Investment trends in post-reforms India

Lawrence lawrence at krubner.com
Sat Aug 25 01:29:40 PDT 2001



> Strangely, after the reforms, the net capital intensity of the
manufacturing
> sector is rising at a remarkable rate. This means the employment growth
rate
> in this sector will go up at a decreasing rate. We seem to have reached
the
> nemesis of higher wage rates in the manufacturing sector leading to
greater
> capital intensity in that sector. Trade unions have to bother about this
> issue, so also the political parties that support trade unions in the
> organised sector

This is very interesting, but why is the output ratio rising after the reforms? Is it because the reforms were badly/inadequately done, or because the reforms are actually worse than what preceded them?



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