TY - BOOK ID - 84549134 TI - India : Is the Rising Tide Lifting All Boats? AU - Topalova, Petia. AU - International Monetary Fund. PY - 2008 SN - 1462308384 1452769273 1283515121 9786613827579 1451913699 PB - Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, DB - UniCat KW - Macroeconomics KW - Poverty and Homelessness KW - Aggregate Factor Income Distribution KW - Macroeconomics: Consumption KW - Saving KW - Wealth KW - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: General KW - Labor Economics: General KW - Poverty & precarity KW - Labour KW - income economics KW - Consumption KW - Income distribution KW - Income inequality KW - Poverty KW - Labor KW - Economics KW - Labor economics KW - India KW - Econometric models. KW - Economic conditions KW - Economic policy KW - Income economics UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:84549134 AB - While many have celebrated India's accelerating economic growth, some have expressed concern about the distributional impacts of the growth process. Cognizant of the vulnerability of its large population below poverty, India's authorities have made faster and more inclusive economic growth the primary goal of their development strategy. This paper aims to document how the benefits of economic expansion were shared across the income distribution over the last two decades using disaggregate household level data. Experiences across Indian states suggest an important role for economic policy in shaping the inclusiveness of growth. States with higher financial development, more flexible labor markets, and higher average education experienced greater relative gains for the poor. Improving infrastructure may also lead to a growth process that is more inclusive of the poor. ER -