response, because India was far away from its income-possibility frontier. Registered manufacturing, which had been built up in …

. While the importance of services rather than manufacturing is widely noted, within manufacturing India has emphasized skill …-intensive rather than laborintensive manufacturing, and industries with higher-than-average scale. Some of these distinctive patterns …

growth trajectory is feasible but it will need much more focused attention to the revival of manufacturing and to the …

The notable rebound of U.S. manufacturing activity following the Great Recession has raised the question of whether the … labor costs have had a positive impact on U.S. manufacturing production. While we find it unlikely for manufacturing to … become a main engine of growth in the United States, we find that U.S. manufacturing exports could provide nonnegligible …

The typical size distribution of manufacturing plants in developing countries has a thick left tail compared to … developed countries. The same holds across Indian states, with richer states having a much smaller share of their manufacturing … model can explain about forty percent of the cross-state variation in the left tail of manufacturing plants in India. …