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Foreign Investors Under Stress: Evidence from India

by Ila Patnaik; Ajay Shah and Nirvikar Singh NIPFP Working Paper No.103, June 2012 Emerging market policy makers have been concerned about the financial stability implications of financial globalisation. These concerns are focused on behaviour under stressed conditions. Do tail events in the home country trigger off extreme responses by foreign investors – are foreign [...]

Dynamic Pricing under Social Learning with Strategic Consumers

by Manaswini Bhalla IIMB Working Paper no.367, June 2012 A monopolist uses prices as an instrument to influence consumers’ belief about the unknown quality of its product. Consumers observe prices and sales in earlier periods to learn about the product. Every period they decide whether to consume the product or to wait for a lower [...]

Foreign Direct Investment in India’s Retail Sector: Some Issues

by Murali Patibandla IIMB Working Paper no.366, June 2012 Foreign direct investment (FDI) plays an important role in India’s growth dynamics. There are several examples of the benefits of FDI in India. FDI in the retail sector can expand markets by reducing transaction and transformation costs of business through adoption of advanced supply chain and [...]

Regulations and price discovery: oil spot and futures markets

by Ashima Goyal and Shruthi tripathi IGIDR Working Paper no-2012-06,  March 2012 In a period of great oil price volatility, the paper assesses the role of expected net demand compared to liquidity and leverage driven expansion in net long positions.We apply time series tests for mutual and across exchange causality, and lead-lag relationships, between crude [...]

AGRICULTURAL WAGES IN INDIA

State-wise data of agricultural wages downloadable in PDF for the period from 2005 to 2010 Provided by Directorate Of Economics & Statistics, Ministry of Agriculture, Govt of India URL: http://eands.dacnet.nic.in/AWIS.htm Courtesy: Ministry of Agriculture, Govt of India

Financial literacy around the world : an overview of the evidence with practical suggestions for the way forward

by Lisa Xu and Bilal Zia WB Policy Research Paper n. WPS 6107, June 2012 Financial literacy programs are fast becoming a key ingredient in financial policy reform worldwide. Yet, what is financial literacy exactly and what do we know of its effectiveness? This paper collects insights from the literature thus far and summarizes global [...]

Financial globalization in emerging countries : diversification vs. offshoring

by Francisco Ceballos; Tatiana Didier and Sergio L  Schmikler WB Policy Research Paper n. WPS 6104, June 2012 Financial globalization has gathered attention since the early 1990s because of its macro-financial implications and growing importance. But financial globalization has taken shape via different forms over time. This paper examines two important, concurrent dimensions of financial [...]

Creating jobs in South Asia’s conflict zones

by Lakshmi Iyer and Indhira Santos WB Policy Research Working Paper no.  WPS 6104, June 2012 This paper describes the key challenges to job creation in conflict-affected environments in South Asia. It uses household survey data since the early 2000s for Afghanistan, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka to document the characteristics of labor markets in conflict-affected [...]

Roadmap for Educational Innovation in Institutions of Higher Learning:Towards Inter-University Centre for Innovation

by Anil K Gupta IIMA Working Paper No.2012-06-01, June 2012 It is ironic that while searching for models that promote excellence, we have not made the outstanding teachers and researchers the hub of future reforms. The fact that in any field of social investigation or higher education, the top few ranks are always occupied by [...]

Eat, Drink and be Healthy:A Paradigm Shift for Linking Food and Beverages Industry with People’s Knowledge and Institutions

by Anil K Gupta IIMA Working Paper No.2012-06-02, June 2012 The food and beverages industry has not yet established strong and vibrant linkages with the local communities to develop value added products and share the benefits. The paper lists seven models for building such linkages. The models range from mass sourcing the ideas and rewarding [...]

Science and Technology for Inclusive Social Development in 12th Five Year Plan

by Anil K Gupta IIMA Working Paper no. 2012-06-03, June 2012 India has used science and technology for social development right from the beginning of planned development. The first time when television programmes were beamed through satellite, it was for education and not just entertainment. No other country perhaps began the satellite-based transmission in this [...]

