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    The impact of economic reforms on Indian manufacturers: evidence from a small sample survey

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2009
    The Indian economic reforms of the early 1990s have stimulated much research and a host of academic papers. It is common to attribute India’s recently accelerated growth to the reforms. An aspect that has remained relatively unclear is which policy changes within the reforms have led to which consequences for employment, incomes and poverty.
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    Regional openness, income growth and disparity across major Indian states during 1980-2004

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2009
    As a country progressively engages in international trade, its factors of production will increasingly enter into the export sector, where their return is higher, compared to the import competing sector. At the regional level too, those states that can attune their production structure to international demands earn higher than other states, grow at a faster rate.
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    Informal wage and formal sector productivity: theory and evidences from India

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2009
    It is understood that the ability of firms to avoid minimum wage laws, certain types of taxes and the livelihood needs for a vast majority of population leads to the formation of the unorganized sector whose significance can hardly be undermined if one is seriously interested in understanding the working of a typical developing economy.
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    Technological change and new actors: debate on returns and regulations

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2010
    New technology in the seed sector has brought in new actors and new requirements for regulation. It is important to discuss how far India is working on new opportunities and policy options for effective and rationale regulatory framework.
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    Club-convergence and polarisation of states: a nonparametric analysis of post-reform India

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2010
    For most of its post independence history, the Indian economy adopted inward looking policies based on the import substitution framework. The low growth of the seventies and early eighties and the balance of payment crisis at the beginning of 90’s however, forced the policy makers to change course and move towards a market oriented economy.
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    Business group ownership of banks: issues and implications

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2010
    Banks perform the critical role of financial intermediation between households (savings surplus economic units) and firms (savings-deficit units), whereby they mobilize and aggregate small savings, and package and deliver them in the form of structured or securitized funds to firms.
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    Policies for increasing non-farm employment for farm households in India

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2012
    The recent Agriculture Census data shows that around 84 per cent of agricultural holdings in India are of less than two hectares. Most of these agriculture holdings are not viable; as a consequence many farmers are either leaving agriculture or living in penury.
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    Understanding democratic transitions in the Arab world

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2013
    The so-called “Arab uprising” is deemed to be a new trajectory of transitions to democracy. This paper analyses the factors that underlie this transition, coding “democratic transitions” as a multi-year phenomenon.
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    Modeling political performance of Islamism and Islamism-rooted parties in turkey

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2013
    Although there are many studies that analysed the transformation of Islamist parties in Turkey, none of these have investigated the determinants of their political performance. This paper studies the results of the Turkish elections between 1975 and 2011 to understand the factors that determine the political performance of Islamist parties both while in office and in opposition.
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    Lesotho political participation and democracy

    Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, 2013
    After the introduction of the Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) electoral system in 2002, however, Lesotho has experienced unprecedented levels of political stability. The country has attained a remarkable and peaceful alternation of power and the establishment of a democratically elected coalition government – a rarity not only in Lesotho, but also on the African continent as a whole.

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