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Labour regulations and growth of manufacturing and employment in India : balancing protection and flexibility

Hoda, Anwarul; Rai, Durgesh K. - 2015

The factors responsible for the lacklustre performance India's manufacturing are well identified in contemporary … regulations, focusing on the enactments and provisions that inhibit flexibility of manufacturing enterprises in adapting to swift …

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Mapping the future of high value manufacturing in India

Kathuria, Rajat; Kedia, Mansi; Balakrishnan, Uttara - 2014

Indi's stagnating manufacturing sector has become a serious cause of concern for Indian policy makers. Several reasons … importance of the manufacturing sector and its potential to contribute to growth and employment, corrective measures must be … high value manufacturing sector and provides recommendations on measures to achieve this objective. In the absence of …

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Stylized facts on the evolution of the enterprise size distribution in India's manufacturing sector

Kapoor, Radhicka - 2022

contributors to employment in the manufacturing sector. And two, how their contributions have evolved over time, across states … informal/unincorporated manufacturing sector in India for the period between 2000-01 and 2015-16, we find that the enterprise …

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Intercontinental evidence on socioeconomic status and early childhood cognitive skills : is Latin America different?

López Bóo, Florencia - 2013

This paper documents disparities in cognitive development-as measured by a receptive vocabulary test-between children from households with high and low socioeconomic status (SES) in two different phases of childhood (before and after early school years) in four developing countries: Peru,...

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Development diagnostics for the Southern cone

Borensztein, Eduardo; Miller, Sebastián; Sánchez, Gabriel - 2014

This is an update and revision of our 2009 study. Using a broad dataset and an original methodology, this paper reports composite development gaps across economic, social and institutional sectors. We define development gap as the distance between the observed and the expected development level...

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What are the fiscal limits for the developing economies of Central America and the Caribbean?

Ramirez, Francisco A.; Wright, Allan - 2017

This study uses simulations of state-dependent distributions of fiscal limits for 18 economies in Central America and the Caribbean to better understand governments' ability to service their debt, arising from endogenously determined dynamic Laffer curves. Using a small, open economy model to...

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Imposition of MAT on SEZs : concerns and the way forward

Mukherjee, Arpita; Bhardwaj, Bhavook - 2016

A Special Economic Zone (SEZ) is a type of managed industrial cluster which focuses on exports and encourages the inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI) and technology. These "special" zones are given a range of fiscal and non-fiscal incentives, which are not available to firms located in the...

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Creating Jobs in India's Organised Manufacturing Sector

Kapoor, Radhicka - 2014

Despite witnessing a decade of rapid economic growth, an acceleration of growth in the organised manufacturing sector … output and employment in this sector. We find that there are heterogeneities in the performance of the manufacturing sector … decade partly explains the limited contribution of the manufacturing sector to employment generation. At the state level, we …

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India's GVC integration : an analysis of upgrading efforts and facilitation of lead firms

Ray, Saon; Miglani, Smita - 2020

India presents an unique example of manufacturing capability in most sectors, but low integration into GVCs. This paper … examines the reasons for India's low integration into GVCs, especially in the manufacturing sector. It argues that one of the …

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Climbing up India's manufacturing export ladder : how competitive are intermediate goods?

Das, Deb Kusum; Gupta, Neha - 2019

), which endorse immense potentials for moving up manufacturing export ladder. So far, literature has widely studied the … usefulness of imported inputs that feed into manufacturing exports, but focus is required for assessing the capacity as …

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