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, boost economic growth, and promote job creation. The authors examine the spatial location of entrepreneurs in India in … patterns are true for manufacturing and services. These relationships are much stronger in India than those found for the … United States. The authors also find strong evidence of agglomeration economies in India's manufacturing sector. This …
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in India. What explains these huge gender disparities? Is it poor infrastructure, limited education, and gender … female entrepreneurs?This paper analyzes the spatial determinants of female entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing …
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the informal sector is moving from rural to urban locations. Although the secular trend for India's manufacturing … strains than those focused only on the formal sector. Cities are evolving in India from places of goods production to forges …
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India with the role of women in India's manufacturing sector. It does not find evidence that overall employment of women in …
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The infrastructure gap is one of the most significant impediments to India realizing its growth and poverty reduction … potential. Although India s transport network is one of the most extensive in the world, accessibility and connectivity are … upgraded the quality and width of 5,846 km of roads in India. The analysis uses a difference-in-difference estimation strategy …
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This paper examines the role of the Indian diaspora in the outsourcing of work to India. The data are taken from oDesk … to choose a worker in India. This higher placement is the result of a greater likelihood of choosing India for the …
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The transformation of India's unorganized sector is important to its modernization, growth, and attainment of regional … economic equality. This paper documents several key facts about India's unorganized sector in manufacturing and services. First …
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India and Pakistan, the two largest economies in South Asia, share a common border, culture and history. Despite the … than half a percent of India's total trade, whereas Pakistan's trade with India was 5.4 percent of its total trade. However …, the recent thaw in India-Pakistan trade relations could signal a change. Pakistan has agreed to grant most favored nation …
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This paper presents an exploration at the intersection of four important themes in the current development discourse: urbanization, agglomeration benefits, gender and informality. Focusing on the important policy objective of new enterprise creation in the informal sector, it asks and answers...
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sector in India. How has the size and productivity of the plants in the organized sector affected the plants in the … in India that have a greater presence of unorganized suppliers of inputs. Conversely, unorganized employment and output …
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