Regional economic growth and inequality in india during pre- and post-reform periods

This paper evaluates economic performance of 15 major states in India during 1960/61–2006/07, and examines whether initially disparate states display any tendency in real per capita income to converge to or diverge from a common steady state path during the pre- and post-reform periods. Although growth performance has improved substantially in the post-reform period relative to the pre-reform, there has been a wide variation in growth performance of the states.