employment declines in independent stores they were meant to protect. The reason is that when large retail chains are prevented …

(TFP) in the retailing industry by (i) restricting the total availability of land for retail, thereby increasing space … costs (ii) directly limiting store size and (iii) concentrating retail development on specific central locations. We use … unique store-specific data to estimate the impact of space on retail productivity and the specific effects of planning …

the Philippines and India, and especially the choice between the technologies of incineration, pyrolysis and …

studies of credit in rural India. …

law in India to test this prediction empirically. The principal finding is that minority representation has increased …

–private partnerships in waste-to-energy projects in the Philippines and India to identify how principles of institutional design may …

This paper studies the evolution of the rural non-farm sector in India and its contribution to the decline of poverty … close study over a period of six decades. Sample survey data indicate that the non-farm sector in rural India has grown … in India as both particularly closely linked to rural non-farm development and recording particularly high rates of urban …