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Services growth and convergence: Getting India’s states together
Shingal, ANIRUDH - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
services are and we provide evidence for this both in terms of traditional measures of sigma- and beta-convergence and more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009246879
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Federal, State, and Local Governments: Evaluating their Separate Roles in US Growth
Higgins, Matthew; Young, Andrew; Levy, Daniel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
We use US county level data (3,058 observations) from 1970 to 1998 to explore the relationship between economic growth and the extent of government employment at three levels: federal, state and local. We find that increases in federal, state and local government employments are all negatively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616935
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Whither the Indian Federation? Regional Disparities and Economic Reforms
Alessandrini, Michele; Buccellato, Tullio; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The last two decades have seen increased divergence among the states of the Indian Federation in terms of their economic performance. This paper uses spatial econometric methods to examine how the regional pattern of growth has been influenced by the economic reforms implemented since the early...
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Infrastructure and Regional Development: Interlinkages in India
Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
Imbalances in regional infrastructural availability have been a major reason behind lopsided development in India. This paper examines the veracity of this argument in light of empirical results at the district level using a multidimensional approach with sub-sectoral, sectoral and composite...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836546
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India’s Development Experience - A Regional Analysis: An essay in honour of Prof. Ashok Mathur
Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
Wide regional variation has been a major characteristic of development experience in India. In the present study, the multidimensional facet of development is sought to be reflected through composite indices of development. It deals with the development trends exhibited at the National as well...
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INFRASTRUCTURE AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA
Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
Imbalances in regional infrastructural availability have been a major reason behind lopsided development in India. This paper examines the veracity of this argument in light of empirical results at the district level using a multidimensional approach with sub-sectoral, sectoral and composite...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005620157
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Productivity and Convergence in India: State Level Analysis
Kumar, Surender; Managi, Shunsuke - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
, the productivity growth is governed by the growth in technical progress. We also study about convergence in state level … and find a tendency of convergence in productivity growth though only states that are efficient remain on the production …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008534239
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Socioeconomic Progress across the Major Indian states: Converging or Diverging
Goli, Srinivas; Perianayagam, Arokiasamy; Bhemeshawar, Reddy - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
using convergence hypothesis. Earlier studies that examined regional disparities of development used per capita State Net … assessment of socioeconomic convergence in terms of critical indicators of economic inequality, poverty ratios, literacy rate and …, statistically significant absolute and conditional Beta (β)-convergence in literacy rates and HDI have been observed but only …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260369
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Dynamic relationships between oil revenues, government spending and economic growth in an oil-dependent economy
Sbia, Rashid; Hamdi, Helmi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The aim of this paper is to empirically examine the relationship between Oil revenues, government spending and GDP growth in the kingdom of Bahrain. Oil revenues are the main source of financing government expenditures and imports of products. Increasing oil prices in the recent years have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011275135
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U.S. Regional Population Growth 2000-2010: Natural Amenities or Urban Agglomeration?
Rickman, Dan S.; Wang, Hongbo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Using a spatial hedonic growth model, this paper empirically examines the relative roles of natural amenities and urban agglomeration economies as determinants of U.S. regional growth patterns from 2000 to 2010. Natural amenities and urban agglomeration are measured using the USDA Economic...
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