Industrialisation and Interregional Disparities in Postcolonial India: Towards a New Regional Policy

Saha, Suranjit Kumar

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9663.1990.tb00760.x

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“…The Indian economy is characterized by unequal distribution of natural resource endowments, and misallocation of resources across sectors and states (Lefeber 1964;Mathur 1983;Prasad 1988;Shaw 1999;Kumar 2000), imperfect mobility and indivisibility in production factors, imbalance in infrastructure supply (Ghosh and De 1998;Lall 1999) and an unequal growth profile of regions (Saha 1993(Saha , 1988Dhalokia 1994;Das and Barua 1996;Shand and Bhinde 2000) leading to an uneven regional growth in India. Sachs et al (2002) have shown a partial economic convergence for the regional economies in India between the periods 1980-98.…”

Section: Regional Economies Of Indiamentioning

confidence: 99%

Identification of Regional Fundamental Economic Structure (FES) of India: An Input-Output and Field of Influence Approach

Thakur¹

2010

The Rise of China and India

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This study provides an understanding of the Indian regional economy utilizing the fundamental economic structure (FES) approach. The FES construct implies that selected characteristics of an economy will vary predictably with region size, as measured by net state domestic product, population, and total gross output. The big question addressed in this study is if identifiable patterns of relations between various macro aggregates and economic transactions can be revealed via regional input-output tables. Jensen et al. (1988) discuss the tiered, partitioned, and temporal approaches to the identification of FES using input-output tables. This research addresses the following four questions: (1) Does a regional FES exist for the Indian economy during the period 1965? (2) What proportions of the cells are predictable? (3) Can the 1965 regional FES predict 1983-84 table for Punjab economy? (4) Does regional FES manifest an enhanced understanding of the Indian regional structure? Regression analyses are used to identify the FES and non-FES cells for the Indian regional economy. The regional input-output tables for 21 States and Union Territories provide data for the analysis. Analysis reveals regional FES includes primary and secondary sectors as components of FES. This research has extended the notion of FES to include: weak, moderate and strong FES cells.

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Section: Regional Economies Of Indiamentioning

confidence: 99%

Identification of Regional Fundamental Economic Structure (FES) of India: An Input-Output and Field of Influence Approach

Thakur¹

2010

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“…In India, where the ability of the State to command investible resources is indeed very limited, such a possibility is still greater (Saha 1993, p. M±135). Ironically, the new industrial policy in India has been introduced at a time when, in spite of several constraints, there are some signs of regional dispersal of the industrialisation process (Saha 1990).…”

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Spatial Implications of India’s New Economic Policy

Kant

1999

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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This paper examines the spatial implications of India's new economic policy operating through two instrumentalities of stabilisation and structural adjustment. Stabilisation is aimed at correcting the balance of payments situation and reducing the de®cit in the Union government budget, which has had an adverse effect on social development, employment generation, and poverty alleviation in hill, tribal, drought prone and other backward areas. Devaluation of the rupee bene®tted the major foreign remittance receiving states like Kerala, Gujarat, Punjab and Tamil Nadu. Structural adjustment, through rationalisation of trade, industrial, agricultural, human resource development, and power policies had spatial implications of varying nature. Trade policy enhanced investment attraction of big urban industrial centres; industrial policy attracted foreign direct investment in mineral-rich backward states; and export orientation in agriculture was to a greater advantage of rice and cotton producing states. Reduction in subsidies for fertilisers had more serious implications for the agriculturally backward states. Higher tariffs in the power sector were to the disadvantage of Punjab, Haryana, Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Urban± rural and inter-state disparities in social development widened, with relatively lower allocations to education and health. On balance, though new economic policy offers new opportunities it does have a spatially differential impact.

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“…The governments of many countries are attempting to implement various development strategies in an effort to reduce the inequality between the core and periphery by stimulating economic activity in the periphery (for further discussion of this topic, see Bar-El 1985 ;Brown 1988 ; Suarez-Villa 1989 ;Saha 1990).…”

Section: The Development Con Textmentioning

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Dispersal of High‐tech Localities as a Strategy for Regional Development: The Israeli Case

Lipshitz¹

1993

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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Industrialisation and Interregional Disparities in Postcolonial India: Towards a New Regional Policy

Cited by 7 publications

References 3 publications

Identification of Regional Fundamental Economic Structure (FES) of India: An Input-Output and Field of Influence Approach

Identification of Regional Fundamental Economic Structure (FES) of India: An Input-Output and Field of Influence Approach

Spatial Implications of India’s New Economic Policy

Dispersal of High‐tech Localities as a Strategy for Regional Development: The Israeli Case

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