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Revisiting India's growth transitions
Basu, Deepankar - 2020
This paper reconsiders two questions relating to India's economic growth: structural breaks in growth and the impact of equipment investment on aggregate economic growth. First, statistical tests of structural change show that economic growth in post-independence India has witnessed four...
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Kuznets' tension in India : two episodes
Ray, Saon; Kar, Sabyasachi - 2020
Developing countries face a trade-off between the twin objectives of structural transformation and inclusive growth. This is the 'developer's dilemma'. This study analyses the dilemma as it manifested itself in the Indian context, and identifies two distinct episodes over the post-independence...
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North East India – Local Economic Development and Global Markets
Brunner, Hans-Peter - 2010
This collection analyses the potentials of the North East Indian economy, discussing ways in which it can be reconnected to the mainstream economic activities of India. Gauging through the historical factors responsible for the economic failure of the North East Region (NER) – the partition in...
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The service sector in India
Mukherjee, Arpita - 2013
The service sector is the largest and fastest growing sector in India and has the highest labor productivity, but employment has not kept pace with the share of the sector in gross domestic product and has not produced the number or quality of jobs needed. There is no policy leading to inclusive...
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Agricultural and rural transformations in Asian development : past trends and future challenges
Vos, Rob - 2018
countries of the region. In much of East and Southeast Asia, the Green Revolution brought a quantum leap in yields of staple … growth and urbanization, which in turn induced deeper agrarian change and food system transformations. In South Asia, these … insecurity in this part of Asia remain. These challenges remain in a context of relatively advanced urbanization, strongly …
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Digitalization and economic performance of two fast-growing Asian economies : India and the People's Republic of China
Sahoo, Dukhabandhu; Nayak, Suryakanta; Behera, Jayanti - 2021
This paper aims to identify the role of digitalization and infrastructure in two fast-growing Asian economies, namely India and the People's Republic of China (PRC), within the growth framework from1990 to 2019 by using panel 2SLS and the NARDL technique. The results show that internet and...
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A Comparison of the Industrialization Paths for Asian Services Outsourcing Industries, and Implications for Poverty Alleviation
Tschang, F. Ted - 2013
This paper examines three software and/or information technology enabled services (ITES) industries - two in the early stages of development (in the People's Republic of China [PRC] and the Philippines) and one mature one (in India). Being latecomers to offshoring work, the PRC and the...
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Structural Transformation and Allocation Efficiency in China and India
Di Stefano, Enrica - 2017
Market frictions prevent the efficient allocation of factors of production, slow down structural transformation and lead to costs in terms of lower output and aggregate total factor productivity (TFP). We use a theoretical framework developed by Aoki (2012) featuring sector-specific frictions on...
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Drivers of economic catch-up in Asia : a study of ASEAN countries with comparative views of China and India
Vu, Khuong; Hieu Nguyen - In: Journal of Southeast Asian economies 39 (2022) 1, pp. 42-67
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The cost of competitiveness of manufacturing in China and India : an industry and regional perspective
Ark, Bart van (contributor) - 2008
This paper focuses on comparisons of productivity, (unit) labor cost and industrylevel competitiveness for the manufacturing sector of China and India. We first provide a comparison between India and China using a broad international perspective. We find that China has increased its labor...
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