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2008-05: India's Lagging Sector: Indian Agriculture in a Globalising Economy
Desh Gupta
2008-04: National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme in Andhra Pradesh: Some Recent Evidence
Prema-chandra Athukorala , Raghav Gaiha and Shylashri Shankar
2008-03: Export Performance in the Reform Era:Has India Regained the Lost Ground?
Prema-chandra Athukorala
2008-02: Coalitions and Consequences: Learnership and Leadership in India, 1948–2008
Robin Jeffrey
2008-01: National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme in India - A Review
Raghbendra Jha , Raghav Gaiha and Shylashri Shankar
2007-20: Privatization and FDI: the Indian experience
T T Ram Mohan
2007-19: Pension reform in india
Mukul G. Asher
2007-18: Ten years of world bank sub-national policy-based lending to india: a retrospective
Stephen Howes , Deepak Mishra and VJ Ravishankar
2007-17: Human development in India: past trends and future challenges
Anil B. Deolalikar
2007-16: Coal mining industry at the crossroads: Towards a Coal policy for liberalising India
Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt
2007-15: Microfinance, Self-Help Groups and Empowerment in Maharashtra Abstract:The present study assesses the benefits of microfinance through self-help groups, based on a specially designed survey in selected villages in Pune district. While the benefits in terms of higher income, consumption, and savings matter for the poor, the focus here is broader, as an attempt is made to also assess some key dimensions of women's empowerment- defined broadly as expansion of freedom of choice and action to shape their own lives. While the targeting of microfinance through SHGs was unsatisfactory in terms of an income criterion, it was better in terms of other indicators of deprivation such as low caste, landlessness and illiteracy. What is, however, noteworthy is that the loans were used largely for health and education of children and for production-related expenses-especially by the disadvantaged. Using different methods and data sources, various dimensions of empowerment were confirmed. Some of the mechanisms involved in it were identified and assessed. Not only do SHGs benefit from the presence of networks, the former also contribute to trust, reciprocity and associational capital (e.g. through strengthening of local institutions). Domestic violence was reduced.However, greater responsibilities for women also involved longer hours of work
Raghav Gaiha and Arul Nandhi
2007-14: Hazads of policy modelling: India and the world markets for groundnuts and groundnuts products
Garry Pursell
2007-13: Financial turnaround of the Indian Railways: Good Luck or Good Management?
Desh Gupta and Milind Sathye
2007-12: Supermarkets, Smallholders and Livelihoods Prospects in Selected Asian Countries
Ganesh Thapa
2007-11: India's Great Vulnerability: Energy Insecurity
Rakesh Ahuja
2007-10: Economic Determinants of Newsprint Consumption in India: A Time Series Analysis
Raghbendra Jha and U.N. Bhati
2007-09: Free Trade Arrangement Between India and Japan:An Exploratory Analysis
Kaliappa Kalirajan and Swapan Bhattacharya
2007-08: Urban Vulnerability Reduction:Regulations and Beyond
V. Thiruppugazh
2007-07: Manufacturing Protection in India Since Independence
Garry Pursell , Nalin Kishor and Kanupriya Gupta
2007-06: The Indian View of Economic Development: Resilience and the Quest for Growth
Raghbendra Jha
2007-05: Smuggling and the Economic Welfare Consequences of an FTA: A Case Study of India-Bangladesh Trade in Sugar
Garry Pursell
2007-04: The Indian Economy: Current Performance and Short-Term Prospects
Raghbendra Jha
2007-03: Investment and Subsidies in Indian Agriculture
Raghbendra Jha
2007-02: Resource Augmentation for Meeting the Millennium Development Goals in the Asia Pacific Region
Raghbendra Jha and T. Palanivel
2007-01: Fiscal Policy in Developing Countries: A Synoptic View
Raghbendra Jha
2006-11: Mean Consumption, Poverty and Inequality in Rural India in the Sixtieth Round of the National Sample Survey
Raghbendra Jha , Raghav Gaiha and Anurag Sharma
2006-10: Energy resources in South Asia: The last frontier?
Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt
2006-09: On Modelling Variety in Consumption Expenditure on Food
Raghbendra Jha , Raghav Gaiha and Anurag Sharma
2006-08: Gendered Livelihoods in Small Mines and Quarries in India: Living on the edge
Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt
2006-07: Indian Poverty during the 1990s: Resolving Methodological Issues from the 55th NSS Round
Melanie Morten
2006-06: Local public goods in a democracy: Theory and evidence from rural India
Santanu Gupta and Raghbendra Jha
2006-05: Emerging Opportunities for Australia in India's Paper and Paperboard Market
U.N. Bhati and Raghbendra Jha
2006-04: Vulnerability of Consumption Growth in Rural India
Raghbendra Jha
2006-03: Micronutrient Deprivation and Poverty Nutrition Trap in Rural India
Raghbendra Jha , Raghav Gaiha and Anurag Sharma
2006-02: Calorie Deprivation and Poverty Nutrition Trap in Rural India
Raghbendra Jha , Raghav Gaiha and Anurag Sharma
2006-01: The Australian-Asian Connection: From Alfred Deakin to John Howard
Laksiri Jayasuriya
2005-04: Inflation Targeting in India: Issues and Prospects
Raghbendra Jha
2005-03: Market Integration in Wholesale Rice Markets in India
Raghbendra Jha , K.V. Bhanu Murthy and Anurag Sharma
2005-02: Household Characteristics and Calorie Intake in Rural India: A Quantile Regression Approach
Kompal Sinha
2005-01: Land Fragmentation and its Implications for Productivity: Evidence from Southern India
Raghbendra Jha , Hari K. Nagarajan and Subbarayan Prasanna
2004-17: Budgetary Subsidies and the Fiscal Deficit Case of Maharashtra
Mukesh Ananda and Raghbendra Jha
2004-16: Growth, Inequality and Structural Adjustment: An Empirical Interpretation of the S-Curve for Indian Economy
Narain Sinha
2004-15: Expenditure Implications of India's State-level Fiscal Crisis
Stephen Howes , Rinku Murgai and Marina Wes
2004-14: Recent Macroeconomic Developments and Implications for Poverty and Employment in Pakistan: The Cost of Foreign Exchange Reserve Holdings in South Asia
Talat Anwar
2004-13: Recent Developments in the Bangladesh Economy
Mohammad Alauddin
2004-12: The Political Economy of Recent Economic Growth in India
Raghbendra Jha
2004-11: RTAs and South Asia: Options in the Wake of Cancun Fiasco
Pradeep S Mehta and Pranav Kumar
2004-10: Complementarity of Trade and FDI Liberalization in Industrial Growth: Lessons from Sri Lanka
Prema-chandra Athukorala and Sisira Kumara Jayasuriya
2004-09: Is There a Case for the Employment Guarantee Scheme in India? Some Recent Evidence
Raghav Gaiha
2004-08: PRIVATIZATION AND PUBLIC ENTERPRISE REFORM: A SUGGESTIVE ACTION PLAN
Simrit Kaur