Indian Growth and Development Review: Volume 12 Issue 1

Optimizing private and public mode of operation in major ports of India for better customer service

Deepankar Sinha, Shuvo Roy Chowdhury

The Government of India announced its liberalization policy in the year 1991. Since then, the major ports in India introduced privatization in various forms into their operations…

Inequality in the labor market: lower perceived returns among marginalized youths and girls

Manjistha Banerji, Ashwini Deshpande

This paper examines perceived labor market earnings among adolescents and their parents by gender and caste. Previous research has established that lower subjective expectations…

Capital endowment and race to the bottom in a federation

Moumita Chel, Vivekananda Mukherjee

This paper aims to analyse the phenomenon of race to the bottom in a federation and provides answer to the question why developing countries are more prone to race to the bottom…

Exporting and firm performance: evidence from India

Apoorva Gupta, Ila Patnaik, Ajay Shah

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the direction of causality between firm productivity and export status. The correlation can arise from multiple alternative causal…

Measuring total factor productivity change of microfinance institutions in India using Malmquist productivity index

Dilip Ambarkhane, Ardhendu Shekhar Singh, Bhama Venkataramani

Microfinance institutions (MFIs) provide small loans and other financial services to the poor. These institutions are established for helping the poor to raise income levels and…

Is awareness of credit sources prerequisite for their use? A study of rural Assam

Tiken Das

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the determinants of awareness and use of credit sources. The paper attempts to answer the critical question: is awareness of credit sources…