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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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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 the factors explaining productivity growth, technical change and …
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Fiscal Decentralisation and Local Level Gender Responsive Budgeting in Morocco: Some Observations
Rao, M. Govinda; Chakraborty, Lekha S. - eSocialSciences - 2006
During the last few years there has been a significant attempt to change the status of women in Morocco. Considerable … process in Morocco. Specifically, the paper analyses the evolution of decentralisation in Morocco, and deals with the … budgetary reforms in Morocco through a gender lens. It goes on to explain the future directions of local level gender responsive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528340
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Looking Beyond Averages in the Trade and Poverty Debate
Ravallion, Martin - eSocialSciences - 2010
structural modelling of the impacts of specific trade reforms. Case studies are presented for China and Morocco. Both the macro …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008752770
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341691
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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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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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For Love or Money? Motivating Workers
Naeem, Saima; Zaman, Asad - eSocialSciences - 2013
worker productivity. [PIDE Working Papers]. URL:[http://www.pide.org.pk/pdf/Working%20Paper/WorkingPaper-90.pdf]. …
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National Policy on Skill development
Labour, Ministry of; Employment MoL&E - eSocialSciences - 2012
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 Labour and Employment on eSS] [
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Budget 2014-15: The Continuing Neglect of the 'Rural'
Banerjee, Arindam - eSocialSciences - 2014
The Union Budget remains significant for the agricultural sector in the country for at least the following two reasons. First, the budget comes in the background of an agrarian crisis in the country, persistent since the late nineties, which also coincided with the period of a policy thrust on...
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