Spatial Dynamism of the Indian Automobile Industry in the Rapid Growth Period of the 2000s <Article>

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  • 台頭する2000年代のインド自動車工業とその空間構造 <論説>
  • 台頭する2000年代のインド自動車工業とその空間構造
  • タイトウ スル 2000ネンダイ ノ インド ジドウシャ コウギョウ ト ソノ クウカン コウゾウ

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This article is focusing on a recent development of the automobile industry and its spatial dynamism in India, which has been gaining power as a rising nation of the industry along with Brazil and China (BICs) during the first decade of the 21st century. The Indian vehicle market has rapidly expanded for the last ten years, especially in the compact car segment; therefore each car maker has invested massively in small car businesses. We found two tendencies on the location of newly established car assembly factories. The first tendency is to set up in industrial estates developed on the outskirts of the existing agglomerations of the automobile industry (NCR, Chennai and Pune). The second is the location in "special category states" (Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh) where new businesses can enjoy a great amount of fiscal aid from the central government. To reduce production cost through the location into such backward states is accompanied by intensification of the market competition at this time. The first tendency is thought of as the extension of the geographical convenience of the existing agglomeration that became remarkable during the period of economic liberalization in the 1990s, but the second one is a new tendency that has not been seen in India.

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