India's mysterious manufacturing miracle

Review of Economic Dynamics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 59-85

  Bollard, Albert ^a   Klenow, Peter J ^b   Sharma, Gunjan ^c  

^a MCKINSEY AND COMPANY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Economic growth; India; Manufacturing; Misallocation; Productivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871921350     PISSN: 10942025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.red.2012.10.007     Document Type: Article

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