J-Curve of Productivity and Growth: Indian Manufacturing Post-Liberalization

July 1, 2011

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Arvind Virmani, and Danish A Hashim. J-Curve of Productivity and Growth: Indian Manufacturing Post-Liberalization, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2011) accessed November 22, 2024

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Summary

Most estimates of Indian manufacturing productivity find a slowdown in the 1990s. This has puzzled analysts, given that 1990s reforms were deeper and wider than the 1980s reforms that raised the growth rate of the Indian economy by 2 per cent points. This paper tests the hypothesis of the J curve of Productivity and Growth following major liberalization and finds it to be broadly supported by the data: Technological obsolescence, gradual adoption of new technology and learning by doing result in negative effects on measured productivity.

Subject: Economic sectors, Labor, Manufacturing, Production, Production growth, Productivity, Total factor productivity

Keywords: Aggregate manufacturing, Capital goods, Capital stock, Cotton textiles consumer products, Economic reforms, Fixed capital, Global, Indian manufacturing, Industry composition, J-curve hypothesis, Manufacturing, Output growth, Petroleum product, Petroleum refinery, Petroleum refinery industry, Plastic product, Private sector, Production growth, Productivity, Productivity & output growth, Productivity differential, Productivity growth, Productivity slowdown, Productivity spurt, Productivity-enhancing effect, Services productivity, Technology-productivity incentive, Total factor productivity, WP

Publication Details

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34
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Working Paper No. 2011/163
Stock No:

WPIEA2011163
ISBN:

9781455298730
ISSN:

1018-5941

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