Designing microfinance for agricultural growth
Credit and information constraints are particularly acute for farmers in developing countries, and can have a strong impact on their productivity.
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Alberto Motta Dilip Mookherjee Pushkar Maitra Sandip Mitra Sujata Visaria 
31 March, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Agriculture
Year: 2012
Understanding fiscal capacity in developing economies: Firms as third-party tax enforcers
The difference in tax revenues (as a percentage of GDP) between developed and developing countries has always been consistently large. An IMF report estimates it to be 10-15 percentage points.
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Claus Kreiner Emmanuel Saez Henrik Kleven
- 01 March, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Macroeconomics
Year: 2012
Third-party environmental auditing
High levels of industrial pollution are a harmful by-product of growth. The Indian state of Gujarat is an industrial powerhouse with about 5% of the Indian population, but 9% of India’s registered manufacturing employment and 19% of output. This growth has been accompanied by a degradation of air ...
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Esther Duflo Michael Greenstone Nicholas Ryan Rohini Pande
- 01 March, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Governance
Year: 2012
Linkages among Capital Flows, Trade, and Growth in Developing Economies
International economic integration puts a country’s fortunes partly into the hands of others. When integration takes the form of financial interdependence, the potential domestic impact of external events is magnified manifold.
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Maurice Obstfeld
- 01 March, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Trade
Year: 2012
Land Acquisition for Business and Compensation of Displaced Farmers
This project addresses the question of how farmers displaced by acquisition of agricultural land for the purpose of industrialisation ought to be compensated. Prior to acquisition, the farmers are leasing in land from a landlord, either a private owner or a local government.
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Dilip Mookherjee Maitreesh Ghatak Sandip Mitra
- 01 March, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Governance
Year: 2012
Case study on successful land acquisitions in Bihar
This project addresses the question of compensation policies for rural communities that lose their traditional lands and livelihoods to make way for business (e.g., industry, commercial agriculture, urban development). The empirical study surveys households in affected areas as well as neighbouring ...
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Dilip Mookherjee Maitreesh Ghatak Sandip Mitra
- 01 March, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Miscellany
Year: 2012
Multinationals and growth in developing countries
Recent work has highlighted the incredible dispersion of productivity in developing countries and how this contributes to their lower aggregate productivity levels.
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John Van Reenen Philippe Aghion
- 28 February, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Macroeconomics
Year: 2012
Evaluating the Performance of the Kisan Credit Card Scheme in Bihar
The Kisan Credit Card (KCC) Scheme was introduced in India in 1998-99 has since become a flagship programme providing access to short-term credit in the agricultural sector. According to the Government of India, over a 100 million cards had been issued cumulatively by March 2011. Using data from 200...
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Areendam Chanda
- 01 February, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Agriculture
Year: 2012
The Agricultural Productivity Gap in Developing Countries
According to national accounts data for developing countries, value added per worker is on average four times higher in the non-agriculture sector than in agriculture.
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David Lagakos Michael Waugh
- 01 January, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Macroeconomics
Year: 2012
Trade and the financial crisis: a focus on developing countries
Motivated by the 2008-2009 financial crisis and the trade collapse, this project analyses the effect of past banking crises (1976-2002) on trade with a focus on African exporters.
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Jose de Sousa Nicolas Berman Philippe Martin Thierry Mayer
- 01 December, 2011
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Trade
Year: 2011
Selling Formal Insurance to the Informally Insured
Agricultural activity is inherently risky, and smoothing consumption across years or seasons is a significant challenge for agrarian households in developing countries.
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Mark Rosenzweig Mushfiq Mobarak
- 01 November, 2011
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Money & Finance
Year: 2011
Does Foreign Institutional Investment in India Increase Financial Vulnerability? An Empirical Investigation Using an Event Study Approach
Emerging market policymakers are concerned about the effects of foreign portfolio flows on financial stability. Do tail events in the home country trigger off extreme responses by foreign investors and is there any asymmetry between the responses of foreign investors to very good versus very bad day...
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Ajay Shah Ila Patnaik Jean Paul Rabanal Nirvikar Singh
- 31 October, 2011
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Macroeconomics
Year: 2011