using enterprise data. The GQ project upgraded the quality and width of 5,846 km of roads in India. We use a difference … entry rates and increases in plant productivity. These results are not present for districts located on another major …

This paper analyzes the scale and productivity consequences of varied input use in Indian manufacturing using detailed … closer spatial proximity to one of India's largest cities. Plants in the organized sector utilizing a greater variety of … inputs display higher productivity, with the effects mostly concentrated among smaller plants with fewer than 50 employees …

At the macro level, productivity is driven by technology and the efficiency of resource allocation, as outcomes of … firms' decision making. The relatively high level of resource misallocation in India's formal manufacturing sector is well … interaction of labor market rigidities with informality which is a key feature of India's labor markets. Our results suggest that …

How trade shocks emanating from a low-wage country affect the productivity of manufacturing plants in other low … from 1998 to 2009. Increased import competition from China leads to an improvement in revenue productivity, and a reduction … revenue productivity of large plants and a 1 percent decrease in the number of products within-plant. However, the impact on …