The study explores different aspects of employment and labour market prevalent in large in UAs, in particular global cities. To capture the role of labour market in urban agglomeration, particularly pooling of labour and concentration of economic activities, the paper present a case study of...

The Indian growth spurt of the 1980s has led DeLong (<CitationRef CitationID="CR6">2003</CitationRef>), Rodrik & Subramaniam (IMF Staff Papers 52(2):193–228, <CitationRef CitationID="CR38">2005</CitationRef>) and Kohli (Economic and Political Weekly 41(14):1361–1370, <CitationRef CitationID="CR18">2006</CitationRef>) to question the need for market reforms in the 1990s and the supporters of liberalization to argue that it...</citationref></citationref></citationref>

Trade is the principal channel through which the flow of ideas, knowledge and technology will take place. But it is not clear to what extent the recipient country can take advantage of these variables. Adoption, imitation and production process, by and large, depend on human capital in the...

Even though the economic and social benefits of thriving entrepreneurship and innovation are evident, it is critical to recognize that these benefits will only accrue if the key gaps in the ecosystem are addressed. Five key areas that an entrepreneur would need to address on a priority basis are...

A longitudinal household survey from World Bank Living Standards Measurement Survey (LSMS) was used for the study. A relatively small (but representative) sample of households residing in the mountainous regions of Nepal (i.e., excluding the low-lying Terai regions) were surveyed in three...