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Offshoring and Unemployment: The Role of Search Frictions and Labor Minority
Mitra, Devashish; Ranjan, Priya - eSocialSciences - 2009
In this paper, in order to study the impact of offshoring on sectoral and economy wide rates of unemployment, we … increases and sectoral unemployment decreases upon offshoring in the presence of perfect intersectoral labor mobility. If, as a … unemployment. With imperfect intersectoral labor mobility, unemployment in the offshoring sector can rise, with an unambiguous …
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International Outsourcing Hurdles in Value-added Services
Banerjee, Arindam - eSocialSciences - 2010
International Outsourcing has been traditionally looked upon as a low end cost effective servicing option to take advantage of the cost arbitrage that exists across countries. Of late, many outsourcing vendors have realized that the advantages of cost differentials that spurred a lot of the...
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Is a Ban the Best Way to Reduce Plastic Bag Use? A Case Study from Delhi
eSocialSciences; South Asian Network for Development SANDEE - 2012
In many developing countries plastic bags are a significant environmental problem. This is particularly true in the city of Delhi, which faces rapid development with un-matched and inadequate waste management systems. To address this problem, the government of Delhi passed a blanket ban on the...
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Key Copenhagen Messages
Koch-Weser, Caio - eSocialSciences - 2009
Climate change is one of the most important issues of the next decades and has the potential to severely impact societies, economies and human wellbeing.
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Rethinking Food Security Policies: IDSAsr Declaration
Kainth, Gursharan Singh - eSocialSciences - 2009
Declaration made at the end of two days national seminar on Food security and Sustainability in India held on November 7-8, 2009 organized by GAD Institute of Development Studies, PO Naushera, Amritsar 143008 and sponsored by Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Indian Council...
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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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