Rapid economic progress has resulted in the formation of pockets of growth which are acting as attractor of economic activities. This is causing huge rural-urban migration thus causing greater economic disparity between urban & rural areas and socio-economic problems in the urban areas...

This paper analyzes and identifies the deficiencies in the current migration governance system, delineates pressing and structural challenges to global governance of forced migration and recommends pathways through which the Group 20, which is an informal forum comprised of the 19 most...

This paper analyzes and identifies the deficiencies in the current migration governance system, delineates pressing and structural challenges to global governance of forced migration and recommends pathways through which the Group 20, which is an informal forum comprised of the 19 most...

Kuznets Hypothesis has been in debate since Simon Kuznets published his seminal paper “Economic Growth and Income Inequality” hypothesizing that inequality follows an inverted U shaped curve. He suggested that inequality rises as an economy develops, due to urbanization and...

The “Anchoring” concept is new to most Market Systems Development projects, and Katalyst is probably the first project to have a full-fledged anchoring mandate in a large-scale MSD project. Since the widely used Adopt, Adopt, Expand, Respond (AAER) paradigm does not adequately capture the...

Social discount rate (SDR) reflects a society's relative valuation on today's well-being versus well-being in the future. This paper reviews various methods of measuring social discount rate, with particular emphasis on Social Rate of Time Preference (SRTP) and Social Opportunity Cost of Capital...

The key challenge for any market development initiative is to show the market actors the value creation potential (i.e. the incentive picture) so that they themselves begin to invest into the interventions advocated. The argument placed in this paper is that if the incentive picture is clear and...

Chemical Fertilizer shortage and misallocation has been a perennial problem that has fraught the agricultural sector of Bangladesh. Accurate forecasting of fertilizer demand can be a significant boon that can greatly emend the current scenario in regards to fertilizer shortage. Unfortunately...

The key objective of this article is to critically examine whether a quot;long-run relationshipquot; between quot;Exportsquot; and quot;Importsquot; exists or not and side by side, to investigate and find out the phenomena of a possible violation of inter-temporal budget constraint in an economy...

Mongolia has benefited from its mineral wealth, but diversification is now a major priority. But to what extent is diversification possible, and what will it look like This paper adopts the growth identification and facilitation framework methodology to examine the extent to which other...