Bchrman, Jere, and Anil Deolalikar. 1988. Health and nutrition. In Handbook of (2009)
Development Economics, H. B. Chenery, T. N. Srinivasan
Behrman, Jere R., and Barbara L. Wolfe. 1987a. How does mother's schooling affect the family's health, nutrition, medical care usage, and household sanitation? Journal of Econometrics...
The Costs of Hesitant and Reluctant Globalization: India (2009)
I am honored to be invited to deliver the V. K. Ramaswami Memorial Lecture. Ramaswami, Ramu to myself and many of his friends and admirers, was an exceptional civil servant who, while holding several...
Indian Economy: Current Problems and Future Prospects (2009)
T. N. Srinivasan, Mohsin Khan, Venugopal Reddy, Shankar Acharya
I am grateful to Dr. Rangarajan for giving me the opportunity to address a distinguished audience composed of the faculty and students of the ICFAI Business School, and also senior economic...
1. The Future of the Global Trading System: Doha Round, Cancún Ministerial (2009)
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Globalization, Growth, and the Poor Globalization, Growth, and the Poor by (2009)
T. N. Srinivasan, Jessica Seddon Wallack
Jeffrey Williamson (2002) points out that “the world has seen two globalization booms over the past two centuries and one bust. The first global century ended with World War I and the second...
China and India: Economic Performance, Competition and Cooperation An Update (2009)
China and India had similar development strategies prior to their breaking out of their deliberate insulation from the world economy and the ushering in of market-oriented economic reforms and...
Indian Economic Reforms: A Stocktaking (2009)
Indian economic reforms of 1991 represent a radical shift from the dysfunctional development strategy of the previous four decades. The pre-reform strategy pursued importsubstituting...
Privatization, Regulation and Competition in South Asia (2009)
It is a great honor to be invited to deliver the Mahbub Ul Haq Memorial Lecture. Mahbub finished his graduate studies in economics and left Yale in 1956, a year before I began my own graduate studies...
Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Growth (2009)
The three basic sources of growth in any economy are growth in inputs of production, improvements in the efficiency of allocation of inputs across economic activities, and innovation that generates...
Jagdish Bhagwati, Arvind Panagariya, T. N. Srinivasan
In the early 1980s, “outsourcing ” typically referred to the situation when firms expanded their purchases of manufactured physical inputs, like car companies that purchased window cranks and...
Forthcoming in revised form: The Journal of Economic Perspectives) (2008)
Jagdish Bhagwati, Arvind Panagariya, T. N. Srinivasan, Katherine Mann, Lori Kletzer, John Williamson
Note: Readers who are not theoretically inclined may skip Section III without loss of continuity. Critics have muddled the public debate over offshore outsourcing by using the term interchangeably to...
I first met Dr. Rangarajan sometime during 1950-53 when we were both students of Loyola College, Madras and residents of the college hostel. He was reading for his B. Com. (Honors) degree and I was...
Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Growth (2007)
The three basic sources of growth in any economy are growth in inputs of production, improvements in the efficiency of allocation of inputs across economic activities, and innovation that creates new...
The World Bank and CEPR (2007)
Bernard Hoekman, Ataman Aksoy, Jagdish Bhagwati, Richard Blackhurst, John Cuddy, Uri Dadush, ...
Despite recurring rounds of trade liberalization under GATT/WTO auspices, complemented by unilateral reforms, many developing countries have not been able to integrate into the world economy. This...
Mohamed Ihsan Ajwad, Pradeep Kurukulasuriya, Thank David Balan, Manuela Ferro, Elena Glinskaya, Shivanthi Gunasekera, ...
the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of...
The TRIPS Agreement: A Comment Inspired by Frederick Abbott's Presentation (2007)
Srinivasan It Is, T. N. Srinivasan
tellectual property right (IPR) protection around the world, incorporating IPR in the WTO framework by merely asserting that such protection is trade-related, seems primarily for the purpose of...
1. Introduction INDIA’S FISCAL SITUATION: IS A CRISIS AHEAD? (2007)
Introduction India has been among the fastest growing economies of the world in the last two decades. According to the World Bank (1999, Table 11), during the 1980's India's GDP growth rate...
Integrating India With, T. N. Srinivasan
Introduction India was largely insulated from the world trading system for more than four decades after independence in 1947. Pursuit of an inward-oriented development strategy, rationalized both by...
Federalism and Economic Development in India: An Assessment (2006)
Singh, Nirvikar, SRINIVASAN, T N
This paper examines India's federal system in the context of prospects for India's future economic growth and development. After a brief review of India's recent policy reforms and economic...
