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Integrating services into production can create more jobs, says CSEP

Services like construction, transport, and distribution play a significant role in supporting job creation in the manufacturing sector, the paper, based on empirical estimates, concluded

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The OECD’s Services Trade Restrictiveness Index (STRI) indicates that India maintains relatively higher restrictions than OECD and non-OECD averages in areas like rail freight, storage, and courier services. | Image: Bloomberg

Himanshi Bhardwaj New Delhi

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India’s manufacturing sector could generate more jobs by embracing the rising trend of servicification and integrating services into firms’ production, sale, and export processes, according to a new working paper by the Centre for Social and Economic Progress (CSEP).
 
Servicification has a positive correlation with employment across a range of sectors, especially textiles, electronics, rubber, plastics and machinery, the paper, ‘Servicification of Manufacturing: India’s Potential and Policy Priorities’, stated.
 
Services like construction, transport, and distribution play a significant role in supporting job creation in the manufacturing sector, the paper, based on empirical estimates, concluded.
 
Speaking with Business Standard, economist and