In regional economic policies, equity issues are usually dealt with at the inter-regional level
by concentrating on the disparities between regional mean incomes. This paper looks at an
extra dimension of inter-regional disparity, that is the disparity among seventeen regions
(Indian states) with regard to intra-state inequality. Variation in intra-state inequalities has
been studied by using a parametric measure of the Gini coefficient. The parametric
approach has facilitated some further statistical tests on the heterogeneity of the Lorenz …