Growth and Inequality in the Distribution of India's Consumption Expenditure: 1983 to 2009-10

Sreenivasan Subramanian and D. Jayaraj

No wp-2015-025, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: This paper undertakes an assessment of the evolution of inequality in the distribution of consumption expenditure in India over the last quarter-century, from 1983 to 2009-10, employing data available in the quinquennial 'thick' surveys of the National Sample Survey Office.

Keywords: Consumption; Economic development; Equality and inequality; Income distribution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (8)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.wider.unu.edu/sites/default/files/wp2015-025.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:unu:wpaper:wp-2015-025

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER) Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Siméon Rapin ().