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I evaluate the out-of-sample forecasting performance of five models of Chinese and Indian energy consumption. The results are mixed, but in general the auto-regressive distributed lag and unobserved components models perform the best over multiple evaluation criteria. I then use these two models...
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Penang has always been a focal point, absorbing knowledge (and popular culture) from civilizations to the East and West. In modern Penang the pattern of cultural contacts has changed over time. Research institutes and universities in Penang cooperate with foreign partners to produce research...
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inequality. In each case, we discuss recent and possible policy reforms. We make comparisons with China’s federal system where …
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In the present economic scenario, the key concerns in policy making in India are: how to achieve higher energy efficiency in the key sectors and how to reduce the vulnerability of the economy to external shocks. In this paper, an attempt is made to study the changing pattern of commercial energy...
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Energy has been universally recognized as one of the most important inputs for economic growth and human development. There is a strong two-way relationship between economic development and energy consumption. On one hand, growth of an economy, with its global competitiveness, hinges on the...
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foreign investments on the productivity of domestic firms. Using pooled regression analysis with fixed effects for the period … 2002 – 2005, we find that: (a) foreign investments have significant positive effect on productivity of domestic firms … are controlled for in the cross-section productivity regression, the relationship between the share of foreign technical …
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productivity. Accordingly, firm-level productivity measures are regressed on a set of control variables, which includes leverage …
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the basis of industrial activities, employment size, capital base, pattern of linkages, and productivity levels and, (ii …
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This paper provides an integrated analysis of the role of the service sector in recent Indian economic development. It discusses the nature of services, their distinction from products, and their categorization. It provides an overview of India’s overall growth experience, and a detailed...
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The great debates of most fields associated with economic development rest on emergence versus intention and the interplay between the two. The “residual” of unexplained divergence between goal and outcome, in this sense, can be ascribed in part to the interplay, or co-evolution, between...
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