"The paper studies regional (spatial) inequality in the five most populous countries in the world: China, India, the …/provinces in China and India. The United States, where regional inequality is the least, shows further convergence. Brazil, with … United States, Indonesia, and Brazil in the period 1980-2000. They are all federations or quasi-federations composed of …

concentration of manufacturing industries for Indonesia, and estimate the impact of factors influencing location choice at the firm …

understanding collective action. He illustrates the point by contrasting how conceptions of nationalism in Indonesia and India …-efficiency tradeoff. Indonesia has delivered public services much more efficiently than India did, but at the cost of democratic freedoms … created SPGs that resulted in very different strategies of local development. Indonesia emphasized collective action by the …

"Most high and middle-income countries showed symptoms of skill-biased technological change in the 1980s. India-a low … income country-did not, perhaps because India's traditionally controlled economy may have limited the transfer of … skill-biased technological change did in fact arrive in India in the 1990s using panel data disaggregated by industry and …