Indian Growth and Development Review: Volume 3 Issue 1

Blood diamonds: international policy options for conflict resolution

Sajal Lahiri

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of four policy options for the international community to help resolve conflicts involving black diamonds: foreign aid, a tax…

Is the downturn in maquiladora employment cyclical or structural?

Kusum Mundra, Jim Gerber

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of cyclical and structural factors on the decline of maquiladora employment. In addition to the US industrial production, the…

Inflation convergence and currency unions: the case of the East African community

Narayan Kishor, John Ssozi

The purpose of this paper is to investigate inflation convergence within the East African Community (EAC) as it aspires to become a currency union.

Price discovery and convergence in the Indian commodities market

Vishwanathan Iyer, Archana Pillai

The purpose of this paper is to examine whether futures markets play a dominant role in the price discovery process. The rate of convergence of information from one market to…

Networks, middlemen and other (urban) labour market mysteries

Vegard Iversen, Gaute Torsvik

The purpose of this paper is to explore the roles of social networks and intermediares in recruitment and as instruments to control the workforce in lower end urban labour markets…

The distribution of wealth in the neoclassical growth model

Subrata Guha

Taming the Anarchy: Groundwater Governance in South Asia

E. Somanathan