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

70 Pages Posted: 3 Mar 2006

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Kalpana Kochhar

International Monetary Fund (IMF); The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Raghuram G. Rajan

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business; International Monetary Fund (IMF); National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Arvind Subramanian

International Monetary Fund (IMF); Center for Global Development

Ioannis Tokatlidis

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Date Written: January 2006

Abstract

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 labor-intensive 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 fast-moving 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.

Keywords: Manufacturing, Services, Diversification, Decentralization, Liberalization, Labor Intensity, Skill Intensity, Scale

JEL Classification: E23, E24, L80, O11, O14, O40, O47

Suggested Citation

Kochhar, Kalpana and Rajan, Raghuram G. and Subramanian, Arvind and Tokatlidis, Ioannis, India's Pattern of Development: What Happened, What Follows? (January 2006). IMF Working Paper No. 06/22, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=888167

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