Mind the Gap—Is Economic Growth in India Leaving Some States Behind? / / Catriona Purfield

• Autore: Purfield Catriona
• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2006
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (28 p.)
• Soggetto topico: Economic development - Econometric models; Labor; Macroeconomics; Social Services and Welfare; Poverty and Homelessness; Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions; Government Policy; Provision and Effects of Welfare Program; Labor Economics: General; Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity; Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: General; Labour; income economics; Social welfare & social services; Poverty & precarity; Personal income; Poverty reduction; Poverty; Income; Labor economics; Economic theory
• Soggetto geografico: India Economic policy; India
• Note generali: "April 2006".
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. STYLIZED FACTS ABOUT GROWTH IN INDIA""; ""III. DO POLICIES MATTER?""; ""IV. CONCLUSION""; ""REFERENCES""
• Sommario/riassunto: This paper examines how growth has varied across India's states. It finds that (i) the income gap between rich and poor states has widened; (ii) rich and faster-growing states have been more effective in reducing poverty; (iii) poor and slower-growing states have had little success in generating private sector jobs; (iv) labor and capital flows do little to close income gaps; and (v) the volatility in economic growth is greatest in poor states. Differences in states' policies affect the cross-state pattern of growth. Greater private sector investment, smaller governments, and better institutions are found to have a positive impact on growth.
• Titolo autorizzato: Mind the Gap—Is Economic Growth in India Leaving Some States Behind
• ISBN: 1-4623-4274-4; 1-4527-9555-X; 1-283-51546-6; 1-4519-0897-0; 9786613827913
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910816282003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; ; No. 2006/103