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    BRICS Insights 2: New South–South co-operation and the BRICS New Development Bank

    Global Economic Governance Africa, 2015
    The establishment of the BRICS New Development Bank (NDB) marks a milestone in BRICS co-operation and is a symbolic achievement in the reform of global financial governance. It will help to promote the financing of infrastructure among developing countries, improve global governance and propel the revival of the global economy.
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    BRICS Insights 1: India’s experience with multilateral financial institutions: insights for the BRICS New Development Bank

    Global Economic Governance Africa, 2015
    In the wake of India’s economic growth in the past two decades, the country has played an increasingly prominent role in providing foreign assistance to low-income countries, particularly in Asia and increasingly in Africa.
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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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    What do falling crude prices mean for India's fiscal deficit?

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2007
    India's 2003-04 budget defied the trend of budget estimates of revenue receipts being consistently overestimated compared to actual receipts. The actual revenue collections exceeded not only the budget estimates but the revised estimates as well.
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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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    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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    Why tax effort falls short of capacity in Indian states: a stochastic frontier approach

    Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India, 2014
    Taxation is an important tool to enhance the economic development and to finance the expenditure responsibilities of a government. This paper attempts to measure the tax capacity and tax effort of 14 major Indian states from 1992-92 to 2010-11 using Stochastic Frontier Analysis.
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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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