2017-06-24
Will GST exacerbate regional divergence?
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Economic and Political Weekly , Volume 52 - Issue 25-26 p. 97- 102
This article analyses the extent of regional disparities in income per capita in India, considering both disparities amongst and within major states. For within-state inequality, this article is the fi rst to use a "nightlights" luminosity data set as a proxy for gross domestic product per capita, whereas the choice of a crisper data set, comprising the 12 largest states, yields sharper results than in previous literature. It concludes with a cautionary note on the goods and services tax, which, contrary to the optimists, is likely to further exacerbate, rather than ameliorate, regional income disparities, marking the need for a turn to "place-based" economic policies.
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Chakravarty, P. (Praveen), & Dehejia, V. (2017). Will GST exacerbate regional divergence?. Economic and Political Weekly, 52(25-26), 97–102.
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