How Do Household and Spatial Factors Matter While Examining Inequality in Credit Availability? Evidence from an Emerging Economy

Bhardwaj, Vedant; Mishra, Aswini Kumar

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-60008-2_7

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“…It could be done through more investment or expenditure on government institutions or guaranteed education scholarships in private schools and universities. Bhardwaj and Mishra (2020) find that members of SC, ST and OBC communities have less access to formal and informal credit than other social groups. Therefore, the Indian government needs to expand their credit lending programs targeted at members of marginalized groups further to ensure that members of these groups have equal opportunity to benefit from the growth in urban regions and high wealth acquiring occupations.…”

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Welfare implications of segregation of social and religious groups in India: analyzing from wealth perspectives

Mishra

Bhardwaj

2021

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PurposeThis paper analyzes the welfare implications of the unequal distribution of wealth amongst the social and religious groups by studying the segregation of these groups across different occupations.Design/methodology/approachThe authors use measures suggested by Alonso-Villar and Río (2017) and del Río and Alonso-Villar (2018) to compute the well-being of social groups (based on caste system prevalent in the Indian subcontinent) and religious groups due to their segregation across different regions (urban and rural) and occupations and social welfare loss of the society due to the segregation. Here social groups comprise of ST: Scheduled Tribe, SC: Scheduled Caste, OBC: Other Backward Caste and Others: other remaining castes; while, religious groups comprise of followers of Hinduism, Islam, Christianity and other religious groups.FindingsThe result shows that SC and ST groups are worse; while, the “others” group is better off due to the segregation of social groups across both regions and occupation. Similarly, in the case of religious groups, the analysis reveals that followers of Christianity are better off due to the segregation across region and occupation. It further shows that followers of Hinduism are negatively impacted while followers of Islam and other religious groups were better off due to the segregation across the regions.Originality/valueVarious researchers have studied the wealth inequality and unequal distribution in India over the years but did not dive further into the welfare implications of segregation of social and religious groups from wealth perspectives in India.

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confidence: 83%