The North-South Divide: Key Issues
The Southern States are Less Dependent on Centre’s Assistance
- The southern States are less dependent on transfers from the Centre than many of their northern peers, but a cut in transfers could leave their fiscal situation precariously poised and upset some of their expenditure plans.
- Finance Commissions are obliged to ensure the poorer States have adequate resources to finance socioeconomic development and critical infrastructure, to ensure balanced regional development that’s inclusive and equitable. That would invariably mean higher transfers to the laggard States, sometimes at the expense of the more prosperous ones.
Southern States’ Share in Population has ....
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Economic Development
- 1 The North-South Economic Divide
- 2 Fifteenth Finance Commission
- 3 Implications of Special Levies
- 4 The Goods & Service Tax
- 5 Recent Trends in Central Transfer to States
- 6 The Finance Commission
- 7 Centre-State Financial Relations: Indian Context
- 8 Exclusion in Panchayat Elections
- 9 Does Reservation Policy Need Reform
- 10 Are Tribals Really Benefitting from the Forest Rights Act
- 11 Why Transgenders are Considered as Vulnerable
- 12 Economic Opportunities for Differently-abled
- 13 Climate Refugee & International Convention
- 14 Climate Refugees in The Indian Subcontinent
- 15 Inequality in Urban India
- 16 Urban Poverty in India
- 17 Urban Development & Transformation
- 18 Inclusive Urbanisation and SDGs
