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Understanding India’s Services Revolution
Author:
Mrs. Poonam Gupta
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Mr. James P. F. Gordon
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IMF Working Papers
Volume/Issue:
Volume 2004: Issue 171
Language:
English
Publication Date:
01 Sep 2004
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451858532.001
ISBN:
9781451858532
ISSN:
1018-5941
Pages:
36
Keywords:
WP; services growth; share of services; services activity; business services; growth experience; output share; services employment; services subsector; Services; sectoral shares; balanced growth; splintering; liberalization; share of service; employment share; income elasticity; input-output coefficient; per-capita GDP; services export; sectoral share; Services sector; Income; Service exports; Agricultural sector; Industrial sector; Global
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This paper analyzes the factors behind the recent growth of India's services sector. The high growth of services output in the 1990s was mostly due to the rapid expansion of communication, banking, business services (including the IT sector) and community services. While factors such as a high income elasticity of demand for services, increasing input usage of services by other sectors, and rising exports, were important in boosting services growth in the 1990s, supply side factors including reforms and technological advances also played significant roles. Going forward, the growth potential of Indian services exports is well known, but the paper also finds considerable scope for growth in the Indian service economy provided that deregulation continues. In addition, the paper shows that employment growth in the Indian services sector has been quite modest, thus underscoring the need for industry and agriculture to also grow rapidly.
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