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Do Business Groups Help or Hinder Technological Progress in Emerging Markets? Evidence from India

Bhaumik, Sumon K. - 2014

Business groups, which are ubiquitous in emerging market economies, balance the advantages of characteristics such as internal capital markets with the disadvantages such as inefficient internal distribution of resources and suppression of technological and other forms of innovativeness. In this...

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The Puzzle of Muslim Advantage in Child Survival in India

Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2009

The socio-economic status of Indian Muslims is, on average, considerably lower than that of upper caste Hindus. Muslims have higher fertility and shorter birth spacing and are a minority group that, it has been argued, have poorer access to public goods. They nevertheless exhibit substantially...

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Occupational Dualism and Intergenerational Educational Mobility in the Rural Economy : Evidence from China and India

Emran, M. Shahe - 2020

farm-nonfarm occupational dualism and provides a comparative analysis of rural China and rural India. The model builds a … India faced lower educational mobility compared with the sons in rural China in the 1970s to 1990s. To understand the role … solely to genetic correlations in China, but not in India. Father's nonfarm occupation was complementary to his education in …

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Industrial development in Asia : trends in industrialization and industrial policy experiences of developing Asia

Chang, Ha-joon; Zach, Kiryl - 2018

, China, and India - to describe some of the strategies which Asian economies used in order to induce industrial development …

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Reference groups and the poverty line : an axiomatic approach with an empirical illustration

Chakravarty, Satya R.; Chattopadhyay, Nachiketa; … - 2015

. The paper ends with an empirical illustration comparing rural and urban and areas in the People's Republic of China and …

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Accounting for Differences in Female Labor Force Participation between China and India

Azam, Mehtabul - 2019

Although, the male labor force participation rate is comparable in China and India, female labor force participation …

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Informal Sector and Corruption : An Empirical Investigation for India

Dutta, Nabamita - 2011

India is a country characterized by a huge informal sector. At the same time, it is a country where the extent of corruption in every sector is remarkably high. Stifling bureaucratic interference and corruption at every stage of economic activities is one of the main reasons behind high...

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Public and Private Sector Jobs, Unreported Income and Consumption Gap in India : Evidence from Micro-Data

Kar, Saibal - 2012

This paper tries to document the presence of unreported income among public sector employees in India. We investigate empirically the wage gap as well as consumption expenditure parity between public and private sector workers. It tests the hypothesis that despite a lower level of public sector...

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Mandated political representation and crimes against the low castes

Girard, Victoire - 2016

Mandated political representation over the last twenty years has had a different impact on the reporting of crime by the low castes than what is observed for the reporting of crime by women. I exploit the timing of the implementation of mandated political representation of the low castes to...

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Why does caste still influence access to agricultural credit?

Kumar, Sunil Mitra - 2016

In India, caste shapes access to a variety of resources and outcomes mainly through its influence on inter-generational prosperity, but also the linked phenomenon of discrimination. This paper examines whether caste-based differences in access to formal agricultural loans reflect discrimination...

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