TY - SER AU - Bagli, Supravat TI - Intensity and Inequality of Multifaceted Deprivation of the States in India PY - 0000/// CY - New Delhi PB - Indian Institute of Economics KW - Income Deprivation KW - Economics N2 - This study explores the intensity and inequality of multifaceted non-income deprivation of the states in India. We have computed Multifaceted Deprivation Index (MDI) covering three dimensions – Knowledge, Health and Living condition. The MDI is computed measuring the weighted normalized inverse Euclidian distance of the actual vector of indicators of deprivation from the worst situation. This study has measured the inequality for deprivation indicators and MDI applying two classes of inequality measures viz. Generalised Entropy measures and Atkinson measures. Using secondary level data published by different departments of the Government of India this study find that value of MDI ranges from 0.046 to 0.589 across the states. Jharkhand is the most deprived among the states followed by Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Bihar. The state of Goa is the least deprived preceded by Kerala, Himachal Pradesh. The cluster analysis reveals that most of the states with high level of deprivation belong to same cluster. In respect of the indicators of multifaceted deprivation the states of Mizoram, Tripura, Nagaland, and Manipur are similar to the state of Kerala. The states of India, of course, are not highly diverse in terms of multifaceted deprivation. However, non-income deprivation is highly correlated with the incidence of income poverty which is highly dispersed across the states ER -