Abstract
India characterized as one of the emerging super power, constitute about 17% of world population, accounting for about 35% of the poor and 40% of the illiterates. At the time of independence considerable differences in economic and social development of different regions of the country existed. One of the main objectives of the planning process initiated in the early 1950’s was to reduce these regional differences and to achieve regionally balanced development. There are more poor and illiterates today, and our IMR is about 60 per 1000 live births, which is one of the highest in the world. The current study tries to analyze interstate disparities in levels of income and features of HDI. An attempt was made to trace the causes of relatively low levels of income of some states. States with low values of indicators of human development were identified and on that basis backward regions were demarcated.
Highlights
The development economics literature suggests various measures of development
As there is a philosophical distinction between income and wellbeing of people, supplementary approaches such as the Basic Needs (BN) approach and Physical Quality of Life (PQL) approach have been developed
In BN approach, there exists the problem of weighting, while the PQL approach totally neglects income and other basic needs [1]. has formulated the Human Development Index (HDI) on the reasoning that the real wealth of a nation is its people and one must link people and development
Summary
Inter State Disparities in India: Linkages between Human Development and Economic Indicators. Ambiga Devi P1 and Shobha K2* 1Professor in Economics, Avinashilingam University for Women, Coimbatore – 641043, India 2Associate Professor in Economics, Government Arts College, Coimbatore-641018, India
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