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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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    Policy options for agricultural investments and governance of markets: in support of small-scale farmers in Guatemala

    Oxfam, 2014
    Guatemala's farming sector has undergone some major changes over the last 20 years, such as the growth of monocultures and of small-scale farming for export. This trend has been driven by both a general framework of laws offering incentives and international demand, particularly for vegetables, legumes, and substitutes for oil-derived fuels.
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    Unblocking bottlenecks to effective resource revenue management in Peru

    Oxfam America, 2014
    Many developing countries that rely heavily on the extraction of natural resources for revenue do not realise consistent and equitable economic benefits. In Peru, economic growth and exports have risen significantly, and the national rate of poverty has declined. Yet in some regions, including those where mining operations are located, poverty rates are stagnant or increasing.
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    Rapid Appraisal of the State of Competition in the Rice Value Chain

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2014
    The rapid appraisal is based on the interview of select players in various levels of the palay/rice value chain from Pangasinan and Nueva Ecija to Metro Manila. It finds that the paddy and rice supply chain is multilayered with many competing players in each layer, and with no evidence of any cartel-like behavior in the areas studied.
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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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    Estimating workers' bargaining power and firms' markup in India: Implications of reforms and labour regulations

    Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India, 2014
    Recently, a number of studies have attempted to estimate workers’ bargaining power and firms’ markup simultaneously, by adopting a more direct approach that allows for imperfections in both product and labour markets.
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    Does autonomy matter in state owned enterprises? Evidence from performance contracts in India

    Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India, 2014
    The empirical effect of enterprise autonomy on the performance of state-owned enterprises is surprisingly scant despite autonomy being a preferred reform instrument in many countries, and often chosen over privatisation.
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    Unemployment burden and its distribution: Theory and evidence from India

    Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India, 2014
    This paper develops a measure of unemployment that takes into account both the level and intensity of unemployment and that satisfies several desirable properties, including distribution sensitivity (dealing with differences among the unemployed). It can also be decomposed into mean and distributional components and contributions to unemployment by various subgroups of the population.

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