Poverty in India during the 1990s : A Regional Perspective
The authors provide estimates of poverty at the regional level in India, spanning the 1990s. Such estimates have not been previously available due to concerns regarding non-comparability of the 1993-94 and 1999-2000 National Sample Survey Organizat...
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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/2003/10/2579638/poverty-india-during-1990s-regional-perspective http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18034 |
Summary: | The authors provide estimates of poverty
at the regional level in India, spanning the 1990s. Such
estimates have not been previously available due to concerns
regarding non-comparability of the 1993-94 and 1999-2000
National Sample Survey Organization (NSSO) household survey
data. They implement an adjustment procedure to restore
comparability based on a methodology developed by Elbers and
others (2003). The results indicate a less rapid decline of
poverty, at the all-India level than has been suggested by
Deaton and Dre (2002), based on a related adjustment
methodology. The authors attempt to uncover the source of
disagreement across these procedures, by probing a number of
their underlying assumptions. |
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