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Structural Break In India's Growth, Ambrish A. Dongre, Neeraj Hatekar
Structural Break In India's Growth, Ambrish A. Dongre, Neeraj Hatekar
Ambrish A Dongre
How significant was the shift in the economic growth performance that occurred in the 1950s, relative to the shift that is supposed to have occurred in the 1980s? If one were to identify the single most significant break date in India’s growth performance, does it turn out to be 1951-52 or 1980-81 or some such year in the post 1980s? The hypothesis in this paper is that the single most important trend break in GDP growth is to be found not in the 1980s, as the existing literature claims, but in the early 1950s. This is not because the performance …
On Measuring The Efficiency Of The Social Security System Reforms. The Case Of Poland, Joanna Tyrowicz, Piotr Mularczyk
On Measuring The Efficiency Of The Social Security System Reforms. The Case Of Poland, Joanna Tyrowicz, Piotr Mularczyk
Joanna Tyrowicz
As other European countries, transition economies face the reform of the social security system. As one of the first, Poland has introduced a pension reform in 1999, which changed a standard pay-as-you-go system into a one constructed of three pillars and based on addressed contributions. The five years from the reform allow to take a first look at the reform, both in terms of assessing the legal implementation as well as the realization of main assumptions and aims. In this paper we consider the effectiveness of the reform. We find that in many aspects this reform should not be considered …
Poverty And Malnutrition In India (Marathi), Ambrish A. Dongre
Poverty And Malnutrition In India (Marathi), Ambrish A. Dongre
Ambrish A Dongre
This article discusses how poverty is measured in India, evolution of poverty in India in the 1990s and problems associated with interpreting poverty numbers in the 55th round of NSS and comparing them with previous numbers.