Convergence Club Empirics: Some Dynamics and Explanations of Unequal Growth across Indian States

Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay ()

STICERD - Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers from Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE

Abstract: This paper documents the convergence of incomes across Indian states over the period 1965 to 1998. It departs from traditional analyses of convergence by tracking the evolution of the entire income distribution, instead of standard regression and time series analyses. The findings reveal twin-peaks dynamics - the existence of two income convergence clubs, one at 50 per cent, another at 125% of the national average income. Income disparities across states seem to have declined over the sixties, only to increase over the following three decades. The observed polarization is strongly explained by the disparate distribution of infrastructure, and that of education, and to an extent by a number of macroeconomic indicators, that of capital expenditure and fiscal deficits.

Keywords: Convergence clubs; conditional convergence; distribution dynamics; infrastructure; capital investment; macroeconomic stability; panel data; India. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003-03
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Working Paper: Convergence Club Empirics: Some Dynamics and Explanations of Unequal Growth across Indian States (2010)
Working Paper: Convergence club empirics: some dynamics and explanations of unequal growth across Indian states (2003)
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