Innovation, Investment, Enterprise: Generating Sustainable Livelihood at Grassroots through Honey Bee Philosophy

by Anil K Gupta IIMA Working Paper No. 2012-06-04, June 2012 In memory of Dr. C.V. Seshadri, a maverick scientist and a social change agent, it is suggested that a new model for sustainable livelihoods is followed. The ex-ante and ex-post transaction costs of innovators, investors and entrepreneurs will have to be reduced if the [...]

Conserving, Augmenting and Sharing Water

by Anil K Gupta IIMA Working Paper No.2012-06-05, June 2012 There is a huge crisis for water all around the world, certainly in India with groundwater table going down and drinking water selling almost at the rate of toned milk. Who would have imagined two decades ago that a very large number of people in [...]

Values in Vogue: Institutional Pathways for Sustaining GrassrootsInnovations for Creating Public Goods

by Anil K Gupta and Prateek Gautham et al IIMA Working Paper No.2012-06-06, June 2012  The institutional pathways through which grassroots struggles and initiatives can not only be articulated but also nurtured are crucial for inclusive development. It has been noted earlier that to institutionalize even a small change, multiple interventions are required at different [...]

Economic and Political Weekly Issue : VOL 47 No. 25 June 23 – June 29, 2012

EDITORIALS Resilience of Dynastic Politics Life-giving Leadership Greenwash Day From 50 Years Ago (23 June 2012) COMMENTARY A Stinging Indictment of India’s Drug Regulation Authority S Srinivasan E-Waste Law: New Paradigm or Business as Usual? Ravi Agarwal The Politics behind World Bank Statistics Robert H Wade Pro-Poor Maternity Benefit Schemes and Rural Women P Balasubramanian [...]

Economic and Political Weekly Issue : VOL 47 No. 24 June 16 – June22, 2012

EDITORIALS From 50 Years Ago (16 June 2012 Saving the Western Ghats State Apathy in Its Extreme A New Constituent Assembly? COMMENTARY The Arteries of Petroleum: A Libyan Diary Vijay Prashad Poor Guarantee of Online Freedom in India Geeta Seshu Towards Achieving Equal Rights in Marriage Kirti Singh Secularisation and the Establishment of Dharmika Parishats [...]

Journal of Health Economics Volume 31, Issue 3, May 2012

1. Editorial Board 2. Incentive and selection effects of Medigap insurance on inpatient care Original Research Article Valentino Dardanoni, Paolo Li Donni 3. Regulation and competition in the Taiwanese pharmaceutical market under national health insurance Original Research Article Ya-Ming Liu, Yea-Huei Kao Yang, Chee-Ruey Hsieh 4. Priority setting in health care and higher order degree [...]

Challenge,May-June 2012

UNEMPLOYMENT/ENEQUALITY HOW WE UNDERESTIMATE LONG – TERM UNEMPLOYMENT BY John Schmitt and Janelle Jones WE STILL DON’T REALLY ADDRESS INEQUALITY BY Robert Wade INCOME INEQUALITY AND DECLINING CIVIC PARTICIPATION BY Oren Levin – Waldman SYSTEM STRESSES WHY THE CURRENT CRISIS IS SO DIFFERENT BY Howard Sherman and Michael Meeropol THE VARIETIES OF CAPITALISM SINCE THE [...]

AUSTRALIAN ECONOMIC PAPERS,VOL.51(2),JUNE 2012

Hysteresis Hypothesis in Unemployment and Labour Force Participation Rates: Evidence from Australian States and Territories By De-Chih Liu , Chin-Hwa Sun and Pei‐Chien Lin Small Open Economies and Mean Reverting Nominal Exchange Rates By Jostein Tvedt The Job Creation Effect of R&D Expenditures By Francesco Bogliacino and Marco Vivarelli URL:http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/JELJOUR_Results.cfm?form_name=journalbrowse&journal_id=306159

Frontier,Vol.44(44),May 13 – 19,2012

Contents News Wrap By AGD Calcutta Notebook By Shoummo Jangalmahal Debate, People’s war as strategy and peace talk  as tactics By Gautam, Navlakha Plight if part – timers, Drifting towards Choas? By Nityananda Ghosh Nonadanga Days of Outrage By Biswajit Roy

SOCIAL WELFARE,VOL.59(3),JUNE,2012

CONTENTS Nutrition Gardens and Seed Banks: Women Farmers Adapt to climate change By Aditi Kapoor Indigenous Seeds – Key to end Agrarian Crisis By Baba Mayaram Science from The Fields: How three women farmers learnt to innovate By Renu Rakesh The Wilting of Garden City By Roshin Varghese Jharkhand forest at Risk’ By Amrendra Suman [...]

JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS,VOL.87(1),MAY 2012

CONTENTS Trade, competition, and efficiency By Kristian Behrens, Yasusada Murata Competition and political organization: Together or alone in lobbying for trade policy? By Matilde Bombardini, Francesco Trebbi Heterogeneous firms, exporter networks and the effect of distance on international trade By Sebastian Krautheim Capital liberalization and the US external imbalance By Elvira Prades, Katrin Rabitsch Getting [...]

JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS,VOL.98(2), July 2012

Contents What makes growth sustained? By Andrew Berg, Jonathan D. Ostry, Jeromin Zettelmeyer Growth miracles and failures in a Markov switching classification model of growth By Monika Kerekes Is inflation targeting a good remedy to control inflation? By Helder Ferreira de Mendonça, Gustavo José de Guimarães e Souza Risk taking under heterogenous revenue sharing By Mohamed Belhaj, Frédéric Deroïan [...]

European Economic Review,Vol.56(4),May 2012

CONTENTS Debt shifting and ownership structure By Dirk Schindler, Guttorm Schjelderup Too much of a good thing? On the growth effects of the EU’s regional policy By Sascha O. Becker, Peter H. Egger, Maximilian von Ehrlich A dynamic analysis of the demand for health insurance and health care By Jonneke Bolhaar, Maarten Lindeboom, Bas van der Klaauw Ageing, [...]

Journal of Health Economics,vOL.31(2),March 2012

CONTENTS Evergreening, patent challenges, and effective market life in pharmaceuticals By C. Scott Hemphill, Bhaven N. Sampat The effect of a hospital nurse staffing mandate on patient health outcomes: Evidence from California’s minimum staffing regulation By Andrew Cook, Martin Gaynor, Melvin Stephens Jr, Lowell Taylor Watchfully waiting: Medical intervention as an optimal investment decision By Elisabeth Meyer, Ray [...]

Price Stability and Financial Stability An Emerging Market Perspective

by Deepak Mohanty Address by Shri Deepak Mohanty, Executive Director, Reserve Bank of India, in the 2012 Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Board Retreat, Cape Town, South Africa, June 27, 2012. URL: http://rbidocs.rbi.org.in/rdocs/Speeches/PDFs/MSCBN270612.pdf Courtesy:RBI

Countercyclical Capital Buffer Guidance for India

by Tulasi Gopinath and A K Choudhary RBI Working Paper Series WPS(DEPR)12/2012, June 2012 Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) has published its guidance for operating the countercyclical capital buffer. It has, inter alia, recommended that credit-to-GDP ratio could be the buffer guide. This paper argues that BCBS buffer guide is not suitable for India [...]

Monetary Policy Transmission in India: A Peep Inside the Black Box

by Jeevan Kumar Khundrakpam and Rajeev Jain RBI Working Paper Series WPS(DEPR);11/2012, Using SVAR models on quarterly data for 1996-97:1 to 2011-12:1, the paper examines the relative importance of various transmission channels of monetary policy to GDP growth and inflation in India. It finds that external exogenous factors prolong the impact of monetary policy transmission [...]

QUARTERLY STATISTICS ON DEPOSITS AND CREDIT OF SCHEDULED COMMERCIAL BANKS

Published by Reserve Bank of India, June 2012 HIGHLIGHTS “Quarterly Statistics on Deposits and Credit of Scheduled Commercial Banks- December 2011” provides data on aggregate deposits and gross bank credit of Scheduled Commercial Banks as on Last Friday of December 2011 (December 30, 2011). The branch-wise data are received from All Scheduled Commercial Banks (including [...]

Primary Care and Public Health: Exploring Integration to Improve Population Health

Committee on Integrating Primary Care and Public Health; Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice; Institute of Medicine, 2012 Ensuring that members of society are healthy and reaching their full potential requires the prevention of disease and injury; the promotion of health and well-being; the assurance of conditions in which people can be healthy; [...]

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