Tokatlidis E, Shanta Devarajan, Josh Felman, Enric Fern, Poonam Gupta, Devesh Kapur, ...
India has followed an idiosyncratic pattern of development, certainly compared with other fastgrowing Asian economies. While the importance of services rather than manufacturing has been widely...
More for the Poor and Less for and by the State: The Case for Direct Cash Transfers (2008)
Devesh Kapur, Arvind Subramanian
There are few countries where the state and the policy and intellectual community have been as committed to poverty eradication—both in terms of rhetoric and through a range of subsidies and an...
Improving Data Quality: Actors, Incentives, and Capabilities (2007)
Herrera, Yoshiko M., Kapur, Devesh
This paper examines the construction and use of data sets in political science. We focus on three interrelated questions: How might we assess data quality? What factors shape data quality? and How...
The Evolution of Institutions in India and its Relationship with Economic Growth (2007)
Arvind Subramanian, Ejaz Ghani, Ajay Chhibber, Shanta Devarajan, Nurul Islam, Simon Johnson, ...
Krishna Srinivasan, and S. Sriramachandran for useful discussions. This paper draws upon work with my colleagues, Prachi Mishra and Petia Topalova. An anonymous referee and the editors provided...
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AS SELF-DISCOVERY (2003)
John F. Kennedy, School Government, Ricardo Hausmann, Dani Rodrik, Thank Bill Easterly, Murat Iyigun, ...
The Fiscal Impact of High Skilled Emigration: Flows of Indians to the U.S. (2002)
Mihir A. Desai, Devesh Kapur, John Mchale, Mihir A. Desai, Devesh Kapur, John Mchale
Business and the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations are gratefully acknowledged.
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Princeton University, 1994.
Metal organic chemical vapor depostion (MOCVD) of gallium arsenide /--by Devesh Kapur. (1985)
Thesis (M.S.)--University of Minnesota, 1985.
Do as I Say Not as I Do: A Critique of G-7 Proposals on Reforming the MDBs
The paper addresses three key issues raised by the G-7 in its proposals to reform the multilateral banks, in 2001. One, the restructuring of IDA with a part of its lending in the form of grants...
A consensus has developed that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is not fulfilling its role, prompting multiple proposals for reform. However, this paper argues that the focus on reform should be...
Sharing the Spoils: Taxing International Human Capital Flows
Mihir A. Desai, Devesh Kapur, John McHale
This paper argues that cross-border human capital flows from developing countries to developed countries over the next half-century will demand a new set of policy responses from developing...
Sharing the Spoils: Taxing International Human Capital Flows
Mihir Desai, Devesh Kapur, John McHale
This paper argues that cross-border human capital flows from developing countries to developed countries over the next half-century will demand a new set of policy responses from developing...
Birds of a Feather - Better Together? Exploring the Optimal Spatial Distribution of Ethnic Inventors
Ajay Agrawal, Devesh Kapur, John McHale
We examine how the spatial and social proximity of inventors affects knowledge flows, focusing especially on how the two forms of proximity interact. We develop a knowledge flow production function...
How do spatial and social proximity influence knowledge flows? Evidence from patent data
Agrawal, Ajay, Kapur, Devesh, McHale, John
We examine how the spatial and social proximity of inventors affects access to knowledge, focusing especially on how the two forms of proximity interact. Employing patent citation data and using...
Brain Drain or Brain Bank? The Impact of Skilled Emigration on Poor-Country Innovation
Ajay Agrawal, Devesh Kapur, John McHale
The development prospects of a poor country depend in part on its capacity for innovation. The productivity of its innovators depends in turn on their access to technological knowledge. The...
The fiscal impact of high-skilled emigration: Flows of Indians to the U.S.
Desai, Mihir A., Kapur, Devesh, McHale, John, Rogers, Keith
What are the fiscal consequences of high-skilled emigration for source countries? This paper develops methodologies for inferring these consequences and applies them to the recent sizable emigration...
A consensus has developed that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is not fulfilling its role, prompting multiple proposals for reform. However, this paper argues that the focus on reform should be...
REMITTANCES: THE NEW DEVELOPMENT MANTRA?
Remittances have emerged as an important source of external development finance for developing countries in recent years. This paper examines the causes and implications of remittance flows. It first...
DO AS I SAY NOT AS I DO: A CRITIQUE OF G-7 PROPOSALS ON REFORMING THE MULTILATERAL DEVELOPMENT BANKS
The paper addresses three key issues raised by the G-7 in its proposals in 2001 to reform the multilateral development banks: (i) the restructuring of the International Development Association (IDA),...
GOVERNANCE-RELATED CONDITIONALITIES OF THE INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
This paper examines the new found enthusiasm for governance-related conditionalities in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank lending. This new agenda has focussed in particular on...
International migration and the world income distribution
Emigrants moving from poor to rich countries experience large income gains on average. These gains are further augmented by remittances that allow a portion of the gains to be spent at lower...