With a vast and diverse SME sector India’s industrialization owes much to the technological dynamism of enterprises …, it appears that the SME sector has not been able to withstand global competition. The sector, in general, has lagged … behind in terms of employment generation and also exports. Elaborate institutional arrangements for the financing of SME …

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 …

The relationship between large enterprises (LEs) and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Japan has undergone major … changes during the long-term recession since 1991. While SMEs still play the important role of supplying parts and components … in manufacturing. While efficient SMEs selected by LEs were able to expand their businesses, inefficient SMEs lost …

the cost-effectiveness of PDS relative to other programs and evaluates the rice subsidy program in the state of Andhra …

to erode the real wage while it commits itself to cash transfers and cuts in subsidies all of which will contribute to …

Agricultural subsidies that encourage production and productivity have been widely criticized because of the cost of … subsidies and they are perceived to be far from uniformly distributed. There is a general view in academic, policy and political … circles that agricultural subsidies are concentrated geographically, they are concentrated on relatively few crops and few …