Regional Disparity and Convergence in Human Development in India

Arpita Banerjee () and Pravat Kumar Kuri ()
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Arpita Banerjee: MUC Women’s College
Pravat Kumar Kuri: University of Burdwan

Chapter 5 in Development Disparities in India, 2015, pp 69-99 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract India has been characterized by wide regional variation in the level of human development across states. By constructing a human development index (HDI) using Euclidean distance, this chapter makes an attempt to evaluate the trend and level of inequality in human development across the states of India with respect to 11 socioeconomic indicators. The test of convergence of composite human development index (CHDI) as well as its indicators reveals that the Indian states are converging in terms of the level of human development. Interestingly, polarization in the level of human development shows a tendency to increase along with reducing trend in inequality especially during the period 1981–2001. It is expected that a targeted level of human development can reduce the extent of polarization and thus, can bring out a balanced human development in Indian states.

Keywords: Human development index; Euclidean distance; Regional inequality; Regional convergence; Polarization; Order probit analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-81-322-2331-3_5

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