Industrial location in post-reform India: patterns of inter-regional divergence and intra-regional convergence
利用印度区级数据，研究改革前后工业投资区位选择，发现区域间分化与区域内趋同并存，提出“集中式分散”是理解改革后印度工业区位的合适框架。
Where do new industrial investments locate, and what factors drive the industrial location decisions? Do these investments follow the model of ‘divergence followed by convergence ’ suggested by the cumulative causation, agglomeration economies, and transport-costs approaches? These questions are examined with district-level data from India for the pre- and post-reform periods using: first, tables and maps of concentration and clustering, aggregated for all industry and disaggregated into five sectors (Heavy Industries, Chemicals and Petroleum, Textiles, Agribusiness, and Utilities), and second, logistic and OLS/Heckman selection regression models for these six elements. The data provide solid evidence both of inter-regional divergence and intra-regional convergence, and suggest that ‘concentrated decentralisation ’ is the appropriate framework for understanding industrial location in post-reform India. The idea of inter-regional divergence followed by convergence is one of the cornerstones of the regional development literature. It is expected that inter-regional inequality (expressed typically in terms of per capita regional income or output) increases during the early years/decades of industrial development, being concentrated in metropolitan areas, and begins to decline at some later indeterminate point. This approach includes the