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Land reform, poverty reduction and growth : evidence from India

Besley, Timothy; Burgess, Robin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998

In recent times there has been a renewed interest in relationships between redistribution, growth and welfare. Land reforms have been central to strategies to improve the asset base of the poor in developing countries thought their effectiveness has been hindered by political constraints on...

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The territorial dynamics of innovation in China and India

Crescenzi, Riccardo; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; Storper, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

This article analyses the geography of innovation in China and India. Using a tailor-made panel database for regions in these two countries, we show that both countries exhibit increasingly strong polarization of innovative capacity in a limited number of urban areas. But the factors behind this...

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Convergence club empirics: some dynamics and explanations of unequal growth across Indian states

Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

This paper documents the convergence of incomes across Indian states over the period 1965 to 1998. It departs from … traditional analyses of convergence by tracking the evolution of the entire income distribution, instead of standard regression … and time series analyses. The findings reveal twin-peaks dynamics ¿ the existence of two income convergence clubs, one at …

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