J-Curve of Productivity and Growth : Indian Manufacturing Post-Liberalization »
Journal Issue
Volume/Issue: 2011/163
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Arvind Virmani , and Danish Hashim
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 July 2011
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781455298730.001
ISBN: 9781455298730
Keywords: Indian manufacturing, productivity &;amp;#x0026; output growth, J-curve hypothesis, productivity growth, output growth, manufacturing sector, import liberalization, manufacturing industries, One, Two
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...