01628nam a22001457a 4500 533088 533088 260422b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Das, Malya 60214 An investigation into the inter-district disparity in INDIA using household consumption expenditure data Madhya Pradesh Journal of Social Sciences 29(2), Dec, 2024: p.41-54 Existing studies on disparities in India were mostly limited to regionaland state-level analyses. Using the data from the 61st and 66th rounds of the National Sample Survey of India this paper examined the inter-district economic disparity in terms of monthly per capita consumption expenditure (MPCE) in India and bigger states during 2004-09. A set of three inequality measures, namely, Theil, Hoover and Gini indices, and the Lorenz curve were used to assess the economic disparity among the districts. Results showed that the districts of northern and eastern states of India were economically more backward. Disparity in MPCE continued to exist among the districts of India. The degree of inter-district disparity in MPCE was found to be higher in the economically better-off states (such as Gujarat, Maharashtra and Karnataka), compared to the economically poorer states (such as Bihar and Rajasthan) of India.-Reproduced https://mpissr.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/MPJSS-292-December-2024.pdf Inter-district disparity, Inequality measures, Lorenz curve, Monthly percapita consumption expenditure, Districts, India. 60177 Madhya Pradesh Journal of Social Sciences AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 408259 IIPA IIPA 2026-04-22 29(2), Dec, 2024: p.41-54 AR138600 2026-04-22 AR