Rana Hasan

Asian Development Bank

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1.

Financial Sector Development, Economic Growth, and Poverty Reduction: A Literature Review

Asian Development Bank Economics Working Paper Series No. 173
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 31 May 2010
Juzhong Zhuang, Herath M. Gunatilake, Yoko Niimi, Muhammad Ehsan Khan, Yi Jiang, Rana Hasan, Niny Khor, Anneli Lagman Martin, Pamela Bracey and Biao Huang
affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Peradeniya, Doshisha University, Binghamton University, Asian Development Bank, Asian Development Bank, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Asian Development Bank - Economic Research, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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The Role of the Middle Class in Economic Development: What Do Cross-Country Data Show?

Asian Development Bank Economics Working Paper Series No. 245
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 26 Apr 2011
Natalie Chun, Rana Hasan and Mehmet Ali Ulubasoglu
Asian Development Bank, Asian Development Bank and Deakin University - School of Accounting, Economics and Finance
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middle class, class stratification, cross-country, economic and consumption growth, investment, Economic Working Paper No. 245

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What Constrains Indian Manufacturing?

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 22 Feb 2009
Poonam Gupta, Rana Hasan and Utsav Kumar
Delhi School of Economics, Asian Development Bank and Asian Development Bank
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De-licensing, external finance dependence, infrastructure intensity, labour intensity, manufacturing, reforms

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Closing Development Gaps: Challenges and Policy Options

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Closing Development Gaps: Challenges and Policy Options

Asian Development Bank Economics Working Paper Series No. 209
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 23 Aug 2010
Douglas Brooks, Rana Hasan, Jong-Wha Lee and Hyun H. Son
Asian Development Bank, Asian Development Bank, Korea University and Asian Development Bank
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Development gaps, economic growth, human capital, infrastructure, governance, social protection, health, education, trade, finance

Closing Development Gaps: Challenges and Policy Options

Asian Development Review, Vol. 27, No. 2, 2010
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 25 Apr 2011
Douglas Brooks, Rana Hasan, Jong-Wha Lee, Hyun H. Son and Juzhong Zhuang
Asian Development Bank, Asian Development Bank, Korea University, Asian Development Bank and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Development gaps, economic growth, human capital, infrastructure, governance, social protection, health, education, trade, finance

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Big Reforms but Small Payoffs: Explaining the Weak Record of Growth in Indian Manufacturing

Number of pages: 81 Posted: 19 Feb 2009
Poonam Gupta, Rana Hasan and Utsav Kumar
Delhi School of Economics, Asian Development Bank and Asian Development Bank
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Trade Liberalization and Wage Inequality in the Philippines

Asian Development Bank Economics Working Paper Series No. 195
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 30 Jun 2010
Rana Hasan and Karl Robert Jandoc
Asian Development Bank and Asian Development Bank
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The Distribution of Firm Size in India: What Can Survey Data Tell Us?

Asian Development Bank Economics Working Paper Series No. 213
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 23 Sep 2010
Rana Hasan and Karl Robert Jandoc
Asian Development Bank and Asian Development Bank
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Size Distribution of Firms, Labor Regulations, India

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Quality of Jobs in the Philippines: Comparing Self-Emloyment with Wage Employment

Asian Development Bank Economics Working Paper Series No. 148
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 17 May 2010
Rana Hasan and Karl Robert Jandoc
Asian Development Bank and Asian Development Bank
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Surveys of Informal Sector Enterprises - Some Measurement Issues

Asian Development Bank Economics Working Paper Series No. 183
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 01 Jun 2010
Kaushal Joshi, Rana Hasan and Glenita Amoranto
Asian Development Bank, Asian Development Bank and Asian Development Bank
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Informal Sector, Informal Sector Enterprises, Measurement of GDP, Survey Questionnaires, Enterprise Profits

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Effects of Trade and Services Liberalization on Wage Inequality in India

Asian Development Bank Economics Working Paper Series No. 268
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 31 Aug 2011
Aashish Mehta and Rana Hasan
University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) and Asian Development Bank
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Trade Liberalization, Services Liberalization, Inequality India, India, IND, Economics Working Paper No. 268

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Poverty Impact of the Economic Slowdown in Developing Asia: Some Scenarios

Asian Development Bank Economics Working Paper No. 153
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 17 May 2010
Rana Hasan, Maria Rhoda Magsombol and Jewelwayne Cain
Asian Development Bank, affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Missouri-Columbia
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Skills and Activity Upgrading in Global Value Chains: Trends and Drivers for Asia

Asian Development Bank Economics Working Paper Series No. 496
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 20 Oct 2016
Gaaitzen J. De Vries, Quanrun Chen, Rana Hasan and Zhigang Li
University of Groningen, University of International Business and Economics (UIBE), Asian Development Bank and Asian Development Bank
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functional upgrading, global multiregional input–output model, global supply chains, structural decomposition analysis, World Input-Output Database

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The Effects of Labor Regulation on Firms and Exports: Theory and Evidence from Indian Apparel

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 29 Nov 2017
Asha Sundaram, Aashish Mehta and Rana Hasan
University of Auckland, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) and Asian Development Bank
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firms, labor regulation, exporters, India

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Public Goods Access and Juvenile Sex Ratios in Rural India: Evidence from the 1991 and 2001 Village Census Data

