India's Pattern of Development: What Happened, What Follows?

By Arvind Subramanian, R. Rajan, I. Tokatlidis, K. Kochhar, Utsav Kumar. Social Science Research Network, 2006

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India has followed an idiosyncratic pattern of development, certainly compared with other fast-growing Asian economies. While the importance of services rather than manufacturing is widely noted, within manufacturing India has emphasized skill-intensive rather than laborintensive manufacturing, and industries with higher-than-average scale. Some of these distinctive patterns existed prior to the beginning of economic reforms in the 1980s, and stem from the idiosyncratic policies adopted after India's independence. Using the growth of fastmoving Indian states as a guide, we conclude that India may not revert to the pattern followed by other countries, despite reforms that have removed some policy impediments that contributed to India's distinctive path.

Subfields: Development

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• Women Workers in India: Why so Few Among so Many? (2015, background): “It has been widely noted that relatively inflexible labor markets have weighed on employment generation in India (Dougherty 2009, Kochhar et al. 2006), affecting 10 The analysis uses monthly per capita consumption as a proxy for household income.”
• Firm growth and barriers to growth among small firms in India (2012, background): “state-controlled license regime to a liberalized regime is widely documented in the literature (we refer the reader to Aghion et al. 2005; Kochhar et al. 2006; Rodrik and Subramanian 2005).”
• The Demographic Dividend: Evidence from the Indian States (2011, unknown): “Kocchar et al (2006) find that states with weaker institutions and infrastructure suffer lower GDP and industrial growth.”
• Dancing with Giants: China, India, and the Global Economy (2007, unknown): “by Kochhar et al. [2005]), the prospect of head-on competition would seem less likely than might be suggested by a simple, aggregate view of competition between labor-intensive exporters of standardized manufactures.”
• Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and the State (2008, unknown): “For details, see Kochhar et al. (2006).”
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• Structural Change, Fundamentals and Growth: A Framework and Case Studies (2017, background): “Overall, the reforms could be described as “business friendly” (Kochhar et al. 2006; Rodrik and Subramanian 2005). But it was the next phase, notably in 1991, when the major trade reforms were launched—a response to the balance-of-payments crisis, which was exacerbated by the dramatic rise in oil pr”
• Misallocation and Manufacturing TFP in China and India (2007, unknown): “5 See Bergoeing, Kehoe, Kehoe, and Soto (2002), Galindo, Schiantarelli, and Weiss (2007), Bartelsman, Haltiwanger, and Scarpetta (2006), and Alfaro, Charlton and Kanczuk (2007) for related empirical evidence in other countries. and present empirical results in section IV.”
• Multiproduct Firms and Product Turnover in the Developing World: Evidence from India (2010, unknown): “…was heavily regulated through the license raj, a system of complex industrial license requirements for establishing and expanding capacity in the manufacturing sector, while the Industrial Disputes Act (1947) provided significant protection for labor in the organized sector (Kochhar et al., 2006).”