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Foreign Direct Investment and Technology Spillovers:Evidence from the Indian Manufacturing Sector
Sasidharan, Subash - eSocialSciences - 2006
During the recent period, many countries compete with each other to attract foreign investment. When MNCs invest in a host country, it is assumed that a part of their technology spills to the host country firms. But empirical studies on spillover effects of FDI have failed to find robust...
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What Causes Agglomeration? – Policy or Infrastructure – A Study of Indian Manufacturing Industry
Kathuria, Vinish - eSocialSciences - 2011
This paper investigates whether industrial dispersal policy is more potent or the natural and agglomeration cost advantages are important in influencing locational choice of a firm. To carry out the analysis, an agglomeration measure given by Ellison and Glaeser is computed for 66 manufacturing...
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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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The Missing Middle
Krueger, Anne O. - eSocialSciences - 2009
The purpose of this paper is to provide evidence, and argue, that stunning as India’s success is, the potential – and need – is for still more reform and more rapid growth. 8 percent is a good rate of growth, but many are destined needlessly to be left behind for years to...
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What Explains the Productivity Decline in Manufacturing in the Nineties in India?
Ray, Saon - eSocialSciences - 2014
This paper uses the data envelopment analysis (DEA) based Malmquist productivity index to estimate total factor productivity growth (TFPG), technical change, and efficiency change for a panel of firms during the period 1991 to 2001 in 26 Indian manufacturing industries. The paper then analyses...
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The Lancang-Mekong River Basin: Reflections on Cooperation Mechanisms Pertaining to a Shared Watercourse
Sunchindah, Apichai - eSocialSciences - 2013
The ambitious development plans for the Lancang-Mekong River Basin (LMRB) could have serious environmental, social, cultural and even geopolitical ramifications that could in turn destabilise the Mekong Subregion (MS). On the premise that frameworks for regional cooperation offer a viable route...
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Emerging through Technological Capability: An Overview of India’s Technological Trajectory
Ray, Amit Shovon - eSocialSciences - 2008
In this paper an overview of India’s technological trajectory with a view to understanding the nuances of India’s technological capability and the role it has played in the process of India’s economic progress. [WP No. 227].
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The China-Japan-US Triangle
Vogel, Ezra F. - eSocialSciences - 2006
between the three great powers in the region: China, Japan and the United States. This paper discusses relations between China …, Japan and the United States since World War II. It looks at three periods of critical changes in their relations - 1947 to … fates of the three countries are interlinked. The challenge for the US-Japan-China triangle is to create the positive …
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On the Road: Access to Transportation Infrastructure and Economic Growth in China
Banerjee, Abhijit; Duflo, Esther; Qian, Nancy - eSocialSciences - 2012
This paper estimates the effect of access to transportation networks on regional economic outcomes in China over a twenty-period of rapid income growth. It addresses the problem of the endogenous placement of networks by exploiting the fact that these networks tend to connect historical...
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State of the Economy and Prospects: chapter 1
Mukherjee, Pranab - eSocialSciences - 2012
Economic Survey-Chapter1. [Economic Survey]. URL:[http://indiabudget.nic.in/survey.asp]
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