Land Rezoning and Structural Transformation in Rural India

• Tác giả: David Blakeslee
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 333.33 Transfer of possession and of right to use
• Thông tin xuất bản: World Bank, Washington, DC, 2021
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 293401
• Chủ đề: 1. INDUSTRIAL AREAS; 2. LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION; 3. LABOR MARKET; 4. PLACE-BASED POLICY; 5. SPILLOVER EFFECT

Tóm tắt

Zoning laws that restrict rural land to agricultural production pose an important institutional barrier to industrial development. This paper studies the effects of the Industrial Areas (IA) program in Karnataka, India, which rezoned agricultural land for industrial use, but without the economic incentives common with other place-based policies. This paper finds that the program caused a large increase in firm creation and employment in villages overlapping the IAs. Moreover, the surrounding areas experienced spillover effects, with workers shifting from agricultural to non-agricultural employment, and entrepreneurs establishing numerous small-scale service sector and agricultural firms.