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Can BIMSTEC rise to meet the new challenges?
- Achyut Bhandari, Dr Selim Raihan, Ganeshan Wignaraja, Nihal Pitigala, Posh Raj Pandey, Prabir De, Watcharas Leelawath
- Apr 10, 2022
The 5th summit of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) ended on March 30, 2022, in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The summit adopted a charter for the first time since its inception in 1997 and signed three memorandums [....]
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Doing Business versus the real Business Environment in Indian States
- Sabyasachi Kar, Sudeepto Roy
- Dec 5, 2018
The World Bank’s Doing Business (DB) rankings for 2019 are out and India has again made a jump to 77th position from 100th in 2018, which too was 30 notches up from 130th in 2017. These rankings are based on the country’s performance in several areas, like [....]
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Transitions between growth episodes: Do institutions matter and do some institutions matter more?
- Dr Selim Raihan, Kunal Sen, Sabyasachi Kar
- Aug 2, 2016
A large literature has examined the role of institutions in explaining economic growth. While the earlier literature has examined the role of institutions in determining long-run per capita income, a new literature examines the determinants of growth accelerations and deceleration episodes [....]
