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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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The location choices of foreign investors : a districtlevel analysis in India
Mukim, Megha; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2010
to gauge the relative importance of economic geography factors, local business conditions, and the presence of previous … concentration of FDI in a few locations could fuel regional divergence in post-reform India. -- FDI ; economic geography ; location …
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Regional concentration of FDI in post-reform India : a district-level analysis
Bickenbach, Frank; Liu, Wan-hsin; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2013
We analyze the concentration of FDI in India at the district level, based on project-specific location choices since the reform program in the early 1990s. The decomposition property of the Theil index allows us to trace changes over time in the overall concentration of FDI to changes in...
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Regional Income Convergence in India : A Bayesian Spatial Durbin Model Approach
Soundararajan, Pushparaj - 2013
The discussion on regional disparity is essential for addressing politically sensitive policy issues in any federal polity. The research outcome of regional disparity analysis is, however, often ambiguous and is not robust to choice of strategies, namely β and σ convergence analysis. The...
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Regional Trade Openness Index and Income Disparity - A New Methodology and the Indian Experiment
Marjit, Sugata - 2008
This study tries to look at how 'open' Indian states are with respect to international trade and then try to characterise the relationship between regional disparity and 'openness'. The major purpose of this work is to develop an openness index at the regional or state level. It is well...
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