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This paper aims at providing empirical evidence on the effect of capital flows on asset prices including its channel under different currency regimes, focusing on ten emerging and developing economies in the world with data availability and stationarity for the 2000s, by a generalized impulse...
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The improvements in energy intensity of India’s iron and steel industry despite the limited R and D expenditure, high cost of adapting technologies/fuel, and heavy dependence on coal-based process is intriguing. In attempting to understand the underlying drivers, this paper uses firm-level...
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Although developed countries lead in technological advancements and adoption, nations in the Global South are not immune to their effects due to increasingly borderless interactions. The extent of transformation will depend on the economic and technological feasibility in the less developed...
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The Budget 2020-21 can be considered as transitional in nature as it seems to direct money flows to business through reforms on corporate tax. Apparently, the government is commanding a model of investment driven economic growth for long-term sustainability. However, under current crisis with...
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The basic motivation of this work is to find how the sector-wise factor proportions are placed in an open and market driven economy. Literature emphasises a greater relevance of factor proportions in resource allocations for economic activity as compared to intersectoral linkages. However, the...
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An implication of a globally fragmented production system is that countries which assemble and export high-tech products could reflect a sophisticated export structure while generating low domestic value-added component. Therefore, understanding the relationship between domestic value- added...
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In the backdrop of the increasing government emphasis on strengthening the domestic and international participation of the small and medium enterprises (SMEs), this paper presents a review of the SME related provisions that have been incorporated into the free trade agreements (FTAs) signed by...
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Factor productivity is traditionally studied through the measurement of factor intensity for sectors of the economy. However, this measurement is restricted to their direct use within the sector ignoring their embeddedness in upstream sectors. Therefore, an underestimation of the factor...
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Often trade policy of a country is evaluated for its employment effect and a liberal import policy is criticised for its adverse impact on domestic employment in a more explicit manner. However, for reasons such as low worker reallocations due to trade and employment creation from a concomitant...
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Structural transformation supports higher output growth if it reflects the endowment fundamentals of the economy. Since the industrial structure is expected to align with factor-intensive sectors, structural coherence with factor proportions becomes an important consideration for industrial...
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