Federalism and economic development in India:An assessment (2006)
Singh, Nirvikar, Srinivasan, T.N.
This paper examines India’s federal system in the context of prospects for India’s future economic growth and development. After a brief review of India’s recent policy reforms and economic...
Federalism and economic development in India: An assessment (2006)
Singh, Nirvikar, Srinivasan, T.N.
This paper examines India’s federal system in the context of prospects for India’s future economic growth and development. After a brief review of India’s recent policy reforms and economic...
Federalism and Economic Development in India: An Assessment ∗ (2006)
Nirvikar Singh, T. N. Srinivasan
This paper examines India’s federal system in the context of prospects for India’s future economic growth and development. After a brief review of India’s recent policy reforms and economic...
Aid, Dutch Disease, and Manufacturing Growth (2006)
Raghuram G. Rajan, Arvind Subramanian, John Hicklin, Nurul Islam, Simon Johnson, Aart Kraay, ...
We examine one of the most important and intriguing puzzles in economics: why it is so hard to find a robust effect of aid on the long-term growth of poor countries, even those with good policies. We...
What Undermines Aid's Impact on Growth (2005)
Raghuram G. Rajan, Arvind Subramanian, From Chris Adam, Andy Berg, Abdoulaye Bio-tchané, Aleš Bulíř, ...
We examine one of the most important and intriguing puzzles in economics: why it is so hard to find a robust effect of aid on the long-term growth of poor countries, even those with good policies. We...
Foreign Capital, Inflation, Sterilization, Crowding-Out and Growth: Some Illustrative Models (2004)
Singh, Nirvikar, Srinivasan, T. N.
This paper discusses some puzzles in the contemporary macroeconomic scene in India, from the perspective of public finance and economic development. These include a fiscal deficit higher than it was...
Foreign Capital, Inflation, Sterilization, Crowding-Out and Growth: Some Illustrative Models (2004)
Singh, Nirvikar, Srinivasan, T. N.
This paper discusses some puzzles in the contemporary macroeconomic scene in India, from the perspective of public finance and economic development. These include a fiscal deficit higher than it was...
Fiscal Policy in India: Lessons and Priorities (2004)
Singh, Nirvikar, Srinivasan, T. N.
This paper assesses India's current fiscal situation, its likely future evolution, and impacts on the economy. We examine possible reforms of macroeconomic policy (including fiscal, monetary and...
Fiscal Policy in India: Lessons and Priorities (2004)
Singh, Nirvikar, Srinivasan, T. N.
This paper assesses India's current fiscal situation, its likely future evolution, and impacts on the economy. We examine possible reforms of macroeconomic policy (including fiscal, monetary and...
Handoko, H. Y., Nancarrow, D. J., Hayward, N. K., Ohaeri, J. U., Aghanwa, H., McGrath, J. J., ...
A single nucleotide polymorphism (TNF-308A) within the promoter region of the gene encoding tumor necrosis factor (TNF), has been significantly associated with schizophrenia in a study of Italian...
Handoko, H. Y., Nancarrow, D. J., Hayward, N. K., Ohaeri, J. U., Aghanwa, H., McGrath, J. J., ...
A single nucleotide polymorphism (TNF-308A) within the promoter region of the gene encoding tumor necrosis factor (TNF), has been significantly associated with schizophrenia in a study of Italian...
Is India’s Economic Growth Leaving the Poor Behind (2002)
Gaurav Datt, Martin Ravallion, Monica Jain, Valerie Kozel, Peter Lanjouw, Vijayendra Rao, ...
Abstract: There has been much debate about how much India’s poor have shared in the economic growth unleashed by economic reforms in the 1990s. The paper argues that India has probably maintained...
Counting the World’s Poor (2001)
Angus Deaton, T. N. Srinivasan
In his very instructive article, Angus Deaton argues that for international institutions (for example, the World Bank) and the national governments of most poor countries (for example, India),...
The Dual Nature of Trade: Measuring its Impact on Imitation and Growth (2001)
Michelle Connolly, Jel F, Wolfgang Keller, Jean Lanjouw, Edward Leamer, Enrique Mendoza, ...
: Imports of goods that embody foreign technology can raise a country's output directly as inputs into production and indirectly through reverse-engineering of these goods, which contributes to...
Consumption Growth in a Booming Economy: (2001)
David Mckenzie, Gustav Ranis, T. N. Srinivasan, Bill Brainard, Stefan Krieger, ...
Note: Center Discussion Papers are preliminary materials circulated to stimulate discussions and critical comments. Special thanks go to Christopher Udry and Peter Phillips for their insights,...
