eprintid: 9444
rev_number: 23
eprint_status: archive
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datestamp: 2009-05-18 09:42:43
lastmod: 2016-01-12 08:56:45
status_changed: 2012-08-14 15:29:22
type: workingPaper
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Sen, Kunal
title: What a long, strange Trip it’s been: Reflections on India’s Economic Growth in the Twentieth Century
ispublished: pub
subjects: ddc-320
divisions: i-702000
keywords: India , Economic Growth , Political Economy , Liberalisation
abstract: The purpose of this paper is to situate India’s recent economic growth in the long sweep of the twentieth century and to understand what is different about the contemporary growth experience from earlier episodes. The paper argues that most interpretations of India’s growth acceleration tend to privilege one dimension of the growth experience over another, and that the causes of India’s growth suggest a more complex causal story and that no single perspective can provide a convincing explanation of India’s growth phenomenon. The paper also argues that in contrast to the previous growth success stories of the developing world, especially those originating from Asia, India’s pattern of growth has followed a non-standard route that privileges knowledge-intensive services and capital-intensive manufacturing over labour-intensive manufacturing, which is not in India’s long-term interests, either from viewpoints of efficiency or equity.
abstract_translated_lang: eng
date: 2009
date_type: published
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00009444
portal_cluster_id: p-hdpaper
portal_order: 47
ppn_swb: 1647867037
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-opus-94442
language: eng
bibsort: SENKUNALWHATALONGS2009
full_text_status: public
series: Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics
volume: 47
number: April
isbn: 1617-5069
issn: 1617-5069
citation:   Sen, Kunal  (2009) What a long, strange Trip it’s been: Reflections on India’s Economic Growth in the Twentieth Century.  [Working paper]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/9444/1/HPSACP_Sen.pdf