Inter-Regional Disparities in India
Contents: Preface. Introduction/Anil Kumar Thakur and Shyam Sunder Singh Chauhan. I. Inter-state disparities in growth and development: 1. Regional divergence in per capita income across Indian states: an analysis based on new series 1999-2000/Rekha Mehta and Rakesh Kumar. 2. Social sector expenditure in India: an examination of inter-state divergences/Amarjit Singh Sethi and Baljit Kaur. 3. Uneven growth pattern of Indian economy: some missing links/Shyam Sunder Singh Chauhan, Deepa Rawat and Deepti Sharma. 4. Economic growth across Indian states: role of education, infrastructure and health/D.K. Nauriyal and Bimal Kishore Sahoo. 5. Inter-state inequalities in India\'s development: diversification, instability and growth/Gunendra Prasad Pal. 6. State level disparities in fiscal correction: a review/Sana Naseem. 7. Economic development across Indian states: issue of convergence/P. Kataria. 8. Role of infrastructure in economic development in India: an inter-state analysis/Anu Kapil and P.S. Raikhy. 9. Trends and levels of regional disparities in India since 1980s/Prankrishna Pal and Debjani Mitra. 10. Slum literacy in India: disparities and dimension/N.K. Taneja and Sanjeev Kumar. 11. Growth performance and incidence of poverty: an inter-state study/S.M. Jawed Akhtar and Md. Imdadul Haque. 12. Disparities in level of living of different income groups in India: an inter-state analysis/Kalpana Singh. 13. Regional disparity: a curse/Md. Quddus and Rajendra Gupta. 14. Economic reforms and inter-regional disparities/Sandip P. Solanki. 15. Inter-state variations in the growth of agricultural output in India under the WTO Regime/S.V. Hariharan and S. Saravanan. 16. Inter-regional growth disparities in India/P.L. Sablok. 17. Eleventh Finance Commission and inter-state disparities in the devolution of shared taxes across various Finance Commissions/Roli Mishra. 18. Infrastructure development and regional disparity: an inter-state analysis/Aditya Kumar Patra. 19. Regional disparity in India: an analysis of post-reform period/Zafar Ahmad Sultan and Mahendra Sah. 20. Regional disparities in educational development in India--pattern and policy issues/Arun Prabha Choudhary. 21. Regional disparities in India/Vivekanand Tiwari and Kamesh Kumar. 22. The effect of economic reforms on regional inequality in India/K.M. Naidu, L.K. Mohan Rao and K. Mahesh Naidu. 23. Regional disparities in India: Myth and reality/R. Rajkumar and P. Chennakrishnan. 24. Rural-urban disparities of development in India/Ram Naresh Thakur and Girish Nandan Sharma. 25. Inter-state disparity in human development in India/Dhirendra Nath Konar. II. Region/state specific disparities: 26. Accessibility to basic minimum services: the cornerstone of sustainable development/Dilip Kumar Ghosh and Bishwanath Gupta. 27. Regional disparities in Indian Special Economic Zones development: an overview on various issues/Samarjit Das. 28. Inter-district disparities in agricultural income and employment: an approach to frontier analysis/Arun Kumar Nandi and Dipika Basu. 29. Disparity in growth and human development in Punjab vis-a-vis India/Davinder Kumar Madaan. 30. Regional variations in agricultural development of Andhra Pradesh/A. Venkateswarlu. 31. Regional disparities and economic development of Assam: an inter-district analysis/Gayatri Medhi. 32. Growing rural-urban work-force disparity in Jharkhand: an inter-district analysis/N.C. Jha and Anirudh Kumar. 33. Inter-district disparity in Chhattisgarh/Hanumant Yadav. III. Disparities in North-East Region: 34. Agricultural growth and regional divergence--a case study of North-East region in India/Ratan Kumar Ghosal. 35. Inter-regional-cum-inter-ethnic conflict in North-east India: a socio-economic analysis/Abdul Hussain. 36. Towards resolving the disparities of the NE-Region/Amalesh Banerjee. Index.
"In a vast country like India, striking regional disparities, inherited from colonial rule of over two centuries, have increased in the post-independence era because of faulty unified and centralized planning, political structure and social traditions. Issue of inter-regional as well as intra-regional disparities have gained prominence in the literature of growth and development of Indian economy because of rising regionalism and secessionism originating from extreme inequalities in the distribution of income and wealth.
The present volume contains 36 research papers in all, presented at Ninety-first Conference of Indian Economic Association on 27-29 December 2008, at M.S. University, Udaipur (Rajasthan). The session on Inter-regional disparities, in which these research papers were presented and discussed under the chairmanship of Prof. T.S. Papola a well known economist of India had a lively and fruitful discussion." (jacket)
