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Regional inequality in India in the 1990s: A further look
Singh, Nirvikar; Kendall, Jake; Jain, R. K.; Chander, Jai - 2013
finds that there was conditional convergence for urban households, but not for rural households in that period. …
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Regional inequality in India in the 1990s: A district-level view
Singh, Nirvikar; Kendall, Jake; Jain, R. K.; Chander, Jai - 2013
divergence, but evidence for growth convergence in some cases, dependent on initial conditions. The district level results are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369498
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Why was the participation of Indian states in the growth turnaround so patchy? Some evidence based on robustness analysis
Ghate, Chetan; Wright, Stephen - 2012
In Ghate & Wright Journal of Development Economics, vol. 99 (2012) pp 58-67, we noted that there was considerable variation in the extent to which different Indian states participated in the Great Indian Growth Turnaround. In this paper we investigate whether there was any systematic...
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Migration Selectivity and the Evolution of Spatial Inequality
Kanbur, Ravi; Rapoport, Hillel - 2004
migration a force for both divergence and convergence, and characterizes where each set of forces dominates. Finally, it … explores the consequences for convergence of combining both migration selectivity and agglomeration effects arising from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013204743
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Measuring Trends and Cycles in Industrial Production in Norway 1896-1948
Klovland, Jan Tore - 2015
This paper presents new indices for industrial production in Norway covering the years 1896-1948. Separate annual and monthly indices of gross output and labour productivity are computed for 45 manufacturing and mining industries, using annually updated weights based on value added at factor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012143874
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Resources on the stage: A firm level analysis of the ICT adoption in Turkey
Fındık, Derya; Tansel, Aysit - 2015
This study examines the impact of firm resources on ICT adoption by the Turkish business enterprises using firm level data. ICT adoption is measured at three levels: The first level is technology ownership. The second level is the presence of enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer...
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Financial development and TFP growth: Cross-country and industry-level evidence
Arizala, Francisco; Cavallo, Eduardo; Galindo, Arturo - 2009
This paper estimates the impact of financial development on industry-level total factor productivity (TFP) growth using a largely unexploited panel of 77 countries with data for 26 manufacturing industries for the years 1963 to 2003. A significant relationship is found between financial...
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The economic impact of telecommunications diffusion on UK productivity growth
Correa, Lisa - 2003
This paper investigates the relationship between telecommunications infrastructure competition, investment and productivity. Using econometric modelling and input-output economics, the analysis examines and measures the extent to which telecommunications has contributed to national and sectoral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284184
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Aggregate Productivity Growth in Indian Manufacturing: An Application of Domar Aggregation
Das, Deb Kusum; Kalita, Gunajit - 2009
Productivity growth in Indian manufacturing is an important driver of overall growth, yet the issues related to its measurement have still not been resolved. The issue of how to compute an aggregate productivity measure holds significance for two reasons: one, the productivity of a firm should...
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What explains the productivity decline in manufacturing in the nineties in India?
Ray, Saon - 2014
This paper uses the data envelopment analysis (DEA) based Malmquist productivity index to estimate total factor productivity growth (TFPG), technical change, and efficiency change for a panel of firms during the period 1991 to 2001 in 26 Indian manufacturing industries. The paper then analyses...
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