Using data on the Indian manufacturing sector, which cover the years 1994 to 2006, the study assesses the labour productivity elasticity with respect to public infrastructure. Since earlier studies have merely examined the effect either on the total factor productivity (TFP) growth of the...

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 effects of policy reforms on economic performance. This paper examines some of these policy changes and their impact on firms’ productivity and efficiency. We assess, specifically, the role of export and import...