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    Exchange rate pass-through in India’s exports to developed and emerging markets

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2008
    The exchange rate pass-through (ERPT) literature has traditionally focused on developed countries. Empirical studies on small open economies have also emerged over time motivated by the important price effects of currency movements. Empirical studies on small open economies have also emerged over time motivated by the important price effects of currency movements.
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    High risks of global imbalances: role of infrastructure investments in Asia

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2005
    Despite the seriousness of the problem global imbalance, there is a dearth of credible proposals for curing the malady. The standard recipes are three: revaluation of currencies in Asia, in particular the Chinese Yuan, reflationary policies in EU and reduction of fiscal deficits in the US.
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    Regional cooperation for poverty alleviation and food security in Asia

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2005
    ASEAN has undertaken several initiatives to address the social impact of the recent economic and financial crisis and to deal with the problem of poverty. Regional cooperation in human capital development focuses on the sharing of best practices in and capacity building for employment promotion, manpower planning, skills training, social monitoring, and design of emergency social safety nets.
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    Productivity increase and changing sectoral composition: contribution to economic growth in India.

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2008
    A number of studies undertaken in the last six years have noted that India’s economic growth accelerated nearly a decade before the economic reforms began in India, i.e. the acceleration in India’s economic growth took place around 1980 and not in the 1990s. This has been noted by
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    Childhood mortality and health in India

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2008
    Childhood is a significant stage of life and deprivation during this period can have a long-term adverse impact on the wellbeing of children. Reduction in infant and child morality is likely the most important of the millennium development goals, as children are the most important assets of a nation.
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    Import penetration and capacity utilization in Indian industries Bishwanath

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2008
    Liberalization of imports of manufactures in India led to a significant increase in import penetration between 1991 and 1998. This trend was reversed subsequently, and there was a slight decrease in import penetration between 1998 and 2003.
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    Towards developing the Brahmaputra-Salween landscape conservation and development initiative

    International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2014
    This report is on the third Regional Consultation on Developing Transboundary Cooperation for Brahmaputra-Salween Landscape Conservation and Development Initiative (BSLCDI) which took place in January 2014 in Kaziranga, Assam, India.
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    Rediscovering the role of developing countries in GATT before the Doha Round

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2008
    At the launch of the Doha Round, developing countries were sceptical that the Round would address the issues of concern to developing countries. Their scepticism was based on their experience of past 8 rounds of the GATT that failed to adequately address the interests and concerns of developing countries.
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    Economic growth in South Asia: role of infrastructure

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2008
    South Asia has become one of the fastest growing regions in the world, accounting for nearly one quarter of world population and 40 per cent of the world’s poor. Infrastructure development, both economic and social, is one of the major determinants of economic growth, particularly in developing countries.
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    Livestock industrialization, trade and social-health-environment impacts in developing countries: a case of Indian poultry sector

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2008
    Poultry is today one of the fastest growing segments of agriculture sector in India. While the production of agricultural crops has been rising at a rate of around 2.0 per cent per annum, this of eggs and broilers has been rising at 8 to 10 per cent per annum. India is today world's fifth largest egg producer and eighteenth largest producer of broiler.

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