Gaurav Nayyar is an Economist in the Economic Research Division of the World Trade Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. Previously, he was a College Lecturer at St Catherine's College, University of Oxford. He obtained a D.Phil. in Economics from the University of Oxford, where he was a Dorothy Hodgkin Scholar. Dr Nayyar's research interests lie primarily in the area of development economics, and he has published in academic journals on issues relating to the service sector, economic growth and poverty reduction. He was a co-author of the 2010 World Trade Report Trade on Natural Resources and the 2011 World Trade Report on Preferential Trade Agreements.
1. Introduction
2. Services: concepts, measurement and India's national accounts
3. The demand for services in India: a mirror image of Engel's Law for Food?
4. The nature of employment in India's services sector: educational requirements and quality
5. Labour productivity in India's urban informal services sector: a comparison with agriculture
6. Conclusion.