T. N. Srinivasan, T. N. Srinivasan
Note: Center Discussion Papers are preliminary materials circulated to stimulate discussions and critical comments.
Outward-Orientation And Development: Are Revisionists Right? (1999)
Jagdish Bhagwati, Jagdish Bhagwati, T. N. Srinivasan, T. N. Srinivasan, T. N. Srinivasan
The costs of import substitution (IS) as a strategy for industrialization, which was deemed synonymous with economic development by many development economists of the fifties and sixties, were shown...
Preferential Trade Agreements At The Turn Of The Century (1999)
this paper) to survey this literature in depth. However, the overall impression that I gathered is that it is not firmly established in theory or in empirics, that first, most of the nontraditional...
Developing Countries and the Multilateral Trading System (1998)
T. N. Srinivasan, T. N. Srinivasan
Note: Center Discussion Papers are preliminary materials circulated to stimulate discussions and critical comments. This paper was presented at the International Symposium on “The WTO: Present and...
The dual nature of trade: Measuring its impact on imitation and growth'', working paper (1998)
Michelle Connolly, Wolfgang Keller, Jean Lanjouw, Edward Leamer, Marjorie Mcelroy, Enrique Mendoza, ...
Imports of goods that embody foreign technology can raise a country’s output directly as inputs into production and indirectly through reverse engineering of these goods, contributing to domestic...
CENTER DISCUSSION PAPER NO. 779 DETERMINANTS OF UNEMPLOYMENT DURATION IN (1997)
Mark C. Foley, Jenny Hunt, Barry Ickes, Herb Levine, John Micklewright, I Ryterman, ...
Note: Center Discussion Papers are preliminary materials circulated to stimulate discussions and critical comments. Mark Foley is a Ph.D. candidate in the
Indian Economic Reforms: Background, Rationale, . . . (1996)
Introduction The reforms initiated by former Prime Minister Narasimha Rao and former Finance Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh in July 1991 represent a watershed in India's economic development...
this paper since an analysis of it illustrates almost all of the difficult economic, moral, philosophical and political problems associated with using trade policy as an instrument for enforcing...
Handbook of Development Economics (1989)
Srinivasan, T.N., Chenery, Hollis (ed.), Behrman, J. (ed.)
Obra sobre el desarrollo económico, dividida en cuatro tomos, con el siguiente capitulado. 1. Desarrollo económico: conceptos y acercamientos. 2. Transformación estructural y 3. Recursos humanos y...
Food Aid: A Cause of Development Failure or an Instrument for Success? (1989)
The role of food aid in furthering the economic development of poor countries and in alleviating the adverse effects on the poor of structural and sectoral adjustment programs is discussed. A simple...
THE COSTS AND BENEFITS OF BEING A SMALL, REMOTE, ISLAND, LANDLOCKED, OR MINISTATE ECONOMY (1986)
Any index of smallness is somewhat arbitrary, but common practice has been to use population and income criteria. Experience suggests that smallness is neither a necessary nor sufficient condition...
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India's Reform of External Sector Policies and Future Multilateral Trade Negotiations
I evaluate India's transition from an inward-oriented development strategy to greater participation in the world economy. While tariff rates have decreased significantly over the past decade, India...
Developing Countries and the Multilateral Trading System after Doha
The Fourth Session of the Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO), held in Doha, Qatar, in November 2001, launched a new round of multilateral trade negotiations (MTN) and a work...
Outward-Orientation and Development: Are Revisionists Right
T. N. Srinivasan, Jagdish Bhagwati
The costs of import substitution (IS) as a strategy for industrialization, which was deemed synonymous with economic development by many development economists of the fifties and sixties, were shown...
As the Century Turns: Analytics, Empirics and Politics of Development
The paper celebrates John Fei's life and contributions to economics by viewing them in the context of recent theoretical and empirical literature on the economics and politics of growth. It...
Handbook of Development Economics
Srinivasan, T.N., Chenery, Hollis (ed.), Behrman, J. (ed.)
0-444-88481-5
Quid pro quo foreign investment and welfare : A political-economy-theoretic model
Bhagwati, Jagdish N., Brecher, Richard A., Dinopoulos, Elias, Srinivasan, T. N.
Productivity and Economic Growth in South Asia and China
This paper, begins with a discussion of the well-known issues involved in defining and measuring total factor productivity (TFP) and its contribution to growth (as well as the possible contribution...
Any rule-based system has to include a mechanism for the enforcement of its rules and a means for settlement of disputes about alleged violation of rules. The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade...
