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Innovation and Growth: Role of the Financial Sector
Mohan, Rakesh - eSocialSciences - 2008
to innovation and growth. Finally, an outline of the role of monetary policy in sustaining growth and innovations by …A brief overview is provided about India’s long-term growth performance. Then an attempt is made to set out the … productivity gains to real GDP growth is explained. Then the focus is given on the role of financial sector reforms in contributing …
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An Open Services Regime Recipe for Jobless Growth?
Karmakar, Suparna - eSocialSciences - 2008
This paper reviews India’s experience to understand how services sector liberalisation can generate (welfare) gains for developing countries, in particular vis-à-vis its employment generation potential. The analysis has been based on India’s experience of an increasingly open service sector...
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On Learning, Innovation and Competence Building in India’s SMEs: Challenges Ahead
Das, Keshab; Joseph, K.J. - eSocialSciences - 2011
With a vast and diverse SME sector India’s industrialization owes much to the technological dynamism of enterprises. Various institutional interventions have been made to promote innovativeness in the sector, albeit, following economic reforms, it appears that the SME sector has not been...
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The Social Cost of Foreign Exchange Reserves
Rodrik, Dani - eSocialSciences - 2006
There has been a very rapid rise since the early 1990s in foreign reserves held by developing countries. These reserves have climbed to almost 30 percent of developing countries' GDP and 8 months of imports. Assuming reasonable spreads between the yield on reserve assets and the cost of foreign...
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More and Better Jobs in South Asia
Nayar, Reema; Gottret, Pablo; Mitra, Pradeep; … - eSocialSciences - 2012
region will contribute nearly 40 percent of the growth in the world’s working-age (15–64) population over the next …
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Government Spending, Trade Openness and Economic Growth in India: A Time Series Analysis
Mallick, Hrushikesh - eSocialSciences - 2008
expenditure and capital expenditure on the growth rate of output in the Indian context along with other key potential determinants … of economic growth such as trade openness and private investment. It utilizes structural vector autoregression (SVAR …) methodology for examining the dynamic response of output growth to the shocks in major macro economic variables wherein public …
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Tax Challenges Facing Developing Countries
Bird, Richard M. - eSocialSciences - 2008
Most developing countries continue to face serious problems in developing adequate and responsive tax systems. This paper reviews the three principal ways in which developing countries may expand and improve their taxation systems - base-broadening, rate reduction, and administrative improvement...
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Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries
Naude, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Goedhuys, Micheline - eSocialSciences - 2011
How does innovation impact on development? How, and under what conditions, do entrepreneurs in developing countries … innovate? And what can be done to support innovation by entrepreneurs in developing countries? This policy brief addresses … these questions and explains the relationship between entrepreneurship, innovation and development. Policy lessons are drawn …
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The Political Economy of MGNREGS Spending in Andhra Pradesh
Sheahan, Megan; Liu, Yanyan; Barrett, Christopher B.; … - eSocialSciences - 2014
Are ostensibly demand-driven public programs less susceptible to political clientelism even when private goods are allocated? This is examined using expenditure data at the local level from India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme.
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Start With a Girl: A New Agenda for Global Health
Levine, Ruth; Temin, Miriam - eSocialSciences - 2009
Sheds light on the realities of girls' health and wellbeing in developing countries, on the links between the health of girls and the prospects for their families, and on the specific actions that will improve health prospects for millions. This report describes the most prevalent and serious...
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