"... all chapters are based on the papers presented by the authors in a conference organised by the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, and the British Northern Universities India Forum on January 3-4, 2017"--Acknowledgements.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of figures -- List of tables -- List of appendices -- List of contributors -- Foreword / Dr. C. Rangarajan -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- 1. Introduction / Shashanka Bhide, V.N. Balasubramanyam and K.L. Krishna -- Part 1. Understanding services growth: 2. Can services lead the Indian economy? / V.N. Balasubramanyam and Ahalya Balasubramanyam -- 3. Service tax in India: story of its evolution and amalgamation with goods taxation / R. Srinivasan -- 4. Exchange rate and india's services exports / Manoranjan Sahoo and M. Suresh Babu -- 5. Measuring services output: definitional and conceptual issues / A.C. Kulshreshtha -- Part II. Services sector, economic growth and employment: 6. Services sector in India: an exploration of the heterogeneity across sub-sectors / Jesim Pais -- 7. Employment potential in the services sector in India: an overview / K.V. Ramaswamy -- 8. Diversity in services sector employment in India: evidence from India Human Development Survey, 2011-12 / Brinda Viswanathan -- Part III. Insights from sectoral experiences: education, financial services and the IT industry: 9. Production loan access and urban self-employed households / Shika Saravanabhavan and Meenakshi Rajeev -- 10. Contribution of education to GDP growth: measurement and policy issues / P. Duraisamy -- 11. Learning to 'walk on two legs'?: divergent trajectories and the future of India's ICT services / Balaji Parthasarathy -- Index.