Tag Search: “firms”
Trade agreements and their impact on India’s apparel exports
Slow progress of the Doha Round of WTO negotiations has led to a proliferation of regional and bilateral trade agreements, and consequent increase in trade among their members. While India continues t...
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Arpita Mukherjee
Anusree Paul
Angana Parashar Sarma
Soham Sinha
07 January, 2019
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Nobel laureate Paul Romer’s contribution to endogenous growth theory
What motivates people like Steve Jobs to spend time, money, and effort in developing new ideas despite the implicit hazard that ideas can easily be copied later? In this post, Mausumi Das contends tha...
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Mausumi Das
24 October, 2018
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Global financial crisis and India: A look at the decade gone by
The crisis that emerged in the US subprime mortgage market this month 10 years ago, not only engulfed the country’s financial system but the entire global economy. In this post, Vikas Dimble and Nalin...
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Vikas Dimble
Nalini Gulati
14 September, 2018
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Community networks and the growth of private enterprise in China
China has witnessed the same degree of industrialisation in three decades as Europe did in two centuries – without the preconditions that are generally believed to be necessary for economic developmen...
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Ruochen Dai
Dilip Mookherjee
Kaivan Munshi
Xiaobo Zhang
31 August, 2018
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The challenge of identifying economic activities of firms
The reliability of India’s GDP estimates has been debated extensively. A key challenge in the construction of macro-aggregates lies in the proper identification of firms’ economic activities as firms ...
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Radhika Pandey
Amey Sapre
Pramod Sinha
23 August, 2018
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Management and India’s economic growth
India has produced a well-recognised elite of managers, some of whom have demonstrated their capabilities in premier firms outside the country. In this post, Nirvikar Singh discusses existing empirica...
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Nirvikar Singh
20 July, 2018
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The effect of place-based development policies: Evidence from Indian SEZs
Since the introduction of the Special Economic Zones (SEZ), Act in 2005, India has invested roughly 0.5% of its GDP annually into this programme. Using nighttime lights data and firm- and worker-level...
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Yeseul Hyun
Shree Ravi
18 July, 2018
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New ideas for fighting corruption in India
Even as technological innovations have reduced petty bribery, it is clear that bigger forms of corruption are flourishing in India. In this post, Avinash Dixit and Ritika Mankar propose the formation ...
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Avinash Dixit
Ritika Mankar
18 May, 2018
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What happens when investments targeting women’s microbusinesses go to men?
Several studies find that male-operated – but not female-operated – microenterprises benefit from access to grants or loans. Applying the lens of household-level rather than individual-level investmen...
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Arielle Bernhardt
Erica Field
Rohini Pande
Natalia Rigol
02 May, 2018
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Understanding the recent ordinance amending the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code
The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC) is a landmark reform for India. One year after the notification of the law, an Ordinance to amend IBC has been promulgated, which bars several categories...
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Rajeswari Sengupta
Anjali Sharma
23 March, 2018
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Fostering social connections
This column describes an ongoing study that analyses data from Delhi’s labour-intensive garment factories to explore the relationship between trust among workers and productivity. Using the strength o...
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Farzana Afridi
Amrita Dhillon
Sherry Xin Li
Swati Sharma
16 March, 2018
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Management practices and productivity in India
In this article, Bloom and Patnaik bring together research that analyses management practices of firms, and how they relate to firm productivity and performance. They highlight the importance of under...
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Nicholas Bloom
Megha Patnaik
15 March, 2018
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