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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