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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 ...
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...
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...
That is, it is the divergence in the demographic composition rather than sectoral differences that explains the higher level of income inequality in India compared with China. Only another 2% of increase in inequality would be associated with changes in the sectoral composition (mostly, the smaller...
The regression based inequality decomposition approach shows land, non-farm income and farm assets as major contributors to inequality with varying magnitude in each state. The contribution of these at all India is estimated at 25.8, 28.6 and 14.3 percent respectively. The findings suggest ...
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 ...
region. Given the worsening interstate income inequality in India, we examine whether growth-impacting variables based on our growth model estimation (measured in per capita gross domestic product (GDP) can explain interstate income disparity during the same period. Thus, this study makes a twofold ...
We believe this discourse can help policymakers plan ahead for AI adoption in LICs and motivate researchers to further probe this topic. The remainder of the article is structured as follows: Section “Background” provides a background on AI inequality between LICs and HICs. Section “...
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