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Health Care Financing Reforms in India

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The health sector challenges in India, like those in other low- and middle-income countries, are formidable. The first chapter analyzes public spending on health care in India. The second section presents the salient features of the health care system in India and the health status of the population. The third section examines the impact of low levels of public expenditures on the state of health infrastructure in India. The fourth section discusses recent reforms for increasing allocation to more...

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Sonia Hossain on May 10, 2012

Export of Services: Indian Experience in Perspective

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For this paper, the authors survey India’s experience with exporting services. They show that its experience is unique in that modern tradable services are a significantly larger share of GDP than in other countries at comparable levels of economic development. This has not always been the case, however: India’s out-performance is limited to recent years. Policy initiatives, from trade reform to liberalization of domestic industrial and service sectors, were important for jump-starting the more...

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Sonia Hossain on May 08, 2012

Oil Price Shock, Pass-through Policy and its Impact on India

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This paper analyzes the impact of transmission of international oil prices and domestic oil price pass-through policy on major macroeconomic variables in India with the help of a macroeconomic policy simulation model. Three major channels of transmission viz. import channel, price channel and fiscal channel are explored with the help of a comparative static macroeconomic general equilibrium framework. The model shows that with the oil shock and with current partial pass-through regime, a 10% more...

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Sonia Hossain on March 14, 2012

Political Determinants of the Allocation of Public Expenditures

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This study examines whether the allocation of public expenditures of the Indian states are significantly influenced by government specific political characteristics. Three types of government specific characteristics are considered: forms of governments, ideology of the government, and the electoral cycle. A number of hypotheses are designed to link these characteristics with expenditure allocation. The overall findings of the study suggest that the relationship between expenditure allocation more...

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Sonia Hossain on April 10, 2012

Growth and Election Outcomes in a Developing Country

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With the exception of Brander and Drazen (2008), who use a comprehensive cross-country database consisting of both developed and developing countries, the hypothesis that rapid growth helps incumbents win elections has been tested exclusively for the developed countries (e.g., Ray Fair 1978). But since sustained rapid growth offers the prospect of pulling vast numbers of the voters out of poverty within a generation, such an effect is far more likely to be present in the developing rather than more...

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Sonia Hossain on February 12, 2012

Millenium Development Goals: How is India Doing?

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This paper evaluates the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) as a framework for measuring development and, subject to qualifications arising from that evaluation, assesses how India is doing in terms of the MDGs. The paper uses the data reported in this report to assess India’s MDG record, embedding this assessment in a critical evaluation of the MDG framework itself. This evaluation is presented in Part 2 of the paper. Part 3 presents an assessment of India’s performance on the different MDG more...

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Sonia Hossain on February 12, 2012

Who cares about the Chinese Yuan?

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The rise of China in the world economy and in international trade has raised the possibility of a rise of the Yuan as an international currency, particularly after the Chinese authorities have undertaken policy initiatives such as Yuan settlement and Yuan swap lines. In this paper, the authors measure one dimension of Yuan internationalization: the role of the Yuan in the exchange rate arrangements of other economies. While the magnitudes are small, the findings show that as many as 34 more...

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Sonia Hossain on March 01, 2012

Civil Service and Military Pensions in India

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Civil service pensions, along with occupational pensions administered by the Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO), are the only formal-sector pension programmes in India.This document is an attempt to describe the New Pension System in India and the progress that has been made since its introduction in 2004. It then identifies the challenges ahead. It also documents the state of military pensions which have not been part of the reform process.

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Sonia Hossain on February 23, 2012

How to measure inflation in India?

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What is the best inflation measure in India? What in inflation measure is most relevant for monetary policy making in India? Questions of timeliness, weights in the price index, accuracy of food price measurement, and inclusion of services prices are relevant to the choice of measure. It is shown that under present conditions of measurement, the Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers (CPI-IW) is preferable to either the Wholesale Price Index or the GDP deflator.

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Sonia Hossain on February 08, 2012

Informal Labour and Credit Markets

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This paper reviews the literature on the informal economy, focusing first on empirical findings and then on existing approaches to modelling informality within both partial and general equilibrium environments. The paper concentrates on labor and credit markets, since these tend to be most affected by informality. The phenomenon is particularly important in emerging and other developing economies, given their high degrees of informal labor and financial services and the implications these have more...

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Sonia Hossain on February 12, 2012

Monetary and Fiscal Policy in the Presence of Informal Labor Markets

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How does informality in emerging economies affect the conduct of monetary and fiscal policy? To answer this question we construct a two-sector, formal-informal new Keynesian closed-economy. The informal sector is more labor intensive, is untaxed, has a classical labor market, faces high credit constraints in financing investment and is less visible in terms of observed output. We compare outcomes under welfare optimal monetary policy, discretion and welfare-optimized interest-rate Taylor rules more...

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Sonia Hossain on February 08, 2012

National Urban Poverty Reduction Strategy 2010-2020 A.D.: Slum-free Cities

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The Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation (MHUPA) commissioned the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP) to “produce a draft National Urban Poverty Reduction Strategy”. This strategy paper is laid out in four sections, beginning with a brief overview which is a snapshot of the current situation of urban poverty and the tasks ahead. Section two consists of an assessment of the nature and dimensions of urban poverty in India. Section three reviews the approaches to more...

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Sonia Hossain on February 24, 2011

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