Economic Growth and Democracy in India: the beginnings of a `Scissors

Crisis´? Mritiunjoy Mohanty

Indian Institute of Management Calcutta in Kolkata, India and Institut d'études internationales de Montréal

(IEIM) of the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Montreal, Canada

• Table from Chandrasekhar and Ghosh (2006)

• Rates of growth of output, income and population

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• Table from Chandrasekhar and Ghosh (2006)

• Table from Chandrasekhar and Ghosh (2006)

Output rates of growth Source: Bhattacharya and Sakthivel (2004)

States 1980-90 1990-2000

Assam 3.91 2.47

Bihar 5.2 3.46

Orissa 5.85 3.6

Uttar Pradesh 5.88 4.33

Punjab 5.14 4.63

Andhra Pradesh 4.81 5.12

Madhya Pradesh 5.18 5.45

Kerala 4.5 6

All-India 5.6 6.03

Rajasthan 7.17 6.46

Tamil Nadu 6.35 6.65

Haryana 6.68 6.71

Maharashtra 5.98 6.8

Himachal Pradesh 6.1 6.91

Karnataka 6.1 7.07

West Bengal 5.2 7.24

Goa 5.71 8.23

Gujarat 5.71 8.28

Coefficient of variation 0.14 0.29

Population rates of growthSource: Bhattacharya et al (2004)Year 1980-90 1990-2000

Kerala 1.35 0.9

Tamil Nadu 1.44 1.07

Goa 1.57 1.3

Andhra Pradesh 2.19 1.36

Orissa 1.84 1.49

Gujarat 1.94 1.59

Karnataka 1.93 1.6

Himachal Pradesh 1.91 1.62

West Bengal 2.22 1.67

Assam 2.05 1.74

Punjab 1.91 1.83

All-India 2.44 1.94

Madhya Pradesh 2.41 2.05

Maharashtra 2.32 2.06

UP 2.3 2.3

Bihar 2.14 2.43

Haryana 2.45 2.5

Rajasthan 2.53 2.53

Per capita output growth rates and rankings

States 1980-90 1990-2000 per capita SDP rank 2001

HDR ranking 2001

Assam 1.74 0.65 12 14

Bihar 2.97 1.86 15 15*

Uttar Pradesh 3.46 1.98 13 13*

Orissa 3.96 2.12 14 11

Punjab 3.19 2.71 1 2

M. Pradesh 2.74 3.22 11 12*

A. Pradesh 2.56 3.62 8 10

All-India 3.36 4.07

Rajasthan 4.41 4.09 10 9*

Haryana 4.12 4.42 3 5*

Kerala 3.04 4.78 7 1

Maharashtra 3.6 5.04 2 4*

H. Pradesh 4.36 5.11

Karnataka 4 5.27 6 7

Tamil Nadu 4.79 5.4 5 3

West Bengal 2.93 5.41 9 8

Gujarat 3.62 6.38 4 6

Goa 4.08 6.84

CV 0.22 0.43