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Digital technologies and "value" capture in global value chains : empirical evidence from Indian manufacturing firms

Banga, Karishma - 2019

This paper examines whether digitalization can be a driver of "upgrading" in global value chains and help developing countries move into higher value-added activities. In particular, the paper provides empirical evidence on the impact of digital capabilities on product upgrading in Indian...

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Importance of technological innovation for SME growth : evidence from India

Hillemane, Bala Subrahmanya Mungila; Mathirajan, M.; … - 2010

, it probes the relationship between innovation and growth of SMEs by (i) estimating a correlation between innovation sales … and sales growth, (ii) calculating innovation sales for high, medium, and low growth innovative SMEs and doing a one …-way ANOVA, and (iii) ascertaining the influence of innovation sales, along with investment growth and employment growth on gross …

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India's development cooperation in Africa : the case of "Solar Mamas" who bring light

Vaidyanathan, Veda - 2023

This paper examines multiple facets of New Delhi's development cooperation with countries in Africa and argues that grassroots organizations in India that find innovative, low-cost technological solutions to developmental challenges can help governments and multilateral agencies craft inclusive,...

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Gender bias in education during conflict : evidence from Assam

Roy, Sutanuka; Prakarsh Singh - 2016

Using a large-scale novel panel dataset (2005-14) on schools from the Indian state of Assam, we test for the impact of violent conflict on female students' enrollment rates. We find that a doubling of average killings in a district-year leads to a 13 per cent drop in girls' enrollment rate with...

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Searching for religious discrimination among Anganwadi workers in India : an experimental investigation

Dasgupta, Utteeyo; Mani, Subha; Prakarsh Singh - 2016

This paper examines whether, in India, discriminatory practices by government-employed child caregivers along religious lines, lead to differential health outcomes among the care receiving children. Child caregivers participate in a novel allocation game where we incorporate treatments to...

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Administrative failures in anti-poverty programmes and household welfare : an investigation of India's employment guarantee programme

Basu, Parantap; Raj, Rajesh S. N.; Sen, Kunal - 2020

Administrative failures in anti-poverty programmes are widespread in developing countries. We focus on one such administrative failure - the persistent delay in paying beneficiaries on time in India’s iconic anti-poverty programme, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA). Using a...

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Subjective income expectations and risks in rural India

Kumar, Alok - 2017

This paper analyses the pattern and determinants of income risk and expectation in rural India. It uses unique primary survey data eliciting subjective income distribution from households in twelve villages in Bihar. It finds that expected future income is significantly and positively associated...

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Are caste categories misleading? : the relationship between gender and jati in three Indian states

Joshi, Shareen; Kochhar, Nishtha; Rao, Vijayendra - 2017

This paper examines the relationship between caste and gender inequality in three states in India. When households are grouped using conventional, government-defined categories of caste we find patterns that are consistent with existing literature: lower-caste women are more likely to...

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Kuznets' tension in India : two episodes

Ray, Saon; Kar, Sabyasachi - 2020

Developing countries face a trade-off between the twin objectives of structural transformation and inclusive growth. This is the 'developer's dilemma'. This study analyses the dilemma as it manifested itself in the Indian context, and identifies two distinct episodes over the post-independence...

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Technology and clientelist politics in India

Wilkinson, Steven I. - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2021

This paper argues that new computer, smartphone, and universal ID technologies are reducing the incentives for political clientelism in the delivery of social programmes in India, especially by allowing party leaders to bypass local brokers to credit-claim for better service delivery and...

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