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that the standard methodology used will almost invariably lead to biased elasticity estimates, and proposes an alternative …
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Major shifts in the policy initiated in the electricity sector are well documented so that the effect of this policy …
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This study investigates the water demand of Indian manufacturing plants. It adopts an input distance function approach and approximates it by a translog form. Duality between cost function and input distance function is exploited to retrieve information concerning substitutability and the shadow...
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face a lower pass-through elasticity of import prices on domestic prices.[Bangladesh Bank WP NO 0807] … market in the backdrop of global increase in food prices. Such price developments in the international commodity markets have …. This raises the issue of the existence and extent of import price pass-through to domestic prices. This paper analyzes the …
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Increasing women’s access to land is crucial to fight hunger and poverty. However, gender disparities in land access remain significant in most countries, regardless of their level of development. A new FAO database helps to understand the factors that prevent women from accessing land; and to...
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on commodity prices? How resilient is the international monetary system to future shocks? Will the ongoing reforms …
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The production and marketing scenario of coconut in the country has witnessed a phenomenal development, particularly in the field of production such as development of improved high yielding dwarf varieties of crossbred coconut palm, traditional, non-traditional, commercial and industrial coconut...
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keeping contraceptive prices low, however, remains unclear. Targeting of subsidies and insufficient price variation have … longitudinal survey data from the Indonesia Family Life Survey, an analysis of the dramatic variation in prices and incomes that …
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This study analyses the behaviour of monetary and fiscal policies interaction in India using quarterly data for 2000Q2 to 2010Q1. It finds that, even after the elimination of automatic monetisation of fiscal deficit in 1997 and prohibiting RBI from buying government securities in the primary...
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Inflation management is one of the hardest tasks an economic policymaker has to undertake. It appears, at first sight, that one can rely entirely on commonsense to carry out this task. But that will be a cardinal mistake. While inflation policy does require judgment and intuition, it is...
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