The Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) introduced in India aimed at propelling the economy to a higher growth path and heralding socio-economic equality. In this transformed regime the State is to be a facilitator while the private players are to take up the expansionary effort. This requires...

Theoretical propositions proclaim that the association between Infrastructure Availability and Development of a region is quite strong and runs from the former to the latter. Empirical studies are however, inconclusive. While few researchers have concluded that the impact of infrastructure on...

Imbalances in regional infrastructural availability have been a major reason behind lopsided development in India. This paper examines the veracity of this argument in light of empirical results at the district level using a multidimensional approach with sub-sectoral, sectoral and composite...