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Finance constraints and firm transition in the informal sector : evidence from Indian manufacturing

Raj, Rajesh S. N.; Sen, Kunal - In: Oxford development studies 43 (2015) 1, pp. 123-143

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Trade policy, equipment investment and growth in India

Sen, Kunal - In: Oxford development studies 30 (2002) 3, pp. 317-331

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Monitoring Costs, Credit Constraints and Entrepreneurship

Banerji, Sanjay - 2012

The vast majority of firms in developing economies are micro and small enterprises owned by families whose members also provide the labour to the units. Often, they fail to grow in size even with the relaxation of credit constraints. In this paper, we show that frictions in the labour market...

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Welfare Implications of India's Employment Guarantee Programme with a Wage Payment Delay

Basu, Parantap - 2015

) of the Government of India. We argue that a chronic friction of wage payment delay in this flagship programme could …

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Is Partisan Alignment Electorally Rewarding? Evidence from Village Council Elections in India

Dey, Subhasish - 2016

allocation of funds for India's largest social protection programme, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in … the state of West Bengal in India, and whether incumbent local governments (village councils) gain electorally in the …

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Finance, Gender, and Entrepreneurship : India's Informal Sector Firms

Gang, Ira N.; Khangembam, Indira; Sen, Kunal - 2021

what directions? We take advantage of nationwide data collected in 2010/11 and 2015/16 by India's National Sample Survey … access in promoting entrepreneurship among informal sector firms in India. Our results are robust to alternative …

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Is Caste Destiny? Occupational Diversification Among Dalits in Rural India

Gang, Ira N. - 2012

The caste system – a system of elaborately stratified social hierarchy – distinguishes India from most other societies … India, with Dalits or Scheduled Castes (SC) clustered in occupations that were the least well paid and most degrading in … terms of manual labour. Along with the Scheduled Tribes (STs), the SCs have the highest incidence of poverty in India, with …

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