Introduction: the take-off -- Growth and structural change since 1978-79: issues in measurement -- Sectoral shares in Indian GDP: how to regard it? -- Sectoral growth: GVA-output dichotomy -- Manufacturing sector in the Indian economy: paradox of growth and stagnation -- Growth and sectoral GVA...

Structural transformation in most currently developing countries takes the form of a rapid rise in services but limited industrialization. In this paper, we propose a new methodology to structurally estimate productivity growth in service industries that circumvents the notorious difficulties in...