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IGIDR Working paper: The Plutocratic Bias in the Indian CPI

NO : WP-2017-011 AUTHOR : Dilip M. Nachane, Aditi Chaubal TITLE :  The Plutocratic Bias in the Indian CPI ABSTRACT : The Laspeyres-type consumer price index (CPI) is traditionally used to measure the changes in cost-of-living over time. Studies indicate this CPI suffers from a plutocratic bias, attaching greater weightage to expenditure […]

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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 […]

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IGIDR Working Paper:A new model of mergers and innovation

NO : WP-2018-009 AUTHOR : Piuli Roy Chowdhury TITLE : A new model of mergers and innovation ABSTRACT : This paper reexamines the impact of merger on innovation. Unlike as in Federico et al (2017), it considers the scenario where merged firms combine their research labs. It shows that, in […]

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