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Safety Nets for the Poor : A Missing International Dimension?

Reddy, Sanjay G. - 2006

Poor persons in poor countries are greatly exposed to the risk of adverse shocks, many of international origin, which can create long-lasting damage to individual well-being. There is a strong moral and prudential case for taking measures which reduce the extent to which such shocks arise and...

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Inequality and social unrest in India

Couttenier, Mathieu; Laurent-Lucchetti, Jérémy; … - 2023

We show that inequality triggers social unrest in rural India. We develop a theoretical framework where social unrest is rationally used by civilians to oppose (unfair) surplus sharing by the elite. We predict that the probability of observing social unrest in a village increases with the sum of...

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Intergenerational mobility, human capital accumulation, and growth in India

Weide, Roy van der; Vigh, Melinda - 2018

Productivity and socio-economic progress are inter-connected. Economic growth funds policies that promote socio …-economic progress, while the latter serves as a growth engine. A society with high mobility is one where individual achievements are …-2011), we identify the causal effect of intergenerational mobility on household expenditure’s future growth. We find that …

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Combating Poverty Through an Attack on Calorie Deficits : A Mechanism Design Approach

Mitra, Siddhartha - 2018

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Impact of Foreign Aid on Economic Growth and Poverty Alleviation in India

Paul, Amalanathan - 2019

This paper empirically investigates the impact of foreign aid on economic growth and poverty alleviation in India using …. Empirical evidence validates that foreign aid has a significant positive impact on economic growth in the short-run and not in … shortrun and long-run. Therefore, the study concludes that foreign aid is a notable factor of economic growth in the short …

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Does India use development finance to compete with China? : a subnational analysis

Asmus, Gerda; Eichenauer, Vera; Fuchs, Andreas; Parks, … - 2022

China and India increasingly provide aid and credit to developing countries. This paper explores whether India uses these financial instruments to compete for geopolitical and commercial influence with China (and vice versa). To do so, we build a new geocoded dataset of Indian...

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Foreign aid and fiscal behavior in a bounded rationality model : different policy regimes

Gang, Ira N.; Khan, Haider Ali - 1998 - Revised: July 1996

source of aid - bilateral or miltilateral - influence ricipient policy-makers' choice between development and nondevelopment …

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Does India use development finance to compete with China? : a subnational analysis

Asmus, Gerda; Eichenauer, Vera; Fuchs, Andreas; Parks, … - 2021

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Does India use development finance to compete with China? : a subnational analysis

Asmus, Gerda; Eichenauer, Vera; Fuchs, Andreas; Parks, … - 2021

China and India increasingly provide aid and credit to developing countries. This paper explores whether India uses these financial instruments to compete for geopolitical and commercial in uence with China (and vice versa). To do so, we build a new geocoded dataset of Indian government-financed...

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The role and changing paradigm of India's assistance to Nepal : case of the education sector

Goyal, Tanu M. - 2019

India is seen as a key developmental partner to Nepal with the latter being one of the first receipts of development … aid from India. Development aid from India to Nepal has not only been associated with creation of infrastructure in the … country but also with human capital development and ensuring long-term sustainability. Technical assistance and vocation …

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