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Industrialisation for Employment and Growth in India

Industrialisation for Employment and Growth in India

Industrialisation for Employment and Growth in India

Lessons from Small Firm Clusters and Beyond
R. Nagaraj, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Bombay
December 2021
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    India initiated liberal economic reforms in 1991 to transform a slow-growing, state-led economy into an open, export-oriented industrialising economy. Though economic growth has accelerated, industrialisation has suffered from the manufacturing sector's share and labour intensive sectors failing to improve in India's exports. The government launched the Make in India initiative in 2015 aimed at raising the manufacturing sector's share in GDP to 25 percent, and to create an additional 100 million jobs by 2022. Though official estimates show an optimistic image of small scale industries, they do not explain why India failed to boost industrial production as expected of the reforms. Why did they fail to keep the domestic market, let alone expand exports? What would it take to meet the ambitious policy goals of the initiative? This book attempts to address these questions. It looks at a series of case studies of the small industry to obtain an in-depth understanding of specific industries and locations to draw meaningful conclusions.

    • Offers rich insights into the current state of the small industry that is often overlooked in official statistics and surveys
    • Explores the implications of growing automation on manufacturing employment
    • Provides comparative analysis of industrial performance across states and clusters

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    Table of Contents

    • 1. Introduction R Nagaraj
    • 2. Garment Cluster in Kolkata: The Untold Story Expansion Relying on Low-End Domestic Demand Satyaki Roy
    • 3. Constraints to Upgrading and Employment Expansion in the Tiruppur Knitwear Cluster M Vijayabaskar
    • 4. Determinants of Employment in the Indian Automobile Industry Madhuri Saripalle
    • 5. Upgrading Technology and Space as Collective Strategy: Creation of Jobs and Market Potential in Gujarat's Ceramic Clusters Keshab Das
    • 6. Sports Equipment Manufacturing in India: A Firm-Level Inquiry into Growth and Employment Dynamism Varinder Jain
    • 7. Aligarh Lock Cluster: Unravelling the Major Impediments Tareef Husain
    • 8. Continued Misery or a Change in Fortune? The Case of Howrah Foundry Industry Judhajit Chakraborty
    • 9. Redevelop and Perish, or Survive and Grow? The Case for Supporting Informal Leather Enterprises in Dharavi, Mumbai Kshiti Gala
    • 10. Growth Performance, Competitiveness, and Employment in MSMEs: A Case Study of Rajkot Engineering Cluster Dinesh Awasthi and Amita Shah
    • 11. Manufacturing and Automation Sunil Mani.
      Contributors
    • R Nagaraj, Satyaki Roy, M Vijayabaskar, Madhuri Saripalle, Keshab Das, Varinder Jain, Tareef Husain, Judhajit Chakraborty, Kshiti Gala, Dinesh Awasthi, Amita Shah, Sunil Mani

    • Editor
    • R. Nagaraj , Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Bombay

      R. Nagaraj is retired Professor of Economics at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Bombay. He has worked extensively on India's economic growth and industrialization, public sector performance and industrial labour market. He coedited Political Economy of Contemporary India with S. Motiram that was published by the Press in 2017.