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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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Agricultural and rural transformations in Asian development : past trends and future challenges
Vos, Rob - 2018
Over the past sixty years, most Asian countries have undergone relatively rapid agricultural transformations that helped jumpstart broader economic development. However, the changes have differed markedly in nature and speed across countries of the region. In much of East and Southeast Asia, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011894303
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Socio-economic development in South Asia : the past 50 years
Osmani, Siddiqur Rahman - 2018
The story of South Asia is a topsy-turvy one. Soon after independence from British rule, the region seemed to have a much better prospect than many other parts of the Third World; the prospects soon dimmed, however, as South Asia crawled while East and Southeast Asia galloped away. But a large...
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Transforming rural economies through tertiary education : evidence from India
Castelló-Climent, Amparo; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Ravinder - 2023
This paper analyses the role of tertiary education on rural development. Using census data on villages in India for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014314702
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On the 'inclusiveness' of India's consumption expenditure growth
Jayaraj, Dhairiyarayar; Subramanian, Sreenivasan - 2012
India over the last four decades or so. The notion of dynamic inclusiveness is framed in terms of imagined normative …. The results of the investigation undertaken in the essay suggest distressingly little evidence of inclusiveness in India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009545467
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Growth and inequality in the distribution of India's consumption expenditure 1983 to 2009-10
Subramanian, Sreenivasan; Jayaraj, Dhairiyarayar - 2015
India over the last quarter-century, from 1983 to 2009-10, employing data available in the quinquennial 'thick' surveys of … literature available on the subject in India. …
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How close does the apple fall to the tree? : some evidence on intergenerational occupational mobility from India
Motiram, Sripad; Singh, Ashish - 2012
Using data from the India Human Development Survey (IHDS) 2005, we examine intergenerational occupational mobility in … India, an issue on which very few systematic and rigorous studies exist. We group individuals into classes and document … patterns of mobility at the rural, urban and all-India levels, and for different caste groups. We find substantial …
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Reference groups and the poverty line : an axiomatic approach with an empirical illustration
Chakravarty, Satya R.; Chattopadhyay, Nachiketa; … - 2015
India. …
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Income and consumption inequality in China : a comparative approach with India
Gradín, Carlos; Wu, Binbin - 2019
We analyse income and expenditure distribution in China in a comparative perspective with India. These countries … expenditure in India, especially at the top of the distribution. Both types of inequality are similar in China, although … and levels between the two wellbeing distributions. As a result, expenditure inequality is higher in China than in India …
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A new inequality estimate for urban India? : using house prices to estimate inequality in Mumbai
Rongen, Gerton - 2018
This paper applies a novel inequality estimation method to household consumption expenditure in Mumbai, India. Since … the whole of urban India. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011962529