India's Industrial Disputes Act (IDA) of 1947 requires firm with more than 100 workers to pay large costs if they …

While India is distinctive among developing countries for its fast-growing service sector, sceptics have raised doubts …

We compare the recent economic performances of China and India using a simple growth accounting framework that produces … roughly double that of India at the aggregate level, and also higher in each of the three sectors in both sub-periods. In …'s aggregate productivity growth. In contrast, 45 percent of the growth in India in the second sub-period came in services …

This paper empirically examines India's economic growth experience during 1960-2004, focusing on the post 1973 … acceleration. Careful attention is paid to data quality. The analysis focuses on two unusual dimensions of India's experience … raised that growth in services may be overstated. India will need to broaden its current expansion to provide manufactured …

Most conventional accounts of India's recent economic performance associate the pick-up in economic growth with the …

productivity growth. In an application to India, we find that productivity growth in consumer services such as retail and …

development quest. The sample includes seven developing countries--Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia, India, Vietnam and Brazil …