India has witnessed a series of policy reforms since 1991, which aimed to increase productivity of the manufacturing sector. Did these reforms increase productivity in manufacturing plants? We address this question using rich data from the Annual Survey of Industries in India spanning three...

India is among the select countries which reacted quite early to the threat of COVID -19. It announced a nationwide lockdown at an early stage on 25th March 2020, which has now been extended till 3rd May 2020. This has helped keep the numbers of infections and death low in a densely populated...