Browsing Working Papers by Author "Dholakia, Ravindra H."

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    • Growth Acceleration and Potential in Gujarat 

      Dholakia, Ravindra H. (2009-08-08)
      The paper begins by considering the growth experience of Gujarat in 17 sectors compared to the nation during the pre-reform period of 1980-92 and reform period of 1991-2004 identifying areas of strength and weaknesses. ...

    • Growth Acceleration and Potential in Gujarat 

      Dholakia, Ravindra H. (2009-03-11)
      The paper begins by considering the growth experience of Gujarat in 17 sectors compared to the nation during the pre-reform period of 1980-92 and reform period of 1991-2004 identifying areas of strength and weaknesses. ...

    • Growth Acceleration and Potential in Gujarat 

      Dholakia, Ravindra H. (2009-08-31)
      The paper begins by considering the growth experience of Gujarat in 17 sectors compared to the nation during the pre-reform period of 1980-92 and reform period of 1991-2004 identifying areas of strength and weaknesses. ...

    • Growth of total factor productivity in Indian agriculture 

      Dholakia, Ravindra H.; Dholakia, Bakul H. (2010-03-23)
      In the present study the sources of Growth of Indian agriculture have been estimated for three sub-periods during 1950-51 to 1988-89. It also estimates the contribution of adverse weather conditions and intensity of resource ...

    • How Costly is the Deliberate Disinflation in India? Estimating the Sacrifice Ratio 

      Dholakia, Ravindra H.; Virinchi, Kadiyala Sri (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 ...

    • Identification of Top Performing Economies 

      Dholakia, Ravindra H.; Kumar, Akhilesh S. (2009-09-02)
      Using seven indicators of the economic performance of 187 countries, the paper identifies the top 50 performers during the decades of 1981-90 and 1991-2000. Five of these indicators are the trend rates of growth over a ...

    • Impact of exchange rate pass-through and volatility on Indian foreign trade 

      Dholakia, Ravindra H.; Saradhi, Ravindra V. (2009-12-14)
      The exchange rate Pass-through land exchange rate volatility, are two important issues that determine the effectiveness of the exchange rate depreciation in achieving the desired trade balance. The aggregate analysis of ...

    • Implications of NAFTA on Indo Canadian trade 

      Dholakia, Ravindra H.; Kumar, Ganesh A. (2010-03-25)
      The changes in the global trading scenario, particularly the emergence of regional trading blocs have far reaching effects on world trade. The proposed North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) comprising of Canada, ...

    • Implications of the sectoral targets of India's eighth five year plan 

      Dholakia, Ravindra H. (2010-03-26)
      The paper examines critically the implications of the sectoral targets of income and employment growth coupled with the investment allocations as envisaged in Indias Eighth Five Year Plan. The implications are worked out ...

    • Input- output tables for Rajasthan: Methodology and estimates 

      Dholakia, Ravindra H.; Dholakia, Bakul H. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1988-03-01)
      In the present paper, an attempt is made to construct Input-Output Tables for Rajasthan compatible and consistent with the national I-O tables for the year 1984-85 which formed the basis for the national 7th Five Year Plan. ...

    • Input-output tables for Kerala methodology and estimates 

      Dholakia, Ravindra H.; Dholakia, Bakul H. (2010-03-24)
      Input coefficient matrix and input transaction matrix for Kerala State are estimated in the present paper fr 50 x 50 commodity sectors for the year 1984-85 at current prices. The sectors and methodology followed here are ...

    • Inter-industry tables for Gujarat: methodology and estimates 

      Dholakia, Bakul H.; Dholakia, Ravindra H. (2010-07-14)
      Regional Input-Output tables compatible with the national input-output table can play a crucial role in formulating realistic regional plans and also in ensuring that the spatial dimension is properly incorporated into the ...

    • Inter-Relationship between Economic Growth, Savings and Inflation in Asia 

      Chaturvedi, Vaibhav; Kumar, Brajesh; Dholakia, Ravindra H. (2009-07-29)
      The present study examines the inter-relationship between economic growth, savings rate and inflation for south-east and south Asia in a simultaneous equation framework using two stage least squares with panel data. The ...

    • Inter-sectoral terms of trade and aggregate supply response in Gujarat and Indian agriculture 

      Dholakia, Ravindra H.; Sapre, Amey A. (2013-11-26)
      In this paper we empirically investigate the role of inter-sectoral terms of trade in determining the growth performance of agriculture in Gujarat and All India during the period 1960-2011. Terms of trade reflects price ...

    • Interprovincial variation in economic growth in Canada 

      Dholakia, Ravindra H. (2010-03-21)
      In the present paper, the dynamic aspects of regional variations in the economic growth are examined. Over the three decades of the fifties, sixties and seventies, the growth pattern in different provinces of Canada has ...

    • Interregional variation in the access of females to the working force in India, 1981 

      Dholakia, Ravindra H.; Patel, Premji M. (2010-03-14)
      In the present paper, we make an attempt to examine the interstate variation in the proportion of females in the total working force in India during a given bench-mark year 1981. The exercise is expected to provide interesting ...

    • Interstate variation in female labour force participation rates in India - an analysis of the 1971 census data 

      Dholakia, Bakul H.; Dholakia, Ravindra H. (2010-03-12)
      This paper made an attempt to isolate the influence of structural differences in female population on the FPR in different states and theiry measure the extent of the actual regional variations in the female labour ...

    • Is India's federal debt sustainable? Revisiting an old debate 

      Ram Mohan, T. T.; Dholakia, Ravindra H.; Karan, Navendu (2010-04-03)
      That India faces a yfiscal crisisz has been a recurrent refrain of the literature on Indiazs economic reforms. Indeed a central objective of the reforms process, one that has proved elusive so far, is the reduction in the ...

    • Issues in measurement of productivity in India 

      Dholakia, Ravindra H. (2009-12-12)
      A few conceptual issues having direct bearing on deriving the estimates of input productivities at the macro/aggregative level are discussed in the Indian context in the paper. The following issues are discussed in the ...

    • Issues in strategy for export promotion: an inter-industry analysis 

      Dholakia, Ravindra H.; Dholakia, Bakul H.; Kumar, Ganesh (2010-03-24)
      The present paper points towards the need for integration between the new Exit policy and the 8th plan in India by considering direct and indirect effects of a unit increase in coefficients in each of the 47 commodity ...