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Untangling Policy Mishaps: How to Make Policies More Effective during a...
A number of economic and health policies adopted during the COVID-19 pandemic have been rendered partially or fully ineffective due to offsetting actions from private individuals.India Countary Economic Memorandum Convergence study
Funded by: The World Bank Group Principal Investigator: Dr. Sabyasachi Kar Date of Initiation: December, 2021 Likely Date of completion: September, 2022India Countary Economic Memorandum Convergence study
Funded by: The World Bank Group Principal Investigator: Dr. Sabyasachi Kar Date of Initiation: December, 2021 Likely Date of completion: September, 20212Divergent Policies for Convergence Clubs: A Study of Post-Reform Indian...
Should economies attempting to break out of low-growth convergence clubs adopt policies distinctly different from those in high-growth clubs? This paper proposes a framework that helps answer this question. To do this, we extend the logic of policy divergence from the growth transitions literature to the analysis of club convergence. We then ...New Approaches to Forecasting Growth and Inflation: Big Data and Machine...
The use of big data and machine learning techniques is now very common in many spheres and there is growing popularity of these approaches in macroeconomic forecasting as well. Is big data and machine learning really useful in the prediction of macroeconomic outcomes? Are they superior in performance compared to their traditional ...Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC): Critical Issues and the Indian...
A large number of Central Banks around the world are planning to introduce Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) as a legal tender in their countries. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has also revealed similar plans with an Indian CBDC expected in the near future. Any evaluation of such a major change ...Shedding light on unnoticed gems in India: Small towns’ development...
Shedding light on unnoticed gems in India: Small towns’ development perspective Mitra, Arup and Tripathi, Sabyasachi 2021 Employment, Labour and Informal Sector Though a large portion of India’s urban population is living in large cities, the latest Census period (2001-2011) showed that small towns (population less than 0.1 million) such as Census ...COVID-19 and the Paris Agreement target: A CGE analysis of alternative...
Journal of Urban Planning and DevelopmentCity Size Effect on Migration and Poverty: Study of Million-Plus Cities in...
Journal of Urban Planning and Development.Kuznets’ tension in India: Two episodes
Developing countries face a trade-off between the twin objectives of structural transformation and inclusive growth. This is the ‘developer’s dilemma’. This study analyses the dilemma as it manifested itself in the Indian context, and identifies two distinct episodes over the post-independence period. We characterize these two episodes as ‘inclusion without growth’ and ...