Households or Locations? : Cities, Catchment Areas and Prosperity in India
Policy makers in developing countries, including India, are increasingly sensitive to the links between spatial transformation and economic development. However, the empirical knowledge available on those links is most often insufficient to guide p...
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COUNTRYSIDE LIVING STANDARDS HOUSEHOLD_SIZE HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HOUSEHOLD SIZE POPULATION CENSUSES LANDHOLDINGS ECONOMIC GROWTH VILLAGES WORKING-AGE POPULATION URBANIZATION URBAN GROWTH INCOME RURAL GROUPS LABOR FORCE SERVICES DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DISCRIMINATION PUBLIC SERVICES HOUSING POLITICAL ECONOMY NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH INDIVIDUAL HOUSEHOLDS POLICY DISCUSSIONS POOR PEOPLE NEIGHBORHOODS PUBLICATIONS TERTIARY LEVELS CITIES FARM HOUSEHOLDS TOWNS GLOBAL POVERTY SOCIAL ASSISTANCE RURAL POPULATION POPULATION SIZE RURAL PLACES MEASURES RENTS POVERTY REDUCTION WORK EXPERIENCE KNOWLEDGE LABOR MARKET RURAL POPULATIONS SAVINGS JOB OPPORTUNITIES DWELLING EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT HOUSEHOLD HEAD URBAN FRINGE RENT SIZEABLE POPULATION METROPOLITAN AREAS EXTERNALITIES MIGRATION TRANSFERS POOR AREAS MARKETS HOUSEHOLD INCOME AGGLOMERATION ECONOMICS NUMBER OF HOUSEHOLDS POVERTY MAPS HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS LABOR FARMERS POLICY DECISIONS RURAL ROADS NATURAL RESOURCES HOUSEHOLD ASSETS DESIGN DWELLING UNITS PROGRESS UNEMPLOYMENT HOUSEHOLD LEVEL HUMAN CAPITAL MIGRANT TRANSPORTATION HIGHER INEQUALITY PARTICIPATION POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER RURAL AREA GENDER POLICY MAKERS URBAN ENVIRONMENTS LARGE CITIES URBAN CENTERS POPULATION DENSITY URBAN AREAS HOUSEHOLD HOME AFFAIRS URBAN AREA EMPLOYMENT STATUS EXPENDITURES DISADVANTAGED GROUPS RURAL MARKET POPULATIONS URBAN DEVELOPMENT POLICY QUALITY OF LIFE AFFORDABLE HOUSING GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS ECONOMIC INEQUALITY TARGETING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT MINORITY LAND NATURAL RESOURCE SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION HOUSEHOLDS CENSUSES AGGLOMERATION ECONOMIES ACCESS TO SERVICES SOCIAL GROUP RURAL AREAS POVERTY FEMALE LABOR FORCE HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION POPULATION INTERVENTIONS POLICY RESEARCH CATCHMENT AREA POOR URBAN ECONOMICS REMITTANCES LABOR MARKETS URBAN POVERTY ASSESSMENTS URBANIZATION PROCESS SECONDARY EDUCATION FEMALE TERTIARY EDUCATION DISTRICTS PUBLIC AFFAIRS URBAN AGGLOMERATIONS POVERTY ANALYSIS URBAN STUDIES HUMAN DEVELOPMENT DEVELOPMENT POLICY INEQUALITY URBAN AGGLOMERATION ECONOMIES |
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COUNTRYSIDE LIVING STANDARDS HOUSEHOLD_SIZE HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HOUSEHOLD SIZE POPULATION CENSUSES LANDHOLDINGS ECONOMIC GROWTH VILLAGES WORKING-AGE POPULATION URBANIZATION URBAN GROWTH INCOME RURAL GROUPS LABOR FORCE SERVICES DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DISCRIMINATION PUBLIC SERVICES HOUSING POLITICAL ECONOMY NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH INDIVIDUAL HOUSEHOLDS POLICY DISCUSSIONS POOR PEOPLE NEIGHBORHOODS PUBLICATIONS TERTIARY LEVELS CITIES FARM HOUSEHOLDS TOWNS GLOBAL POVERTY SOCIAL ASSISTANCE RURAL POPULATION POPULATION SIZE RURAL PLACES MEASURES RENTS POVERTY REDUCTION WORK EXPERIENCE KNOWLEDGE LABOR MARKET RURAL POPULATIONS SAVINGS JOB OPPORTUNITIES DWELLING EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT HOUSEHOLD HEAD URBAN FRINGE RENT SIZEABLE POPULATION METROPOLITAN AREAS EXTERNALITIES MIGRATION TRANSFERS POOR AREAS MARKETS HOUSEHOLD INCOME AGGLOMERATION ECONOMICS NUMBER OF HOUSEHOLDS POVERTY MAPS HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS LABOR FARMERS POLICY DECISIONS RURAL ROADS NATURAL RESOURCES HOUSEHOLD ASSETS DESIGN DWELLING UNITS PROGRESS UNEMPLOYMENT HOUSEHOLD LEVEL HUMAN CAPITAL MIGRANT TRANSPORTATION HIGHER INEQUALITY PARTICIPATION POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER RURAL AREA GENDER POLICY MAKERS URBAN ENVIRONMENTS LARGE CITIES URBAN CENTERS POPULATION DENSITY URBAN AREAS HOUSEHOLD HOME AFFAIRS URBAN AREA EMPLOYMENT STATUS EXPENDITURES DISADVANTAGED GROUPS RURAL MARKET POPULATIONS URBAN DEVELOPMENT POLICY QUALITY OF LIFE AFFORDABLE HOUSING GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS ECONOMIC INEQUALITY TARGETING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT