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February-2024 Volume 5 | Issue No.11 Archives
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Fellowships and awards

=> Taiwan International Higher Education Scholarship Program
Last date to apply: March 15, 2024

=> The J. N. Tata Endowment awards a one-time loan scholarship to Indian nationals
Last date to apply: March 15, 2024

=> Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR)
Last date to apply: April 28, 2024

=> Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Research Fellowships, 2025-2026
Last date to apply: July 15, 2024

=> Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Research Fellowships, 2025-2026
Last date to apply: July 15, 2024

=> Fulbright-Kalam Climate Fellowships for Doctoral Research, 2025-2026
Last date to apply: July 15, 2024



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IGIDR Working Papers

1. Jaiswal, Himanshu and Ganesh Kumar, A. (2024). A new mechanism for trade agreements to revitalize the Global Value Chains (WP-2024-001)

2. Bhakta, Runu and Ganesh Kumar, A. (2024). Policy Alternatives for Accelerating Health & Educational Attainments of Children in India: An Analysis Using Computable General Equilibrium Model (WP-2024-002)

3. Pal, Rupayan and Petrakis, Emmanuel (2024). Cross-ownership in duopoly: Are there any incentives to divest? (WP-2024-003)

Recent Reports and Publications

ADB=> People and Planet: Addressing the Interlinked Challenges of Climate Change, Poverty and Hunger in Asia and the Pacific

DEA=> White Paper on the Indian Economy

IMF=> Preparing Financial Sectors for a Green Future: Managing Risks and Securing Sustainable Finance

UNCTAD=> Double taxation treaties and their implications for investment

UNEP=> Sustainable and Circular Textile Value Chains: Linkages with Trade and Trade Policy

Upcoming Conferences/Call for papers
National Conferences /Seminars
International Conferences /Seminars
Banco de Portugal and CEPR Conference on Financial Intermediation, June 3-4, 2024

Last date for submission: March 6, 2024

Lisbon, Portugal

CESifo Area Conference on Labor Economics 2024, July 12-13, 2024

Last date for submission: April 10, 2024

Munich, Germany

7th CEPR-Bank of Italy Workshop: Labour market policies and institutions, September 19-20, 2024

Last date for submission: May 10, 2024

Vouliagmeni, Greece

CESifo Area Conference on Economics of Education 2024, September 13-14, 2024

Last date for submission: June 2, 2024

Munich, Germany

Bank of Finland-CEPR: Back to basics and beyond: New insights for monetary policy normalisation, September 12-13, 2024

Last date for submission: June 15, 2024

Helsinki, Finland

CEPR Macroeconomics and Growth Annual Symposium 2024, November 07-08, 2024

Last date for submission: June 30, 2024

Bonn, Germany

Database of the month
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The World KLEMS protal provides access to various KLEMS-type databases and projects, which include analytical datasets, regional networks and projects, and statistical KLEMS databases published by National Statistical Institutes (NSIs). These resources offer detailed data on output, inputs, and productivity at the industry level for a broad set of countries, harmonized in terms of methodologies for broad comparability across countries. The World KLEMS initiative is a collaborative effort among researchers worldwide, aiming to create a database that measures the inputs and outputs of production across different countries. This initiative helps in understanding productivity growth, technological progress, and structural change in the global economy. The data provided is crucial for economic analysis and policy formulation, offering insights into how countries utilize labor, capital, energy, materials, and services to produce goods and services...



Internet Resources
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Writing Economics is a part of the Harvard Writing Project's series of disciplinary writing guides. The document "Writing Economics" by Robert Neugeboren with Mireille Jacobson offers a comprehensive guide on how to write effectively in the field of economics. It covers the essentials of good economic writing, including clarity, organization, and analysis, and provides insights into economic research, finding and researching topics, and structuring term papers. It emphasizes the importance of understanding economic models, hypothesis testing, and presenting results clearly. The guide also addresses the process of writing, from starting with an outline to revising for clarity and impact, and includes practical advice on managing time and organizing notes...

EconJobMarket.org (EJM) is a significant online platform designed to enhance the flow of information within the academic job market for economists. As a nonprofit organization, EJM aims to serve as a central repository for job-market materials, facilitating a more efficient application and recruitment process. This platform supports both academic and for-profit organizations by offering a streamlined system for posting job advertisements, managing applications, and scheduling interviews. EJM is particularly beneficial for candidates and recruiters, providing tools for sorting advertisements, managing applications, and conducting the recruitment process with ease and efficiency. It underscores the importance of interoperability between different recruitment systems, thereby improving the overall efficiency of the academic job market

Recent research articles
Threshold Effect of Foreign Direct Investment on Economic Growth in BRICS Countries: New Evidence from PTAR and PSTAR Models by Kalai, Maha; Becha, Hamdi; Helali, Kamel

International Journal of Economic Policy Studies, February 2024

In recent years, the BRICS economies have attracted significant amounts of foreign direct investment (FDI). These FDI inflows has helped fuel their economic growth rates, which leads one to predict that they will continue to outpace the G-7 economies...

Asymmetric Nexus between Economic Policy Uncertainty and the Indian Stock Market: Evidence Using NARDL Approach by Simran; Sharma, Anil Kumar

Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, February 2024

This study examines linkages between the stock market and uncertainty in the real economy generated by unpredictability of economic policies. We investigate the asymmetric effect of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on India's stock market...

Orchestrating Self-Empowerment in Tribal India: Debt Bondage, Land Rights, and the Strategic Uses of Spirituality by Mader, Philip

World Development, February 2024

Spirituality strategically enables self-empowerment in a clandestine movement of Adivasis which this paper calls 'the Programme'. To explain how social movements and action organisations can orchestrate spirituality, this paper examines...

Norms That Matter: Exploring the Distribution of Women's Work between Income Generation, Expenditure-Saving and Unpaid Domestic Responsibilities in India by Deshpande, Ashwini; Kabeer, Naila

World Development, February 2024

Based on primary data from a large household survey in seven districts in West Bengal in India, this paper analyses the reasons underlying low labor force participation of women. In developing countries, women who are engaged in unpaid economic...

Statistical Resources

Database on Indian Economy (DBIE)

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