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Credit scoring was introduced in India in 2007. We study the pace of its adoption by new private banks (NPBs) and state …
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We use a proprietary data set on the floor-level operations at the Bhilai Rail and Structural Mill in India to …
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protection. We use new survey data from India, the results of interviews with industry, government and multinational institutions …
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My topic is the question: what difference does the set of commercial policies chosen by a developing country make to its rate of economic growth? Three points are salient. First, in its present state, trade theory provides little guidance as to the role of trade policy and trade strategy in...
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premia. This paper characterizes the spatial distributions of skills in Brazil, China, and India. To facilitate comparisons …. These lights-based metropolitan areas mirror commuting-based definitions in the United States and Brazil. In China and India … agglomeration is also skill-biased in Brazil, China, and India …
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explanation using novel data from India, home to the world's third-largest electricity sector. In contrast to the developed world …
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This paper uses household survey data form several developing countries to investigate whether the poor (defined as those living under $1 or $2 dollars a day at PPP) and the non poor have different mortality rates in old age. We construct a proxy measure of longevity, which is the probability...
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pharmaceutical trade data from 1996 to 2005, we examine the role of China and India as suppliers of medicines to other middle- and … medicines from high- income countries. We find that imports of antibiotics and unspecified medicaments from India and China … significantly depress the average price of these commodities imported from high-income trading partners, suggesting that India and …
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In 2005, as the result of a World Trade Organization mandate, India began to implement product patents for … pharmaceutical product sales data for India with a newly gathered dataset of molecule-linked patents issued by the Indian patent …
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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 …
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