Utsav Kumar

Asian Development Bank

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Tracking the Middle-Income Trap: What is it, Who is in it, and Why?

Levy Economics Institute, Working Paper No. 715
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 02 May 2012
Jesus Felipe, Arnelyn Abdon and Utsav Kumar
De La Salle University, Asian Development Bank and Asian Development Bank
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Middle-income Trap

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Unit Labor Costs in the Eurozone: The Competitiveness Debate Again

Levy Economics Institute of Bard College Working Paper No. 651
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 03 Mar 2011
Jesus Felipe and Utsav Kumar
De La Salle University and Asian Development Bank
Downloads 721 (62,306)
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Competitiveness, Eurozone, Income Distribution, Unit Labor Costs

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What Constrains Indian Manufacturing?

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 22 Feb 2009
Poonam Gupta, Rana Hasan and Utsav Kumar
Delhi School of Economics, Asian Development Bank and Asian Development Bank
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De-licensing, external finance dependence, infrastructure intensity, labour intensity, manufacturing, reforms

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The Role of Trade Facilitation in Central Asia: A Gravity Model

Levy Economics Institute of Bard College Working Paper No. 628
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 04 Nov 2010
Jesus Felipe and Utsav Kumar
De La Salle University and Asian Development Bank
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Central Asia, Gravity Model, Trade Facilitation

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Product Complexity and Economic Development

Levy Economics Institute, Working Papers No. 616
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 17 Sep 2010
Arnelyn Abdon, Marife Lou Bacate, Jesus Felipe and Utsav Kumar
Asian Development Bank, affiliation not provided to SSRN, De La Salle University and Asian Development Bank
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Capabilities, Development, Economic Complexity, Diversification, Method of Reflections, Product Complexity, Ubiquity

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Performance of Indian Manufacturing in the Post Reform Period

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 16 May 2010 Last Revised: 14 Sep 2010
Poonam Gupta and Utsav Kumar
Delhi School of Economics and Asian Development Bank
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Delicensing, employment, growth, India, infrastructure, labor market regulations, liberalization, manufacturing, reforms, services

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How Rich Countries Became Rich and Why Poor Countries Remain Poor: It’s the Economic Structure...Duh!

Bard College Levy Economics Institute Working Paper No. 644
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 24 Dec 2010
Jesus Felipe, Utsav Kumar and Arnelyn Abdon
De La Salle University, Asian Development Bank and Asian Development Bank
Downloads 301 (174,652)
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Bad Product, Capabilities, Low Product Trap, Middle Product Trap, Proximity, Sophistication, Structural Transformation

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India’s Demographic Transition: Boon or Bane? A State-Level Perspective

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 11 Sep 2010
Utsav Kumar
Asian Development Bank
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Demographic Dividend, Economic Growth, India, Population Growth, Working-Age Population

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Big Reforms but Small Payoffs: Explaining the Weak Record of Growth in Indian Manufacturing

Number of pages: 81 Posted: 19 Feb 2009
Poonam Gupta, Rana Hasan and Utsav Kumar
Delhi School of Economics, Asian Development Bank and Asian Development Bank
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Why Has China Succeeded - And Why it Will Continue to Do So

Levy Economics Institute, Working Papers Series No. 611
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 21 Aug 2010
Jesus Felipe, Utsav Kumar, Norio Usui and Arnelyn Abdon
De La Salle University, Asian Development Bank, Asian Development Bank - Philippines Country Office and Asian Development Bank
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China, Capabilities, Diversification, Export-led Growth, Leapfrogging, Open Forest, Product Space, Sophistication

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India's Growth in the 2000s: Four Facts

Peterson Institute for International Economics Working Paper No. 11-17
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 23 Nov 2011
Utsav Kumar and Arvind Subramanian
Asian Development Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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India, economic growth, aggregate productivity, cross-country output convergence, Asia, Middle East

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India's Demographic Transition: Boon or Bane?

Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies (APPS), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 23 Dec 2013 Last Revised: 08 Oct 2014
Utsav Kumar
Asian Development Bank
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demographic dividend, economic growth, India, population growth, working-age population

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As You Sow so Shall You Reap: From Capabilities to Opportunities

Levy Economics Institute, Working Papers Series No. 613
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 25 Aug 2010
Jesus Felipe, Utsav Kumar and Arnelyn Abdon
De La Salle University, Asian Development Bank and Asian Development Bank
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Capabilities, Index of Opportunities, Diversification, Open Forest, Product Space, Sophistication, Standardness

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Exports, Capabilities, and Industrial Policy in India

Bard College Levy Economics Institute Working Paper No. 638
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 23 Nov 2010
Jesus Felipe, Utsav Kumar and Arnelyn Abdon
De La Salle University, Asian Development Bank and Asian Development Bank
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Capabilities, Diversification, India, Industrial Policy, Revealed Comparative Advantage, Sophistication

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India's Patterns of Development: What Happened, What Follows

NBER Working Paper No. w12023
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 27 Apr 2006 Last Revised: 09 Nov 2022
Kalpana Kochhar, Utsav Kumar, Raghuram G. Rajan, Arvind Subramanian and Ioannis Tokatlidis
International Monetary Fund (IMF), Asian Development Bank, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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The Impact of Geography and Natural Resource Abundance on Growth in Central Asia

Levy Economics Institute of Bard College Working Paper No. 629
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 04 Nov 2010
Jesus Felipe and Utsav Kumar
De La Salle University and Asian Development Bank
Downloads 108 (428,324)
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Central Asia, EXPY, Landlocked, Manufacturing Exports, Primary Exports, Resource-Rich

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Middle-Income Transitions: Trap or Myth?

Asian Development Bank Economics Working Paper Series No. 421
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 03 Feb 2015
Jesus Felipe, Utsav Kumar and Reynold Galope
De La Salle University, Asian Development Bank and Georgia State University
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middle-income trap, middle-income transition

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Technical Change in India’s Organized Manufacturing Sector

Levy Economics Institute of Bard College Working Paper No. 626
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 14 Oct 2010
Jesus Felipe and Utsav Kumar
De La Salle University and Asian Development Bank
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Hicks-neutral Technical Change, India, Marx-biased Technical Change, Real Wage–Profit Rate Schedule

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Using Capabilities to Project Growth, 2010-30

Bard College Levy Economics Institute Working Paper No. 609
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 16 Aug 2010
Jesus Felipe, Utsav Kumar and Arnelyn Abdon
De La Salle University, Asian Development Bank and Asian Development Bank
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Capabilities, Forecast, Growth

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A Reassessment of the Use of Unit Labor Costs as a Tool for Competitiveness and Policy Analyses in India

Levy Economics Institute of Bard College Working Paper No. 624
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 06 Oct 2010
Jesus Felipe and Utsav Kumar
De La Salle University and Asian Development Bank
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Capital Productivity, Capital Share, Competitiveness, Functional Distribution of Income, India, Labor Productivity, Labor Share, Real Rate of Profit, Real Wage Rate, Unit Capital Cost, Unit Labor Cost