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Innovation and Growth: Role of the Financial Sector
Mohan, Rakesh - eSocialSciences - 2008
to innovation and growth. Finally, an outline of the role of monetary policy in sustaining growth and innovations by …A brief overview is provided about India’s long-term growth performance. Then an attempt is made to set out the … productivity gains to real GDP growth is explained. Then the focus is given on the role of financial sector reforms in contributing …
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An Open Services Regime Recipe for Jobless Growth?
Karmakar, Suparna - eSocialSciences - 2008
This paper reviews India’s experience to understand how services sector liberalisation can generate (welfare) gains for developing countries, in particular vis-à-vis its employment generation potential. The analysis has been based on India’s experience of an increasingly open service sector...
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On Learning, Innovation and Competence Building in India’s SMEs: Challenges Ahead
Das, Keshab; Joseph, K.J. - eSocialSciences - 2011
With a vast and diverse SME sector India’s industrialization owes much to the technological dynamism of enterprises. Various institutional interventions have been made to promote innovativeness in the sector, albeit, following economic reforms, it appears that the SME sector has not been...
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More and Better Jobs in South Asia
Nayar, Reema; Gottret, Pablo; Mitra, Pradeep; … - eSocialSciences - 2012
region will contribute nearly 40 percent of the growth in the world’s working-age (15–64) population over the next …
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Tax Challenges Facing Developing Countries
Bird, Richard M. - eSocialSciences - 2008
Most developing countries continue to face serious problems in developing adequate and responsive tax systems. This paper reviews the three principal ways in which developing countries may expand and improve their taxation systems - base-broadening, rate reduction, and administrative improvement...
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Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries
Naude, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Goedhuys, Micheline - eSocialSciences - 2011
How does innovation impact on development? How, and under what conditions, do entrepreneurs in developing countries … innovate? And what can be done to support innovation by entrepreneurs in developing countries? This policy brief addresses … these questions and explains the relationship between entrepreneurship, innovation and development. Policy lessons are drawn …
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The Political Economy of MGNREGS Spending in Andhra Pradesh
Sheahan, Megan; Liu, Yanyan; Barrett, Christopher B.; … - eSocialSciences - 2014
Are ostensibly demand-driven public programs less susceptible to political clientelism even when private goods are allocated? This is examined using expenditure data at the local level from India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme.
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Address by the President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee to Parliament
Mukherjee, Pranab - eSocialSciences - 2013
Reviving economic growth is the priority of the government. [http://presidentofindia.nic.in/sp210213.html]. …
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Remittances and microfinance in India: Opportunities and challenges for development finance
Sil, Milly; Guha, Samapti - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
With remittances to the developing countries reaching USD 251 billion in 2007, there has been a recent surge of interest to understand the effective channelization of this flow of remittances for providing a variety of financial services desirable to the poor households in the receiving regions,...
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Statement by Dr. Raghuram Rajan
Badkar, Sabeeta - eSocialSciences - 2013
Statement by Dr. Raghuram Rajan on taking office on September 4, 2013. [RBI Press release].
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