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Beginning in 2008, the authors conducted a randomized controlled trial that changed management practices in a set of …, while about half of the management practices adopted in the original experimental plants had been dropped, there was still a … performance gap between treatment and control plants, suggesting lasting impacts of effective management interventions. Second …
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A long-standing question in social science is to what extent differences in management cause differences in firm … performance. To investigate this, the authors ran a management field experiment on large Indian textile firms, providing free … consulting on modern management practices to a randomly chosen set of treatment plants and compared their performance to the …
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This paper studies the relationship between the growth of China and India in world merchandise trade and Latin American … and Caribbean commercial flows from two perspectives. First, the authors focus on the opportunity that China and India … and Caribbean exports of non-fuel merchandise. In general, China's and to a large extent India's growing presence in world …
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This paper examines the extent to which the growth of China and India in world markets is affecting the patterns of … direction of the trade specialization pattern of China and India. Labor-intensive sectors (both unskilled and skilled) probably … have been negatively affected by the growing presence of China and India in world markets, while natural resource and …
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Although both China and India are labor-abundant and dependant on manufactures, their export mixes are very different … twice as important for India as for China, which is much better integrated into global production networks. Even assuming … opportunity for rapid growth in both countries. Accelerated growth through efficiency improvements in China and India, especially …
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's energy strategies. High energy demand from China and India could constrain some developing countries' growth through higher … capacity in OPEC, refining bottlenecks, and geopolitical uncertainties rather than growing incremental use of oil by China and … results suggest that energy externalities are likely to worsen significantly if there is no shift in China's and India …
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The authors examine the trade policy response of Latin American governments to the rapid growth of China and India in …
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For many in Latin America, the increasing participation of China and India in international markets is seen as a … impact on manufacturing employment? The authors attempt to answer this question by estimating the effects of trade with China … the effects of trade with China and India on the level of employment in Argentina's manufacturing sector. Results suggest …
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The paper examines the ways in which recent economic growth has been uneven in China and India and what this has meant … and development. The authors argue that the development paths of both China and India have been influenced by, and have …
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China, the United States, and India, decided on a more gradual phasing out extending beyond 2030. This paper estimates the … welfare loss of about 1.5 percent. Some of the major emitters, such as China and India, will experience minimal impacts to …
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