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Dr. Tewari works on the political economy of economic and industrial
development, poverty alleviation,
small firms, and the urban informal economy from a comparative, institutional
perspective. She
teaches in the areas of comparative economic development, historical
and institutional analysis of
development processes, and microeconomics.
Dr. Tewari’s
research focuses on the diverse processes of industrial adjustment
and ‘upgrading’ within
regional economies and production networks in developed and developing
countries. She is particularly
interested in the implications of intensifying competition, trade,
foreign direct investment, and economic
liberalization for firms, workers, public sector institutions and
local economies. Her research explores
why, and under what conditions, are some regions, firms, workers and
local institutions better able to
deal innovatively and resiliently with the pressures of globalization
than others; and what kinds of
institutional arrangements and circumstances help diffuse these capabilities
more widely within
institutions of the regional economy.
Dr. Tewari is a member of the Research and Advisory Committee of the
Institute of Small Enterprise
Development in India, and has served as a consultant with the United
Nations Industrial Development
Organization, the World Bank, International Labor Organization and
the Inter-American Development
Bank. She taught at MIT from 1997 to 1999 as lecturer in Economic
Development and Urban Planning.
Prior to that, she was a post-doctoral fellow at the IFO Institute
for Economic Research in
Munich, Germany.
Ongoing Research
States. Recent accounts portray India as a major beneficiary of the end of quota regime, after China.
What do evolving patterns of adjustment actually reveal? Placing the Indian case within a broader
comparative context (of the experience of China, Turkey, Mexico and other South Asian countries),
this project examines the globalization of India’s textile and garment industry, and the non-traditional
form that this growing insertion within US and European buyer networks appears to have taken.
• Cross-border mobility and the economic transformation of mature industries. The project examines how
recent changes in North Carolina's furniture industry, including growing international competition, have
restructured the region's manufacturing base, employment structure, worker skills and trade patterns.
• A related project examines the impact of economic liberalization and WTO regulations on regional industry,
focusing on the sub-national level in India.
• Dr. Tewari is also interested in issues of small firm competitiveness and the urban informal economy.
In May 2000, she helped organize an international workshop on "Labor Organizations in the Informal Sector
- Toward a New Research Agenda" in collaboration with MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning
and the International Women's Development group, WIEGO (Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing
and Organizing), in Cambridge, MA.
• "Is
Price and Cost Competitiveness Enough for Apparel Firms to Gain Market
Share in the World after Quotas?
A Review." Global Economy Journal, Vol.
6, No. 4, 2006. http://www.bepress.com/gej/vol6/iss4/5
• Tewari,
M. (2006) "Adjustments in India's textile and apparel industry:
Reworking historical legacies in a post
-MFA world," Environment and Planning A,
38 (12): 2325-2344.
• McKethan,
A., and M. Tewari. (2005) "Prospering from Within: Identifying
and Nurturing Local Assets"
Innovation
Online, Institute of Emerging Issues, Raleigh, North Carolina.
November
• “Global
standards and environmental compliance in India’s leather industry.”
Joint with Poonam Pillai.
Oxford Development Studies, Vol. 33, No.
2, 2005.
• "The
state's role in shaping the conditions of accumulation in Ludhiana's
metalworking sector: an
historical interpretation." In: Decentralized
Production in India: Industrial Districts, Flexible
Specialization, and Employment. Edited by Philippe
Cadene and Mark Holmström. Thousand Oaks,
New Delhi, London: Sage. August 1998.