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GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT: THE INDIAN EXPERIENCE
Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
Debate over Growth and Development are quite old in the history of economic thinking. It is argued that development encompasses comprehensive issues like health, education, equality, and liveability while growth is too narrow a concept. This paper analyses the growth and development experience...
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Reimagining India's urban future : a framework for securing high-growth, low-carbon, climate-resilient urban development in India
Tewari, Meenu; Aziz, Zeba; Cook, Mitchell; Goldar, Amrita; … - 2015
India is at the cusp of a major urban transition. In less than twenty years, India's urban population is expected to …'s GDP, and this number is expected to rise to 75% by 2031. With 70% of all new jobs expected to come from urban areas …, accommodating a growing urban workforce will require large investments in new urban spaces. How prepared is India to deal with this …
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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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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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Malaria and economic development in the short-term : Plasmodium falciparum vs Plasmodium vivax
Kecskésová, Michaela; Mikula, Stepan - 2022
Malaria – a disease caused by parasitic microorganisms of the Plasmodium genus – has been shown to impede economic growth and socioeconomic development in the long-term. In this paper we use annual regional data from India to show that malaria outbreaks are associated with an immediate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013484633
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Is there a nonlinear relationship between economic growth and inequality? : theory and lessons from ASEAN, People Republic of China and India
Gangopadhyay, Partha; Bhattacharyay, Biswanath - 2015
In view of rising inequality in fast growing Asian developing countries, it is important to study the relationship … between economic growth and income inequity. We develop a simple model to establish that economic growth and inequality can … bear a complex and non-linear relationship if policy makers try to impact on one (say, inequality) by influencing the other …
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Intergenerational mobility, human capital accumulation, and growth in India
Weide, Roy van der; Vigh, Melinda - 2018
Productivity and socio-economic progress are inter-connected. Economic growth funds policies that promote socio-economic progress, while the latter serves as a growth engine. A society with high mobility is one where individual achievements are influenced less by the individual’s parents and...
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Financial inclusion and inclusive growth in sub-Saharan Africa
Sarpong, Bernard; Nketiah-Amponsah, Edward - In: Cogent economics & finance 10 (2022) 1, pp. 1-17
This paper empirically examines the quantitative relationship between financial inclusion and inclusive growth in sub-Saharan Africa using a panel of 46 countries for the period 2004–2018. The evidence suggests that usage of financial services, among other covariates, has a quantifiable and...
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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 … selected large cities of the country, to determine the country's urban specialization. I find that on average, over 1991 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011944166
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Malaria and Economic Development in the Short-term: Plasmodium falciparum vs Plasmodium vivax
Kecskésová, Michaela; Mikula, Štěpán - 2022
Malaria – a disease caused by parasitic microorganisms of the Plasmodium genus – has been shown to impede economic growth and socioeconomic development in the long-term. In this paper we use annual regional data from India to show that malaria outbreaks are associated with an immediate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013479058