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 …

, boost economic growth, and promote job creation. The authors examine the spatial location of entrepreneurs in India in … predict overall entrepreneurship for a district are its education and the quality of local physical infrastructure. These … patterns are true for manufacturing and services. These relationships are much stronger in India than those found for the …

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 … and services sectors. Good infrastructure and education predict higher female entry shares. There are strong agglomeration …

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 … with better education and infrastructure have experienced a faster pace of urbanization, although higher urban-rural cost …

India with the role of women in India's manufacturing sector. It does not find evidence that overall employment of women in …