India's rise since independence: The roles of human capital, technology and trade
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2012
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Banerjee, R.
Sinha, R.S.
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This paper analyzes the importance of human capital, technological progress and trade in determining India’s long run growth in the period 1950-2010. There has been a significant growth transition during this period, along with surge in productivity growth. The results suggest that domestic technology capability building factors as well as foreign technology spillovers are important forces in determining India’s growth over time. Human capital has turned out to be the most important factor. Trade plays a facilitating role in India’s long run growth determination by making available frontier technology in embodied form from the rest-of-the-world. Although the analysis does not explicitly test any endogenous growth model for Indian productivity growth, our findings are consistent with the recent endogenous growth literature.
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Copyright [2012] Rajabrata Banerjee, Saikat Sinha Roy. Not for distribution without permission of author.