MINORITY LAND NATURAL RESOURCE SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION HOUSEHOLDS CENSUSES AGGLOMERATION ECONOMIES ACCESS TO SERVICES SOCIAL GROUP RURAL AREAS POVERTY FEMALE LABOR FORCE HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION POPULATION INTERVENTIONS POLICY RESEARCH CATCHMENT AREA POOR URBAN ECONOMICS REMITTANCES LABOR MARKETS URBAN POVERTY ASSESSMENTS URBANIZATION PROCESS SECONDARY EDUCATION FEMALE TERTIARY EDUCATION DISTRICTS PUBLIC AFFAIRS URBAN AGGLOMERATIONS POVERTY ANALYSIS URBAN STUDIES HUMAN DEVELOPMENT DEVELOPMENT POLICY INEQUALITY URBAN AGGLOMERATION ECONOMIES Li, Yue Rama, Martin Households or Locations? : Cities, Catchment Areas and Prosperity in India |
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Policy makers in developing countries,
including India, are increasingly sensitive to the links
between spatial transformation and economic development.
However, the empirical knowledge available on those links is
most often insufficient to guide policy decisions. There is
no shortage of case studies on urban agglomerations of
different sorts, or of benchmarking exercises for states and
districts, but more systematic evidence is scarce. To help
address this gap, this paper combines insights from poverty
analysis and urban economics, and develops a methodology to
assess spatial performance with a high degree of
granularity. This methodology is applied to India, where
individual household survey records are mapped to “places”
(both rural and urban) below the district level. The
analysis disentangles the contributions household
characteristics and locations make to labor earnings,
proxied by nominal household expenditure per capita. The
paper shows that one-third of the variation in predicted
labor earnings is explained by the locations where
households reside and by the interaction between these
locations and household characteristics such as education.
In parallel, this methodology provides a workable metric to
describe spatial productivity patterns across India. The
paper shows that there is a gradation of spatial performance
across places, rather than a clear rural-urban divide. It
also finds that distance matters: places with higher
productivity are close to each other, but some spread their
prosperity over much broader areas than others. Using the
spatial distribution of this metric across India, the paper
further classifies places at below-district level into four
tiers: top locations, their catchment areas, average
locations, and bottom locations. The analysis finds that
some small cities are among the top locations, while some
large cities are not. It also finds that top locations and
their catchment areas include many high-performing rural
places, and are not necessarily more unequal than average
locations. Preliminary analysis reveals that these top
locations and their catchment areas display characteristics
that are generally believed to drive agglomeration economies
and contribute to faster productivity growth. |
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Li, Yue Rama, Martin |
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Households or Locations? : Cities, Catchment Areas and Prosperity in India |
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Households or Locations? : Cities, Catchment Areas and Prosperity in India |
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Households or Locations? : Cities, Catchment Areas and Prosperity in India |
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Households or Locations? : Cities, Catchment Areas and Prosperity in India |
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Households or Locations? : Cities, Catchment Areas and Prosperity in India |
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households or locations? : cities, catchment areas and prosperity in india |
