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- Blog Post
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 [....]
- Blog Post
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 [....]
- Blog Post
Unearthing Bangladesh’s Comparative Advantages
- Dr Selim Raihan, Md. Jillur Rahman
- Jun 1, 2016
The analysis of comparative advantage is important from the policy perspective. Trade policies of a country should be tuned to promote export items where the country has a comparative advantage. The Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) analysis, suggested [....]