Privatisation, Regulation, and Competition in South Asia
Privatisation has begun to accelerate in India and Pakistan. However, it is not clear that a change in ownership per se will contribute significantly to a more rapid, efficient, and equitable growth...
On Reanalyzing the Harris-Todaro Model: Policy Rankings in the Case of Sector-Specific Sticky Wages.
Nondiscrimination in GATT/WTO: was there anything to begin with and is there anything left?
Nondiscriminatory treatment at its border of a like product coming from another WTO signatory (Article I on Most Favored Nation Treatment), and of domestic and foreign suppliers of like or similar...
Srinivasan Comments on Nordhaus
A comment on the article by William D. Nordhaus in this volume. Copyright 2005 American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Inc..
India's economic growth and global integration : experience since reforms and future challenges
India
Trade and Environment: Does Environmental Diversity Detract from the Case of Free Trade.
Bhagwati, J., Srinivasan, T.N.
INTERNATIONAL TRADE;ENVIRONMENT
Handbook of Development Economics
Hollis Chenery†, T.N. Srinivasan
Economic Development, Human Resources and Labor Markets, Structural Transformation
Handbook of Development Economics
Hollis Chenery†, T.N. Srinivasan
Economic Development, Human Resources and Labor Markets, Structural Transformation
Handbook of Development Economics
Economic Development, Human Resources and Labor Markets, Structural Transformation
Handbook of Development Economics
Economic Development, Human Resources and Labor Markets, Structural Transformation
Dawkins, Christina, Srinivasan, T.N., Whalley, John, J.J. Heckman, E.E. Leamer
We discuss the use of calibration techniques in economic models. Calibration contrasts with estimation in relying on deterministic calculation of model parameter values consistent with data, rather...
Jagdish Bhagwati, Arvind Panagariya, T. N. Srinivasan
Critics have muddled the public debate over offshore outsourcing by using the term interchangeably to refer to altogether different phenomena such as on-line purchase of services, direct foreign...
Mercenier, J., Srinivasan, T.N.
ECONOMIC EQUILIBRIUM ; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Mercenier, J., Srinivasan, T.N.
economic equilibrium ; economic development
Application of some new results in industrial organisation to trade theory have provided a better explanation of some stylized facts by being able to recognise features such as increasing returns to...
The Costs of Hesitant and Reluctant Globalization: India
The paper reviews the cost and benefits of globalization (i.e. greater integration of national and global economies) from the perspective of India. It argues that India’s hesitant and...
Long-run income distribution and growth
Taylor, Lance, Arida, Persio, Hollis Chenery†, T.N. Srinivasan
Income distribution and development
Adelman, Irma, Robinson, Sherman, Hollis Chenery†, T.N. Srinivasan
Taxation for developing countries
Ahmad, Ehtisham, Stern, Nicholas, Hollis Chenery†, T.N. Srinivasan
Disequilibrium and structural adjustment
Edwards, Sebastian, Van Wijnbergen, Sweder, Hollis Chenery†, T.N. Srinivasan
Large countries: The influence of size
Perkins, Dwight H., Syrquin, Moshe, Hollis Chenery†, T.N. Srinivasan
Human resources: Empirical modeling of household and family decisions
Strauss, John, Thomas, Duncan, Hollis Chenery†, T.N. Srinivasan
Applied general equilibrium models for policy analysis
Willem Gunning, Jan, Keyzer, Michiel A., Hollis Chenery†, T.N. Srinivasan
Technological change and technology strategy
Evenson, Robert E., Westphal, Larry E., Hollis Chenery†, T.N. Srinivasan
Institutions and economic development
Yifu Lin, Justin, Nugent, Jeffrey B., Hollis Chenery†, T.N. Srinivasan
Poverty, institutions, and the environmental resource-base
Dasgupta, Partha, Maler, Karl-Goran, Hollis Chenery†, T.N. Srinivasan
Power, distortions, revolt and reform in agricultural land relations
Binswanger, Hans P., Deininger, Klaus, Feder, Gershon, Hollis Chenery†, T.N. Srinivasan
Structural adjustment, stabilization and policy reform: Domestic and international finance
Corbo, Vittorio, Fischer, Stanley, Hollis Chenery†, T.N. Srinivasan
The contributions of endogenous growth theory to the analysis of development problems: An assessment
Jagdish Bhagwati, Arvind Panagariya, T. N. Srinivasan
Critics have muddled the public debate over offshore outsourcing by using the term interchangeably to refer to altogether different phenomena such as on-line purchase of services, direct foreign...
