The relation between growth, inequality and poverty is the central theme of the paper. While the fast economic growth … under the neo-liberal policy regime helps reduce poverty, it increases inequality in income distribution in a way that … proxy for income) of NSS surveys, in Kerala as compared to the pattern at all- India and major states during pre and post …

Over the last decade, India has been one of the fastest growing economies, and has experienced considerable decline in … overall income poverty. However, in a vast country like India, poverty levels vary significantly across the different states …

expert group has considered this issue in detail and has suggested new methodology to arrive at state wise and all- India …

This paper provides an explanation for the observed persistence in income inequality across households in terms limited …

aggravates concerns over the impact of globalization on the already rising inter-region income inequality in China. This paper … then applies the newly developed shapley value decomposition technique to quantify the contributions of globalization …, along with other variables, to regional inequality. [Discussion Paper No. 2004/10] …

enrolment is described and completion rates for boys and girls in India, and to explore the extent to which enrolment and …

rural India across the entire welfare distribution. The paper establishes that the disadvantage suffered by two historically … the SC and the ST households must remain a focus of attention besides promoting a more active labor market in rural India …

The economist’s conceptualisation of inequality in terms of interpersonal distribution of income or wealth, and the … tradition of measurement of inequality that follows from this conceptualisation have not paid adequate attention to the need for … reckoning inequality across social groups. In this paper they show that certain simple statistical tools to analyse categorical …