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The pervasiveness of self-employment
(2003-10-21)
Ageing populations with increased life expectancy, low morality rates, and decreasing and colatile returns in financial markets have made old age financial security difficult. Further, escalating costs of the pension system ...
The critics are not Keynesian enough: fiscal responsibility and growth
(2006-10-29)
It is because fiscal policy-makers may not respect intertemporal
constraints that it is better to bind ourselves to rules. Also, in an
intertemporal set-up, lowering fiscal deficits can be expansionary
Budget 2006: outlays, inequality and growth
(2006-10-27)
The fiscal deficit is being contained by a decrease in interest
payments and capital expenditures, along with a secular rise in
direct taxes. However, the reduction in capital expenditures,
mainly in infrastructure, is ...
Hitching employment to a growth strategy: services bulge and productivity growth
(2005-10-27)
An employment-oriented growth strategy requires a strategy of public investment
in agriculture and promoting new technology, including the inputs embodied in those
technologies. The bulge of employment in services is ...
The fiscal response to the global crisis
(Vikalpa: The Journal for Decision Makers, 2009-07-15)
India’s banks had no direct exposure to the subprime mortgage assets. Yet India was affected by the global financial crisis as its economy has significantly integrated with the global economy in the recent past in terms ...