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Efficiency in Agro-Based Consumer Goods Industries of Tamil Nadu


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Studies indicate a long run decline in efficiency in Indian Industry as reflected by total factor productivity. Any fall in efficiency lowers the marginal productivity of labour and pul ls down employment. Declining productive efficiency could well have kept the growth of employment down in Indian manufacturing. To reverse this process, the production structure should be made flexible and enable easy substi tutabi lity between labour and capital, argues the paper.
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Authors

M. Manonmani
Dept. of Economics, Avinashilingam University for Women, Coimbatore-641 043, India
K. T. Geetha
Dept. of Economics, Avinashilingam University for Women, Coimbatore-641 043, India

Abstract


Studies indicate a long run decline in efficiency in Indian Industry as reflected by total factor productivity. Any fall in efficiency lowers the marginal productivity of labour and pul ls down employment. Declining productive efficiency could well have kept the growth of employment down in Indian manufacturing. To reverse this process, the production structure should be made flexible and enable easy substi tutabi lity between labour and capital, argues the paper.

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