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Geographic Concentration in Indian Manufacturing and Service Industries: Evidence from 1998 to 2013
Author(s) -
Amirapu Amrit,
Hasan Rana,
Jiang Yi,
Klein Alex
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
asian economic policy review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.58
H-Index - 20
eISSN - 1748-3131
pISSN - 1832-8105
DOI - 10.1111/aepr.12251
Subject(s) - tertiary sector of the economy , economics , fell , manufacturing , capital (architecture) , manufacturing sector , service (business) , dispersion (optics) , economic geography , cover (algebra) , economies of agglomeration , agricultural economics , industrial organization , business , econometrics , labour economics , economy , microeconomics , geography , engineering , marketing , mechanical engineering , physics , cartography , archaeology , optics
This paper uses a comprehensive new data source to document basic facts about geographic concentration among industries in India from 1998 to 2013. Unlike previous studies, our data allow us to accurately measure industrial concentration at the district level and cover manufacturing and services, as well as the formal and informal sectors. Our most striking finding is that average levels of industrial concentration fell dramatically between 1998 and 2013, driven by steep reductions in capital‐intensive manufacturing industries. We provide suggestive evidence that this increasing dispersion may be due to improvements in interregional transportation coupled with inefficient land management policies and limited labor mobility.