There are significant value chain linkages between India and Bangladesh, particularly in the textile and apparel sector …. India specializes in the upstream segment, supplying such intermediate inputs as silk, cotton, yarn, and fabrics to … Bangladesh. Bangladesh specializes in the downstream final apparel segment, exporting worldwide as well as to India. Tariffs and …

comprehensive, firm-level data from India's organized manufacturing sector to show that market-share reallocations did play an … important role in aggregate productivity gains immediately following the start of India's trade reforms in 1991. However … productivity, which can be attributed to India's trade liberalization and FDI reforms …

of 700 firms from four emerging (or newly-emerged) economies: Brazil, India, the Republic of Korea, and South Africa. The …

This paper shows empirically that privatization in the energy, telecommunications, and water sectors, and the … privatization and the introduction of independent regulators have, at best, only partial effects on the consequences of corruption …

The paper analyzes governments' tradeoff between fiscal benefits and consumer surplus in privatization reforms of … noncompetitive industries in developing countries. Under privatization, the control rights are transferred to private interests so … developing countries, tight budget constraints imply that privatization may be optimal for low profitability segments. For highly …

The authors analyze the impact of privatization on the performance of 116 electric utilities in 10 Latin American … the first systemic analysis of the impact of privatization on the distribution of the electricity sector. Second, it … picture of the effects of privatization on consumers. Fourth, this research covers a longer period of time, and evaluates …