Caste, Inequality, and Poverty in India

This paper analyses inequality and poverty in India within the context of caste-based discrimination. It does so by decomposing the difference between (caste) Hindu and Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) households in: their average household incomes; their probabilities of being in diffe...

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Main Author: Vani K. Borooah
Format: Printed Book
Published: Review of Development Economics, 9(3), 399-414, 2005 2005
Subjects:
SCHEDULED CASTE TRIBE MODELS
Online Access:http://10.26.1.76/ks/00979.pdf
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