01598pab a2200193 454500 180718b2013 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Ghate, Chetan Why were some Indian states so also to participate in the turn around? 2013 p.118-127. 30 Mar In earlier research we identified the start of the growth turnaround in the late 1980s. This is consistent with the pattern of (particularly trade) policy liberalisation at the time. Since then there has been a remarkable improvement in per capita incomes. But a puzzle remains. The change in policy should have had a symmetric effect across India. Yet the participation of different states in the turnaround has been very uneven. In this paper we examine whether the relative size of shifts in growth across states could have been predicted from data on state characteristics, measured before the turnaround. We use the "robustness" techniques first proposed by Sala-i-Martin. As might be expected, higher initial literacy, urbanisation and access to ports all predicted stronger growth. But we also find that relatively high shares of both agriculture and registered manufacturing predicted weaker growth across all sectors of a given state, suggesting negative externalities. We guess, along with some other evidence, that this reflects the negative impact of state intervention. - Reproduced. Economic growth - India Economic growth Wright, Stephen Economic and Political Weekly N 99244 99243 99243 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 48, Issue no: 13 AR99704 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR