Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 124
Cover Image
Telecommunications Infrastructure and Economic Growth: Evidence from Developing Countries
Sridhar, Kala Seetharam; Sridhar, Varadharajan - eSocialSciences - 2009
Simultaneous relationship between telecommunications and the economic growth, using data for developing countries are examined. Using 3SLS, a system of equations that endogenize economic growth and telecom penetration (respectively production function and demand for telecom services), along with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543111
Cover Image
Farm Productivity Loss due to Flood-Induced Sand Deposition: A Study in Dhemaji, India
Das, Kalyan - eSocialSciences - 2013
It is widely believed that the decline in agricultural productivity in the Dhemaji district of Assam, India, is due to flood-induced sand depositions in paddy fields. Increased sand content reduces the water retaining capacity of soils and reduces crop productivity. Soil tests in 346...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945253
Cover Image
Foreign Direct Investment and Technology Spillover: An Evaluation Across Different Clusters in India
Dua, Pami; Goldar, B N; Behera, Smruti Ranjan - eSocialSciences - 2011
The paper attempts to explore the technology spillover effects of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Indian manufacturing industries across different selected clusters in India. To measure the spillover effect to domestic firms in a particular cluster, a model is used that combines an innovative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323692
Cover Image
Efficiency Spillovers from FDI in the Indian Machinery Industry: A Firm Level Study Using Panel Data Models
Keshari, Pradeep Kumar - eSocialSciences - 2011
all, it compares the technical efficiency of foreign affiliates of multinational enterprises (FAs) against the domestic … determinants of technical efficiency between FAs and DFs. Finally, it examines the presence (or absence) of efficiency spillovers … these issues, the firm- and year-specific technical efficiency is computed by estimating a stochastic frontier production …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323720
Cover Image
Efficiency and Productivity Growth in Indian Banking
Rajan, S S; Reddy, K L N; Pandit, V N - eSocialSciences - 2011
This paper attempts to examine technical efficiency and productivity performance of Indian scheduled commercial banks … robust inferences of the productivity and efficiency gains due to economic reforms. [Working Paper No.199]. URL:[http://www.cdedse.org/] …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323736
Cover Image
Literacy Traps: Society-wide Education and Individual Skill Premia
Basu, Kaushik; Atal, Vidya; Gray, John; Lee, Travis - eSocialSciences - 2009
Using a model of O-ring production function, the paper demonstrates how certain communities can get caught in a low-literacy trap in which each individual finds it not worthwhile investing in higher skills because others are not high-skilled. The model sheds light on educational policy. It is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512470
Cover Image
Factor Employment, Sources and Sustainability of Output Growth: Analysis of Indian Manufacturing
Virmani, Arvind; Hashim, Danish A. - eSocialSciences - 2010
The manufacturing sector in India is crucial for two main reasons: It has significant potential to provide modern employment to a growing labour force, especially that of less skilled type and second by its own healthy growth, stimulate and provide a foundation for, organic growth in other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008480386
Cover Image
Hobbes, Coase and Baliraja: Equity and Equality in Surface Water Distribution
Sivramakrishna, Sashi; Jyotishi, Amalendu - eSocialSciences - 2008
It is attempted to understand the implications of equality in water distribution on social welfare with a simple abstract analysis using Leontief-type fixed production function.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487599
Cover Image
Drivers of Academic Research and Patenting in India: Econometric Estimation of the Research Production Function
Ray, Amit Shovon; Saha, Sabyasachi - eSocialSciences - 2010
In this paper we attempt to provide a comprehensive understanding of the drivers of academic research and patenting in India. Research inputs by a faculty member are considered to be an outcome of his/her own decision-making process, which in turn determine his/her research outputs. Exogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008620630
Cover Image
Choice and Success of Job Search Methods
Weber, Andrea; Mahringer, Helmut - eSocialSciences - 2014
in the support of low quality workers. For these workers it is equal in efficiency to the other search channels. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945222