Most conventional accounts of India’s recent economic performance associate the pick-up in economic growth with the …

large dams in India. To account for endogenous placement of dams we use GIS data and the fact that river gradient affects a … estimates suggest that large dam construction in India is a marginally cost-effective investment with significant distributional …

cotton cloth in India during 1795-1940, and based on these numbers, revisits three issues central to interpretations of … economic change in colonial India. These are: (a) trends in levels of living, (b) the correlation between production of … textiles and consumption of textiles, and (c) consumption of clothing in India in relation to the rest of the world. …

This paper analyses the geography of innovation in China and India. Using a tailor-made panel database for regions in …. Innovative areas in China, rather than generate knowledge spillovers, seem to produce strong backwash effects. In India, by …

inter-state migrants within India consume fewer calories per Rupee of food expenditure compared to their non …

Using state-level data from India over the period 1983 to 2005, this paper gauges the effect of financial deepening and …

employ loan-level data on over a million loans disbursed in India over the 1995 to 2010 period to understand how fast …

This paper studies the recent spatial development of India. Services, and to a lesser extent manufacturing, are … services have tended to grow fastest in medium-density locations, such as Silicon Valley. India's experience is not common to … that of India. Our findings suggest that certain frictions are keeping medium-density places in India from growing faster. …

be reformed through incremental administrative change. The police department of the state of Rajasthan, India …-scale public opinion and crime victimization survey--the first of its kind in India. The results illustrate that two of the reform …