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Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research
Facility•Mumbai, Maharashtra, India•
About: Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research is a facility organization based out in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Monetary policy & Inflation. The organization has 307 authors who have published 1021 publications receiving 18848 citations.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors find that measures of asymmetries in price changes outperform traditional measures of supply shocks and find that using marginal costs as a proxy for the output gap gives a positive coefficient that reduces in size on including our comprehensive supply shock variable.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the efficiency of firms in Indian Pharmaceutical Industry before and after the Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) agreement and found that R&D intensity and market share influence efficiency.
Abstract: This paper analyzes the efficiency of firms in Indian Pharmaceutical Industry before and after the Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) agreement. The analysis reveals that the efficiency of firms has increased after the Indian legislature has passed the bill for accepting patent applications in early 1999. We find that R&D intensity and market share influence efficiency of firms. The impact of import intensity enhances inefficiency. Our result indicates absence of ownership effects after the Indian legislature had passed the bill for accepting patent applications.
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01 Jan 2009
TL;DR: In this article, the status of real consumer expenditures of the poorer decile groups during the past three decades was examined, and the relationship between real consumer expenditure and calorie intake was examined.
Abstract: Since Independence, an era marked largely by limited income and growth, the Government of India has been pursuing its policies for economic welfare with reference to a nutrition-based subsistence norm. The concept and method of estimating poverty has come in for criticism in recent years in the context of (i) economic policy reforms based on targeted policy interventions; and (ii) the findings on economic growth involving a decline in poverty along with an increase in calorie deprivation. The debate seems to have overlooked issues concerned with both method and norm. This study therefore examines the following questions: What is the status of real consumer expenditures of the poorer decile groups during the past three decades? What do estimates of cereal quantities consumed for different population groups suggest? How far they tally with such estimates for the total population? What have been the temporal changes in calorie intake across different decile groups? How valid are the exogenous norms for threshold levels of calorie intake worked out in the 1960s and 1970s since when the economy has experienced structural and technological changes and improvements? How far the selfperception of the population with reference to adequacy of food consumption corroborates such findings? How far these measures and interpretations are validated by estimates of final health outcome parameters? Per capita calorie intake in general has declined for the richer sections and increased for the poorer ones, though not sufficiently, in both rural and urban India. Similar profiles are found across states with differences in income percentiles at which they converge. Reductions in calorie intake have taken place almost on a sustained basis for the majority, the higher decile groups in particular, for the past three decades. This should have spelt a worsening health disaster, which has not happened. State wise profiles on calorie intake and deprivation reveal little co-variation with related health outcome parameters. This might be because of either compensating changes in diets and related health parameters, which calls for serious academic attention or irrelevance of energy as the major determinant of physical capability and health. It is difficult on the basis of available information and knowledge to explain the observed relationship among income/consumption, calorie intake and health outcomes. In other words, calorie norm may no longer be relevant today for defining the minimum subsistence. Hence, one could explore alternative options for distributional outcome evaluation. With the country transforming itself into one of the fastest growing economies in the world, it is important to set sights high for not only sustaining the growth process but also make it broad based and inclusive as visualized in the Eleventh Five Year Plan. Such improvements may be measured in terms of a robust order-based average like the median. Inclusion (participation) of the relatively deprived in such a growth process may be defined with reference to the order-based average of the outcome measure, that is, assess their economic status with reference to a threshold, specified as a function of the median income/consumption.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of group incentives on firms' performance was investigated and it was shown that group incentive can potentially improve the performance of small firms in the context of a developing country, and indicates the importance of group incentive in small firms.
Abstract: This paper investigates the impact of group incentives on firms' performance. It shows that group incentive raises firms' performance. This result empirically validates the implication of the theoretical literature that performance-related pay can potentially improve firms' performance, in the context of a developing country, and indicates the importance of group incentives in small firms. It also shows that partnership firms perform better than private limited companies and labour unions have a negative impact on firms' performance. It employs the Hausman–Taylor random effects estimator in order to isolate the effects of time-invariant covariates and also to tackle potential endogeneity problem. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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TL;DR: The authors examined the moral economy of firm-farmer contracts in contract farming schemes in India, bringing together data from field surveys, conducted between 2007 and 2010, of 42 agribusinesses and 484 contract farmers from multiple commodity sectors.
Abstract: This study examines the moral economy of firm-farmer contracts in contract farming schemes in India, bringing together data from field surveys, conducted between 2007 and 2010, of 42 agribusinesses and 484 contract farmers from multiple commodity sectors. The central argument of this paper is that contract farming relationships in India are seen more as relationships and less as contracts, with formal enforcement mechanisms playing only a peripheral role in maintaining and supporting transactions. This is related only in part to the costs and inefficacy of formal enforcement mechanisms. Both firms and farmers prefer to operate outside the prescribed legal-institutional structure whenever these structures are perceived to undermine the handshake ethic. The findings indicate that state policies that presume legal institutional development to be necessary and sufficient for promoting agribusiness interaction with farmers might be misplaced if not merely ineffective.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Seema Sharma | 129 | 1565 | 85446 |
S.G. Deshmukh | 56 | 183 | 11566 |
Rangan Banerjee | 48 | 289 | 8882 |
Kankar Bhattacharya | 46 | 217 | 8205 |
Ramakrishnan Ramanathan | 43 | 130 | 6938 |
Satya R. Chakravarty | 34 | 144 | 5322 |
Kunal Sen | 33 | 251 | 3820 |
Raghbendra Jha | 31 | 335 | 3396 |
Jyoti K. Parikh | 31 | 110 | 3518 |
Sajal Ghosh | 30 | 72 | 7161 |
Tirthankar Roy | 25 | 180 | 2618 |
B. Sudhakara Reddy | 24 | 75 | 1892 |
Vinish Kathuria | 23 | 96 | 1991 |
P. Balachandra | 22 | 65 | 2514 |
Kaivan Munshi | 22 | 62 | 5402 |