IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gok/arviv1/v56y2014i1p79-113.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Impact of Import Intensity on Exports, Output and Employment during Post-Liberalisation Period

Author

Listed:
  • Mahua Paul

Abstract

The paper examines the trends and patterns of import intensity in the Indian economy and manufacturing sector during 1990s and beyond. It reviews past studies on import intensity based on different data bases and alternative methodologies. Import intensity of India’s exports increased steadily from 10.54 per cent in 1993-1994 to 15.9 per cent a decade later in 2003-2004. In 2006-2007, import intensity of exports rose sharply to 28.4 per cent before dropping off to 18.72 per cent in 2007-2008. The steep rise in import intensity between 2003-2004 and 2006-2007 mirrored an 89 per cent jump in import intensity of manufacturing exports which fell to 29.63 per cent in 2007-2008. Fall in industrial production led to decline in the demand for intermediate inputs. This reduced the import intensity effectively. Changing levels of import intensity have implications for the growth of output, employment and exports. Therefore, import liberalization measures need to be implemented and sequenced with caution to get the desired result.

Suggested Citation

  • Mahua Paul, 2014. "Impact of Import Intensity on Exports, Output and Employment during Post-Liberalisation Period," Artha Vijnana, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, vol. 56(1), pages 79-113.
    • Handle: RePEc:gok:arviv1:v:56:y:2014:i:1:p:79-113
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gok:arviv1:v:56:y:2014:i:1:p:79-113. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: the person in charge (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/gipepin.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.