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Impact of Imported Intermediate and Capital Goods on Economic Growth: A Cross Country Analysis
Veermani, C - eSocialSciences - 2009
Knowledge accumulation in the richer countries provides them with comparative advantages in higher productivity … products. The countries that import the higher productivity intermediate products and capital equipments produced in the richer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009250506
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Impact of Imported Intermediate and Capital Goods on Economic Growth: A Cross Country Analysis
Veermani, C - eSocialSciences - 2009
Knowledge accumulation in the richer countries provides them with comparative advantages in higher productivity … products. The countries that import the higher productivity intermediate products and capital equipments produced in the richer … productivity level associated with a country's imports. Using instrumental variable method (to address the endogeneity problems …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004985543
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Does the System of Rice Intensification Outperform Conventional System? A Case Study of Gujarat
Pathak, Jharna - eSocialSciences - 2011
The paper examines the farm level performance of System of Rice Intensification (SRI) method of paddy cultivation as against the traditional method. The role of NGOs in raising awareness among farmers about the SRI technique as also of agricultural extension services in general. [Working Paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009319344
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323720
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Global Crisis, Environment Volatility and Expansion of Tthe Indian Leather Industry
Bhandari, Anup Kumar - eSocialSciences - 2010
The present paper attempts to fill in the gap that exists in the Indian Leather industry, and makes some suggestions regarding the expansion of the by examining technical efficiency (TE) of individual leather producing firms for some selected years since the early-1980s. Analyzing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008465100
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Price, Markups and Trade Reforms
Loecker, Jan De - eSocialSciences - 2014
This paper examines how prices, markups and marginal costs respond to trade liberalization. Multi-product firms are used in the study. [BREAD WP No. 418].
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945427
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Size, Efficiency and Financial Reforms in Indian Banking
Srivastava, Pradeep - eSocialSciences - 2009
The study seeks to answer two very basic questions in the Indian context: first, are there economies of scale and scope in Indian banking? In other words, are bigger banks better for India? And, second, to what extent has the domestic impetus, i.e., financial-sector policy reforms during the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008528416
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The Asian “Noodle Bowlâ€:Is It Serious for Business?
Kawai, Masahiro; Wignaraja, Ganeshan - eSocialSciences - 2009
A lively debate is taking place over the impact of free trade agreements (FTAs) on East Asia's business between those who view the agreements as a harmful Asian "noodle bowl"—i.e., overlapping regional trade agreements—of trade deals and others who see net beneficial effects in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045004
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Trade Adjustment and Human Capital Investments: Evidence from Indian Tariff Reform
Topalova, Petia; Edmonds, Eric; Pavcnik, Nina - eSocialSciences - 2007
Do the short and medium term adjustment costs associated with trade liberalization influence schooling and child labor decisions? This question is examined in the context of India's 1991 tariff reforms. Overall, in the 1990s, rural India experienced a dramatic increase in schooling and decline...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699051
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The EU India FTA in Agriculture and Likely Impact on Indian Women
Sengupta, Ranja; Singh, Roopam - eSocialSciences - 2010
This study attempts to provide an analysis of the gender concerns of the proposed EU India FTA in the field of agriculture and suggest policy changes both in the FTA text as well as in domestic policy. [Paper III].
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008577206