TY - BOOK ID - 138487715 TI - How India earns, spends and saves : unmasking the real India PY - 2010 SN - 9386042355 1282839888 9786612839887 8132106016 9788132106012 9781282839885 6612839880 9788132104766 8132104765 PB - New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks : SAGE, DB - UniCat KW - Income KW - Consumption (Economics) KW - Saving and investment UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:138487715 AB - This book maps the earning, spending and saving profiles of Indians in the post-liberalisation era. It studies how socio-economic, religious and individual characteristics lead to inequality in the incomes of households. Among other aspects of the problematique, it reveals that while a household's income is primarily dependent on socio-economic factors (occupation, education and age of its chief earner), its economic prosperity is impacted by factors like its spending and saving levels, sectors of employment of members, state of residence, and so on. The book is based on the results of the Nat ER -