Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 3,590
Cover Image
The impact of China and India on the developing world
Kaplinsky, Raphael - In: CESifo Forum 08 (2007) 1, pp. 15-21
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011695857
Cover Image
Entrepreneurship and structural economic transformation
Gries, Thomas; Naudé, Wim - 2008
A stylized fact of economic development is the structural transformation of countries from traditional, mainly agricultural societies to modern economies dominated by manufacturing and services. In this paper we provide an endogenous growth model to illuminate the role of entrepreneurial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273418
Cover Image
Nascent entrepreneurship and the level of economic development
Wennekers, Sander; van Stel, André J.; Thurik, A. Roy; … - 2005
Based upon two strands of literature, this paper hypothesizes a U-shaped relationship between a country's rate of entrepreneurial dynamics and its level of economic development. This would imply a different scope for entrepreneurship policy across subsequent stages of development. Regressing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276940
Cover Image
Promoting Biofuels: Implications for Developing Countries
Peters, Jörg; Thielmann, Sascha - 2008
economic justification of biofuel promotion instruments and investigates their implications. Based on data from India and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264710
Cover Image
Barriers to household risk management: Evidence from India
Cole, Shawn; Giné, Xavier; Tobacman, Jeremy; Topalova, … - 2009
Financial engineering offers the potential to significantly reduce the consumption fluctuations faced by individuals, households, and firms. Yet much of this potential remains unfulfilled. This paper studies the adoption of an innovative rainfall insurance product designed to compensate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283568
Cover Image
Twenty K.R. Narayanan orations: Essays by eminent persons on the rapidly transforming Indian economy
Jha, Raghbendra (contributor) - 2021
needed a public forum with a global reach to involve the best minds working on economic development in India as well as to … honour its founder, Dr K.R. Narayanan, President of the Republic of India. The K.R. Narayanan Oration series was developed in … both an expert account of key aspects of the economic development process in India and a peek into India's potential in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012990242
Cover Image
Economic reforms: Policy and institutions some lessons from Indian reforms
Virmani, Arvind - 2004
Economic policy and policy reform over the last few decades has been motivated by the need to accelerate growth or equivalently to reverse a decline in growth rate. The economic literature on the determinants of growth has burgeoned and disagreement has followed consensus on the policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807531
Cover Image
The Cost Competitiveness of Manufacturing in China and India: An Industry and Regional Perspective
van Ark, Bart - 2008
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807634
Cover Image
What Can Be Learned About the Economies of China and India from Purchasing Power Comparisons?
Heston, Alan - 2008
Comparisons of India and China have been made for over 50 years. This paper focuses on purchasing power estimates in … China and India in the 2005 round of the UN International Comparison Programme (ICP) that was coordinated by the World Bank … currencies and real product per capita for 146 countries, and the results for China and India are discussed in the context of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807635
Cover Image
China and India: Country role models of development success?
Santos-Paulino, Amelia U. - 2010
The paper discusses views on China and India as country role models. In so doing the article recounts the economic and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280165