Cotton textiles of every sort - fine, superfine and coarse - were once manufactured in abundance in the province of … India and the slow, laborious and wasteful methods followed in the manufacture of cotton fabrics by handloom weavers. The … solely on the cotton textile industry of Bengal from 1900 till the end of the colonial period in 1947. In other words, we …

productivity (TFP) of cotton to other major crops (wheat, rice, and corn) in China between 1990 and 2015, showing that the TFP … of Bt cotton process in China. To further investigate the decline of TFP in the early stages of Bt cotton adoption, using … cotton. In addition, we illustrate the occurrence of a learning process as GM technology diffuses throughout China: after …

This dissertation uses the large negative shock to the British cotton textile industry, caused by the U.S. Civil War … leading theory of directed technical change, introduced by Acemoglu (2002). I show that the shortage of U.S. cotton increased … innovation in technologies related to Indian cotton, the main alternative, and increased the relative price of Indian cotton …