NO : WP-2025-010 AUTHOR : Ashima Goyal and Vipasha Pandey TITLE : Indian industrial pricing under inflation targeting ABSTRACT : A puzzling characteristic of post-pandemic Indian inflation is the fall, within 10 years of adopting flexible inflation targeting (IT), in core inflation to lifetime lows despite high growth and recurrent commodity price shocks. […]
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NO : WP-2025-009 AUTHOR : Surabhi Garg and Srijit Mishra TITLE : Mother’s Effective Literacy Status: Implications on Child Health ABSTRACT : Mother’s effective literacy status has instrumental importance in affecting child’s health outcomes. This is not to dismiss the relevance of a father’s literacy, but to posit a primitive that the father’s […]
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NO : WP-2025-008 AUTHOR : Japneet Kaur TITLE : When Low Scores Don’t Tell the Full Story: A Composite Indicator of Student Achievement ABSTRACT : This paper introduces a new composite indicator of student achievement, grounded in an axiomatic framework. Unlike conventional measures that assign equal weight to all subjects, our index applies […]
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NO : WP-2025-007 AUTHOR : Snigdha Kalra and Sargam Gupta TITLE : Improving tax revenues in the emerging markets: A Laffer curve analysis ABSTRACT : This paper explores the possible ways in which the emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) can improve their tax-to-GDP ratio using a theoretical framework. We do this using […]
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NO : WP-2025-006 AUTHOR : Pratik Thakkar TITLE : Can effects of weather variation predict future economic downturn? Evidence from systemic risk in Indian financial markets ABSTRACT : We examine how weather variation influences economic activity through its impact on sys¬temic risk in financial markets, an underexplored channel for a developing economy like […]
Effects of Backward GVC Participation on labour Market: Micro-Level Evidence from India by Deepali Gupta and C. Veeramani
NO : WP-2025-005 AUTHOR : Deepali Gupta and C. Veeramani TITLE : Effects of Backward GVC Participation on Labor Market: Micro-Level Evidence from India ABSTRACT : Several studies show that countries increasingly participate in Global Value Chains (GVC) by specialising in intermediate goods. Theoretical fragmentation models suggest that backward GVC participation has a […]
