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Infrastructure and Connectivity in India: Getting the Basics Right

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  • Purva Singh
  • Rajat Kathuria

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Infrastructure helps in building productive capacity by bridging connectivity gaps, reducing distribution and trade costs, and facilitating the sharing of the benefits of growth with poorer groups and communities, among others. The evidence in this paper suggests the need for India to develop both hard as well as soft infrastructure for enhancing trade flows and growth. The existence of both aspects simultaneously will produce gains of a significantly higher order but one without the other is likely to be ineffective.

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  • Purva Singh & Rajat Kathuria, 2016. "Infrastructure and Connectivity in India: Getting the Basics Right," Asian Economic Policy Review, Japan Center for Economic Research, vol. 11(2), pages 266-285, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:asiapr:v:11:y:2016:i:2:p:266-285
    DOI: 10.1111/aepr.12144
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    3. Shuji Uchikawa, 2016. "Comment on “Infrastructure and Connectivity in India: Getting the Basics Right”," Asian Economic Policy Review, Japan Center for Economic Research, vol. 11(2), pages 286-287, July.
    4. Hal Hill & Takatoshi Ito & Kazumasa Iwata & Colin McKenzie & Shujiro Urata, 2016. "Connectivity and Infrastructure: Editors' Overview," Asian Economic Policy Review, Japan Center for Economic Research, vol. 11(2), pages 161-175, July.
    5. Toshiro Nishizawa, 2016. "Comment on “Infrastructure and Connectivity in India: Getting the Basics Right”," Asian Economic Policy Review, Japan Center for Economic Research, vol. 11(2), pages 288-289, July.

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