The existing literature on Indian growth finds no evidence of convergence across states. This represents a puzzle given … income and socio-economic data to explore the hypotheses of conditional convergence, using distance as an indicator of … internal geographical trade and migration costs. We find evidence of conditional convergence for Indian districts but at a rate …

at least half of product innovation and growth comes from firms that never patent. We also find that market leaders use …

This paper quantifies the determinants of heterogeneity in R&D investment and its implications for growth. Using a … by small firms with high R&D intensity. We estimate a Schumpeterian growth model with heterogeneous firms, that differ … negative correlation between R&D intensity and firm size. A larger selection effect contribution to aggregate growth is found …

We obtain time series estimates of the long run growth rates of 17 OECD countries, and test the hypothesis that these … long run growth rates, and; (ii) any policies that can raise national growth rates must be international in scope. The … results therefore have bleak implications for the ability of countries to affect their long run growth rates. …

Historically, episodes of rapid growth are accompanied by significant structural change. In this paper we therefore aim … to quantify the extent to which factor accumulation induces structural change and productivity growth in industrializing … economies. To fix ideas we present an extension of Barro, Mankiw and Sala-i-Martin?s (1995) growth model that incorporates two …

Paper reviews India's growth performance since independence. Phrases suchas "Hindu Rate of Growth," sometimes make a … attention on the wrong issue. There is nothing in the literature that suggeststhat this period of the "Hindu Rate of Growth" had … allows a statistically more accurate determination of thedifferent phases of Indian economic growth. The paper confirms that …

, innovations, and the advance of human knowledge-the rate of growth of capacity has slowed. The past quarter century witnessed the …