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Effects of Public Investment in Infrastructure on Growth and Poverty in India
Murty, K. N.; Soumya, A. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
Counter factual policy simulations of sustained increase in public investment in infrastructure, financed through borrowing from commercial banks, shows substantial increase in private investment and thereby output in this sector. Further, due to increase in absorption, real private investment...
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Macro economic effects of public investment in infrastructure in India
Murty, K. N.; Soumya, A. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
This paper attempts to build an aggregative, structural, macroeconometric model for India. Investment and output in the model are disaggregated into four sectors, viz., (a) agriculture including forestry & fishing, (b) manufacturing, (c) infrastructure, which includes power, transport,...
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Economic Growth in a Cross-Section of Cities
Glaeser, Edward L. - 1995
We examine the relationship between urban characteristics in 1960 and urban growth (income and population) between 1960 and 1990. Our major findings are that income and population growth move together and both types of growth are (1) positively related to initial schooling, (2) negatively...
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Regional Growth and Migration : A Japan-U.S. Comparison
Barro, Robert J. - 1992
Do poor economies grow faster than rich ones? This important economic question (which we call [beta]-convergence) is … of convergence in both countries: poor prefectures and states grow faster. We also find that there is intraregional as … well as interregional convergence. We analyze the cross sectional standard deviation across prefectures and states. We find …
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Sectoral Development Multipliers
Buera, Francisco; Trachter, Nicholas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
How should industrial policies be directed to reduce distortions and foster economic development? We study this question in a multi-sector model with technology adoption, where the production of goods and modern technologies features rich network structures. We provide simple formulas for the...
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Emergence of China and India in the New Millennium : Will it Facilitate Market Access for LDCs and Developing Countries?
Mohanty, S. K.; Chaturvedi, Sachin - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
China and India have emerged as highly dynamic economies in recent years. In the Asian region their growth and economic expansion has generated its own complementarities. The paper has empirically shown that surge in the exports of these two countries have significantly contributed to their...
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The Service Sector as India’s Road to Economic Growth?
Eichengreen, Barry; Gupta, Poonam - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
Among fast growing developing countries, India is distinctive for the role of the service sector. However, sceptics have raised doubts about both the quality and sustainability of the increase in service sector activity and its implications for economic development. Using National Accounts...
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Impact of Trade on Employment Generation in Manufacturing in India
Goldar, Bishwanath - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
Analysing the impact of trade on manufacturing employment in India, it is found that exports had a favourable effect on industrial employment, but the positive effect of export increase was offset by the negative effect of increases in imports. The net effect was marginal. The failure of trade...
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The Aggregate Importance of Intermediate Input Substitutability
Peter, Alessandra; Ruane, Cian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We estimate long-run elasticities of substitution between intermediate inputs for Indian manufacturing plants. India's trade liberalization in the early 1990s provides an ideal natural policy experiment, with permanent and heterogeneous tariff reductions inducing changes in relative prices which...
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Club-Convergence and Polarisation of States : A Nonparametric Analysis of Post-Reform India
Kar, Sabyasachi; Jha, Debajit; Kateja, Alpana - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
in the post reform period, in order to identify trends towards convergence-club formation, polarisation or stratification …
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