Services-Led Structural Transformation and Translocal Householding.
This article argues that two distinctive features of India's development pathway—its agriculture-to-services leap and its high levels of temporary, circular migration—are interlinked and mutually reinforcing. First, we mobilize multiple literatures to show that economic growth led by export services...
| Publicado en: | Economic Geography Vol. 101; no. 4; pp. 240 - 268 |
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Aug2025
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