This paper exploits India's rapid, comprehensive, and externally imposed trade reform to
establish a causal link between changes in tariffs and firm productivity. Pro-competitive …

This paper reviews India's productivity performance that underlines the growth performance
since independence. The primary focus is on estimation of trends in total factor productivity …

This paper explores the causes of India's productivity surge around 1980, more than a
decade before serious economic reforms were initiated. Trade liberalization, expansionary …

India has followed an idiosyncratic pattern of development, certainly compared with other
fast-growing Asian economies. While the importance of services rather than manufacturing …

The objective of this paper is to present the concept of productivity, factors affecting
productivity and techniques of productivity improvement. Productivity is an ability to do better …

Using data on formal manufacturing plants in India, we report a large but imprecise speedup
in productivity growth starting in the early 1990s (eg, 1993–2007 compared to 1980–1992) …

As an input into the production process, services are playing an increasingly important role
in manufacturing industries the world over. Yet, this has received very little attention in the …

This paper presents the broad macro parameters of the growth of the Indian economy since
the nation's independence and a cross-country evaluation of where India stands, drawing …

Regional per capita income levels in the European Union display large variations and a
strong centre-periphery gradient. This paper examines to what degree proximity to markets …

Contradicting the findings of several earlier studies, recent studies on productivity trends in
Indian manufacturing by Unel (2003) and Tata Services (TSL)(2003) have concluded that …