Using 2011-12 consumption micro-data, we find that nearly one-third of the variation in living standards in India can … individual's perspective, living standards are higher in richer, but more unequal, locations in India. The central factor behind … these findings is the large difference in average consumption levels between rural and urban India and continued divergence …

This paper examines the impact of financial liberalization on fixed investment in Mexico, using establishment …-level data from the manufacturing sector. It analyzes changes in cash-flow sensitivities and uses an innovative approach to …

significant in explaining aggregate manufacturing investment. Taken together, evidence from descriptive statistics, average …This paper examines dynamic patterns of investment in Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Zambia and Zimbabwe, assessing the … importance of zero investment episodes and lumpy investment. The proportion of firms experiencing large investment spikes is …

Since the global financial crisis, corporate investment has been weak in India. Sluggish corporate investment would not …, this paper analyzes the reasons for the slowdown and discusses how India can boost corporate investment, using both macro … investment but that they do not appear to account fully for recent weak performance, suggesting a key role of the bu …

public and private investment in India over the period 1996Q2-2015Q1 using investment-project data from the CapEx … Correction Models (SVECMs) to re-examine the public and private investment relationship in India. Identification is achieved by … crowds out private investment in India over 1950-2012, the opposite is true when we restrict the sample post 1980 or conduct …

Since the global financial crisis, corporate investment has been weak in India. Sluggish corporate investment would not …, this paper analyzes the reasons for the slowdown and discusses how India can boost corporate investment, using both macro … investment but that they do not appear to account fully for recent weak performance, suggesting a key role of the business …

This paper documents the recent slowdown in investment in India and explores its underlying causes. The sharp … investment deceleration has sparked an intense debate about the role of interest rates, as well as business confidence and … economic policy uncertainty. Our results suggest that while explaining aggregate investment activity better than nominal …

. While the importance of services rather than manufacturing is widely noted, within manufacturing India has emphasized skill …India has followed an idiosyncratic pattern of development, certainly compared with other fast-growing Asian economies …-intensive rather than laborintensive manufacturing, and industries with higher-than-average scale. Some of these distinctive patterns …