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Reviving Industrial Growth

The Indian economy faces an uphill task of reviving industrial growth in the post-pandemic scenario. The early onset of domestic slowdown and global disruptions have affected the industrial sector, both in terms of demand and supply factors. What is required at this juncture is not a set of scattered short-term policies, but a coherent heavy lifting of the sector through demand injection and stimulation, because the slowdown started much earlier and is structural in nature.

Yield Spread as a Lead Indicator of Real Economic Activity

This paper provides evidence on the ability of the yield spread to predict industrial activity in India. The study also shows that the linkage demand for working capital responds to changes in yield spread, and that working capital makes a significant contribution to output generation. Thus yield spread could act as a lead indicator of industrial growth in the country.

Technological Change in the Indian Economy, 1950-1960

The introduction of modern production techniques, which require proportionately greater capital, was the main feature of the development of the Indian economy during the decade, 1950-60. However, this modern sector had not yet become large enough to affect the overall structure of the economy. Largescale manufacturing industry was the only sector of the economy to adopt advanced modern techniques to a marked extent so as to affect the capital structure of the sector as a whole. In other sectors, inspite of there being a rise in the incremental capital-output ratios, the overall capital-output structure remained largely unchanged.  The introduction of modern production techniques, which require proportionately greater capital, was the main feature of the development of the Indian economy during: the decade, 1950-60.

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