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What Explains the Productivity Decline in Manufacturing in the Nineties in India?
Ray, Saon - eSocialSciences - 2014
This paper uses the data envelopment analysis (DEA) based Malmquist productivity index to estimate total factor … productivity growth (TFPG), technical change, and efficiency change for a panel of firms during the period 1991 to 2001 in 26 … Indian manufacturing industries. The paper then analyses the factors explaining productivity growth, technical change and …
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Foreign Direct Investment and Technology Spillover: An Evaluation Across Different Clusters in India
Dua, Pami; Goldar, B N; Behera, Smruti Ranjan - eSocialSciences - 2011
The paper attempts to explore the technology spillover effects of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Indian manufacturing industries across different selected clusters in India. To measure the spillover effect to domestic firms in a particular cluster, a model is used that combines an innovative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323692
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The Missing Middle
Krueger, Anne O. - eSocialSciences - 2009
The purpose of this paper is to provide evidence, and argue, that stunning as India’s success is, the potential – and need – is for still more reform and more rapid growth. 8 percent is a good rate of growth, but many are destined needlessly to be left behind for years to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528352
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Foreign Direct Investment and Technology Spillovers:Evidence from the Indian Manufacturing Sector
Sasidharan, Subash - eSocialSciences - 2006
During the recent period, many countries compete with each other to attract foreign investment. When MNCs invest in a host country, it is assumed that a part of their technology spills to the host country firms. But empirical studies on spillover effects of FDI have failed to find robust...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341691
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What Causes Agglomeration? – Policy or Infrastructure – A Study of Indian Manufacturing Industry
Kathuria, Vinish - eSocialSciences - 2011
This paper investigates whether industrial dispersal policy is more potent or the natural and agglomeration cost advantages are important in influencing locational choice of a firm. To carry out the analysis, an agglomeration measure given by Ellison and Glaeser is computed for 66 manufacturing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009319322
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Impact of Preventive Health Care of Indian Industry and Economy
Chadha, Alka; Mehdi, Ali; Malik, Garima - eSocialSciences - 2007
The empirical evidence on the relationship between preventive health care and labour productivity and corporate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528113
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Trade Liberalization and Industrial Productivity: An Assessment of Developing Country Experiences
Das, Deb Kusum - eSocialSciences - 2007
The relationship between trade liberalization and industrial productivity in developing countries, drawing upon a large … trade liberalization, the paper reviews the relationship between trade liberalization and industrial productivity at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528123
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Productivity of Rural Credit: A Review of Issues and Some Recent Literature
Sriram, M S - eSocialSciences - 2007
It is argued that Indian agriculture is undergoing fundamental change wherein the technology and inputs are moving out of the hands of the farmers to external suppliers. This, over a period of time may have resulted in the de-skilling of farmers and without adequate public investments in support...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528213
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Cost and Productivity in Indian Textiles: Post MFA Implications
Hashim, Danish A - eSocialSciences - 2007
likely to increase. The paper finds an inverse relationship between the unit cost and productivity: Industry and States …, which witnessed higher productivity (growth) experienced lower unit cost (growth) and vice-versa [WP 124]. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487540
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Hobbes, Coase and Baliraja: Equity and Equality in Surface Water Distribution
Sivramakrishna, Sashi; Jyotishi, Amalendu - eSocialSciences - 2008
It is attempted to understand the implications of equality in water distribution on social welfare with a simple abstract analysis using Leontief-type fixed production function.
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