

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2014
    In developing countries, capital accumulation is often the prime source of economic growth. For rapidly developing countries such as India and china, the growth rate in capital input is commonly well above the growth rate in labour input.
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    The reserve bank of India's reaction to exchange rate variation: a time-varying parametric approach

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2014
    The statement by a former RBI Governor Dr Y V Reddy that the official intervention in the foreign exchange market from 1990 to 2000 was a journey from agony to comfort was reverted in 2000 when reserve accumulation peaked at US$ 294.397 billion and the comfortable situation that prevailed turned out to be a problem of plenty in March 2012.
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    Social capital as obstacle to development: brokering land, norms, and trust in rural India

    MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, 2014
    During the 1990s, powerful development institutions like the World Bank came to see the social networks and norms of the rural poor in developing countries as 'assets' to be tapped for poverty alleviation.
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    Towards a more equitable outcome from Rio plus 20

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2012
    The “Rio plus 20” summit being held on 20-22 June 2012 provides an opportunity to launch a process for forging a new global compact, underpinned by greater equity and policy space for the developing countries, for dealing with sustainable development in an integrated and holistic fashion, and for moving away from the ‘silo’-mentality.
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    The R&D scenario in Indian pharmaceutical industry

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2011
    A set of policy reforms have been introduced in the Indian pharmaceutical sector since mid-1990s, aimed at incentivizing the private sector research and development (R&D). Patent reforms was the most significant policy reform.
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    Agro-industry as the ‘Mahayana’ of international cooperation: a world waiting to be born

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2010
    A highly positive sum game awaits the community of nations if a cooperative international programme for rural industrialization in the developing world generally, through a boost to the agro-industry (supplier) sector world-wide, could be brought into play. The rural economy, which is the mainstay of the bulk of the population in most developing coun
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    Fossil fuel subsidy reform in India: addressing the challenges

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2010
    The latest issues of both the World Energy Outlook (WEO) and the World Economic and Social Survey (WESS) brought to the fore the importance and urgency of a low carbon revolution in order to align climate and development imperative and digress from the alarming fossil-fuel dependent path. Historically the element of subsidy on the oil sector and its varia

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