South Asia's Turn

South Asia's Turn
Author :
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Total Pages : 281
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781464809743
ISBN-13 : 1464809747
Rating : 4/5 (747 Downloads)

Book Synopsis South Asia's Turn by : Gladys Lopez-Acevedo

Download or read book South Asia's Turn written by Gladys Lopez-Acevedo and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Asia has a huge need to create more and better jobs for a growing population †“ especially in the manufacturing industries where it is underperforming as compared to East Asia. The report examines three critical and relatively understudied drivers of competitiveness: -Economies of agglomeration: firms and workers accrue benefits from locating close together in cities or clusters through urbanization and localization. -Participation in global value chains: stronger competitive pressures weed out least productive firms while others improve by gaining access to new knowledge and better inputs. -Firm capabilities: in order to operate close to what would be considered optimum efficiency levels given the prevailing factor prices and thus employ South Asia’s abundant labor. The report shows that South Asia has great untapped competitiveness potential. Realizing this potential would require the governments in the region to pursue second generation trade policy reforms for firms to better contribute to and benefit from global value chains (e.g. facilitating imports for exporters), to facilitate the development of industrial clusters in secondary cities (cheaper and less congested than the metros) as well as to deploy policies to improve the capabilities of firms.

South Asia's Turn Related Books

South Asia's Turn
Language: en
Pages: 281
Authors: Gladys Lopez-Acevedo
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-05-23 - Publisher: World Bank Publications

GET EBOOK

South Asia has a huge need to create more and better jobs for a growing population †“ especially in the manufacturing industries where it is underperforming
The South Asia Papers
Language: en
Pages: 390
Authors: Stephen P. Cohen
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-12 - Publisher: Brookings Institution Press

GET EBOOK

This curated collection examines Stephen Philip Cohen’s impressive body of work. Stephen Philip Cohen, the Brookings scholar who virtually created the field o
South Asia in World History
Language: en
Pages: 209
Authors: Marc Jason Gilbert
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

GET EBOOK

South Asia and the world to 1500 BCE -- The Vedic Age, 1500 to 500 BCE -- South Asia's classical age: 325 BCE to 711 CE -- Islam in South Asia, c. 711 to 1556 -
Statemaking and Territory in South Asia
Language: en
Pages: 250
Authors: Bernardo A. Michael
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-10-01 - Publisher: Anthem Press

GET EBOOK

“Statemaking and Territory in South Asia: Lessons from the Anglo–Gorkha War (1814–1816)” seeks to understand how European colonization transformed the o
India in South Asia
Language: en
Pages: 308
Authors: Amit Ranjan
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-05-11 - Publisher: Springer

GET EBOOK

This book discusses the perceptions India has about its South Asian neighbours, and how these neighbours, in turn, perceive India. While analyzing these percept