Regional dimensions of a national economy are important in policy making when there are large inter-regional differences in the level of development, growth and resources. In the Indian context, inter-state variations in economic growth and development have attracted continued research and...

Manufacturing has been seen as a means of economic development in the country since independence. Moving people out of agriculture for better wages meant the need to develop a diversified and growing industrial sector. The economic reforms launched in the early 1990s were rooted in the need for...

The objectives of this paper are to test whether there are any significant trickling down effects of economic growth across the Indian states and to identify the factors influencing the existence of such effects. Using data from 1971 to 1998, and the standard statistical test of causality, this...

India has a federal system of governance with both the state or provincial and the Central governments responsible for the development of the nation as a whole. Policies at the Central as well as state levels influence the state level variations in economic conditions in turn. It is in this...

Manufacturing played an important part in sustaining India's economic growth in the 1970s and 1980s. The economic reforms of the early 1990s did not lead to sustained growth of the manufacturing sector. After an acceleration in the mid-1990s, growth slowed in the decade's second half. The...

Technical efficiency, which is a measure of production performance of a firm, has been estimated generally using a primal production frontier. Since the estimation is carried out for a given level of inputs, the efficiency measure includes the effect of 'input-mix' or 'input-allocation' and...

Because of lack of proper sanitation, communicable diseases spread causing considerable loss and disabilities to human resources. Considering this, the international community has set the provision of sanitation as part of the Millennium Development Goals, aiming to reduce the number of those...

The development of rural housing in a manner that results in adequate, quality shelter for inhabitants of Mahatma Gandhi’s “real India” is a challenge before the nation. What are the issues confronting rural housing development in India? The litany of its woes is endless. At first...

This paper is based on a set of village visits carried out by the authors as part of a study on rural housing sponsored by Holcim Limited. The views expressed here are those of the authors. [Working Paper No.101]