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Australia's Experience with Local Content Programs in the Auto Industry : Lessons for India and Other Developing Countries

Pursell, Garry G. - 2001

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Spatial Development and Agglomeration Economies in Services--Lessons from India

Ghani, Ejaz; Grover, Arti; Kerr, William R. - 2016

Although many studies consider the spatial pattern of manufacturing plants in developing countries, the role of services as a driver of urbanization and structural transformation is still not well understood. Using establishment level data from India, this paper helps narrow this gap by...

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Agglomeration, Transport, and Regional Development in Indonesia

Deichmann, Uwe; Kaiser, Kai; Lall, Somik V. - 2012

How effective are public interventions in addressing significant regional disparities in formal manufacturing concentration in a developing economy? The authors examine the aggregate and sectoral geographic concentration of manufacturing industries for Indonesia, and estimate the impact of...

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What Explains Big Gender Disparities in India? Local Industrial Structures and Female Entrepreneurship

Ghani, Ejaz; Kerr, William R.; O'Connell, Stephen D. - 2013

Despite rapid economic growth, gender disparities in women's economic participation have remained deep and persistent in India. What explains these huge gender disparities? Is it poor infrastructure, limited education, and gender composition of the labor force and industries? Or is it...

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The Rejuvenation of Industrial Policy

Stiglitz, Joseph E.; Lin, Justin Yifu; Monga, C??lestin - 2014

This essay is about an important area in which there has been major rethinking -- industrial policy, by which the authors mean government policies directed at affecting the economic structure of the economy. The standard argument was that markets were efficient, so there was no need for...

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The Geography of International Investment

Shatz, Howard J.; Venables, Anthony - 2000

Much foreign direct investment is between high-income countries, but investment in some developing and transition regions, while still modest, grew rapidly in the 1990s. Adjusting for market size, much investment stays close to home; adjusting for distance, much heads toward the countries with...

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Geography and Development

Henderson, J. Vernon; Shalizi, Zmarak; Venables, Anthony - 2000

The most striking fact about the economic geography of the world is the uneven spatial distribution of economic … concentrated in a few temperate zones, half of the world's GDP is produced by 15 percent of the world's population, and 54 percent … of the world's GDP is produced by countries occupying just 10 percent of the world's land area. The poorest half of the …

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Criss-Crossing Migration

Mattoo, Aaditya; Subramanian, Arvind - 2013

The current perspective on the flow of people is almost exclusively focused on permanent migration from poorer to richer countries and on immigration policies in industrial countries. But international mobility of people should no longer be seen as a one-time event or one-way flow from South to...

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Half a World : Regional Inequality in Five Great Federations

Milanović, Branko - 2012

The paper studies regional (spatial) inequality in the five most populous countries in the world: China, India, the …

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Just-in-Case Inventories : A Cross-Country Analysis

Guasch, José Luis; Kogan, Joseph - 2003

The authors find that raw materials inventories in the manufacturing sector in the 1970s and 1980s were two to three times higher in developing countries than in the United States, despite the fact that in most developing countries real interest rates were at least twice as high. Those...

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