India's Technology Intensive Exports : How Far Outsourcing Enables it? An Analysis of India's Exports from 1990 to 2015

The pattern of India’s share of high and medium technology exports in total manufactured exports doesn’t get reflected in worldexports of technology intensive exports.In this paper, by taking threesectors belonging to different technology-intensive categories (textiles, apparels & footwear, electronics & computer and motor vehicles),with increase in India’s participation in Global Value Chain (GVC), the gross exports of these sectorshave increased but the ratio of backward participation to forward participation has also increased. However, when gross exports are further divided into intermediate and final goods, thecorrelationof theseexports with the ratio of Foreign Value Added (FVA) to Domestic Value Added (DVA) for the sectors concerned, comes out significantly negative. Thus, how much increase in domestic value addition can enable in further increase in exports and how India is able to leverage its participation in GVCs to become more efficient by maximising the income and benefits is the question which needs further analysis