India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991. The study finds a downward trend in …

Policy makers in developing countries, including India, are increasingly sensitive to the links between spatial … of granularity. This methodology is applied to India, where individual household survey records are mapped to ?places … spatial productivity patterns across India. The paper shows that there is a gradation of spatial performance across places …

misclassification of urban areas as rural, as a result of household surveys lagging behind India?s rapid urbanization process. The …The recent decline in India?s rural female labor force participation is generally attributed to higher rural incomes in … lower, this alleged income effect does not bode well for the empowerment of women as India develops. This paper argues that …

: urbanization, agglomeration benefits, gender and informality. Focusing on the important policy objective of new enterprise creation … in the informal sector, it asks and answers four specific questions on the impact of urbanization and gender. It finds … urbanized areas; (ii) This "urbanization gradient" also exists separately for the creation of female owned enterprises and male …

The transformation of India's unorganized sector is important to its modernization, growth, and attainment of regional … economic equality. This paper documents several key facts about India's unorganized sector in manufacturing and services. First …

This paper investigates the urbanization of the Indian manufacturing sector by combining enterprise data from formal … the informal sector is moving from rural to urban locations. Although the secular trend for India's manufacturing … urbanization has slowed down, the localized importance of education and infrastructure has not. The results suggest that districts …

This paper presents the results of an investigation of selected census towns in northern India. Census towns are … settlements that India's census classifies as urban although they continue to be governed as rural settlements. The 2011 census …. Only part of this evolution can be attributed to the gradual urbanization of settlements in the vicinity or larger towns …

services as a driver of urbanization and structural transformation is still not well understood. Using establishment level data … from India, this paper helps narrow this gap by comparing and contrasting the spatial development of services with that in …

This paper estimates the impact of the Golden Quadrilateral and North-South-East-West Highways in India on welfare …