India is a developing country. Considering over population of India, industrial development is a must to provide employment to her people for increasing their income level and living standard. There has been industrial development in large extent in developed countries. Considering the...

Development of village, micro and small enterprises in India has a special significance with regard to bridging up the disparities between urban and rural sectors of the economy on the one hand and the more industrialized and the less industrialized states on the other. It would also channelize...

This paper for the first time employs the Time Varying Panel Smooth Transition Regression (TV-PSTR) approach to model the dynamic adjustments of firms and the evolution of India’s industrial structure in the bigger setting of decades against the backdrop of India’s unexpected dramatic...

This paper employs the Time Varying Panel Smooth Transition Regression (TV-PSTR) model to investigate the effects of India’s dramatic trade liberalization starting from 1991 on market efficiency and productivity growth using Indian manufacturing firm data. We find that the effects of...

Using data on 2-digit industry for 1981-2004, the study examines the association between growth in total factor productivity and economic reforms. Accordingly, we first compute industry-level productivity growth using advanced econometric techniques and thereafter ascertain the time frame over...

Despite witnessing a decade of rapid economic growth, an acceleration of growth in the organised manufacturing sector has eluded India. Using data from the An nual Survey of Industries, we examine the factors holding back the growth of output and employment in this sector. We find that there are...

The purpose of this study is to develop a methodology in measuring productivity growth by decomposing it into technical change and technical efficiency change in India's paper industry. The prime objective of this article is to assess the impact of liberalization on productivity growth of...

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...

This paper analyzes the impact of environmental regulation on the production and the quality status of manufacturing industries across Indian states in order to discern the effect of environmental regulation on the competitiveness of the industries across Indian states. Using Ordinary Least...