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Entrepreneurship and Economic Development: Theory, Evidence and Policy
Naudé, Wim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper provides an overview of the state of the art of the intersection of development economics and entrepreneurship. Given the relative neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights from the intersection of entrepreneurship and...
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Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries
Naude, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Goedhuys, Micheline - eSocialSciences - 2011
How does innovation impact on development? How, and under what conditions, do entrepreneurs in developing countries … innovate? And what can be done to support innovation by entrepreneurs in developing countries? This policy brief addresses … these questions and explains the relationship between entrepreneurship, innovation and development. Policy lessons are drawn …
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Urbanization in India and Productivity of Manufacturing Industries: An Empirical Study
IYER, CHIDAMBARAN G. - In: Indian Economic Review 48 (2013) 2, pp. 297-322
In this paper, we attempt to empirically analyse the impact of urbanization on the productivity of manufacturing industries in India. Our results from a panel of 15 industries across 13 states during the period 1981-2008 suggest that, there is variation in the effect of urbanization both within...
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Trade policy and wage inequality: evidence from Indian manufacturing
Sen, Kunal - In: Indian Growth and Development Review 1 (2008) 2, pp. 147-171
Purpose – There has been a period of slow but a steady increase in wage inequality in the Indian manufacturing sector since the mid-1980s, which has gone hand-in-hand with an increase in the relative employment of skilled workers across all industries in the same period. The purpose of this...
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What Causes Agglomeration? – Policy or Infrastructure – A Study of Indian Manufacturing Industry
Kathuria, Vinish - eSocialSciences - 2011
This paper investigates whether industrial dispersal policy is more potent or the natural and agglomeration cost advantages are important in influencing locational choice of a firm. To carry out the analysis, an agglomeration measure given by Ellison and Glaeser is computed for 66 manufacturing...
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Foreign Direct Investment and Technology Spillover: An Evaluation Across Different Clusters in India
Dua, Pami; Goldar, B N; Behera, Smruti Ranjan - eSocialSciences - 2011
The paper attempts to explore the technology spillover effects of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Indian manufacturing industries across different selected clusters in India. To measure the spillover effect to domestic firms in a particular cluster, a model is used that combines an innovative...
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Economic reforms and their impact on the manufacturing sector: lessons from the Indian experience
Siggel, Eckhard - In: Asia-Pacific Development Journal 14 (2007) 1, pp. 73-104
This paper analyses the impact of the Indian reforms of the early 1990s on exports and employment by using indicators of competitiveness and comparative advantage. These indicators are unit cost ratios, which differ by using domestic prices, international or export prices and shadow prices. They...
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Decomposition of Energy Consumption and Energy Intensity in Indian Manufacturing Industries
Ray, Binay Kumar; Reddy, B. Sudhakara - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
Of the total final energy consumption in India, the industrial sector accounts for about 37 percent, of which the manufacturing sector consumes about 66 percent (2004-2005 figures) with chemicals and petrochemicals, iron and steel, pulp and paper and cement industries being the largest energy...
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Impact of infrastructure on output, productivity and efficiency: Evidence from the Indian manufacturing industry
Sharma, Chandan; Sehgal, Sanjay - In: Indian Growth and Development Review 3 (2010) October, pp. 100-121
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an empirical evaluation of the impact of infrastructure development on industry-level productivity, output and efficiency in India over the period 1994-2006. Design/methodology/approach – The first stage, estimated total factor productivity...
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Analysis of gains and pains of SEZ in Indian scenario
Khatik, S.K.; Saxena, R.V. - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 2 (2010) 3/4, pp. 310-327
It is a well known fact that India needs massive investments in manufacturing, infrastructure development and in its productive capacities. It also needs to aggressively promote exports of goods and services in such a highly competitive global market place. These were the very aims for which the...
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