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    Gender Wage Gap in the Last Ten Years: A Case Study of India

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2014
    Can India achieve its goal of becoming the next superpower without empowering women? While India is poised to become a powerful global player in the coming years, the paper argues that India is one of the worst places in the world to be a woman.
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    Local skill concentrations and district employment growth: A Spatial simultaneous equation approach for India

    Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India, 2014
    Employment data available for India specify only total number of workers (including self-employed and those with regular and casual jobs) in a given year. The focus of this paper is to explore the role of spatial distribution of skills in explaining differential growth rates of employment across Indian districts between the years 2001 and 2011 by using data from Census of India.
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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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    Designing a Cooperation Framework for Philippine Competition and Regulatory Agencies

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2014
    As the Philippines move toward the legislation of its comprehensive competition law, one important issue that has emerged is the interaction between the competition agency and sector regulators.
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    Counting the poor: Measurement and other issues

    Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India, 2014
    In June 2012, the Government of India appointed an Expert Group to take a fresh look at the methodology for the measurement of povery. The Committee submitted its report towards the end of June 2014. The purpose of this article is to briefly explain the approach taken by this Expert Group and also to clarify some of the issues raised by few researchers and others on the report recently.
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    The Political economy of MGNREGS spending in Andhra Pradesh

    Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India, 2014
    Infrastructure projects are necessary for economic growth and reducing income inequality, likely due to the spill-over gains from increased accessibility.
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    Implications of an EU FTA to the Philippine Labor Market

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2014
    The Philippines is currently negotiating a free trade agreement (FTA) with the European Union (EU). This paper is expected to shed light on these negotiations in terms of the possible effects of the FTA on the employment in particular. Conceptually, the effects of FTA on the labor market may come from two sources.
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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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    State reconstruction in Zimbabwe: seminar report

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2011
    The Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR), Cape Town, South Africa hosted a policy advisory group seminar Siavonga, in Zambia, June 2011 on the theme “State Reconstruction in Zimbabwe”.
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    Social Protection Brief: supporting pension reforms in India

    Asian Development Bank, 2015
    The Government of India is at the forefront of pension reform in South Asia. The drive for pension reform stemmed from ballooning unfunded pension liabilities under the defined benefit system for civil servants, which was not fiscally sustainable for both central and state governments.

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