The paper compares the economic performance of China and India during the period of their ongoing reform policies. It … develops a new measure of development, namely, a development quality index (DQI), to compare performance of China and India …. The results show that national-level development quality grew three times faster in China than in India. Conversely, the …

China and India. The results show that national level development quality grew three times faster in China than in India …. Conversely, the health quality grew three times as fast in India than China over the period 1980-2004. The overall regional … development quality level improved in both countries, but polarization widened in China. The sign of inter-regional polarization …

We investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on income levels, poverty, and inequality in both the immediate … than doubled during the lockdown and even after almost two years was slightly higher than before the pandemic. Inequality …

national, state, and district-level figures for overall, within and between consumption inequality. We find an increase in … inequality in India but only since 2004. We also document an increase in between group (or horizontal) inequality over the entire … period. We then investigate the impact of ethnic fragmentation and public good provision on inequality. We hypothesize that …