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    Cash vs in-kind transfers: Indian data meets theory

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2013
    In their comprehensive survey on the theoretical arguments for in-kind transfers, Currie and Gahvari (2008) note a ‘disconnect between the theoretical and empirical work on in-kind transfers. Many theories seem to be unmotivated by deep knowledge of the programmes and the empirical work seems to largely accept the paternalism theory and move on to other questions.’
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    A social accounting matrix for India 2007-08

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2013
    A Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) is a single entry accounting system that represents all transactions and transfers between different sectors of production, factors of production, and institutions of the economy in a single matrix format. The framework of a SAM is a square matrix, where each row represents the receipts and each column stands for the expenditure of the respective account.
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    Democratic politics and legal rights: employment guarantee and food security in India

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2013
    Since 2004, legislation related to social and economic rights has been taken up with renewed energy in India. In its first term, from 2004 to 2009, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government enacted the Right to Information Act 2005, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005, and the Forest Rights Act 2006; in its second term, the Right to Education Act came into force.
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    Does exchange rate intervention trigger volatility?

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2013
    As far as foreign exchange rate management is concerned, the prime objective of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has been to ensure realistic and credible external value of the rupee and foreign exchange reserves adequate for stable exchange rate.
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    Subnational-level fiscal health: stability and sustainability implications for Kerala, Punjab, and West Bengal

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2013
    The perilous fiscal health of subnational-level governments is a priority area of concern in the literature on public finance and in contemporary policy debate in India.
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    Are women’s issues synonymous with gender in India? Looking across geographic space

    2013
    Gender studies in Asia, as in the rest of the world, tend to focus almost exclusively on women and their disparate social status, and unequal access to healthcare, education facilities, assets, and economic opportunities. Addressing inequalities is imperative not merely from the human rights perspective, but also to ensure sustainable and inclusive growth.
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    Total factor productivity of the software industry in India

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2013
    India has achieved remarkable global brand identity in the software sector. The success of this industry is best understood through its contribution to the services sector in the structural transformation of the Indian economy. The software sector contributed about 7.14 per cent to India’s GDP in 2011–12 (half the share of agriculture) and 0.6 per cent in 1997–98.
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    Determinants of India’s services exports

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2013
    Exports facilitate better resource allocation, an efficient management style, economies of scale and efficiency of production thereby having a favourable impact on economic growth. This has been established in several literatures. Furthermore, exports enable imports of essential raw materials and capital goods thus increasing investment in the economy and thereby, output.
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    India and Central Asia: trade routes and trade potential

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2013
    Given the prolonged recession in Europe and the USA, South–South bilateral trading relationships are gaining importance, and nations would be prudent to diversify trading partners and increase trading opportunities with emerging market economies.
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    Elasticity of substitution between capital and labour in major sectors of the Indian economy

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2014
    In developing countries, capital accumulation is often the prime source of economic growth. For rapidly developing countries such as India and china, the growth rate in capital input is commonly well above the growth rate in labour input.

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