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A quantitative analysis of social and economic development among Indian states

Author Affiliations

  • 1HARSAC, CCS Haryana Agricultural University Campus, Hisar-125004, India

Int. Res. J. Social Sci., Volume 10, Issue (2), Pages 16-26, April,14 (2021)

Abstract

Economic growth has a direct relationship with social development of a country as a whole. But the growth of economy is not always equitable to its social counterparts and often the development is concentrated in some areas/regions. The quantification of social progress is much complex and combination of multiple paramaters as compared to the economic development, which has several well-defined of mesurement creterias across the world. The present paper is an effort to quantify the social progress made by the states of India with respect to their economic growth. The common trend observed that the states with larger economy leads to achieve higher social progress. Though some states having meager economy, performed moderately in social front. Kerala is the best example of it, as the state having comparatively lower NSDP, scored top in social progress. Other notable progress on social front has been done by the states like Tamil Nadu, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab and Sikkim. Though such analyses require a long term time-series data on varous parameters to find out the causal relationship between economic growth and social progress. Moreover, higher economic growth is not always contributing the social progress equally for every region/sectors of the society. The paper presents a detailed compilation of some socio-economic paramaters including GDP per capita, its growth rate, unemployment rate, poverty line population in rural/urban areas, human development index and their distribution across the states. The information presented in the paper is a dispersal outline of above mentioned parameters in readily available module, which could be used as a reference by the stakeholders and administrator/planners for their valued judgement and assessment.

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