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okr-10986-234452021-06-14T10:19:43Z Households or Locations? : Cities, Catchment Areas and Prosperity in India Li, Yue Rama, Martin COUNTRYSIDE LIVING STANDARDS HOUSEHOLD_SIZE HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HOUSEHOLD SIZE POPULATION CENSUSES LANDHOLDINGS ECONOMIC GROWTH VILLAGES WORKING-AGE POPULATION URBANIZATION URBAN GROWTH INCOME RURAL GROUPS LABOR FORCE SERVICES DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DISCRIMINATION PUBLIC SERVICES HOUSING POLITICAL ECONOMY NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH INDIVIDUAL HOUSEHOLDS POLICY DISCUSSIONS POOR PEOPLE NEIGHBORHOODS PUBLICATIONS TERTIARY LEVELS CITIES FARM HOUSEHOLDS TOWNS GLOBAL POVERTY SOCIAL ASSISTANCE RURAL POPULATION POPULATION SIZE RURAL PLACES MEASURES RENTS POVERTY REDUCTION WORK EXPERIENCE KNOWLEDGE LABOR MARKET RURAL POPULATIONS SAVINGS JOB OPPORTUNITIES DWELLING EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT HOUSEHOLD HEAD URBAN FRINGE RENT SIZEABLE POPULATION METROPOLITAN AREAS EXTERNALITIES MIGRATION TRANSFERS POOR AREAS MARKETS HOUSEHOLD INCOME AGGLOMERATION ECONOMICS NUMBER OF HOUSEHOLDS POVERTY MAPS HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS LABOR FARMERS POLICY DECISIONS RURAL ROADS NATURAL RESOURCES HOUSEHOLD ASSETS DESIGN DWELLING UNITS PROGRESS UNEMPLOYMENT HOUSEHOLD LEVEL HUMAN CAPITAL MIGRANT TRANSPORTATION HIGHER INEQUALITY PARTICIPATION POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER RURAL AREA GENDER POLICY MAKERS URBAN ENVIRONMENTS LARGE CITIES URBAN CENTERS POPULATION DENSITY URBAN AREAS HOUSEHOLD HOME AFFAIRS URBAN AREA EMPLOYMENT STATUS EXPENDITURES DISADVANTAGED GROUPS RURAL MARKET POPULATIONS URBAN DEVELOPMENT POLICY QUALITY OF LIFE AFFORDABLE HOUSING GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS ECONOMIC INEQUALITY TARGETING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT MINORITY LAND NATURAL RESOURCE SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION HOUSEHOLDS CENSUSES AGGLOMERATION ECONOMIES ACCESS TO SERVICES SOCIAL GROUP RURAL AREAS POVERTY FEMALE LABOR FORCE HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION POPULATION INTERVENTIONS POLICY RESEARCH CATCHMENT AREA POOR URBAN ECONOMICS REMITTANCES LABOR MARKETS URBAN POVERTY ASSESSMENTS URBANIZATION PROCESS SECONDARY EDUCATION FEMALE TERTIARY EDUCATION DISTRICTS PUBLIC AFFAIRS URBAN AGGLOMERATIONS POVERTY ANALYSIS URBAN STUDIES HUMAN DEVELOPMENT DEVELOPMENT POLICY INEQUALITY URBAN AGGLOMERATION ECONOMIES Policy makers in developing countries, including India, are increasingly sensitive to the links between spatial transformation and economic development. However, the empirical knowledge available on those links is most often insufficient to guide policy decisions. There is no shortage of case studies on urban agglomerations of different sorts, or of benchmarking exercises for states and districts, but more systematic evidence is scarce. To help address this gap, this paper combines insights from poverty analysis and urban economics, and develops a methodology to assess spatial performance with a high degree of granularity. This methodology is applied to India, where individual household survey records are mapped to “places” (both rural and urban) below the district level. The analysis disentangles the contributions household characteristics and locations make to labor earnings, proxied by nominal household expenditure per capita. The paper shows that one-third of the variation in predicted labor earnings is explained by the locations where households reside and by the interaction between these locations and household characteristics such as education. In parallel, this methodology provides a workable metric to describe spatial productivity patterns across India. The paper shows that there is a gradation of spatial performance across places, rather than a clear rural-urban divide. It also finds that distance matters: places with higher productivity are close to each other, but some spread their prosperity over much broader areas than others. Using the spatial distribution of this metric across India, the paper further classifies places at below-district level into four tiers: top locations, their catchment areas, average locations, and bottom locations. The analysis finds that some small cities are among the top locations, while some large cities are not. It also finds that top locations and their catchment areas include many high-performing rural places, and are not necessarily more unequal than average locations. Preliminary analysis reveals that these top locations and their catchment areas display characteristics that are generally believed to drive agglomeration economies and contribute to faster productivity growth. 2015-12-18T19:46:17Z 2015-12-18T19:46:17Z 2015-11 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/11/25249674/households-or-locations-cities-catchment-areas-prosperity-india http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23445 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7473 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research South Asia India |