
Industrialisation for Employment and Growth in India
Lessons from Small Firm Clusters and Beyond
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Industrialisation for Employment and Growth in India
Lessons from Small Firm Clusters and Beyond
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Industrialisation for Employment and Growth in India
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Tables
- Figures and Maps
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- CHAPTER 1 Introduction
- CHAPTER 2 Garment Cluster in Kolkata: The Untold Story of Expansion Relying on Low-end Domestic Demand
- CHAPTER 3 Constraints to Upgrading and Employment Expansion in the Tiruppur Knitwear Cluster
- CHAPTER 4 Determinants of Employment in the Indian Automobile Industry
- CHAPTER 5 Upgrading Technology and Space as Collective Strategy: Creation of Jobs and Market Potential in Gujarat’s Ceramic Clusters
- CHAPTER 6 Sports Equipment Manufacturing in India: A Firm-level Inquiry into Growth and Employment Dynamism
- CHAPTER 7 Aligarh Lock Cluster: Unravelling the Major Impediments
- CHAPTER 8 Continued Misery or a Change in Fortune?: The Case of the Howrah Foundry Industry
- CHAPTER 9 Redevelop and Perish, or Survive and Grow?: The Case for Supporting Informal Leather Enterprises in Dharavi, Mumbai
- CHAPTER 10 Growth Performance, Competitiveness and Employment in MSMEs: A Case Study of the Rajkot Engineering Cluster
- CHAPTER 11 Manufacturing and Automation
- About the Contributors
- Index