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In with the Big, Out with the Small : Removing Small-Scale Reservations in India
Martin, Leslie A.; Nataraj, Shanthi; Harrison, Ann E. - 2014
For the past 60 years, India has promoted small-scale industries (SSI). Industrial promotion took the form of reserving certain products for manufacture by small and medium firms. The stated goal of Indian policy makers was to promote employment growth and income redistribution. In this paper,...
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How Does State Ownership Affect Firm Innovation? Evidence From China’s 2009–2010 Stimulus Plan
Betts, Caroline; Cao, Yu - 2023
We examine the effects of China's 2009-2010 stimulus package for innovation differentials between state-owned firms (SOEs) and privately-owned firms (POEs). Using a unique dataset of Chinese manufacturing firms, we find that in the pre-stimulus period SOEs patent at a lower rate than POEs in the...
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Picking Winners? Government Subsidies and Firm Productivity in China
Branstetter, Lee; Li, Guangwei; Ren, Mengjia - 2022
China has been both praised and criticized for using industrial policy to achieve its economic goals. Does industrial policy work for China? Particularly, are these industrial policies making the targeted Chinese firms more productive? Alternatively, are efforts to promote productivity undercut...
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The economic cycle and the innovation activity of the Polish Industry System
Swiadek, Arkadiusz - Instytut Badañ Gospodarczych (IBG) - 2014
Industrial structures in the “catching up” type of countries usually are not too competitive in nature, and mainly they differ in the low share of high-technology products in the international trade. The aim of the conducted studies was an attempt to search for directions, as well as the...
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Manipulating the rural landscape: Villagisation and income generation in Rwanda
Isaksson, Ann-Sofie - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2011
part of Rwanda’s Villagisation programme (‘Imidugudu’), diversify into non-farm income-generating activities to a greater … extent than other rural households in Rwanda, and if so, to what extent the variation can be explained by differences in …
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Unequal Property Rights: A study of land right inequalities in Rwanda
Isaksson, Ann-Sofie - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2011
effective land rights in Rwanda. The results of empirical estimations drawing on data on the land tenure arrangements of over 5 …. For Rwanda, which is in the process of implementing an extensive land reform, this is especially relevant. …
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Learning by exporting : the case of Mozambican manufacturing
Cruz, António; Newman, Carol; Rand, John; Tarp, Finn - 2014
export and that export participation is highly persistent. There is also evidence supporting the learning by exporting … hypothesis and the results suggest a significant export premium of between 15 and 24 per cent, controlling for differences in …. We conclude that the Mozambican Export Promotion Institute could play an important role in overcoming this information …
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Gender difference in support for democracy in sub-Saharan Africa: Do social institutions matter?
Konte, Maty - 2014
Little investigation has been made to explain why women are less likely than are men to support democracy in sub-Saharan Africa. This gender difference in politics has been found in numerous studies and may hinder the much needed legitimation of democracy in this region. This paper addresses the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343253
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Socialism without liberation : land reclamation projects in Guinea-Bissau
Kohnert, Dirk - 1988
One of the outstanding aims of most liberation movements has been to increase the economic well-being of their people, Guinea-Bissau being no exception in this respect. How far has the new Nation State succeeded in fulfilling this aim? A comparative analysis of the implementation of land...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334894
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Gender difference in support for democracy in sub-Saharan Africa : do social institutions matter?
Konte, Maty - 2014
Little investigation has been made to explain why women are less likely than are men to support democracy in sub-Saharan Africa. This gender difference in politics has been found in numerous studies and may hinder the much needed legitimation of democracy in this region. This paper addresses the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010243496