Using data from more than 6,000 manufacturing firms in India for 1996–2008, we investigate the impact of financial … India still does not allow the financial system to meet the stronger demand for funds by firms, especially small ones …

manufacturing sector of China and India. We first provide a comparison between India and China using a broad international … perspective. We find that China has increased its labor productivity to a level above that of India, but due to a somewhat higher … compensation level, China is still somewhat at a disadvantage in terms of unit labor cost in manufacturing relative to India. In …

The outstanding export performance of South Asian countries (India in particular) over the 1990s has prompted some … focus on India), in order to investigate the determinants of this apparent success. Shifts toward higher UVs relative to … in naturalresource-intensive, standard technology-intensive (in India), and labor-intensive sectors (in Bangladesh). On …

India has undertaken extensive reforms in its manufacturing sector in the last two decades. However, an acceleration of … growth in manufacturing, and a concomitant increase in employment, has eluded India. What might be holding the sector back …

We investigate the characteristics of manufacturing firms in India that generate better quality employment and the …