Tag Search: “manufacturing”
Assessing the economic effects of India 'Looking East'
PM Modi recently said that India needs to move from ‘Look East’ to ‘Act East’ and that this is a key component of his government’s foreign policy. In this article, Ganeshan Wignaraja, an economist at...
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Ganeshan Wignaraja
22 May, 2015
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Analysing net foreign earnings of India's corporate sector
The corporate sector is the linchpin of the ‘Make in India’ campaign. This column finds that the sector is increasingly relying on imported inputs and its net foreign earnings are on the decline, thu...
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J. Dennis Rajakumar
22 April, 2015
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How serious are India's manufacturing skill gaps?
It is widely believed that skill gaps are constraining Indian manufacturing, and closing these gaps has become a national priority. This column argues that the public debate on India’s skill gaps res...
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Aashish Mehta
13 April, 2015
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Transit networks and regional development in India
Recent research illustrates the immediate positive effects of transit networks in India on rural employment, manufacturing growth and so on. This column focuses on the long-term impact of national hi...
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Gaurav Khanna
26 March, 2015
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Modi's economic reforms: Foundation laid but time running out
Anticipation is running high that the Modi government will announce sweeping economic reforms in their first full-year budget, especially since their tenure so far has been bereft of any dramatic cha...
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Eswar Prasad
27 February, 2015
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Where will jobs in manufacturing come from?
Conventional wisdom suggests that labour-intensive, small industries are critical for generating employment. However, this column argues that policies favouring one type of industry over another - lab...
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Radhicka Kapoor
23 January, 2015
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India's labour laws: Protecting to hurt
The state government of Rajasthan has begun making amendments to various labour laws in order to make labour markets more flexible. Summarising research on the impact of rigid labour laws on the grow...
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Devashish Mitra
14 January, 2015
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An economist's view on the new government's initiatives
In this article, Pranab Bardhan, Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, provides his perspective on some of the initiatives of the new Indian government at the centre in their fi...
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Pranab Bardhan
19 December, 2014
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Can services be a growth escalator in low-income countries?
Just like the East Asian Tigers, the Lions of Africa are now growing much faster than the developed economies. However, this column shows that the growth escalators in Africa are different than in Ea...
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Ejaz Ghani
01 December, 2014
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What explains the increasing use of contract workers in Indian manufacturing?
Contract workers constituted about one-fourth of all workers in formal manufacturing in India in 2008. This column analyses the extent to which trade liberalisation and lack of labour reforms explain...
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Bibhas Saha
Kunal Sen
29 October, 2014
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Do location-based incentives promote industrialisation?
In a bid to industrialise the relatively under-industrialised states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, the government implemented a tax incentive and capital subsidy scheme in the two states in 20...
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Ritam Chaurey
23 September, 2014
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International trade, domestic labour laws and India’s manufacturing sector
India has a multitude of restrictive labour laws and these have been found to adversely affect economic performance of manufacturing firms. This column illustrates how the impact of trade liberalisati...
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Devashish Mitra
22 September, 2014
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