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This paper complements the results of earlier work on factor misallocation. The paper first expands the methodology and provides two important decompositions for the main indices. The main result is that factor and output misallocation across districts is at least as important as misallocation...
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Growing research and policy interest focuses on the misallocation of output and factors of production in developing economies. This paper considers the possible misallocation of financial loans. Using plant-level data on the organized and unorganized sectors, the paper describes the temporal,...
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Indian districts during 1989-2010. It first distills a number of stylized facts about misallocation in India, and … demonstrates the validity of misallocation metrics by connecting them to regulatory changes in India that affected real property …. Although more-productive establishments in India tend to produce more output, factors of production are grossly misallocated. A …
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Using firm-level survey data for a large cross section of countries, the paper assesses the gap in labor productivity between formal and informal firms in developing countries for which comparable data are available. It also investigates the impact of competition from informal firms on the labor...
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India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991. The study finds a downward trend in …
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used to assess the cost-effectiveness of India's Employment Guarantee Scheme in Bihar. Participants are found to have …
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Public knowledge about India's ambitious Employment Guarantee Scheme is low in one of India's poorest states, Bihar …
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India's huge expansion in rural electrification in the 1980s and 1990s offers lessons for other countries today. The … paper examines the long-term effects of household electrification on consumption, labor supply, and schooling in rural India …
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theoretically ambiguous implications for the impacts on poverty. In the case of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme …
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In 2005 India introduced an ambitious national anti-poverty program, now called the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural … the way it is designed, then anyone who wanted work on the scheme would get it. However, analysis of data from India …
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