The extent to which Indian organized manufacturing performance changed after the Economic Reform of 1991 has been an important question among empirical analysts. Using input-output data from the Annual Survey of Industries for the period 1970-71 through 2007-08, this paper compares the pre- and...

In this paper, state-level input and output quantity data constructed from the Annual Survey of Industries, for the period 1986-7 through 1995-6 are analysed, to measure levels of technical efficiency for each state, for each of the sample years using the non-parametric method of Data...

This article makes an objective assessment of the impact of economic reforms of 1991 on productivity change in Indian manufacturing at a disaggregated level of industrial classification. Using the state-level input–output quantity data constructed from Annual Survey of Industries (ASI)...