Make in India, Largely for India
Published: 2015
Author(s) Name: Raghuram Rajan |
Author(s) Affiliation: Governor Reserve Bank of India
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Abstract
The danger when we discuss Make in India is to assume the export-led growth path that China followed. Slow growing industrial countries are much less likely to absorb a significant
additional amount of imports in the foreseeable future. Industrial countries themselves are now adopting capital-intensive flexible manufacturing, dispensing with labor but doing what they outsourced, at cheaper cost
made possible by the fact that, for example, United States has very cheap energy today. Besides, when India pushes into manufacturing exports, it will have China, which still has some surplus agricultural labor to draw on, to contend with. Export-led growth will not be as
easy as it was for the Asian economies that preceded us.
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