Though recent economic growth in India has increased productivity and living standards significantly, the need for more … growth and more reform remains. Rapid growth of unskilled labor-intensive manufacturing combined with growth of productivity …

costs, any difference in export performances could arise because of higher productivity of labor. The paper tests whether … multinational firms, it is not just cheap labor in terms of low wage rate per worker, but low wage in relation to productivity of … more than the productivity of the labor. Among other factors discussed, of the reasons is the low value added nature of the …

Recent Melitz-type (2003) intra-industry heterogonous trade models argue that a firm's productivity has significant … effects on the firm's exports. This paper examines how a firms credit constraints as well as its productivity affect its …

This paper explores how processing trade, jointly with tariff reduction, can improve a firm's productivity. Tariff … reductions generate productivity gain via competition, whereas processing export does so via spillovers. Using mostly …% increase in a firm's productivity gain. In addition, processing firms enjoy significant productivity gains via spillovers, with …

. Second, growth accounting analysis reveals that information technology has not contributed changes of productivity growth … the productivity growth until the late 1980s. Third, estimation of the production function model proves that IT capital …

This paper explores how processing trade, jointly with tariff reduction, can improve a firm's productivity. Tariff … reductions generate productivity gain via competition, whereas processing export does so via spillovers. Using mostly …% increase in a firm's productivity gain. In addition, processing firms enjoy significant productivity gains via spillovers, with …