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In with the Big, Out with the Small : Removing Small-Scale Reservations in India

Martin, Leslie A. - 2014

) promotion in India to address this question. For 60 years, SSI promotion in India focused on reserving certain products for …, productivity, and wages of dismantling India's SSI reservations. We exploit variation in the timing of de-reservation across …

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Risk, Insurance and Wages in General Equilibrium

Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq - 2014

and marketed a rainfall index insurance product across three states in India. Marketing agricultural insurance to both … the insurance market (which is the current regulatory practice in India and other developing countries), makes wage …

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Deregulation, Misallocation, and Size : Evidence from India

Alfaro, Laura - 2014

This paper examines the impact of the deregulation of compulsory industrial licensing in India on firm-size dynamics …

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Highway to Success : The Impact of the Golden Quadrilateral Project for the Location and Performance of Indian Manufacturing

Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2014

using enterprise data. The GQ project upgraded the quality and width of 5,846 km of roads in India. We use a difference …

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The Unequal Effects of Liberalization : Evidence from Dismantling the License Raj in India

Aghion, Philippe; Burgess, Robin; Redding, Stephen J.; … - 2021

We study the effects of the progressive elimination of the system of industrial regulations on entry and production, known as the "license raj," on registered manufacturing output, employment, entry and investment across Indian states with different labor market regulations. The effects are...

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Aggregate Effects from Public Works : Evidence from India

Cook, C. Justin; Shah, Manisha - 2022

This paper explores the aggregate economic effects from India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS …

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Moving to Opportunity or Isolation? Network Effects of a Randomized Housing Lottery in Urban India

Barnhardt, Sharon - 2015

A housing lottery in an Indian city provided winning slum dwellers the opportunity to move into improved housing on the city's periphery. Fourteen years later, relative to lottery losers, winners report improved housing farther from the city center, but no change in family income or human...

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The 1991 Reforms, Indian Economic Growth, and Social Progress

Agarwal, Manmohan - 2013

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 …

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The Miracle of Microfinance? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation

Duflo, Esther - 2013

-based lending product in a new market. In 2005, half of 104 slums in Hyderabad, India were randomly selected for opening of a branch …

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Perverse Consequences of Well Intentioned Regulation : Evidence from India's Child Labor Ban

Bharadwaj, Prashant - 2014

effectiveness. In this paper, we examine the consequences of India's landmark legislation against child labor, the Child Labor …

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