Tag Search: “manufacturing”
What does the new IIP series tell us about the state of manufacturing in India?
In May 2017, the Central Statistics Office released the new series of the Index of Industrial Production with 2011-12 as the base year, after a comprehensive revision of computation methods. The serie...
- Radhika Pandey Amey Sapre Pramod Sinha
- 02 August, 2017
- Articles
Impact of disinvestment policy on public sector enterprises in India
To address operational inefficiencies in PSEs without comprising on their social objectives, disinvestment policy is often used. However, there are concerns regarding the extent of impact on firm per...
- Ritika Jain
- 12 June, 2017
- Articles
Foreign market access and competition in India's textile and clothing industries: Impacts on firms and workers
This project aims to estimate the effects of foreign market access and export competition on plants and workers in the textiles and clothing industries in India.
- Krisztina Kis-Katos Janneke Pieters Shruti Sharma
- 31 March, 2017
- IGC Research on India
Industrial Agglomeration and (the Lack of) Competition
This project's objective is to use theoretically-motivated empirics to examine the relationship between market power and industrial agglomeration/clusters in order to better evaluate the impacts of de...
- Wyatt Brooks Joseph Kaboski Yao Amber Li
- 31 March, 2017
- IGC Research on India
Is the structure of Indian manufacturing geared towards job creation?
Government of India has envisaged adding 100 million jobs in manufacturing by 2022. This column finds that the structure of the country’s manufacturing sector is misaligned with the objective of job ...
- Sharmila Kantha
- 05 December, 2016
- Articles
How did de-reservation of small-scale industry affect employment?
To protect small, labour-intensive manufacturing enterprises and boost employment, the Indian government reserved certain products for exclusive production by such enterprises. This policy was gradual...
- Ann. E. Harrison Leslie Martin Shanti Nataraj
- 05 December, 2016
- Articles
How do electricity shortages affect industry in India?
Poor electricity supply is widely recognised as a key impediment to firm growth and productivity. This column finds that average reported level of electricity shortages in India reduces annual plant r...
- Hunt Allcott Allan Collard-Wexler Stephen D O'Connell
- 25 November, 2016
- Articles
GDP conundrum: Some areas of concern around growth overestimation in Indian manufacturing
Based on the new GDP series, large upward revisions in manufacturing growth rates were made – from 1.1% to 6.2% in 2012-13, and from -0.7% to 5.29% in 2013 – 14 that were not reflective of the actual ...
- Amey Sapre
- 18 November, 2016
- Perspectives
The hidden productivity benefits of energy-saving technology: Evidence from LEDs in Indian factories
Energy-efficient technologies are an increasingly relevant policy priority, given growing consensus on the need to tackle climate change. This column examines the productivity benefits of adopting one...
- Achyuta Adhvaryu Namrata Kala Anant Nyshadham
- 03 October, 2016
- Articles
The contractualisation of India's workforce: Explanations and implications
The employment structure of India’s organised manufacturing sector has undergone substantial changes over the last decade with a steep rise in the use of contract workers in place of regular workers....
- Radhicka Kapoor P.P. Krishnapriya
- 31 August, 2016
- IGC Research on India
I4I Panel Discussion: Two years of Modi government
In a panel discussion organised to mark the 4th anniversary of Ideas for India, Parikshit Ghosh (Member of the I4I Editorial Board & Associate Professor, Delhi School of Economics) moderates a discus...
- Pranab Bardhan Parikshit Ghosh Pratap Bhanu Mehta Mihir Sharma
- 29 August, 2016
- Videos
Could emerging economies change the rules of the global labour standards game?
In an increasingly global marketplace, the ramping up of trade has drastically altered the way goods are manufactured and sold. In this article, Kuntala Bandyopadhyay, research associate at ICRIER, d...
- Kuntala Bandyopadhyay
- 24 August, 2016
- Perspectives