Income disparity, especially in different society of rural areas is quite high mainly due to inequality in resource base and earning opportunity. Since most of the rural people are largely dependent on agriculture as main source of livelihood, agricultural productivity and employment in agricultural ...
InequalityIncomeIndividual healthIndiaIndia has experienced a significant increase in income inequality in the past decade. It is widely accepted in the literature that income inequality is detrimental to individual health. Against this backdrop, the objective of the paper is to analyze the effect of...
Income inequality is a word used to describe an income of a defined geographic area disparity distribution of wealth, “The poor become poorer, the rich become richer.” Income inequality means that a small number of people residing in specific areas receive the most of the total income generate...
While the association between income inequality and environmental degradation has been researched extensively by various scholars, the impact of income inequality on the consumption of renewable energy, however, remains unanswered in the existing literature, the reason why the investigation of the same has...
This paper examines the effects of globalization (i.e., economic, social, and political) and sectoral growth shifts (i.e., changes in relative shares of agriculture, industry, and services) on income inequality in India from 1976 to 2012. We have used two unique datasets: the Standardized ...
The global community has been confronted with rising income inequality, in particular, for those least developed countries (LDCs), since the same level of inequality as in advanced countries would push many LDCs into abject poverty. This paper focuses on income inequality in developing countries, pa...
This paper examines the causality between defense spending and income inequality in selected Asian countries namely Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Philippines, India and South Korea for the period 1970-2005. Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds testing procedure is employed to (1) analyze the...
The researchers also found that although income inequality does not affect under-five andinfant mortalityrates in India, it does affect other measures of poor societal well-being such as self-reported ailment. Even after they accounted for differences in individual education and income, along with ...
households, the median household, to understand how inequality is affecting this broad mass of households within the advanced economies. We’re able to then dissect this and present a picture of what’s changed and why it’s changed—and in a relatively new way, which makes this work ...
Income inequalityEnergy consumptionNon-linear ARDLStructural break testIndiaThe growth stimulating effect of energy has been long established in economic literature. Consequently, researchers and policy makers are trying to identify socio-economic determinants of energy consumption in both developed and ...