This paper examines whether India's recent economic liberalization policies have led to a shift away from the relatively R&D intensive new product enterprises (NPEs) and towards old product enterprises (OPEs). The former type of enterprises had begun production under the earlier protectionist...

This paper examines the effects of India's reservation policy to help the small-scale enterprises. Empirical tests showed three main results. Firstly, reservation has increased the number of production units, per item produced. Secondly, the units that produce mainly reserved items have higher...

This paper examines whether a developing country's import restrictions are likely to increase or decrease the technological effort of its enterprises. The analysis incorporates a profit incentive effect, which induces an increase in output and technological effort of the protected enterprises,...

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