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Solutions to Asia and the Pacific’s socioeconomic, political, and environmental and climate change challenges lie not in 5-year plans or…

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Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Asian Development Bank

After growing slowly for 3 decades from the 1950s through the 1970s, the Indian economy accelerated in the 1980s and sustained the pace…

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Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Gupta, Kanupriya|Gupta, Abhijit Sen

Electronic commerce (e-commerce) has been radically altering our society. Economic activities using tools of the Internet or new…

The post-leasing clearance mechanism for mining projects, particularly with respect to environment, forest and community related matters…

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Brookings India

Banerjee, Srestha

New Zealanders will vote in a referendum this year on whether to legalise cannabis. They will be asked whether they approve of a draft…

This study constructs the macroeconomic uncertainty indices for an emerging economy, India, and considers other macroeconomic…

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Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)

Bicchal, Motilal|Durai, S. Raja Sethu

This study examines the impacts of political competition on eco-efficiency. We first develop a theoretical model in which local…

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Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)

Chen, Xudong|Huang, Bihong|Yu, Yantuan

This paper sheds light on the development of European Regional Financing Arrangements (RFAs) and the role of these financial backstops…