Browsing Working Papers by Author "Dholakia, Bakul H."
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Appropriate measure of real value added and total factor productivity growth in Indian Manufacturing
Dholakia, Bakul H.; Dholakia, Ravindra H. (2010-03-29)It is a widely held hypothesis that the Indian industry experienced a significant turnaround in its Total Factor Productivity Growth (TEPG) during the decade of the eighties as compared to the seventies. Recently it is ... -
Behaviour of income shares in a developing economy - the Indian experience
Dholakia, Bakul H. (2010-03-14)This paper makes an attempt to analyze the behaviour of relative factor shares in an underdeveloped country passing through the early stages of rapid economic development. The main purpose of the analysis is to advance ... -
Determinants of inter - industry wage structure in India
Dholakia, Bakul H. (2010-03-13)This paper deals with an analysis of the main factors explaining the inter-industry wage differentials in manufacturing sector of the Indian economy. It examines the basic theoretical framework which can provide a satisfactory ... -
Economic benefits of public housing - a case study of Ahmedabad City
Dholakia, Bakul H. (2010-03-27)Empirical investigation of the economic benefits of public housing in India has largely remained a relatively unexplored field of research. The present study tires to make a small contribution towards filling this crucial ... -
Empirical test of the marginal productivity theory of wages - the case of Indian industries
Dholakia, Bakul H.; Dholakia, Ravindra H. (2010-03-13)The paper makes an attempt to test empirically the validity of the marginal productivity hypothesis of wage determination in the case of the Indian economy by using the data on the organised manufacturing sector. The broad ... -
Energy planning in India: relevance of regional planning for national policy
Moulik, T. K.; Dholakia, Bakul H.; Dholakia, Ravindra H.; Shukla, P. R.; Ramani, K. V. (2010-03-12)This paper presents a macrolevel energy model and its application for energy planning for three States in India - namely Gujarat, Kerala and Rajasthan. In conjunction with energy modelling at national level, the Advisory ... -
Financial crisis in East Africa: A macroeconomic perspective
Dholakia, Bakul H. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1998-12-01)The second half of 1997 witnessed a major financial crisis in several East Asian countries characterized by massive depreciation of their currencies and crash in the stock markets. The crisis occurred despite fairly ... -
Functional Distribution of National Income in Indian Economy
Dholakia, Bakul H. (2012-10-17)An attempt has been made in this study to estimate the functional distribution of national income in Indian economy during the period 1960-61 to 1990-90. The study presents the estimates of the factor shares of labour, ... -
Growth of Factor Inputs and Total Factor Productivity in Public Sector Enterprises in India
Dholakia, Bakul H. (2010-03-13)This study makes an attempt to examine the trend in Total Factor Productivity in the public sector enterprises by estimating and analyzing the contributions made by major factor inputs to the growth rate of not product ... -
Growth of total factor productivity in Indian agriculture
Dholakia, Ravindra H.; Dholakia, Bakul H. (2010-03-23)In the present study the sources of Growth of Indian agriculture have been estimated for three sub-periods during 1950-51 to 1988-89. It also estimates the contribution of adverse weather conditions and intensity of resource ... -
Housing conditions and housing shortage in India - an interstate analysis
Dholakia, Bakul H. (2010-03-29)This paper makes an attempt to examine the existing housing conditions and quantify the extent of housing shortage in Indian economy. The main objectives of the study are: (a) to examine the growth and composition of housing ... -
Impact of Economic Liberalisation on the the growth of Indian Agriculture
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Impact of housing investment on income and employment generation
Dholakia, Bakul H. (2010-03-20)An attempt has been made in this paper to examine the impact multipliers of housing investment in relation to the corresponding multipliers for investment in other sectors of the Indian economy. It seeks to measure the ... -
India's economic crisis: nature and remedies
Dholakia, Bakul H. (2010-07-27)Indian economy has been facing a major economic crisis and the situation has become quite serious after August 1990. The main elements of Indiazs economic crisis are deepening foreign exchange crisis, growing fiscal ... -
Industrial sickness in India: magnitude and identification criteria
Dholakia, Bakul H. (2010-03-24)The main purpose of this paper is to examine the criteria used by official agencies to identify industrial sickness and highlight the limitations of such identification criteria especially in the context of the nature of ... -
Input- output tables for Rajasthan: Methodology and estimates
Dholakia, Ravindra H.; Dholakia, Bakul H. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1988-03-01)In the present paper, an attempt is made to construct Input-Output Tables for Rajasthan compatible and consistent with the national I-O tables for the year 1984-85 which formed the basis for the national 7th Five Year Plan. ... -
Input-output tables for Kerala methodology and estimates
Dholakia, Ravindra H.; Dholakia, Bakul H. (2010-03-24)Input coefficient matrix and input transaction matrix for Kerala State are estimated in the present paper fr 50 x 50 commodity sectors for the year 1984-85 at current prices. The sectors and methodology followed here are ... -
Inter - industry linkages of housing investment in India
Dholakia, Bakul H. (2010-03-22)The optimal pattern of scarce national resources involving housing vis-a-vis other sectors of the economy can be determined only after a comparative evaluation of the strength of inter-sectoral linkages of investment in ... -
Inter-industry tables for Gujarat: methodology and estimates
Dholakia, Bakul H.; Dholakia, Ravindra H. (2010-07-14)Regional Input-Output tables compatible with the national input-output table can play a crucial role in formulating realistic regional plans and also in ensuring that the spatial dimension is properly incorporated into the ... -
Interstate variation in female labour force participation rates in India - an analysis of the 1971 census data
Dholakia, Bakul H.; Dholakia, Ravindra H. (2010-03-12)This paper made an attempt to isolate the influence of structural differences in female population on the FPR in different states and theiry measure the extent of the actual regional variations in the female labour ...