Drawing on a recent dataset of the Indian manufacturing industry for 1994 to 2008, this paper shows for eight sectors that core infrastructure and Information & Communication Technology (ICT) matter for Total Factor Productivity (TFP) and Technical Efficiency (TE).In the analysis, we use a range...

India’s economic liberalization in the 1990s provides scope for research on the effect of policy reforms on economic performance. This paper addresses the question of some of these policy changes and their impact on firms’ productivity and efficiency. We test specifically the role of export,...