The existing literature on Indian growth finds no evidence of convergence across states. This represents a puzzle given … income and socio-economic data to explore the hypotheses of conditional convergence, using distance as an indicator of … internal geographical trade and migration costs. We find evidence of conditional convergence for Indian districts but at a rate …

incomes? Is there any evidence for convergence of real farm incomes across Indian states? We find evidence for unconditional … convergence, which suggests that states with relatively lower farm incomes have, on average, grown at relatively faster rates. But … the tendency towards convergence has not been strong enough to change relative rankings of states (by real farm income per …