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    Ageing, socio-economic disparities and health outcomes: some evidence from rural India

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2008
    With sustained fertility decline and growing survival chances, India is likely to face many new challenges in its population management strategies especially those relating to the quality of human life and their key socio-economic determinants. Some recent economic literature clearly indicates a growing strain on many of these factors affecting the quality of human life and its determinants.
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    Savings behaviour in South Asia

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2008
    Economic growth is among the most important factors affecting the quality of life that a people lead in a country. Given the close relation between savings and growth, the analysis of savings behaviour becomes naturally important in this context. Yet, a comprehensive analysis of the savings behaviour for many of the South Asian countries is missing
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    The differential effects of oil demand and supply shocks on the global economy

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2013
    How do oil-price shocks affect real output, inflation, the real effective exchange rates, interest rates, and equity prices in different countries, including major oil exporters? The current paper investigates the macroeconomic effects of oil-supply and oil-demand shocks.
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    The limited promise of agricultural trade liberalization

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2009
    It has become an article of faith in international trade negotiations that farmers in developing countries have much to gain from agricultural trade liberalisation. This paper assesses the evidence for such claims. It concludes that the promise of agricultural trade liberalisation is overstated, while the costs to small-scale farmers in developing countries are often very high.
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    Policies for industrial learning in China and Mexico

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2009
    Previous work has shown that the results of both China and Mexico’s export-led market reforms over the past quarter century have been strikingly different. In contrast to China, Mexico has not managed to increase the value added of its exports of manufactured goods and has subsequently had a difficult time competing with China in world markets.
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    India’s outward foreign direct investments in steel industry in a Chinese comparative perspective

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2009
    Indian and Chinese enterprises have emerged as important outward investors in recent times with their involvement in a number of prominent Greenfield investments and acquisitions.
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    India’s role in East Asia: lessons from cultural and historical linkages

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2009
    India’s presence in the East Asia Summit signals not only a victory for New Delhi’s “Look East” policy but also an implicit “Look West” policy on the part of India’s neighbours to the east. This convergence represents not only a major economic opportunity for India but also a long-term strategic shift in regional order.
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    Drivers of agricultural diversification in India, Haryana and the Greenbelt farms of India

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2009
    Traditionally, agricultural diversification is referred to a subsistence kind of farming wherein farmers were cultivating varieties of crops on a piece of land and undertaking several enterprises on their farm portfolio. Household food and income security were the basic objectives of agricultural diversification.
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    Evaluating agricultural policy in a farming system framework: a case study from North West India

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2009
    Government intervenes in the agricultural sector to achieve particular set of policy objectives. Though short-run objectives of such policy interventions are achieved, the long-run implications of such interventions are sometimes not well understood. Also one set of policy objectives could lead to certain unforeseen consequences not thought of initially.
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    The impact of economic reforms on Indian manufacturers: evidence from a small sample survey

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2009
    The Indian economic reforms of the early 1990s have stimulated much research and a host of academic papers. It is common to attribute India’s recently accelerated growth to the reforms. An aspect that has remained relatively unclear is which policy changes within the reforms have led to which consequences for employment, incomes and poverty.

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