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Hsieh, Chang-Tai - 2014

Although a large literature seeks to explain the "missing middle" of mid-sized firms in developing countries, there is surprisingly little empirical backing for existence of the missing middle. Using microdata on the full distribution of both formal and informal sector manufacturing firms in...

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Using Machine Learning and Qualitative Interviews to Design a Five-Question Women's Agency Index

Jayachandran, Seema; Biradavolu, Monica R.; Cooper, Jan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We propose a new method to design a short survey measure of a complex concept such as women's agency. The approach … combines mixed-methods data collection and machine learning. We select the best survey questions based on how strongly … candidate questions. This approach of selecting survey questions based on their statistical correspondence to coded qualitative …

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In with the Big, Out with the Small : Removing Small-Scale Reservations in India

Martin, Leslie A. - 2014

An ongoing debate in employment policy is whether promoting small and medium enterprises creates more employment. Do small enterprises generate more employment growth than larger firms? We use the elimination of small-scale industry (SSI) promotion in India to address this question. For 60...

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Do Patents Matter? : Empirical Evidence after GATT

Lanjouw, Jean O. - 2000

protection. We use new survey data from India, the results of interviews with industry, government and multinational institutions …

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Trade Policy as an Input to Development

Krueger, Anne O. - 1980

My topic is the question: what difference does the set of commercial policies chosen by a developing country make to its rate of economic growth? Three points are salient. First, in its present state, trade theory provides little guidance as to the role of trade policy and trade strategy in...

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Cities, Lights, and Skills in Developing Economies

Dingel, Jonathan I. - 2019

In developed economies, agglomeration is skill-biased: larger cities are skill-abundant and exhibit higher skilled wage premia. This paper characterizes the spatial distributions of skills in Brazil, China, and India. To facilitate comparisons with developed-economy findings, we construct...

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Blackouts in the Developing World : The Role of Wholesale Electricity Markets

Jha, Akshaya; Preonas, Louis; Burlig, Fiona - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Blackouts impose substantial economic costs in developing countries. This paper advances a new explanation for their continued prevalence: unlike in high-income countries, where regulatory mandates require utilities to satisfy all electricity demand, utilities in developing countries respond to...

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Aging and Death under a Dollar a Day

Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2007

This paper uses household survey data form several developing countries to investigate whether the poor (defined as …

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China and India as Suppliers of Affordable Medicines to Developing Countries

Hafner, Tamara - 2011

As countries reform their patent laws to be in compliance with the Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights Agreement, an important question is how increased patent protection will affect drug prices in low-income countries. Using pharmaceutical trade data from 1996 to 2005, we examine the...

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The Market Impacts of Pharmaceutical Product Patents in Developing Countries : Evidence from India

Duggan, Mark - 2014

In 2005, as the result of a World Trade Organization mandate, India began to implement product patents for pharmaceuticals that were compliant with the 1995 Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). We combine pharmaceutical product sales data for India with a newly gathered...

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