India was a major player in the world export market for textiles in the early 18th century, but by the middle of the 19 … some decline, and India underwent secular de-industrialization as a consequence. While India produced about 25% of world … about the relative role played by domestic and foreign forces in India’s de-industrialization. The construction of new …

This study updates and extends to the period 1988/9--1992/3 our earlier analysis of the public finances of India. The …

This Paper studies growth and inequality in China and India – two economies that account for a third of the world … countries. For personal income inequalities in a China-India universe, the forces assuming first-order importance are …

the context of India's 1991 tariff reforms. Overall, in the 1990s, rural India experienced a dramatic increase in … imply that roughly half of India's rise in schooling and a third of the fall in child labor during the 1990s can be …

for people to become an entrepreneur. Based on a large-scale data set of nearly ninety thousand workers in India, this …

counter-lobbying from downstream users on endogenous protection. Applied to India, it yields results that are qualitatively …

This paper uses household data from India to examine the economic and social status of village politicians, and how …

Most conventional accounts of India’s recent economic performance associate the pick-up in economic growth with the …

substitute for other borrowing. We then apply this methodology to firms in India that became eligible for directed credit as a …

The growth of cotton textile imports into Britain from India opened up new opportunities for import substitution as the … labour-saving technological progress meant that unit labour costs became lower than in India despite the much higher wages in …