Structural Change and Growth in India

Singh, Nirvikar and Cortuk, Orcan (2010): Structural Change and Growth in India.

Abstract

This paper examines the link between structural change and growth in India. It constructs indices of structural change, and performs a time series analysis of the data. It finds that 1988 marks a break in the time series of growth and structural change. There is one-way causality from structural change to growth in the period 1988-2007, whereas there is no evidence for this linkage before 1988.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Indian economy; structural change; growth; causality
• Subjects: O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O1 - Economic Development; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O5 - Economywide Country Studies

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