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The present study examines the impact of spillover effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on skilled-unskilled wage inequality in the Indian manufacturing Industries. We have considered competition spillover, R\&D spillover and Skill spillover effect of FDI firms. Foreign firms dominate...
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This paper uses a general equilibrium trade framework to estimate the contribution of transport infrastructure to regional development. I apply the analysis to India, a country with a notoriously weak and congested transportation infrastructure. I first analyze the development effects of a...
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The structure of production and trade that exists in an economy can be taken to 'reveal' the current or recent past in terms of trends in comparative advantage. Traditionally the HO model characterizes the US as being rich in human capital which gives it a comparative advantage in services....
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Worldwide, free trade agreements (FTAs) have remained a debatable issue. This paper tries to demystify the recent myths that have surrounded the FTA strategy of India, especially as part of the Look East Policy. The paper does this by analysing the determinants of Intra-Industry Trade (IIT),...
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This study is an attempt to examine similarities and differences in the patterns of revealed comparative advantage (RCA) of India and China in the global market at different levels of classification. The study analyses whether RCAs of these economies have undergone any structural shift/change or...
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The main contribution of this article is to examine the productivity spillover effects from India’s inward foreign … purpose, using the Solow residual approach the aggregate total factor productivity (TFP) in India is estimated to measure FDI …
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Exchange rate volatility has been identified as one of the drivers of export diversification. Previous studies have assumed a symmetric relationship between the two variables. However, because volatility could be positive or negative and economic agents react to these changes differently, recent...
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sector was only 22%. In order to examine the role of supply-side factors, total factor productivity growth was estimated in …. Using Data Envelopment Analysis at the firm level, it was found that both these sectors experienced productivity growth … above 10% after 2000. High domestic demand and high productivity growth largely explain the resilience of India’s services …
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growth and development also requires the generation of high productivity activities, quality employment, and greater domestic … balance of payments constraint, concentrated improvements in productivity and employment may remain at the industrial level …. Consequently, active policy efforts to generate quality employment on a wide scale and to improve the productivity in different …
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incumbents. In this paper, we use a detailed plant-level dataset to study the impact on productivity of two reforms (initiated in … reduction in tariff rates. First, we examine the effect of the liberalization policies on mean plant-level productivity in the … targeted industries. We find significant increases in productivity in the FDI and tariff-liberalized industries, particularly …
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