(agriculture, manufacturing and services) characterized by different productivity gains and by saturation levels in the demands of …

institutions implemented by the British, on disparity in present day development using district level data from India. Using …

given to the re-emergence of the Asian giants, the People's Republic of China (PRC) and India. Both countries have attained … unprecedented growth and economic development-PRC and India became the second and fourth largest economies of the world … from US$341 in 1990 to US$4,421 in 2010 whereas India posted a four times growth from US$384 in 1990 to US$1,342 in 2010 …

This paper asks whether increasing productivity in the electricity sector can yield larger long-run GDP gains than …

productivity, but this effect was stronger in the areas in which railways were already built. Moreover, railways helped industrial …

Does the concept of General Purpose Technologies help explain periods of faster and slower productivity advance in …, Britain, France, Germany and Japan and proceeds to evaluate the hypothesis of a productivity bonus as postulated by many … there was no generalized productivity boost from electrical power diffusion as postulated by many existing GPT models. The …

This paper studies the productivity impact of a contract change for tea pluckers in an Indian plantation. The contract …

endowments and productivity, relative factor costs emerge as a source of real-income variation across countries. These are shaped … "residual" productivity required to explain the observed per-capita income differences by more than one half. …

pandemic wave) was associated with declines in consumption (-1.9%), investment (-1.2%), output (-2.4%), and productivity (-1 …

We study how financial frictions affect firm-level heterogeneity and trade. We build a model where productivity …