This paper surveys the literature on historical national accounting, discusses the importance
of relative income benchmarks for, in particular, historical income estimates, and presents an …

Economists' understanding of long-run economic development has greatly improved thanks
to the historical statistics compiled by the late Angus Maddison. Yet his method for …

Can increasing sophistication in service exports lead to economic growth? Although
services were historically produced primarily for domestic consumption, they are gradually …

Estimates of Indian GDP are constructed from the output side for 1600–1871, and combined
with population data. Indian per capita GDP declined steadily during the seventeenth and …

This paper investigates the impact of services FDI inflows on service exports in selected
South Asian countries by employing panel data techniques from 2000 to 2020. For …

Comparisons of pre and postreform economic growth in India are widely researched in the
literature. This paper adds to this literature, but with a sectoral growth accounting …

From the end of the eighteenth century, two distinct global processes began to transform
livelihoods and living conditions in the South Asia region. These were the rise of British …

Railways were integral to the development of the Indian economy before World War I. This
article presents new estimates of total factor productivity (TFP) for railways from 1874 to …

Italy's economic growth over its 150 years of unified history did not occur at a steady pace
nor was it balanced across sectors. Relying on an entirely new input (labour and capital) …

India fell behind during colonial rule. The absolute and relative decline of Indian GDP per
capita with respect to Britain began before colonization and coincided with the rise of the …