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States Diverge, Cities Converge : Drivers of Local Growth Catch-Up in India
Li, Yue - 2018
This paper takes a fresh look at growth convergence in India, combining insights from macroeconomics and urban …
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Spatial Development and Agglomeration Economies in Services -- Lessons from India
Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2017
from India, this paper helps narrow this gap by comparing and contrasting the spatial development of services with that in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968718
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What Explains Big Gender Disparities in India? Local Industrial Structures and Female Entrepreneurship
Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2017
in India. What explains these huge gender disparities? Is it poor infrastructure, limited education, and gender … female entrepreneurs?This paper analyzes the spatial determinants of female entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing …
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What Makes Cities More Competitive? Spatial Determinants of Entrepreneurship in India
Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2017
, boost economic growth, and promote job creation. The authors examine the spatial location of entrepreneurs in India in … patterns are true for manufacturing and services. These relationships are much stronger in India than those found for the … United States. The authors also find strong evidence of agglomeration economies in India's manufacturing sector. This …
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The Spatial Development of India
Desmet, Klaus - 2017
benefits accruing to them. India's mega-cities have continued to grow. This situation raises a number of important policy … questions. Should India aim to spread development more equally across space? Are India's cities becoming too large? Should the … is India?s experience compared with China and USA? …
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Converting Land into Affordable Housing Floor Space
Bertaud, Alain - 2017
Cities emerge from the spatial concentration of people and economic activities. But spatial concentration is not enough; the economic viability of cities depends on people, ideas, and goods to move rapidly across the urban area. This constant movement within dense cities creates wealth but also...
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The Impact of Mining on Spatial Inequality Recent Evidence from Africa
Addison, Tony - 2017
This paper investigates the relationship between mining and spatial inequality in Africa during 2001-12. The identification strategy is based on a unilateral causation between mining and district inequality. The findings show that when minerals are aggregated, mining increases district...
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Spatial Gaps in Management Quality : Evidence from a Lagging Region in Croatia
Goswami, Arti Grover - 2020
Embedding management and operational practices survey in a broader firm capabilities survey, this report finds that: (i) relative to the rest of Croatia, an average firm in the lagging region of the country (Eastern Croatia) is only slightly behind in the adoption of structured management...
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Migration in Libya : A Spatial Network Analysis
Di Maio, Michele - 2020
This paper provides the first systematic analysis of migration to, within, and from Libya. The data used in the analysis are from the Displacement Tracking Matrix data set of the International Organization for Migration. The analysis uses this unique source of data, combining several techniques...
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Spatial Distributions of Job Accessibility, Housing Rents, and Poverty in Nairobi, Kenya
Nakamura, Shohei - 2018
Whether individuals and job opportunities are well connected is a key determinant of productive urban labor markets. The overall level of job accessibility in a city depends on the locations of jobs and workers' residences, as well as transport networks. Moreover, who has good access to job...
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