Author: Ashima Goyal Title: Flexible Inflation Targeting: Concepts and application in India Abstract: The paper examines considerations that arise in adapting IT to emerging markets (EMs). These include the necessity of flexibility, the working of the expectations channel, the dominance of supply shocks, fiscal-monetary coordination, forecasting issues and guidance of […]
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Female representation in school management and school quality
Author: Bharti Nandwani, Chandan Jain Title: Female representation in school management and school quality Abstract: Using administrative data (2012-18) of schools in India, in this paper we construct a large panel comprising of more than 6 million observations to examine the extent to which female representation in school management is […]
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Liquidity Management and Monetary Transmission: Empirical Analysis for India
Author: Vikas Charmal and Ashima Goyal Title: Liquidity Management and Monetary Transmission: Empirical Analysis for India Abstract: A change in monetary operating procedures provides a natural experiment we use to evaluate first, whether Indian monetary policy transmission is better when durable liquidity is in surplus or when it is in […]
No country for young women farmers: A situation analysis for India
Author: Sudha Narayanan and Sharada Srinivasan Title: No country for young women farmers: A situation analysis for India Abstract: This paper presents an overview of the state of young women farmers in India as they navigate livelihoods in a sector that faces severe challenges. Discussions of young women farmers in […]
Becoming a Young Farmer in Madhya Pradesh, India
Author: Sudha Narayanan Title: Becoming a Young Farmer in Madhya Pradesh, India Abstract: In India, as well as globally, agriculture faces an apparent generational problem, with youth reluctant to take up farming as an occupation. Yet there has been limited research in India using a generational lens to understand young […]
With a Little Help : Young women farmer experiences in India
Author: Sharada Srinivasan and Sudha Narayanan Title: With a Little Help : Young women farmer experiences in India Abstract: Despite the substantial body of work focused on women farmers in India, the generational aspects of women farmers are often under-researched. Young women farmers (YWF) often get lost in discussions of […]
Working Paper: Disaggregated Indian Industrial Cycles: A spectral analysis
Author: Ritabrata Bose and Ashima Goyal Title: Disaggregated Indian Industrial Cycles: A spectral analysis Abstract: We study the structure and dating of disaggregated Indian industrial cycles and spectral causality from different policy parameters to these cycles. The scattered pattern of peaks and troughs after 2013, suggests some industries continued to do well during […]
Working Paper: An alternate to survey methods to measure work from home
Author: Mohit Sharma, Sargam Gupta and Xavier Estupinan Title: An alternate to survey methods to measure work from home Abstract: During unprecedented times like COVID-19, when ‘social distancing’ is a new normal, knowing the jobs that can be performed from home is useful for policymakers and researchers. A most common […]
