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The transformation of India's unorganized sector is important to its modernization, growth, and attainment of regional … economic equality. This paper documents several key facts about India's unorganized sector in manufacturing and services. First …
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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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This paper presents an exploration at the intersection of four important themes in the current development discourse: urbanization, agglomeration benefits, gender and informality. Focusing on the important policy objective of new enterprise creation in the informal sector, it asks and answers...
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sector in India. How has the size and productivity of the plants in the organized sector affected the plants in the … in India that have a greater presence of unorganized suppliers of inputs. Conversely, unorganized employment and output …
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manufacturing. The Golden Quadrilateral project upgraded the quality and width of 5,846 km of roads in India. The study uses a …
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India's recent economic growth and liberalization, specialization levels in 1989 were substantially higher than similar … levels in India are becoming more persistent with time. Manufacturing plants display higher productivity in districts that …
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closer spatial proximity to one of India's largest cities. Plants in the organized sector utilizing a greater variety of …
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mandated political representation reform for women in India, the study finds that the length of exposure to women politicians … labor market opportunities for women, potentially helping to stem India's declining female labor force participation rate …
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This paper examines the employment growth of Indian districts from 2000 to 2010 in the manufacturing and services sectors. Specialization and diversity metrics that combine industries in both sectors are calculated and related to subsequent job growth. The analysis finds robust and consistent...
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India's manufacturing sector has undergone many spatial adjustments since 1989, including, for example, the organized … India's manufacturing sector. Striking spatial differences in energy usage exist, and whether spatial adjustments exacerbate … or alleviate energy consumption strains is important for issues ranging from reducing India's power blackouts to stemming …
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