Spatial Inequality and Polarisation in India

Modeling inequality levels with the help of spatial and non-spatial indices in northern Khorasan

This paper aims to explain the inequality and imbalance in the developmental levels of 6 selected cities in North Khorasan. The paper seeks to answer these two questions as to whether the spatial and non-spatial indices in regional disparities have an effect on equality? And can we achieve a functional model based on the evaluation of indicators? In order to achieve the goal and the answer to t...

Capital taxation, inequality and polarisation under lack of commitment

Research from models allowing for heterogeneity in asset endowments and endogenously chosen …scal policy suggests a positive link between income inequality and both capital taxes and polarisation. However, while the second prediction receives empirical support, capital tax rates are negatively related with inequality in the data for OECD democracies. Using the basic neoclassical model with capi...

Spatial Inequality and Development

This is the Introduction to an edited volume of papers, from the Cornell-LSE-WIDER conference on Spatial Inequality and Development. The conference is part of a larger WIDER project on Spatial Disparities in Human Development.

Poverty and Inequality in India: a Reexamination

This paper presents a new set of integrated poverty and inequality estimates for India and Indian states for 1987-88, 1993-94 and 1999-2000. The poverty estimates are broadly consistent with independent evidence on percapita expenditure, state domestic product and real agricultural wages. They show that poverty decline in the 1990s proceeded more or less in line with earlier trends. Regional di...

Employment and Inequality Outcomes in India