Impact of infrastructure availability on level of industrial development in Jharkhand, India: a district level analysis

Infrastructure, Economic Growth, and Poverty: A Review

“…Lall (1999) finds that an increase in infrastructure investment has either a negative or insignificant effect on regional output at the state level in India. Roy et al (2014) show that the association of the components of infrastructure with the level of industrial development is weak at the district level in Jharkhand state of India. Haider et al (2012) find no long-run relation between infrastructure and aggregate output in Pakistan, but they find a strong relationship between infrastructure investment and economic development in the short-run.…”

“…Several studies have investigated the relationship between infrastructure and economic growth at the regional level, multi-country level, national level and sub-national level (e.g., Lall 1999;Sahoo & Dash 2009Haider et al 2012;Shi et al 2017;Srinivasu & Rao 2013;Roy et al 2014). These studies employ statistical methods to establish the relationship between economic growth and physical infrastructure with the exception of Srinivasu and Rao (2013), who use a growth model.…”

“…These studies employ statistical methods to establish the relationship between economic growth and physical infrastructure with the exception of Srinivasu and Rao (2013), who use a growth model. Among these studies, Lall (1999), Roy et al (2014), andShi et al (2017) find ambiguous or heterogeneous links between infrastructure and regional economic growth. Lall (1999) finds that an increase in infrastructure investment has either a negative or insignificant effect on regional output at the state level in India.…”

“…Many studies, such as Chakamera and Alagidede (2018), Kodongo and Ojah (2016), Sasmal and Sasmal (2016), , Calderón and Servén (2010), Fan and Zhang (2004) and Démurger (2001), find that infrastructure development is significantly associated with economic growth, especially in low-and middle-income countries (China, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa). Some studies, such as Lall (1999), Roy et al (2014) and Shi et al (2017), however, find either no relationship or a negative relationship between infrastructure investment and economic growth.…”

How Much does Physical Infrastructure Contribute to Economic Growth? An Empirical Analysis

“…Several studies have been conducted at the country level. These include Lewis (1998) for Ghana, Mostert and Heerden (2015) for South Africa, Lall (1999), Dash and Sahoo (2010), Sahoo and Dash (2009), Srinivasu and Rao (2013), and Roy et al (2014) for India, and Demurger (2001), Fan and Zhang (2004), Dash (2012), andShi et al (2017) for China. While the studies for African countries converge on the finding that infrastructure development has a strong positive effect on economic growth and reducing income inequality poverty, findings for Asian countries vary across studies.…”