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This paper demonstrates that India’s early 2000s mobile phone service expansion, or the “telecom boom” led to net rural-urban migration of about 13 million individuals out of which 4 million moved for employment. To estimate the effects, we exploit the heterogeneous expansion of telecom...
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paper examines the technical and economic feasibility of automation in the Indian garment sector and its likely impact on … to the economic feasibility, automation is going to be restricted to a few garment production processes only. Paper … further argues that despite the automation of the certain production processes, Indian garment sector will register healthy …
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economy, there has been a tragic neglect of low end human capital investment for productivity gains in mass manufacturing …
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grounds of low productivity and economic viability. Sustainability of SMEs is argued to depend on improving labour … productivity (LP) through technological upgradation. In a developing economy this may be a costly proposition due to capital … scarcity. So, the effect of technological changes on productivity levels has to be estimated before taking such policies. This …
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large number of occupations will see an increased rate of automation. Increased automation is likely to have an adverse … industrial robots in Indian manufacturing industry. Instead of an occupation-based approach, the study uses a task-based one …, which presents a more accurate picture of the effect of automation on manufacturing employment. The study shows that the …
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This paper argues that new computer, smartphone, and universal ID technologies are reducing the incentives for political clientelism in the delivery of social programmes in India, especially by allowing party leaders to bypass local brokers to credit-claim for better service delivery and...
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Technology offers enormous potential and opportunities to the Indian Banking sector. Rapid technological diffusion and entry of non-banking entities like fintechs, bigtechs and e-retailers into financial space have left no scope for Indian banks to delay and deny technological innovations. Given...
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In India, the first SAU was established in 1960 at Pantnagar in Uttar Pradesh. The SAUs were given autonomous status and direct funding from the state governments. They were autonomous organizations with state-wide responsibility for agricultural research, education and training or extension...
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in the informal sector, where workers are not covered by social security arrangements.<P> Productivity of the … would increase productivity and make growth more inclusive, while contributing to improved current account balance. In … particular, India should aim for more formal jobs, as these tend to be the most secure and of highest productivity.<P>Défis et …
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We measure the impact of the initial Indian national COVID-19 lockdown on digital activity using browser histories of 1,094 individuals, spanning over 31.5 million website visits on computers and mobile devices. Reflecting the predicted increase in the value of online activity, both men and...
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