Tag Search: “manufacturing”
Productivity and competition in India’s brick industry
Firm productivity has long been considered a key driver of economic growth. Yet there is little understanding of why the competition and innovation that fuels productivity growth in the developed worl...
- Parul Agarwal Daniel Keniston
- 30 September, 2015
- IGC Research on India
Rise of informality in India's tradable manufacturing sector
The vast informal sector in India affects everything from poverty to growth. This column presents new facts on how Indian job growth in manufacturing is concentrated in informal tradable industries, ...
- Ejaz Ghani William Kerr Alex Segura
- 13 July, 2015
- Articles
Creating a services value chain between India and Thailand
In the past two decades, India has signed several bilateral and regional comprehensive free trade agreements with Southeast Asian countries, which are likely to enhance services trade, investment and...
- Tanu Goyal Arpita Mukherjee
- 08 July, 2015
- Articles
The labour reforms debate: Broadening horizons
Even as the government has indicated that it plans to go slow on labour reforms and build consensus among all stakeholders, trade unions are protesting against “anti-labour” reforms. In this article,...
- Radhicka Kapoor
- 01 June, 2015
- Perspectives
Assessing the economic effects of India 'Looking East'
PM Modi recently said that India needs to move from ‘Look East’ to ‘Act East’ and that this is a key component of his government’s foreign policy. In this article, Ganeshan Wignaraja, an economist at...
- Ganeshan Wignaraja
- 22 May, 2015
- Perspectives
Analysing net foreign earnings of India's corporate sector
The corporate sector is the linchpin of the ‘Make in India’ campaign. This column finds that the sector is increasingly relying on imported inputs and its net foreign earnings are on the decline, thu...
- J. Dennis Rajakumar
- 22 April, 2015
- Articles
How serious are India's manufacturing skill gaps?
It is widely believed that skill gaps are constraining Indian manufacturing, and closing these gaps has become a national priority. This column argues that the public debate on India’s skill gaps res...
- Aashish Mehta
- 13 April, 2015
- Articles
Transit networks and regional development in India
Recent research illustrates the immediate positive effects of transit networks in India on rural employment, manufacturing growth and so on. This column focuses on the long-term impact of national hi...
- Gaurav Khanna
- 26 March, 2015
- Articles
Modi's economic reforms: Foundation laid but time running out
Anticipation is running high that the Modi government will announce sweeping economic reforms in their first full-year budget, especially since their tenure so far has been bereft of any dramatic cha...
- Eswar Prasad
- 27 February, 2015
- Perspectives
Where will jobs in manufacturing come from?
Conventional wisdom suggests that labour-intensive, small industries are critical for generating employment. However, this column argues that policies favouring one type of industry over another - lab...
- Radhicka Kapoor
- 23 January, 2015
- Articles
India's labour laws: Protecting to hurt
The state government of Rajasthan has begun making amendments to various labour laws in order to make labour markets more flexible. Summarising research on the impact of rigid labour laws on the grow...
- Devashish Mitra
- 14 January, 2015
- Perspectives
An economist's view on the new government's initiatives
In this article, Pranab Bardhan, Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, provides his perspective on some of the initiatives of the new Indian government at the centre in their fi...
- Pranab Bardhan
- 19 December, 2014
- Perspectives