This commentary poses a series of progressively harder questions in the economic analysis of growth, inequality and poverty. Starting with relatively straightforward analysis of the relationship between growth and inequality, the first-level hard questions arise when we ask what policies and...

This paper attempts to test the long run relationships among exports, imports, gross domestic capital formation, trade policy and GDP in India using annual data from 1965- 66 to 1997- 98. The empirical framework of Vector Autoregressions (VARs) augmented with an error correction mechanism has...

This paper examines the role of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in promoting economic growth via export promotion by using quarterly data relating to the period 1991-I to 2000-IV. The study uses the Johansen co-Integration test, and the results demonstrate that there is a long-run relationship...

In this paper, the causal nexus between savings and economic growth in India is investigated within the framework of causality, co-integration and error correction in the presence of a structural break, using annual data from 1950-1951 to 1998-1999. Identifying the structural breaks in both...

Using the stock market development indicators viz., market size, liquidity, and volatility along with bank credit to GDP ratio as an indicator of banking sector development, and Index of Industrial Production (IIP) as the proxy for GDP, this paper examines the role of stock markets and banks in...

The present study attempts to test the main monetarists’ propositions, which are rather ‘always and everywhere controversial’. The study considers three monetarists’ propositions, which deals with: the relation between money growth and inflation; money growth and output growth; and...

Manufacturing has been an engine of growth in India in the seventies and eighties. After the 1991 economic reforms the engine appears to be slowing. This paper attempts to examine the reasons. The analysis reveals that manufacturing output growth in the post-reform period is ‘inputs driven’...