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Spatial Inequality of Districts in India From Outer Space : Evidence Across DMSP and VIIRS Satellites
Mathen, Christopher - 2023
Nightlight is used as a proxy for economic activity at the subnational level. Two types of nightlight data are mainly available- Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP), available from 1992-2013, and Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), available from 2012. In this study,...
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Regional inequality in India in the 1990s : a district-level view
Singh, Nirvikar; Kendall, Jake; Jain, Rajendra Kumar; … - 2013
in terms of initial conditions of development. By identifying these connections, the study seeks to illuminate the role … of aspects of physical infrastructure, financial development and human capital in influencing regional patterns of growth … than the average, even after conditioning on development measures, suggesting other causes of backwardness. …
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Regional inequality in India in the 1990s : a further look
Singh, Nirvikar; Kendall, Jake; Jain, Rajendra Kumar; … - 2013
This paper examines changes in regional inequality in India in the 1990s, using data for 59 of India's 78 agro-climatic regions from the National Sample Survey. It extends the work of Singh et al. (2003) in two ways. First, it allows for differences in baseline growth performance across...
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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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Does technological growth-induced migration lead to income convergence? The case of India’s early 2000s telecom boom
Dutta, Arnab; Randolph, Gregory - 2022
This paper demonstrates that India’s early 2000s mobile phone service expansion, or the “telecom boom” led to net rural-urban migration of about 13 million individuals out of which 4 million moved for employment. To estimate the effects, we exploit the heterogeneous expansion of telecom...
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Urban Agglomeration Effects in India : Evidence from Town-Level Data
Hasan, Rana - 2017
Combining multiple data sets for India, we estimate the elasticity of wages with respect to town population and density between 1% and 2%, which is smaller than estimates in the literature based on district-level analysis. We also find that the employment share of firms with 10 or more workers...
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Regional divergence in India during the era of liberalization: a sectoral decomposition
Kar, Sabyasachi; S SakthivelAuthor-Email: skar_ieg@yahoo.com - In: Journal of Developing Areas 40 (2006) 1, pp. 65-79
The objective of this paper is to understand and measure the contribution of various sectors towards the divergence of regional output in India in the era of liberalization. We have first described a framework that enables us to decompose the rate of divergence into the contribution made by...
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Half a World: Regional inequality in five great federations
Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2004
The paper studies regional (spatial) inequality in five most populous countries in the world: China, India, the United States of America, Indonesia and Brazil in the period 1980-2000. They are all federations composed of entities (states or provinces) with substantial autonomy. Two types of...
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The territorial dynamics of innovation in China and India
Crescenzi, Riccardo; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; Storper, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
This article analyses the geography of innovation in China and India. Using a tailor-made panel database for regions in …
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The Territorial Dynamics Of Innovation In China And India
Crescenzi, Riccardo; Rodriguez-Pose, Andres; Storper, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
This paper analyses the geography of innovation in China and India. Using a tailor-made panel database for regions in …
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