Indian Growth and Development Review: Volume 16 Issue 2

Towards a better measure of productivity in India: a case of chemical and chemical products industry

Vipin Valiyattoor, Anup Kumar Bhandari

A brief review of earlier studies on the productivity scenario of Indian industry shows that most of the studies analysed are confined to either parametric approach or growth…

Technical efficiency and its determinants of handloom micro-enterprises in the Indian state of Assam: a two-stage double-bootstrap DEA approach

Bijoy Kumar Dey, Gurudas Das, Ujjwal Kanti Paul

This paper aims to estimate the technical efficiency (TE) and its determinants in the handloom micro-enterprises of Assam (India) using the double-bootstrap data envelopment…

Why do Indian startups fail? A narrative analysis of key business stakeholders

Nayanjyoti Goswami, Ashutosh Bishnu Murti, Rohit Dwivedi

This paper aims to examine the factors that lead to the failure of startups in India and proposes a ‘Four Dimensional (4D) Strategic Framework’ to drive success.

Asymmetric information, capacity constraint and segmentation in credit markets

Pallabi Chakraborty, Amarjyoti Mahanta

The purpose of this study is to propose a model of competition between a formal lender (bank) and an informal lender (moneylender) with informational asymmetry between these two…

Migration in India under structural transformation

Yiming Liu

This study aims to answer if inter-state migrants in India play a more active role than their intra-state counterparts in labor force participation and entrepreneurship.