This paper studies the phenomenon of service-led growth in India over the past two decades from the perspective of … household expenditure. We use consumption expenditure data from four recent "thick" rounds of the National Sample Survey in 1993 …, transportation, entertainment, and personal services - for both rural India. We begin by showing that expenditures of non …

This paper applies an innovative method to estimate poverty in India in the absence of recent expenditure data. The … method utilizes expenditure data from 2004-05, 2009-10, and 2011-12 to impute household expenditure into a survey of durable …

This article examines the determinants of household income among urban and rural areas in India and evaluates … characteristics of the head of the household (age, educational level, marital status, and gender) and household characteristics (main … occupational type, household size, and social status) on monthly per capita expenditure through conditional mean least squares (LS …

This paper contributes to the ongoing debate about economic inequality in India during the post-reform period. We … analyze consumption inequality through the hitherto neglected lens of nonfood expenditure. Using household level consumption … inequality is due to the increased weight in the household budget of non-food spending, which tends to be more unequal than food …