Arbeitspapier

Remoteness and unbalanced growth: Understanding divergence across Indian districts

The existing literature on Indian growth finds no evidence of convergence across states. This represents a puzzle given the relatively free flows of capital, labor and commodities across state borders. We use a new data set of district level income and socio-economic data to explore the hypotheses of conditional convergence, using distance as an indicator of internal geographical trade and migration costs. We find evidence of conditional convergence for Indian districts but at a rate that is only half of Barro's "Iron Law". The results suggest that district level differences in trade and transport costs, infrastructure, and literacy rates, as well as state-level effects, have all contributed to the lack of absolute convergence in India.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Working Paper ; No. 268

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Thema
Convergence
India
Economic Growth
Gravity Models

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Das, Samarjit
Ghate, Chetan
Robertson, Peter E.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER)
(wo)
New Delhi
(wann)
2013

Handle
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Das, Samarjit
  • Ghate, Chetan
  • Robertson, Peter E.
  • Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER)

Entstanden

  • 2013

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