Bihar Growth in the Context of Modern Growth Theory
India’s second most populous state, Bihar, also remains one of its poorest. This project conducts a longer-term investigation into Bihar’s relatively poor productivity. It surveys the important contributions to growth theory as applied to the state.
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Areendam Chanda 
01 March, 2011
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Macroeconomics
Year: 2011
Sugar mills: Ownership, productivity and crop choice
This project examines the effect of firm ownership structure on firm behaviour and the economic outcomes of upstream suppliers by comparing privately-owned sugar mills to cooperatives and public mills in India.
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Sandip Sukhtankar Sendhil Mullainathan
- 28 February, 2011
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Macroeconomics
Year: 2011
Making good management stick: Evidence from India
A long-standing question in social science is to what extent differences in management cause differences in firm performance. To investigate this, researchers ran a management field experiment on large Indian textile firms.
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Aprajit Mahajan David McKenzie John Roberts
- 01 December, 2010
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Macroeconomics
Year: 2010
Developing and Analyzing Firm Level Moments on Productivity and Reallocation
Productivity growth is the main driver of long-run increases in per capita income and welfare. This project investigates the effect of idiosyncratic (firm-level) policy distortions on aggregate outcomes.
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Eric J Bartelsman John Haltiwanger
- 01 September, 2010
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Macroeconomics
Year: 2010
Long Run-Effects of Repayment Flexibility in Microfinance: Evidence from India
Financiers across the world structure debt contracts to limit the risk of entrepreneurial lending. But debt structures that reduce risk may inhibit enterprise growth, especially among the poor.
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Erica Field John Papp Natalia Rigol Rohini Pande
- 01 February, 2010
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Money & Finance
Year: 2010