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    Pushing India’s small-scale industries to the economic forefront

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2015
    India currently stands on the brink of being reckoned as the fastest growing economy in the world: In 2016, its projected growth rate is 7.6 percent. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's flagship 'Make in India' programme is expected to herald India into its era of growth.
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    India and its Eastern neighbours: prospects for sub-regional cooperation

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2015
    South Asia is the fastest growing region in the world. The combined economy of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is the third largest in the world in terms of GDP (PPP), with US and China ahead. SAARC countries make up around 21 percent of the total world population with around 1.7 billion people.
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    Deepening India’s engagement with Africa through better market access

    Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2015
    In order to provide ‘trade’ stimulus to Least Developed Countries (LDCs), India launched a Duty-Free Tariff Preferences (DFTP) scheme in 2008. DFTP scheme provides duty free treatment to about 98 per cent of tariff lines and 48 LDCs are beneficiary of this scheme. Preliminary evidence indicates the effect of the scheme has been limited and varies from country to country.
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    The Durban BRICS Summit: partnership for development and integration proceedings report

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2013
    The media hype and international attention that centered on Durban during the fifth BRICS Summit (26–27 March 2013) has faded.
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    The imprecision of volatility indexes

    Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India, 2014
    The volatility index (vix) is a measure of market's expectation of volatility. The usefulness of the forward-looking vix, over volatility forecasts based on historical data, has been explored extensively in literature. This has led to applications of vix in areas such as option pricing and value-at-risk calculations.
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    India-US defence relations: in search of a direction

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2011
    The strong reactions to the non-inclusion of American firms in a major Indian military procurement tender, in the backdrop of the proposed aggressive weapons sales by the Americans, paint a contrasting picture that could influence India-US defence relations in the near future. At the same
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    The impact of high crude oil prices and challenges in pricing of petroleum products

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2006
    India, with its limited domestic crude production, imports more than 70 percent of its crude oil requirement to fuel its burgeoning oil demand in wake of the booming economy. The rise in international crude oil prices directly impacts the cost of refined products.
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    Economic challenges for the new government: suggestions for policy formulation

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2009
    This paper discusses economic opportunities for India in the context of the new government taking power in May 2009. An important imperative for the new government would be to revive business confidence and optimism. The key to economic revival is as much in restoring public and corporate confidence as it is in targeted fiscal stimulus.
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    Strategic trade policy for network goods oligopolies

    Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India, 2014
    This paper analyses strategic trade policy for differentiated network goods oligopolies (markets in which a few firms dominate) under alternative scenarios, when there is export-rivalry between two countries. It shows that, under price competition without managerial delegation, it is optimal to tax (subsidise) exports, if network externalities are weak (strong).
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    Impediments to contract enforcement in day labour markets: A Perspective from India

    2014
    In developing countries, lack of formal contract enforcement mechanisms is compensated by informal or relational governance enforced through trust, kinship, reputation, etc. This paper focuses on one such setting in India's urban informal economy: the 'day labour' market for casual labour.

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