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Do Labor Intensive Industries Generate Employment? Evidence from firm level survey in India
Das, Deb Kusum; Kalita, Gunajit - eSocialSciences - 2010
This study attempts to address the issue of declining labour intensity in India’s organized manufacturing in order to understand the constraints on employment generation in the labour intensive sectors. Using primary survey data covering 252 labour intensive manufacturing-exporting firms...
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Employment and Poverty in India: 2000-2005
Sundaram, K. - eSocialSciences - 2007
productivity, wages and poverty in India in the first quinquennuim of the 21st century. The period between 2000 and 2005 saw a … sharp acceleration in work force growth, and, on the obverse side, a slow-down in the rate of growth of labour productivity … other recent analyses. Consistent with the trends in labour productivity and real wages, relative to the 1994-2000 period …
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Demographics And Global Savings Glut
Sanyal, Sanjeev - eSocialSciences - 2005
There is growing evidence that demographic changes have played an important role in driving Asia’s economic transformation by generating high savings rates.In this report, the author argues that high savings rates help sustain high growth rates in two important ways. First, it generates...
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Global Employment Trends for Youth 2013: A Generation at Risk
eSocialSciences; International Labour Organisation ILO - 2014
This issue of Global Employment Trends for Youth provides an update on youth labour markets around the world, focusing both on the continuing labour market crisis and on structural issues in youth labour markets. The report provides an overview of youth labour markets at the global and regional...
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Role of Science & Technology, Higher Education and Research in Regional Socio-Economic Development
Shukla, Rajesh; Kakar, Preeti - eSocialSciences - 2009
This paper is an attempt to focus on the role of Science and Technology (S&T) on regional development of India by considering 21 Indian states. The Index approach using the Principal Component technique has been adopted. For analysing the impact, a set of three indices focussing on Current...
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Mumbai/Shanghai: Prospects/Problems--Imitating Global, Failing Local
Sharma, Kalpana - eSocialSciences - 2006
Do we aspire to be a ‘global’ city like Shanghai, with all the spit and polish to attract foreign investors by the drove? Or can we aim to be a city with a sustainable plan for its development – one that marries ecology with economy? Is it more important for us to forge links...
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The Wealth of Cities: Towards an Assets-based Development of Newly Urbanizing Regions
Freidman, John - eSocialSciences - 2006
The argument in this paper is in four parts: First, the author suggests that we can no longer treat cities apart from the regions surrounding them with which they are intensively entwined. Second, the paper critically examines the current policy consensus that a city’s future rests...
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Migrants' Private Giving and Development: Diasporic Influences on Development in Central Gujarat, India
Guha, Puja - eSocialSciences - 2013
The paper addresses the migration-development debate by developing a framework for understanding who are the migrants, what they are sending back, and how these transfers are being utilised in the local economy. It argues that the social backgrounds and migration histories of migrants –...
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Creating a Vibrant Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in India: Report of the Committee on Angel Investment and Early Stage Venture Capital
Commission, Planning - eSocialSciences - 2012
Even though the economic and social benefits of thriving entrepreneurship and innovation are evident, it is critical to …
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Innovation and Growth: Role of the Financial Sector
Mohan, Rakesh - eSocialSciences - 2008
productivity gains to real GDP growth is explained. Then the focus is given on the role of financial sector reforms in contributing … ensuring price and financial stability. [Bharti Annual Lecture at the Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India …
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