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subsidies
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Implementing industrial policy effectively: Lessons from shipbuilding in China
Industrial policy in China aimed to make the country’s shipbuilding industry a world leader. Comprehensive data on shipyards worldwide reveals the huge scale of this policy, which boosted China's domestic investment, entry, and world market share dramatically. However, it created sizable distortions and led to increased industry fragmentation and idleness.
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China does not pick – or create – winners when giving subsidies to firms
What is the relationship between the allocation of government subsidies and total productivity for Chinese listed firms?
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Escaping the subsidy-quality trap in India’s retail electricity market
Reducing power prices for commercial and industrial consumers can help utilities raise revenue and enhance service quality across the system
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Does household electrification supercharge economic development?
To what extent do the poorest rural households in sub-Saharan Africa benefit from residential electrification investments?
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Temporary agricultural input subsidies have lasting impacts: The Mozambique experiment
Subsidies need not be permanent to benefit farmers. Well-designed policy that encourages experimentation can generate widespread and lasting impacts.
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What is India's calorie paradox?
Why is an increase in average wealth in India accompanied by a decrease in average calorie consumption?
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Curbing leakage in public programmes: Evidence from India’s Direct Benefit Transfer Policy for LPG subsidies
Transferring subsidies directly to the programme beneficiaries in in-kind transfer programmes can help in reducing leakages
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Using mobile money to improve access to sanitation services in Dakar
Subsidies see a greater take up of mechanised latrine desludging than mental accounting nudges for better public health
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The implication of firm competition on industrial policies
Small firms that receive subsidies in India grow more quickly than their competitors. But is it a zero-sum game?