The aim of the paper is to identify comparable units of governance in the federal arrangement of Indian republic. We use 45 variables relevant for social investment, and we group 29 Indian states into four groups through cluster analysis. Initial attempt is made to compare the political...

In China, aggregate investment levels have been high and the cycles of investment growth rate have been remarkable. In order to reveal the mechanisms which drive investment hunger and cycles, this book develops an integrated growth-cycle framework which integrates the standard theory of...