Bishwanath Goldar
Biographic Data
| ID | 5724031 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bishwanath Goldar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bishwanath |
| FAMILY NAME | Goldar |
| SIGNATURE | GOLDAR B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Economic Growth |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9031-8079 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Productivity Gains from Global Value Chains Participation
Using data on Indian manufacturing firms for 1999-2019, the paper examines the productivity-enhancing impact of participation in global value chains (GVCs) by manufacturing firms. GVC participation by industrial firms involves exporting products and importing intermediate inputs, sometimes combined with outward foreign direct investment, and is expected to positively affect firm productivity. The impact of GVC participation on total factor produc…
Is the Productivity of Unpaid Female Family Workers in Indian Agriculture Very Low
The significant increase in the number of unpaid female workers in Indian agriculture between 2017-18 and 2023-24 is a positive, rather than a negative, development in the Indian rural economy because their productivity is in all likelihood not any less than that of paid female workers in rural areas, as indicated by the recent study by Areef and Shekhar (2025). While Areef and Shekhar find that per-adult consumption expenditure in a farming fami…
Years of Growth, Development and Productivity in India
Impact of cyclones on manufacturing firms in India
The impact of cyclones on assets and sales of manufacturing firms in India is examined econometrically using data on manufacturing companies for 2008–2019. We find that there is about a 4–6 per cent dip in sales and a 2–3 per cent dip in total assets of manufacturing firms following a cyclone incident in the district where the firms' plants are located. The fall in sales is bigger for relatively small-sized firms. For multi-plant firms with plant…
Premature Deindustrialisation, Not in India
The phenomenon of premature deindustrialization has received considerable attention. There is a commonly held view among Indian scholars and academicians that India has experienced premature deindustrialization, adversely impacting industrial growth. Analyzing trends in the manufacturing share in aggregate economy real GVA and the share of organized manufacturing gross value added (GVA) in state GDP in eight Indian states that account for about t…
Investments, Human Capital Formation, and Productivity Growth
The paper aims to study the contribution that increased investment rate, augmented human capital and accelerated productivity growth can make to enable the Indian economy to grow fast enough to reach the upper-income category by 2047. We calibrate, for India, the long-run growth transition from a developing to a developed nation using the World Bank approach to the formulation of a Long-Term Growth Model. A Cobb-Douglas specification of aggregate…
(Wl-2279)-K L Krishna’s Contributions to the Study of Economics
This year, Prof. K.L. Krishna, an economist and teacher who created lasting impact on many Indian economists, received the Padma Shri award from the Honorable President of India. This award is a befitting recognition of his contributions to economics teaching, research and mentorship of many future economists. His academic journey began during his doctoral studies at the University of Chicago in the late 1960s, where his thesis focused on underst…
Investigating the Prevalence of ‘Missing Middle’ in Indian Manufacturing
The role of services in India's post-reform economic growth
Export Participation and Employment of Contract Workers in Organized Manufacturing Plants in India
The share of contract workers, i.e., the workers employed through contractors, as against the workers directly employed by factories, out of all workers employed in India’s organized manufacturing has increased significantly over the last three decades, reaching 38.6% in 2019–2020. Using plant-level panel data for the years 2008–2009 to 2017–2018, the paper examines econometrically whether export participation by the organized sector manufacturin…
Domestic Versus Imported Contents in Exports
This article combines national input–output tables (1998–1999 to 2007–2008) with World Input–Output Database (1995–2011) to evaluate foreign value-added (FVA) content in India’s exports at aggregate and disaggregate levels. The results confirm rising FVA and declining domestic value added (DVA) in India’s total and merchandise exports across a majority of the commodities. India’s international fragmentation has risen but continues to be lower tha…
R&D intensity and exports
The export intensity of Indian pharmaceutical firms has increased substantially in the period after 1995 when the new, more restrictive patent regime was introduced in India. The hike in export intensity has been accompanied by an increase in R&D intensity of Indian pharmaceutical firms. The results of the econometric analysis presented in the paper indicate that increased R&D efforts of Indian pharmaceutical firms were responsible in a major way…
Small versus large manufacturing units
Keeping in mind the much discussed huge employment potential of small manufacturing units, this study examines the performance of enterprises across organised or formal and unorganised or informal sector enterprises. The analysis tends to offer little evidence in favour of positive links between sectors in terms of performance index, i.e. technical efficiency. The formal sector units obviously are better performers than their informal sector coun…
Do stock markets penalize environment-unfriendly behaviour? Evidence from India
R&D intensity and exports
The export intensity of Indian pharmaceutical firms has increased substantially in the period after 1995 when the new, more restrictive patent regime was introduced in India. The hike in export intensity has been accompanied by an increase in R&D intensity of Indian pharmaceutical firms. The results of the econometric analysis presented in the paper indicate that increased R&D efforts of Indian pharmaceutical firms were responsible in a major way…
