Changes in financial policy are expected to result in the greater availability of credit as financial controls are relaxed and banking competition is increased. This ‘financial deepening’ should show up in ahigher consumption expenditure in areas where credit is often required, such as durable consumption, education and health. We use the household consumption data collected by India’s National Sample Survey Organisation for 11 rounds which straddle the period before and during financial liberalization (i.e. 1987-2000).We generate measures of the within-households shifts in distribution of consumption and see how far these are correlated with financial development variables. We find that at the macro level, financial depth did not increase from the beginning to the end of the period under study. However we did find some association between some of the financial development variables and expenditure on durables goods, although the changes in behaviour are very small.
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Paper provided by Centre for Economic Research, Keele University in its series Keele Economics Research Papers with number
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Length: 40 pages Date of creation: Dec 2005 Date of revision: Handle: RePEc:kee:kerpuk:2005/15
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