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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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-generating activities and restricting access to inputs, respectively?affect female farm productivity more deeply than male productivity. The … productivity gap. The paper shows empirically that agricultural labor productivity is on average 44 percent lower on plots managed …
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African governments and international development groups see boosting productivity on smallholder farms as key to … to use more fertilizer has been a key tactic. Closing the productivity gap between male and female farmers has been … matters as well; however, the measured productivity gap between male and female farmers disappears when gender is included in …
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agricultural productivity. The empirical studies on the gender gap, however, have frequently used data that were limited regarding … agricultural productivity distribution into (i) a portion driven by gender differences in levels of observable attributes (the … productivity distribution, ranging from 22 percent at the 10th percentile to 37 percent at the 90th percentile. While it is …
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