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What Explains Big Gender Disparities in India? Local Industrial Structures and Female Entrepreneurship
Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2017
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 …
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What Makes Cities More Competitive? Spatial Determinants of Entrepreneurship in India
Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2017
, boost economic growth, and promote job creation. The authors examine the spatial location of entrepreneurs in India in … patterns are true for manufacturing and services. These relationships are much stronger in India than those found for the … United States. The authors also find strong evidence of agglomeration economies in India's manufacturing sector. This …
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The Spatial Development of India
Desmet, Klaus - 2017
benefits accruing to them. India's mega-cities have continued to grow. This situation raises a number of important policy … questions. Should India aim to spread development more equally across space? Are India's cities becoming too large? Should the … is India?s experience compared with China and USA? …
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States Diverge, Cities Converge : Drivers of Local Growth Catch-Up in India
Li, Yue - 2018
This paper takes a fresh look at growth convergence in India, combining insights from macroeconomics and urban …
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Spatial Development and Agglomeration Economies in Services -- Lessons from India
Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2017
from India, this paper helps narrow this gap by comparing and contrasting the spatial development of services with that in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968718
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How Good a Map? Putting Small Area Estimation to the Test
Demombynes, Gabriel - 2016
The authors examine the performance of small area welfare estimation. The method combines census and survey data to produce spatially disaggregated poverty and inequality estimates. To test the method, they compare predicted welfare indicators for a set of target populations with their true...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747822
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Regional Disparities in Labor Market Performance in Croatia : The Role of Individual and Regional Structural Characteristics
Luo, Xubei - 2016
The labor market performance in Croatia failed to keep pace with the moderately good overall macroeconomic development in the past few years. Youth, the less well-educated, and women face more difficulties in getting a job with a decent salary. A large part of the difference in regional labor...
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Migration in Libya : A Spatial Network Analysis
Di Maio, Michele - 2020
This paper provides the first systematic analysis of migration to, within, and from Libya. The data used in the analysis are from the Displacement Tracking Matrix data set of the International Organization for Migration. The analysis uses this unique source of data, combining several techniques...
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Accounting for Regional Differences in Mother and Child Health : Bangladesh, West Bengal, Bihar, and Jharkhand
Dasgupta, Susmita - 2019
, the results for Jharkhand state in India and Barisal province in Bangladesh indicate that controlling for those commonly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012889563
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Understanding the Geographical Distribution of Stunting in Tanzania : A Geospatial Analysis of the 2015-16 Demographic and Health Survey
Joseph, George - 2019
Tanzania is home to the third highest population of stunted children in Sub-Saharan Africa, with about 2.7 million children under the age of five failing to reach their full potential of growth attainment compared with the reference population as per the World Health Organization standards....
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