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the Indian manufacturing and services sectors. Although the share of women entrepreneurs and employees is larger in … manufacturing than in services, segmentation based on gender is pervasive in both sectors. Theory, dating back to Gary Becker … as investment in Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) highways, trade liberalization and domestic reforms that India undertook since …
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from India, this paper helps narrow this gap by comparing and contrasting the spatial development of services with that in … services as a driver of urbanization and structural transformation is still not well understood. Using establishment level data … manufacturing. The study during the 2001-2010 period suggests that (i) services are more urbanized than manufacturing and are moving …
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This paper examines the employment growth of Indian districts from 2000 to 2010 in the manufacturing and services … inclusive development …
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in India. What explains these huge gender disparities? Is it poor infrastructure, limited education, and gender … female entrepreneurs?This paper analyzes the spatial determinants of female entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing … and services sectors. Good infrastructure and education predict higher female entry shares. There are strong agglomeration …
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The growth of India's manufacturing sector since 1991 has been attributed mostly to trade liberalization and more … permissive industrial licensing. This paper demonstrates thesignificant impact of a neglected factor: India's policy reforms in … services. The authors examine the link between those reforms and the productivity of manufacturing firms using panel data for …
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This paper analyzes the recent evolution and impact of the global economic crisis on the offshore services industry …. Using a global value chains framework, the authors classify the offshore services sector in a comprehensive set of general … and industry-specific activities that correspond to different segments and stages in the value-adding process for services …
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Services play a major role in the Senegalese economy, accounting for 66 percent of economic activity and contributing … contributed 71 percent of services and accounted for 84 percent of its contribution to growth. The dynamism of private services is … driven primarily by telecommunications and financial services: while the two sub-sectors made up 21 percent of private …
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There is a global trend toward more production, use, and sale of services by manufacturing firms. This phenomenon is … known as the servicification of manufacturing. Services inputs as well as services activities within manufacturing firms … services produced matters. For instance, firms that have post-manufacturing (transport and distribution) service affiliates are …
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be expected considering Russia's level of development, the study finds that the contribution of services to export …Globalization is creating many new trade and growth opportunities, with services trade increasingly becoming an issue … for export-oriented economies. Services are important to country trade strategies, because they represent activities in …
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Uganda?s economy underwent significant structural change in the 2000s whereby the share of non-tradable services in …
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