Foreign Capital, Inflation, Sterilization, Crowding-Out and
Nirvikar Singh, T.N. Srinivasan
This paper discusses some puzzles in the contemporary macroeconomic scene in India, from the perspective of public finance and economic development. These include a fiscal deficit higher than it was...
Indian Federalism, Economic Reform and Globalization
Nirvikar Singh, T.N. Srinivasan
In this paper we examine several dimensions of economic reform in India, in the context of the country’s federal system and of globalization, i.e., we explicitly recognize that the national...
Globalization, Growth, and the Poor
T.N. Srinivasan, Jessica Seddon Wallack
This paper discusses the possible causal relationships and empirical associations between globalization and growth, growth and poverty reduction, and, finally, globalization and poverty reduction. We...
Endogenous Fertility, Technical Change and Growth in a Model of Overlappin Generations.
fertility ; economic growth
Theories of Long-Run Growth: Old and New.
economic theory ; economic growth
Srinivasan, T.N., Robinson, J.A.
POPULATION;DEMOGRAPHY;TECHNOLOGY;ENVIRONMENT;NATURAL RESOURCES
economic equilibrium ; economic models
Strengthening the International Financial Architecture.
After reviewing th epost-World War II evolution of the international financial architecture, this paper presents a critical appraisal of current proposals for reform: limiting capital account...
The latest, and internationally controversial, issue relating to trade and human rights is that of labor standards. It has surfaced in international fora including the World Trade Organization (WTO)....
I first describe how concerns about development of less developed countries were reflected in the evolution of the multilateral trading system, from GATT 1947 to the conclusion of the Uruguay Round...
Attacking Poverty: A Lost Opportunity - World Development Report 2000-2001.
This paper deals with poverty in developing countries.
poverty ; developing countries ; employment ; economic models
pricing ; competition ; international trade
WTO and The Developing Countries.
The paper reviews the experience of developing countries in the multilateral trading system forme the conclusion of the GATT in 1947 and the establishment of the WTO in 1995. It traces the origins of...
Outward-Orientation and Development: Are Revisionist Right?
Srinivasan, T.N., Bhagwati, J.
The costs of import substitution (IS) as a strategy for industrialization, which was deemed synonymous with economic development by many development economists of the fifties and sixties, were shown...
Trade and Environment: Does Environmental Diversity Detract from the Case of Free Trade.
Bhagwati, J., Srinivasan, T.N.
INTERNATIONAL TRADE;ENVIRONMENT
Food Aid: A Cause of Development Failure or an Instrument for Success?
The role of food aid in furthering the economic development of poor countries and in alleviating the adverse effects on the poor of structural and sectoral adjustment programs is discussed. A simple...
Dynamics of Endogenous Growth.
We present an overlapping generations model of endogenous fertility and growth. The cost of child rearing and the effect of population size on total factor productivity determine the dynamics of...
Federalism and economic development in India:An assessment
Singh, Nirvikar, Srinivasan, T.N.
This paper examines India’s federal system in the context of prospects for India’s future economic growth and development. After a brief review of India’s recent policy reforms and economic...
Federalism and economic development in India: An assessment
Singh, Nirvikar, Srinivasan, T.N.
This paper examines India’s federal system in the context of prospects for India’s future economic growth and development. After a brief review of India’s recent policy reforms and economic...
The Gains from Trade Liberalization
Brown, Donald J., Srinivasan, T. N.
We consider trade liberalization in a multilateral trade model, where countries have identical, homothetic tastes but may have different constant returns to scale technologies that produce at least...
This paper contributes to two strands of literature on empirical models of trade flowsand trade policy. The first and the older strand is that of gravity models of bilateraltrade flows going back to...
Lectures on International Trade, 2nd Edition
Jagdish Bhagwati, Arvind Panagariya, T. N. Srinivasan
The greatest strength of this thoroughly revised and expanded edition of Lectures on International Trade is its rigorous algebraic and geometric treatment of the various models and results of trade...
International Trade and Factor Movements in Development Theory, Policy, and Experience
International Relations/Trade,
Frontiers in Applied General Equilibrium Modeling
Kehoe,Timothy J., Srinivasan,T. N., Whalley,John
This volume brings together twelve papers by many of the most prominent applied general equilibrium modelers honoring Herbert Scarf, the father of equilibrium computation in economics. It deals with...
Federalism and Economic Reform
Wallack,Jessica, Srinivasan,T. N.
This collection focuses on the ways in which federalism has affected and been affected by economic reform, especially global integration. The editors and contributors focus in particular on the...