Economic Geography and Development
Contents: Preface. Introduction. I. Theoretical issues in economic geography: 1. Economic geography and development/S. Chinnammai and R. Kanaka Sudha. 2. Geographical variations and regional economic differences in India/Jayanta Sen. 3. Regional geography variations and economic changes/Aparna Bhardwaj, Arun Kumar Thakur and Sangeeta Kumari. 4. Insights from Paul Krugman\'s contribution to new economic geography/Syeda Rukhsana Tabassum and Rafiq Zakaria. 5. Does geography play a role in economic development?: Experiences in Indian economy/Manish Dev. 6. Consequences of development-induced displacement/Ramanuj Sharma and Ushamani Kumari. 7. Impact of climate change on rainfall and crop productivity/Raghubansh Singh. 8. Urbanisation and development: issues and concerns/Jai Prakash and Shubha Singh. 9. A study of geography of land and agricultural development/Shailesh Kumar and Ranjeet Kumar. II. Globalisation and economic geography: 10. Spatial distribution of FDI in India/Shyam Sunder Singh Chauhan, Deepa Rawat and Deepti Sharma. 11. Economic geography: development in a changing globalisation scenario with special reference to India/Dev Raj. 12. Special economic zone and sustainable development/Anath Bandhu Mukherjee. 13. Underlying model of BPO regionalization with special reference to India/Inderjeet Singh, Reena Singh and Preti Singh. 14. Momentum toward greater energy efficiency: India after economic liberalisation/B.P. Chandramohan and K. Chitra Devi. 15. Economic geography and SEZs in India/Subodh Kumar Sinha, Vinod Kumar Sinha and Mirtunjay Pd. Singh. III. Region/states specific factors in India: 16. Regional disparities in agricultural development of Orissa: a quantitative analysis/Aryashree Debapriya and Sanjib Kumar Hota. 17. Regional inequality in the development of infrastructure in Maharashtra/Takale Dinkar. 18. Economic impact of industrialisation on agricultural production in Coimbatore district, Tamil Nadu/K. Govindarajalu. 19. Geography, transformation and regional development: a comparative study of coastal and landlocked states in India/P. Anbalagan. 20. Development and displacement: a study on displaced people of Haldia Urban Industrial Complex, West Bengal/Sachinandan Sau and Anamitra Paul. 21. Infrastructural determinants of inter-regional income disparities in India/Mona Khare, Neeti Shrivastave and Roopali Shivalkar. 22. Desertification and development of dryland/S. Rangarajan. 23. Keora: a unique bio-resource of coastal region of Ganjam district in Orissa/Purushottam Sahu and Nirmal Chandra Sahu. 24. Area specific approach for balanced agricultural development in India/G.N. Sharma, Arun Kumar and Mahendra Sah. IV. Socio-economic determinants: 25. Regional disparity in health sector development: with special reference to Rajasthan/A.P. Choudhary. 26. Regional inequality and dynamics of socio-economic development: an inter-state analysis/Anju Kohli. 27. Spatial patterns in national intellectual capital index of selected countries/Parmod Kumar, Amritpal Kaur and Rupinder Singh Sodhi. 28. Children and health status: impact of poverty, education and discrimination/Nidhi Sadana. Index.
Economic geography is the study of the location, distribution and spatial organization of economic activities across the world. It takes into account social, cultural and institutional factors in the spatial economy. The spatial distribution of economic activity is the result of agglomeration and dispersion forces. Agglomeration arises due to proximity to large markets, presence of a large variety of goods, the ease of finding employment, etc. Dispersion on the other hand results due to congestion, pollution, more competitors, higher prices of immobile factors, etc.
It is the interplay of, and the relative changes in these agglomeration and dispersion forces that determine the spatial distribution of growth and development.
The authors in this book have discussed the different paradigms of economic geography and analysed the various determinants of spatial disparities and suggested measures for equitable and inclusive growth as envisaged in the 11th Five Year Plan. (jacket)
Economic geography is the study of the location, distribution and spatial organization of economic activities across the world. It takes into account social, cultural and institutional factors in the spatial economy. The spatial distribution of economic activity is the result of agglomeration and dispersion forces. Agglomeration arises due to proximity to large markets, presence of a large variety of goods, the ease of finding employment, etc. Dispersion on the other hand results due to congestion, pollution, more competitors, higher prices of immobile factors, etc.
It is the interplay of, and the relative changes in these agglomeration and dispersion forces that determine the spatial distribution of growth and development.
The authors in this book have discussed the different paradigms of economic geography and analysed the various determinants of spatial disparities and suggested measures for equitable and inclusive growth as envisaged in the 11th Five Year Plan. (jacket)
