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This paper attempts to identify and examine labor intensive industries in the organized manufacturing sector in India … (Government of India, various issues), the labor intensity for 97 industries at the 4-digit disaggregate level was computed for … the period 1990-91 to 2003-04. The study identifies 31 industries as ‘labor intensive industries’ within India’s organized …
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This study attempts to address the issue of declining labour intensity in India’s organized manufacturing in order to …
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The study suggests an approach to reduce India's sensitive list under SAFTA. The concept of Revealed Comparative … Advantage has been used to pair the RCAs for products on India's sensitive list with the corresponding RCAs of the SAARC … countries. Four categories of items are generated based on whether India or the SAARC country is competitive in each of the …
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services trade, investment and cooperation between South and Southeast Asia, taking the example of India and Thailand, by … analysis of the trade agreements involving India and Thailand, the paper finds that the present level of physical and people … agreement. India and Thailand have singularly liberalised key services sectors in their concluded bilateral and regional trade …
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Economic integration in South Asia is governed by India's relations with the other economies of the region and it is … also at the helm of all trade facilitation and transit issues of the region. Concessions given by India under SAFTA for … LDCs have greatly benefitted Bangladesh and concessions to non-LDC members have applied to its imports from Pakistan. India …
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. The data has been collected through a primary survey in five garments clusters in India. The variable that is significant … India’s poor performance in garments (compared to other South Asian countries such as Bangladesh) is the lack of proper … clusters. The development of the cluster in India has followed the "top down" approach and the natural process through which …
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Access to reliable energy is central to improvements in living standards and is a Sustainable Development Goal. This study moves beyond counting the electrified households and examines the effect of the hours of electricity households receives on their welfare. We hypothesize that additional...
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This paper studies the relationship between investor protection, financial risk sharing and income inequality. In the presence of market frictions, better protection makesinvestors more willing to take on entrepreneurial risk while lending to firms. This implies lower cost of external finance...
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In this paper, the amount of income redistribution in the United States, the European Union, and Switzerland is compared and empirically related to economic, political, and behavioral determinants elaborated in the literature. Lying in between the two poles, Switzerland provides unique evidence...
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