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How India Fits into Global Production Sharing: Experience, Prospects, and Policy Options

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Global production sharing—the breakup of the production processes into separate stages, with each country specializing in a particular stage of the production sequence—is a phenomenon of major significance that is increasingly manifesting itself in patterns of global production and trade. This paper examines India’s role in global production sharing from a comparative East Asian perspective in order to contribute to the contemporary policy debate in India on the link between export performance and “jobless growth” in domestic manufacturing in India. The analysis reveals that India has so far failed fitting into global production networks in electronics and electrical goods, which have been the prime movers of export dynamism in China and the other high-performing East Asian countries. Further reforms to improve the overall investment climate is even more important for reaping gains from this new form of international exchange compared to the standard labor intensive exports. There is also a strong case, based on the experiences in East Asia and elsewhere, for combining further reforms with a proactive investment promotion campaign to attract multinational enterprises engaged in global production networks.

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  • Athukorala, Prema-chandra, 2014. "How India Fits into Global Production Sharing: Experience, Prospects, and Policy Options," India Policy Forum, National Council of Applied Economic Research, vol. 10(1), pages 57-116.
    • Handle: RePEc:nca:ncaerj:v:10:y:2014:i:2014-1:p:57-116
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    1. Prema-chandra Athukorala & C. Veeramani, 2019. "From Import Substitution to Integration into Global Production Networks: The Case of the Indian Automobile Industry," Asian Development Review, MIT Press, vol. 36(2), pages 72-99, September.
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    • D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
    • F16 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade and Labor Market Interactions
    • J5 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining
    • J8 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Standards
    • K31 - Law and Economics - - Other Substantive Areas of Law - - - Labor Law

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