Studies of the spatial dimensions of inequality in developing countries are mostly restricted to states, provinces, or … procedure to calculate inequality between and within smaller spatial units in the context of India, taking advantage of census … (spatial) inequality between villages and blocks and to derive (local) inequality within these spatial units. We find that the …

Studies of the spatial dimensions of inequality in developing countries are mostly restricted to states, provinces, or … procedure to calculate inequality between and within smaller spatial units in the context of India, taking advantage of census … (spatial) inequality between villages and blocks and to derive (local) inequality within these spatial units. We find that the …

Women's role in economic development is commonly admitted. But in many countries, women's economic activities are still …

inequality in total consumption expenditure by different sources (food, education, health, durable goods and other items … consumption over 1993-94 to 2009-10, thus contributing to the observed rise in consumption inequality in India. Except for the … expenditure on food items, inequality contributions of expenditures on all other heads including education, health, durable goods …

Debate over Growth and Development are quite old in the history of economic thinking. It is argued that development … paper analyses the growth and development experience in India using multiple indicators. Development seems to have lagged … the remarkable growth that has occurred recently has not been egalitarian and hence development has failed to keep pace …

We show that inequality triggers social unrest in rural India. We develop a theoretical framework where social unrest … inequality measure increases by 6.5% the unconditional probability of observing social unrest in a village in a given month. …

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 …. The overall regional development quality level improved in both countries, but polarization widened in China. The …