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Understanding India's Urban Frontier : What is Behind the Emergence of Census Towns in India?

Mukhopadhyay, Partha - 2017

. Only part of this evolution can be attributed to the gradual urbanization of settlements in the vicinity or larger towns …

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The Exceptional Persistence of India's Unorganized Sector

Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2017

The transformation of India's unorganized sector is important to its modernization, growth, and attainment of regional economic equality. This paper documents several key facts about India's unorganized sector in manufacturing and services. First, the unorganized sector is large, accounting for...

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States Diverge, Cities Converge : Drivers of Local Growth Catch-Up in India

Li, Yue - 2018

This paper takes a fresh look at growth convergence in India, combining insights from macroeconomics and urban economics. It departs from the existing literature in three ways. First, the paper assesses growth patterns across districts and across places below the district level instead of taking...

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The Golden Quadrilateral Highway Project and Urban/Rural Manufacturing in India

Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2017

increased urbanization of the unorganized sector …

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Energy Poverty in Rural and Urban India : Are the Energy Poor Also Income Poor?

Khandker, Shahidur R. - 2017

Energy poverty is a frequently used term among energy specialists, but unfortunately the concept is rather loosely defined. Several existing approaches measure energy poverty by defining an energy poverty line as the minimum quantity of physical energy needed to perform such basic tasks as...

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Growth, Urbanization, and Poverty Reduction in India

Datt, Gaurav - 2017

Longstanding development issues are revisited in the light of a newly-constructed data set of poverty measures for India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991. The study finds a downward trend in poverty measures since 1970, with an acceleration post-1991,...

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Households or Locations? Cities, Catchment Areas and Prosperity in India

Rama, Martin - 2017

Policy makers in developing countries, including India, are increasingly sensitive to the links between spatial transformation and economic development. However, the empirical knowledge available on those links is most often insufficient to guide policy decisions. There is no shortage of case...

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Job Opportunities Along the Rural-Urban Gradation and Female Labor Force Participation in India

Chatterjee, Urmila - 2017

considered suitable for women. The paper develops a novel approach to capture the structure of employment at the village or town … misclassification of urban areas as rural, as a result of household surveys lagging behind India?s rapid urbanization process. The …

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Urbanization and Agglomeration Benefits : Gender Differentiated Impacts on Enterprise Creation in India's Informal Sector

Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2017

: urbanization, agglomeration benefits, gender and informality. Focusing on the important policy objective of new enterprise creation … in the informal sector, it asks and answers four specific questions on the impact of urbanization and gender. It finds … urbanized areas; (ii) This "urbanization gradient" also exists separately for the creation of female owned enterprises and male …

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Is India's Manufacturing Sector Moving Away from Cities?

Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2017

This paper investigates the urbanization of the Indian manufacturing sector by combining enterprise data from formal … urbanization has slowed down, the localized importance of education and infrastructure has not. The results suggest that districts … with better education and infrastructure have experienced a faster pace of urbanization, although higher urban-rural cost …

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