Indian Growth and Development Review: Volume 13 Issue 1

Guest editorial

Dibyendu Maiti, Surender Kumar

What is new about India’s economic growth? An industry level productivity perspective

Deb Kusum Das, Suresh Chand Aggarwal, Abdul Azeez Erumban, Pilu Chandra Das

The dynamics of economic growth in India continues to engage economists and still remains much debated. The trends and patterns of growth observed in India have seen acceleration…

Sectoral analysis of productivity in the developing and developed economies of Asia-Pacific

Pami Dua, Niti Khandelwal Garg

The study aims to empirically investigate the trends and determinants of labour productivity of the two broad sectors –industry and services – and their components, namely…

Trade liberalization and productivity of Indian manufacturing firms

Bishwanath Goldar, Isha Chawla, Smruti Ranjan Behera

The purpose of this paper is to assess the impact of India’s trade liberalization during the late 1990s and 2000s on productivity of manufacturing firms and verify whether the…

Services input and productivity in Indian manufacturing plants

Bishwanath Goldar

The purpose of this paper is to analyse econometrically determinants of total factor productivity (TFP) in Indian manufacturing plants with a focus on the influence of services…

Does selection of productivity estimation techniques matter?: Comparative analysis of advanced productivity estimation techniques

Awadhesh Pratap Singh, Chandan Sharma

The purpose of this paper is to compare and analyze the modern productivity estimation techniques, namely, Levinsohn and Petrin (LP, 2003), Ackerberg Caves and Frazer (ACF, 2006)…

Industry level analysis of productivity growth under market imperfections

Ramaa Arun Kumar, Mahua Paul

This study aims to estimate total factor productivity (TFP) growth for the post-2008 period for selected industries in the manufacturing sector at NIC 3-digit. Total factor…

Measuring output-based technical efficiency of Indian coal-based thermal power plants: A by-production approach

Sushama Murty, Resham Nagpal

The purpose of this paper is to measure technical efficiency of Indian thermal power sector employing the recent by-production approach.

Structural change and technical efficiency: a study of Indian pulp and paper industry

Vinish Kathuria

The pulp and paper industry has been the focus of government policies ever since independence. This is the only industry where government plays a multi-dimensional role – not only…

Is productivity of Indian pharmaceutical industry affected with the introduction of product patent act?

Varun Mahajan

The purpose of this paper is to empirically study the impact of product patent regime on the productivity of different categories such as ownership, R&D, size and product-wise of…

Determinants of total factor productivity in Indian states

Biswa Swarup Misra

This paper aims to compute total factor productivity (TFP) growth for India as well as for its 19 major states and to explore the determinants of TFP at the state level by…