Professor, Institute of Management, Nirma University, Ahmedabad-382 481
Online published on 28 September, 2016.
Increasing income inequalities, a predominant characteristic of developing economy indicates asymmetric opportunities and suboptimal utilization of resources. This leads to differences in economic performance of regions over time. It has been observed that better endowed regions have preferential access to the assets to grow faster. Inequalities are also corroborated by other indicators of well-being like human development. It will be of interest to study the relationship across income inequalities and other indices of well-being like human development. This paper attempts to study the causes and likely impact of inequalities across different states in India with special focus on north eastern states. Paper also intends to study whether convergence or divergence in growth is being observed across states in post reform period.
