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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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    External shocks: working paper

    Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India, 2014
    After the global financial crisis, India was exposed to many external shocks from commodity prices and foreign capital flows. Although capital flow fluctuations were largely due to global risk-on risk-off factors, a widening current account deficit (CAD) contributed to India's vulnerability to external shocks.
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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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    WP-2014-028.pdf

    Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India, 2014
    The first budget of a new government is expected to clearly communicate a vision and the plans for implementing it. The desire to meet aspirations through higher growth, employment, better amenities, infrastructure and governance is articulated, but how the measures in the budget are expected to help achieve it is not clarified.
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    The Way forward for India's National Pension System

    Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India, 2014
    Pension reform in India was conceived in the context of an economy where large expenditures were incurred on pensions of central government employees, a parallel mandatory system existed for private sector ¤firms with 20 or more employees, while a large part of the country remained outside of the two programmes.
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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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    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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    Self Help Groups as vehicle of empowerment

    Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2014
    The emergence of Self Help Groups (SHG) movement in India can be traced to the informal groups which historically people formed with others who have something in common with them, and oppressed people joining together to overcome the barriers they face. Soon after independence Government of India was concerned about the low access of the rural poor to formal credit system.

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