The four strategies that the Economic Survey mentioned include specialisation at large scale in labour-intensive sectors, especially network products, focus on enabling assembling operations at mammoth scale in network products, export primarily to markets in rich countries and lastly, the trade policy must be an enabler.

The Economic Survey also analysed the impact of India’s trade agreements on overall trade balance. India’s exports increased by 13.4 per cent for manufactured products and 10.9 per cent for total merchandise, according to the survey. India’s imports increased by 12.7 per cent for manufactured products and 8.6 per cent for total merchandise.

The survey said that around 2.62 crore new jobs were created in rural and urban areas between 2011-12 and 2017-18 among regular wage and salaried employees. The total formal employment in the economy increased from 8 per cent in 2011-12 to 9.98 per cent in 2017-18, according to the survey.