We develop a framework for quantifying barriers to labor force participation (LFP) and entrepreneurship faced by women in India. We find substantial barriers to LFP, and higher costs of expanding businesses through the hiring of workers for women entrepreneurs. However, there is one area in...

This paper analyses the integration of China and India into the global economy. To this end, it presents estimates from a gravity model to gauge the overall degree of their trade intensity and the depth of their bilateral trade linkages, as well as selected measures of revealed comparative...

Purpose - In developing countries like Tanzania, gems and jewellery industry mainly consists of disintegrated and unstable micro and small workshops which operate in a way that misalign value addition processes. This study is aimed to bridge gap by focussing on exploitation of industrial...

1. Globalisation, inclusive development and plantation labour : an introduction / K.J. Joseph and P.K. Viswanathan -- 2. Wages, mobility and labour market institutions in tea plantations : the case of West Bengal and Assam / Kingshuk Sarkar -- 3. Women's labour in the tea sector : changing...