Regional Inequality in India in the 1990s: A Further Look

Nirvikar Singh, Jake Kendall, R.K. Jain and Jai Chander

Santa Cruz Department of Economics, Working Paper Series from Department of Economics, UC Santa Cruz

Abstract: This paper examines changes in regional inequality in India in the 1990s, using data for 59 of India’s 78 agro-climatic regions from the National Sample Survey. It extends the work of Singh et al. (2003) in two ways. First, it allows for differences in baseline growth performance across individual states. It confirms the relatively poor performance of eastern states in the 1990s. Second, it also analyzes economic performance using NSS consumption expenditure data. In this case, it finds that there was conditional convergence for urban households, but not for rural households in that period.

Keywords: Social and Behavioral Sciences; regional inequality; growth convergence; economic reform; inclusive growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-12-01
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