The paper is an attempt to investigate growth and development experience in the districts of Odisha. Odisha has been a poor state and caught the national attention when the plight of residents of Kalahandi was raised by the then Chief Minister of Odisha in the floor of the House in the early...

In this paper, I present novel empirical evidence in support of the idea that FDI firms can act as an important driver of regional growth, by acting as a source of new knowledge and technologies to local suppliers in a host economy. For the analysis, I use unique firm level data that I obtained...