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direct and indirect jobs in India alone. This case study identifies both reasons for success and limits on the growth of … India and Pakistan - two of the biggest markets in South Asia - to understand key trends for the region, and compares their … performance with China and Vietnam. The study finds large productivity gaps in this sector, with most OEMs having fragmented …
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South Asia to capitalize on this opportunity. The authors review the apparel sectors in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri … Lanka, and compare them with Vietnam and China. The report uses quantitative data (analysis based on a gravity model …, and in the case of India and Pakistan, by integrating vertically to avoid barriers to sourcing high-quality inputs on the …
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Biases from truncation caused by coresidency restriction have been a challenge for research on intergenerational mobility. Estimates of intergenerational schooling persistence from two data sets show that the intergenerational regression coefficient, the most widely used measure, is severely...
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The chapter wise synopsis of the report is as follows: chapter one: (present chapter) provides the reader with an overview of the project, its scope, and its objectives. It also provides the reader with an understanding of key concepts related to the project. Chapter two: describes exposure data...
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There are significant value chain linkages between India and Bangladesh, particularly in the textile and apparel sector … Bangladesh. Bangladesh specializes in the downstream final apparel segment, exporting worldwide as well as to India. Tariffs and …. India specializes in the upstream segment, supplying such intermediate inputs as silk, cotton, yarn, and fabrics to …
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persistence, using two exceptional surveys from India and Bangladesh that include all children irrespective of residency status …
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mobility. This paper tests these predictions in India and China using data not subject to coresidency bias. The evidence … evidence of pure son preference in rural India. The girls in rural China do not face bias in financial investment by parents … rejects the linear conditional expectation function in rural and urban India in favor of a concave relation. Girls in India …
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The seven largest emerging market economies-China, India, Brazil, Russia, Mexico, Indonesia, and Turkey … three times more due to a similarly sized increase in G7 growth. Third, among the EM7, spillovers from China are the largest …
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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 … genetic correlations in China, but not in India. Fathers' nonfarm occupation and education were complementary in determining a …
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