The Indian Economy Since Liberalisation: the Structure and Composition of Exports and Industrial Transformation (1980 – 2000)

Abhijit Sharma () and Michael Dietrich

No 2004004, Working Papers from The University of Sheffield, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper assesses empirically structural change in the Indian manufacturing based export sector, based on an analysis of 143 industries / product groupings (mainly manufacturing industries). Trade indices such as Balassa´s revealed comparative advantage (RCA) index, and other variants commonly employed in the literature are used in our analysis. Regression analysis on the RSCA indices is used to further analyse structural change. Thereafter, the stability of the RCA indices is examined, as well as the process of their intertemporal evolution. Three technology categories (high technology, medium technology and low technology) are examined individually and SITC product codes are used as proxies for export industries, in order to look at industry movements within each of these groups. This analysis enables us to assess the export performance of Indian industries in the selected product-industry groupings in detail and evaluate the prospects for growth of particular Indian industrial groupings.

Keywords: India; revealed comparative advantage; manufacturing exports; industrial transformation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F14 L6 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 43 pages
Date: 2004-05, Revised 2004-05
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