This paper studies the problem of missing middle in the size distribution of manufacturing plants in India as an outcome of threshold effects of labour regulations defined by employment size and fiscal incentives determined by turnover for small-scale enterprises. Two alternative avenues that...

The trend towards trade liberalisation in developing countries is likely to increase the flow of recyclable waste paper from industrialised countries, raising concerns about the impact on local sources. Central to an analysis of the impact of international trade is the substitutability between...

While there is widespread agreement that the spread of new technology crops in India since the mid-1960s has affected rural wages, there is considerable disagreement over the nature of this effect. The existing literature has posed this problem in a demand-supply framework - with a rise in...