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Examine the causes of regional disparities in economic development in India.

  • UPSC 2016
  • Contemporary Issues

Regional disparity is the persistent inter-regional gap in output, productivity and welfare per head that survives factor mobility. It is measured by the spread and coefficient of variation of per capita state income, and by composite human-development indices.

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