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Using IPRs to protect niches? Evidence from the Indian textile and apparel industry
Karmakar, Suparna; Tewari, Meenu - 2014
In the fiercely competitive global environment that has prevailed since the removal of (MFA) quotas in 2005, many textile and apparel suppliers have sought to compete by forming and protecting niches. Building competence in design, branding and retail distribution has been an important part of...
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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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Reducing start-up costs for New Firms: The double dividend on the labor market
Dulleck, Uwe; Frijters, Paul; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003
Starting a firm with expansive potential is an option for educated and high-skilled workers. This option serves as an insurance against unemployment caused by labor market frictions and hence increases the incentives for education. We show within a matching model that reducing the start-up costs...
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UNLOCKING PRODUCTIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP INAFRICA’S LEAST DEVELOPEDCOUNTRIES
Brixiová, Zuzana - William Davidson Institute <Ann Arbor, Mich.> - 2010
economies depends critically on structural transformation and theemergence of productive entrepreneurship that would accelerate … labor markets, this paper complements the empirical literature andnumerous surveys on small and medium enterprise (SME …) constraints and develops a theoreticalframework that examines the main obstacles to entrepreneurship in Africa’s LDCs. The …
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Stylized facts on the evolution of the enterprise size distribution in India's manufacturing sector
Kapoor, Radhicka - 2022
employment and job dynamics across different enterprise types. In the context of India, where MSMEs have been traditionally … informal/unincorporated manufacturing sector in India for the period between 2000-01 and 2015-16, we find that the enterprise …
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The return of the State: the new investment paradigm
Auerback, Marshall - 2009
To save Americaindeed, the global economy as a wholethe private/public sector balance has to shift, and the neoliberal economic model on which the country has been based for the past 25 years has to be modified. The role of the state needs to be reemphasized. The abandonment of a mixed economy...
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Cars and clothes in South Africa's Covid experience: The contrasting fortunes of two manufacturing sectors in South Africa
Scully, Ben; Mvundura, Wellington; Nyirenda, Tessa; … - 2023
This paper uses the automobile industry and the clothing and textile industry as lenses to examine the impact of the Covid pandemic on globalization. We focus on the case of South Africa, where both sectors have a long history. In the early decades of neoliberal globalization the country's...
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Beyond market failures: The market creating and shaping roles of state investment banks
Mazzucato, Mariana; Penna, Caetano C. R. - 2015
Recent decades witnessed a trend whereby private markets retreated from financing the real economy, while, simultaneously, the real economy itself became increasingly financialized. This trend resulted in public finance becoming more important for investments in capital development, technical...
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Trade and investment barriers affecting international production networks in India
Hoda, Anwarul; Rai, Durgesh Kumar - 2014
This paper analyses the reasons behind India lagging behind East and South East Asian economies in participating in … in puts through arm's length transactions, the paper examines the reasons for India's inability to attract foreign … domestic investment environment that have made India less attractive for foreign as well as domestic investors in comparison …
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Determinants of hidden champions: Evidence from Germany
Schlepphorst, Susanne; Schlömer-Laufen, Nadine; Holz, … - 2016
Our explorative study analyses the factors that affect the likelihood of German companies to be a hidden champion. Based on an econometric estimation model with quantitative data from 60 hidden champions and 346 non-hidden champions, we could confirm prior research findings that specific...
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