India's merchandise trade has been growing in importance in recent years with increases in share in world exports and imports (Economic Survey, 2013-14). However with fragmentation of production process across countries, higher exports can no longer be linked to higher production as imports of...

Plant-level data on India’s organized manufacturing enterprises reveal that about ten percent of the plants are exporting and the average export intensity is about five to six percent. By contrast, the firm-level databases on manufacturing companies in India that have commonly been used for...