Non-farm diversification, poverty, economic mobility and income inequality : a case study in village India (English)

This paper assembles data at the all-India level and for the village of Palanpur, Uttar Pradesh, to document the growing importance, and influence, of the non-farm sector in the rural economy between the early 1980s and late 2000s. The suggestion from the combined National Sample Survey and Palanpur data is of a slow process of non-farm diversification, whose distributional incidence, on the margin, is increasingly pro-poor. The village-level analysis...

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Rajpal,Himanshu;

Lanjouw,Peter F.;

Murgai,Rinku;

Stern,Nicholas H.;
Document Date
2013/05/01
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
Report Number
WPS6451
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
India,
Region
South Asia,
Disclosure Date
2013/05/01
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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Non-farm diversification, poverty, economic mobility and income inequality : a case study in village India
Keywords
increase in income inequality

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Rajpal,Himanshu; Lanjouw,Peter F.; Murgai,Rinku; Stern,Nicholas H..

Non-farm diversification, poverty, economic mobility and income inequality : a case study in village India (English). Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 6451 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/133791468268845917

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