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Research paper thumbnail of Subcontracting and enterprise development in India's informal manufacturing sector

Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development

PurposeSubcontracting is a crucial cause behind the simultaneous existence of formal and informal... more PurposeSubcontracting is a crucial cause behind the simultaneous existence of formal and informal entrepreneurship in India. This article aims to provide an over-time comparative analysis between the subcontracted and the non-subcontracted enterprises within the informal sector. Further, it also brings to fore the contribution of subcontracting towards ensuring sustainability of the informal enterprises.Design/methodology/approachBy constructing a panel data from two rounds of NSS Unincorporated Enterprise Survey Data (2010 and 2015), and employing a PSM-DID method, considering labour productivity and net retained earnings as two critical indicators of growth and development of the informal sector firms, this study has made some broad claims regarding the differences in immediate and long run performances between the subcontracted and non-subcontracted informal sector enterprises in India.FindingsThis study finds that subcontracted enterprises have not only been performing at a much...

Research paper thumbnail of Commentary on India’s Economy and Society Series World Development Report 2020: Trading for Development in the Age of Global Value Chains

Research paper thumbnail of Commentary on World Development Report 2020: Trading for Development in the Age of Global Value Chains

The importance of trade to an economy needs no emphasis. You sell products or services that you a... more The importance of trade to an economy needs no emphasis. You sell products or services that you are competitive at and buy those where you are not. Experience of countries such as South Korea and China demonstrate that resources required for development can be garnered through trade; thus, motivating many countries to embrace trade as a means for development. Simultaneously, emergence of 'Global Value Chain' or 'GVC' as they are popularly known has changed the way we trade. Though the concept of GVC was introduced in the early 2000s, there are examples of global value chains before the 1980s. However, the scale of the phenomenon and the way in which technological change, by lowering trade costs, has allowed fragmentation of production was not possible before (Hernandez et al., 2014). In this context, the World Bank has recently published its 'World Development Report 2020: Trading for Development in the Age of Global Value Chains' (WDR). The report prescribes...

Research paper thumbnail of The Impact of COVID-19 Mobility Restrictions in India: Comparing State and Central responses

Indian central and state governments have imposed restrictions on human mobility to slow the spre... more Indian central and state governments have imposed restrictions on human mobility to slow the spread of COVID-19. Based on state government directives and mobility data from Google, we find that similar restrictions did not lead to equal reductions in mobility across states before the national lockdown. Maharashtra’s restrictions were the most effective in reducing mobility by a large margin. The national lockdown had a larger and more uniform effect for most states.

Research paper thumbnail of COVID-19 and Federalism in India: Capturing the Effects of State and Central Responses on Mobility

The European Journal of Development Research, 2021

In response to the rapidly spreading COVID-19 pandemic, governments resorted to containment and c... more In response to the rapidly spreading COVID-19 pandemic, governments resorted to containment and closure measures to reduce population mobility and ensure social distancing. Initially, India's state governments enacted varying social-distancing policies until the Central government overrode states to impose a nationwide lockdown on 24th March. This paper examines the relative impact of state-and centrallevel social-distancing policies on changes in mobility, comparing the periods before and after the national lockdown. A district-level panel dataset is formed, compiling data on social-distancing policies and changes in population mobility patterns. Panel regressions reveal that the incremental effect of each social-distancing policy varied across states in the pre-24th March period. The national lockdown led to much larger, though varying, reductions in mobility across all states. Overall, states which were able to achieve higher compliance in terms of reducing mobility in the prelockdown phase performed better in the national lockdown. Keywords COVID-19 • Mobility • Social distancing • Federalism • Lockdown JEL Classifications I18 • H11 • H77 • C23 Résumé Pour faire face à la propagation rapide de la pandémie COVID-19, les gouvernements on fait recours à des mesures de contention et de clôture, afin de réduire la mobilité des populations et d'assurer la distanciation sociale. Initialement, les gouvernements des états de l'Inde ont promulgué différentes mesures de distanciation sociale jusqu'à que le gouvernement centrale les a contournés, imposant un confinement nationale

Research paper thumbnail of The Impact of Government Restrictions on Human Mobility: Which States Performed Better?

Indian central and state governments have imposed restrictions on human mobility to slow the spre... more Indian central and state governments have imposed restrictions on human mobility to slow the spread of COVID-19. Based on state government directives and mobility data from Google, we find that similar restrictions did not lead to equal reductions in mobility across states before the national lockdown. Maharashtra’s restrictions were the most effective in reducing mobility by a large margin. The national lockdown had a larger and more uniform effect for most states.

