A Comprehensive Analysis of Poverty in India
This paper offers a comprehensive analysis of poverty in India. It shows that no matter which of the two official poverty lines is used, poverty has declined steadily in all states and for all social and religious groups. Accelerated growth between...
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Format: | Policy Research Working Paper |
Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2014
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/12/18597719/comprehensive-analysis-poverty-india http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16930 |
Summary: | This paper offers a comprehensive
analysis of poverty in India. It shows that no matter which
of the two official poverty lines is used, poverty has
declined steadily in all states and for all social and
religious groups. Accelerated growth between fiscal years
2004-2005 and 2009-2010 led to an accelerated decline in
poverty rates. Moreover, the decline in poverty rates during
these years was sharper for the socially disadvantaged
groups relative to upper caste groups, so that a narrowing
of the gap in the poverty rates is observed between the two
sets of social groups. The paper also provides a discussion
of the recent controversies in India regarding the choice of
poverty lines. |
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