entitled How Lives Change: Palanpur, India and Development Economics, and point to two distinct, and staggered, drivers of … broadly in rural India. In this paper, we construct a simple model of a village economy that captures several of the salient … outcomes observed in the village. We suggest that to the extent that there exist other villages in rural India with such …

Faced with easier access to foreign technology and imported capital goods, firms in India's organised manufacturing … production. This has raised much concern about the ability of the manufacturing sector to create jobs for India's rapidly rising …

global south. The textile and clothing industry is the largest foreign exchange earner and the largest employment provider in … India. We show that since the withdrawal of the quota, the industry has witnessed unprecedented concentration of firm … wage bill of export-oriented firms in India actually rose during this period. However, the aggregate state-level wage bill …