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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011026233
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Impact of Preventive Health Care of Indian Industry and Economy
Chadha, Alka; Mehdi, Ali; Malik, Garima - eSocialSciences - 2007
The empirical evidence on the relationship between preventive health care and labour productivity and corporate … profitability is examined. Recommendations are offered for policymakers and corporate management to promote preventive healthcare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528113
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009319322
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528352
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Creative Budgeting or Actual Deficit Reduction? The case of FRBM Act
Mazumdar, Surajit - eSocialSciences - 2014
The FRBM Act was reflective of the shared commitment across political parties towards fiscal conservatism. A decade later, the picture, as reflected in the Union Budget, is yet to change for the better. And given the interests that the current Government represents, a real departure from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945244
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Do School get Their Money? PAISA 2012
Initiative, Accountability - eSocialSciences - 2013
The PAISA exercise uses planning and budgeting systems as the entry point, it is an attempt to build an empirical understanding of current governance processes at the grassroots to push for a larger debate on state capacity and administrative capability for building an education delivery...
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The Cult of Statistical Significance - A Review
Motiram, Sripad - eSocialSciences - 2014
A review and extended discussion is presented of The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice and Lives by Deirdre McCloskey and Stephen Ziliak, a work that raises important issues related to the practice of statistics and that has been widely commented...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945474
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Macro-economic Management of the Indian Economy: Capital Flows, Interest Rates and Inflation
Virmani, Arvind - eSocialSciences - 2008
The paper lays out a consistent frame work for monetary management in the context of excess capital inflows. There is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341786