Inter-Regional Variations in the Inequality and Poverty in Bhutan.
The findings of this sample study suggest existence of high income disparities between the urban and rural areas and across dzongkhags. Urban areas contribute about 69% of the total income, and Average Monthly Per Capita Income of urban areas is almost four and a half times higher than that of rural...
| Published in: | Journal of Bhutan Studies Vol. 16; pp. 38 - 84 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=34922597&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 34922597 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 1608411X 461R jtl: Journal of Bhutan Studies issn: 1608411X maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Summer2007 vid: 16 pid: 37912 pub: Centre for Bhutan Studies artinfo: ui: 34922597 ppf: 38 ppct: 46 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 350KB tig: atl: Inter-Regional Variations in the Inequality and Poverty in Bhutan. aug: au: Mehta, Sanjeev affil: Senior Lecturer, Sherubte College, Kanglung su: Cities & towns Income inequality Per capita Poverty Bank loans Bhutan sug: subj: Bhutan Cities & towns Income inequality Per capita Poverty Bank loans ab: The findings of this sample study suggest existence of high income disparities between the urban and rural areas and across dzongkhags. Urban areas contribute about 69% of the total income, and Average Monthly Per Capita Income of urban areas is almost four and a half times higher than that of rural areas. The Gini coefficient value is higher in the urban areas (0.58) as compared to the rural areas (0.36) reflecting higher income inequality in the urban areas. Largely, income disparities can be explained in terms of the pattern of productive assets ownership. 81% of the productive assets are found to be concentrated in the urban areas. The skewed pattern of the disbursement of bank loans indicates that income inequality is also policy induced. The finding suggests that the head count ratio is 66.23 if measured in terms of upper poverty line and 50.66% on the basis of the lower poverty line. Poverty is more a rural phenomenon as about 86% of the poor live in the rural areas. FGT index of normalized poverty gap is 22.61% and poverty gap in the rural areas is more than three times the poverty gap in urban areas. Dzongkhag-wise, the highest incidence of rural poverty is found in Pemagatshel and Samdrup Jongkhar and lowest incidence poverty is recorded in Chukha. The poverty decomposition study conveys that farmers, private sector employees and illiterates are among the most vulnerable groups to the incidence of poverty. One important policy implication that emerges from this analysis is that poverty alleviation measures should be concentrated in those areas where the ratio of ΔNPG/ΔHCR is higher. An appropriate data base on poverty would make the poverty alleviation measures targeted and consequently more effective in terms of reducing the magnitude of absolute poverty. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Journal of Bhutan Studies is the property of Centre for Bhutan Studies and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Journal of Bhutan Studies holder: Centre for Bhutan Studies dt: @attributes: year: 2007 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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