Tag Search: “firms”
Stock market participation in the aftermath of an accounting scandal
An emerging literature shows that exposure of fraud in the corporate sector leads to a fall in trust on part of households and decline in their stock market participation. Analysing data on daily inv...
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Renuka Sane
30 August, 2017
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What does the new IIP series tell us about the state of manufacturing in India?
In May 2017, the Central Statistics Office released the new series of the Index of Industrial Production with 2011-12 as the base year, after a comprehensive revision of computation methods. The serie...
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Radhika Pandey
Amey Sapre
Pramod Sinha
02 August, 2017
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The Study of the Food Processing Industry in Bihar
The aim of the project is to understand the driving force for industrial development in the food processing sector in Bihar. The findings of the study revealed that development in food processing in B...
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Barna Ganguli
Debdatta Saha
08 July, 2017
- IGC Research on India
Impact of disinvestment policy on public sector enterprises in India
To address operational inefficiencies in PSEs without comprising on their social objectives, disinvestment policy is often used. However, there are concerns regarding the extent of impact on firm per...
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Ritika Jain
12 June, 2017
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Tax, lies, and red tape
Weak institutional environments in poor countries may lead to lower tax compliance by firms. This may be especially true for family firms, whose owners have higher stakes in the firm and longer horizo...
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Megha Patnaik
31 March, 2017
- IGC Research on India
Community origins of industrial entrepreneurship: Theory and historical evidence from India
The transition from agriculture to trade and the subsequent transition from trade to manufacturing are key stages in the development process. In countries where a substantial manufacturing sector exis...
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Bishnupriya Gupta
Dilip Mookherjee
Kaivan Munshi
31 March, 2017
- IGC Research on India
Foreign market access and competition in India's textile and clothing industries: Impacts on firms and workers
This project aims to estimate the effects of foreign market access and export competition on plants and workers in the textiles and clothing industries in India.
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Krisztina Kis-Katos
Janneke Pieters
Shruti Sharma
31 March, 2017
- IGC Research on India
Infrastructure and economic growth: The role of airports
Given that banking sectors in low-income countries are inefficient, why don’t lenders from wealthier countries profitably lend to productive firms in these countries? One possibility is that foreign l...
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Natalie Bau
Jesse Schreger
31 March, 2017
- IGC Research on India
The dangers that lie beneath India's IT layoffs
The ongoing layoffs in India’s IT sector are at a scale that has not been seen since the global financial crisis of 2008. In this article, Maitreesh Ghatak, Professor of Economics at LSE, contends tha...
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Maitreesh Ghatak
24 March, 2017
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Do firms in India perceive themselves to be e-ready?
Government of India’s ‘Digital India’ programme seeks to transform the country into a digitally-empowered society and knowledge economy. This column presents region-wise findings of a perception-base...
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Bornali Bhandari
Ajaya Kumar Sahu
24 January, 2017
- Perspectives
The historical roots of India's booming service economy
India stands out from other emerging economies because its growth has been led by the service sector rather than labour-intensive manufactures. This column summarises recent research showing that Indi...
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Stephen Broadberry
Bishnupriya Gupta
13 January, 2017
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Is the structure of Indian manufacturing geared towards job creation?
Government of India has envisaged adding 100 million jobs in manufacturing by 2022. This column finds that the structure of the country’s manufacturing sector is misaligned with the objective of job ...
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Sharmila Kantha
05 December, 2016
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