Asian Development Bank Economics Working Paper Series No. 167
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 28 May 2010
Anil B. Deolalikar, Rana Hasan and Rohini Somanathan
University of California, Riverside (UCR) - Department of Economics, Asian Development Bank and University of Delhi - Department of Economics
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Trade Reforms, Labor Regulations and Labor-Demand Elasticities: Empirical Evidence from India

NBER Working Paper No. w9879
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 04 Aug 2003 Last Revised: 04 Nov 2010
Rana Hasan, Devashish Mitra and K. V. Ramaswamy
Asian Development Bank, Syracuse University - Department of Economics and Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) - Development Research
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Urban Agglomeration Effects in India: Evidence from Town-Level Data

Asian Development Review 34:2
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 25 Aug 2017
Rana Hasan, Yi Jiang and Radine Michelle Rafols
Asian Development Bank, Asian Development Bank and Asian Development Bank
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agglomeration, formal sector, Indian city

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Place-Based Preferential Tax Policy and its Spatial Effects: Evidence from India's Program on Industrially Backward Districts

ADBI Working Paper 524
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 07 Jun 2018
Rana Hasan and Radine Michelle Rafols
Asian Development Bank and Asian Development Bank
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backward districts, place-based policy, preferential tax, sharp regression discontinuity, spatial spillovers

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Industry Matters for Poverty: A Critique of Agricultural Fundamentalism

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 04 Jul 2004
Rana Hasan and M.G. Quibria
Asian Development Bank and Asian Development Bank
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Does Investing in Technology Affect Exports? Evidence from Indian Firms

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 12 Jun 2003
Rana Hasan and Mayank Raturi
Asian Development Bank and Swiss Re
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What Works to Control COVID-19? Econometric Analysis of a Cross-Country Panel

Asian Development Bank Economics Working Paper Series No. 625
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 16 Feb 2021
Liming Chen, David Raitzer, Rana Hasan, Rouselle Lavado and Orlee Velarde
Asian Development Bank, Asian Development Bank, Asian Development Bank, Asian Development Bank and Asian Development Bank
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COVID-19, cross-country data, economic impact, nonpharmaceutical interventions

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Labor Market Regulations in the Context of Structural Transformation

Asian Development Bank Economics Working Paper Series No. 543
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 03 Jun 2018
Priya Ranjan, Rana Hasan and Erik Jan Eleazar
University of California, Irvine - Department of Economics, Asian Development Bank and Asian Development Bank
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dismissal regulations, informal employment, minimum wage, severance payments, structural transformation

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Urban Agglomeration and Firm Innovation: Evidence from Asia

Asian Development Bank Economics Working Paper Series No. 616
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 21 Jul 2020
Liming Chen, Rana Hasan and Yi Jiang
Asian Development Bank, Asian Development Bank and Asian Development Bank
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agglomeration economies, innovation, knowledge spillovers

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Wages Over the Course of Structural Transformation: Evidence from India

Asian Development Review 36:2, 2019
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 19 Sep 2019
Rana Hasan and Rhea Molato
Asian Development Bank and University of the Philippines, Diliman - School of Economics
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structural change, wage level and structure, wages

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Informal Sector Enterprises: Some Measurement Issues

Review of Income and Wealth, Vol. 57, pp. S143-S165, 2011
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 10 May 2011
Kaushal Joshi, Glenita Amoranto and Rana Hasan
Asian Development Bank, Asian Development Bank and Asian Development Bank
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informal sector, unorganized sector, gross value added, enterprise profits, national sample survey organization

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Geographic Concentration in Indian Manufacturing and Service Industries: Evidence from 1998 to 2013

Asian Economic Policy Review, Vol. 14, Issue 1, pp. 148-168, 2019
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 04 Jan 2019
Amrit Amirapu, Rana Hasan, Yi Jiang and Alexander Klein
Boston University - Department of Economics, Asian Development Bank, Asian Development Bank and University of Kent - Canterbury Campus
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India, industrial agglomeration, labor mobility, land management, regional inequality

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The Role of Middle Class in Economic Development: What Do Cross‐Country Data Show?

Review of Development Economics, Vol. 21, Issue 2, pp. 404-424, 2017
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 07 Apr 2017
Natalie Chun, Rana Hasan, Muhammad Habibur Rahman and Mehmet Ali Ulubasoglu
Asian Development Bank, Asian Development Bank, Monash University - Monash University Malaysia and Deakin University - School of Accounting, Economics and Finance
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Labor Regulations, Employment and Wages: Evidence from India's Apparel Sector

Asian Economic Policy Review, Vol. 12, Issue 1, pp. 70-90, 2017
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 12 Jan 2017
Rana Hasan, Aashish Mehta and Asha Sundaram
Asian Development Bank, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) and University of Auckland
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Apparel industry, firm size distribution, formal and informal sectors, inclusive growth, India, labor regulation

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Under-Representation of Disadvantaged Classes in Colleges: What Do the Data Tell Us?

Economic and Political Weekly (of India), September 2, 2006
Posted: 03 Sep 2009 Last Revised: 31 Jul 2015
Rana Hasan and Aashish Mehta
Asian Development Bank and University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)

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Correcting for Biases When Estimating Production Functions: An Illusion of the Laws of Algebra?

Cambridge Journal of Economics, Vol. 32, Issue 3, pp. 441-459, 2008
Posted: 20 Jun 2008
Jesus Felipe, Rana Hasan and J. S. L. McCombie
Asian Development Bank, Asian Development Bank and affiliation not provided to SSRN

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Accounting identity, Endogeneity, Omitted-variable bias, Production function