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Essays on Inequality and Development

Majumdar, Shibalee
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1291054538

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2010, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Agricultural, Environmental and Developmental Economics.
Inequality in the social, political and economic realms of an individual and a society’s existence affects the social fabric and individual well-being. Even when the average income and food production of the world has increased manifolds in the last fifty years, extreme poverty and malnutrition exists in many parts of the world. The aim of my dissertation is to address a few relevant questions that are bound to arise in any mind that has been exposed to the developments of the local and global world. While my first essay questions the efficacy of the political reservation system in India in abating social and political inequality and improving the life of minority groups, my second and third essays studies the interactions between economic growth, government policies and income inequality. Reviewing previous research and detailed empirical analysis shows that the affirmative action of political reservation still has to go a long way in bringing the standard of living of the minority groups at par with the mainstream population, that economic growth has a heterogeneous association with income inequality across regions and that people-based and place-based government policies have non-uniform impact on inequality.
Mark Partridge (Advisor)
Dave Kraybill (Committee Member)
Joyce Chen (Committee Member)
158 p.
Economics; Public Policy
inequality; political reservation; US Census; India; Scheduled Caste; Scheduled Tribe; regional development

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  • Majumdar, S. (2010). Essays on Inequality and Development [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1291054538

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Majumdar, Shibalee. Essays on Inequality and Development. 2010. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1291054538.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Majumdar, Shibalee. "Essays on Inequality and Development." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1291054538

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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