This paper contributes to the ongoing debate about economic inequality in India during the post-reform period. We …

This paper studies the phenomenon of service-led growth in India over the past two decades from the perspective of …, transportation, entertainment, and personal services - for both rural India. We begin by showing that expenditures of non … larger numbers referring to urban India. Next, we show that expenditure on services, as a share of total expenditure, has …

This paper applies an innovative method to estimate poverty in India in the absence of recent expenditure data. The …