The Structure of Indian Industry

This comprehensive set of industry studies in post-reforms India intensively reviews the performance of Indian industry in the 1990s. It traces the policy history and technological conditions faced by individual industries, and outlines the performance parameters in a freer market economy. Extensive information on key Indian industries is presented using ten select sectors-tea, tobacco, textiles, fertilizers, pharmaceuticals, steel, computer hardware, electronics, auto components, an banking-as case studies. The contributors provide a theoretical framework, encompassing strategic as well as economic factors, to analyse the differing performance of individual industries in the first phase of reforms.This book lays the foundation for further models of industrial economics in the Indian context. Comprehensive in its treatment of individual industries and wide in its scope, this volume will be immensely useful to students and researchers of industrial economics and advanced microeconomics.