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From 'Hindu Growth' to Productivity Surge: The Mystery of the Indian Growth Transition
Rodrik, Dani; Subramanian, Arvind - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
Most conventional accounts of India’s recent economic performance associate the pick-up in economic growth with the …
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Measuring the Transformation of the European Economies: Income, Health and Welfare
Floud, Roderick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1984
The measurement of national income has added greatly to our understanding of economic and social change in Europe over the past hundred years. But national income analysis does not take full account of changes in welfare and particularly of the causes and effects of long-term changes in the...
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Economic Conditions in Early Modern Bengal: A Contribution to the Divergence Debate
Roy, Tirthankar - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
The paper contributes to the debate on relative levels of living in the early modern world by estimating the income of and probable range of income growth in Bengal before European colonization. The exercise yields two conclusions, (a) average income in Bengal was significantly smaller than that...
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Income and schooling
Brückner, Markus; Gradstein, Mark - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
Whereas existing literature has documented strong correlations between national incomes and measures of schooling attainment, causality has been hard to pin down. Much of empirical work had tended to interpret these correlations as implying an effect of human capital on national income, but...
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Do Firms Want to Borrow More? Testing Credit Constraints Using a Directed Lending Program
Banerjee, Abhijit; Duflo, Esther - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
substitute for other borrowing. We then apply this methodology to firms in India that became eligible for directed credit as a …
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Cotton Textiles and the Great Divergence: Lancashire, India and Shifting Competitive Advantage, 1600-1850
Broadberry, Stephen N; Gupta, Bishnupriya - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
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 …
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The International Financial Integration of China and India
Lane, Philip R.; Schmukler, Sergio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
Three main features characterize the international financial integration of China and India. First, while only having a … “short equity, long debt.” Third, China and India have improved their net external positions over the last decade although …. Changes in these factors will affect the international financial integration of China and India (through shifts in capital …
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The Adjustment Towards National Solvency in Developing Countries: An Application to India
Ghatak, Subrata; Levine, Paul L - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992
solvency. This is compared with the corresponding cost if India were to repudiate its debts and experience financial autarky as … improves the relative attractiveness of debt repayment. With a 10% discount rate, however, even writing off 75% of India …
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Monitoring Works: Getting Teachers to Come to School
Duflo, Esther; Hanna, Rema; Ryan, Stephen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
can reduce teacher absence and increase learning. In 57 schools in India, randomly chosen out of 113, a teacher’s daily …
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Employment Laws in Developing Countries
Djankov, Simeon; Ramalho, Rita - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
We survey the research on the effect of employment laws in developing countries, using papers published since 2004. The survey is further supported by cross-country correlation analyses. Both exercises show that developing countries with rigid employment laws tend to have larger informal sectors...
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