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Pro-Market Reforms and Indian Industry : Developments in the Last Two Decades
Goldar, Bishwanath - 2010
The post-1991 pro-market reforms in India are expected to reduce price-cost margins in industries, lower inter-firm productivity dispersion, increase export intensity of firms, and cause changes in the size structure and industrial composition. But, barring the increase in export intensity, the...
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Land ceiling legislations, land acquisition and de-industrialisation: theory and evidence from the Indian states
Pal, Sarmistha; Chowdhury, Prabal Roy; Saher, Zoya - 2021
We examine the impact of legislated land ceiling size on capital investment and industrialisation in the Indian states … to have (i) lower capital investment; (ii) less factories and lower industrialisation too. Ceteris paribus, estimates of …
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Small Industries and Institutional Framework: A Transaction Costs Approach
Ramamurthy, Bhargavi; Ronnås, Per - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 1995
There has been a revival of interest in small industries and their linkages with a nation's institutional arrangements, among both academicians and policy makers. Extending the definition of institutions to include formal and informal rules, this paper attempts to identify these linkages using...
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Liberalisation, concentration and diversification : business groups in India, 2000-2020
Commander, Simon; Estrin, Saul; Thomas, Naveen; … - 2024
We analyse changes in market structure in India between 2000 and 2020 using a rich dataset at high levels of disaggregation. We examine the extent to which business groups - notably family-owned groups - have maintained dominant market positions in the Indian economy. We focus on two key...
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Land Ceiling Legislations, Land Acquisition and De-industrialisation: Theory and Evidence from the Indian States
Pal, Sarmistha; Chowdhury, Prabal Roy; Saher, Zoya - 2021
We examine the impact of legislated land ceiling size on capital investment and industrialisation in the Indian states … to have (i) lower capital investment; (ii) less factories and lower industrialisation too. Ceteris paribus, estimates of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658203
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Environmental Costs of Industrialisation: A Study of Durgapur Region in West Bengal
Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
environmental problems emanating from industrialisation has swelled significantly and researchers have been trying to evaluate the … industrialisation in a region needs to be examined against the perceived costs of increasing pollution and has to be carefully studied … phase of industrialisation in the locality and are willing to pay to protect / clean the environment. The estimated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372628
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REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND DISPOSSESSION: SOME EXPERIENCES ON LAND ACQUISITION IN INDIA
Majumder, Bhaskar - In: Journal of Regional Development and Planning 1 (2012) 2, pp. 103-116
For an economy like India where agricultural land is the primary base of livelihood for land-dependent people in rural areas, land acquisition by the state for development without prior informed consent of the people-to-be-affected leads to displacement and dispossession of land-dependent...
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Land Ceiling Legislations, Land Acquisition and De-industrialisation - Theory and Evidence from the Indian States
Pal, Sarmistha; Roy Chowdhury, Prabal; Saher, Zoya - 2021
We examine the impact of legislated land ceiling size on capital investment and industrialisation in the Indian states … to have (i) lower capital investment; (ii) less factories and lower industrialisation too. Ceteris paribus, estimates of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218381
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De-Industrialisation Through Colonial Trade
Sarkar, Prabirjit - 2007
-colonies in the East.This is known as de-industrialisation. This paper develops a two-sector neo-Ricardian framework to stylize …
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Is the elephant stepping on its trunk? : the problem of India's unbalanced growth
Douhan, Robin (contributor); Nordberg, Anders (contributor) - 2008
It is often assumed that recent success in the high-technology software industry will lead India's development. However, evidence suggest that basic manufacturing industry is stagnant. This paper proposes a mechanism that ties these two trends together. A big-push type of model, featuring...
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