Gender Wage Differentials in India’s Manufacturing Sector* Nidhiya Menon, Brandeis University Yana van der Meulen Rodgers, Rutgers University April 2007 Abstract: As trade liberalization in India has unleashed a new wave of competitive forces in the economy since 1991, firms have faced growing pressure to cut costs in order to continue production. This study addresses the question of whether the increasing competitive forces from India’s trade liberalization affected the wages
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Examine India’s balance of payments in the last two decades. What have been the trends in terms of merchandise trade, invisibles and capital flows? The balance of payments (BOP) is the method countries use to monitor all international monetary transactions at a specific period of time. Usually, the BOP is calculated every quarter and every calendar year. All trades conducted by both the private and public sectors are accounted for in the BOP in order to determine how much money is going in and
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EXMBA 2012-14 Sem-2 Economic Environment of Business Faculty : Ms Simirit Kaur Project Report on Major obstacles to India s growth Submitted By: Harish Kumar (S-25) Manoj Paweria (S-36) Kumar Sikander (S-76) ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We owe a great many thanks to a great many people who helped and supported me during assignment . Our deepest thanks to professor, Ms. Simrit Kaur for assisting us at every stage of this project from the objectives, techniques and analysis to fine-tuning our entire findings
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independence and partition, the consolidation of new nation states despite regional wars and conflicts, and the emergence of India as the largest democracy in the world, this paper is a comprehensive and analytical survey of the subcontinent's modern history. The dynamic and complex relationships between changing forms of political power and religious identities, economic transformations, and social and cultural change are studied in the period from 1757 to 2007. In normal circumstances students
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Globalisation refers to the increasing level of economic integration between countries, leading to the emergence of a global market place or a single world market. Globalisation has played an important part in the economic development of countries around the world but has also led to increased damage to the environment. To illustrate this, India and Australia will be used as examples. India's economic development strategies built up a number of problems over the period 1965 to the late 1980s.
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during which major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, transport, and technology had a profound effect on the socio-economic and cultural conditions of the human race. Starting in the United Kingdom, and then subsequently spreading throughout Europe, North America, and eventually the world, the Industrial Revolution is the most important event in the history of humanity since the domestication of animals and plants. In the two centuries following 1800, the world's average per capita income increased
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FDI policy – Indian Perspective 11th September 2007 Macro-economic Overview Sustained Economic growth • Growth of over 8.0% during last 3 years • Fourth largest economy in the world in PPP terms Services account for over 50% of GDP Manufacturing sector growing annually at over 9% (17.4% in GDP) Foreign exchange reserve of over US $ 200 billion FDI inflows grew by 72% in 2005-06: the growth in 200607 was 184%. FDI inflows continue to be impressive this year as well with US$ 4.9 billion
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type in China and India. Which of the two would you prefer to do business in and why? (You may specify the type of business.) The Politic regime of a country is imposed to safeguard the interests of that country. However it can have the effect of limiting a country’s growth and development and can cause complications when attempting to do business within a country. China and India are two fast growing and very large countries with clear distinction in social and economic models as well as
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Dr. Manmohan Singh is the first Sikh Prime Minister of India who has spent a long career as a bureaucrat. He is not a crafty and shrewd politician, but a learned economist also. He has been a successful official, who has worked at various important posts. He is polite in nature, simple, plain, far from deceit and stratagem. When Manmohan Singh was assigned the post of a Finance Minister by former Prime Minister Narsimha Rao, the people got alarmed. At that time the financial condition of our country
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