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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 … countries, however, derive benefits from knowledge spillovers. The empirical analysis in this paper shows that what type of …
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productivity performance of domestic firms in three emerging economies of Central and Eastern Europe, Bulgaria, Romania and Poland …
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Skills and knowledge are the driving forces of economic growth and social development for any country. Countries with … higher and better levels of skills adjust more effectively to the challenges and opportunities of world of work. [Ministry of …
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This paper proposes a theory of the origins of India’s caste system by explicitly recognizing the productivity of … women in complementing their husbands’ skills. Its interesting to know the emergence of caste system its hereditary nature …
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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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Clusters are groups of firms, related actors, and institutions that are located near one another and that draw productive advantage from their mutual proximity and connections. This paper studies the ways of managing white spaces to make a cluster innovative....
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firms (DFs) to know if there are spillovers from MNEs to their affiliates. Secondly, it identifies the differences in the … determinants of technical efficiency between FAs and DFs. Finally, it examines the presence (or absence) of efficiency spillovers …
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multinational corporations are the most powerful channels to accelerate technology transfers and spillovers. [ADBI Working Paper 231] …
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Productive employment generation is an important objective in most of the developing countries this motivation has probably induced firms to adopt capital intensive techniques. Based on the country specific data on the manufacturing sector in select developing countries the argument of high cost...
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The State of the Urban Youth India 2012: Employment, Livelihoods, Skills developed and produced by IRIS Knowledge …
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