Tag Search: “entrepreneurship”
Who creates jobs?
With millions of young people entering the labour market each year, the big question is whether there will be enough jobs for them. But who actually creates these jobs? This column looks at data from...
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Ejaz Ghani
William Kerr
Stephen D O'Connell
02 August, 2013
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Foreign investors under stress: Evidence at the firm level
Emerging market policymakers have been concerned about the financial stability implications of financial globalisation. These concerns are focussed particularly on behaviour under stressed conditions.
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Ila Patnaik
Ajay Shah
Nirvikar Singh
01 March, 2013
- IGC Research on India
How Important are credit constraints for small firm growth?
This project focusses on the role of financial constraints in determining the lack of transition of firms from the very small family firms (OAMEs) which are the predominant type of firms in the inform...
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Kunal Sen
01 December, 2012
- IGC Research on India
What explains gender disparities in economic participation in India?
The UN Global Gender Gap data shows that women’s economic participation and opportunity is worse in India than in 95% of all other countries studied. This column attempts to uncover what drives the ge...
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Ejaz Ghani
William Kerr
Stephen D O'Connell
21 August, 2012
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Manufacturing, management and mysteries
The private sector is crucial to India’s development. This column asks how it can be more effective. Looking at a large sample of Indian manufacturers it suggests that what many firms may be missing i...
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Nirvikar Singh
27 July, 2012
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Middleman Margins, Credit and Information Constraints: Potato Markets in West Bengal, India
This project investigates how potato farmers in West Bengal sell their crop to local traders, the determinants of farm-gate prices and margins earned by traders. Specifically, it examines the role of ...
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Pushkar Maitra
Sandip Mitra
Dilip Mookherjee
Sujata Visaria
31 March, 2012
- IGC Research on India
What do Indian CEOs do? Time Use of Indian Top Executives: Determinants and Implications for Growth
This project presents evidence on the labour supply of CEOs, and on whether family and professional CEOs differ on this dimension. It does so through a new survey instrument that allows it to codify C...
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Oriana Bandiera
Andrea Prat
Raffaella Sadun
31 March, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Improving Access to Finance for Entrepreneurs in Developing Countries
One of the most important issues in developing countries is how to finance small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Although microcredit and new forms of financial inclusion are increasingly prominent in ...
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Shawn Cole
Leora Klapper
31 March, 2011
- IGC Research on India
Making good management stick: Evidence from India
A long-standing question in social science is to what extent differences in management cause differences in firm performance. To investigate this, researchers ran a management field experiment on larg...
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Aprajit Mahajan
David McKenzie
John Roberts
01 December, 2010
- IGC Research on India
Developing and Analyzing Firm Level Moments on Productivity and Reallocation
Productivity growth is the main driver of long-run increases in per capita income and welfare. This project investigates the effect of idiosyncratic (firm-level) policy distortions on aggregate outcom...
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Eric J Bartelsman
John Haltiwanger
01 September, 2010
- IGC Research on India
Long Run-Effects of Repayment Flexibility in Microfinance: Evidence from India
Financiers across the world structure debt contracts to limit the risk of entrepreneurial lending. But debt structures that reduce risk may inhibit enterprise growth, especially among the poor.
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Erica Field
Rohini Pande
John Papp
Natalia Rigol
01 February, 2010
- IGC Research on India