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    Understanding poverty among the elderly in India: implications for social pension policy

    Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, 2008
    Cash transfers to the poor elderly as social pensions are one of the most important anti-poverty programmes operating in India today. In 2007, the Government of India announced that changes to eligibility rules would increase the number of beneficiaries from an estimated 8.7 to almost 16 million people or roughly one in five elderly Indians.
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    Housing finance agencies in Asia

    Bank for International Settlements, 2006
    This paper examines the role of government-supported housing finance agencies in seven Asian countries - Hong Kong, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. The nature and size of the government subsidies received by these agencies are examined as well as their distribution among households, financial institutions and the agencies themselves. The paper finds:
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    Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania

    The Advanced Study of India is the only research institution in the United States dedicated to the study of contemporary India.
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    Foreign direct investment in post-reform India: likely to work wonders for regional development?

    Kiel Institute of World Economics/Institut für Weltwirtschaft, 2007
    This paper addresses two major issues related to foreign direct investment and regional development in India’s post-reform period – spatial distribution of FDI and the relationship between FDI and economic growth. Based on the analysis of a new and detailed database on FDI approval since the 1990s, the paper argues that FDI is likely to increase India’s regional disparity.
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    Can microcredit help improve the health of poor women? Some findings from a cross-sectional study in Kerala, India

    2008
    This study examines associations between female participation in a microcredit programme in India, known as self help groups (SHGs), and their health in the south Indian state of Kerala.
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    Strategy of growth for substantial reduction of poverty and reversal of trend towards increasing regional divide

    Madras School of Economics, India, 2007
    In view of the increasing regional disparity alongside high rates of growth in India, this paper argues for a new model of growth which is more inclusive and even, across India’s states. 
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    Global economic outlook 2008

    Deloitte, 2008
    Global imbalances have contributed to the build up of a speculative bubble in the US housing market. Their unwinding after the recent bursting of this bubble might mark the return of broad scale inflation for several reasons:
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    Country assistance program evaluation for India

    Operations Evaluation Department, Asian Development Bank, 2007
    India has made fast economic progress but still battles high levels of poverty. Since 1986, the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) operations have concentrated on infrastructure. How has ADB’s assistance performed? Was ADB's operational focus appropriate for supporting sustainable economic growth and poverty reduction?
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    Resisting corporate India

    Focus on the Global South, 2007
    It is predicted that India will be one of the economic powerhouses of the twenty-first century, with the current government focusing on the corporate sector. This collection of articles argues that progressive forces across India must unite in order to resist the current path of development focused on ‘corporate India.’
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    Expanding international supply chains: the role of emerging economies in providing IT and business process services. Case studies of China, the Czech Republic, India and the Philippines

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2007
    This paper examines the expansion of international supply chains and the rise of China, the Czech Republic, India and the Philippines as exporters of business process services (BPS) and information technology services (ITS). The author argues that the BPS and ITS sectors in the four countries have different client focuses, partly due to language and cultural proximity.

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