Macroeconomic policy and output comovement: The formal and informal sectors in India |
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Authors: | Urjit R Patel Pradeep Srivastava |
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Institution: | Reserve Bank of India, Bombay, and International Monetary Fund, Washington DC, U.S.A.;The World Bank, Washington DC, U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | Is the informal sector different from the formal sector? We present an aggregative analysis of the formal and informal sectors in India to investigate the extent to which the two can be viewed as broadly homogeneous. Using a macroeconometric framework, the paper analyzes over past three decades the behavior of the two sectors with respect to each other and several government-related policy variables. It is found that the formal and informal sectors display markedly different attributes in terms of their relationship to policy variables. Furthermore, the informal sector appears to be decoupled from the rest of the economy. |
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