The paper examines the spatial association between concentration of manufacturing sector and air quality across Indian states using a spatial autoregressive modelling technique. While empirically modelling the impact of agglomeration of manufacturing sector on the level of concentration of air...

The paper examines the nature and pattern of development of the Indian organized manufacturing industries across Indian states using the Annual Survey of Industries (ASI) plant level data. Four different indices of industrial concentration have been used to estimate the degree of agglomeration...

Several earlier studies have observed that the size structure of Indian manufacturing is characterized by the ‘missing middle’ phenomenon – a relatively low appearance/occurrence of middle-size industrial enterprises among industrial enterprises of different size classes. The authors of...