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The Service Sector as India’s Road to Economic Growth?
Eichengreen, Barry; Gupta, Poonam - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
services has been broad-based. We show that the growth of service sector employment is not simply disguised manufacturing … is no longer obvious that manufacturing is the main destination for the vast majority of Indian labour moving into the … expansion of both modern manufacturing and modern services is constrained by the availability of skilled labour, this just …
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The Two Waves of Service-Sector Growth
Eichengreen, Barry; Gupta, Poonam - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
The positive association between the service sector share of output and per capita income is one of the best-known regularities in all of growth and development economics. Yet there is less than complete agreement on the nature of that association. Here we identify two waves of service sector...
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Sustaining Philippine Advantage in Business Process Outsourcing
Rodolfo, Ceferino S. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
This study looked at the sustainability of the growth and development of business process outsourcing (BPO) in the Philippines. It was prompted by the sectors spectacular growth in several of its subsectors, mainly contact call centers, medical transcription, animation, and software development....
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Expanding RP-US Linkages in Business Process Outsourcing
Rodolfo, Ceferino S. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
The Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) sector has experienced unprecedented global growth. This has greatly benefited the Philippines, where BPO has five main segments : call centers, medical transcription, animation, software development, and shared services. High population level, cultural...
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The Cost Competitiveness of Manufacturing in China and India - An Industry and Regional Perspective
Ark, Bart Van; Erumban, Abdul Azeez; Chen, Vivian; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
manufacturing sector of China and India. We first provide a comparison between India and China using a broad international … compensation level, China is still somewhat at a disadvantage in terms of unit labor cost in manufacturing relative to India. In … countries and removal of barriers to resource mobility eradicating inefficient manufacturing activity. …
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Determinants of Labor-intensive exports by the Developing Countries : A Cross Country Analysis
Khondoker, Mottaleb; Kalirajan, Kaliappa - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
While it is widely recognized that industrial development is imperative in developing countries to reduce poverty and to attain sustainable economic growth, there is no consensus on how to develop industries and where to start. Generally, the literature argues that developing countries should...
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Determinants of Labor-intensive exports by the Developing Countries : A Cross Country Analysis
Khondoker, Mottaleb; Kalirajan, Kaliappa - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
While it is widely recognized that industrial development is imperative in developing countries to reduce poverty and to attain sustainable economic growth, there is no consensus on how to develop industries and where to start. Generally, the literature argues that developing countries should...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278090
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Green Services and Emergence and Recovery from the Global Economic Slowdown in Developing Asian Economies
Stoughton, Mark; Venkatachalam, Anbumozhi - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
The global economic slowdown has again highlighted the vulnerability of export-led development models and economies to downturns in export markets. Economic deepening or rebalancing with an emphasis on service-sector development should beand is becomingone long-term response to the crisis by...
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Efficiency of Large Scale Manufacturing in Pakistan : A Production Frontier Approach
Mahmood, Tariq; Ghani, Ejaz; Din, Musleh-ud - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
This paper examines the efficiency of the large scale manufacturing sector of Pakistan using the stochastic production …-digit PSIC. The results show that there has been some improvement in the efficiency of the large scale manufacturing sector …
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Decomposition of Energy Consumption and Energy Intensity in Indian Manufacturing Industries
Ray, Binay Kumar; Reddy, B. Sudhakara - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
manufacturing sector consumes about 66 percent (2004-2005 figures) with chemicals and petrochemicals, iron and steel, pulp and paper … and cement industries being the largest energy users. In the recent past, energy intensity in the manufacturing sector has …
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