Uttar Pradesh has suffered from regional disparities and inequality and even six decades after independence, some of the regions of this state are very backward and the abode of the largest proportion of poor in the country. The challenges raised by intra-regional disparities and their compounding implications on living conditions and governance are enormous.

This paper analyses the intra-state disparities in government expenditure in six states, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal, based on the actual treasury data on government expenditure made in the social sectors of education, health and supply of drinking water, captured from the databases of the accountants general of these states.

While inequality in per capita state domestic product in India tends to increase, state-level indicators of human development show decreasing dispersion for the obvious reason that the standard outcome indicators of health or education have natural upper limits. Does it mean that instead of worrying about disparity in social indicators we should rather focus on disparity in per capita income?

Mumbai: India will have a GDP growth that is higher than that of China in the next few years, said Oxus Research and Investment chirman Surjit Bhalla in his address to delegates at the fourth global meeting of the Emerging Markets Forum here on Wednesday.

Industrialists, academics, planners, economists, NGOs and students gathered at the Bangalore International Centre here on Tuesday, to discuss the 2009 World Development Report -

NEW DELHI: Describing the Delhi Budget 2009-10 as a

Mahesh Vyas / New Delhi June 22, 2009, 0:02 IST

Despite the special incentives they get, SEZs today comprise under five per cent of all fresh investments announced in the country, says Mahesh Vyas

JAIPUR: The Rajasthan Government will shortly announce a new industrial policy to resolve various difficulties of industrialists, small and medium industrial units and entrepreneurs. The policy will lay emphasis on bringing security to investors in the years to come.

Punjab has to use available water resources more productively under the motto 'more crop per drop', as the productivity of water used in agriculture has declined in the past three decades while it would not be easy to increase its supply through physical means.

Within a vast deforested area on Borneo island, Australia and Indonesia hope to turn an ecological disaster into a global lesson on how to help local communities save tropical forests and fight climate change.

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