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Babken, Babajanian - 2014

This paper examines different approaches for promoting empowerment and discusses conditions required for effective empowerment. It focuses on three empowerment models, including grievance redress, participatory performance monitoring, and community-driven development. There are three sets of...

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The service sector in India

Mukherjee, Arpita - 2013

The service sector is the largest and fastest growing sector in India and has the highest labor productivity, but … investment. While India is among the top 10 World Trade Organization members in service exports and imports, the growth and … and are concentrated in a few markets. Most of the poor in India do not have access to basic services such as healthcare …

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Impacts of natural disasters on households and small businesses in India

Patankar, Archana - 2019

precipitation events at the micro level on vulnerable households and small and medium-sized enterprises in three locations in India …

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Quarterly forecasting model for India's economic growth : Bayesian vector autoregression approach

Iyer, Tara; Gupta, Abhijit Sen - 2019

This study develops a framework to forecast India's gross domestic product growth on a quarterly frequency from 2004 to … consumer price index (CPI) versus the wholesale price index given India's recent monetary policy regime switch to CPI inflation … include that capital flows to India and CPI inflation have high informational content for India's GDP growth. The results of …

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Nowcasting economic growth in India : the role of rainfall

Iyer, Tara; Gupta, Abhijit Sen - 2019

This study provides a toolkit to nowcast, or produce early estimates of, gross domestic product (GDP) growth in India …. We use a dynamic factor model (DFM) to nowcast GDP growth in India on a quarterly basis from January 2000 to December … indicators and 12 higher-frequency monthly variables, is able to effectively nowcast growth in India. The variables in the …

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Catching up, structural transformation, and inequality : lessons from Asia

Martorano, Bruno; Park, Donghyun; Sanfilippo, Marco - 2016

While structural transformation, driven by technological progress, productivity growth, and capital deepening, has contributed to Asia's sustained rapid growth, its effect on income inequality is uncertain. The central objective of our paper is to empirically examine the effect of structural...

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The impact of sex ratios before marriage on household saving in two Asian countries : the competitive saving motive revisited

Horioka, Charles; Terada Hagiwara, Akiko - 2016

This paper estimates a household saving rate equation for India and the Republic of Korea using longterm time series … to females) has a significant impact on the household saving rate in both India and the Republic of Korea, even after … controlling for the usual suspects such as the aged and youth dependency ratios and income. It has a negative impact in India …

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Financial inclusion, poverty, and income inequality in developing Asia

Park, Cyn-Young (contributor) - 2015

"Poverty and income inequality remain a stubborn challenge in Asia and the Pacific despite the region’s rapid economic expansion in previous decades, which lifted millions out of poverty. Financial inclusion is often considered as a critical element that makes growth inclusive as access to...

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Financing Asia's growth

Estrada, Gemma B.; Noland, Marcus; Park, Donghyun; … - 2015

Recent key challenges highlight the need to revisit Asia's financial development. These include the region's growth slowdown since the global crisis, compounded by a less benign external environment; internal structural challenges, such as population aging; and the maturing of much of the region...

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Myanmar : unlocking the potential ; a strategy for high, sustained, and inclusive growth

Findlay, Ronald; Park, Cyn-Young; Verbiest, Jean-Pierre A. - 2015

Recognizing the need to formulate policy strategies for the changes it faces, Myanmar started a multifaceted reform process in 2011. But speeding up development requires a multipronged but more coherent strategy targeted at strong and resilient growth, employment generation and, ultimately,...

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