Author: S Chandrasekhar, Karthikeya Naraparaju, Ajay Sharma Title: Spatial Disparities in Household Earnings in India: Role of Urbanization, Sectoral Inequalities, and Rural-Urban Differences Abstract: This paper focuses on spatial disparities in household earnings in rural and urban India. A point of departure from the existing literature on inequality in India […]
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Liquidity Management and Monetary Transmission: Empirical Analysis for India
Author: Vikas Charmal and Ashima Goyal Title: Liquidity Management and Monetary Transmission: Empirical Analysis for India Abstract: A change in monetary operating procedures provides a natural experiment we use to evaluate first, whether Indian monetary policy transmission is better when durable liquidity is in surplus or when it is in […]
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India’s progress in meeting its climate goals: A comparative analysis using country-reported and external data
Author: Manisha Jain Title: India’s progress in meeting its climate goals: A comparative analysis using country-reported and external data Abstract: Recent studies analyzing India’s decarbonisation efforts using external data do not confirm the achievements stated in India’s country reports submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Convention. The […]
Four years after the Base-Year Revision:Taking stock of the debate surrounding India’s National Accounts Estimates
Author: R. Nagaraj, Amey Sapre and Rajeswari Sengupta Title: Four years after the Base-Year Revision:Taking stock of the debate surrounding India’s National Accounts Estimates Abstract: In 2015, with the release of the 2011-12 base-year GDP series the Central Statistical Office (CSO) substantially revised the way GDP is calculated in India. […]
Is Money Demand Really Unstable? Evidence from Divisia Monetary Aggregates
Author: William A. Barnett, Taniya Ghosh and Masudul Hasan Adil Title: Is Money Demand Really Unstable? Evidence from Divisia Monetary Aggregates Abstract: We revisit the issue of stable demand for money, using quarterly data for the European Monetary Union, India, Israel, Poland, the UK, and the US. We use the same linear modeling […]
Assessing India’s productivity trends and endogenous growth: New evidence from technology, human capital and foreign direct investment
Author: Taniya Ghosh and Prashant Mehul Parab Title: Assessing India’s productivity trends and endogenous growth: New evidence from technology, human capital and foreign direct investment Abstract: The study evaluates the role of R&D, human capital, and technology spillovers in influencing India’s long-run productivity growth. The primary contributions of the article […]
Peace over War: Conflict, Contest and Cooperation in Water Sharing
Author: Rupayan Pal and Dipti Ranjan Pati Title: Peace over War: Conflict, Contest and Cooperation in Water Sharing Abstract: Even as a huge body of empirical evidence points to the cooperation-inducing character of shared water, popular narrative seems to get carried away in its visions of water wars and outright […]
Daughter vs. Daughter-in-Law: Kinship Roles and Women’s Time Use in India
Author: Tanu Gupta and Digvijay S Negi Title: Daughter vs. Daughter-in-Law: Kinship Roles and Women’s Time Use in India Abstract: The custom of patrilocal marriage shifts a woman from her natal family to being part of her husband’s household. This shift and the associated change in kinship role has implications […]
Current Account Imbalances: Exploring Role of Domestic and External Factors for Large Emerging Markets
Author: Krittika Banerjee and Ashima Goyal Title: Current Account Imbalances: Exploring Role of Domestic and External Factors for Large Emerging Markets Abstract: Global trade imbalances have been a focal point of discussion in international economics literature but opinions remain highly divided with respect to its origin. This paper studies the […]
