NDLI: 7 India: Inequality Trends and Dynamics: The Bird’s-Eye and the Granular Perspectives

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1 Setting the Scene

2 What Might Explain Today’s Conflicting Narratives on Global Inequality?

3 Comparing Global Inequality of Income and Wealth

4 Empirical Challenges Comparing Inequality across Countries: The Case of Middle-Income Countries from the LIS Database

5 Brazil: What Are the Main Drivers of Income Distribution Changes in the New Millennium?

6 China: Structural Change, Transition, Rent-Seeking and Corruption, and Government Policy

7 India: Inequality Trends and Dynamics: The Bird’s-Eye and the Granular Perspectives

8 Mexico: Labour Markets and Fiscal Redistribution 1989–2014

9 South Africa: The Top End, Labour Markets, Fiscal Redistribution, and the Persistence of Very High Inequality

10 Economic Inequality and Subjective Well-Being Across the World

11 China and the United States: Different Economic Models But Similarly Low Levels of Socioeconomic Mobility

12 From Manufacturing-Led Export Growth to a Twenty-First Century Inclusive Growth Strategy: Explaining the Demise of a Successful Growth Model and What to Do about It

13 Synthesis and Policy Implications

Notes on Contributors

List of Figures

List of Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

7 India: Inequality Trends and Dynamics: The Bird’s-Eye and the Granular Perspectives

Content Provider	Oxford Academic
Author	Dang, Hai-Anh H. Lanjouw, Peter
Editor	Carlos Gradín
Abstract	India in the early years of the twenty-first century achieved per capita growth rates that were historically unprecedented. Poverty reduction also accelerated. There is concern, however, that this growth was accompanied by a rise in inequality. In this chapter, we report on a research project that examines inequality trends and dynamics at the all-India level over three decades up to 2011/12 and contrasts these with evidence at the level of the village or the urban block. We further unpack inequality to explore dynamics in terms of the movement of people within the income distribution over time. The assessment of mobility is informed both by evidence at the very local level, and by aggregate, national-level trends. The study attempts, further, to assess horizontal inequalities into a measure of inequality of opportunity as captured by inter-generational mobility in education outcomes.
Related Links	https://academic.oup.com/book/39562/chapter/339437184/chapter-pdf/50002702/oso-9780198863960-chapter-7.pdf
Ending Page	179
Starting Page	157
ISBN	9780198863960
DOI	10.1093/oso/9780198863960.003.0007
e-ISBN	9780191896248
Language	English
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Publisher Date	2021-03-11
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Economic Development and Growth Economics Public Economics Social Sciences India Poverty Inequality Income Distribution Mobility Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Chapter
Subject	Economics and Econometrics

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