In this Hindustan Times article, Milan Vaishnav and Jamie Hintson from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, quote IDFC Institute research on the economic regional divergence between States. The article states:

".....the wealth gap between India’s states has exploded in recent decades; research by Praveen Chakravarty and Vivek Dehejia demonstrated that, as of 2017, India’s three richest states were three times richer than its three poorest states..."

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