Total Factor Productivity Growth and Urbanization Economies: A Case of Indian Industries

Arup Mitra

Review of Urban & Regional Development Studies, 2000, vol. 12, issue 2, 97-108

Abstract: Based on panel data for fifteen major states in India, this paper provides evidence in favor of the existence of urbanization economies. In eleven of seventeen two†digit industry groups, total factor productivity growth is responsive to urban population or industrial spread. Although the impact of these variables taken to capture agglomeration economies on total factor productivity growth is not monotonic, economic policy would yield a sub†optimal outcome by ignoring the positive effect of the size factor. Urban population or industrial spread benefits firms by possibly improving the quality of labor and enhancing the productive utilization of resources.

Date: 2000
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