The Spatial Development of India

Klaus Desmet, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Ejaz Ghani () and Stephen O'Connell

No 9433, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: This paper studies the recent spatial development of India. Services, and to a lesser extent manufacturing, are increasingly concentrating in high-density clusters. This stands in contrast with the United States, where in the last decades services have tended to grow fastest in medium-density locations, such as Silicon Valley. India's experience is not common to all fast-growing developing economies. The spatial growth pattern of China looks more similar to that in the U.S. than to that of India. Our findings suggest that certain frictions are keeping medium-density places in India from growing faster.

Keywords: Economic geography; India; Services; Spatial development; Spatial distribution of economic activity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O1 O18 O53 R11 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-04
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-geo and nep-ure
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Journal Article: THE SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT OF INDIA (2015)
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