02049cas a2200241 a 4500 AALejournalIMF002254 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451843996 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Unel, Bulent. Productivity Trends in India's Manufacturing Sectors in the Last Two Decades / Bulent Unel. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2003. 1 online resource (25 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students Starting in the late 1970s, the Indian authorities implemented a series of reforms aimed at exposing the economy to greater competition and at liberalizing key aspects of economic activity. This paper investigates productivity trends in India's (registered) manufacturing sectors during the 1980s and 1990s. The main findings of the paper are (i) labor and total factor productivity (TFP) growth in total manufacturing and many of the component sectors since 1980 were markedly higher than that in the preceding two decades, although the extent of the acceleration in TFP growth depends critically on the underlying assumptions about factor elasticities and the assumed structure of the production function; (ii) productivity growth for total manufacturing as well as for many subsectors picked up further after the 1991 reforms; and (iii) classification of the best performing sectors and the weakest performing sectors, based on comparative TFP, remains robust to changes in underlying assumptions. Mode of access: Internet IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2003/022 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2003/022/001.2003.issue-022-en.xml IMF e-Library