Subject(s): Economic conditions -- Regional disparities -- Economic history -- Economic policy -- Regional planning. -- Alternative approaches to state's economic performance, data issues, behavior of growth -spatial and temporal dimensions, sectoral growth in post reform period, variability of state domestic product, sectoral contribution to growth, SDP estimation methodology - co-ordination between CSO and DoS -- Income inequality : Income differential across states, rank analysis, inequality measures, convergence analysis, Kendell's coefficient of concordance, construction of rank concordance index , Gini decomposition of sectoral inequality, absolute convergence cross section, absolute convergence cross-section, absolute convergence panel dimension, ranking of states, issues on convergence estimation- cross section and panel data models -- State finance : Evolution of public finances, major fiscal reform initiatives ata state level, cyclical character of fiscal policy, fiscal stance- significance and consequence for Inflation -- Analytics of credit-output behavior for Indian states : pattern of growth and credit allocation, econometric methodology, empirical results -- Regional rural banks- restructuring strategies : Performance of regional rural banks in spatial dimension, basis for umbilical cord hypothesis -- Agricultural growth in Indian states- case of Orissa : Orissa's economic performance, modelling agricultural performance