This volume comprehensively captures trends in productivity and its determinants in the post-reform period for Indian manufacturing. It provides an up-to-date survey of different methods employed in measuring productivity and their applications across organized and unorganized sectors, including food, beverages, furniture, gems, chemicals, petroleum and rubber, metals and minerals, paper products, publishing, textiles, etc. The essays examine the uneven impact of economic reforms and growth on the performance of the manufacturing sector.
This will be especially useful to students and scholars of economics, business and management, policymakers and governmental agencies, particularly those interested in Indian economy and manufacturing.
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Forword by K.L. Krishna
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 : Introduction
Part I : Methodology, Analytical Issues, Data Quality and Review
Chapter 2 : Methods and Issues in Productivity Measurement
Chapter 3 : Data on Manufacturing Sector : Current Status and Challenges
Chapter 4 : Productivity in Indian Manufacturing in the Post-Reform Period : A Review of Studies
Chapter 5 : Manufacturing in India : Has There Been a Revival Since the 1990s?
Chapter 6 : Productivity in Indian Manufacturing : An Empirical Comparison of the Methodologies
Part II : Macro-approach to Productivity Measurement
Chapter 7 : Productivity Growth in a Liberalizing Economy : Evidence from Indian Manufacturing Industry
Chapter 8 : A Study of Productivity Growth in the Registered Manufacturing Sector of India : 1980-81 to 2003-04
Chapter 9 : (In)Efficiency in the Manufacturing Sector in India : A Stochastic Frontier Approach
Chapter 10 : Impact of Trade Policy on Manufacturing Productivity in India : Evidence using a Non-parametric Approach
Chapter 11 : Productivity, Technical Progress and Scale Efficiency in Indian Manufacturing : New Evidence Using a Non-parametric Approach
Part III : Regional and Micro-approach to Productivity Measurement
Chapter 12 : Catching Up or Sliding Down? Reforms and Regional Manufacturing Productivity in India
Chapter 13 : Productivity, Efficiency and Capacity Utilization in the Jute Industry in India : A Non-parametric Frontier Analysis with Firm-Level Data
Part IV : The Way Forward
Chapter 14 : Economic Reforms and Manufacturing Performance : Looking Ahead - A Panel Discussion
About the Editors
Notes on Contributors
Index
