Session Chairs:

Paul D. Melvin, Southern Illinois University - Carbondale

Papers:

"Location Characteristics, Spatial Inequality and Liberalization: Evidence From India"
Utsav Kumar, University of Maryland (Contact Author)

"Is India's Economic Growth Sustainable? A Total Factor Productivity Growth Analysis"
Paul D. Melvin, Southern Illinois University - Carbondale (Contact Author)
Subhash C. Sharma, Southern Illinois University - Carbondale

"Diversity and Economic Performances: A Study of Indian States"
Hiranya K. Nath, Sam Houston State University (Contact Author)

"TFP in Indian Manufacturing: Is There Evidence of Creative Destruction?"
Jigna Sampat, Emory University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Steven Payson, Chief, Special Studies Branch, U.S. Department of Commerce
Mihaela Iulia Pintea, Florida International University

Session Chairs:

Dennis Pearson, University of Tennessee - Chattanooga

Papers:

"Economic Freedom, Entrepreneurship, Migration, and Economic Growth"
J. R. Clark, Probasco Chair of Free Enterprise, University of Tennessee - Chattanooga
Dennis Pearson, University of Tennessee - Chattanooga (Contact Author)

"Leisure Externalities: Implications for Growth and Welfare"
Mihaela Iulia Pintea, Florida International University (Contact Author)

"Is There Evidence of the Resource Curse in the U.S. and Canada?"
Leslie J. Dunn, West Virginia University (Contact Author)

"Community Development and Local Social Capital"
Jeffrey L. Jordan, University of Georgia (Contact Author)
Abdul Munasib, Assistant Professor, Oklahoma State University

Discussants:

Robert E. Moore, Georgia State University
Amy D. Gibson, Christopher Newport University