Industry-Led Growth

Arup Mitra is a professor of Economics at the Institute of Economic Growth, New Delhi, India. His research interest includes issues in the area of development economics, urban development, labour and welfare, industrial productivity growth and employment, services sector growth and trade in services, and gender studies. He has published in a number of international and national journals. He worked as a senior researcher at ILO (Geneva), was offered visiting fellowship at Institute of Developing Economies (Tokyo) and held the Indian Economy Chair at Sciences Po. (Paris). The Indian Econometric Society offered him the Mahalanobis Memorial Gold Medal for his outstanding contribution in the field of quantitative economics. His work has been cited in the Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics (Elsevier, 2004) and he has also contributed in the Encyclopaedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), Mathematical Models in Economics (Ed. Zhang, W.), developed under the auspicesof the UNESCO and in the Encyclopaedia of Sustainability, Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing.

1. Introduction.- 2. Review of Select Studies.- 3. Empirical Analysis: Organized Manufacturing Sector (ASI Sector).- 4. Performance of Unorganised Manufacturing.- 5. Inter-industry Linkages.- 6. Productivity, Skills and Innovation.- 7. Innovation and Employment.-8. Conclusions.