In this project, the team is making an effort to understand the economic discrepancies between the northern and southern Indian states as being dependent on a variety of indicators representing human skills, capabilities and awareness, law and order indicators, infrastructure, urbanization and resource utilization factors such as finances including revenues and expenditures. Historical data ranging from 1960s and 1970s has been gathered on many of these indicators for two Indian states, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh. A small amount of funding was received from the Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore, for this project. A seminar was conducted on June 18th with a number of public policy experts who gave comments. Now the paper is scheduled to be discussed at a meeting in IIM-Bangalore. The most recent version of the paper may be found here.

An article extracted from this study (Spending versus Outcomes) was published in The Economic Times on July 31, 2009. This article may be viewed here.

An extracted paper (authored by Samuel Paul and Kala S Sridhar) relating to the TN-UP cases is under review. A different paper extracted out of this (authored by Kala S Sridhar and Venugopala Reddy) is being submitted to the Journal of Indian Business Research (published by Emerald Journal Group) for their consideration.