Tag Search: “Firms”
Lead Bank Scheme: Does organisational design matter?
The Lead Bank Scheme of the RBI involves a ‘lead bank’ in each district of India that coordinates financial services in the district, and a ‘convenor bank’ in each state that monitors these activities...
- Samarth Gupta
- 26 October, 2020
- Articles
What would make India’s growth sustainable?
Much of the discussion on the economic slowdown in India in recent years – as well as on the government’s measures to tackle the present economic crisis due to the Covid-19 lockdown – is focused on th...
- Maitreesh Ghatak Ashok Kotwal Bharat Ramaswami
- 14 August, 2020
- Perspectives
Covid-19: Assessing vulnerabilities faced by microenterprises
In India, where microenterprises form a crucial foundation for livelihoods and employment, the effects of the Covid-19 lockdown can potentially be significant. Based on the first wave of a dynamic, mu...
- Sharon Buteau Ashwin Chandrasekhar
- 31 July, 2020
- Notes from the Field
Does easing controls on foreign borrowing boost firm performance?
The literature shows that rigid capital-control policies adversely influence international trade, but overlooks the relationships among access to external financing, firm-level productivity, and expor...
- Udichibarna Bose Sushanta Mallick Serafeim Tsoukas
- 17 July, 2020
- Articles
The supply-side effects of India’s demonetisation
What were the effects of the 2016 Indian demonetisation that removed 86% of currency in circulation overnight, on the production side of the economy? By combining data from financial statements and su...
- Giri Subramaniam
- 03 July, 2020
- Articles
Covid-19 crisis and health of small businesses: Findings from a primary survey
In a recent statement, the Union Minister for micro, small, and medium enterprises, acknowledged that the sector is “battling for survival”. This article reports some key findings from a survey of mor...
- Shantanu Khanna Udayan Rathore
- 17 June, 2020
- Notes from the Field
Perceived obstacles among Indian firms: What happens to innovation efforts?
For countries like India where large numbers of small- and medium-sized firms cannot access formal credit and face widespread bureaucratic corruption, long-run survival and consequent distributional i...
- Hamid Beladi Nabamita Dutta Saibal Kar
- 10 June, 2020
- Articles
Trade disruption, industrialisation, and how the sun set on British rule in India
It is argued that by keeping India open to imports of cheap British manufactures, the imperial power made it excessively difficult for Indian industry to emerge in the early 20th century. This article...
- Roberto Bonfatti Björn Brey
- 18 May, 2020
- Articles
Prejudice in a pandemic: Covid rumours and factory labour supply
Since the Tablighi Jamaat event – an Islamic congregation held in Delhi in mid-March – led to a large cluster of Covid cases, malicious rumours about Muslims spreading the disease started circulating ...
- Arkadev Ghosh
- 08 May, 2020
- Notes from the Field
How costly are flawed government responses to Covid-19? An assessment of the migrant crisis
By March-end, countless migrant workers started fleeing India’s locked-up cities and trekking home to their villages amidst the Covid-19 crisis. Sarmistha Pal argues that government’s responses until ...
- Sarmistha Pal
- 03 May, 2020
- Perspectives
Covid-19: Health, macroeconomics, and trade
There is great uncertainty around the spread and eventual end of the Covid-19 pandemic, and the possibility of extended or intermittent lockdowns. Besides the immediate health crisis and loss of liv...
- Anirudh Shingal
- 30 April, 2020
- Articles
Covid-19: Ashok Kotwal speaks with Pronab Sen
In conversation with Ashok Kotwal on the ongoing economic crisis caused by lockdown to mitigate Covid-19 spread, Pronab Sen breaks down the problem into survival of individuals and livelihoods, and th...
- Ashok Kotwal Pronab Sen
- 25 April, 2020
- Podcasts