Research paper thumbnail of COVID-19 and Federalism in India: Capturing the Effects of Voluntary, State and Central Responses on Mobility

Research paper thumbnail of COVID-19 and Federalism in India: Capturing the Effects of Voluntary, State and Central Responses on Mobility

Research paper thumbnail of Prospect theory – a paradigm shift in decision making

Narendrapur Submitted as a term paper on 4 rh May 2015 as a part of the mandatory project work in... more Narendrapur Submitted as a term paper on 4 rh May 2015 as a part of the mandatory project work in the SEMESTER VI IN ECONOMICS (Advanced)

Research paper thumbnail of Subcontracting and enterprise development in India's informal manufacturing sector

Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development

PurposeSubcontracting is a crucial cause behind the simultaneous existence of formal and informal... more PurposeSubcontracting is a crucial cause behind the simultaneous existence of formal and informal entrepreneurship in India. This article aims to provide an over-time comparative analysis between the subcontracted and the non-subcontracted enterprises within the informal sector. Further, it also brings to fore the contribution of subcontracting towards ensuring sustainability of the informal enterprises.Design/methodology/approachBy constructing a panel data from two rounds of NSS Unincorporated Enterprise Survey Data (2010 and 2015), and employing a PSM-DID method, considering labour productivity and net retained earnings as two critical indicators of growth and development of the informal sector firms, this study has made some broad claims regarding the differences in immediate and long run performances between the subcontracted and non-subcontracted informal sector enterprises in India.FindingsThis study finds that subcontracted enterprises have not only been performing at a much...

Research paper thumbnail of Commentary on India’s Economy and Society Series World Development Report 2020: Trading for Development in the Age of Global Value Chains

Research paper thumbnail of Commentary on World Development Report 2020: Trading for Development in the Age of Global Value Chains

The importance of trade to an economy needs no emphasis. You sell products or services that you a... more The importance of trade to an economy needs no emphasis. You sell products or services that you are competitive at and buy those where you are not. Experience of countries such as South Korea and China demonstrate that resources required for development can be garnered through trade; thus, motivating many countries to embrace trade as a means for development. Simultaneously, emergence of 'Global Value Chain' or 'GVC' as they are popularly known has changed the way we trade. Though the concept of GVC was introduced in the early 2000s, there are examples of global value chains before the 1980s. However, the scale of the phenomenon and the way in which technological change, by lowering trade costs, has allowed fragmentation of production was not possible before (Hernandez et al., 2014). In this context, the World Bank has recently published its 'World Development Report 2020: Trading for Development in the Age of Global Value Chains' (WDR). The report prescribes...

Research paper thumbnail of The Impact of COVID-19 Mobility Restrictions in India: Comparing State and Central responses

Indian central and state governments have imposed restrictions on human mobility to slow the spre... more Indian central and state governments have imposed restrictions on human mobility to slow the spread of COVID-19. Based on state government directives and mobility data from Google, we find that similar restrictions did not lead to equal reductions in mobility across states before the national lockdown. Maharashtra’s restrictions were the most effective in reducing mobility by a large margin. The national lockdown had a larger and more uniform effect for most states.

Research paper thumbnail of COVID-19 and Federalism in India: Capturing the Effects of State and Central Responses on Mobility

The European Journal of Development Research, 2021

In response to the rapidly spreading COVID-19 pandemic, governments resorted to containment and c... more In response to the rapidly spreading COVID-19 pandemic, governments resorted to containment and closure measures to reduce population mobility and ensure social distancing. Initially, India's state governments enacted varying social-distancing policies until the Central government overrode states to impose a nationwide lockdown on 24th March. This paper examines the relative impact of state-and centrallevel social-distancing policies on changes in mobility, comparing the periods before and after the national lockdown. A district-level panel dataset is formed, compiling data on social-distancing policies and changes in population mobility patterns. Panel regressions reveal that the incremental effect of each social-distancing policy varied across states in the pre-24th March period. The national lockdown led to much larger, though varying, reductions in mobility across all states. Overall, states which were able to achieve higher compliance in terms of reducing mobility in the prelockdown phase performed better in the national lockdown. Keywords COVID-19 • Mobility • Social distancing • Federalism • Lockdown JEL Classifications I18 • H11 • H77 • C23 Résumé Pour faire face à la propagation rapide de la pandémie COVID-19, les gouvernements on fait recours à des mesures de contention et de clôture, afin de réduire la mobilité des populations et d'assurer la distanciation sociale. Initialement, les gouvernements des états de l'Inde ont promulgué différentes mesures de distanciation sociale jusqu'à que le gouvernement centrale les a contournés, imposant un confinement nationale

Research paper thumbnail of The Impact of Government Restrictions on Human Mobility: Which States Performed Better?

Indian central and state governments have imposed restrictions on human mobility to slow the spre... more Indian central and state governments have imposed restrictions on human mobility to slow the spread of COVID-19. Based on state government directives and mobility data from Google, we find that similar restrictions did not lead to equal reductions in mobility across states before the national lockdown. Maharashtra’s restrictions were the most effective in reducing mobility by a large margin. The national lockdown had a larger and more uniform effect for most states.

Research paper thumbnail of COVID-19 and Federalism in India: Capturing the Effects of Voluntary, State and Central Responses on Mobility

Research paper thumbnail of COVID-19 and Federalism in India: Capturing the Effects of Voluntary, State and Central Responses on Mobility

Research paper thumbnail of Prospect theory – a paradigm shift in decision making

Narendrapur Submitted as a term paper on 4 rh May 2015 as a part of the mandatory project work in... more Narendrapur Submitted as a term paper on 4 rh May 2015 as a part of the mandatory project work in the SEMESTER VI IN ECONOMICS (Advanced)