Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) is a premier research and teaching institution set up by the Reserve Bank of India, for the study of national and international development issues from an economic perspective. Governed by an eminent board, the institute faculty makes notable contributions to academic research and […]
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IGIDR Working Paper: On the Importance of Triangulating Datasets to Examine Indians on the Move
NO : WP-2017-020 AUTHOR : S Chandrasekhar, Mukta Naik, Shamindra Nath Roy TITLE : On the Importance of Triangulating Datasets to Examine Indians on the Move ABSTRACT : A chapter dedicated to migration in the Economic Survey 2016-17 signals the willingness on the part of Indian policymakers to address the linkages […]
IGIDR Working Paper: Non-performing assets in Indian Banks: This time it is different
NO : WP-2017-019 AUTHOR : Rajeswari Sengupta and Harsh Vardhan TITLE : Non-performing assets in Indian Banks: This time it is different ABSTRACT : Growing non-performing assets is a recurrent problem in the Indian banking sector. Over the past two decades, there have been two such episodes when the banking sector was severely […]
IGIDR Working Paper: Recent Changes in Measurement of India’s GDP: Overall Issues and Some Focus on Agriculture
NO : WP-2017-018 AUTHOR : S. Mahendra Dev TITLE : Recent Changes in Measurement of India’s GDP: Overall Issues and Some Focus on Agriculture ABSTRACT : This paper discusses (a) changes in measurement in industry and services (b) changes made in agriculture sector and (c) major issues on the measurement of GDP in […]
IGIDR Working Paper: Monetary transmission in India: Working of price and quantum channels
NO : WP-2017-017 AUTHOR : Ashima Goyal and Deepak Kumar Agarwal TITLE : Monetary transmission in India: Working of price and quantum channels ABSTRACT : We examine the strength and efficacy of transmission from the policy rate and liquidity provision to market rates in India, using event window regression analysis. We find the […]
IGIDR Working Paper: Estimating the Relationship between the Current Account, the Capital Account and Investment for India
NO : WP-2017-016 AUTHOR : Ashima Goyal and Vaishnavi Sharma TITLE : Estimating the Relationship between the Current Account, the Capital Account and Investment for India ABSTRACT : Causality from the capital account (KA) to the current account (CA) of the balance of payments indicates disruption from capital flows while the reverse can […]
IGIDR Working Paper: An analysis of revisions in Indian GDP data
NO : WP-2017-015 AUTHOR : Amey Sapre and Rajeswari Sengupta TITLE : An analysis of revisions in Indian GDP data ABSTRACT : In this paper we study revisions in the annual estimates of India’s GDP data. The objective of our analysis is to understand the revision policy adopted by the Central Statistical Organisation […]
IGIDR Working Paper: Slowdown in bank credit growth: Aggregate demand or bank non-performing assets ?
NO : WP-2017-014 AUTHOR : Ashima Goyal and Akhilesh Verma TITLE :Slowdown in bank credit growth: Aggregate demand or bank non-performing assets? ABSTRACT : This paper tests the bank lending channel against the aggregate demand channel as an explanation for slow credit growth by estimating the determinants of credit and of non- […]
IGIDR Working Paper: Drivers of farmers’ income: The role of farm size and diversification
NO : WP-2017-013 AUTHOR : Varun Kumar Das and A. Ganesh-Kumar TITLE :Drivers of farmers’ income: The role of farm size and diversification ABSTRACT : The basic objective of this study is to analyse the role of farm size and diversification in determining farmers’ income. Using data from NSS 70th round […]
IGIDR Working Paper: Watching India’s insolvency reforms: a new dataset of insolvency cases
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