India has undertaken extensive reforms in its manufacturing sector in the last two decades. However, an acceleration of … growth in manufacturing, and a concomitant increase in employment, has eluded India. What might be holding the sector back …-reform performance of the manufacturing sector is heterogeneous across industries. In particular, industries dependent on infrastructure …

in services affects the volume of goods trade. Additionally, because of interaction between tariffs and competition, the … agreements leading to crossborder services liberalization may boost goods trade as well, they may also lead to a fall in goods …

Services play a key role in enhancing competitiveness of manufacturing and establishing global value chains. Realising … manufacturing. India's growth in the post-liberalisation period has been propelled by the services sector and India enjoys a … the importance of services, a number of countries such as China, Taiwan, Philippines and United Arab Emirates (UAE, Dubai …

concept of global value chains. This has ushered in the role of services for linking the production network, resulting in a … greater composition of services in the value of tradable. Consequently, liberalisation of the entire value chain is being … addressed through trade agreements for efficient cross-country delivery of goods and services. This has also been the case with …

manufacturing trade, have gone further and that this is likely one of the key determinants of better economic performance of China … of public ownership and important regulatory barriers continue to dominate the services sectors. India has gone a long … still persists which likely adds to the hurdles faced by the Indian manufacturing sector. India has revealed a comparative …

Manufacturing firms increasingly focus on services. This trend is evident in their composition of input, in …. However, only bits and pieces of the relation between services and manufacturing's exports have been analysed in previous …. Overall, the study provides new firm-level evidence of the role of services as inputs in manufacturing. …