Growth and Deprivation in India: What does Recent Evidence Suggest on “Inclusiveness”?

Motiram, Sripad; Naraparaju, Karthikeya

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“…[We ourselves would like to take this opportunity of commenting adversely on previous work of ours -Subramanian and Jayaraj (2008) -which, as indicated earlier, and because of an exclusive reliance on relative measures such as the [relative] Gini and Theil indices, fails to detect any secular increase in the inter-household distribution of assets; having said this, we must Brought to you by | University of Pennsylvania Authenticated Download Date | 10/8/14 1:00 PM also point out that levels -as opposed to trends -of inequality were found by us to be sufficiently serious to warrant the prescription of redistributive measures including, in particular, land reform. Assessments of economic inequality in India have, in general, been poorly informed by measures other than wholly relative ones, and it is therefore pertinent to mention two important exceptions to this rule, namely the papers by Jayadev et al (2007) and Motiram and Naraparaju (2013), which also deal with absolute measures of inequality.] In the light of this, the present paper makes a strong appeal for a more balanced and plural approach to the measurement of inequality in applied work.…”

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The Evolution of Consumption and Wealth Inequality in India: A Quantitative Assessment

Subramanian

Jayaraj

2013

Journal of Globalization and Development

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In this paper we undertake a fairly straightforward quantitative assessment of trends in inequality in the distribution of consumption expenditure and of household wealth in India. While it is customary to employ, in applied work, only relative measures whose value basis is seldom subjected to any serious critical scrutiny, the present paper assesses inequality in terms of both absolute and intermediate measures, in addition to relative measures. It is found that our judgment of inequality trends is indeed influenced by the particular conceptionrelative, absolute or intermediate -of inequality that we may be inclined to favour. In particular, intermediate measures avoid the arguably "extreme" values underlying relative and absolute measures, and if we go by intermediate rather than relative indices, then we find that inequality in India must be judged to be increasing rather than essentially trend-less, as relative approaches to assessing inequality suggest.

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The Evolution of Consumption and Wealth Inequality in India: A Quantitative Assessment

Subramanian

Jayaraj

2013

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“…This is consistent with the literature on inclusive growth in India which analyses data on consumption expenditure and suggests that growth has bypassed small farms. For example, Motiram and Naraparaju (2015) do not find growth to be inclusive for Indian farmers with less than one hectare of land (a size that constitutes two-thirds of all agricultural landholdings in India).…”

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Land Distribution, Income Generation and Inequality in India's Agricultural Sector

Chakravorty

Chandrasekhar

Naraparaju³

2019

Review of Income and Wealth

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This paper is a contribution to understanding income generation and inequality in India's agricultural sector. We analyze the National Sample Surveys of agriculture in 2003 and 2013 using descriptive and regression based methods, and estimate income inequality in the agricultural sector at the scale of the nation and its 17 largest states. We show that: (a) there are significant state‐level differences in the structures/patterns of income generation from agriculture, (b) there is a negative relationship between the amount of land owned by the household and share of wages in total income, (c) income inequality in India's agricultural sector is very high (Gini Coefficient of around 0.6 during the period), and (d) about half of the income inequality is explained by the household‐level variance in income from cultivation, which in turn is primarily dependent on variance in landownership.

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“…Our focus on India is due to the global attention garnered by the issues of employment, unemployment and job creation in India among academics, policy makers and intelligent lay persons. India has been one of the fastest growing countries in the world since the mid‐1980s (particularly since the early 1990s), but there is concern that growth has resulted in inadequate poverty reduction (Kotwal, Ramaswami, & Wadhwa, ; Motiram & Naraparaju, ). A crucial link is inadequate creation of good jobs, particularly in labor‐intensive manufacturing, which can absorb the poor from rural areas and urban informal sector (Kotwal et al., ; Planning Commission, ; Government of India, ).…”

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Unemployment burden and its distribution: Theory and evidence from India

Motiram

Naraparaju

2017

Review Development Economics

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We develop a measure of unemployment that takes into account both the duration and intensity of unemployment.This measure satisfies several desirable properties, including distribution sensitivity, which deals with differences among the unemployed. It is particularly suited to developing countries because individuals in these countries display considerable variation in labor force participation, unemployment duration, and unemployment intensity. It can also be decomposed into mean and variance components and contributions to unemployment by various subgroups of the population. We use this measure and data from National Sample Surveys on employment and unemployment to understand unemployment in India during the period 1993 to 2012. We show that unemployment has generally fallen, although the distribution of unemployment has worsened. Moreover, unemployment is driven to a greater extent by higher educated groups; the unemployment among these groups is also fairly substantial. We explain these findings and suggest some policies.

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Growth and Deprivation in India: What does Recent Evidence Suggest on “Inclusiveness”?

Cited by 13 publications

References 16 publications

The Evolution of Consumption and Wealth Inequality in India: A Quantitative Assessment

The Evolution of Consumption and Wealth Inequality in India: A Quantitative Assessment

Land Distribution, Income Generation and Inequality in India's Agricultural Sector

Unemployment burden and its distribution: Theory and evidence from India

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