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IGIDR Working Paper:Income Generation and Inequality in India’s Agricultural Sector: The Consequences of Land Fragmentation

NO : WP-2016-028 AUTHOR : Sanjoy Chakravorty, S Chandrasekhar, Karthikeya Naraparaju TITLE :  Income Generation and Inequality in India’s Agricultural Sector: The Consequences of Land Fragmentation ABSTRACT : This paper is a contribution to understanding income generation and inequality in India’s agricultural sector. We analyse the National Sample Surveys of […]

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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: Integrated Model of Computable General Equilibrium and Social Cost Benefit Analysis of an Indian Oil Refinery: Future Projections and Macroeconomic Effects

NO : WP-2016-024 AUTHOR :  Shovan Ray, A. Ganesh Kumar, Sumana Chaudhuri TITLE :  Integrated Model of Computable General Equilibrium and Social Cost Benefit Analysis of an Indian Oil Refinery: Future Projections and Macroeconomic Effects ABSTRACT :  Social Cost Benefit Analysis has long been used as a useful tool to appraise and […]

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IGIDR Working Paper:Differential Impacts of Currency Undervaluation on Growth and Exports in Natural Resource vs. Manufacturing Exporting Countries

NO : WP-2016-023 AUTHOR :  Sanika Sulochani Ramanayake & Keun Lee TITLE :  Differential Impacts of Currency Undervaluation on Growth and Exports in Natural Resource vs. Manufacturing Exporting Countries ABSTRACT :  In the existing literature, we find a huge debate on the impact of exchange rate undervaluation (depreciation) on growth […]

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IGIDR Working Paper : Abductive Reasoning in Macroeconomics

NO : WP-2016-022 AUTHOR :  Ashima Goyal TITLE :  Abductive Reasoning in Macroeconomics ABSTRACT :  Macroeconomic analytical frameworks change with events they are unable to explain. The process is closer to abductive reasoning that is based on both events and analysis, unlike induction which is data-based and deduction where analysis […]

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IGIDR Working Paper: PICKING THE WINNER: MEASRUING URBAN SUSTAINABILITY IN INDIA

NO: WP-2016-021 AUTHOR:B.Sudhakara Reddy and Arpit Tiwari TITLE:  PICKING THE WINNER: MEASRUING URBAN SUSTAINABILITY IN INDIA ABSTRACT :  This study provides a snapshot of the sustainability of selected Indian cities by employing 57 indicators in four dimensions to develop an overall city sustainability index. In recent years, its complexity has […]

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