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

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

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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.

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  • Singh, Nirvikar & Kendall, Jake & Jain, R.K. & Chander, Jai, 2013. "Regional Inequality in India in the 1990s: A Further Look," Santa Cruz Department of Economics, Working Paper Series qt8pd8n5qn, Department of Economics, UC Santa Cruz.
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    1. Jagannath Mallick, 2014. "Regional Convergence Of Economic Growth During Post-Reform Period In India," The Singapore Economic Review (SER), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 59(02), pages 1-18.
    2. Dharmabrata Mohapatra & Dukhabandhu Sahoo & Mrinali Mahanti, 2019. "Crecimiento y desigualdad a nivel subregional y subsectorial: caso de sector de servicios de Odisha, India," Revista de Estudios Regionales, Universidades Públicas de Andalucía, vol. 2, pages 63-94.
    3. Anurag Banerjee & Nilanjan Banik, 2014. "Is India Shining?," Review of Development Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 18(1), pages 59-72, February.
    4. Anurag Narayan Banerjee & Nilanjan Banik & Jyoti Prasad Mukhopadhyay, 2015. "The Dynamics of Income Growth and Poverty: Evidence from Districts in India," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 33(3), pages 293-312, May.
    5. Rajesh K. Chauhan & Sanjay K. Mohanty & S V Subramanian & Jajati K Parida & Balakrushna Padhi, 2016. "Regional Estimates of Poverty and Inequality in India, 1993–2012," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 127(3), pages 1249-1296, July.
    6. Chhavi Tiwari & Sankalpa Bhattacharjee & Debkumar Chakrabarti, 2020. "Investigating Regional Inequalities in India: Are Indian Districts Converging?," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 32(5), pages 684-716, July.

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    Social and Behavioral Sciences; regional inequality; growth convergence; economic reform; inclusive growth;
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