Long-Run Growth Trends and Convergence Across Indian States [E-Book] / Rayaprolu Nagaraj, Aristomène Varoudakis and Marie-Ange Véganzonès
This paper examines the growth performance of Indian States during 1970-94. We, first, propose a grouping of States according to differences in the availability of physical, social, and economic infrastructure, using principal components analysis. Then, combining principal components analysis and pa...
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Personal Name(s): | Nagaraj, Rayaprolu. |
Varoudakis, Aristomène. / Véganzonès, Marie-Ange. | |
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Paris :
OECD Publishing,
1998
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Physical Description: |
56 p. ; 21 x 29.7cm. |
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englisch |
DOI: |
10.1787/138016038733 |
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OECD Development Centre Working Papers ;
131 |
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Development India |
This paper examines the growth performance of Indian States during 1970-94. We, first, propose a grouping of States according to differences in the availability of physical, social, and economic infrastructure, using principal components analysis. Then, combining principal components analysis and panel data estimation techniques, we assess the contribution of various infrastructure indicators to growth performance. The analysis tackles endogeneity issues in the provision of infrastructure by way of instrumental variables estimation for many of the infrastructure indicators. We do find evidence of conditional convergence across States. This does not rule out persistent income inequalities due to the dispersion of steady-state income levels. Such disparities are accounted for by differences, first, in the structure of production, second, in infrastructure endowments, and, third, in Statespecific fixed effects in the growth regression. Consequently, economic policy measures aiming at ... |