Domestic Versus Imported Contents in Exports
This article combines national input–output tables (1998–1999 to 2007–2008) with World Input–Output Database (1995–2011) to evaluate foreign value-added (FVA) content in India’s exports at aggregate and disaggregate levels. The results confirm rising FVA and declining domestic value added (DVA) in India’s total and merchandise exports across a majority of the commodities. India’s international fragmentation has risen but continues to be lower tha…
Do stock markets penalize environment-unfriendly behaviour? Evidence from India
R&D intensity and exports
The export intensity of Indian pharmaceutical firms has increased substantially in the period after 1995 when the new, more restrictive patent regime was introduced in India. The hike in export intensity has been accompanied by an increase in R&D intensity of Indian pharmaceutical firms. The results of the econometric analysis presented in the paper indicate that increased R&D efforts of Indian pharmaceutical firms were responsible in a major way…
Small versus large manufacturing units
Keeping in mind the much discussed huge employment potential of small manufacturing units, this study examines the performance of enterprises across organised or formal and unorganised or informal sector enterprises. The analysis tends to offer little evidence in favour of positive links between sectors in terms of performance index, i.e. technical efficiency. The formal sector units obviously are better performers than their informal sector coun…
Domestic Versus Imported Contents in Exports
This article combines national input–output tables (1998–1999 to 2007–2008) with World Input–Output Database (1995–2011) to evaluate foreign value-added (FVA) content in India’s exports at aggregate and disaggregate levels. The results confirm rising FVA and declining domestic value added (DVA) in India’s total and merchandise exports across a majority of the commodities. India’s international fragmentation has risen but continues to be lower tha…
Investigating the Prevalence of ‘Missing Middle’ in Indian Manufacturing
The role of services in India's post-reform economic growth
Export Participation and Employment of Contract Workers in Organized Manufacturing Plants in India
The share of contract workers, i.e., the workers employed through contractors, as against the workers directly employed by factories, out of all workers employed in India’s organized manufacturing has increased significantly over the last three decades, reaching 38.6% in 2019–2020. Using plant-level panel data for the years 2008–2009 to 2017–2018, the paper examines econometrically whether export participation by the organized sector manufacturin…
Years of Growth, Development and Productivity in India
Impact of cyclones on manufacturing firms in India
The impact of cyclones on assets and sales of manufacturing firms in India is examined econometrically using data on manufacturing companies for 2008–2019. We find that there is about a 4–6 per cent dip in sales and a 2–3 per cent dip in total assets of manufacturing firms following a cyclone incident in the district where the firms' plants are located. The fall in sales is bigger for relatively small-sized firms. For multi-plant firms with plant…
Premature Deindustrialisation, Not in India
The phenomenon of premature deindustrialization has received considerable attention. There is a commonly held view among Indian scholars and academicians that India has experienced premature deindustrialization, adversely impacting industrial growth. Analyzing trends in the manufacturing share in aggregate economy real GVA and the share of organized manufacturing gross value added (GVA) in state GDP in eight Indian states that account for about t…
Investments, Human Capital Formation, and Productivity Growth
The paper aims to study the contribution that increased investment rate, augmented human capital and accelerated productivity growth can make to enable the Indian economy to grow fast enough to reach the upper-income category by 2047. We calibrate, for India, the long-run growth transition from a developing to a developed nation using the World Bank approach to the formulation of a Long-Term Growth Model. A Cobb-Douglas specification of aggregate…
(Wl-2279)-K L Krishna’s Contributions to the Study of Economics
This year, Prof. K.L. Krishna, an economist and teacher who created lasting impact on many Indian economists, received the Padma Shri award from the Honorable President of India. This award is a befitting recognition of his contributions to economics teaching, research and mentorship of many future economists. His academic journey began during his doctoral studies at the University of Chicago in the late 1960s, where his thesis focused on underst…
Productivity Gains from Global Value Chains Participation
Using data on Indian manufacturing firms for 1999-2019, the paper examines the productivity-enhancing impact of participation in global value chains (GVCs) by manufacturing firms. GVC participation by industrial firms involves exporting products and importing intermediate inputs, sometimes combined with outward foreign direct investment, and is expected to positively affect firm productivity. The impact of GVC participation on total factor produc…
Is the Productivity of Unpaid Female Family Workers in Indian Agriculture Very Low
The significant increase in the number of unpaid female workers in Indian agriculture between 2017-18 and 2023-24 is a positive, rather than a negative, development in the Indian rural economy because their productivity is in all likelihood not any less than that of paid female workers in rural areas, as indicated by the recent study by Areef and Shekhar (2025). While Areef and Shekhar find that per-adult consumption expenditure in a farming fami…
Economics (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Indian Economic and Social Development (5 works) · Productivity (5 works) · Global trade and economics (4 works) · Manufacturing sector (4 works) · Agricultural risk and resilience (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Manufacturing (3 works) · Monetary economics (3 works)