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India's investment climate : voices of Indian business
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The Indian economy has emerged as one of the world's fastest growing economies in the past few years. Greater investment, increased productivity, and deeper integration in the world economy have be...
The Indian economy has emerged as one of the world's fastest growing economies in the past few years. Greater investment, increased productivity, and deeper integration in the world economy have been the key growth drivers. Nonetheless, three main challenges remain: insufficient job creation in the formal sector; large and growing disparities between states; and increasing, but still low, productivity. India's Investment Climate identifies what the government can do to tackle these challenges by improving the investment climate for three key sectors, manufacturing, retail and software-ITES.
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- Aurora Ferrari and Inderbir Singh Dhingra
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- English
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- 1st ed
- Washington, D.C. : World Bank, c2009
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- xvi, 160 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
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- 0821377574, 9780821378083, 1281959758, 9786611959753, 0821378082, 9780821377574
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- ocn255951687, ocn560611177
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- Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-154) and index.
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- Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1 Overview; Table 1.1 Main Investment Climate Obstacles, Identified and Ranked by Sector; 2 The Indian Economy: Robust Growth, but Challenges Remain; Figure 2.1 Real GDP Growth, by Sector, in India, 1990/91-2007/08; Figure 2.2 Structural Change in India, 1950/51-2005/06; Figure 2.3 Real GDP Composition, 2007/08; Figure 2.4 Savings and Investments, 1950/51-2005/06; Figure 2.5 Savings as a Percentage of GDP, 1965/66-2005/06; Figure 2.6 Trends in Consolidated Fiscal Deficit and Public Debt Stock, 1991/92-2006/07
- Table 2.1 India Total Factor Productivity Estimates Box 2.1 Reforms and TFP during the 1990's; Figure 2.7 Formal and Informal Labor Force, 1990 and 2003; Figure 2.8 Evolution of the Labor Force Distribution, by Sector, 1983/84-2004/05; Table 2.2 Labor Productivity and Employment Shares; Figure 2.9 Productivity Growth and Labor Reallocation in India, 1983-2002; Figure 2.10 States' Growth in Per Capita Income, 1980's and 1990's; Figure 2.11 Decomposition of Differences in Per Capita Income Growth across Groups of States, 1983-2004; Box 2.2 International Comparisons of Income Gaps between States
- Figure 2.12 Relative Sector Productivities and Potential Figure 2.13 Labor Force Distribution, 2004; 3 Manufacturing: Investment Climate Obstacles to Productivity Growth and Employment Generation; Table 3.1 Contribution of Manufacturing to GDP in Selected Countries and Regions, 2005; Figure 3.1 Proportion of Firms Reporting Each Obstacle as Major or Severe, 2003 and 2006; Figure 3.2 Firms Perception of Investment Climate Variables as the Most Important Obstacle or as a Major or Very Severe Obstacle, 2006; Figure 3.3 Impact of Corruption, by Firm Size, 2006
- Figure 3.4 Percentage of Firms Rating Labor Regulations as a Major or Very Severe Obstacle, 2006 Figure 3.5 Proportional Impact of Investment Climate Variables on Firm TFP, Employment, Real Wages, Exports, and FDI, 2006; Figure 3.6 Deviation from the National Average of Percentage of Firms Reporting Each Obstacle as Major or Very Severe in 2006, by Income Level of States, 2006; Figure 3.7 Change in the Percentage of Firms Identifying Factor as a Major or Very Severe Obstacle between 2003 and 2006, by Income Level of States; Table 3.2 Top 15 Manufacturing Exports, 2006/07
- Figure 3.8 Trade Competitiveness: Growth of Indian Exports and Worldwide Exports for the Sectors with the Largest Share of Total Ind Figure 3.9 Importance of Largest Manufacturing Export Sectors in the Indian Export Basket and Growth of Sectors' Market Share in the World Export Market, 2001/02-2006/07; Table 3.3 Value Added per Unit Labor Cost; Table 3.4 Indirect Costs for Exporting and Nonexporting Firms in India and China; 4 Unorganized Manufacturing: Facilitating Entry to the Formal Sector by Removing Obstacles to Growth and Productivity
- Box 4.1 What Constitutes Unorganized Manufacturing in India?