This paper reconsiders two questions relating to India's economic growth: structural breaks in growth and the impact of equipment investment on aggregate economic growth. First, statistical tests of structural change show that economic growth in post-independence India has witnessed four...

When India became a republic in 1950, the economy was primarily agrarian, with threefifths of output originating from agriculture. In the sixty years since independence, there has been a significant transformation of economic activity away from agriculture, with less than one-fifth of output now...

This paper examines the link between structural change and growth in India. It constructs indices of structural change, and performs a panel data analysis using data for India's 16 major states. It finds that there is one-way positive impact from structural change to growth for the period 2000-...