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Write a note on “forward and backward linkages” in Perroux’s thesis of economic growth and regional development.

  • UPSC 2018
  • Models, Theories and Laws

François Perroux (1955) built growth pole theory on the observation that “growth does not appear everywhere at the same time; it manifests itself in points or poles of growth with variable intensities, and spreads by different channels”.

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