Narrow search
Showing 1 - 9 of 9
Cover Image
Female Business Ownership and Informal Sector Persistence
Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2017
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973981
Cover Image
Friend or Foe or Family? A Tale of Formal and Informal Plants in India
Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2017
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974037
Cover Image
Urbanization and Agglomeration Benefits : Gender Differentiated Impacts on Enterprise Creation in India's Informal Sector
Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2017
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974122
Cover Image
The Exceptional Persistence of India's Unorganized Sector
Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2017
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974383
Cover Image
Urbanization and (In)Formalization
Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2017
Two of the great stylized predictions of development theory, and two of the great expectations of policy makers as indicators of progress in development, are inexorable urbanization and inexorable formalization. Urbanization is indeed happening, beyond the "tipping point" where half the world's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974582
Cover Image
Is India's Manufacturing Sector Moving Away from Cities?
Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2017
This paper investigates the urbanization of the Indian manufacturing sector by combining enterprise data from formal and informal sectors. It finds that plants in the formal sector are moving away from urban and into rural locations, while the informal sector is moving from rural to urban...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974817
Cover Image
A Detailed Anatomy of Factor Misallocation in India
Duranton, Gilles - 2019
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012903648
Cover Image
Input Usage and Productivity in Indian Manufacturing Plants
Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2017
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973874
Cover Image
Highway to Success in India : The Impact of the Golden Quadrilateral Project for the Location and Performance of Manufacturing
Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2017
entry rates and increases in plant productivity. These results are not present for districts located on another major …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974688