Industrialisation for Employment and Growth in India
Lessons from Small Firm Clusters and Beyond

Intensive study of small firms in industrial clusters and locations on how to create jobs and achieve Make in India goals.

R. Nagaraj (Edited by)

9781108832335, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 7 October 2021

260 pages
23.6 x 15.9 x 2.3 cm, 0.53 kg

India initiated liberal economic reforms in 1991 to transform a slow-growing, state-led economy into an open, export-oriented industrialising economy. Though economic growth has accelerated, industrialisation has suffered from the manufacturing sector's share and labour intensive sectors failing to improve in India's exports. The government launched the Make in India initiative in 2015 aimed at raising the manufacturing sector's share in GDP to 25 percent, and to create an additional 100 million jobs by 2022. Though official estimates show an optimistic image of small scale industries, they do not explain why India failed to boost industrial production as expected of the reforms. Why did they fail to keep the domestic market, let alone expand exports? What would it take to meet the ambitious policy goals of the initiative? This book attempts to address these questions. It looks at a series of case studies of the small industry to obtain an in-depth understanding of specific industries and locations to draw meaningful conclusions.

1. Introduction R Nagaraj
2. Garment Cluster in Kolkata: The Untold Story Expansion Relying on Low-End Domestic Demand Satyaki Roy
3. Constraints to Upgrading and Employment Expansion in the Tiruppur Knitwear Cluster M Vijayabaskar
4. Determinants of Employment in the Indian Automobile Industry Madhuri Saripalle
5. Upgrading Technology and Space as Collective Strategy: Creation of Jobs and Market Potential in Gujarat's Ceramic Clusters Keshab Das
6. Sports Equipment Manufacturing in India: A Firm-Level Inquiry into Growth and Employment Dynamism Varinder Jain
7. Aligarh Lock Cluster: Unravelling the Major Impediments Tareef Husain
8. Continued Misery or a Change in Fortune? The Case of Howrah Foundry Industry Judhajit Chakraborty
9. Redevelop and Perish, or Survive and Grow? The Case for Supporting Informal Leather Enterprises in Dharavi, Mumbai Kshiti Gala
10. Growth Performance, Competitiveness, and Employment in MSMEs: A Case Study of Rajkot Engineering Cluster Dinesh Awasthi and Amita Shah
11. Manufacturing and Automation Sunil Mani.

Subject Areas: Welfare economics [KCR], Political economy [KCP], Development economics & emerging economies [KCM], Economic growth [KCG], Labour economics [KCF], Economics of industrial organisation [KCD]