Accounting for Inequality in India: Evidence from Household Expenditures

We utilize household-level consumption expenditure data from India to examine the evolution of inequality during 1983-2004. Various measures of inequality show that inequality levels were relatively stable during 1983-93, but increased during 1993-2004. The increases in inequality have not precluded...

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Main Authors:	Cain, J. Salcedo, Hasan, Rana, Magsombol, Rhoda, Tandon, Ajay
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	EN
Published:	2012
Subjects:	Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions D310 Measurement and Analysis of Poverty I320 Welfare and Poverty: Government Programs Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs I380 Economic Development: Human Resources Human Development Income Distribution Migration O150
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5487

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spelling	okr-10986-54872021-04-23T14:02:22Z Accounting for Inequality in India: Evidence from Household Expenditures Cain, J. Salcedo Hasan, Rana Magsombol, Rhoda Tandon, Ajay Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions D310 Measurement and Analysis of Poverty I320 Welfare and Poverty: Government Programs Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs I380 Economic Development: Human Resources Human Development Income Distribution Migration O150 We utilize household-level consumption expenditure data from India to examine the evolution of inequality during 1983-2004. Various measures of inequality show that inequality levels were relatively stable during 1983-93, but increased during 1993-2004. The increases in inequality have not precluded reductions in poverty, however. They are also more of an urban phenomenon and can be accounted for by increases in returns to education in the urban sector to a considerable extent, especially among households that rely on income from education-intensive services and/or education-intensive occupations. Some of the increases in the returns to education can be linked to economic liberalization undertaken in the 1990s. 2012-03-30T07:33:04Z 2012-03-30T07:33:04Z 2010 Journal Article World Development 0305750X http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5487 EN http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Journal Article
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spellingShingle	Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions D310 Measurement and Analysis of Poverty I320 Welfare and Poverty: Government Programs Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs I380 Economic Development: Human Resources Human Development Income Distribution Migration O150 Cain, J. Salcedo Hasan, Rana Magsombol, Rhoda Tandon, Ajay Accounting for Inequality in India: Evidence from Household Expenditures
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description	We utilize household-level consumption expenditure data from India to examine the evolution of inequality during 1983-2004. Various measures of inequality show that inequality levels were relatively stable during 1983-93, but increased during 1993-2004. The increases in inequality have not precluded reductions in poverty, however. They are also more of an urban phenomenon and can be accounted for by increases in returns to education in the urban sector to a considerable extent, especially among households that rely on income from education-intensive services and/or education-intensive occupations. Some of the increases in the returns to education can be linked to economic liberalization undertaken in the 1990s.
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author	Cain, J. Salcedo Hasan, Rana Magsombol, Rhoda Tandon, Ajay
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title	Accounting for Inequality in India: Evidence from Household Expenditures
title_short	Accounting for Inequality in India: Evidence from Household Expenditures
title_full	Accounting for Inequality in India: Evidence from Household Expenditures
title_fullStr	Accounting for Inequality in India: Evidence from Household Expenditures
title_full_unstemmed	Accounting for Inequality in India: Evidence from Household Expenditures
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Accounting for Inequality in India: Evidence from Household Expenditures

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