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IGIDR Seminar: Analysing the impact of restructuring on firm performance
Speaker: Dr. Susan Thomas, IGIDR, Mumbai Date & Hour: 20 January 2020, 2:30 pm Venue: Seminar Hall 1 Title: Analysing the impact of restructuring on firm performance Abstract: During times of systemic banking stress, regulators encourage banks to restructure stressed debt contracts by offering forbearance in declaring these as non-performing assets. This paper studies the impact of such restructuring on the performance of firms in India, when such forbearance was permitted. The analysis uses a matched difference-in-difference study with 135 firms between 2003 and 2015 whose…
Event DetailsRound Table Discussion on Union Budget 2020-21
Round Table Discussion on Union Budget 2020-21 on Friday 14th Feb. 2020 at 6.00 P.M.
Event DetailsSeminar: Coping with the Consequences of Short-Term Illness Shocks: The Role of Intra-Household Labour Substitution
Speaker: Mr. Abhishek Dureja, IGIDR, Mumbai Date & Hour: 19 February 2020, 4:15 pm Venue: Seminar Hall 1 Title: Coping with the Consequences of Short-Term Illness Shocks: The Role of Intra-Household Labour Substitution Abstract: In developing countries where medical infrastructure and service delivery system, and the market for health insurance are underdeveloped, one important mechanism to cope with consequences of health shocks is the intra-household substitution of labour. Most of the available studies have evaluated intra-household labour substitution in response to a health shock using…
Event DetailsSeminar : Fiscal Modernisation: Lessons for India from the World
Speaker: Dr. Sharmadha Srinivasan, IDFC Institute, Mumbai Date & Hour: 11 March 2020, 4:15 pm Venue: Seminar Hall 1 Title: Fiscal Modernisation: Lessons for India from the World Abstract: This paper charts how western economies raised income tax over time in order to identify learnings for India. It draws on Piketty and Qian’s paper where they argue that western countries fiscally modernised between 1914 and 1950 by raising their income tax contribution from less than 1% of gross domestic product (GDP) to 4-5% of…
Event DetailsWebinar: Socio-Economic Impact of COVID-19: Insights from the Field, Emerging Concerns and Way Forward
IGIDR is co-hosting with CPR and UNICEF, Maharashtra a webinar this Saturday. Please see details below. We are hoping to learn and get insights from the NGOs on the socio-impact of COVID-19 in rural India. Please do join the conversation. It is a two hour webinar and will have three segments of 40 minutes each. Panchayats & Civil Society – Capacity to Respond Women and Children Labour Market Disruptions & Way Forward. Click the link below for details and joining…
Event DetailsIGIDR Webinar: Are more productive banks always better?
Title: Are more productive banks always better? Speaker: Dr. Rajeswari Sengupta Schedule: Friday 15 May 2020, 4:00 pm
Event DetailsIGIDR Webinar: Access to educational opportunity in the twenty-first century: An account of Indian children
Speaker: Dr. Tista Kundu, Centre de Sciences Humaines (Centre for social science & humanities), New Delhi Date & Hour: 26 May 2020, 4:00 pm Abstract: Equal access to education is a fundamental right of every children. We use the dissimilarity index and the Human Opportunity Index to assess how far schooling access of Indian children is discriminated by their respective caste, sex, religion, parental attributes and other family backgrounds, using two rounds of National Sample Survey data for the time…
Event DetailsIGIDR Webinar: Resources, Reference Management and Research Metrics
Date: Saturday, June 6, 2020 Time: 4.00 pm to 5.30 pm Resource Person: Dr. S.M Pujar, Chief Librarian, IGIDR About: Writing an undergraduate, or master’s or PhD thesis/dissertation and research papers requires a lot of time and effort. Central to this exercise is organizing information, reference material, and data. Online reference managers like Zotero are useful in this regard. They help in automating the process of citing, referencing, and more importantly avoid plagiarism. Learning outcomes: 1. Familiarity with e-resources and…
Event DetailsIGIDR Webinar: Too Slow for the Urban March: Litigations and Real Estate Market in Mumbai, India
Speaker: Dr. Vaidehi Tandel, IDFC Institute, Mumbai Date & Hour: 17 June 2020, 4:00 pm Title: Too Slow for the Urban March: Litigations and Real Estate Market in Mumbai, India Abstract: We use data on the universe of 3,000 ongoing formal real estate projects in Mumbai to show that 30 percent of the projects and around 50 percent of the built-up space is under litigation. On average, construction takes around 8.5 years to complete. This paper investigates the causal relationship between litigation and completion…
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