The factors responsible for the lacklustre performance India's manufacturing are well identified in contemporary … regulations, focusing on the enactments and provisions that inhibit flexibility of manufacturing enterprises in adapting to swift …

Indi's stagnating manufacturing sector has become a serious cause of concern for Indian policy makers. Several reasons … importance of the manufacturing sector and its potential to contribute to growth and employment, corrective measures must be … high value manufacturing sector and provides recommendations on measures to achieve this objective. In the absence of …

contributors to employment in the manufacturing sector. And two, how their contributions have evolved over time, across states … informal/unincorporated manufacturing sector in India for the period between 2000-01 and 2015-16, we find that the enterprise …

Despite witnessing a decade of rapid economic growth, an acceleration of growth in the organised manufacturing sector … output and employment in this sector. We find that there are heterogeneities in the performance of the manufacturing sector … decade partly explains the limited contribution of the manufacturing sector to employment generation. At the state level, we …

of manufacturing formal firms in Ecuador, and, the causal relationship between the import decision and firm productivity … manufacturing sector, (ii) when we use a measure of import intensity, we find that a 100% increase in the share of imported inputs … is that the decision to import foreign intermediates improves productivity in manufacturing firms. This matters from a …

In this paper, we analyze the impact of Chinese competition on manufacturing firms in El Salvador between 2005 and 2013 … using manufacturing survey data and customs transaction data. We find that Chinese import competition in El Salvador has a …