Productivity growth and structural change in Indian industries

By:

Mukherjee, Indra Nath

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Delhi; Seema Pub; 1983Description: 208 pSubject(s):

Economic development

DDC classification:

338.9 MUK

Summary: In this book the author examines the industrial development, structural change, and productivity trends in the manufacturing sector of a resource rich, yet one of the most backward states of India, viz, Bihar. At the outset the study examines the industrial development in Bihar during the period of colonial rule, viz, from 1757-1947. The post fifties analy sis is more specific and based on official sources of data such as the Lahore Bureau, Central Statistical Organisation, Government of India. Based on considerations of consistency in the availability of data as well as the resource base of the state, seven selected industries are examined. These include three food based industries, chemicals, cement, ferrous and non ferrous metals industries. The scope of the present study been widened considerably with the inclusion of all-India trends as well so that the state's relative position is ascertained. Based on a rigorous analysis of data covering a period of nearly two decades from 1950, the study offers valuable policy options for the state's industrial development, The book should evoke consider able interest to policy makers in government, managers in Industry, and to economists interested in industrial economies.

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In this book the author examines the industrial development, structural change, and productivity trends in the manufacturing sector of a resource rich, yet one of the most backward states of India, viz, Bihar.
At the outset the study examines the industrial development in Bihar during the period of colonial rule, viz, from 1757-1947. The post fifties analy sis is more specific and based on official sources of data such as the Lahore Bureau, Central Statistical Organisation, Government of India.
Based on considerations of consistency in the availability of data as well as the resource base of the state, seven selected industries are examined. These include three food based industries, chemicals, cement, ferrous and non ferrous metals industries.
The scope of the present study been widened considerably with the inclusion of all-India trends as well so that the state's relative position is ascertained.
Based on a rigorous analysis of data covering a period of nearly two decades from 1950, the study offers valuable policy options for the state's industrial development,
The book should evoke consider able interest to policy makers in government, managers in Industry, and to economists interested in industrial economies.

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