Tag Search: “firms”
The crisis in Indian manufacturing
Manufacturing sector growth in India has fallen from over 9% to a dismal 1% in the past couple of years. This article discusses the factors that have caused a slowdown in organised and unorganised ma...
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Jayan Jose Thomas
13 December, 2013
- Perspectives
Exchange rate movements and Indian firms' exports
Understanding the effects of exchange-rate changes on a country’s trade balance calls for an analysis of how exchange-rate fluctuations affect the decisions of individual firms. This column explores ...
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Yin Cheung
Rajeswari Sengupta
01 November, 2013
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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
- Articles
Bad management: A constraint on economic development?
Are poor management practices holding back middle-income countries? This column looks at the evidence for private firms and public organisations in manufacturing, retail, healthcare and education in I...
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Renata Lemos
Daniela Scur
08 July, 2013
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The Golden Quadrilateral: Highway to success
The Golden Quadrilateral, which connects four major cities in India, is the fifth-longest highway in the world. This column presents research that finds that by improving connectivity, the highway ha...
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Ejaz Ghani
Arti Grover Goswami
William Kerr
10 May, 2013
- Articles
What do Indian CEOs do?
While the Indian manufacturing sector has experienced rapid growth since the early 1990s, it is characterised by large productivity differences across firms and presence of several low productivity f...
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Oriana Bandiera
15 March, 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
Helping India's informal manufacturing sector to grow
India’s informal manufacturing sector is dominated by small household enterprises that keep everything within the family – but these firms are often the least productive. Why aren’t these small enterp...
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Kunal Sen
09 January, 2013
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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
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
- Articles
Management practices in retail, education and healthcare sectors in India
This project presents an in-depth descriptive look at the state of management practices in India. Using a unique dataset measuring the quality of management practices across countries and sectors, it ...
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Renata Lemos
Daniela Scur
31 May, 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