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Does Trade Make Asian Children Healthier?
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
This paper empirically examines the impact of globalization and international trade on the child health status of the Asian countries. In contrast to previous studies we have introduced the initial level of development and ...
How Costly is the Deliberate Disinflation in India? Estimating the Sacrifice Ratio
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
Methods followed in earlier studies for estimating the sacrifice ratio or the real cost of deliberate disinflation have focused only on aggregate supply side ignoring aggregate demand. The present study considers the ...
Specialist Services in the Indian Rural Public Health System for Maternal and Child Healthcare – A Study of Four States
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
The present study attempts to examine the role of specialist services in rural public health system of India in the areas of maternal and child healthcare. The study uses primary data collected through a survey of doctors ...
Economic Globalization: Boon or Bane for African Health?
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
The effect of globalization, especially economic liberalization, on socioeconomic development has long been debated in development economics. There is a view that globalization is not beneficial to the underdeveloped and ...
Energy planning in India: relevance of regional planning for national policy
(2010-03-12)
This paper presents a macrolevel energy model and its application for energy planning for three States in India - namely Gujarat, Kerala and Rajasthan. In conjunction with energy modelling at national level, the Advisory ...
Transfer Payments and Other Determinants of Working Poverty in Canada 1971-90
(2012-10-17)
Government policy of reducing transfer payments drastically is based on arguments of strong preference for leisure by the beneficiaries. Since this has direct bearing on working poverty, empirical evidence on the relationship ...
Expenditure allocation and welfare returns to government effforts - a suggested model and its application
(2010-01-18)
The paper addresses the question of government expenditure allocation among sectors by extending the model developed by Archana Dholakia (1993) and illustrates its application by using the data on major Indian states from ...
Distributional impact of government expenditure a welfare indication approach
(2010-03-24)
Existing approaches and empirical estimation of distributional impact of government expenditure so far have been heavily dependent on several restrictive assumptions which are questionable particularly for the developing ...
Macroeconomic performance and tax revenue the case of gujarat state
(2010-01-16)
It is hypothesised that the tax revenues of a state economy would be sensitive to the macroeconomic performance of the state economy measured in terms of inflation and the growth of real income. The case of Gujarat state ...
What determines performance gap index of healthcare in Gujarat?
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)
Health performance of Gujarat viewed in terms of the Human Development Index (HDI) portrays it as a medium performer in the country. However, the index of health component for Gujarat is found to be positively contributing ...