Borooah, Vani K.; Dubey, Amaresh - In: Margin: The Journal of Applied Economic Research 1 (2007) 4, pp. 403-440
This paper examines regional disparity in India from the perspective of the smallest geographical unit for which a consisent set of data is available: the district. By doing so, we are able to focus on pockets of deprivation rather than viewing deprivation as a phenomenon affecting a state or a...