government policies. He concluded that rural connectivity plays a crucial role for
improving human development index. Evidently it suggested that the states like Kerala,
Tamil Nadu, Goa, Punjab and Himachal Pradesh have invested heavily in the provision
of better rural connectivity which is necessary to accomplish development programmes
Based on the literature review, an attempt is made here to highlight how the present
1. It is a very comprehensive study of analyzing regional disparities in human
development from global to taluka level. Hence, the present study fills up a major
gap by linking macro with micro level disparities in human development, following
a deductive and logical reasoning.
2. The present study attempts to fill up another gap in the study pertaining to
theoretical causality between economic growth and human development. And
testing the same at national, state and district levels.
3. Especially relating to Karnataka state except two official studies in 1999 and
2005, individual researcher at taluka and district levels are very few, focusing
either on educational or health inequalities. But the present study brings together
all the three HDI components namely health, education and income and regional
disparities therein.
4. Another gap which is neatly filled up in the study is a very exhaustive literature
survey which stimulates research in various directions pertaining to regional
disparities from human development perspective.
5. The comparative study of Mysore and Hassan districts of southern Karnataka is
the first study of this kind, with a very sound policy imperative for prioritizing,
sequencing and pacing of human development policy at regional level.
In this way, the present study is not only an attempt to fill up the gaps in the existing
literature pertaining to the research proposal but also an additional contribution to the
existing stock of literature.
2.7 Summary
The literature review is presented under five different classifications. This has
enabled a perfect understanding of the research issue and its numerous dimensions.
The literature survey is very comprehensive starting from human development concept
and its measurement, causality between EG and HD, regional disparities in human
development at different regional levels to the importance of government support in
improving human development through its institutional and public policy support. This
endeavour has exposed many subtle, qualitative, quantitative, methodological and
highly sensitive issue pertaining to the research topic. This foundation of literature
review has paved the way for the theoretical framework in the next chapter.
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