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Abstract
The extent of income inequality, contribution of alternative income sources
to inequality as well as their relative and marginal effects with special
reference to fish production in the West Tripura district of Tripura state
have been examined for the year 2003-04. The data have been collected
from 60 fish-farming households in three selected blocks by multi-stage
random sampling method. The Gini has been decomposed by income
sources using the approach of Lerman and Yitzhaki, which views each
source’s contribution to inequality as the product of its own inequality, its
share of total income, and its correlation with the rank of cumulative total
income. The study has indicated that to make the family income distribution
more equitable among the fish-farming households, the fish production
has a pivot role to play.