Land Rezoning and Structural Transformation in Rural India : Evidence from the Industrial Areas Program

Zoning laws that restrict rural land to agricultural production pose an important institutional barrier to industrial development. This paper studies the effects of the Industrial Areas (IA) program in Karnataka, India, which rezoned agricultural l...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Blakeslee, David, Chaurey, Ritam, Fishman, Ram, Malik, Samreen
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2021
Subjects:	INDUSTRIAL AREAS PLACE-BASED POLICY SPILLOVER EFFECT LABOR MARKET LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION ZONING LAW
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/961521612895052259/Land-Rezoning-and-Structural-Transformation-in-Rural-India-Evidence-from-the-Industrial-Areas-Program http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35133

id	okr-10986-35133
recordtype	oai_dc
spelling	okr-10986-351332022-09-20T00:10:04Z Land Rezoning and Structural Transformation in Rural India : Evidence from the Industrial Areas Program Blakeslee, David Chaurey, Ritam Fishman, Ram Malik, Samreen INDUSTRIAL AREAS PLACE-BASED POLICY SPILLOVER EFFECT LABOR MARKET LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION ZONING LAW Zoning laws that restrict rural land to agricultural production pose an important institutional barrier to industrial development. This paper studies the effects of the Industrial Areas (IA) program in Karnataka, India, which rezoned agricultural land for industrial use, but without the economic incentives common with other place-based policies. This paper finds that the program caused a large increase in firm creation and employment in villages overlapping the IAs. Moreover, the surrounding areas experienced spillover effects, with workers shifting from agricultural to non-agricultural employment, and entrepreneurs establishing numerous small-scale service sector and agricultural firms. 2021-02-11T17:59:29Z 2021-02-11T17:59:29Z 2021-02 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/961521612895052259/Land-Rezoning-and-Structural-Transformation-in-Rural-India-Evidence-from-the-Industrial-Areas-Program http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35133 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9541 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper South Asia India
repository_type	Digital Repository
institution_category	Foreign Institution
institution	Digital Repositories
building	World Bank Open Knowledge Repository
collection	World Bank
language	English
topic	INDUSTRIAL AREAS PLACE-BASED POLICY SPILLOVER EFFECT LABOR MARKET LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION ZONING LAW
spellingShingle	INDUSTRIAL AREAS PLACE-BASED POLICY SPILLOVER EFFECT LABOR MARKET LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION ZONING LAW Blakeslee, David Chaurey, Ritam Fishman, Ram Malik, Samreen Land Rezoning and Structural Transformation in Rural India : Evidence from the Industrial Areas Program
geographic_facet	South Asia India
relation	Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9541
description	Zoning laws that restrict rural land to agricultural production pose an important institutional barrier to industrial development. This paper studies the effects of the Industrial Areas (IA) program in Karnataka, India, which rezoned agricultural land for industrial use, but without the economic incentives common with other place-based policies. This paper finds that the program caused a large increase in firm creation and employment in villages overlapping the IAs. Moreover, the surrounding areas experienced spillover effects, with workers shifting from agricultural to non-agricultural employment, and entrepreneurs establishing numerous small-scale service sector and agricultural firms.
format	Working Paper
author	Blakeslee, David Chaurey, Ritam Fishman, Ram Malik, Samreen
author_facet	Blakeslee, David Chaurey, Ritam Fishman, Ram Malik, Samreen
author_sort	Blakeslee, David
title	Land Rezoning and Structural Transformation in Rural India : Evidence from the Industrial Areas Program
title_short	Land Rezoning and Structural Transformation in Rural India : Evidence from the Industrial Areas Program
title_full	Land Rezoning and Structural Transformation in Rural India : Evidence from the Industrial Areas Program
title_fullStr	Land Rezoning and Structural Transformation in Rural India : Evidence from the Industrial Areas Program
title_full_unstemmed	Land Rezoning and Structural Transformation in Rural India : Evidence from the Industrial Areas Program
title_sort	land rezoning and structural transformation in rural india : evidence from the industrial areas program
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2021
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/961521612895052259/Land-Rezoning-and-Structural-Transformation-in-Rural-India-Evidence-from-the-Industrial-Areas-Program http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35133
_version_	1764482393507364864

Land Rezoning and Structural Transformation in Rural India : Evidence from the Industrial Areas Program

Similar Items