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Geographic impact of Indian economy. ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY OF INDUSTRY LOCATION
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ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY OF INDUSTRY LOCATION
IN INDIA
Somik Lall and Sanjoy Chakravorty
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Paper prepared for the UNU/WIDER Project Conference on
Spatial Inequality in Asia
United Nations University Centre, Tokyo, 28-29 March 2003
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Economic Geography of Industry Location in India
Somik Lall
Development Research Group
The World Bank
Washington, DC, USA
slall1@worldbank.org
and
Sanjoy Chakravorty
Department of Geography and Urban Studies
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA, USA
sanjoy@temple.edu
D R A F T
(Please do not cite without permission)
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Economic Geography of Industry Location in India
Where do different industries locate? What factors influence the spatial
distribution of economic activity within countries? Finding answers to these questions is
important for understanding the development potential of sub national regions. This is
particularly important for developing countries as they have relatively lower levels of
overall investment and economic activity is concentrated in one or a few growth centers.
Thus, regions that do not attract dynamic industries are not only characterized by low
productivity, but also by lower relative incomes and standards of living. These questions
on industry location and their implications are not new. Examining the locational aspects
of economic activity has long been of interest to geographers, planners, and regional
scientists (Weber, 1909; Lösch, 1940; Hotelling, 1929; Greenhut and Greenhut, 1975,
Isard 1956). However, analytic difficulties in modeling increasing returns to scale
marginalized the analysis of geographic aspects in mainstream economic analysis
(Krugman 1991). Recent research on externalities, increasing returns to scale, and
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