In this paper, we examine the growth convergence hypothesis within a developing country. Across Indian states, income dispersion has widened in recent years. Some new methods that are used by many researchers for studies across countries or across U.S. regions are applied, and we find that...

The paper looks at the latest evidence of what has been happening to regional disparities in per capita income (measured as Gross State Domestic Product per capita) in India over the first decade of the twenty first century (1999/00 to 2010/11) by estimating cross section equations for...

One of the most fundamental issues worldwide is the economic interdependence of countries which affects their economic growth. Some new growth theorists such as Mankiw et al., Islam, Ertur and Koch, Lee, Yu and Yu Ho et al. consider geographical proximity and trade as spatial variables. This...

India’s success story in services is well documented at the national level, but similar literature does not exist for India’s states. In this paper, we bridge this gap in research by looking at India’s services growth at the sub-national level and in doing so, also challenge existing...

The aim of this study is to reassess the sources behind US state-level growth during the post-war period. It improves upon the existing literature (1) by using a general method-of-moments (GMM) estimator that eliminates omitted variable and endogeneity bias, (2) by allowing for parameter...

This paper provides new evidence on the convergence process of energy, water and food per capita consumption levels for 108 countries from 1971 to 2018, using a common data set, with VAR and panel data approach. We establish a new notion of multivariate sigma and beta-convergence. The results...