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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...
- Achyuta Adhvaryu Smit Gade Teresa Molina Anant Nyshadham
- 11 January, 2021
- Articles
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...
- Achyuta Adhvaryu Vittorio Bassi Shalin Gor Anant Nyshadham Jorge Tamayo
- 18 September, 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
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...
- Sabyasachi Kar Rajesh Raj S.N. Kunal Sen
- 10 July, 2020
- Articles
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...
- Tanika Chakraborty Anirban Mukherjee Sarani Saha Divya Shukla
- 14 May, 2020
- Articles
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...
- Anindya Chakrabarti Chirantan Chatterjee
- 14 April, 2020
- Perspectives
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 ...
- Manaswini Rao
- 29 January, 2020
- Articles
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...
- Sarthak Agrawal Madhav Malhotra
- 15 November, 2019
- Perspectives
Exports, global production sharing, and job creation in India
Is it in the interest of a country to promote strong local linkages for its domestic industries or to participate in global production sharing activities wherein linkages are globally dispersed? This ...
- Garima Dhir C. Veeramani
- 09 October, 2019
- Articles
I4I Panel Discussion: Financing development in India
I4I recently organised a panel discussion on ‘Financing Development in India’ with Prachi Mishra (Goldman Sachs), Andy Mukherjee (Bloomberg), and Ananth Narayan (SPJIMR). The discussion was moderated ...
- Nalini Gulati
- 03 October, 2019
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What should we do about the Indian economy? A wide-angled perspective - IV
In the previous part of this series, Ashok Kotwal and Pronab Sen traced the genesis of the present economic slowdown. In this part, they discuss the way forward to arrest the slowdown. They suggest a ...
- Ashok Kotwal Pronab Sen
- 29 September, 2019
- Perspectives
What should we do about the Indian economy? A wide-angled perspective - III
In the previous part of this series, Ashok Kotwal and Pronab Sen presented an export-led development strategy employed by successful Asian countries and why India failed on this front. In this part, t...
- Ashok Kotwal Pronab Sen
- 29 September, 2019
- Perspectives