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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...

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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 … semiparametric estimation methods. The endogenity of multiple outputs is addressed by semi parametric estimates in part by … robust inferences of the productivity and efficiency gains due to economic reforms. [Working Paper No.199]. URL:[http://www.cdedse.org/] …

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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.

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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 … reduces crop productivity. Soil tests in 346 agricultural plots in the Jiadhal basin of the Dhemaji district show high … than 70%. An analysis of the effect of sand on productivity suggests that sand deposits have a significant effect on paddy …

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Efficiency Spillovers from FDI in the Indian Machinery Industry: A Firm Level Study Using Panel Data Models

Keshari, Pradeep Kumar - eSocialSciences - 2011

Adopting a micro-level framework of impact of FDI in an industry, this study empirically examines the following three issues in the context of Indian machinery industry (IMI) - division 28 of National Industrial Classification, 2008. First of all, it compares the technical efficiency of foreign...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Challenges and Opportunities in a Trillion Dollar Economy

C, Chakrabarty K - eSocialSciences - 2011

dollar club, namely, the US, UK, Japan, Germany, China, France, Italy, Spain, Canada, Brazil and Russia. In fact, over the …

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