This paper studies the recent spatial development of India. Services, and to a lesser extent manufacturing, are … services have tended to grow fastest in medium-density locations, such as Silicon Valley. India's experience is not common to …

empirical puzzles in the trade-wages debate and can also explain the bimodal growth in services (high and low skill) observed in …

of services in GDP, employment and international transactions. However, large differences exist across transition … economies with respect to services intensity and services policy reforms. We find that reforms in policies towards financial and … infrastructure services, including telecommunications, power and transport, are highly correlated with inward FDI. Controlling for …

Advances in communication technology make it possible for workers in India to supply business services to head offices …. Service trade, however, like goods trade, is subject to strong distance effects, implying that the remote supply of services … large sample of countries and different categories of service trade. We find that distance costs are high but are declining …

services rather than trends in industry. Britain’s productivity lead in services before World War II reflected external … under-development of services in an economy that was slow to move out of agriculture. As German agricultural employment … contracted sharply from the 1950s, catching-up occurred in services. This was aided by a sharp increase in human and physical …

services as they are for manufacturing. We use a longitudinal database for Dutch firms in the retail and hotel and catering … sectors to identify around 13,000 new-firm start-ups and 47,000 incumbents in the services and track them over subsequent … services. The results suggest that the most fundamental relationships between firm size, age, survival and growth are …

European Community (EC). Today, in every member state, services account for more production and employment than agriculture and … manufacturing combined. The growing role of services in domestic economies is the result of both demand and supply factors. On the … demand side, the major impetus has come from firms that have shifted from providing services they require `in-house' to …

, showing the importance of developments in services. We identify the transition in market services from customized, low … provided, focusing on the transition from networks to hierarchies. Four general lessons are drawn: (1) developments in services …