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Do Management Interventions Last? Evidence from India
Bloom, Nicholas - 2018
Beginning in 2008, the authors conducted a randomized controlled trial that changed management practices in a set of Indian weaving firms (Bloom et al. 2013). In 2017 the plants were revisited and the authors found three main results. First, while about half of the management practices adopted...
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The Implementation of Industrial Parks : Some Lessons Learned in India
Saleman, Yannick - 2017
Industrial parks are as popular as they are controversial, in India and globally. At their best they align … contextualizes parks in India, followed by a thick case study of an innovative scheme that appears to buck the trend. This … performance is then explained by the way in which the scheme's design and action fit India's political economy. The paper …
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Together We Stand? Agglomeration in Indian Manufacturing
Fernandes, Ana M. - 2017
concentration of manufacturing industries in India from 1980 to 1999. First, the research shows that de-licensing and liberalization …
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Firms Far Up : Productivity, Agglomeration, and High-Growth Firms in Ethiopia
Goswami, Arti Grover - 2020
High-growth firms have been widely studied in advanced countries, but little is known about such stellar performers in Africa. Using establishment-level data from Ethiopia, this paper finds that the incidence of high-growth firms stands at an average of 7 percent, a figure comparable to that of...
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The Use of Random Geographic Cluster Sampling to Survey Pastoralists
Himelein, Kristen - 2017
Livestock are an important component of rural livelihoods in developing countries, but data about this source of income and wealth are difficult to collect because of the nomadic and semi-nomadic nature of many pastoralist populations. Most household surveys exclude those without permanent...
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Productivity Growth and Job Creation in the Development Process of Industrial Clusters
Sonobe, Tetsushi - 2017
Poor management has long been suspected as a major constraint on job creation in the manufacturing sector in low-income countries. In this sector, countless micro and small enterprises in industrial clusters account for a large share of employment. This paper examines the roles of industrial...
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Cluster-Based Industrial Parks : A Practical Framework for Action
Monga, Celestin - 2017
They are being hailed as the new Holy Grail of economic development. The success of special economic zones (SEZ) in general and specialized ones in particular (industrial and technology parks) in countries as diverse as Australia, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, Ireland, Japan, the United...
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Explaining Local Manufacturing Growth in Chile : the Advantages of Sectoral Diversity
Almeida, Rita - 2017
This paper investigates whether the agglomeration of economic activity in regional clusters affects long-run manufacturing total factor productivity growth in an emerging market context. It explores a large firm-level panel dataset for Chile during a period characterized by high growth rates and...
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How Can Micro and Small Enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa Become More Productive? the Impacts of Experimental Basic Managerial Training
Mano, Yukichi - 2017
The vast majority of micro and small enterprises in developing countries are located in industrial clusters, and the majority of such clusters have yet to see their growth take off. The performance of micro and small enterprise clusters is especially low in Sub-Saharan Africa. While existing...
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How Do Special Economic Zones and Industrial Clusters Drive China's Rapid Development?
Zeng, Douglas Zhihua - 2017
In the past 30 years, China has achieved phenomenal economic growth, an unprecedented development "miracle" in human history. How did China achieve this rapid growth? What have been its key drivers? And, most important, what can be learned from China's success? Policy makers, business people,...
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