Economic Growth and Disparities in India.

In the long run, prosperity and development of a region is best measured by economic growth. The paper reexamines the topic of economic growth of the states of India. The per capita net State domestic product at factor cost and current prices taken as a proxy of income for 21 states accounting for 97.5 percent of the population and 95 percent of income is analyzed for the period 1986-87 to 2013-14. The sample of states and duration of study is the largest among the various studies reviewed by the authors. The growth disparities are analyzed through the traditional popular measures of convergence supplemented by specially modeled tools. The empirical result indicates widening income disparities and identifies states for policy focus. The data is sourced from "Handbook of statistics of the Indian economy 2013-14". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]