We investigate the impact of the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) highway project on the Indian organized manufacturing sector using enterprise data. The GQ project upgraded the quality and width of 5,846 km of roads in India. We use a difference-in-difference estimation strategy to compare non-nodal...

We analyze the spatial determinants of female entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. We focus on the presence of incumbent female-owned businesses and their role in promoting higher subsequent female entrepreneurship relative to male entrepreneurship. We find...

We analyze the spatial determinants of entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. Among general district traits, quality of physical infrastructure and workforce education are the strongest predictors of entry, with labor laws and household banking quality also playing...

We investigate the impact of the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) highway project on the Indian organized manufacturing sector using enterprise data. The GQ project upgraded the quality and width of 5,846 km of roads in India. We use a difference-in-difference estimation strategy to compare non-nodal...

Rationale of the study: In terms of population and space, Ahmedabad is one of the largest cities in India. Its commercial, cultural and political importance is equally significant. One of the research studies concluded that total death during communal riots (Hindu - Muslim, based on religion) in...

If the recent exponential increase in food prices is any indication, India faces the risk of food crisis. Agriculture is defined as the science and practice of activities relating to, processing, marketing, distribution, utilization, and trade of food, feed and fiber. Agriculture remains an...

Ensconced within the urbanized environs of the Delhi metropolis and its umbrella towns, there exists several semi-urban semi-rural pockets which are inhabited by communities with agrarian backgrounds who had sold off their lands to merge with the fast developing city spaces. Still holding on to...

Ahmedabad is often called an Indian ‘success story' in terms of economic urbanization, but it is also a city highly segregated along religious and caste lines, and a flashpoint in the 2002 Hindu–Muslim riots that left thousands dead. Most of the Muslim communities relocated after the...

Mahatma Gandhi and his economic ideas are relevant to economic process and in twenty first century. His vision to create Indian villages prosperous and progressive is feasible through economic process. His plan of Gram Swaraj aims at developing villages in a very manner, which retains and...