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The aim of this paper is to identify possibilities for guiding policy in the area of basic research. We provide an extended review of basic research and offer new insights on its linkages to key economic variables and economic growth. After defining what basic research is, we identify and...
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Most conventional accounts of India’s recent economic performance associate the pick-up in economic growth with the …
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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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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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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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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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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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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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politician corruption that we conducted in North India is remarkably consistent with our theoretical predictions. …
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detailed firm-level data from India, we provide the first evidence on the patterns of multi-product firm production in a large …-section, multi-product firms in India look remarkably similar to their U.S. counterparts, confirming the predictions of recent … churning - particularly product rationalization - is far less common in India. We thus find little evidence of "creative …
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