Studies on Indian manufacturing have been unable to provide consistent estimates of productivity and its growth rates. This paper performs detailed and exhaustive set of accounting exercises for the period 1970-2003 using production function, index number and envelopment analysis methods. TFP...

This paper answers the puzzling questions that why under the similar set of economic conditions service sector in India grew while manufacturing could not and how economic reforms in 1990s accelerated the productivity growth. The paper provides a very innovative and convincing explanation. Two...

The traditional artisanal clusters are dwindling, which, if turned around, could provide meaningful employment at the rural level. This paper aims to listen to the voices of self-employed artisans (microentrepreneurs) of a traditional village-based microenterprise artisanal cluster manufacturing...

This paper analyses the performance of the manufacturing firms in some selected industries in terms of their technical efficiency against the background of the industrial and trade policy reforms introduced in India since 1991. A stochastic frontier production function and an associated...

How trade shocks emanating from a low-wage country affect the productivity of manufacturing plants in other low-wage countries has been little researched. This paper investigates the impact of Chinese import competition on the performance of Indian manufacturing sector through the lens of...

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...

An attempt is first made in this paper to illustrate in nonparametric framework the decomposition of total factor productivity growth (TFPG) into technical change and efficiency change. Färe et al. (1994) measure TFPG by taking geometric mean of two Malmquist indexes proposed by Caves et al....

This paper presents a case study of the Honey Bee Network fs decentralized model for collecting, verifying and disseminating grassroots innovations and provides a roadmap for its replication in Africa. The Honey Bee Network brings together governmental and non-governmental institutions, members...

We use newly-available Indian panel data to estimate how the returns to planting-stage investments vary by rainfall realizations. We show that the forecasts significantly affect farmer investment decisions and that these responses account for a substantial fraction of the inter-annual...