Reform and Productivity Growth in India: Issues and Trends in the Labour Markets

ISBN-13: 9780815369080 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 228 str.

Dibyendu Maiti

Opis

During the last two decades, India has experienced a high growth rate, but the contribution from productivity growth and technological progress has been very low. This has resulted in a poor performance in the employment generation in the formal sector, and this book examines this phenomenon and the Indian growth pattern.

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. Market Distortions and Productivity Growth 3. Trade Reform and Productivity Growth 4. Labour Market Flexibility and Productivity Growth 5. Informal Sector, Subcontracting and Productivity Growth 6. Foreign Competition, Bargaining Power and Cost-Price Margin 7. Financial Crisis and Labour Market Adjustment 8. Contractualisation and Industrialization 9. Institutions and Issues of Industrial Growth in India 10. Summary and Concluding Observations

O autorze

Dibyendu Maiti is Associate Professor in the School of Economics at the University of the South Pacific, Fiji.