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Effects of policy reforms on firm innovation
Şeker, Murat; Ulu, Mehmet Fatih - 2022
The regulatory environment in a country is an important factor that affects firm performance. This study investigates the impact of a particular regulation - license requirements for certain firm activities - on the innovation performance of Indian firms in the 1990s. Using a unique firm-level...
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Product complexity and economic development
Abdon, Arnelyn; Bacate, Marife; Felipe, Jesus; Kumar, Utsav - 2010
We rank 5,107 products and 124 countries according to the Hidalgo and Hausmann (2009) measures of complexity. We find that: (1) the most complex products are in machinery, chemicals, and metals, while the least complex products are raw materials and commodities, wood, textiles, and agricultural...
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Deepening Intraregional Trade and Investment in South Asia: The Case of the Textiles and Clothing Industry
Tewari, Meenu - 2008
This paper draws on recent field work within South Asia and an extensive review of secondary data to examine the dynamics of cross border trade and investment in South Asia, exploring the potential for, and obstacles to, such trade through the lens of a sector that is salient throughout South...
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Regional Economic Integration and FDI in South Asia : Prospects and Problems
Aggarwal, Aradhna - 2008
The slow progress and modest achievements of regional integration in South Asia have generated a huge amount of skepticism about its role as an effective strategy of growth. The present study, however, argues that there is need to forge deeper integration within the region. It examines the...
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Do Labor Intensive Industries Generate Employment? Evidence from firm level survey in India
Das, Deb Kusum; Kalita, Gunajit - 2009
This study attempts to address the issue of declining labour intensity in India's organized manufacturing in order to understand the constraints on employment generation in the labour intensive sectors. Using primary survey data covering 252 labour intensive manufacturing-exporting firms across...
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Food Security in South Asia: Issues and Opportunities
Mittal, Surabhi; Sethi, Deepti - 2009
prices, low returns to farmers and area diversification - all these factors can be a threat to food security. South Asia …
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Mainstreaming Migration in Development Agendas : Assessment of South Asian Countries
Wickramasekara, Piyasiri - 2015
There has been increased emphasis on the linkages between international migration and development at international, regional and national levels in the past two decades. This recognition of migration as a developmental tool has generated calls for mainstreaming migration in development with some...
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Impact of macro-economic environment on diversification-performance relationship: A cross country study of India and Japan
Purkayastha, Saptarshi - 2013
relationships between product diversification, business group affiliation and firm performance in two major economies in Asia. India … Rumelt (1974) implicitly assumed that the diversification-performance relationship is consistent, regardless of the macro … macroeconomic environments. Further, studies linking diversification with firm performance have been carried out mainly in …
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The clash of rural-urban migrants and real estate investors on Phnom Penh's housing market: Prospects for garment workers
Buttmann, Vera - 2017
Housing markets of large cities around the world, particularly in so-called developing and emerging countries, are currently experiencing a clash: On the one hand, large numbers of labour migrants arrive from rural areas and need cheap rental housing. On the other hand, international real estate...
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Chinese regional inequality and sectoral foreign direct investment
Azarhoushang, Behzad; Wu, Jennifer Pédussel; Zaroki, … - 2019
Following the 1978 economic reforms, China gradually became first amongst developing countries and the second in the world, after the USA, in terms of stock of inward Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). Sustained GDP growth, a high rate of capital return and brisk economic development made China...
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