Shedding Light on Regional Growth and Convergence in India

Areendam Chanda and Sujana Kabiraj ()
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Departmental Working Papers from Department of Economics, Louisiana State University

Abstract: One of the well documented facts about India's rapid growth since 1991 has been the accompanying unequal sub-national experiences. In this paper, using unsaturated night-light data for 1996-2010, we investigate patterns of growth at the district level. We find evidence of absolute convergence. Disaggregating along rural and urban di- mensions, we also show that this is mainly due to faster growth in rural areas. Further, districts that have grown faster are ones that are geographically disadvantaged - fur- ther away from the coast, with lower agricultural suitability of land, and more rugged terrains. The convergence results are also robust to a few of the major policy initiatives that overlapped our period of analysis.

Date: 2018-05
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