Tag Search: “manufacturing”
How foreign inflows impact Indian manufacturing firms
In the past few decades, India has emerged as one of the preferred destinations for foreign investors, with the manufacturing sector receiving a substantial proportion of total capital inflows coming...
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Vaishnavi Sharma
25 January, 2016
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Elephant vs. Dragon: Growth and development
The Indian economy expanded by 7.4% during July-September 2015, as compared to China’s growth rate of 6.9% over the same period. In this article, Mahendra Dev, Vice Chancellor of IGIDR, examines the ...
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Mahendra Dev
11 December, 2015
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India's energy efficiency
India is the fourth largest energy consumer in the world but is not well endowed with energy resources, making efficiency in energy use very important. This column analyses the spatial dynamics of el...
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Ejaz Ghani
Arti Grover Goswami
William Kerr
10 November, 2015
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Productivity and competition in India’s brick industry
Firm productivity has long been considered a key driver of economic growth. Yet there is little understanding of why the competition and innovation that fuels productivity growth in the developed worl...
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Parul Agarwal
Daniel Keniston
30 September, 2015
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Rise of informality in India's tradable manufacturing sector
The vast informal sector in India affects everything from poverty to growth. This column presents new facts on how Indian job growth in manufacturing is concentrated in informal tradable industries, ...
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Ejaz Ghani
William Kerr
Alex Segura
13 July, 2015
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Creating a services value chain between India and Thailand
In the past two decades, India has signed several bilateral and regional comprehensive free trade agreements with Southeast Asian countries, which are likely to enhance services trade, investment and...
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Tanu Goyal
Arpita Mukherjee
08 July, 2015
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The labour reforms debate: Broadening horizons
Even as the government has indicated that it plans to go slow on labour reforms and build consensus among all stakeholders, trade unions are protesting against “anti-labour” reforms. In this article,...
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Radhicka Kapoor
01 June, 2015
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Assessing the economic effects of India 'Looking East'
PM Modi recently said that India needs to move from ‘Look East’ to ‘Act East’ and that this is a key component of his government’s foreign policy. In this article, Ganeshan Wignaraja, an economist at...
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Ganeshan Wignaraja
22 May, 2015
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Analysing net foreign earnings of India's corporate sector
The corporate sector is the linchpin of the ‘Make in India’ campaign. This column finds that the sector is increasingly relying on imported inputs and its net foreign earnings are on the decline, thu...
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J. Dennis Rajakumar
22 April, 2015
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How serious are India's manufacturing skill gaps?
It is widely believed that skill gaps are constraining Indian manufacturing, and closing these gaps has become a national priority. This column argues that the public debate on India’s skill gaps res...
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Aashish Mehta
13 April, 2015
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Transit networks and regional development in India
Recent research illustrates the immediate positive effects of transit networks in India on rural employment, manufacturing growth and so on. This column focuses on the long-term impact of national hi...
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Gaurav Khanna
26 March, 2015
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Modi's economic reforms: Foundation laid but time running out
Anticipation is running high that the Modi government will announce sweeping economic reforms in their first full-year budget, especially since their tenure so far has been bereft of any dramatic cha...
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Eswar Prasad
27 February, 2015
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