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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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Diagnosing Development Bottlenecks : China and India

Li, Wei - 2017

Although it had a a lower income level than India in 1980, China's 2006 per capita gross domestic product stands more … than twice that of India's. This paper investigates the role of the business environment in explaining China's productivity … advantage using recent firm-level survey data. The analysis finds that China has better infrastructure, more skilled workers …

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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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How Important are Spillovers from Major Emerging Markets?

Huidrom, Raju - 2017

The seven largest emerging market economies -- China, India, Brazil, Russia, Mexico, Indonesia, and Turkey …-half to three times more due to a similarly sized increase in G7 growth. Third, among the EM7, spillovers from China are the …

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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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Prenatal Sex Selection and Girls' Well-Being : Evidence from India

Hu, Luojia - 2011

In this paper, we study the impact of prenatal sex selection on the well-being of girls by analyzing changes in children's nutritional status and mortality during the years since the diffusion of prenatal sex determination technologies in India. We further examine various channels through which...

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The Effect of Early Childhood Developmental Program Attendance on Future School Enrollment and Grade Progression in Rural North India

Hazarika, Gautam - 2010

This paper examines the effect of prior participation in early childhood developmental programs, considered endogenous, upon 7-19 years olds' school enrollment and grade progression in rural North India. It hopes both to extend to less developed countries recent influential research on the...

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