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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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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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services. The authors examine the link between those reforms and the productivity of manufacturing firms using panel data for … had significant, positive effects on the productivity of manufacturing firms. Services reforms benefited both foreign and … in the aggregate index of services liberalization resulted in a productivity increase of 11.7 percent for domestic firms …
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study examines the link between services sector reforms and the productivity of domestic firms in downstream manufacturing … lead to two conclusions. First, the study finds that services policy matters for the productivity of manufacturing firms …
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The authors investigate the relationship between the productivity of African manufacturing firms and their access to … to calculate the total factor productivity of firms. The Enterprise Surveys also contain unique measures of firms' access … firm productivity and service performance in all three services sectors analyzed. The authors thus provide support for the …
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