Ethnic diversity and firm performance: Evidence from India

We examine if the financial performance of firms in India depends on the level of ethnic diversity in the state or district in which they operate. Thus,...

India plays spoilsport

A chance for lift off: Indonesia’s solar sector

India's demonetisation in practice

A sudden move to a less-cash economy can be difficult.

How do the poor handle money? What do the financial diaries of char dwellers tell us about financial inclusion?

Derived from livelihoods surveys and ethnographic material about people living on the chars,...

The evolution of manufacturing efficiency: evidence from Indian States

The paper investigates the patterns of variations in Indian industrial...

Demand for nutrients in India: An analysis based on the 50th, 61st and 66th Rounds of the NSS

In response to the Deaton and Dreze (2009) explanation of a downward shift...

Vulnerability and Responses to Risk in Rural India

Using Vulnerability as Expected Utility (VEU) analysis that permits the decomposition of...

Vulnerability as Expected Poverty in Rural India

Using a unique panel data for rural India for the periods 1999 and 2006 this paper models...

NREGS and TPDS in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh: Complements or Substitutes?

The workfare scheme the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) and the direct food subsidy program the Targeted Public Distribution Scheme ...

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