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Income Convergence and Regional Growth in India
Chikte, Rasika P. - In: South Asia Economic Journal 12 (2011) 2, pp. 239-269
In this article I study regional growth and sub-national income convergence in India in the context of economic reforms … that have been undertaken since 1991. I also examine convergence in development inputs such as population growth, literacy … indicating no evidence of convergence in the pre- or post-reform period. Population, state capital expenditure and commercial …
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Rural Nonfarm Employment and Incomes in the Eastern Himalayas
Rahut, Dil Bahadur; Micevska, Maja B. - 2007
Nonfarm activities generate on average about 60 percent of rural households? incomes in the eastern Himalayan region of India. This paper analyzes the determinants of participation in nonfarm activities and of nonfarm incomes across rural households. We present and explore an analytical...
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How to identify specialization? The case of India's cities
Sridhar, Kala Seetharam - 2017
Given that India's urban areas contribute to nearly two-thirds of its gross domestic product, even though they account for only 31% of the country's population, they have been rightly called the engines of India's growth. In this paper, I answer the following questions: What are the economic...
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The socio-economic and environmental impact of a large infrastructure project: The case of the Konkan Railway in India
Jaiswal, Sreeja; Bensch, Gunther; Navalkar, Aniket; … - 2022
Railways are a key infrastructure that facilitates trade and regional integration with potential consequences on local development and the environment in hitherto backward regions. In this article, we study the medium- to long-term socio-economic and environmental infrastructure impacts for the...
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Rural Nonfarm Employment andIncomes in the Himalayas
Micevska, Maja; Rahut, Dil Bahadur - 2008
Nonfarm activities generate on average about 60 percent of rural households' incomes in the Himalayas. This paper analyzes the determinants of participation in nonfarm activities and of nonfarm incomes across rural households. A unique data set collected in the Himalayan region of India allows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807611
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Sector, globalization and urban economic growth : evidence from Bangalore (India)
Narayana, M. R. - 2010
This paper aims at economic analysis of economic globalization and urban growth of Bangalore, the Silicon Valley of India, as they are related to ICT sector. Overall analyses offer new insights and evidences for ICT sector as a major contributor for degree of economic globalization and urban...
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Looking for PeripheRurality
Camaioni, Beatrice; Esposti, Roberto; Lobianco, Antonello; … - 2013
Rural areas still play a major role within the EU, as Europe is still a fairly rural continent. Moreover, EU rural areas are going through greater challenges and major transformations. After the Eastern enlargements of the EU (in 2004 and 2007), they are getting more and more heterogeneous, in...
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Revisiting Night Lights as Proxy for Economic Growth : A Multi-Year Light Based Growth Indicator (LBGI) for China, India and the U.S
Kulkarni, Rajendra - 2011
In this paper we explore how satellite images of global night lights from the years 2001 to 2007 can be used to estimate economic activity at the sub-regional level in the U.S., India and China. The night lights based estimates of economic activity are then spatially analyzed and compared with...
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Infrastructure and Regional Development : Interlinkages in India
Majumder, Rajarshi - 2007
Imbalances in regional infrastructural availability have been a major reason behind lopsided development in India. This paper examines the veracity of this argument in light of empirical results at the district level using a multidimensional approach with sub-sectoral, sectoral and composite...
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Assessing Income Distribution at the District Level for India Using Nighttime Satellite Imagery
Chaturvedi, Mayuri - 2016
Several studies have been carried out relating nighttime lights with economic activity. But most studies relating nighttime lights with economic activity have focused on associating higher totals in economic activity with higher sum of lights across regions. The question addressed in this paper...
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