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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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    Indian Handicraft and Handloom Workers

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2011
    India's rich, artistic heritage is being kept alive by rural artisans, however the author states that these artisans and their families live in poverty and experience miserable living and working conditions. Handicraft and handloom workers contribute a substantial amount of foreign exchange to the economy, but rarely make a living wage.
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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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    Neighborhood and agricultural clusters across states of India

    Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India, 2014
    Huge disparity across states has been a perennial feature of Indian agriculture, and the subject matter of several studies, government reports and policy documents. This study traces how number and members of income clusters have changed in Indian agriculture over the last four and a half decades.
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    MGNREGA works and their impacts: A Rapid assessment in Maharashtra

    Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India, 2014
    The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) was notified on September 5, 2005 and implemented in three phases covering all districts over time. Although the focus is on augmenting wage employment, it is ambitious in scope and aims to accomplish a number of things.
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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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    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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    Spatial convergence and growth in Indian agriculture: 1967-2010

    Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India, 2014
    Inter-state diversity has been a perennial feature of Indian agriculture. The study probes if per capita income in Indian agriculture has converged across states in the last four and a half decades. It finds strong evidence in favour of beta convergence but not in favour of sigma convergence.
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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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