Productivity growth in Indian manufacturing is an important driver of overall growth, yet the issues related to its measurement have still not been resolved. The issue of how to compute an aggregate productivity measure holds significance for two reasons: one, the productivity of a firm should...

The paper examines productivity performance of Indian manufacturing under varying trade regimes.The standard growth accounting methodology is applied to data compiled from the Annual Survey ofIndustries for selected 3-digit use-based manufacturing sectors over the period 1980-2000. The...

This paper attempts to identify and examine labor intensive industries in the organized manufacturing sector in India in order to understand their employment generation potential. Using the data from the Annual Survey of Industries (Government of India, various issues), thelabor intensity for 97...

This paper on Quantifying Trade Barriers: Has Protection Declined Substantiallyin Indian Manufacturing forms a part of a larger study on Productivity Growth and TradeRegimes: A study of Indian Manufacturing Industries in the 1980s and 1990s beingundertaken at ICRIER. This study is the first...