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Nervous System market in India. The Central Nervous System segment is the second largest therapeutic category in terms of … retail sales in the world and is one of the fastest growing segments in India. Using information on product patents granted …
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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 …
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A long-standing question in social science is to what extent differences in management cause differences in firm performance. To investigate this, the authors ran a management field experiment on large Indian textile firms, providing free consulting on modern management practices to a randomly...
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India and Pakistan, the two largest economies in South Asia, share a common border, culture and history. Despite the … than half a percent of India's total trade, whereas Pakistan's trade with India was 5.4 percent of its total trade. However …, the recent thaw in India-Pakistan trade relations could signal a change. Pakistan has agreed to grant most favored nation …
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Household surveys in Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka were analyzed using a two …
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proposal involves distributing annually a share of resource rents to citizens in the form of direct dividend transfers … incentive to provide direct dividend transfers relative to public goods. This combination of conditions is rare, which may … explain why relatively few countries have implemented or plan to implement direct dividend transfers …
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The formal private sector has a key role to play in fostering growth and reducing unemployment in South Africa--strengthening its performance is therefore critical. This paper looks at firm behaviour, firm entry and exit, job outcomes, and productivity dynamics using firm-level administrative...
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This paper presents evidence on how the provision of unreliable electricity constrains expansion in the productive sectors of the economy, consequently leading to a reduction in the number of employment opportunities in Africa. Using geodata on electricity transmission networks on the continent,...
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This paper uses a unique firm-level data set for Mexico, with information never used for research before, to assess how use of information technology (IT henceforth) influences firm performance. Further, the paper explores if, in the context of increasing competition from China, this effect is...
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This paper evaluates the heterogeneous impact of spillovers from multinational corporations (MNCs) to domestic enterprises in the developing world. It empirically investigates two transmission channels of knowledge spillovers. First, direct contractual linkages between indigenous firms and MNCs....
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