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Economic integration affects economic development through two main channels: growth and localization of the economic activities. The theories of endogenous growth and economic geography enable us to understand these mechanisms. We study in this paper their similarities and specificities before...
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China's Hukou system poses severe restrictions on labor mobility. This paper assesses the consequences of relaxing these restrictions for China's internal economic geography. We base our analysis on a new economic geography model. First, we obtain estimates of the important model parameters on...
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Development of an improved definition of the characteristics of business growth and change is an important need for the wide audience that is interested in economic development. This study devotes attention to the intersection of two areas of research interest: the development of firms, and the...
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This paper investigates to what extent the different subsectors of the knowledge economy are subject to sector-specific spatial patterns of employment dynamics, and whether these patterns are conditional upon the general economic climate in a particular region. To this end, we analyze and...
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Given that India's urban areas contribute to nearly two-thirds of its gross domestic product, even though they account … for only 31% of the country's population, they have been rightly called the engines of India's growth. In this paper, I … competitiveness of India's cities. This paper uses standard Census of India data at the level of the city, to compute location …
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estimate economic activity at the sub-regional level in the U.S., India and China. The night lights based estimates of economic …
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between households in different income brackets at the district level for India, and the radiance-calibrated nighttime image … different income brackets, made by Indicus Analytics (specialized economic research firm, based in New Delhi, India) were used …-deficient countries such as India …
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Given that India’s urban areas contribute to nearly two-thirds of its gross domestic product, even though they account … for only 31% of the country’s population, they have been rightly called the engines of India’s growth. In this paper, I … competitiveness of India’s cities. This paper uses standard Census of India data at the level of the city, to compute location …
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For a country like India that contains a large number of Urban Agglomerations (UAs), suburbanisation has drawn little … employment density gradients for India's UAs, using Mills' two-point technique. Next, I estimate population, household and …, transport, communications and trade/commerce jobs in India's urban areas. I conclude with policy implications. …
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paper analyses the growth and development experience in India using multiple indicators. Development seems to have lagged …
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