“Free democracy. Only then will society heal itself,” said economist and educationist Akbar Ali Khan, as he read from Abul Mansur Ahmad’s political memoir “Amar Dekha Rajneetir Ponchash Bochhor”, at an event held at Dhaka University’s Faculty of Social Sciences yesterday.
This paper analyses the sources of India’s economic growth in terms of industry origins, inputs, and productivity during 1994–2018, comparing the pre- and post-global financial crisis periods. Manufacturing was one of the main contributing sectors to aggregate growth of the total factor productivity and gross value added in the post-GFC period. The results stress the need for