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The informal sector in India has been exceptionally persistent over the past two decades. Is this a bad thing? Not necessarily. This paper shows that a substantial share of the persistence in India's unorganized manufacturing sector is due to the rapid increase in female-owned businesses. Had...
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sector in India. How has the size and productivity of the plants in the organized sector affected the plants in the … on and responsive to organized sector presence than vice versa. Second, unorganized sector productivity is dependent on … and responsive to organized sector productivity and presence but the reverse is not true …
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This paper presents an exploration at the intersection of four important themes in the current development discourse: urbanization, agglomeration benefits, gender and informality. Focusing on the important policy objective of new enterprise creation in the informal sector, it asks and answers...
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The transformation of India's unorganized sector is important to its modernization, growth, and attainment of regional economic equality. This paper documents several key facts about India's unorganized sector in manufacturing and services. First, the unorganized sector is large, accounting for...
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) allowing assessment of the productivity of land use and taking measures to increase it; (ii) comparing productivity between …
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This paper disentangles different aspects of land fragmentation and its impact on the efficiency of resource use. The paper uses information on the incidence of crop shocks to assess whether fragmentation provides benefits in reducing risk and parcel coordinates and terrain-adjusted travel times...
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Whether the negative relationship between farm size and productivity that is confirmed in a large global literature … inverse productivity relationship in Rwanda, where policy makers consider land fragmentation and small farm sizes to be key … reason for the inverse farm-size productivity relationship …
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Although the potentially negative impacts of credit constraints on economic development have long been discussed conceptually, empirical evidence for Africa remains limited. This study uses a direct elicitation approach for a national sample of Rwandan rural households to assess empirically the...
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This paper analyzes the scale and productivity consequences of varied input use in Indian manufacturing using detailed … inputs display higher productivity, with the effects mostly concentrated among smaller plants with fewer than 50 employees … a more modest link to productivity outcomes …
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rental arrangements -- such as sharecropping -- with an inquiry into the broader productivity impacts of the land rental … to more productive producers but realization of this productivity advantage is prevented by the inefficiency of …
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