Does Foreign Institutional Investment in India Increase Financial Vulnerability? An Empirical Investigation Using an Event Study Approach
Emerging market policymakers are concerned about the effects of foreign portfolio flows on financial stability. Do tail events in the home country trigger off extreme responses by foreign investors and is there any asymmetry between the responses of foreign investors to very good versus very bad day...
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Ajay Shah
Ila Patnaik
Jean Paul Rabanal
Nirvikar Singh
31 October, 2011
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Macroeconomics
Year: 2011
Role of ICT in Improving the Quality of Elementary School Education in Bihar
The objective of this project was to bring out the role of ICT in improving the quality of school education, integrated within pedagogical approaches taking on-board the social constraints of schooling in Bihar and comparing it with the documented results of similar initiatives, experiences, and imp...
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Chirashree Das Gupta
Haridas KPN
01 August, 2011
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Human Development
Year: 2011
Setting Tax Targets: An Experiment for Government of Bihar
The project was conducted on the request of Principal Secretary, Department of Commercial Taxes, Bihar. The main aim of the project was to understand what needs to be done to set district-wise commercial tax targets for FY 2011-12 in Bihar based on economic rationale to replace the current ad-hoc ta...
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Chirashree Das Gupta
Pronay Sarkar
30 April, 2011
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Macroeconomics
Year: 2011
Improving Urban Air Quality in India: Lessons from the Kolkata Clean Air Regulations of 2009
This paper analyses the change in the economic returns of auto-rickshaw drivers in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), roughly one year after they were required to shift to using liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) in 2009 as per the Kolkata clean air regulations.
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Parikshit Ghosh
Rohini Somanathan
01 April, 2011
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Environment
Year: 2011
State Ownership and Systemic Risk: Evidence from the Indian Financial Sector During 2007-09
The study analyses the performance of banks in India during 2007-09 in order to study the impact of ownership structure on bank vulnerability to a crisis.
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Nirupama Kulkarni
Viral Acharya
01 April, 2011
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Money & Finance
Year: 2011
Seasonal Effects of Water Quality on Maternal and Infant Health in India
This project examines the impact of fertiliser agrichemicals in water on infant and child health using data on water quality combined with data on the health outcomes of infants and children from the Demographic and Health Surveys of India. Because fertilisers are applied at specific times in the gr...
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Elizabeth Brainerd
Nidhiya Menon
01 April, 2011
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Environment
Year: 2011
Improving Access to and Measuring the Impact of Public Health Insurance in India
This project aims to add to the broad literature on improving the quality of public services by looking at the effect of providing incentives to agents for spreading information regarding a government-funded health insurance programme on the level of programme knowledge and enrolment among beneficia...
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D Rajasekhar
Erlend Berg
Maitreesh Ghatak
Sanchari Roy
01 April, 2011
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Human Development
Year: 2011
Improving Access to and Measuring the Impact of Public Health Insurance in India
This project aims to add to the broad literature on improving the quality of public services by looking at the effect of providing incentives to agents for spreading information regarding a government-funded health insurance programme on the level of programme knowledge and enrolment among beneficia...
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D Rajasekhar
Erlend Berg
Maitreesh Ghatak
Sanchari Roy
01 April, 2011
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Human Development
Year: 2011
Information Provision and the Quality of Education in Rural India
This study analyses whether providing information on the absolute and relative quality of schooling to the stakeholders affects the behaviour of service providers in both the public and the private sector.
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Bidisha Barooah
Farzana Afridi
Rohini Somanathan
01 April, 2011
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Human Development
Year: 2011
The Political Economy of Sovereign Debt Overhang
Developing economies have heterogeneous experiences with growth and openness. This project starts by documenting a core empirical fact: The countries that grow relatively fast do so while reducing sovereign liabilities and accumulating foreign reserves.
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Manuel Amador
Mark Aguiar
31 March, 2011
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Macroeconomics
Year: 2011
Improving Access to Finance for Entrepreneurs in Developing Countries
One of the most important issues in developing countries is how to finance small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Although microcredit and new forms of financial inclusion are increasingly prominent in the literature, much empirical evidence shows that banks are still the main financial actors. This s...
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Leora Klapper
Shawn Cole
31 March, 2011
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Money & Finance
Year: 2011
Federal versus Regional Control: Implications for Groundwater Resource in India
Federal versus regional control over provision of resources can have different implications for long-run sustainability of natural resources. This project examines the trade-off between short-term growth and long-term conservation incentives of elected legislators from regional and national politica...
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Sheetal Sekhri
31 March, 2011
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Governance
Year: 2011