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Investorsʼ view of mandatory corporate social responsibility as a public policy: The case of section 135 of the Indian Companies Act 2013

Asia &the Pacific Policy Studies, Volume 11, Issue 3, September 2024.
Abstract We investigate investor sentiment regarding mandatory corporate social responsibility (CSR) as a public policy. Using the event study methodology, we analysed the cumulative abnormal returns (AR) of companies impacted by Section 135 of the Indian Companies Act 2013.
LeRoy Tim Ruhupatty, Melisa Ann Ruhupatty   +1 more
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Underpaid, undervalued, and overworked: The working conditions of cooks in India's school lunch programme

Development Policy Review, Volume 42, Issue 4, July 2024.
Abstract Motivation School feeding programmes employ more than 4 million people globally and have the potential to contribute to the realization of multiple Sustainable Development Goals, including decent work and reducing inequalities. However, the working conditions and experiences of workers in these programmes have received little attention from ...
Lana Whittaker
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Purchasing Power Parity Hypothesis in Developing Economies:Some Empirical Evidence from Sri Lanka [PDF]

Purchasing power parity (PPP) hypothesis has attracted a lot of attention from academics and policy-makers particularly, during the recent float. Most previous studies used data from the developed world.
Guneratne Banda Wickremasinghe
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Currency undervaluation and sovereign wealth funds : a new role for the World Trade Organization [PDF]

Two aspects of global imbalances - undervalued exchange rates and sovereign wealth funds - require a multilateral response. For reasons of inadequate leverage and eroding legitimacy, the International Monetary Fund has not been effective in dealing with ...
Mattoo, Aaditya, Subramanian, Arvind
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The Sri Lankan Rupee and Purchasing Power Parity during the Current Floating Period [PDF]

This paper examines the empirical validity of purchasing power parity (PPP) hypothesis in a Sri Lankan context using exchange rates for six foreign currencies during the period January 1986 to November 2000.
Guneratne Banda Wickremasinghe
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Exchange Rate Misalignment in Pakistan: Evidence from Purchasing Power Parity Theory [PDF]

This paper examines the validity of the purchasing power parity to evaluate whether the Pakrupee vis-à-vis the US-dollar has been overvalued since the introduction of managed floating exchange rate.
Abdul Qayyum, Khair-U-Zaman, Muhammad Arshad Khan   +2 more
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Exchange rate misalignment and its effects on agricultural producer support estimates [PDF]

"There have been different degrees of exchange rate disequilibrium in the developing countries during transition or reform periods since the mid 1980s.
Cheng, Fuzhi, Orden, David
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Regional Monetary Coordination in Asia after the Global Financial Crisis: Comparison in Regional Monetary Stability between ASEAN+3 and ASEAN+3+3 [PDF]

This paper analyzes how much deviation we have among Asian currencies, which include the Indian rupee, the Australian dollar, and the New Zealand dollar, given that we are discussing East Asian Community based on ASEAN+3 (Japan, China, and South Korea)+3
Eiji Ogawa
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The Consequences of currency intervention in India [PDF]

Currency management in India has focused on delivering low levels of currency volatility. In earlier years, the implementation of the currency regime was enabled by the presence of capital controls.
Ila Patnaik
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The Mechanics of Central Bank Intervention in Foreign Exchange Markets [PDF]

Central banks in developing countries, wanting to devalue the domestic currency, usually intervene in the foreign exchange market by buying up foreign currency using domestic money--often backing this up with sterilization to counter inflationary ...
Basu, Kaushik
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