Reinforcing the growing financial independence of women in India, a survey says the income level of urban Indian women has doubled in the last decade. This increase has also led to the average urban household income doubling, according to a study by market research firm IMRB. The urban Indian woman who earned Rs 4,492 per month in 2001 was taking home as much as Rs 9,457 as of 2010. The rise...
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Bihar's per capita expenditure lowest in country
-TimesWireService.Com Patna/ New Delhi: Bihar Continues To Be At The Bottom Of The Ladder So Far Monthly Per Capita Expenditure (mpce) Is Concerned. Punjab, Kerala And Maharashtra Continue To Top The List. According To The 66th Round Of The Household Consumption Expenditure Survey Released By The National Sample Survey Office (nsso) On Friday, Rural Bihar With Just Rs 780 Has The Lowest Monthly Per Capita Expenditure (mpce) In The Country To...
More »Spending pattern points to India's rich-poor divide by Indivjal Dhasmana
The gap in consumption spending between poor and rich is more in urban areas than rural. Apart from much inequality in consumption between urban and rural areas. Consumption per capita was 5.6 times less in a month for the bottom ten per cent of the population than the top 10 per cent in rural areas during 2009-10. The disparity increases to 9.8 times between the two classes in urban parts, according...
More »Income gap rises in India: NSSO by Asit Ranjan Mishra
Despite the much-hyped rural consumption boom and all the social sector programmes of the government, the income inequality between the rural and urban consumer widened to 91% in the first five years of the United Progressive Alliance coming to power in 2004. According to the 66th round of the household consumption expenditure survey released by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) on Friday, the per capita expenditure level of the urban...
More »City’s poor dwellers are no richer than village counterparts -ENS Economic Bureau
There’s not much difference between the spending patterns of the urban and rural poor but the city-village divide becomes much wider amongst the rich in each class. These are some of the key findings of the National Sample Survey Organisation’s (NSSO) 66th round of survey on household consumption expenditure. The survey, which was carried out between July, 2009 and June, 2010 has revealed that the poorest 10 per cent of India’s...
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