Using data from more than 6,000 manufacturing firms in India for 1996–2008, we investigate the impact of financial … India still does not allow the financial system to meet the stronger demand for funds by firms, especially small ones …

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 productivity to a level above that of India, but due to a somewhat higher … compensation level, China is still somewhat at a disadvantage in terms of unit labor cost in manufacturing relative to India. In …