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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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Globalization, Brain Drain and Development
Docquier, Frédéric - 2011
Indian diaspora in the development of India's IT sector. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of the analysis …
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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 …
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Prenatal Sex Selection and Girls' Well-Being : Evidence from India
Hu, Luojia - 2011
India. We further examine various channels through which prenatal sex selection might affect girls' outcomes. Using repeated …
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Where Have All the Young Girls Gone? Identification of Sex Selection in India
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2010
at birth in India. It conducts a triple difference analysis across cohort, birth order and sex of previous births …
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Poverty and Survival
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2010
more clearly relevant. Using state-level panel data for India, we contribute the first estimates of the impact of changes …
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Can Private School Growth Foster Universal Literacy? Panel Evidence from Indian Districts
Pal, Sarmistha - 2010
this respect. Using India as an important case in point, we intend to bridge this gap of the literature. Results using a … unique district-level panel data-set from 17 major states of India for the period 1992-2002 that we compile highlight a …
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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
, upon 7-19 years olds' school enrollment and grade progression in rural North India. It hopes both to extend to less …
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Inequality of Educational Opportunity in India : Changes Over Time and Across States
Asadullah, M. Niaz - 2010
This paper documents the extent of inequality of educational opportunity in India spanning the period 1983-2004 using …
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A Distributional Analysis of the Public-Private Wage Differential in India
Azam, Mehtabul - 2010
We investigate the public-private wage differential in India using nationally representative micro data. While the …
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