Is there a long-run relationship between population growth and living standards? The case of India

P. J. Dawson and Richard Tiffin ()

Journal of Development Studies, 1998, vol. 34, issue 5, 149-156

Abstract: This note examines the existence of a long-run, cointegrating relationship between population and per capita GDP in India for 1950-93. Unit root tests show that per capita GDP is integrated of order one while population is integrated of order zero; further, estimation of the bi-variate relationship using the cointegration procedure of Johansen shows that no long-run relationship exists. Thus, population growth neither causes per capita income growth nor is caused by it. A corollary is that population growth neither stimulates per capita income growth nor detracts from it.

Date: 1998
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