Tag Search: “services”
RCEP trade agreement: The road not taken?
Prime Minister Modi recently announced that India would not be joining the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement between Southeast Asian Nations and its free-trading partners. I...
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Sarthak Agrawal
Madhav Malhotra
15 November, 2019
- Perspectives
I4I Panel Discussion: The way forward for the Indian economy
In December 2018, I4I organised a panel discussion on ‘The Way Forward for the Indian Economy’ with K.P. Krishnan (Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship), T.N. Ninan (Business Standard), ...
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Nalini Gulati
29 January, 2019
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I4I Panel Discussion: The challenge of job creation
In a recent I4I editorial, Ashok Kotwal described the challenge of job creation that is facing the Indian economy today. In December 2017, Prof. Kotwal moderated a panel discussion on the topic betwe...
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Nalini Gulati
30 January, 2018
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The dangers that lie beneath India's IT layoffs
The ongoing layoffs in India’s IT sector are at a scale that has not been seen since the global financial crisis of 2008. In this article, Maitreesh Ghatak, Professor of Economics at LSE, contends tha...
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Maitreesh Ghatak
24 March, 2017
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The historical roots of India's booming service economy
India stands out from other emerging economies because its growth has been led by the service sector rather than labour-intensive manufactures. This column summarises recent research showing that Indi...
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Stephen Broadberry
Bishnupriya Gupta
13 January, 2017
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Let Them Buy Light: The Welfare Benefits of Electricity for Rural Households and Enterprises
This project measured the welfare effects of increased access to electricity for rural households and micro-enterprises by letting them buy light. The research design experimentally offers off-grid, s...
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Robin Burgess
Michael Greenstone
Nicholas Ryan
Anant Sudarshan
08 August, 2016
- IGC Research on India
Indo-Korea trade pact: Harnessing the potential in services
India and Korea signed a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) in 2009, which resulted in an increase of 42% in bilateral trade between 2009-10 and 2012-13. This column examines the CEPA...
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Neetika Kaushal Nagpal
Saon Ray
Nisha Taneja
23 May, 2016
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Smart data: Can visualised administrative data help inform and hold public stakeholders accountable?
The project examined how interactive data visualisations can be used to present administrative data in a way that is easily digestible, lends itself to exploration and provides a clear link to require...
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Eric Dodge
Charity Troyer Moore
Rohini Pande
31 March, 2016
- IGC Research on India
Creating a services value chain between India and Thailand
In the past two decades, India has signed several bilateral and regional comprehensive free trade agreements with Southeast Asian countries, which are likely to enhance services trade, investment and...
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Tanu Goyal
Arpita Mukherjee
08 July, 2015
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Can services be a growth escalator in low-income countries?
Just like the East Asian Tigers, the Lions of Africa are now growing much faster than the developed economies. However, this column shows that the growth escalators in Africa are different than in Ea...
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Ejaz Ghani
01 December, 2014
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Growing through cities in India
Do cities grow through specialisation or diversity? This column measures specialisation and diversity for the manufacturing and services sectors in India. It finds that Indian districts with a broade...
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Ejaz Ghani
William Kerr
Ishani Tewari
20 June, 2014
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Losing one half of India's demographic dividend
The working-age population in India is set to increase by more than 200 million over the next two decades. This column contends that India may fail to reap the benefits of this demographic dividend b...
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Jayan Jose Thomas
21 April, 2014
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