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network expansion in rural India on adoption of high yielding variety seeds and chemical fertilizers. Our empirical strategy …
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-related information are the major constraints on the growth of agricultural productivity in India. The more rapid growth of mobile …
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Among fast growing developing countries, India is distinctive for the role of the service sector. However, sceptics … underscores the importance for India of continuing to invest in labour skills. We conclude that sustaining economic growth and … into one or the other. -- Services ; structural change ; India ; employment …
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implemented almost immediately to salvage the sector. In this context, the paper analyzes the potential for India to develop its … different approaches. Secondary data analysis tells us that high value manufacturing in India exists only in islands. Cross … country comparisons with other East Asian economies such as Korea, Japan and China reveal that India has an opportunity to …
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manufacturing sector of China and India. We first provide a comparison between India and China using a broad international … perspective. We find that China has increased its labor productivity to a level above that of India, but due to a somewhat higher … compensation level, China is still somewhat at a disadvantage in terms of unit labor cost in manufacturing relative to India. In …
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fuelwood in cooking is a leading cause of indoor air pollution. Using household data from India, we show that households …
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Indian agriculture is estimated to be consuming about 78 percent of total fresh water resources available in the country. Yet, more than half of the gross cropped area is still dependent on rains. Extremely skewed allocation of scarce irrigation water amongst crops and inefficient use of the...
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India's economic standing and its policy landscape have come a long way since the 1943 Bengal famine. History saw …-scarce, food-importing country, India has emerged as a grain-surplus and a net grain-exporting country. The production base is … in the godowns of the Food Corporation of India (FCI) and its nominated state agencies, raising questions about the …
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Food Corporation of India's (FCI's) procurement volume is driven by the production level and the difference between the MSP …
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