While India is distinctive among developing countries for its fast-growing service sector, sceptics have raised doubts …

/capita, shares in world trade and market capitalization attributable both jointly and single to China, India, and Brazil (the three … time. In contrast the North‐China gap falls from 57.2 to 13.1 between 1990 and 2009, and India from 70.4 to 38.1 using … market exchange rates and from 23.4 to 5.5 for China and from 20.7 to 11.4 for India using PPP rates. We calculate the …

on Hindu-Muslim violence in India. Our main result is that an increase in per-capita Muslim expenditures generates a …. These findings speak to the origins of Hindu-Muslim violence in post-Independence India …

This paper analyzes the effects of the reforms initiated in India following the balance of payments (BOP) crisis of … changes in performance since the reforms, which started in China in 1979 and in India in 1991. Such a comparison shows more … progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and India lags behind other South Asian countries. The responsiveness …

We compare the recent economic performances of China and India using a simple growth accounting framework that produces … country between the contributions of capital accumulation and TFP to growth in output per worker over the period 1978 … roughly double that of India at the aggregate level, and also higher in each of the three sectors in both sub-periods. In …

This paper empirically examines India's economic growth experience during 1960-2004, focusing on the post 1973 … acceleration. Careful attention is paid to data quality. The analysis focuses on two unusual dimensions of India's experience … raised that growth in services may be overstated. India will need to broaden its current expansion to provide manufactured …

development quest. The sample includes seven developing countries—Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia, India, Vietnam and Brazil —all …

patrilocality and concern for women's "purity" help explain the male-skewed sex ratio in India and China and low female employment … in India, the Middle East, and North Africa, for example. I also discuss why the sex ratio has become more male …