This paper uses a large national household panel from 1999/2000 and 2007/08 to analyze the short-term effects of India …'s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme on wages, labor supply, agricultural labor use, and productivity … productivity effects were modest, total employment generated by the program (but not employment in irrigation-related activities …

Using firm-level survey data for a large cross section of countries, the paper assesses the gap in labor productivity … impact of competition from informal firms on the labor productivity of formal firms. The results show that on average, the … labor productivity of informal firms is about one-fourth that of formal firms. Moreover, the labor productivity of formal …

sources, this paper quantifies noncompliance for India's Factories Act without the question of illegality ever being raised … the Factories Act is a key feature of the "missing middle" in India. The paper explores the main trends and patterns of …

This paper analyzes the scale and productivity consequences of varied input use in Indian manufacturing using detailed … closer spatial proximity to one of India's largest cities. Plants in the organized sector utilizing a greater variety of … inputs display higher productivity, with the effects mostly concentrated among smaller plants with fewer than 50 employees …

The infrastructure gap is one of the most significant impediments to India realizing its growth and poverty reduction … potential. Although India?s transport network is one of the most extensive in the world, accessibility and connectivity are … upgraded the quality and width of 5,846 km of roads in India. The analysis uses a difference-in-difference estimation strategy …

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 …

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 … productivity growth, while the older literature focused on average productivity improvements ( "learning" ). The authors use …

than twice that of India's. This paper investigates the role of the business environment in explaining China's productivity … small firms, the importance of firm size in accounting for India's disadvantage in productivity, and the complementarity of …Although it had a a lower income level than India in 1980, China's 2006 per capita gross domestic product stands more …