Tag Search: “firms”
Community origins of industrial entrepreneurship: Theory and historical evidence from India
The transition from agriculture to trade and the subsequent transition from trade to manufacturing are key stages in the development process. In countries where a substantial manufacturing sector exis...
- Bishnupriya Gupta Dilip Mookherjee Kaivan Munshi
- 31 March, 2017
- IGC Research on India
Foreign market access and competition in India's textile and clothing industries: Impacts on firms and workers
This project aims to estimate the effects of foreign market access and export competition on plants and workers in the textiles and clothing industries in India.
- Krisztina Kis-Katos Janneke Pieters Shruti Sharma
- 31 March, 2017
- IGC Research on India
Infrastructure and economic growth: The role of airports
Given that banking sectors in low-income countries are inefficient, why don’t lenders from wealthier countries profitably lend to productive firms in these countries? One possibility is that foreign l...
- Natalie Bau Jesse Schreger
- 31 March, 2017
- IGC Research on India
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...
- Maitreesh Ghatak
- 24 March, 2017
- Articles
Do firms in India perceive themselves to be e-ready?
Government of India’s ‘Digital India’ programme seeks to transform the country into a digitally-empowered society and knowledge economy. This column presents region-wise findings of a perception-base...
- Bornali Bhandari Ajaya Kumar Sahu
- 24 January, 2017
- Perspectives
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...
- Stephen Broadberry Bishnupriya Gupta
- 13 January, 2017
- Articles
Is the structure of Indian manufacturing geared towards job creation?
Government of India has envisaged adding 100 million jobs in manufacturing by 2022. This column finds that the structure of the country’s manufacturing sector is misaligned with the objective of job ...
- Sharmila Kantha
- 05 December, 2016
- Articles
How did de-reservation of small-scale industry affect employment?
To protect small, labour-intensive manufacturing enterprises and boost employment, the Indian government reserved certain products for exclusive production by such enterprises. This policy was gradual...
- Ann. E. Harrison Leslie Martin Shanti Nataraj
- 05 December, 2016
- Articles
Food processing industries: Lessons from Bihar
For an industrially backward state like Bihar, placing food processing as the lead sector for industrial development is a natural choice from the perspective of resource advantage and interlinked sect...
- Barna Ganguli Debdatta Saha
- 29 November, 2016
- Articles
How do electricity shortages affect industry in India?
Poor electricity supply is widely recognised as a key impediment to firm growth and productivity. This column finds that average reported level of electricity shortages in India reduces annual plant r...
- Hunt Allcott Allan Collard-Wexler Stephen D O'Connell
- 25 November, 2016
- Articles
GDP conundrum: Some areas of concern around growth overestimation in Indian manufacturing
Based on the new GDP series, large upward revisions in manufacturing growth rates were made – from 1.1% to 6.2% in 2012-13, and from -0.7% to 5.29% in 2013 – 14 that were not reflective of the actual ...
- Amey Sapre
- 18 November, 2016
- Perspectives
Assessing the impact of listing on access to finance for small and medium enterprises
Small and medium enterprises are globally viewed as an engine of economic growth. However, growth in this sector is often limited by access to external finance due, in part, to SMEs being informationa...
- Nidhi Aggarwal Susan Thomas
- 30 October, 2016
- IGC Research on India