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Infrastructure and Finance: Evidence from India's GQ Highway Network
(ScienceDirect, 2023-09-09)
We use data from the Reserve Bank of India to study the impact of India’s Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) highway project on finance-dependent activity. Loan volumes increase by 20%–30% in districts along GQ and are stronger in ...
Lights out? COVID-19 containment policies and economic activity
(Elsevier, 2023-02-15)
This paper estimates how strongly COVID-19 containment policies have impacted aggregate
economic activity. We use a difference-in-differences methodology to estimate how containment
zones of different severity across ...
National digital infrastructure and India’s health care sector: Physician’s perspectives
(Nova Southeastern University, 2023-02-02)
Patient-centric digital infrastructure can potentially enhance the efficiency of healthcare systems. However, even in developed nations, evidence suggests low adoption rates for such infrastructure and lack of support from ...
One-click at a time: Empowering mothers for their adolescentchildren's educational expenditures through social media usage
(Wiley, 2022-11-19)
Mothers play a significant role in deciding their adolescents' educational expenditures. They increasingly rely on the Internet for information search and building online support networks to enhance their confidence. Thus, ...
Moving the mountain: Stigma removal, strategic industry, and the Indian civilian nuclear industry
(Wiley, 2023-07-28)
The present study examines stigma removal in the context of strategic industries. Strategic industries are critical from a national interest perspective and may not be able to engage in conventional stigma management ...
JUE insight: Infrastructure and Finance: Evidence from India’s GQ highway network
(Elsevier, 2023-09-09)
We use data from Reserve Bank of India to study the impact of India’s Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) highway project on finance-dependent activity. Loan volumes increase by 20%–30% in districts along GQ and are stronger in ...
Assessment of Marketing Channel Choice and its Impacts: The Case of Paddy Smallholders in India
(Taylor & Francis, 2023-12-22)
Market access for smallholders is a key policy issue in developing economies. However, smallholders often face barriers in accessing remunerative marketing channels. Combining the theoretical framework drawn from resource-based ...
‘Scandalous’ and ‘obscene’ trademark law: determining the scope of morality-based proscriptions in Indian law
(Sweet & Maxwell, 2023-12-20)
Morality-based restrictions on trademarks are prevalent in trademark legislations worldwide, existing in 163 out of 164 WTO member states. In 2019, the United States Supreme Court held that such restrictions fall afoul of ...
What money couldn’t buy: social protection for migrants in India’s lockdown
(Taylor & Francis, 2023-08-23)
We analyze findings from a large-scale survey of over 11,000 respondents across 64 districts in India, conducted between December 2020 and January 2021 to examine the impact of the lockdown on internal migrants in India. ...