NO : WP-2019-008 AUTHOR : Ashima Goyal TITLE : What Explains the Volatility of India’s Catch-up Growth? ABSTRACT : Indian post reform growth rates have been higher but more volatile compared to transition periods for other comparable countries. The reasons are aggravation of shocks due to unaddressed critical bottlenecks together […]
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CALL FOR PAPERS: Eighteenth Annual Conference on Macroeconomics and Finance December 16th and 17th, 2019
Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Gen. A.K. Vaidya Marg, Goregaon (E), Mumbai – 400 065, India CALL FOR PAPERS Eighteenth Annual Conference on Macroeconomics and Finance December 16th and 17th, 2019 The Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) invites submissions of research papers for its 18th Annual Conference on […]
IGIDR WORKING PAPER: Price discovery in Indian government securities market, monetary management and the cost of government borrowing
NO : WP-2019-007 AUTHOR : Ashima Goyal TITLE : Price discovery in Indian government securities market, monetary management and the cost of government borrowing ABSTRACT : Over 2017-18 there was a sharp rise in Indian government securities (G-Secs) interest rates unrelated to fundamentals. Examining each of the standard explanatory variables […]
Mock Test link for the M.Sc. and M.Phil/Ph.D. Programme
1.Mock Test link for the M.Sc. Programme for candidates to familiarise themselves with the online procedure. 2.Mock Test link for the M.Phil/Ph.D. Programme for candidates to familiarise themselves with the online procedure.
IGIDR WORKING PAPER: Land as collateral in India
NO : WP-2019-006 AUTHOR : Sudha Narayanan, Judhajit Chakraborty TITLE : Land as collateral in India ABSTRACT : Land is often regarded as a crucial factor enabling credit access because it serves as an ideal collateral, for both borrowers and lenders. Yet in reality, in developing countries like India land is […]
IGIDR WORKING PAPER: Last and least Findings on intrahousehold undernutrition from participatory research in South Asia
NO : WP-2019-005 AUTHOR : Erin C Lentz, Sudha Narayanan, Anuradha De TITLE : Last and least Findings on intrahousehold undernutrition from participatory research in South Asia ABSTRACT : In this paper, we analyze intrahousehold mechanisms that rural South Asian women themselves identify as contributing to their inabilities to achieve adequate […]
IGIDR WORKING PAPER: Women’s nutritional empowerment and their well-being Identifying key drivers in India and Bangladesh
NO : WP-2019-004 AUTHOR : Sudha Narayanan, Udayan Rathore, Mohit Sharma TITLE : Women’s nutritional empowerment and their well-being Identifying key drivers in India and Bangladesh ABSTRACT : This paper uses six nationally representative household surveys from India and Bangladesh to examine the link between women’s empowerment and their own nutritional […]
IGIDR WORKING PAPER: Rural women’s empowerment in nutrition: a proposal for diagnostics linking food, health and institutions
NO : WP-2019-003 AUTHOR : Sudha Narayanan, Marzia Fontana, Erin Lentz, and Bharati Kulkarni TITLE : Rural women’s empowerment in nutrition: a proposal for diagnostics linking food, health and institutions ABSTRACT : This paper explores the concept of women’s nutritional empowerment and develops a framework for operationalizing it. The paper specifically […]
Admissions 2019
IGIDR M.Sc. and M.Phil./Ph.D. Programmes 2019 1. Admission Notice 2019 2. Online Application Form for M.Sc. and M.Phil./Ph.D. Programme 3. Information Handout for M.Sc. 4. Information Handout for M.Phil/Ph.D 5. Sample Questions for M.Sc. 6. Sample Questions for M.Phil/Ph.D. 7. Mock Test link for the M.Sc. Programme for candidates to familiarise themselves […]
IGIDR Working Paper: Modeling Heterogeneity and Rationality of Inflation Expectations across Indian Households
NO : WP-2019-002 AUTHOR : Ashima Goyal and Prashant Parab TITLE : Modeling Heterogeneity and Rationality of Inflation Expectations across Indian Households ABSTRACT :We analyze the inflation expectation formation of Indian Households using Inflation Expectations Survey of Households dataset, and draw out its implications for the effectiveness and use of […]
