Tag Search: “manufacturing”
Covid-19 and mental health: Fighting the “infodemic”, one phone call at a time
COVID-19 information communication strategies globally have been dominated by SMS and voice recording based campaigns. The most pervasive Indian government campaign was a pre-recorded message that pla...
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Achyuta Adhvaryu
Varun Chati
Sadish D
Saswati Mishra
Anant Nyshadham
Nirupama V
22 September, 2021
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Dealing with worker absenteeism in labour-intensive industries
Worker absenteeism in labour-intensive industries causes productivity losses for firms, and reduced potential for productivity-based incentives for workers. Based on a study in Karnataka, this article...
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Achyuta Adhvaryu
Jean-François Gauthier
Shalin Gor
Saumya Joshi
Anant Nyshadham
Jorge Tamayo
08 September, 2021
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India’s service-led economic growth
Structural transformation that involves a shift from agriculture straight to services, is a cause of concern to many scholars as an expanding service sector might be a pale substitute to technical pro...
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Tianyu Fan
Michael Peters
Fabrizio Zilibotti
18 June, 2021
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Boosting India’s capital goods’ exports
Union budget 2021-22 has proposed a sharp 34.5% hike in capital expenditure, which is expected to boost the capital goods sector. While the sector has grown since liberalisation, its share in the glob...
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Parthapratim Pal
Swathysree S S
10 February, 2021
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Expectations, wage hikes, and worker voice
Understanding how exit decisions of workers are affected by their ability to voice their concerns, is a central question in labour economics. Based on an experiment in 12 garment factories in Karnatak...
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Achyuta Adhvaryu
Smit Gade
Teresa Molina
Anant Nyshadham
11 January, 2021
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No line left behind: How firms match workers and managers
Various studies consistently affirm the importance of strong worker-manager dynamics in driving productivity. Based on analysis of worker-level productivity data, information on orders, and interviews...
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Achyuta Adhvaryu
Vittorio Bassi
Shalin Gor
Anant Nyshadham
Jorge Tamayo
18 September, 2020
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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...
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Maitreesh Ghatak
Ashok Kotwal
Bharat Ramaswami
14 August, 2020
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Unmaking ‘Make in India’
The current government has attempted to improve India’s ranking in the World Bank’s Doing Business Indicators, but with limited success. This article shows that ‘deals’ between the State and businesse...
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Sabyasachi Kar
Rajesh Raj S.N.
Kunal Sen
10 July, 2020
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Court congestion, caste identity, and business performance
Effective contract enforcement is the key for the formation and expansion of business enterprises. But how does improvement in court performance matter differently to different caste groups? This arti...
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Tanika Chakraborty
Anirban Mukherjee
Sarani Saha
Divya Shukla
14 May, 2020
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Only germs this time, no guns and steel (yet)?
The first round of globalisation over the previous centuries was associated with a transmission of diseases between continents. With Covid-19, history seems to be repeating itself, but this time in th...
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Anindya Chakrabarti
Chirantan Chatterjee
14 April, 2020
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How district courts influence firm growth
The Economic Survey 2018-19 highlights that the single biggest constraint to ease of doing business in India is contract enforcement and dispute resolution, and increasing capacity in lower judiciary ...
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Manaswini Rao
29 January, 2020
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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